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NEWS:
Mount Olive hires Reynolds to be schools head replacing Lamonte
MOUNT OLIVE (11/11/08) -
The nearly 100 concerned school supporters who came to last night’s
school board meeting “loaded for bear” over what appeared to be a
pre-determined decision by the board to appoint Dr. Larrie Reynolds
the new schools superintendent were pretty much turned back by a
detailed presentation of the search process by the board
President, Mark Werner.
Full Story
Township
police and road department take surprise snow storm in stride
MOUNT OLIVE (10/29/08) –
It was “all hands on deck” when yesterday’s “October Surprise” snow
storm struck, piling up to five inches of snow in some areas of the
township.
Full Story
School board president slammed on superintendent
recruiting process
MOUNT OLIVE
(10/28/08) - What appeared to be a well planned effort to
recruit a new schools superintendent to replace retiring Dr. Rosalie
Lamonte ran into a brick wall last night. The brick wall being some
short fused Mount Olive women.
Full Story
Tom Wyka poll shows he has a real shot Frelinghuysen
PARSIPPANY (10/21/08) –
The Wyka campaign team
is on “fire.” In this last week of a “real hard work” campaign a new poll shows
that Wyka really has a shot at upsetting seven term Republican Congressman
Rodney Frelinghuysen next Tuesday. Full Story
McHose and Karrow criticize
Corzine Assistance Package
SUSSEX (10/25/08) -
Assembly Budget Committee members Alison Littell McHose and Marcia
Karrow charged today that the proposed economic assistance
legislation that moved through that committee this week falls far
short of the comprehensive approach needed to help the vast majority
of New Jersey residents struggling to make ends meet.
Full Story
County needs poll workers Pay for the day is
$200
MORRISTOWN (10/22/08) –
The Morris County Board of Elections is in need of poll workers for
General Election Day, November 4. There are openings in all 39
municipalities.
Interested parties must be a registered
voter and be able to read and write English. They must also complete
a training class. Pay for the day is $200. Interested parties may
call (973) 285-8350 ASAP.
High School
choir to participate In concert honoring Tim Janis
MOUNT OLIVE (10/23/08) –
The Mount Olive High School Choir has been invited by NJN Public
Television to join with 12 other school districts to participate in
a prestigious documentary program honoring the world famous New
Jersey composer, Tim Janis, in a “Celebrate America” program to be
aired next March. The 47 member student choir will perform their
rendition of the Irish favorite, “Danny Boy.”
Full Story
Frelinghuysen-Wyka debate Sunday morning in Parsippany
PARSIPPANY (10/22/08) –
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen who is seeking re-election to a sixth term
and his Democratic opponent Tom Wyka, will participate in their
third and final debate Sunday at 10 a.m.in the Men’s Social Club at
the Temple Beth Am, 879 Beverwyck Road. A radio debate is planned
later in the month.
Oroho calling for “bottoms up” review of state
budgeting process
SUSSEX
(10/22/08)
State Sen. Steve Oroho (R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon), a
member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, today
called for a bottom-up review of all state spending that challenges
long-held assumptions regarding the state’s budgeting process.
Full Story
Time running out for Lake
Hopatcong Commission
No
state funds available; to shut down November 28
LAKE HOPATCONG (10/23/08) –
The NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the
Lake Hopatcong Commission both appear to be sticking firmly to their
positions concerning funding for maintaining New Jersey’s largest
lake.
Full Story
Lake
Hopatcong Commission Still Fighting for Funding
JEFFERSON TWP. (10/21/08) –
The jobs of the six staff members of the Lake Hopatcong Commission
are on the line and in danger of termination on November 28.
Full Story
Target Store Opening
WASHINGTON TWP. (10/21/08) –
The recently opened Target Store on the Route 46 Washington
Township-Mount Olive border had been in the works since the
Washington Planning Board signed off on the preliminary plan for it
five years ago.
Full Story
Mount
Olive flu shots Saturday at Senior Center
MOUNT OLIVE (10/21/08) –
Flu shots will be available for residents on Saturday from 9 a.m.
until Noon at the Senior Citizens Center (behind the municipal
building on Flanders-Drakestown Road). No charge for Seniors, 65
and older with their Medicare card. There is a $15 fee for
residents between the ages of 18 and 64. For further information
call (973) 691-0900 (Ext. 7353).
Musconetcong River
receives “wild and scenic” designation
BYRAM (10/21/08) –
It’s been a long time coming, but due to the efforts of
Representatives Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11th Dist) and Scott Garrett
(R-5th Dist) the Musconetcong River has been federally designated as
a “wild and scenic” river.
Full Story
Last two school superintendent candidates
Present themselves in public interview
MOUNT OLIVE
(10/19/08) –
Replacing a school superintendent who many in the township believed
to be irreplaceable appears to be working out fine.
Full Story
Final two candidates for school superintendent to be interviewed at
public meeting on October 18
MOUNT OLIVE
(10/10/08)
The Board of Education has narrowed the search for a new
superintendent to replace retiring superintendent Dr. Rosalie Lamont
to just two candidates.
Full Story
Budd Lake man arrested on drug charges in Village Green Shopping
Center
MOUNT OLIVE (10/09/08) –
Police made three drug arrests yesterday and the day before
in the township, one charged as an apparent drug dealer.
Full Story
McHose
demanding audits
of foreclosure tax bill
TRENTON (10/09/08) -
Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose today urged the Democratic
majority in the State Assembly to reconsider and modify their plan
to tax the state banking system by an estimated $44 million and then
give $5 million a year from the proceeds to politically connected
organizations.
Full Story
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