Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACKCYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACKCYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
CRHS
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACKCYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
‘Baby Instructions.’ Page B-10
nj.com/bridgeton SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010 50¢
6 56525 11071 9
■ Half-pound of pot recovered in Millville. Page A-3.■ Community News Briefs. Page A-6.
Annie’s
Mailbox . . . . . . B-10
BEN Column. . . A-3
Classified. . . . . B-11
Comics . . . . . . . . B-9 Community . . . A-10 Crossword . . . . . B-4 Dr. Gott . . . . . . B-10 Horoscope . . . . B-10
Nation . . . . . . . . A-9 Religion . . . . . . . A-8 Sports . . . . . . . . B-1 Television. . . . . . B-4 Viewpoint . . . . . A-4
Partly Cloudy, not as warm
High 74Details, Page A-2
WEATHERINSIDE TODAYINDEX
Vol. 261, No. 96
Get local breaking news 24/7 at nj.com/cumberland
Man charged in Bridgeton bank robbery attempt
Sunset Challenge celebrates 20 years
Staff File Photo
Nicholas Halkowski, of Kennett Square, Pa., dives into Sunset Lake at the start of the Sunset Sprint Triathlon in 2009.
Exchange Club introduces new logo
Staff Photo by CINDY HEPNER
Entertaining the crowd during the first show of the Kelly Miller Circus last year are Steve Copeland and Ryan Combs.
Bridgeton under the Big Top
Sending districts see a little relief
Oakview Heights faces aftermath of storm
Fairfield Twp. tax collector sentenced
Special to The News/Judith Larsen
The May 14 storm wreaked havoc on Oakview Heights, in Bridgeton.
By Sean C. [email protected]
BRIDGETON — A Glassboro man has been charged by city police with attempting to rob a downtown bank Friday morning.
He also was served a warrant charging him with 10 crimes in connection with a 2008 home invasion-style burglary here.
Police were dispatched to Susquehanna Bank’s branch office at 14 N. Pearl St. at about 10:25 a.m. Friday after a teller activated the bank’s hold-up alarm.
The robbery suspect, Bryant P. Day, 23, of Hollybush Garden Apartments, was arrested on the 400 block of
Irving Avenue about a half hour later, police said.Investigators credited Bridgeton Police Ptl. Deena
Bertolini with quickly spotting the getaway vehicle, as it was described to police by a witness who saw Day enter it after he left the bank.
Bertolini pulled over the dark-red 1999 Dodge Durango on Spring Street, according to Det. Sgt. Anthony “Skip” Calabrese, who took Day into custody.
The female driver was described by police as an unwit-ting accomplice. She was not charged along with Day in connection with the robbery after it was determined she had no idea about the Glassboro man’s intent.
Day was charged with first-degree robbery and third-degree terroristic threats. Bail on those charges was set
at $200,000.Police noted those charges may be bumped up from the
state to the federal level.Day reportedly walked into the North Pearl Street
bank and slipped a teller a demand note which indicated he was armed with a gun. He left without any money and without saying anything to bank employees after he saw the teller hit the hold-up button.
Day was lodged in Cumberland County Jail.“Everybody was involved from the jump. It was a good
job,” Det. Lt. Michael Gaimari said. “Bank robberies, the investigations sometimes go weeks, months. ... To wrap it up that quickly, it was a good job by patrol and detec-
(See CHARGED, Page A-6)
From staff reports
TRENTON — The former tax collector for Fairfield Township was sentenced to five years in state prison Fri-day for stealing $44,000 in property tax payments, Attor-ney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal Justice Director Ste-phen J. Taylor announced.
Heddi Sutherland, 43, of Millville, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Rob-ert P. Becker Jr. She pleaded guilty on March 29 to second-degree official misconduct, a charge contained in a May 11, 2009, state grand jury indict-ment obtained by the Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau.
Sutherland was ordered to pay $44,000 in restitution to Fairfield Township and will be permanently barred from pub-lic employment in New Jer-sey. Deputy Attorney General Susan Kase represented the state at the sentencing hear-ing.
In pleading guilty, Suther-land admitted that between January 2003 and December 2007, while employed as the municipal tax collector, she stole approximately $44,000
(See SENTENCED, Page A-6)
By Anthony [email protected]
BRIDGETON — For this year’s 20th running of the Sun-set Challenge, the Bridgeton Exchange Club is introducing a new logo for the T-shirts and two new events.
The logo is for this year only,
as it commemorates that this is the 20th annual event. The two new events will probably stick around a little longer.
When the event takes place on July 17 at Sunset Lake, the Aqua Bike Olympic Distance and the Aqua Bike Sprint Dis-tance races will be added to the already existing Sprint Triath-
lon and Duathlon and Olympic Triathlon to bring the event total to five.
The Aqua Bike events are newly-sanctioned events by USA Triathlon. The Olympic distance events begin at 7:15 a.m., with the sprint events scheduled for 8 a.m.
(See CHALLENGE, Page A-6)
By Joe [email protected]
UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. — Five of the seven Cumber-land Regional High School (CRHS) sending districts will still see a tax rate increase for 2010-2011, but officials have managed to alleviate the pain.
After voters defeated the budget April 20, municipal leaders from the sending dis-tricts had to decide to revise that tax levy figure or keep it. They demanded a $225,000 reduction.
That meant the levy for each sending district was again sub-jected to the state’s formula for determining the rate, which is based on the number of stu-dents from the district attend-ing the school and property valuation in that municipality.
The following list shows the final difference in each district between last year’s levy and the revised 2010-2011 levy, fol-lowing the $225,000 reduction. All are measured in cents per $100 assessed property value:
* Deerfield Township — .32 cent increase
* Fairfield Township — 4.55
(See TAX, Page A-11)
By Anthony [email protected]
BRIDGETON — It’s almost time for the children of Bridgeton and its surrounding areas to ride camels, witness an exciting tiger show and watch an elephant show
in which the enormous animals perform to music while lifting actresses in the air.
The circus is on its way back to Bridgeton.
On June 7, the Kelly Miller
(See CIRCUS, Page A-12)
By Joe [email protected]
BRIDGETON — Four units in the Oakview Heights apartment complex have been deemed temporarily uninhab-itable due to damage from the May 14 storm, Bridgeton Housing Authority Executive Director Raymond Maier said on Friday.
The Housing Authority oversees the complex.
Maier said the structural integrity of the roofs is a major concern.
“We think the roof trusses may have been split,” he said. “Some (units) don’t look too bad. Then you look at the ceil-ing, and see that the sheet rock is pulling away from the studs.”
“You just wouldn’t want anyone living in there until you make things right,” Maier added.
Repairs may include work to the roof joists, the roofs themselves and other struc-tures.
Maier said he wasn’t sure when residents will be able
to move back into the four units. He explained that the adjuster, when asked if they’d be ready by the fall, said “We move much faster than that.”
Utilities including electric, gas, heat and water should have been restored to all but the four compromised units by Friday, Maier said.
Some took longer than oth-ers.
Uprooted trees had rup-tured the gas lines to a num-ber of units. Maier said 24 units has lost their gas ser-vice immediately following the storm.
The Housing Authority had
(See DAMAGE, Page A-6)
