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School Bd. Hears Plans toImprove Math Scores

By KATE BROWNESpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Boardof Education considered the bestway to improve the standardizedtest scores of middle school generalmath students at their meeting Tues-day night, which was held at theBeechwood School.

Chief School Administrator(CSA) Nancy Lubarsky and severalmembers of the teaching staff madea detailed presentation which re-viewed the students’ performanceand outlined an action plan for im-provement.

The computerized PARCC tests— short for the Partnership for As-sessment of Readiness for Collegeand Careers — debuted in 2015 andwere administered in six states andthe District of Columbia last spring.Students are scored on a scale of 1to 5. Those who score a 4 or higherare considered to be meeting theirgrade level expectations for collegeand career readiness.

Students who score a 3 are ap-proaching those expectations andthose with a 2 or lower are not. Aswith any new test, CSA Lubarskynoted PARCC scores will be lowerin the first few years and graduallyimprove. The test stresses criticalthinking, problem solving and ana-lytical writing, and New Jersey stu-dents in grades 3 to 11 participated.

Mountainside students generallyexceeded the state standards, how-ever the students in the general mathclasses performed lower than theirpeers in other districts. Accordingto CSA Lubarsky, thisunderperformance is not an accu-rate assessment of the effectivenessof the math program since it doesnot include the tests scores of theeight grade students enrolled in thealgebra and geometry classes. Ap-proximately half the middle schoolstudents are enrolled in these upperlevel math classes. School boardmember Dante Gioia stated that in

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Parking Lines Will RemainNear McKinley School in Westfield

By CHRISTINA M. HINKESpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

WESTFIELD — CouncilmanKeith Loughlin said Tuesday that thePublic Safety, Transportation, andParking Committee met and decidedto retain the parallel parking lines andall safety markings that were paintedon Osbourne Street between FirstStreet and West Broad Street. Resi-dent Tom Dries, of First Street, hadcome before the town council Tues-day, as well as at two previous publicmeetings, asking officials why theywere painted there and said they madethe residential neighborhood lose its

character.Mr. Loughlin said the decision dates

back to 2005 when community out-reach meetings took place regardingareas deemed in need of added trafficsafety measures. The area aroundMcKinley Elementary School, towhich Mr. Dries was referring, wassaid at the time to have cars doubledparked there during school drop-offand pick-up times, causing roads tobe blocked.

Mr. Loughlin noted an article in theMarch 24, 2005 edition of TheWestfield Leader that quotedMcKinley Elementary School Prin-

cipal Claudia Andreski as saying, “I’mconcerned for the safety of the chil-dren — concerned with traffic andkeeping everybody safe.”

Mr. Dries said the double parkingcontinues to occur.

“It is a parking issue for the boardof education,” Mr. Dries told TheLeader. He showed the Leader pho-tos of the parking signs that stipulateno parking during school pick-up anddrop-off times, yet cars still park there.He also said McKinley School teach-ers park on the residential streets.

Mr. Dries, who has lived on FirstStreet for 35 years, affirmed that theparallel parking lines on First Streetwere not there until about a year ago,yet Mr. Loughlin has said that theywere there and that the Department ofPublic Works repainted the lines lastAugust.

“Street markings are designed forsafety in mind and provide safesightline views,” Mr. Loughlin said.

Mr. Dries showed photos of carsnot adhering to the parking lines andrules and blocking driveways, park-ing near intersections and doubleparking. He said he has seen no oneenforcing the parking rules at theschool.

Mr. Loughlin said the “town safetyprofessionals monitor all the schoolareas regularly.”

“If it’s a safety issue, why isn’t itbeing taken care of?” Mr. Dries asked.

Also during the public commentportion of the meeting, two womenasked about the Downtown Task Forceand what it has been doing to fillvacancies in the downtown.

“Are we coming up with any plansto work on this?” resident MarciBandelli of Tuttle Parkway asked.“I’m devastated with Panera clos-ing,” she said.

Mayor Andy Skibitsky said the re-tail paradigm is changing, and the

BOE OK’s Duties for NewPost for Ex-WHS Principal

By SARAH MCGRAILSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

WESTFIELD — The duties of anew job created for the formerWestfield High School principal havebeen approved by the Board of Edu-cation.

The new Director of SpecialProjects, Peter Renwick, is to “workunder the direction of the superinten-dent (Margaret Dolan) on projectsthat benefit the Westfield schools.”

His performance responsibilitiesinclude the stipulation that he “assistwith a variety of Board of Educationprojects and programs” and “design

and conduct research projects alignedwith district initiatives.”

The qualifications required for therole, which pays $142,222 a year,include the “proven ability to investi-gate and resolve problems,” the “abil-ity to work well independently” and“proven project and process manage-ment experience.”

The director should hold a validNew Jersey school administrator’scertificate and have a minimum offive years’ experience as a district orbuilding leader.

Mr. Renwick took up his new posi-tion after 10 months’ absence fromthe high school on medical leave. Hehas already submitted his resignationwhich will take effect in February2018 when he will have completed 25years of service in the district.

Recruitment for a new high schoolprincipal is currently underway and itis hoped that a recommendation willbe made to the board in early March.Derrick Nelson, former assistant prin-cipal, will continue as acting princi-pal in the mean time.

The board voted to approve thenew position at its meeting on Tues-day evening.

In other business, board membersheard from Lydia Kaplan and PamelaBurg, Westfield graduates and theparents of Westfield graduates, whoshared their concerns about the wel-fare of students in the current politi-cal climate.

Ms. Burg told the board: “Mydaughter says it is not fine to go intoa Westfield school, especiallyWestfield High School, if you aredifferent.”

She said her daughter would feelthere was pressure on her if there wasa discussion on race relations or theexperience of being African-Ameri-can.

Superintendent Dolan and BoardPresident Gretchan Ohlig reassuredMs. Kaplan and Ms. Burg that theboard was constantly aware of theneed for all children to feel included.

“This board is committed to pro-viding a safe place for everyone at thehigh school,” Ms Ohlig told them.

Superintendent Dolan said the highschool had been working on this issuewith teachers this year and she wouldbe interested in meeting with Ms.Kaplan and Ms. Burg to hear theirideas.

Board member Robert Garrisonsaid that, as the parent of a child ofcolor who was at elementary school,he felt this issue should be looked atacross all the Westfield schools.

In response to a question from Ms.Burg, the superintendent said: “Thereare times when it is appropriate todiscuss politics but I have made itclear to teachers that it is not appro-priate to bring our own politics intothe classroom.”

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By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

GARWOOD — At the Tuesdaynight meeting of the Garwood Coun-cil, a settlement agreement was ap-proved to resolve an affordable-housing lawsuit, the tax revaluationprocess and the 2017 application tothe Department of Transportation(DOT) for road work was discussed,and a $200,000 bond ordinance wasapproved to authorize the acquisi-tion of a new garbage truck.

After meeting in closed session,the council unanimously authorizedMayor Charles Lombardo and Bor-ough Administrator/Clerk ChristinaAriemma to execute a settlementagreement in the form approved byBorough Attorney Robert Renaud.The settlement relates to the afford-able-housing units Garwood is re-sponsible for. Ms. Ariemma re-quested The Westfield Leader filean OPRA (Open Public RecordsAct) request in response to a re-quest for information on the law-suit.

Former councilman Jim Mathieuaddressed the council to discuss thetown-wide tax revaluation. Accord-ing to state.nj.us, revaluation is aprogram that is initiated by a mu-nicipality to appraise all real estateaccording to its fair market value incompliance with state law. Revalu-ation brings all properties to 100percent, insuring that owners paytaxes based on the fair market valueof their property. Fair market valueis defined as the price a propertywould sell for between a buyer andseller.

Mr. Mathieu told The Leader thatthe last time Garwood had a reas-sessment was 1984. “We are so far

outside that we now have to do arevaluation,” he said. Reassessment,like a revaluation, seeks to spreadthe tax burden equally, but in mostcases the process is conducted in-house without the aid of an outsiderevaluation/appraisal firm. Revalu-ation will require the borough tohire outside aid.

“Although Garwood has not beenmandated to undertake one yet, it[revaluation] is going to be comingdown the line,” Councilwoman IleenCuccaro said. “This is a very costlyprocess, which would cost the tax-payers around $200,000.”

Mr. Mathieu urged the council to“start to accrue the $200,000 cost,”asking if the borough was “waitingfor a lawsuit.”

“We are trying to figure out howto start accruing money without aburden to the taxpayer,” Council-woman Cuccaro said.

“It’s a burden no matter how youlook at it,” replied Council Presi-dent Sara Todisco.

Councilwoman Cuccaro said thatthe Administrative Review Com-mittee has “decided to take a closerlook” at a proposal sent by a resi-dent urging the council to ask theUnion County Freeholders for atleast a portion of the funding for therevaluation.

“We believe it is worthwhile toseek assistance from our county gov-ernment,” she said. “We will make arecommendation once we have adraft.”

Council President Todisco statedthat the Finance Committee was in“unanimous agreement” to moveforward with the planned budgetprocess. She reported that she has

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MS BOEhis opinion, it was unacceptable tohave students failing to meet thestate’s standards and he expressedconcern regarding the poor testscores.

CSA Lubarsky outlined a strat-egy to help prepare the students forthe upcoming test season whichstarts in late March. She explainedthat the district is using the BigIdeas program which aligns withthe Common Core and the state mathstandards. In addition, students willbe spending an additional two weekson geometry, with an increased ex-posure to statistics and probability,as well as more complex word prob-lems.

Students will also receive moretime in math labs and increasedexposure to PARCC like testing in-cluding using the free Khan Acad-emy tutorials, which have been cus-tomized for each student so theyreceive extra support for the areasthey need help in.

Board members advised the pub-lic that a preliminary draft schoolcalendar for the 2017-2018 aca-demic year has been posted on thedistrict’s website and voted in favorof setting the per pupil yearly tu-ition rate for non-disabled pre-school students for the 2017-2018school year at $3,500. For five half-day sessions and $7,000 for fivefull-day sessions.

The board also voted to acceptthe resignation of JenniferKuperman and Kimberly Ryan andapproved maternity leave for threestaff members. CSA Lubarsky pre-sented each board member with acertificate acknowledging their ser-vice in honor of School Board Rec-ognition Month.

task force is looking at the downtown’sfuture for the next five to 20 years. Hesaid Panera closed due to issues withthe franchisee and franchisor, and hehas heard there is interest by anotherparty to rent the space.

Store proprietors complain of highrents, Ms. Bandelli said. Mayor Ski-bitsky said the town cannot controlthe rates the landlords charge. “Thereason it is so high is becauseWestfield is in high demand,” Mr.Skibitsky said.

The occupancy rate is 88 percent,and that includes Lord & Taylor,Mayor Skibitsky said. Shelley Brindleof Fairmont Avenue said includingLord & Taylor seems “disproportion-ate” to the smaller shops in the down-town. The occupancy rate is calcu-lated on square footage, Mayor Skib-itsky responded.

“It seems this whole process…thereis a lack of transparency,” Ms. Brindlesaid. Mayor Skibitsky disagreed andsaid the task force has met with hun-

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couple of postings on social media onthis topic had been followed up andhad been found to be inaccurate.

She presented the annual self-as-sessment by Westfield schools underthe New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill ofRights Act whereby schools gradethemselves on the way they deal withbullying in their school.

“This is not a job that you do andcomplete. It is a job that is ongoing.You continue to work to make surepeople treat each other with respect,”Superintendent Dolan said.

The superintendent also reportedon the district’s three goals for thecurrent school year at what is almostthe mid-point of the school year.

The first goal is teaching resiliencyand coping skills to students, the sec-ond is parent outreach to provideonline resources and information ses-sions for parents and the third is col-laborative learning which aims to seeteachers increasing the use of onlineresources.

The next Board of Education meet-ing will take place at the district’sadministrative offices at 302 Elm Streeton Tuesday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m.


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Ms. Brindle also asked how thetask force was selected and who is onthe task force. The task force is madeup of 15 property owners, retailers,residents and council members,Mayor Skibitsky said. A full reportwill be given to the council in thespring, he said.

Ms. Brindle asked how residentscan have input into the ideas for help-ing to reduce vacancies downtown.

She suggested the town have a “pro-active citizens’ forum” after MayorSkibitsky said he has office hours onMonday mornings for citizens whowish to speak to him.

In other business, the council gaveapproval to apply for TransportationTrust Fund money to aid in pavingBoulevard from Washington to GroveStreets and Grove Street from CentralAvenue to Summit Avenue.

The council again met in executivesession to discuss Council On Af-fordable Housing litigation.


Garwood COAHasked all department heads to “comeup with three ways to save money”and asked them to give her a shortsummary about their budgets.

Ms. Todisco reminded residentsthat the Finance Committee willhold a “Breaking Down the Bud-get” meeting on Tuesday, February7, at Lincoln School at 7 p.m., atwhich time residents are welcometo share their thoughts and havetheir questions answered. Items thatwill be discussed include the taxbill, 2-percent cap law and surplus,among other budget items.

Councilwoman Cuccaro also re-ported that the Laws and LicenseCommittee recommended an in-crease to liquor license fees, whichhad not been modified since 2010.She also stated that the committeewould like to introduce an ordi-nance to prohibit handicap streetparking if the applicant has a drive-way. “Obviously if there are miti-gating circumstances that wouldcause the applicant to not comply,that can be addressed on a case-by-case basis,” she said.

The council also discussed thegrant application to the DOT forroad paving. “We are supposed toput in for what we foresee doing,”Council President Todisco said. “Wetalked about doing more [paving]than we usually do.” She stated thatthe council needed to prioritize thestreets that needed to be done.

“Even if we put in for $500,000,we will probably only get$200,000,” Ms. Ariemma stated.

The council discussed approvingan ordinance to require the watercompany to pave the whole street ifthe company should have to do workon a recently paved street to avoid“patchwork” paving.

The council approved the full-time hire of William Petterway tothe staff of the Department of Pub-lic Works (DPW) to fill a positionleft void by a retirement, with Coun-cilwoman Cuccaro and CouncilmanJoe Sarno voting against. The DPWhad been working with a full-time

staff of seven and hiring seasonalworkers.

“I would rather pay unemploy-ment for a seasonal worker thanpick up the tab for a full-time workerforever,” Councilwoman Cuccarosaid.

Councilwoman Jen Blumenstockresponded by saying, “Part of thereasoning is to look at the future.”She stated that the DPW would seemore retirements by the end of theyear and having trained staff mem-bers would be beneficial to the de-partment. “Putting it off just delaysthe inevitable,” she said.

The next meeting of the GarwoodCouncil will be held on Tuesday,February 14, in Council Chambers,located at 403 South Avenue.

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Committee Authorizes SaleOf Birchwood Property

By MICHAEL BONACCORSOSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

CRANFORD – The TownshipCommittee on Tuesday night passeda resolution authorizing acquisitionof 215-235 Birchwood Avenue for$18.5 million.

As previously reported the town-ship is purchasing the property fromS. Hekemian Group. The commit-tee has said the township is acquir-ing the land in order to reduce thedensity by 37 percent from 360 to225 units and seeking another de-veloper for the property.

Deputy Mayor Patrick Giblin wasthe sole negation 4-1 vote onTuesday’s resolution. Mr. Giblinsaid the development is not fiscallyconservative and could be burden-some to residents. Mr. Giblin saiddollars for flood research and otherresident concerns mentioned at pre-vious meetings are not accountedfor in the $18.5 million bond.

Barbara Krause, a long-time resi-dent, said nothing has been men-tioned addressing wetlands and bod-ies of water that run next to theBirchwood Development. Ms.Krause said the project can be posi-tive, however, a flooded building orproperty would be a major setbackfor the town. She suggested researchshould be done to further investi-gate if a detention wall is needed.Ms. Krause stated his intentionswere not to complain, but open aneducated dialogue on protectingCranford’s investment.

The United States Army Corps.of Engineers have released theirfindings on Cranford’s flood pre-vention and river system. A full re-port can be found on the CranfordTownship website. CommissionerMary O’Connor will host officehours in the municipal building onTuesday, February 7 from 6:30 to 8p.m. to discuss Cranford Flood RiskManagement situation. Any ques-tions can be sent to her email m-o’[email protected].

The committee reported that 25to 30 roads will be repaired through-out Cranford during spring. Ms.Krause said Pittsfield Street hasnumerous potholes and needs to becompleted this spring.

Township Engineer O’Brien saidhow much each road is repaired willbe determined by budgeted capitalavailable for projects. Mr. O’Brien’sgoals for each road ranged fromsimple patch work to curb improve-ment and driveway-apron road im-provement.

Mr. O’Brien said the baseball fieldand Lincoln School basketballcourts are nearing completion pend-ing the weather in upcoming weeks.

Cranford’s Daughters of theAmerican Revolution (D.A.R.) willbe celebrating an eight anniversaryof the refurbishment of the WorldWar I flagpole. The D.A.R. will bepresenting the township with a na-tional award for preserving the land-mark. Commissioner Ann Dooleysaid the flagpole will be repaintedsometime in spring.

Ms. Krause, the event chairwoman,said the ceremony will be in Marchand will be advertised in municipalbuilding and the newspaper.

Commissioner Andis Kalnins an-nounced that the Cranford Cham-ber of Commerce held a kickoffparty on Tuesday, January 31 from5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CranfordHotel.

Resolutions were passed autho-rizing tax refunds to lien holders, toexpunge 2017 property taxes for a100 Percent Disabled Veteran, andauthorizing an increase in the changefund for the Cranford Building De-partment.

Appointments by Mayor ThomasH. Hannen, Jr. of Martha Sturm as amember of the tree advisory board,serving a three-year term, and ofChristopher Chapman as a Class IImember of the planning board for aone-year term were announced.

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BOE to Act on Spending $7.6 Mil.On Capital Projects for Schools

Planning Bd. Told Cell TowerDeadline Unlikely to Be Met

By ROBYN ORR-GIOFFRESpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times

SCOTCH PLAINS – The ScotchPlains-Fanwood Board of Educa-tion put forth a motion Thursdaythat would authorize the withdrawalof $6,140,503 from the capital re-serve for several projects plannedfor the 2016-2017 year.

Those projects include new Heat-ing, Ventilation and Air Condition-ing (HVAC) replacements forSchool One and Evergreen Elemen-tary School, the purchase of newHVAC for Park and Terrill and ParkMiddle Schools, new lighting for

the Park Middle School auditoriumand masonry repair, a new securitysystem for Scotch Plains-FanwoodHigh School (SPFHS), a new boilerfor Coles Elementary School, soundupdates for Park and Terrill MiddleSchools and roofing repairs forSPFHS and Brunner ElementarySchool.

Additionally, the board moved totransfer funds from the maintenancereserve fund in the amount of $1.5million for several projects plannedfor the 2016-2017 school year.Those projects include installingnew lockers at Terrill Middle School

and SPFHS, paving at several of theschools, painting of the Park MiddleSchool auditorium and an asbestostile project for Park Middle Schooland SPFHS.

These projects, as clarified byboard member Cindy Clancy, are“possible” projects that have yet tobe approved by the board.

Board member Evan Murray of-fered the board an update on the ParkMiddle School parking lot project inhis Facilities Committee report.

“The construction is complete,it’s been paved, the curbing is in,(and) I believe the spots are lined aswell,” Mr. Evan reported to theboard.

In other business, 17 teachers,administrators and educational ser-vices professionals were honoredby the BOE for being the recipientsof the 2016-2017 Governor’s Edu-cator of the Year Award and the2016 New Jersey Exemplary El-ementary Educator Award.

The recipients of the 2016-2017Governor’s Educator of the YearAward acknowledged by the SP-FBOE are: Donna Lauricella, Col-leen Reape-Fay, Caitlin Dziedzic,Barbara Denker, Jennifer Dubroski,Terry Keller, Jean Swartz, JohnLohn, Jaclyn Duffy, RosemaryBianco, Alex Hofer, LaurenRogalin, Matthew Gunther, MichaelAbadir and Amanda Moser.

The recipients of the 2016 NewJersey Exemplary Elementary Edu-cator Award acknowledged by theSP-F BOE are Courtney Nemec andSasha Slocum.

Superintendent Margaret Hayestold the board “this special group ofeducators work closely with our stu-dents to create nurturing environ-ments in which our students flour-ish and grow.”

Superintendent Hayes went on toBy FRED T. ROSSI

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SCOTCH PLAINS — The plan-ning board was told on Monday thatit’s very unlikely that New CingularWireless would be able to re-installits antennas atop PSE&G transmis-sion towers before an April dead-line set by the board a year ago.

At its meeting on Monday, boardmember Robert LaCosta, who isalso the township’s zoning officer,told the board that the April dead-line for re-installing the antennaswas not going to be met. Last year,an impatient planning board gaveits unenthusiastic approval to NewCingular Wireless to keep in placetemporary cellular telephone anten-nas at two sites on the south side oftown for another year — after hav-ing given such extensions a yearearlier. In October 2012, the boardgave permission to New Cingular toerect temporary towers for two yearson Terrill Road near Parker Green-house and on Raritan Road near theAshbrook Nursing Home whilePSE&G replaced its transmissiontowers along the right-of-way that

parallels Terrill Road.Mr. LaCosta said the zoning board

of adjustment earlier this month hadapproved New Cingular’s formalapplication to install 12 antennason the PSE&G tower near theAshbrook facility, but put off untilMarch an application to install onthe PSE&G tower located in theright-of-way that crosses Judy Lane,a heavily residential area. He saidPSE&G would not permit the an-tennas to be re-installed on its tow-ers during peak energy usage times,meaning that the earliest the pro-cess could take place would besometime during the fall months.

In other business, the board for-mally hired its professional staff for2017, with Neil Dworkin returningas board attorney, Ferriero Engi-neering serving as board engineerand Harbor Consultants beingnamed as the board’s professionalplanner.

Board Chairman Joseph Doyleannounced appointments to theboard’s nine standing committeesthat examine everything from fi-

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School Bd. Hears Plans toImprove Math Scores

By KATE BROWNESpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fawnood Times

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Board ofEducation considered the best way toimprove the standardized test scores ofmiddle school general math students attheir meeting Tuesday night, which washeld at the Beechwood School.

Chief School Administrator (CSA)Nancy Lubarsky and several mem-bers of the teaching staff made a de-tailed presentation which reviewedthe students’ performance and out-lined an action plan for improvement.

The computerized PARCC tests —short for the Partnership for Assess-ment of Readiness for College andCareers — debuted in 2015 and wereadministered in six states and theDistrict of Columbia last spring. Stu-dents are scored on a scale of 1 to 5.Those who score a 4 or higher areconsidered to be meeting their gradelevel expectations for college andcareer readiness.

Students who score a 3 are ap-proaching those expectations andthose with a 2 or lower are not. Aswith any new test, CSA Lubarskynoted PARCC scores will be lower inthe first few years and gradually im-prove. The test stresses critical think-ing, problem solving and analyticalwriting, and New Jersey students ingrades 3 to 11 participated.

Mountainside students generallyexceeded the state standards, how-ever the students in the general mathclasses performed lower than theirpeers in other districts. According toCSA Lubarsky, thisunderperformance is not an accurateassessment of the effectiveness of themath program since it does not in-clude the tests scores of the eightgrade students enrolled in the algebra

and geometry classes. Approximatelyhalf the middle school students areenrolled in these upper level mathclasses. School board member DanteGioia stated that in his opinion, it wasunacceptable to have students failingto meet the state’s standards and heexpressed concern regarding the poortest scores.

CSA Lubarsky outlined a strategyto help prepare the students for theupcoming test season which starts inlate March. She explained that thedistrict is using the Big Ideas pro-gram which aligns with the CommonCore and the state math standards. Inaddition, students will be spending anadditional two weeks on geometry,with an increased exposure to statis-tics and probability, as well as morecomplex word problems.

Students will also receive more timein math labs and increased exposureto PARCC like testing including us-ing the free Khan Academy tutorials,which have been customized for eachstudent so they receive extra supportfor the areas they need help in.

Board members advised the publicthat a preliminary draft school calen-dar for the 2017-2018 academic yearhas been posted on the district’swebsite and voted in favor of settingthe per pupil yearly tuition rate fornon-disabled pre-school students forthe 2017-2018 school year at $3,500.For five half-day sessions and $7,000for five full-day sessions.

The board also voted to accept theresignation of Jennifer Kuperman andKimberly Ryan and approved mater-nity leave for three staff members.CSA Lubarsky presented each boardmember with a certificate acknowl-edging their service in honor of SchoolBoard Recognition Month.

Garwood Council Settles COAHLawsuit, Discusses Revaluation

By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times

GARWOOD — At the Tuesdaynight meeting of the Garwood Coun-cil, a settlement agreement was ap-proved to resolve an affordable-hous-ing lawsuit, the tax revaluation pro-cess and the 2017 application to theDepartment of Transportation (DOT)for road work was discussed, and a$200,000 bond ordinance was ap-proved to authorize the acquisition ofa new garbage truck.

After meeting in closed session,the council unanimously authorized

Mayor Charles Lombardo and Bor-ough Administrator/Clerk ChristinaAriemma to execute a settlementagreement in the form approved byBorough Attorney Robert Renaud.The settlement relates to the afford-able-housing units Garwood is re-sponsible for. Ms. Ariemma requestedThe Scotch Plains-Fanwood Timesfile an OPRA (Open Public RecordsAct) request in response to a requestfor information on the lawsuit.

Former councilman Jim Mathieuaddressed the council to discuss thetown-wide tax revaluation. Accord-ing to state.nj.us, revaluation is a pro-gram that is initiated by a municipal-ity to appraise all real estate accord-ing to its fair market value in compli-ance with state law. Revaluation brings

all properties to 100 percent, insuringthat owners pay taxes based on thefair market value of their property.Fair market value is defined as theprice a property would sell for be-tween a buyer and seller.

Mr. Mathieu told The Times thatthe last time Garwood had a reassess-ment was 1984. “We are so far out-side that we now have to do a revalu-ation,” he said. Reassessment, like arevaluation, seeks to spread the taxburden equally, but in most cases theprocess is conducted in-house with-out the aid of an outside revaluation/appraisal firm. Revaluation will re-quire the borough to hire outside aid.

“Although Garwood has not beenmandated to undertake one yet, it

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WESTFIELD — CouncilmanKeith Loughlin said Tuesday thatthe Public Safety, Transportation,and Parking Committee met anddecided to retain the parallel park-ing lines and all safety markingsthat were painted on Osbourne Streetbetween First Street and West BroadStreet. Resident Tom Dries, of FirstStreet, had come before the towncouncil Tuesday, as well as at twoprevious public meetings, askingofficials why they were painted thereand said they made the residentialneighborhood lose its character.

Mr. Loughlin said the decisiondates back to 2005 when commu-nity outreach meetings took placeregarding areas deemed in need ofadded traffic safety measures. Thearea around McKinley ElementarySchool, to which Mr. Dries was re-ferring, was said at the time to havecars doubled parked there duringschool drop-off and pick-up times,causing roads to be blocked.

Mr. Loughlin noted an article inthe March 24, 2005 edition of TheScotch Plains-Fanwood Times thatquoted McKinley ElementarySchool Principal Claudia Andreskias saying, “I’m concerned for thesafety of the children — concernedwith traffic and keeping everybodysafe.”

Mr. Dries said the double parkingcontinues to occur.

“It is a parking issue for the boardof education,” Mr. Dries told TheTimes. He showed The Times photosof the parking signs that stipulateno parking during school pick-upand drop-off times, yet cars stillpark there. He also said McKinleySchool teachers park on the resi-dential streets.

Mr. Dries, who has lived on FirstStreet for 35 years, affirmed that theparallel parking lines on First Streetwere not there until about a yearago, yet Mr. Loughlin has said thatthey were there and that the Depart-ment of Public Works repainted thelines last August.

“Street markings are designed forsafety in mind and provide safesightline views,” Mr. Loughlin said.

Mr. Dries showed photos of carsnot adhering to the parking linesand rules and blocking driveways,

parking near intersections anddouble parking. He said he has seenno one enforcing the parking rulesat the school.

Mr. Loughlin said the “town safetyprofessionals monitor all the schoolareas regularly.”

“If it’s a safety issue, why isn’t itbeing taken care of?” Mr. Driesasked.

Also during the public commentportion of the meeting, two womenasked about the Downtown TaskForce and what it has been doing tofill vacancies in the downtown.

“Are we coming up with any plansto work on this?” resident MarciBandelli of Tuttle Parkway asked.“I’m devastated with Panera clos-ing,” she said.

Mayor Andy Skibitsky said theretail paradigm is changing, and thetask force is looking at thedowntown’s future for the next fiveto 20 years. He said Panera closeddue to issues with the franchiseeand franchisor, and he has heardthere is interest by another party torent the space.

Store proprietors complain of highrents, Ms. Bandelli said. Mayor Ski-bitsky said the town cannot controlthe rates the landlords charge. “Thereason it is so high is becauseWestfield is in high demand,” Mr.Skibitsky said.

The occupancy rate is 88 percent,and that includes Lord & Taylor,Mayor Skibitsky said. ShelleyBrindle of Fairmont Avenue saidincluding Lord & Taylor seems “dis-proportionate” to the smaller shopsin the downtown. The occupancyrate is calculated on square footage,Mayor Skibitsky responded.

“It seems this wholeprocess…there is a lack of trans-parency,” Ms. Brindle said. MayorSkibitsky disagreed and said thetask force has met with hundreds ofpeople in the town.

Ms. Brindle also asked how thetask force was selected and who ison the task force. The task force ismade up of 15 property owners,retailers, residents and councilmembers, Mayor Skibitsky said. Afull report will be given to the coun-cil in the spring, he said.

Ms. Brindle asked how residentscan have input into the ideas forhelping to reduce vacancies down-town.

She suggested the town have a“proactive citizens’ forum” afterMayor Skibitsky said he has officehours on Monday mornings for citi-zens who wish to speak to him.

In other business, the council gaveapproval to apply for Transporta-tion Trust Fund money to aid inpaving Boulevard from Washing-ton to Grove Streets and GroveStreet from Central Avenue to Sum-mit Avenue.

The council again met in execu-tive session to discuss Council OnAffordable Housing litigation.


Garwood COAH[revaluation] is going to be comingdown the line,” Councilwoman IleenCuccaro said. “This is a very costlyprocess, which would cost the tax-payers around $200,000.”

Mr. Mathieu urged the council to“start to accrue the $200,000 cost,”asking if the borough was “waitingfor a lawsuit.”

“We are trying to figure out how tostart accruing money without a bur-den to the taxpayer,” CouncilwomanCuccaro said.

“It’s a burden no matter how youlook at it,” replied Council PresidentSara Todisco.

Councilwoman Cuccaro said thatthe Administrative Review Commit-tee has “decided to take a closer look”at a proposal sent by a resident urgingthe council to ask the Union CountyFreeholders for at least a portion ofthe funding for the revaluation.

“We believe it is worthwhile to seekassistance from our county govern-ment,” she said. “We will make a rec-ommendation once we have a draft.”

Council President Todisco statedthat the Finance Committee was in“unanimous agreement” to move for-ward with the planned budget pro-cess. She reported that she has askedall department heads to “come upwith three ways to save money” andasked them to give her a short sum-mary about their budgets.

Ms. Todisco reminded residents thatthe Finance Committee will hold a“Breaking Down the Budget” meetingon Tuesday, February 7, at LincolnSchool at 7 p.m., at which time resi-dents are welcome to share theirthoughts and have their questions an-swered. Items that will be discussedinclude the tax bill, 2-percent cap lawand surplus, among other budget items.

Councilwoman Cuccaro also re-ported that the Laws and LicenseCommittee recommended an increaseto liquor license fees, which had notbeen modified since 2010. She also

stated that the committee would liketo introduce an ordinance to prohibithandicap street parking if the appli-cant has a driveway. “Obviously ifthere are mitigating circumstances thatwould cause the applicant to not com-ply, that can be addressed on a case-by-case basis,” she said.

The council also discussed the grantapplication to the DOT for road paving.“We are supposed to put in for what weforesee doing,” Council PresidentTodisco said. “We talked about doingmore [paving] than we usually do.” Shestated that the council needed to priori-tize the streets that needed to be done.

“Even if we put in for $500,000, wewill probably only get $200,000,”Ms. Ariemma stated.

The council discussed approvingan ordinance to require the water com-pany to pave the whole street if thecompany should have to do work ona recently paved street to avoid “patch-work” paving.

The council approved the full-timehire of William Petterway to the staffof the Department of Public Works(DPW) to fill a position left void by aretirement, with CouncilwomanCuccaro and Councilman Joe Sarnovoting against. The DPW had beenworking with a full-time staff of sevenand hiring seasonal workers.

“I would rather pay unemploymentfor a seasonal worker than pick up thetab for a full-time worker forever,”Councilwoman Cuccaro said.

Councilwoman Jen Blumenstockresponded by saying, “Part of thereasoning is to look at the future.”She stated that the DPW would seemore retirements by the end of theyear and having trained staff mem-bers would be beneficial to the de-partment. “Putting it off just delaysthe inevitable,” she said.

The next meeting of the GarwoodCouncil will be held on Tuesday, Feb-ruary 14, in Council Chambers, lo-cated at 403 South Avenue.

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Cell Towernance and the master plan to siteplan reviews and zoning, and alsonamed board members to fournewly-created committees: one fo-cused on downtown business dis-trict issues, one focused on the Route22 corridor, one to look into a po-tential new community center andone addressing affordable housingissues.

The planning board’s next meet-ing is on Monday, February 13.


Capital Proj.note these teachers and educationalservice professionals “work closelywith parents and their outreachshows.”

The board accepted a grantawarded from the NFL Foundationin the amount of $2,000, which willbe used to purchase new footballhelmets, new football equipmentand/or field items. The district waseligible for this grant, according toBusiness Administrator DeborahSaridaki, because there were twoSP-F alumni who have played in theSuper Bowl.

The district planned to acknowl-edge the Inauguration of the 45thPresident of the United States,Donald J. Trump, by “focusing onthe swearing-in ceremony, the oathof office, within the context of theSocial Studies classes,” accordingto Superintendent Hayes. The inau-guration was held the Friday afterthe January 19 board meeting.

Superintendent Hayes told TheScotch Plains-Fanwood Times thatgrades 3 through 11 were to havehad a lesson that focuses on the“peaceful transition of power andthe importance of the oath of officeand how it is a hallmark of ourdemocracy.”

Those students in class aroundthe noon-time ceremony were tohave a chance to view the oath ofoffice live or see it on capturedvideo. Younger students also wereto have the opportunity within theirclassrooms to observe the swearingin, with a lesson “more appropri-ate” for their age group.

The next regular public meetingis scheduled for tonight, January26, at 8 p.m.

BOE OK’s Duties for NewPost for Ex-WHS Principal

By SARAH MCGRAILSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times

WESTFIELD — The duties of anew job created for the formerWestfield High School principalhave been approved by the Board ofEducation.

The new Director of SpecialProjects, Peter Renwick, is to “workunder the direction of the superin-tendent (Margaret Dolan) onprojects that benefit the Westfieldschools.”

His performance responsibilitiesinclude the stipulation that he “as-sist with a variety of Board of Edu-cation projects and programs” and“design and conduct researchprojects aligned with district initia-tives.”

The qualifications required forthe role, which pays $142,222 ayear, include the “proven ability toinvestigate and resolve problems,”the “ability to work well indepen-dently” and “proven project andprocess management experience.”

The director should hold a validNew Jersey school administrator’scertificate and have a minimum offive years’ experience as a districtor building leader.

Mr. Renwick took up his new po-sition after 10 months’ absence fromthe high school on medical leave.He has already submitted his resig-nation which will take effect in Feb-ruary 2018 when he will have com-pleted 25 years of service in thedistrict.

Recruitment for a new high schoolprincipal is currently underway andit is hoped that a recommendationwill be made to the board in earlyMarch. Derrick Nelson, former as-sistant principal, will continue asacting principal in the mean time.

The board voted to approve thenew position at its meeting on Tues-day evening.

In other business, board mem-bers heard from Lydia Kaplan andPamela Burg, Westfield graduatesand the parents of Westfield gradu-ates, who shared their concernsabout the welfare of students in thecurrent political climate.

Ms. Burg told the board: “My

daughter says it is not fine to go intoa Westfield school, especiallyWestfield High School, if you aredifferent.”

She said her daughter would feelthere was pressure on her if therewas a discussion on race relationsor the experience of being African-American.

Superintendent Dolan and BoardPresident Gretchan Ohlig reassuredMs. Kaplan and Ms. Burg that theboard was constantly aware of theneed for all children to feel included.

“This board is committed to pro-viding a safe place for everyone atthe high school,” Ms Ohlig toldthem.

Superintendent Dolan said thehigh school had been working onthis issue with teachers this yearand she would be interested in meet-ing with Ms. Kaplan and Ms. Burgto hear their ideas.

Board member Robert Garrisonsaid that, as the parent of a child ofcolor who was at elementary school,he felt this issue should be looked atacross all the Westfield schools.

In response to a question fromMs. Burg, the superintendent said:“There are times when it is appro-priate to discuss politics but I havemade it clear to teachers that it isnot appropriate to bring our ownpolitics into the classroom.”

Superintendent Dolan said that acouple of postings on social mediaon this topic had been followed upand had been found to be inaccu-rate.

She presented the annual self-as-sessment by Westfield schools un-der the New Jersey Anti-BullyingBill of Rights Act whereby schoolsgrade themselves on the way theydeal with bullying in their school.

“This is not a job that you do andcomplete. It is a job that is ongoing.You continue to work to make surepeople treat each other with re-spect,” Superintendent Dolan said.

The superintendent also reportedon the district’s three goals for thecurrent school year at what is al-most the mid-point of the schoolyear.

The first goal is teaching resil-iency and coping skills to students,the second is parent outreach toprovide online resources and infor-mation sessions for parents and thethird is collaborative learning whichaims to see teachers increasing theuse of online resources.

The next Board of Educationmeeting will take place at thedistrict’s administrative offices at302 Elm Street on Tuesday, Febru-ary 7, at 7:30 p.m.

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Freeholders to Vote onNew Paratransit Operator

By PAUL J. PEYTONSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

COUNTY — The Union CountyFreeholder Board is expected to votetonight to contract with a new vendorfor the operation of the county’sParatransit system, replacing long-time vendor Transdev Services, Inc.of Illinois.

At last week’s agenda setting meet-ing the board considered a resolutionto award a $4,196,217, one-year con-tract to Brooklyn, N.Y.-based MPCCorporation. The contract includesfour, one-year extensions to be votedon annually by the freeholders.

“Over a five-year period comparedto the existing vendor, we anticipatesaving approximately $1.9 million,”Human Services Director FrankGuzzo told the board.

Transdev Services, Inc., whichchanged its name from Veolia Trans-portation in 2015, had the UnionCounty contract “for at least 10 years,”Mr. Guzzo said.

Paratransit is a curb-to-curb trans-port service specializing in transpor-tation of senior citizens age 60 orolder, persons with disabilities and/or economically disadvantaged resi-dents of Union County.

Mr. Guzzo said MPC Corp. cur-rently provides all Paratransit ser-vices for New York City. He said thenew company will be moving thebase of operations for Paratransit fromUnion to Cranford although MPC hasyet to sign the lease pending theboard’s vote on the contract.

Mr. Guzzo said the Paratransit con-tract is supported through grants andthe agreement likely will be amendedas additional services are added ashas been the case for the previousvendor.

The new operator will be respon-sible for routing, scheduling and dis-patch and road operator services forthe Paratransit system. Customers paya fare of $2 per one-way trip. Accord-ing to the county’s website, the ser-vice operates Monday through Fri-day, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. by ap-pointment, with limited hours on Sat-urdays.

Mr. Guzzo said the company willinterview all current drivers and willmeet with the current Paratransit driv-ers’ union representatives on Tues-day, January 31.

Freeholder Angel Estrada asked ifthe new company is knowledgeable

of the new Paratransit dispatch reser-vation system the county purchased afew years ago. Mr. Guzzo describedMPC as “very technology-savvy.”

“Do you feel we are going to get asgood or better service from this neworganization as well as a cost sav-ings?” Freeholder Al Mirabella asked.

Mr. Guzzo responded that he was“confident that this vendor...[will be]equal to or better than what we areused to.”

“This is one of our linchpinservices...along with Meals onWheels,” Mr. Guzzo said ofParatransit. “We do take it very seri-ously.”

He said while transitions to newvendors are not always smooth, hisdepartment will work to ensure “thatit does not affect the consumer.”

Transdev also had operated theRoute 22 shuttle between Union,Kenilworth and Springfield for work-ers as well as the Welfare to Workshuttle.

In other business, the board willvote to enter into a license with theNew Jersey Department of Transpor-tation and Summit to allow Summitto rehabilitate deactivated train tracksbehind Briant Park and ending at theSummit Train Station.

The initiative would allow Summitto turn the abandoned Rahway ValleyRailroad Line property into a linearpark similar to New York’s HighlinePark. Freeholder Chairman BruceBergen estimated the Summit prop-erty is about a mile long.

Union County Director of Eco-nomic Development Amy Wagnersaid action by the county wouldallow “Summit to have responsi-bility for that portion of the railline.”

The board also is set to approve a$35,000 agreement with the New Jer-sey Symphony Orchestra for a Fri-day, June 23 concert at Oak RidgePark in Summit.

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The bill, A-680, would require li-censed oxygen providers and pharma-cies to adopt an emergency action planto deliver oxygen to a patient’s residenceduring a public health emergency.

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By WAYNE BAKERSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

RAHWAY — Last week’s meet-ing of the Rahway Valley SewerageAuthority (RVSA) saw approval ofthe 2017 budget, dropping almost 2percent from 2016’s numbers. Also,a contract was signed for the RVSAto do food waste processing and anew commissioner was sworn inwhile another departed.

The board approved a budget of$25,601,250, a drop of $222,500 or1.87 percent from 2016. Assessmentson member towns, which make up themajority of the Authority’s budget,will drop from $24,801,000 to$24,421,500, a reduction of $379,500or 1.53 percent.

Assessments are based on a five-year rolling average of system usage.Two-thirds of the assessments comefrom just four towns. Woodbridgedwarfs all others, with 26.02 percent;it is responsible for $6,355,627 in2017, down $495,740 or 7.24 percentfrom 2016. Rahway, at 17.46 percent,will pay $4,262,858, increasing$240,376 or 5.98 percent. Westfieldcovers 14.38 percent with $3,512,422,rising $142,526 or 4.23 percent fromlast year. Springfield’s assessment of$2,537,893 makes up 10.39 percent ofthe total, and has diminished $23,320or 0.91 percent from 2016.

Clark, Cranford and Scotch Plainsare the next three highest assessments,with 8.43, 6.66 and 5.73 percent, re-spectively. Clark will pay $2,059,105,a 4.72-percent or $101,962 diminu-tion. Cranford’s share is $1,626,631,shrinking $107,379 or 6.19 percent.Scotch Plains pays $1,399,297, down$112,764 or 7.46 percent.

The final four municipalities com-bined make up just under 11 percentof the total assessment.Mountainside’s assessment is$875,574, rising $34,510 or 4.10 per-cent. Kenilworth will pay $707,549,jumping by $140,376 or 24.75 per-cent. Garwood’s assessment is$634,103, dropping $41,954 or 6.21percent. Roselle Park’s share will be$450,441, dropping $54,169 or 10.73percent.

A surplus of $713,500 was appliedto the budget to reduce the assess-

ment levels for the member munici-palities.

It was announced at the meetingthat a contract for the RVSA to pro-cess food waste for Waste Manage-ment has been signed. This is thepublic-private partnership that hasbeen discussed for a couple of years.Jim Meehan, RVSA’s executive di-rector, told The Westfield Leader andThe Scotch Plains-Fanwood Timesthe contract covers a minimum of 10years and may be extended to 20years. It is conservatively expected tobring in $500,000 to $600,000 annu-ally in tipping fees.

According to an RVSA press re-lease, “It is estimated that fees paid toRVSA for the receipt of the organicfeedstock, savings from the creationand use of the biogas and revenuesfrom the sale of Renewable EnergyCertificates are estimated to providemore than $5 million in revenue overthe first 10 years of a potential 20-yeartransaction. These funds will be usedto offset the cost of running the RVSA.”

In the same press release the RVSAannounced the settlement of a $35-million lawsuit it filed seven years agoagainst several contractors, engineer-ing firms and other companies relativeto the RVSA’s co-generation andsludge-drying facility originally pro-posed in 2002 and which only recentlywent into limited operation. RVSAwill receive a settlement of $7 million.

Michael Gelin was sworn in as thecommissioner from Woodbridge. Mr.Gelin replaces Scott Thompson, whoresigned effective December 31.Michael Connelly resigned his posi-tion as commissioner from RosellePark due to meeting schedule con-flicts and has not yet been replaced.

A contract was awarded to spendabout $114,000 to install securitycameras and upgrade security at thefacility. This is part of a project total-ing roughly $160,000 and is the resultof the RVSA receiving a $150,000grant from Homeland Security.

OPRA (Open Public Records Act)requests were served on Rahway andUnion County. The precise reasonwas not indicated. It was stated thata portion of the closed session in-volved discussion of those parties.

COUNTY — All 21 New Jerseycounties were scheduled to partici-pate in #NJCounts 2017 yesterday,conducting a statewide Point-In-TimeCount of the sheltered and unshelteredhomeless. The count’s results willcontinue to guide efforts to endhomelessness across the state.

In NJCounts 2017, many factorsare expected to impact an increase ordecrease from NJCounts 2016 num-bers. NJCounts 2016 found 8,941homeless men, women and childrenacross the state. This showed a de-crease of 1,270 persons, or 12.4 per-cent, from 2015.

The U.S. Department of Housingand Urban Development (HUD) willuse the 2017 count for tracking ef-forts to end youth homelessness.

Factors that will contribute to thisyear’s count of homeless families,youth and veterans include: sheltersreporting lack of capacity to househomeless families throughout 2016;New Jersey state emergency assistanceno longer reimburses shelters; a short-age of rental housing is driving updemand and costs, and failure by Con-gress to increase funding for the fed-eral Housing Choice Voucher programis harming progress in creating afford-able and supportive housing. Addi-tionally, New Jersey continues to havea higher than national average rate offoreclosures; foreclosures cause manyowners and renters to lose their homes.Too many jobs in New Jersey do notpay a living wage and those that do paya living wage are leaving the state.

In December 2016, HUD an-nounced $45,574,610 in HUD fund-ing to New Jersey. With the exceptionof South Dakota, no other state out-performed New Jersey in receivingan increase in HUD funding. At thefederal level, cuts in funding to Hous-ing Choice Vouchers mean that verylow-income individuals and familieslive on the brink of homelessness. InJuly 2017, advocates plan to return toWashington, D.C. for a Congressionalreception to push for increased fed-eral funding for vouchers and home-less services.

NJCounts 2017 is designed to un-derstand the nature of New Jersey’shomeless population so that limitedresources can meet its needs. Volun-teers seek out homeless residents inshelters, woods, under bridges and invacant buildings and other locationswhere they are forced to live becausethere is insufficient affordable or sup-portive housing available to them.

Every other year, HUD mandatesthat local communities conduct anunsheltered count and, although 2017is not a mandated year, it is expectedthat each county will conduct one.

Monarch Housing Associates iscoordinating this year’s statewidecount being conducted county-by-county at the local level. New JerseyHousing and Mortgage FinanceAgency funds NJCounts 2017.

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By Paul Peyton of The Leader/Times

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Senate Dems Call on Christie toPreserve Medicaid for ACA

State Senate Democrats haveasked Governor Chris Christie topreserve Medicaid expansion ef-fected under the Affordable CareAct (ACA), also known asObamacare, in response to Presi-dent Donald Trump’s executive or-der demanding a replacement ofACA, observer.com has reported.

Senate Democrats estimate Presi-dent Trump’s executive order wouldcost the state roughly 86,000healthcare jobs, according to the ar-ticle. Senate Democrats say 700,000New Jersey residents have qualifiedfor ACA and Medicaid expansion.

“The costs and consequences ofthe repeal of the Affordable Care Actfor New Jersey would be severe,”Senate President Steve Sweeney saidat a Monday press conference at theStatehouse.

“More than 700,000 people whoenrolled in the ACA or were added toMedicaid would be at risk of losingtheir health insurance coverage. Thestate would lose billions of dollars infederal aid and the state budget wouldbe forced to carry additional ex-penses,” according to the report,Ciattarelli Has Raised $283,000In Race for Governor’s OfficeAssemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-

16th, Somerville) has raised approxi-mately $283,000 since he officiallyentered the race for governor in Oc-tober.

The Hillsborough resident also haschallenged Lieutenant Governor KimGuadagno, who announced her can-didacy last week, to a series of de-bates in all of New Jersey’s 21 coun-ties.

Mr. Ciattarelli, who disclosed heis being treated for oropharyngealcancer, which affects the throat andtonsils, has said Ms. Guadagno’scampaign website outlining her plat-form is “shamefully light on specif-ics and substance about how to solvethe economic and fiscal crises facingNew Jersey.”

Councilwoman Running forPlainfield Mayor Against MappFormer Plainfield Councilwoman

At-Large, the Reverend Tracey L.Brown, has announced her candidacyfor Plainfield Mayor against incum-bent Mayor Adrian Mapp in theDemocratic Primary, observer.comhas reported. Mayor Mapp is a formercity councilman and ex-Union CountyFreeholder.

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Package of DomesticViolence Bills Advances

TRENTON – An Assembly panelunanimously advanced a package ofbills last week sponsored by Assem-blywoman Nancy F. Muñoz (R-21st,Summit) advocating for more strin-gent protections for domestic vio-lence victims. The vote was 6 to 0.

“These victims have suffered insilence for too long. We have vieweddomestic violence as isolated inci-dents, not the epidemic it is,” saidAsw. Muñoz, who is a nurse. “Do-mestic violence can affect anyoneregardless of age, gender, ethnicity oreducation level. It has permeated ourfamilies and our communities. Whilewe have come a long way in provid-ing protections for victims, our workisn’t done.”

The legislation, A-4045, includesestablishing a statewide therapeutictreatment program for children andfamilies of victims, which currentlyis available in only 11 counties. Othermeasures include A-4046, which es-tablishes standards for interventionprograms; AR-162, urging the stateSupreme Court to create a technol-ogy task force within the court’s StateDomestic Violence Working Group;and AR-163, which urges the stateSupreme Court and attorney generalto add members to their jointly-cre-ated County Domestic ViolenceWorking Groups.

“These measures will help victimsand provide law enforcement withthe tools they need to stem this crisis.Children are especially affected bythe violence they see at home,” con-tinued Asw. Muñoz. “Studies showthey are often depressed, aggressive,have little self-esteem and do poorlyin school. Expanding therapy willgreatly assist the healing process forthese vulnerable, innocent children.”

According to the National Coali-tion Against Domestic Violence, onein three women will experience do-mestic violence in their lifetime, whileone in four men have been physicallyabused by a partner. Domestic vio-lence accounts for 15 percent of allviolent crime. Likewise, the coalitionreports that one in 15 children haswitnessed violence toward a parentor loved one in the home.

Asw. Muñoz is the sponsor ofseveral other domestic violencebills, including S-2483/A-412,that was signed last week by thegovernor. It prevents a person con-victed of a domestic violencecrime or who is under a domesticviolence restraining order frompossessing or purchasing firearmsand requires the immediate sur-render of any firearms along withpurchaser identification cards andhandgun permits.

Robyn Orr-Gioffre for The Westfield Leader and The TimesMARCH ON TRENTON...Women and others gather on Saturday in front of theStatehouse in Trenton as part of the Women’s March, one of many held in NewJersey and throughout the country, including Washington, D.C.

Assembly Okays DiversionProgram Bill for Vets

TRENTON — Legislation, A-4362, sponsored by Assembly Mi-nority Leader Jon Bramnick (R-21st,Westfield) to create a statewide vet-erans’ diversion program that ensuresa veteran’s special circumstances aretaken into account following an ar-rest, was approved January 19 by theAssembly Military and Veterans’ Af-fairs Committee.

“Incarcerating a veteran sufferingfrom post-traumatic stress or any men-tal health illness serves no purpose,”Mr. Bramnick said. “Men and womenwho serve our nation with honor de-serve a chance to get the help theyneed. This bill is a common sensealternative to the traditional criminaljustice process for eligible veterans.”

Under the program, a veteran whohas committed a crime or has beenpreviously diagnosed with a service-related mental illness may be divertedaway from the criminal justice sys-tem and into appropriate case man-

agement and mental health services.Prosecutors will determine eligi-

bility for the program by consideringthe relationship between the mentalillness and the offense.

The bill also establishes a veteransdiversion resource center in each ofNew Jersey’s 21 counties. The cen-ters would provide screening, coun-seling and treatment to eligible ser-vice members and would be requiredto provide law enforcement officialswith status reports regarding partici-pation and recovery progress.

The legislation would require theattorney general to annually report tothe Legislature to help determine howto improve or expand the program.

Local Women March inWestfield to Lance’s Office

Saturday, January 21, wasn’t thelittle local march that organizer Lydiathought it would be.

A week before the morning event,Lydia thought that 30 or 40 womenmight show up to the original site, theparking lot of Lord & Taylor. By mid-week, after the word got out on socialmedia that a local Women’s Marchwas happening in Westfield, she knewit would have to be switched to abigger area, the train station parkinglot.

“My vision for this gathering wasto not only stand in unity with oursister marches around the globe, butfor us to make new friends and spendthe day with like-minded people,”she told the crowd.

Not only did women turn out inforce, but fathers, brothers, grandfa-thers and nephews as well. One manfrom Mountainside told The WestfieldLeader and The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times, “I am here walkingfor my wife who is at home unable towalk today.”

Elaine Junguenet, who now lives inWatchung, said, “I’m tired of peoplenot listening to each other. It’s ourright; no, our duty, to protest rightspeacefully yet with vigor.”

Seemingly, there were as many rea-sons for walking as there were people.A woman from Madison said,“Women’s rights are human rights. Istand here for my daughter and hereducation.”

A family from Gladstone-Peapackwas there, they said, because the par-ents wanted the boys in the family toknow what it was to protest peace-fully. A woman stood alone on the

steps of the train station overlookingthe sea of supporters at her feet. Whenasked why she was there, theWatchung resident said, “I want theadministration to know I am watch-ing them.”

Lynn Vinegra of Garwood was therewith her sister and a few girlfriends.“I didn’t see this as a protest, but moreas a march that just wants to drawattention to several important issues.”

Signs read “My Body My Choice,”“Keep Your Hands off my Daughter’sUterus” and “We will not board thetime machine back to 1950.” Signssupported LGBTQ rights, gun con-trol and health care.

Organizer Lydia told the crowd justbefore they marched to CongressmanLeonard Lance’s office on North Av-enue, “We are good people with goodhearts and we want to extend oursupport and wisdom to those whoneed it. We want to be activists in thiscrisis. I guess if any good came out ofthis bad, it’s that here we are! Whenwas the last time you were at a planet-wide Women’s March?” she askedthe throngs of people.

Lydia thanked Police Chief DavidWayman and the Westfield PoliceDepartment, the town administratorsand the mayor for their professional-ism and support in her organizing thepeaceful march.

She urged people to select one is-sue to focus on from the list sheenumerated and connect with it.“Choose just one and run with it!” sheyelled to the crowd. A lone male voiceyelled back – “Why not all of them?”

Susan Myrill DoughertyWestfield

NEW JERSEY — U.S. Reps.Leonard Lance (R-7th) and BillPascrell (D-9th) have taken up thecause of many New Jersey munici-palities and law enforcementgroups by proposing the Blue LineUse Exception (BLUE) Act (H.R.566), legislation that will permit“blue lines” to be displayed onroadways.

“One-hundred-thirty-five policeofficers died in the line of duty in2016. Seeing those faces on the newshas been heartbreaking. And eventslike the mass killing of Dallas policeofficers last year are sickening andoutrageous. Local communitiesshould be able to honor law enforce-ment without the federal government’stelling them no,” Mr. Lance said. “Weshould honor police personnel all year,especially as we celebrate Law En-

forcement Appreciation Day. Our billwill let local New Jersey communi-ties keep their ‘blue line’ dedications,”Mr. Lance said.

Mr. Pascrell, co-chairman of Con-gressional Law Enforcement Cau-cus, will lead the legislation withMr. Lance. “I can assure the U.S.Department of Transportation thatthere is no confusion on the mean-ing of the painted blue line acrossmany communities in New Jersey.In addition to being a daily reminderof the dangers our brave law en-forcement officers face, it is a smallshow of support to honor their hardwork and dedication to keeping ourcommunity safe,” Mr. Pascrell said.

“I am proud to introduce the BlueLine Use Exception (BLUE) Actwith Congressman Lance to ensurecommunities are able to take an

easy and safe way to recognize thededication of law enforcement of-ficers who put their lives on the lineevery day,” Mr. Pascrell said.

Berkeley Heights was one of themunicipalities that has participatedin the national movement.

“Blue lines” have become a popu-lar display some municipalities haveinstalled on roadways to show sup-port for law enforcement. But theFederal Highway Administration re-cently wrote a letter to SomersetCounty officials stating “blue line”displays are in violation of the Manualon Uniform Traffic Control Devicesfor Streets and Highways.

Mr. Lance and Mr. Pascrell, mem-bers of the Law Enforcement Caucus,think that directive is an overreactionand their legislation would add anexemption to the federal manual that

says temporary ceremonial displayscan be permitted.

Trump Sworn In As45th President

WASHINGTON, D.C. — PresidentDonald Trump was sworn in on Friday,January 20 as the nation’s 45th Presi-dent. The day began with the traditionalcoffee with the President and Presi-dent-Elect at The White House.

The inauguration ceremony began at11:30 a.m. at the U.S. Capitol withVice-President-Elect Michael Pencesworn in at around 11:55 a.m. followedby the swearing in of the new President.

The speech was followed by theparade down Pennsylvania Avenueand Inaugural Balls of which theTrumps and Pences and their familiesattended three.


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This Is AppallingI am having a hard time accepting

the fact that no one is questioning therecent article in the Westfield Leaderreferencing WHS ex-principalRenwick. Some of the wordage usedin the article like “unexplained ab-sence”, “created an administrativerole especially for him”, “no explana-tion will be given”, “still evaluatingand determining ways Mr. Renwickcan help”, “he plans to resign when hereaches 25 years for the right to in-crease state benefits”.

The fact that our Board of Educa-tion voted unanimously on this isappalling! I believe the taxpayers needmore answers and should be able toask questions about this situation.

Kathy ShermanWestfield

Become Part Of This Fun, HardWorking Westfield ‘Y’ Men’s Club

The Westfield Area Y Men’s Clubwould like to thank all the customersand volunteers that supported ourannual Christmas Tree Salefundraiser. As always, the net pro-ceeds will be donated to local chari-ties and youth-oriented organizations.For more than 60 years, this commu-nity-wide effort has generated fundsfor many worthwhile causes and hasenabled a great fellowship of clubmembers. We should acknowledgethat our tree growers in North Caro-lina experienced difficult droughtconditions and shortages this year, sowe were disappointed that some trees

were a little smaller than usual. Nev-ertheless, we will once again be ableto donate roughly $40,000 to localcharities and non-profits this year.

If you have an interest in commu-nity service and becoming part of thisfun yet hard working club, pleasereach out to the Westfield Area ‘Y,’ sothat we can invite you to our nextdinner meeting.

Thanks again for your continuedsupport to our club and local chari-ties. We look forward to seeing youback again next year.

Bill WestWestfield Area ‘Y’ Men’s Club

Dr. ML King Association Is GratefulFor Community’s Contributions

Garwoodian LaughsI have to laugh every time I hear

Donald Trump talk about receiving amandate from the American people.Last time I read, the American peopleoverwhelmingly supported HillaryClinton for President – by over twomillion votes. Seems to me the onlymandate I see in those numbers is notto have Donald Trump elected Presi-dent.

Bill Nierstedt,Garwood

The members of the Dr. MartinLuther King Association of Westfield,would like to express their thanks tomembers of the community, for thestanding-room -only attendance at the30th Annual Interfaith Commemora-tion Service held this year at HolyTrinity Catholic Church in Westfield,on Monday, January 16. Also well-attended was a march from the Mar-tin Luther King Memorial at the WestBroad Street traffic circle that fol-lowed a route over to North Avenueeastbound, around one block of thedowntown, and then back through thetraffic circle, to Holy Trinity Church.

There are many who contributed tothese events, for whom the Associa-tion members are most grateful, andto name here some, among others:The Westfield Police, for their escortfor the March; Mayor AndrewSkibitsky; James Gildea, town ad-ministrator for Westfield; coordina-tor of videography for the service; tomembers of our community’s Clergywho participated in readings andprayers; Dr. Margaret Dolan, super-

intendent of schools and for all publicschool students and students at HolyTrinity Interparochial School whoparticipated in the essay, poetry, andart contest, and the winners awardedat the service; the Gospel Choir andSoloists of St. Luke’s AME Church;and to Pastor Rev. Anthony J.Randazzo, in making available HolyTrinity Catholic Church as host forthe Interfaith Service and the recep-tion which followed. Many thanks tokeynote Speaker Dr. Andrew H. Lee,whose address reflecting upon Dr.King’s “Bridging the divide throughbuilding community,” was well-re-ceived by the congregation of thisinterfaith event.

Once again, as members of the Dr.ML King Association, we are mostgrateful for the community’s contri-butions to this 30th Interfaith Ser-vice, and May 2017 be one of peace,and continued community-building,for all!

Timothy BurkeDr. M.L. King Assoc.

Answers to last week’s arcane words.1. Scoria – The slag or refuse left after

the metal has been smelted from the ore2. Olecranon – The part of the ulna

projecting beyond the elbow joint3. Cierge – A wax candle4. Borgat – The rock trout of California

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CHYME1. Soreness in the eyes2. Muddy, slimy3. A loud clanging noise4. Partly digested food

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Marches Following InaugurationSeen as ‘Anti-Trump’ Rallies

Last Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump’sinauguration, the Women’s March on Washingtondrew several hundred thousand participants to theU.S. capitol. Women also marched en masse, alongwith male supporters and children, in towns andcities around the country and abroad, totaling sev-eral million worldwide. Among them was a march inWestfield that attracted an estimated 1,000 people.

Participants at these marches chanted and carriedsigns touting a variety of causes, running the gamutfrom women’s health care and LGBTQ concerns,to employment issues and voting rights, to dis-crimination and gun control. While from the out-side the only central theme seemed to be “anti-Trump,” many people we spoke to felt the need tostand up and be heard, to let the government knowthat they are watching.

The beauty of Saturday’s marches was that theywere carried out peacefully. No matter what yourcause or your beliefs, free speech and the freedom toassemble are core American values – things thatshould continue to be supported and encouraged. Inso many ways, we are a nation divided (that isnothing new), but the hate speech and the vehe-mence on both sides must stop.

Some women we spoke with felt confused by andunwelcome at the marches because of their conser-vative beliefs. Some also questioned the need tomarch given that no rights have been taken away, norcan any President undo “Roe versus Wade” withouta new case being brought before the U.S. SupremeCourt. While valid points, no one says “don’t worry”to NRA members when they feel their rights being

threatened. If you really love this country, you shouldlove the different viewpoints and accept that it’s thoseconflicting viewpoints and the freedom to expressthem that put us above other nations.

We hope that at least some of the crowd in down-town Westfield take their energy and get involvedlocally. Participate in local government, attend boardof education and town council meetings – there ismuch you can do to impact your community.

We understand that some of Mr. Trump’s campaignrhetoric and other past remarks have ignited fears inmultiple quarters, but we need to look ahead, not inthe rear-view mirror. Mr. Trump has been Presidentfor just a week. We do not have to love him, nor agreewith him, but like all his predecessors, he should begiven a chance to lead.

President Trump has vowed to reverse policies ofthe Obama Administration, but he also has expresseda desire to unify the American people and heal thedivisiveness so rampant during the past year.

Of course, actions speak louder than words, and thereal estate tycoon turned commander-in-chief stillhas to prove himself. If his actions during his tenurein the Oval Office conflict with the expectations ordesires of the American people, we retain the right topeaceably protest, or choose someone else in 2020.

We the people will never all agree on the actions ofgovernment, but we are a stronger republic by re-specting the office of the President itself and the willof the voters who choose the holder of that officeevery four years. With the inaugural pomp and cir-cumstance, and the marches, now behind us, let usseek to move forward as an even greater nation.

We Thank Police for HandlingLocal Incidents Peacefully

Local police around our nation have been on thedefense as of late as protestors criticize them withclaims of mistreatment, often before internal affairsinvestigations have been completed. But while allAmericans have the right to peacefully protest as perthe First Amendment, we want to personally thankour law enforcement officers for the risks they takeevery day on the job.

Just last week there were two incidents in our areathat, luckily, ended peacefully. The first was a callfor a welfare check of a resident on GrandviewAvenue in Westfield. Police entered the residenceand were confronted by a woman who had barri-caded herself in her bedroom. She threatened toshoot police officers if they did not leave the house.

After a three-and-a-half-hour standoff, policeforced entry into the bedroom and were able to takethe woman into custody peacefully. She had a 40-caliber handgun in close proximity to her and so thisincident could have ended very badly for both policeand the distraught woman.

Also, last Wednesday the JCC in Scotch Plains hadto be evacuated after a bomb threat was received.This incident also ended peacefully although par-ents were obviously worried. New Jersey was one of17 states to receive threats that day. These threatshave no place in our society and we thank our lawenforcement agencies and other first responders for

ensuring the buildings were safe after these threats.While certain groups seemingly are at war with

our police, some towns here in New Jersey want toshow their support for law enforcement by paintinga sold blue line down the center of roadways.

At the federal level, our local Congressmen,Leonard Lance (R-7th) and Bill Pascrell (D-9th),have joined forces by proposing the Blue Line UseException (BLUE) Act (H.R. 566), legislation thatwould permit blue lines to be displayed on roadwaysin support of our police officers. This is in reactionto the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHA)guidance against the painting of a “thin blue line”between the double-yellow center line on roadways.

The FHA says changing markings on the center of astreet would confuse drivers and pose safety hazards.

At the state level, Senate Minority Leader TomKean, Jr. (R-21st, Westfield) and Senator Christo-pher “Kip” Bateman (R-16th, Somerville) say theywill introduce a resolution stating that New Jerseydisapproves of this interpretation, and argue thatmunicipalities should have the ability to show sup-port for their police forces.

In our judgment, the “thin blue line” is not confus-ing and is a sign of respect and honor for those whowear the badge.

We thank our law enforcement officers at the state,county and municipal levels for their service.

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Re: BOE’s Actions Involving TheFormer WF High School Principal

As a taxpayer in the Town ofWestfield, I generally agree with yourJanuary 19, 2017 editorial question-ing the actions of the Board of Educa-tion (BOE) concerning the former prin-cipal of the Westfield High School. Idisagree, however, with your conclu-sion that this issue will be over in ayear’s time without requiring a full andadequate explanation by the BOE.

The editorial questioned: a.) theBOE’s approval of the formerprincipal’s paid leave for ten months’time even though he has been in thedistrict from only July 2008; b.) theBOE’s refusal to provide reasons forthis long-term paid leave whichamounted to approximately$143,000; c.) the BOE’s creation of anew position for the former principalat an annual pay of $142,222 even ifthis was not in the budget; and d.) theBOE’s accommodation to the indi-vidual for achieving 25 years in thepension system in order to enhancehis retirement pay when he retires in2018. These are all valid questionsabout the BOE’s actions.

The members of the BOE areelected by the people of Westfield.The budget of the Westfield schoolsystem is approved by and paid by thepeople of Westfield. In my judgment,the Board of Education has a fidu-ciary responsibility to the people ofWestfield in how it carries out itsduties. It is insulting to me that theBOE apparently considers itself an-swerable to no one and can act with-out regard to its public responsibility.

Lastly, in my opinion, the Board ofEducation is providing a terrible lessonof non-accountability to the students ofWestfield by not explaining its actionsin this unusual case. The editorial statesthat the actions by the BOE sound fishy.Sadly, I would use harsher language:that these actions leave open majorquestions of potential unethical behav-ior. The public deserves full and ad-equate explanations on how the BOEdetermined its actions.

Paul McGovernWestfield

Chief Wayman and Westfield PoliceDid An Utterly Outstanding Job

It is imperative that Police ChiefDavid Wayman and the entireWestfield Police Department are rec-ognized for the utterly outstandingjob they performed at the WestfieldWashington’s Women’s March onJanuary 21.

As we realized the numbers ofmarchers were reaching unexpected,epic proportions the day before, theyquickly problem-solved the originalmarch configuration that would nothave accommodated such a large

group, traffic, and the entire commu-nity safely.

Chief Wayman and his departmentwere like a trustworthy family youcould count on for making smart de-cisions, as well as citizens of thehighest character who honor the powerof our First Amendment rights. With-out them, this global event right herein town would not have been pos-sible.

Lydia Kaplan, OrganizerWestfield

Congresswoman Coleman Failed ToRepresent Us at the Inauguration

I sent this letter to CongresswomanBonnie Watson Coleman on her fail-ure to represent us at the PresidentialInauguration on January 20, 2017. Todate, she has not taken the time orextended me the decency to respond.This makes one wonder, if she andthose who do not want to attend,should resign from their offices, sincethey refuse to do the job we are pay-ing them to do. Someone more will-ing to stand for us could be our repre-sentative and earn their money.

“Congresswoman: I understandfrom the media, that you will not beattending the Presidential Inaugura-tion on Friday, January 20, 2017.This is very dismaying and upsetting.You are in Washington to representme in D.C., not to pander your own

likes and dislikes. This means that youare expected to participate in our gov-ernment for the betterment of those inyour district, such as myself. This is amajor event and a cornerstone of ourRepublic as laid out by our foundingfathers. Your attendance is mandatory,not optional. Working and compro-mising with individuals that you maylike or dislike is part of the job.

In order to put this into context, Ibelieve when President Obama was swornin, most, if not, all attended the inaugura-tion. This was despite any party loyalties.Therefore, there is no precedent for youractions and it is unacceptable. Those thatyou are supposed to represent will con-sider your action or inaction when yourun for re-election.”

Albert MullerScotch Plains


County Should Use Runnells Surplusfor Property Tax Re-Valuations

Re: The 45th President of the UnitedStates, I Fear For Our Country

I fear for our country, I fear thisgreat nation is crumbling from itsfoundation and not from a foreignpower, but from within. The brickand mortar of hard work, honesty andaccountability built this shiny exampleof democracy, a land of uncountablepossibilities. A land where the futurewas assured to be bountiful is now anendangered species.

The mass media keeps on pumpingthe TV screen with hate and discord.They are relentlessly driving a wedgebetween the American people. Richagainst middle class, black againstwhite, Democrat against Republican.

The prime target now is PresidentDonald Trump. They waste no oppor-tunity to chastise him, question hiscompetency or his integrity, eitherdirectly or with innuendo. Along withthe TV media there is Tinseltown,their cohorts, actors and actresses whorebuked the electoral process of ourdemocracy. With their two Bentleysin the garage, their Bel Air mansionsand gold and diamonds dripping fromtheir neck, wrists, fingers, and thatthey point to the middle class people,“you got it wrong.”

It’s ironic that on the People’sChoice Awards these same actors andactresses embraced Middle America,everyday people who voted for theirawards but do not accept their clearchoice for president. As of the writingof this article, President Trump wassworn in as the 45th President ofthese United States of America.

In his inauguration speech he spokeof uniting our people. He spoke of thedecaying and crumbling of our infra-structure that has been ignored fortoo many years. He also talked aboutbringing an end of American militarydying to defend other nations. Healso spoke of securing our borders.

Some may not like the fact that Mr.Trump spoke bluntly and directly inreference to the conditions that haveprevailed in Washington, DC. If be-ing honest is not being politicallycorrect, then I, for one, do not wantmy name mentioned in the same sen-tence as political correctness.

To bring reference to that 1992movie, A Few Good Men, while in acourtroom Tom Cruise demanded thetruth from Jack Nicolson. Jack’s re-sponse was, “you can’t handle thetruth.” Are we Americans ready tohandle the truth? It’s going to hurt fora while, but in the end, we will be astronger, a safer and a unified UnitedStates of America.

I ask you, Democrat, Republican,Independent, Muslim, Christian, Jew

to honor our democratic process andour leader, President Donald Trump.

May the Lord Bless and guide ournew president with wisdom, compas-sion and strength.

Walter SosnoskyKenilworth

Letters to the EditorDear mayors and council members of

the 21 Union County towns, the Free-holders and manager of Union Countygovernment: this is a taxpayer and resi-dent of the county.

Toward the serious and expensive is-sue of town-wide reevaluations that wetowns face, I submit a proposal that willmake all the 21 town governing bodiesand the County Freeholders look likeheroes to their constituents, based simplyon redirecting excess residents’ tax mon-ies back to the constituents needs.

First some background and then theproposal: On May 16, 2014, April 23,2015and May 22, 2015, I noted in letters to thetowns the ongoing process that UnionCounty government, by selling RunnellsSpecialized Hospital will remove all op-erational costs from the county budgetand, thus, if the county did not reducecounty taxes from the savings, they wouldaccrue in the vicinity of $15 to 23 millionthat year. I had explained this to theFreeholders at their budget meeting backthen, but they possibly did not under-stand the gravity of the unexpected goodfortunes. One positive response that wasmotivated from my questions and com-mentary was the reactive creation of theUnion County infrastructure grants to thetowns. This grant program was createdout of the $4-million profit gained fromthe Runnells sale.

Last year, 2015, the second full yearafter the Runnells sale, according to myprognosis, the county budget suddenlyexploded with a $50-million surplus, awhopping and unheard of 10 percent oftheir budget of $500 million! Most of thisis certainly the direct result of the“Runnells operating cost savings.” Yetover the last two years, in observing thecounty budget cycles, even though theirrunning fund balance was growing fast,the freeholders still increased the countytaxes a total of another $14 million. Pres-ently, this is the third year of the Runnellscost savings, and again I am predictingthat there could be approximately $65 to75 million in surplus. Note these moniesmay not appear just in the direct budgetline item called surplus, but, like theother years, the county may feel the needto spread these monies around and withinmyriad line items of their 2017 budget

but may have no tangible offsetting ap-propriations. In the past year, attendingthe freeholder meetings, Union Countyhas not identified any major pressing costimpacts on the horizon they need to takecare of. In the next few weeks, the countymanager plans to submit a draft budget tothe Freeholder finance committee so thisis the perfect time to enact this.

The proposal: Just last year I noted tothe freeholders for this 2017 budget year,the possibility of the county achieving a“zero” tax increase which has never beenachieved in the known past. But since thecostly re-evaluation of all towns are closeto being mandated by the state, this con-cern must take priority in the minds of thegoverning bodies both on the local and onthe county level. This suggestion wouldtake the form of a county grant to all 21towns. An approximation of the cost forall 21 towns re-evaluation if totaled upwould be in the range of $25 to 30 millionand the grant could easily take shape as a50 percent matching type grant. (or a 100percent cost coverage would even be abetter idea). The details either could behashed out in an inter-governmental com-mittee, or if you like, I offer my servicesto get involved in addressing the detailswith the towns and/or other residentscould also get involved. This would gotoward towns already paid for re-evals orin the planning stage. We now have theguaranteed resources to put this expen-sive re-valuation headache to bed.

With the county having a great $15 to$20 million extra cash flow annually andno pressing expenditures, the next possi-bility could be to build a central archivefor all the towns documents, much likePassaic County has. This is also a press-ing item to be considered downstream asa shared service. Or an alternative sharedservice could be to pay down county andlocal town debts freeing up even morecash flow. These would make great free-holder initiatives.

I would certainly look forward to anyand all governing bodies input and con-sent and the recognition that this con-structive idea would alleviate the costburdens on the taxpayers. Let’s get thisdone!

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Local Elected OfficialsTerms Up In 2017State SenateTom Kean, Jr. (R-21st, Westfield)Nick Scutari (D-22nd, Linden)State AssemblyJim Kennedy (D-22nd, Rahway)Jerry Green (D-22nd, Plainfield)Jon Bramnick (R-21st, Westfield)Nancy Munoz (D-21st, Summit)County SheriffTBACounty FreeholdersAngel Estrada (D)Chris Hudak (D)Vernell Wright (D)Cranford Twn. CommitteePatrick Giblin (D)Andis Kalnins (R)Fanwood CouncilRussell Huegel (D)Kevin Boris (D)Garwood CouncilLou Petruzzelli (D)Sarah Todisco (D)Mountainside CouncilKeith Turner (R)Deanna Andre (R)Westfield MayorAndy Skibitsky (R)Westfield CouncilSam Della Fera (R, 1st Ward)Ken Donnelly (R, 2nd Ward)David Oliveira (R, 3rd Ward)Keith Loughlin (R, 4th Ward)Cranford Board of EducationLisa CarboneDaniel DemarcoKristen MallonKurt Petschow, Jr.Garwood Board of EducationAaron WatkinsChristine GuerriroLinda KoenigMountainside Board of EducationDante GioriaScotch Plains-Fanwood Board ofEducationEvan Murray (Scotch Plains)Debora Brody (Scotch Plains)Jeanne Cleary (Fanwood)Westfield Board of EducationChris LanghartPeggy OsterMark Friedman

Help Needy Students in Town WithCollege Scholarship Donations

I appeal to the community for assis-tance with the Westfield Parent TeacherCouncil (PTC) Scholarship Fund. Inrecent years, our donations have beenon a downward trend, and we are look-ing to reverse this in order to rewardour high achieving and worthy stu-dents with scholarship aid.

Established in 1957, the WestfieldPTC Scholarship Fund benefits gradu-ating Westfield High School seniorswho exhibit financial need, academicperseverance and community involve-ment. The fund relies solely on thegenerosity of our community for dona-tions. At its height, the PTC Scholar-ship Fund was able to offer $33,500 inscholarships, divided among a groupof deserving Westfield students. Lastyear, we raised $19,000. We are belowthat balance at this time, and are hope-ful of exceeding last year’s number.

Every year our committee reviewsapplications from a significant numberof Westfield students. The selectionprocess is daunting, as Westfield pro-duces highly motivated, hard-working,academically talented and community-minded students. While many considerWestfield to be an affluent town, you’dbe surprised how many families struggleto cover rising college costs. Our schol-arship criteria is primarily based onfinancial need, and we believe our giftscan help students make the best choicefor them, alleviating at least some ofthe stress of managing the financialburden of attending their top choiceschools.

You need not have a child in theschool district to help bring a worthyWestfield student’s college dreamwithin reach.

You may participate by making yourdonation payable to “Westfield PTCScholarship” and sending it to theWestfield PTC, 302 Elm St., Westfield,NJ 07090, attention: Donna Kenney,Treasurer. The PTC Scholarship Com-mittee and the Class of 2017 will begrateful for whatever contribution youare able to make. Please help us spreadthe word.

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Westfield Library to OfferThree Events For Adults

WESTFIELD — The WestfieldMemorial Library, located at 550 EastBroad Street, is offering three pro-grams for adults in early February.

Karen Camden, a frequent instruc-tor and presenter at the library, willteach Microsoft Excel Basics onWednesday, February 1, at 6:30 p.m.In this two-hour class for advanced-level computer users, she will coverthe Excel screen, the quick accesstoolbar, advanced ribbons and stepsfor creating a spreadsheet.

Ms. Camden gives computerclasses and workshops on organiz-ing, repurposing, kitchen gardens andsewing. She is the president ofCamden Associates, a consulting firmthat provides services in communica-tions and people skills, organizationalassessments and clutter control.

On Thursday, February 2, at 2 p.m.,Joy Ann Cabanos will present a work-shop on origami, the art of Japanesepaper folding. She will teach partici-pants how to make basic origamifolds and how to make a flower orheart model to take home forValentine’s Day.

Ms. Cabanos is a mixed-media art-ist, poet and arts educator who teachespainting and origami in various countyand after-school programs, as well asin private workshops. She is passion-

ate about sharing the arts and helpingothers tap into their own creativities.Her paintings have been exhibited lo-cally, nationally and internationally.

Additionally on February 2 will bethe Raconteur Radio presentation of“Gaslight” at 7 p.m. In this old-fash-ioned, radio-style theatrical event,something is driving Paula Alquistmad. No one has lit any other lamps,and yet the light dims, then brightens.And what about the footsteps comingfrom the sealed attic? Or is it thehouse, where her aunt, a famous con-cert singer, was murdered 10 yearsbefore? Or is it her new husband, anolder man she met in Italy, who con-vinces her to return to the murderscene and make it their home?

Raconteur Radio productions arestaged around and amplified by an artdeco amplifier and feature theatricallighting, period costumes, vintage com-mercials, Golden Age radio equip-ment and extensive sound effects.

The Star-Ledger has called Racon-teur Radio “one of the seven bestthings to do in New Jersey” and TheNew York Times has declared it “fam-ily-friendly guerilla theater.”

For more information or to sign upfor the programs, call (908) 789-4090or visit the library’s website atwmlnj.org and click on “Calendar.”

Rock Historian to DiscussPopular Music of the ’60s

CRANFORD — Rock historianVincent Bruno will present two pro-grams in February on the popularmusic of the 1960s. Both programswill take place at the Cranford Com-munity Center, located at 220 Wal-nut Avenue.

The first lecture, “The Sixties:The British Invasion,” will be heldon Wednesday, February 15, at 7p.m. It will focus on the rise of theBritish pop and rock acts that in-vaded American shores in the 1960s.

From pop groups like The Beatles,The Animals, The Dave Clark 5 andThe Kinks, to psychedelic and pro-gressive bands such as The Who,Pink Floyd, Cream and Traffic, Mr.Bruno will explore highlights fromlandmark recordings that clearly de-fined this British pop renaissanceera. The presentation also will touchon aspects of British popular cul-ture, including cinema, fashion, tele-vision and UK underground, theinfluence of which added to thisremarkable period.

Mr. Bruno’s second presentation,“The Sixties: The American Pop/Rock Era,” will take place on Thurs-day, February 23, at 7 p.m. Thislecture will explore the rise of the

many innovative artists who cre-ated new sounds that captivated ageneration, and whose influenceendures five decades later. Fromthe Brill Building songwriters likeBurt Bacharach and Carol King tothe art of Bob Dylan, from PhilSpector’s Wall of Sound, to theCalifornia magic of Brian Wilsonand the Beach Boys, Mr. Bruno willexamine folk, rock, rhythm andblues and pop, as well as the rockfestivals that defined the era.

Each program is two hours inlength and both will include audioclips and slides. The two lecturesmark Mr. Bruno’s fourth and fifthappearances at the Community Cen-ter, where he also lectured on TheBeatles, The Beatles as solo artistsand the film Help!

Mr. Bruno’s work as a rock histo-rian focuses on The Beatles and the1960s. In addition, he has taught inmultiple settings for more than 35years, including stints at LaGuardiaCommunity College, Empire StateCollege and Union County College.

These programs are sponsored bythe Friends of the Cranford PublicLibrary. Admission is free and allare welcome.

PERSPECTIVE ON PEACE...Roosevelt Intermediate School Principal StuartCarey, art instructor Anne Cohen and Westfield Lions Peace Poster ChairmanDouglas Schembs, Jr., pictured from left to right, recognize Peace Poster contestwinner Yuxin Lin, right.

Westfield Lions HonorPeace Poster Winner

WESTFIELD — Two members ofthe Westfield Lions Club honoredYuxin Lin, a student at RooseveltIntermediate School, for winning thelocal competition in the InternationalAssociation of Lions Clubs’ annualPeace Poster Contest.

The contest is sponsored each year,with the theme always relating to peace.This year’s theme was “Celebration ofPeace.” Yuxin’s entry was selected forits originality, artistic merit and por-trayal of the contest theme.

Not only did Yuxin win the localcompetition but the seventh-gradestudent came in third in the DistrictLevel judging. District 16J covers

Lions clubs in Hunterdon, Mercer,Middlesex, Somerset and UnionCounties, with a total of 59 clubs.

Westfield Lions Club PresidentKirsten Zellner said she was im-pressed by the expression and cre-ativity of Yuxin’s poster and that itwas obvious that the students havestrong ideas about what peace meansto them.

Participating in the January 12 cer-emony honoring Yuxin wereRoosevelt Intermediate School Prin-cipal Stuart Carey, art instructor AnneCohen, Lion Lois Schembs and LionDouglas Schembs, Jr., Club PeacePoster chairman.

Sylvia Hicks Is RecipientOf MLK Day Award

SCOTCH PLAINS — SylviaHicks, a highly regarded and long-time community leader, was hon-ored on January 16 asthe 2017 recipient of theScotch Plains-FanwoodMartin Luther King Dayof Service Award.

The award was givenduring opening ceremo-nies of the Eighth An-nual Scotch Plains-Fanwood Martin LutherKing Day of Service atthe Fanwood-ScotchPlains YMCA.

Bestowed annually bythe Scotch Plains-Fanwood Martin LutherKing Day of Service Committee,the award was announced by itsinaugural recipient, the HonorableLeland S. McGee.

Ms. Hicks was introduced byDelia McGee, whom the honoreehad mentored at St. John’s BaptistChurch in Scotch Plains. “It is sofitting that Sylvia Hicks has beenchosen for this award. She’s playedsuch a major role in Scotch Plains– in the lives of residents of allages – and is highly respected bythe leadership of this community,”said Ms. McGee.

Scotch Plains Mayor Al Smith,Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr andUnion County Freeholder andScotch Plains Township ManagerAl Mirabella praised Ms. Hicks forher deep dedication to the peopleof Scotch Plains and Fanwood.

Ms. Hicks, a lifelong ScotchPlains resident, a 1972 graduate ofScotch Plains-Fanwood High

School and a formerAetna employee, hasshown her longtime com-mitment to the commu-nity on multiple levels.

She has provided lead-ership to the ScotchPlains Shady Rest Res-toration Committee,holds influential roles atSt . John’s BaptistChurch, where she is theco-leader of the YouthMinistry and serves onthe hospitality commit-tee, and has advised

township leaders on various issues.The committee established the

award in 2015 to recognize a com-munity member who best exempli-fies the ideals of the Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. The hopeis that recognition of these indi-viduals, who promote equity andrights for all, will inspire others.

The day also was marked by resi-dents filling 800 volunteer slotsfor hands-on work to help the com-munity.

The Day of Service was spon-sored by Social Justice Matters, theTownship of Scotch Plains, the Bor-ough of Fanwood, the Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA, the JewishCommunity Center (JCC) of Cen-tral New Jersey, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Ministerium and UnityBank.

SERVICE DAY...Seven women helped to make 32 pairs of mittens from old woolsweaters at the Fanwood Presbyterian Church during the January 16 MartinLuther King Day of Service. The mittens, plus eight pieces of neckwear, 10 pairs ofinnersoles and five hats, will go to the Food Bank and Clothes Closet at the ShilohBaptist Church in Plainfield and to the Fanwood Presbyterian Church Food Bank.Pictured, from left to right, are: Lenore Scurry, Karen Sclama, Meril Davies, EileenMorris and Kris Adams. Not pictured are Ginny Kraus and Cena Pollitt.

Michael Robert ConstructionAwarded Best of Houzz 2017Michael Robert Construction of

Westfield is proud to win the “Bestof Houzz 2017” Award, its fifthconsecutive year to win the presti-gious award, given by the interna-tional leading online platform forhome renovation and design. Cho-sen by the more than 40 millionmonthly unique users that comprisethe Houzz community, MRC’s port-folio includes some of the mostviewed and admired images onHouzz. “We’re so pleased to awardBest of Houzz 2017 to this incred-ible group of talented and cus-tomer-focused professionals, in-cluding Michael Robert Construc-tion,” said Liza Hausman, vice-president of Industry Marketing forHouzz. “Each of these businesseswas singled out for recognition byour community of homeowners anddesign enthusiasts for helping toturn their home improvementdreams into reality.”

Owner Mike Mroz, who wasraised in Westfield and who is rais-ing his own family in Westfield withwife Ellie (also Westfield born-and-bred), knows how meaningful the

award is. “We have made a con-scious effort to focus our work inthe community we love. It is a won-derful affirmation to know that ourprojects in Westfield’s homes haveinspired others around the world,”he said. Ellie, who heads design atMRC and in her own firm, EllieMroz Design, enjoys interactingwith “Houzzers” on a daily basis,whether questions be about paintcolors, ceiling styles, or countertopmaterials. “It gives me a real pulseon design trends and what piquesthe interest of the global Houzz com-munity,” she said.

Michael Robert Constructionspecializes in high-end buildingand remodeling. As a design/buildcompany, MRC focuses on majorrenovations, additions and customhomes. For more information,please visi t ht tp: / /www.MichaelRobertConstruction.com,find us on Facebook, Instagram or,of course, on Houzz.com.

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Scotch Plains Public LibraryTo Show ‘Classic’ RemakesSCOTCH PLAINS — Members

of the community are invited to theScotch Plains Public Library onFridays at noon this month for“classic” remakes.

The series will kick off tomorrow,February 3, with a screening of CasinoRoyale (2006, PG-13, 144 minutes).Armed with a license to kill, SecretAgent James Bond sets out on his firstmission as 007. He must defeat a weap-ons dealer in a high-stakes game ofpoker at Casino Royale, but things arenot what they seem.

The Jungle Book (2016, PG, 105minutes) will be shown February 10.In Disney’s live-action epic adven-ture, directed by Jon Favreau, Mowgli,a man-cub raised in the jungle by afamily of wolves, embarks on a cap-tivating journey of self-discoverywhen he is forced to abandon the onlyhome he has ever known.

The Magnificent Seven (2016, PG-13, 128 minutes) will be the featuredfilm on February 17. Director AntoineFuqua brings a modern vision to theclassic story. With a small town underthe deadly control of industrialistBartholomew Bogue, the desperatetownspeople seek protection fromseven outlaws. As they prepare thetown for the violent showdown, theseven mercenaries find themselvesfighting for more than money.

Ghostbusters (2016, PG-13, 116minutes) will wrap up the monthon February 24. From director PaulFeig, Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return starring MelissaMcCarthy, Kristen Wiig, KateMcKinnon and Leslie Jones.

These events are free and opento all. Registration is not required.For more information, visi tscotlib.org, call (908) 322-5007,extension no. 204, or [email protected].

The Scotch Plains Public Libraryis located at 1927 Bartle Avenue,one block from Park Avenue, in thecenter of the township.

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Teen Anime ClubTo Meet Feb. 6

SCOTCH PLAINS — Local youthare invited to join the teen librariansand the ever-expanding membershipof the teen anime club for more con-versation and activities on Monday,February 6, at 7 p.m.

Participants will watch the animeseries “Your Lie in April,” discussfavorite titles and continue work onbleach T-shirts. Snacks will beserved. Registration is highly rec-ommended. This club is for teens ingrades 6 to 12 only. To register, e-mail [email protected], call (908)322-5007, extension no. 204, or stopby the library Reference Desk.

The Scotch Plains Public Libraryis located at 1927 Bartle Avenue, oneblock from Park Avenue, in the centerof the township.


Christina M. Hinke for The Westfield Leader and The TimesMESSAGE OF PEACE...Caroline makes a peace bracelet for teens at CovenantHouse. This was one of many volunteer opportunities available at the FirstPresbyterian Church of Cranford during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day OfService on January 16.

Nominations Are SoughtFor Marc Hardy Award

WESTFIELD — The First Con-gregational Church of Westfield in-vites nominations for the 2017 MarcWesley Hardy Human Rights Award.Candidates must be between the agesof 16 and 22, who live in Westfield orsurrounding communities, and whohave distinguished themselves in thearea of human rights.

The award is presented to a personwho has demonstrated the followingqualities which were personified byMarc Hardy: Openness and friendli-ness to persons of all races, creeds andnationalities; involvement and leader-ship in organizations and activitiescommitted to improving human rela-tions; personal dignity; a willingnessto take risks for what he or she believesis right; unqualified acceptance of oth-ers; respect for diversity; personal in-tegrity; caring and willingness to lis-ten; and the ability to lead by example.

The award is named in honor ofMarc Hardy, a member of the FirstCongregational Church, who waskilled in a car accident in 1990, shortly

before he was to graduate fromWestfield High School. He was aNational Merit Scholar and a giftedsinger and actor with an abiding inter-est in human rights.

Submissions must include a letterof nomination; a biography orrésumé with detailed descriptionsof course work, extracurricular ac-tivities and other experiences thecandidate has been involved in aswell as concrete examples and sto-ries that illustrate the criteria listedabove; one letter of support docu-menting the nominee’s contributionsfrom a non-family member; and thename and contact information forup to two references.

Nominations may be mailed to theFirst Congregational Church ofWestfield, 125 Elmer Street,Westfield, N.J. 07090, or e-mailed [email protected]. They must bereceived by Wednesday, March 22.For further information, call thechurch office at (908) 233-2494 orSharilyn Brown at (973) 376-4097.

Free Tax Counseling to BeAvailable at Cranford Ctr.

CRANFORD — The CranfordRecreation and Parks Department, inconjunction with the American Asso-ciation of Retired Persons (AARP),is accepting appointments for free taxassistance.

Cranford and Garwood taxpayers cancall the Recreation and Parks Depart-ment at (908) 709-7283 to reserve atime slot with a tax practitioner. Hourlyappointments are being made on eitherMondays or Fridays beginning Friday,February 3, from noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3p.m. All appointments will be at theCranford Community Center, locatedat 220 Walnut Avenue, in Room 204.The last appointment to receive taxassistance will be Monday, April 10.No appointments will be made on Mon-day, February 20 (Presidents’ Day) andFriday, April 14 (Good Friday), as theCommunity Center will be closed.

This service is for residents ofCranford and Garwood, and is gearedto senior citizens and area residentswith low to moderate income. Filingassistance is provided for Federal andNew Jersey state income tax returns,and the Property Tax ReimbursementProgram (PTR 1 and 2). Federal andstate returns are filed electronically.

Participants should bring the fol-lowing information: copies of Federaland State returns for 2015 along with2016 wages, interest, dividends, capi-tal gains, Social Security, etc. (forms1099, 1099R, 1099B-W2 and SSA),and their property tax bill for 2016. Aform of identification is required and,

if requesting direct deposit or pay-ment, individuals are asked to bring ablank check showing the account num-ber and routing number.

F-SP Rotary AnnouncesBenefit Casino Night

SCOTCH PLAINS — The RotaryClub of Fanwood-Scotch Plains willhold a Casino Night fundraiser onFriday, February 10, at 7 p.m. It willtake place at the Immaculate Heartof Mary Roman Catholic Church,located at 1571 Martine Avenue S.,Scotch Plains.

Tickets are $60 per person andinclude a buffet dinner and $100 incasino play money. All attendeesmust be at least 21 years of age.Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. andgaming will occur between 7 and 11p.m. Tickets can be purchased atEventbrite.com. For further infor-mation about the event, includingsponsorship opportunities, contactDonna D’Annunzio [email protected].

The fundraiser will support themany charitable activities managed

by the Rotary Club of Fanwood-Scotch Plains, an organization withmore than 50 members. The clubcurrently sponsors local and interna-tional causes, as well as scholarshipsfor Scotch Plains-Fanwood HighSchool students. As the club contin-ues to grow, it plans to expand itsservice initiatives and support fornon-profit organizations.

The Rotary Club of Fanwood-Scotch Plains has been serving thecommunity since 1938. Meetings areheld on Wednesdays at noon at theStage House Restaurant, 366 ParkAvenue, Scotch Plains, and at 6 p.m.at Darby Road, 450 Park Avenue,Scotch Plains, on the last Wednesdayof the month. Guests are invited toattend and learn about the good thatRotary is doing worldwide. For fur-ther information, go to fsprotary.org.

RAKE AND HOE MILESTONE...Members of the Rake and Hoe GardenClub of Westfield honor Roberta Grecco on her 50th anniversary with theclub. Pictured, from left to right, are: Inge Bossert, editor of the “Bloomin’Times” newsletter; Pat Wilson, vice-president; Mrs. Grecco and Diana Kazazis,president.

Rake and Hoe RecognizesMrs. Grecco For 50 Years

WESTFIELD — The Rake and HoeGarden Club of Westfield honoredmember Roberta Grecco on her 50thanniversary with the club. At the club’sJanuary meeting, Mrs. Grecco waspresented with flowers and a cakeenjoyed by all. Mrs. Grecco joined theRake and Hoe Garden Club in 1967 —15 years after a group of Westfieldwomen had formed a fledgling gardenclub. By the time she joined, Rake andHoe was a vibrant club very involvedwith community activities.

Mrs. Grecco recently provided atrip down memory lane, sharing sto-ries about past house tours, then all-day events with morning and eveningsessions, and long-ago craft fairs atthe Masonic Temple. These projectsall benefited club activities whichsupported community projects. Mrs.Grecco continues to enrich Rake andHoe with her many contributions andis an example of the many volunteerswho are part of the club’s roster.

In addition to providing education,

resources and networking to promotegardening and civic responsibility,community projects are at the heart ofthe Rake and Hoe Garden Club. Theseprojects include offering decorativeservices to the Jardine Academy ofthe Cerebral Palsy League, providingfloral arrangements to veterans atLyons Veterans Hospital, and main-taining the gardens at the north side ofthe Westfield Train Station, the Miller-Cory House Museum, theShadowlawn Pocket Park and theClaire Brownell Wildflower Gardenat the Reeve History and CulturalResource Center of the WestfieldHistorical Society.

The Rake and Hoe Garden Club ofWestfield is affiliated with the Gar-den Club of New Jersey and theNational Garden Club, Inc. Anyoneinterested in joining the club is in-vited to call Pat Wilson at (908) 389-9342. More information also is avail-able on the club’s website,rakeandhoe.org.

Fanwood Library to Present‘The ABCs of Candy’

FANWOOD — Just in time forValentine’s Day, the Fanwood Me-morial Library, located at 5 ForestRoad, will present “The ABCs ofCandy” on Sunday, February 5, at 2p.m.

Favorite candies have been cre-ated by combining the belovedchocolate bar with cherries, raisins,dates, nuts, marshmallows, caramel,nougat and toffee. While the candycombinations come and go, a fewsteady favorites remain bestsellersyear after year.

Attendees will get the inside storyon familiar and not-so-familiar can-dies — one for every letter. Thisprogram will conclude with freesamples of confectionery history.

“The ABCs of Candy” comes toFanwood from The Museum ofEarly Trades and Crafts, located inMadison, N.J. The museum pro-motes the understanding of the his-tory, culture and lives of New Jer-sey inhabitants from the earliestsettlements through present day.

The Fanwood Memorial Librarywill offer “The ABCs of Candy” aspart of its First Sundays series. Thesefamily programs run the first Sun-day of each month and are spon-sored by the Friends of the FanwoodMemorial Library.

For more information and regis-tration for this or any of the library’sprograms, visit fanwoodlibrary.orgor call (908) 322-6400.

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Program to SpotlightFamous N.J. Canal

FANWOOD — The Fanwood His-toric Preservation Commission willpresent a program on New Jersey’sDelaware and Raritan Canal on Sun-day, February 5, at 2 p.m.

Linda J. Barth, who has authored twobooks on the canal, will be the featuredspeaker. Her audio-visual PowerPointpresentation will reveal the canal’s his-tory as a commercial transportationsystem as well as its current role ofproviding a water supply and as a pre-mier recreational facility for the peopleof central New Jersey.

Ms. Barth is the executive directorof the League of Historical Societiesof New Jersey. Attendees will have anopportunity to learn interesting factsabout this canal in the middle of cen-tral New Jersey, such as how it was thenation’s most successful towpath ca-nal and carried more tonnage in 1866than the more famous Erie Canal.

The program will be held at theFanwood Museum, which is locatedin the historic Fanwood Railroad Sta-tion at the intersection of Martine andNorth Avenues. There will be ad-equate parking available. People liv-ing in neighboring communities areinvited to attend.

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Mike Chumer

SUMMIT AREA — ProfessorMike Chumer of Rutgers Univer-sity will speak to the Summit OldGuard at its Tuesday, January 31meeting. He will talkabout “What you needto know to fly dronessafely in the NationalAir Space.”

What if a terroristwere to fly a drone,loaded with explosives,into Times Square onNew Year’s Eve? Im-possible? Difficult, butnot impossible. “Gad-get guys” have sentdrones weaving theirway through the leafyavenues of New York’sGreenwich Village andthrough Times Square. Accordingto the Federal Aviation Adminis-tration (FAA), there are about 2.5million drones that regularly fly inAmerican skies. In 2020, that num-ber will almost triple; seven mil-lion drones are projected. Of thedrones currently buzzing around,roughly 1.5 million are hobbyistdrones and 500,000 commercial.

The FAA expects that 42 percentof commercial drones will end upin industrial inspection, 19 percent

in agriculture, 15 percent in insur-ance, 22 percent in real estate oraerial photography and 2 percentin government. Amazon or FedEx

or indeed Domino’smay soon use dronesfor home deliveries.But drones raise thetroubling problem ofprivacy. Small dronesdeliver perfect high-definition pictures.Drones with photo-graphic capabilitiesare, in a sense, Peep-ing Toms. The FBI hasbeen using drones totrack suspects for manyyears. Will a warrantbe required to usedrone-derived infor-

mation? Professor Chumer will fur-ther elucidate the problems of adrone-filled sky and the challengeswhich lie ahead.

All active men age 50-plus areinvited to attend the Tuesday morn-ing meetings of the Summit AreaOld Guard. Meetings are held at theNew Providence Municipal Center,located at 360 Elkwood Avenue, NewProvidence. A coffee hour starts at9:15 a.m., followed by a 10 a.m.business meeting brightened by sing-ing and humor. Guest speakers begintheir talks at 10:30 a.m.

Old Guard members participate insports, bridge, hikes, trips, plays,concerts and other cultural events.For more information, call JimHewitt at (908) 233-5507 or log ontothe website summitoldguard.org.

Friday Senior ClubPosts Casino Trips

CRANFORD — The Friday Se-nior Club of Cranford sponsors a tripthe second Wednesday of the monthto Resorts Casino at Atlantic City.Trips are planned for February 8,March 8 and April 12. The bus leavesfrom the Centennial Avenue Poolparking lot at 11 a.m. and returns toCranford at 7 p.m. The cost is $30with a $25 slot play back. For reser-vations, call Helen at (908) 654-1236.


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Blue Devil ‘D’ Halts FarmersIn Girls’ Hoops Clash, 33-21

By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

Defensive solidarity compensatedfor some moments of shaky offensiveplay in the Westfield Blue Devils’ 33-21 victory over the Union High Schoolgirls basketball team in a game playedat Westfield High School on January19. The victory comes off the heels ofa spectacular across the board perfor-mance in a 48-28 triumph over 9-3

Roselle Catholic (RC) two days ear-lier in Westfield.

The Lady Blue Devils beat theRoselle Catholic Lions in every aspectof the game, including rebounds, steals,blocked shots and, especially scoringwhen four girls (Grace Elliott and Sh-annon Devitt both with 12 points,Danielle Rinaldi and Molly Ryan bothwith 11 points) hit double digits.

“We really played as a team against

Roselle Catholic on Tuesday. Every-body had their role and I think that’swhat made it so effective in that theycouldn’t just stop one of us. They hadto stop five of us,” Rinaldi said.

“Like Danielle said, our ball move-ment was really good that game andeveryone was trying to find the opengirl. We were making all of our shots,”Elliott added.

WHS Boys, SPF Girls CaptureUnion County Swim Crowns

By J. B. RAYMONDSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

PISCATAWAY – If you attendedSunday’s Union County SwimmingChampionships hoping to see some-thing different or shocking, you wereprobably disappointed. If you wentexpecting to see a whole lot of out-standing swims, then you probablywere not disappointed.

As expected in Rutgers University’svery fast pool, more than a few ofthose fast times were by the boys andgirls teams from Westfield and ScotchPlains-Fanwood (SPF).

The Lady Raiders won their thirdstraight girls title, by a 430-297 mar-gin over runnerup Westfield. Thetightly packed field saw Governor

Livingston finish third with 228.5points, followed by Oak Knoll (225),Cranford (224) and Summit (212).

On the boys side, Westfield showedwhy it is ranked No. 1 in the state,winning its sixth straight title – 59thin the last 61 years, and 62nd overall– with a workmanlike 459 points.SPF was very close behind with fiveindividual winners and 378 points.Summit (277) and GovernorLivingston (269) were both highlycompetitive.

The boys’ meet certainly had a dis-tinct WHS-SPF dual-meet atmo-sphere, although Union’s Kai Legband(50 and 100 free winner) had a greatmeet. He edged WHS’s Aedan Collinsand Eric Bebel to win the 50 free in a

quick 21.57. Then he clocked a 46.15in the 100 to erase one of the twooldest meet records, the 46.75 byGL’s John Bennett in 1987.

SPF won five events – senior ChrisBondarowicz capturing the 200 IM(1:53.86) and 100 breast (57.54),sophomore Josh Cohen repeated hisfreshman-year wins in the 200(1:42.15 – look for Bennett’s 1:42.06to go down next year) and 500 free,breaking his own record with a4:35.02, and sophomore Alan Shaowon a three-way battle with WHS’sDavid Lindros and Colin Daniel towin the butterfly (52.47).

For the second straight year, WHS’slone individual victory was Lindros

CONCINA GRABS 100TH WIN, KALNINS CLAMPS LEO

Cougar Matmen Top PanthersIn Rivalry Showdown, 46-21


Senior Vince Concina joined ChrisScorese and Tom DiGiovanni as mem-bers of the “100-career win club” onthis year’s Cranford High Schoolwrestling team during a rivalry matchwith Roselle Park in Cranford on Janu-ary 18. The 7-0, fourth-ranked Cou-gars also achieved a rarity by defeat-ing the Panthers for the third straightyear, this time by a 46-21 margin.

“We went through this match a fewtimes and we had it a little bit closerthan it was. After watching themwrestle in counties, we knew they hada tough team. Sometimes it’s just thematch-ups. Both of us [coaches] did alittle maneuvering around,” said Cou-

gar Head Coach Pat Gorman, whoadded, “A lot of alumni were sendingmessages that this is the first time thatwe have beaten Roselle Park threeyears in a row since 1963. There wasa little bit extra pressure there.”

Jumping up to the 182-lb class,after amassing a number of back pointswith his patented Turk and chin hooknearfalls, Concina celebrated his100th victory when he twisted DevinHilburn with a corkscrew maneuverto record a 17-1, technical fall in 4:08.

Scorese reached his 100th victoryat the NJSIAA Championships lastMarch and DiGiovanni gained his atthe recent Bethlehem Catholic Christ-mas Tournament. But there are stilltwo more members, Anthony Capece

and Brian McGovern, who are ap-proaching that magic number on thisteam that may be one of the best inCranford wrestling history.

“I think McGovern is in the high80s and Capece is in the 90s,” CoachGorman noted.

Capece got one win closer to thatmark but it was a tough one with JonMejia at 120-lbs. After a scorelessfirst period, Mejia escaped and addeda defensive takedown to grab a 3-0lead before Capece managed toquickly escape. Capece escaped inthe third period then scooped up adouble-leg takedown to earn a 4-3decision. McGovern’s bout at 170-lbs was much quicker when he tossed

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NOT QUITE ABLE TO ESCAPE...Cougar Mike Nigro, left, gets his ankles caught by Panther Rene Perez in the 145-lb boutin Cranford on January 18. The Cougars defeated Roselle Park, 46-21.

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DRIVING HARD INSIDE...Blue Devil Danielle Rinaldi, No. 1, attempts to drive past Union Farmer Nneka Moneme, No.15, in Westfield on January 19. The Blue Devils’ defense halted the Lady Farmers, 33-21.


Devil’s Den

By BRUCE JOHNSONSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

Tough Times MakeTougher People

When Max Wunderle was at WHS– he graduated in 1988 – he swam the500-yard freestyle, the most demand-ing race. If there had been a 1,650-yard event in high school it wouldhave been his race.

His WHS teammates included ChrisMcFadden and Tim Coultas, two out-standing distance swimmers, so break-ing into the top three at counties wasdifficult. But senior year Wunderleearned a gold medal at counties swim-ming the breaststroke leg of the win-ning 200 medley relay.

After his senior season, Wunderlereally started to stretch his bound-aries, and create his “Mad Max” im-age. He swam 28.5 miles aroundManhattan Island, the second-young-est person to do so. He then tried tobreak the world record for miles swumin a 24-hour period. He ended upgoing 33 miles in 13 hours beforegoing into shock – “my nutrition planwas non-existent,” he said. It shouldbe noted that the world record at thattime was 58 miles in 24 hours, so hewas actually on pace to go 61 milesand break the mark.

After graduating from HamiltonCollege in upstate New York,Wunderle and his wife, former WHSswimmer Christina Caroe (’88), nowlive in Simsbury, Conn. Max, who hasa full-time job as a sales director for asupplement company, is well-knownup there for promoting the wonders ofcross training and healthful eating.(Do not ever mention sugar aroundhim!) He also spends a lot of his freetime training for Ironman competi-tions.

Christina was the 1988 YMCANational Female Swimmer of the Meetin 1988, the same year McFaddenwon the 500 at Y Nationals. She wasinvolved in eight WY team records,four individual and four relays, in-cluding becoming the first WHS orWY girl to break five minutes in the500 freestyle. She later swam for andcaptained Dartmouth College. Oh, sheis also an Ironman triathlete.

They’ve raised three athletic chil-dren – daughter Sutton, 20, a sopho-more at Indiana University after astellar lacrosse (first-team all-state)and ice hockey (two-time statechamps) careers at Simsbury; Hagen,an 18-year-old senior who will beattending his dad’s alma mater in thefall; and Torben, 15, who scored 32goals as a freshman last spring onSimsbury’s state runnerup lacrosseteam. (Those first names, if you werewondering, come from family names.Torben means “Thunder Bear” inDanish.)

Max Wunderle’s life has been builtaround pushing himself to the limit.And that’s a good thing, because thepast year has been pushing back re-ally hard.

* * *Coming into his junior lacrosse sea-

son last March, Hagen Wunderle wasa budding superstar. The 6-foot-1,190-pounder scored 55 goals andadded 76 assists during his first twoyears on the varsity. Then, after scor-ing four goals in the first quarter of a2016 preseason game, he tore hisanterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Hehad suffered the same injury to thesame knee in eighth grade.

“I was chasing a guy down the field

and went to hit him,” Hagen saidrecently. “He stopped abruptly, whichput me in an awkward position. Assoon as I stopped, I heard the pop andright then I knew that I’d torn it again.”

Since he’d been there before – ironi-cally, sister Sutton also torn her ACLduring her freshman year playing la-crosse – the déjà vu he was experienc-ing as he was laying there on theground wasn’t good.

“It’s hard to put it into words …shock, disbelief, disappointment,” hesaid. “Since I’d torn the same ACLthree years earlier I knew it wasn’t theend of the world. But I couldn’t helpbut think the worst, and how is itpossible that, after I’d gone through itall once before, I had to get back upand do it all over again for a full yearof recovery.”

He had the surgery in April. Butthen he was struck down with a lethalstrain of MRSA bacteria (contractedduring surgery) that put him in a quar-antined (no one in the room without ahazmat suit) ICU for a week underheavy pain medication.

After three more surgeries in fivedays, the doctors eventually had toremove his newly installed ACL, sewup the wound and install a picc linethat inserted in his bicep and went allthe way into the top of his heart.Through a 24/7 IV he was given ag-gressive antibiotics for 30 days. Hehad to replace each dose of antibiot-ics every eight hours, to ensure theMRSA could be killed off, since ithad already infected his bloodstream.

“I had gone through three surgeriesthat one week and really felt as if mylife was crumbling in front of myeyes,” Hagen said. “I remember cry-ing myself to sleep and asking my dadat one point, ‘Why me?’ It was by farthe hardest time of my life.”

After a month of 24/7 antibiotics,Hagen had to wait another month tomake sure the virus had been killedoff. Only then was he allowed to takethe next step in getting back to beinghealthy. He had a hip bone graft to fillin the holes in his knee from theprevious ACL surgery. Again he wentunder the knife and the doctors har-vested material from his hip bone andfilled in the holes in his knee bone.

He is scheduled for another ACLsurgery in early February to round outwhat can only be described as a hor-rible experience.

* * *What is truly amazing – and heart-

warming – is that while HagenWunderle had been heavily recruitedbefore the surgery by schools likeWilliams, Middlebury and Hamilton,those coaches remained very inter-

ested in him despite the tragic turn ofevents. On Dec. 14, Hagen got hisearly acceptance to Hamilton, and hegratefully accepted.

“It was about as hard a time aswe’ve ever had,” Max said. “I’ve neverfelt so helpless and saddened, to watcha child of mine go through so muchpain and have their hopes dashed somany times. While he will never getthe chance for a great high schoolcareer, he is chomping at the bit toplay in college and show everyonewhat he’s capable of.

“It’s been terrible for him. But hewanted Hamilton before his injury, soeverything ended up well.”

Bad things happen to good people.And good people find a way to workthrough the bad times. It’s a cliché,but … when things were toughest forHagen Wunderle, he didn’t have tolook far for inspiration.

“The things my mom and dad havedone, it’s just crazy,” he said. “Mymom, with all the records at Westfieldand Dartmouth, and my dad, swim-ming around Manhattan and the

amount of Ironmans he and my momhave done. But they barely speak abouttheir accomplishments. When I bringthem up, they think nothing of it. Theyare both so humble, but they are alsothe best athletes I’ve ever heard of. Ihope to be half the person and athletethat they are.”

SPEAKING OF WUNDERLESMax Wunderle’s younger brother

Sam (’91) is a former WHS footballco-captain and lacrosse standout. In asort of harbinger of things to come,Sam missed his entire senior lacrosseseason at WHS after tearing his ACLin the season-opener against FairLawn.

A Gettysburg graduate, he is nowback in town, working as a pharma-ceutical advertiser. He also recentlystarted up a side business venturecalled “Throwback.” It’s a fitting namesince that word describes Wunderle –a center and inside linebacker in foot-ball and defenseman in lacrosse –during his WHS career. “Throwback”makes old-time looking sports clothes.Check out his website atw w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /varsityvintagewear. There’s somegood-looking stuff.

Maybe the coolest item is a great-looking Westfield football shirt mod-eled after the old-time Boston Patri-ots logo.

Sam and his wife Lindsey have twodaughters Anna, 12, and Astrid, 10.And both are swimmers at theWestfield Y. Yes, the same place where30 years ago Uncle Max and AuntChristina were creating their legends.

RAMOS PULLS UPSET; CANNON, ‘PALA’, OSLISLO WIN

RP Panther Matmen SurviveRaiders’ Threat; Win, 34-33


Three bouts remaining and trailing33-20, the Roselle Park High Schoolwrestling team needed to get big timebonus points to survive a major set-back from the visiting Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders on January 20.Clever wrestling and a shocking up-set at 145-lbs by the Raiders set thestage for a dramatic conclusion butthe Panthers came through with a fallat 285-lbs, a major decision at 106-lbs and a fall at 113-lbs to eke out a34-33 victory.

With the match beginning in the120-lbs class, the Panthers won thefirst three bouts to take a 12-0 teamlead. Jon Mejia amassed fivetakedowns, a nearfall and an escapeto grab a 14-3 majority decision overJustin Sidebottom at 120-lbs thenRaider Jacob Perone yielded no bo-nus points by limiting Josh Mejia to a9-4 decision at 126-lbs. At 132-lbs,Panther Elvin Guerrero chalked upseven takedowns, a nearfall and a pairof escapes to claim a 19-4, 5:08 techfall over Mateo Velez.

Raider Jack Cannon got the Raid-ers on the scoreboard in a big waywhen he pinned Dylan Camilo in 3:29with a arm bar/tight waist at 138-lbs.Cannon wiggled his way through ahead-and-arm takedown and added aswitch reversal before showingCamilo the lights.

“I went into my match thinking wehad to pick up momentum. We had toswitch the pace a little bit. They wereahead of us, they were starting to beatup on us, so I knew I had to dosomething to help the team and get theteam going. I saw the opportunity. Iwas on top. I ran the bar behind hisback, pushed hard and sunk in the realbar,” Cannon explained.

Next at 145-lbs, Panther Rene Perezused a series of takedowns and twonearfalls to surge to a 12-2 lead butwhen he got a little too low on anothertakedown attempt, Raider Mikey

Ramos stepped over his shot and pinnedPerez in 3:20 to tie the team score.

Momentum quickly shifted to theRaiders’ camp and Nick Palazzolaadded fuel to the fire when he pinnedJosh Connolly in 1:21 with a Malloryto a Jimmy John maneuver at 152-lbs.

“I hit the Mallory to a half and stuckhim. Jimmy Johns they teach us inpractice quite a bit. It is kind of one ofour trademark moves. You kind ofjust rotate, cup the head, get the stickor if you don’t get three-point backpoints,” Palazzola said.

At 160-lbs, Raider Alex Oslislo be-gan his bout with Jefferson Garciawith a tackle takedown, added a two-point stack and a power throwtakedown before the bout was halted at2:16 due to injury default. At that point,the Raiders took a 24-12 team lead.

“I was all pumped up after Mikeyand Jack’s pins. I wanted to go outthere and continue the trend, continuethe momentum and try to push us fora victory,” Oslislo said.

With reference to the stunning up-set pin of Perez, Panther Head CoachRyan Rooney said, “The game planwas to just pepper him, keep takinghim down, taking him down and try-ing to get a huge advantage so theywould give up on that match. He gotcaught. That was a huge turnaroundfor them. It gave them momentumand we didn’t let it stop us. We cametogether as a family and I can’t ask formore at the end.”

“When Mikey caught that kid, Ijumped up. I was so excited. Mikeyreally turned that match around for usand really gave us a shot to attain avictory,” Palazzola said.

Raider Zach Fleischman avoidedgiving up bonus points when he heldAbel Crespo to a 9-3 decision at 170-lbs then Sam Wustefeld had no takersat 182-lbs to stretch the team lead to30-15.

Mat strategy with the guidance ofRaider Head Coach Marc Fabianoplayed out especially well at 195-lbs

when Ed Smith limited Panther DevinHilburn to just a 4-0 decision.

“Our coach always knows what’sgoing on. Mr. Fabiano is a smart guy.He knows what to do with the lineup.That kid who Eddie only lost 4-0 to,placed second in the counties,” Oslislonoted.

Raider Bobby Mount’s 5-1 deci-sion over Sean Matthews at 220-lbsput the Panthers’ backs to the wall butthey began their pushback when VinnyFiguerdo used a football tackle todrop Billy Root to his back with a1:45 pin at 285-lbs. From there, GabeLeo exercised seven takedowns tograb a 14-5 major decision over MikeFleck at 106-lbs then Mark Mont-gomery pinned Jeremy Lenart in 3:11.

“Sean [Matthews], we knew he wasgoing to have a tough match. Mount isan outstanding athlete. The game planwas stay off your back and give theother guys behind you the opportunityto win and Fig[ueredo] comes out andpins the kid. He comes through whenwe need him,” Coach Rooney said.

“We wrestled tough as a team. Theyhave been preaching us in practicethat we have to wrestle tough andpush our bonus points, wrestle a fullsix minutes if we have to and wrestleup to the occasion. We had kids whowere supposed to get pinned that wereonly giving bonus points in terms ofmajors and stuff like that. Kids likeMikey Ramos coming out there andtossing the kid and pinning him send-ing huge momentum swings,” Can-non said.

“I feel good. I think we feel good asa team. We are wrestling tough andhopefully we can keep winning,”Oslislo said.

BOUT SEQUENCE:120: — Mejia (R) md Sidebottom, 14-3126: — Mejia (R) d Perone, 9-4132: — Guerrero (R) tf Velez, 19-4, 5:08138: — Cannon (S)p Camilo, 3:29145: — Ramos (S) p Perez, 3:20152: — Palazzola (S) p Connolly 1:21160: — Oslislo (S) won injury defaultover Garcia, 2:16170: — Crespo (R) d Fleischman, 9-3182: — Wustefeld (S) won forfeit195: — Hilburn (R) d Smith, 4-0220: — Mount (S) d Matthews, 5-1Hwt: — Figueredo (R) p Root, 1:45106: — Leo (R) md Fleck, 14-5113: — Montgomery (R) p Lenart, 3:11

SHERIFF’S SALESHERIFF’S FILE NO.: CH-17000165

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEYCHANCERY DIVISION

UNION COUNTYDOCKET NO. F-012705-09

Plaintiff: BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLCVS.Defendant: FRANK A. ERICKSON,

SANTANDER BANK F/K/A SOVEREIGN BANKSale Date: 02/22/2017Writ of Execution: 11/03/2016By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution

to me directed I shall expose for sale by publicvendue, at the Union County Administration Build-ing, 1st Floor, 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Eliza-beth, New Jersey on Wednesday, at two o’clockin the afternoon of said day. All successful bid-ders must have 20% of their bid available in cashor certified check at the conclusion of the sales.

The judgment amount is: ***Six Hundred EightThousand Five Hundred Ninety-Four and 31/100*** $608,594.31.

PROPERTY TO BE SOLD IS LOCATED IN:Westfield, County of Union, State of New Jersey.

PREMISES COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 203Livingston Street, Westfield, New Jersey 07090.

TAX LOT #: 13 f/k/a 20, BLOCK #: 4002 f/k/a506.

APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS: 150 x 137 x25 x 87 x 125 x 50.

NEAREST CROSS STREET: Stilling Place.SUBJECT TO ANY OPEN TAXES, WATER/

SEWER, MUNICIPAL OR TAX LIENS THATMAY BE DUE.

PRIOR MORTGAGES AND/OR JUDG-MENTS: N/A.

Total Upset: ***Six Hundred Twenty-Two Thou-sand Eight Hundred Four and 67/100***$622,804.67 together with lawful interest andcosts.

Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfac-tion of the mortgage debt, including costs andexpenses, there remains any surplus money, themoney will be deposited into the Superior CourtTrust Fund and any person claiming the surplus,or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant toCourt Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the natureand extent of that person’s claim and asking foran order directing payment of the surplus money.The Sheriff or other person conducting the salewill have information regarding the surplus, ifany.

There is a full legal description on file in theUnion County Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff reserves the right to adjourn thissale for any length of time without further adver-tisement.

Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:UDREN LAW OFFICES, P.C.111 WOODCREST ROADWOODCREST CORPORATE CENTERSUITE 200CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY 08003(856) 669-54004 T - 01/26, 02/02, 02/09& 02/16/17 Fee: $169.34




Plaintiff: NEW PENN FINANCIAL, LLC D/B/ASHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING

VS.Defendant: RONALD L. RASMUSSENSale Date: 02/08/2017Writ of Execution: 10/26/2016By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution


The judgment amount is: ***Four HundredNineteen Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty and57/100*** $419,730.57.

The property to be sold is located in the TOWNof WESTFIELD, County of UNION and State ofNew Jersey.

Commonly known as: 416 WESTFIELD AV-ENUE, WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07090.

Tax Lot No. 8 in Block No. 3002Dimension of Lot Approximately: 35 X 114Nearest Cross Street: FIRST STREET.BEGINNING at a point in the Westerly side of

Westfield Avenue distant fifty (50) feet Northerlyfrom the Northerly line of First Street and run-ning; thence

PRIOR LIENS /ENCUMBRANCESTaxes Open with Penalty $4,146.20Sewer Open with Penalty $170.00TOTAL AS OF November 9, 2016: $4,316.20Total Upset: ***Four Hundred Thirty-Nine

Thousand One Hundred Eighty-Eight and 77/100*** $439,188.77 together with lawful interestand costs.




Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:FEIN, SUCH, KAHN & SHEPARD, PC7 CENTURY DRIVESUITE 201PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY 07054(973) 538-47004 T - 01/12, 01/19, 01/26& 02/02/17 Fee: $171.36




Plaintiff:U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA-TION (AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TOBANK OF AMERICA) AS TRUSTEE FOR THEHOLDERS OF THE CSFB MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2003-CF14

VS.Defendant: CHERYL M. KRESS, RICHARD

H. KRESS, MR. KRESS, HUSBAND OF CHERYLM. KRESS, ANN G. MCCORMICK, RONALDMACCIA, MARIO GARCIA, LAWRENCE RAY,JOAN RAY, CEONCEPCION GARCIA, UNITEDSTATE OF AMERICA, STATE OF NEW JER-SEY

Sale Date: 02/08/2017Writ of Execution: 01/13/2016By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution


The judgment amount is: ***Five HundredThirty-Two Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-One and 80/100*** $532,791.80.

MUNICIPALITY: Mountainside Borough.COUNTY AND STATE: County of Union, State

of New Jersey.STREET AND STREET NUMBER: 1169 Ridge

Drive.TAX LOT AND BLOCK NUMBERS: Lot: 13;

Block: 5.02.DIMENSIONS: 000.376 AC.NEAREST CROSS STREET: Short Drive.Beginning at a point in the northwesterly side

line of Ridge Drive, distant northeasterly 700.96feet from the point formed by the intersection ofsaid line of Ridge Drive extended with the south-erly line of Short Drive, extended.

Pursuant to a tax search of 11/22/2016; 2017QTR I Taxes: $2,740.45 Open, due on 02/01/2017; 2017 QTR 2 Taxes: $2,740.45 Open, dueon 05/01/2017.

Total Upset: ***Five Hundred Fifty-Two Thou-sand Three Hundred Forty-Eight and 01/100***$552,348.01 together with lawful interest andcosts.


This concise description does not constitute alegal description. There is a full legal descriptionon file in the Union County Sheriff’s Office.


Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN &GORDON, LLP80 MAIN STREETSUITE 460WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY 07052(973) 325-88004 T - 01/12, 01/19, 01/26& 02/02/17 Fee: $206.04

The Wunderle family of Simsbury, Conn. From left, Max, Christina, Torben,Sutton, Hagen




Plaintiff: US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONAS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED AS-SET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST, 2006-3

VS.Defendant: CLAYTON S. PIERCESale Date: 02/08/2017Writ of Execution: 11/10/2016By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution


The judgment amount is: ***Six Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Four and95/100*** $633,224.95.

Property to be sold is located in the BOR-OUGH of FANWOOD, County of UNION, Stateof New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 3 ROBINROAD, FANWOOD, NEW JERSEY 07023-1626.

BEING KNOWN as LOT 25, BLOCK 105 onthe official Tax Map of the BOROUGH ofFANWOOD.

Dimensions: 75.00 FEET X 100.00 FEET X75.00 FEET X 100.00 FEET.

Nearest Cross Street: Coriell Avenue.Advertise subject to prior mortgage: None.Advertise subject to prior lien: None.Total Upset: ***Six Hundred Fifty-Six Thou-

sand Two Hundred Sixty-Two and 87/100***$656,262.87 together with lawful interest andcosts.

Subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens orother charges, and any such taxes, charges,liens, insurance premiums or other advancesmade by plaintiff prior to this sale. All interestedparties are to conduct and rely upon their ownindependent investigation to ascertain whetheror not any outstanding interest remain of recordand/or have priority over the lien being fore-closed and, if so the current amount due thereon.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, thePurchaser at the sale shall be entitled only areturn of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shallhave no further recourse against the Mortgagor,the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.




Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:PHELAN HALLINAN, DIAMOND & JONES, PC400 FELLOWSHIP ROADSUITE 100MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY 08054(856) 813-55004 T - 01/12, 01/19, 01/26& 02/02/17 Fee: $199.92




Plaintiff: U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., ASTRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPA-TION TRUST

VS.Defendant: HEMLATIA J. DESAI; JANAK M.

DESAI; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.;SURESH SOLANSKI



The judgment amount is: ***Three HundredFifty-Five Thousand Five Hundred Ninety-Oneand 91/100*** $355,591.91.

Property to be sold is located in the BOR-OUGH of MOUNTAINSIDE, County of UNION,State of New Jersey.

Premises commonly known as: 1070 SUNNYVIEW ROAD, MOUNTAINSIDE, NEW JERSEY07092-2123.

BEING KNOWN as LOT 10, BLOCK 7.E onthe official Tax Map of the BOROUGH ofMOUNTAINSIDE.

Dimensions: 170.00 FEET X 100.00 FEET X170.66 FEET X 115.00 FEET.

Nearest Cross Street: Summit Road.Total Upset: ***Three Hundred Sixty-Eight

Thousand One Hundred Thirty and 11/100***$368,130.11 together with lawful interest andcosts.


If the sale is set aside for any reason, thePurchaser at the sale shall be entitled only areturn of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shallhave no further recourse against the Mortgagor,the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.




Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:PHELAN HALLINAN, DIAMOND & JONES, PC400 FELLOWSHIP ROADSUITE 100MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY 08054(856) 813-55004 T - 01/26, 02/02, 02/09& 02/16/17 Fee: $204.00




Plaintiff: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLCVS.Defendant: HARRY M. KARCHER AND MRS.

HARRY M. KARCHER, HIS WIFE; PATRICIAKARCHER



The judgment amount is: ***Nine HundredThirty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty and05/100*** $936,830.05.

The property to be sold is located in the TOWNOF WESTFIELD in the County of UNION, andthe State of New Jersey.

Tax LOT 22, BLOCK 2709 F/K/A LOT 14,BLOCK 726.

COMMONLY KNOWN AS 648 WEST BROADSTREET, WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07090.

Dimensions of the Lot are: (Approximately) 50x 145.50 x 50 x 145.50.

Nearest Cross Street: Situated on the North-westerly side of West Broad Street, 134 feet fromthe Northeasterly side of Scoth Plains Avenue.

The sale is subject to any unpaid taxes andassessments, tax, water, and sewer liens andother municipal assessments. The amount duecan be obtained from the local taxing authority.Pursuant to NJSA 46:8B-21 the sale may also besubject to the limited lien priority of any Condo-minium/Homeowner Association liens which mayexist.

Total Upset: ***Nine Hundred Sixty ThousandOne Hundred Ten and 92/100*** $960,110.92together with lawful interest and costs.




Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:SHAPIRO & DENARDO, LLC - ATTORNEYS14000 COMMERCE PARKWAYSUITE BMOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY 08054(856) 793-30804 T - 01/26, 02/02, 02/09& 02/16/17 Fee: $181.56



TRYING TO SLIP BEHIND...Raider Nick Palazzola, right, tries to slip his arm behind Panther Josh Connolly in his 152-lb bout in Roselle Park on January 20. The Panthers had to win big in the final three bouts to pull out a 34-33 victory.


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COMPOSTO PINS, RABINOWITZ WINS MAJOR DECISION

Del. Val. Terriers OverwhelmWestfield in Mat Quad, 59-16


Diving right into the thick of toughcompetition, the Westfield HighSchool wrestling team hosted a trio ofteams from North-West Jersey (Dela-ware Valley, Kittatinny, West Morris)and came out on the short side of allthree on January 21. The Blue Devilsfaced the toughest of the trio first andlost to the 12-2 Del. Val. Terriers, 59-16. The other losses were 48-23 toKittatinny and 39-30 to West Morris.

Against the Terriers, whose onlylosses were to No. 5 Phillipsburg andNo. 3 South Plainfield, the Blue Dev-ils won two face-to-face bouts andPhil Ricca received a forfeit at 220-lbs. The first victory came in the sev-enth bout of the morning at 106-lbswhen CJ Composto worked a low

single-leg, a throw-by and duck undertakedowns and added a double armbar stack nearfall before pinningPeyton Mitchell in 5:14 with an armbar/tight waist.

On his takedowns, Composto said,“I saw him heavy on his lead leg, so Iknew the low single was there. [Onthe throw-by] he was grabbing myelbow when I had him in the fronthead [lock], so I tossed him by.”

With reference to his nearfall,Composto explained, “I kept on go-ing back to the bar because if I hit itonce and he proves he can’t stop it, Iwill just keep on going through it untilhe stops it then I will switch it up.”

The very next bout at 113-lbs fea-tured Zack Rabinowitz, who had beencompeting anywhere from 106-lb to120-lbs, using his entwining leg con-trol to seize an 8-0 major decisionover Tom Schlittler.

“Going back to my other years when

I was much lighter, I needed some-thing to slow everybody down, solegs is a great thing to go to. It’s beenworking out for me this year,”Rabinowitz answered.

Throughout the match the Terri-ers had been demonstrating theirproficiency with barrel rolltakedowns. Rabinowitz gave thema dose of their own medicine with abarrel roll-to-back five-point movein the first period.

“I have been working with my dada lot and that was my go-to move.Whenever it’s there, I do a littletribute to him. It worked for me, soI’m glad I could put some points onthe board, especially going right tothe back. It really helps me the rest ofthe match being up points,”Rabinowitz said.

Throughout the course of the sea-son, Rabinowitz, Composto and fresh-man Luke Hoerle have been rotatingamong the three weight classes —106, 113 and 120. The trio also prac-tice together.

“We all just go at each other, makeeach other better. Luke Hoerle andme are usually partners. Zack goeswith Silber or [Luke] Scanlon but weall go live together,” Composto said.

As to his shifting up and down theweight classes, Composto said,“Coach puts us out there wherever hewants. Whatever is best for the team.It’s more of a challenge but it doesn’treally matter.”

“Freshman, sophomore and junioryears I was lighter than the kids I waswrestling. This year they are puttingme to wrestle where I actually weigh.I take advantage of my matches downat 113 then I get used to bumping upto 120. It’s just something that I do forthe team. I don’t mind,” Rabinowitzsaid.

With the match beginning at the160-lbs class, the Terriers took a 4-0team lead when Chase Baubergercaught Isaiah Reese several times withbarrel rolls, fireman’s and duck undertakedowns to claim a 13-4 major de-cision. At 170-lbs, Terrier Sean Lessigtook Alan Dente to the mat with anankle pick, later added an elevatorside roll then pinned him with an arm

bar/tight waist in 3:24. ShawneRamsby used a bar/half nelson stackto stop Tim Allegro in 44 seconds at182-lbs.

The most competitive bout betweentwo top-8 wrestlers came at 195-lbs.Terrier Kyle Lightner, ranked fourth,got a two-point lead on Jack Millerwith a single-leg trip takedown in thefirst period then added a reversal inthe second period for a 4-0 lead. Milleradded a reversal to close the gap to 4-2 then worked the third period at-tempting to turn Lightner to his backbut to no avail.

After Ricca’s forfeit win, TerrierMatt Ruchak received a forfeit at 285-lbs. Composto and Rabinowitz wontheir bouts then Hoerle jumped up to120-lbs to face AJ DeRosa. After ascoreless first period and DeRosa’s

escape in the second, Hoerle foundout that DeRosa’s real specialty wasthe top position. Just 19 seconds intothe third period, DeRosa clampedHoerle with a very tight cradle.

Terrier Gage Crater worked threetakedowns, a reversal and a pair ofnearfalls to seize a 12-5 major deci-sion over Jeremy Silber at 126-lbsthen Connor Mills pinned LukeScanlan with a headlock in 2:24 at132-lbs. Matt Kolonia pried EmmettSmith to his back with an arm bar/halfnelson in 1:41 at 138-lbs. At 145-lbs,Rhys Zigich stuck Sean Dwyer in1:59 with an arm bar/tight waist thenTanner McLaughlin used a grapevineand a half nelson to stop JordanSimpson in 5:20 at 152-lbs.

“That’s was probable the toughestteam we were going to wrestle today,so we can bounce back,” commentedComposto

BOUT SEQUENCE:160: — Bauberger md Reese 13-4170: — Lessig p Dente 3:24182: — Ramsby p Allegro :44195: — Lightner d Miller 4-2220: — Ricca won forfeitHwt: — Ruchak won forfeit106: — Composto p Mitchell 5:14113: — Rabinowitz md Schlittler 8-0120: — DeRosa p Hoerle 4:19126: — Crater md Silber 12-3132: — Mills p Scanlan 2:24138: — Kolonia p Smith 1:41145: — Zigich p Dwyer 1:59152: — McLaughlin p Simpson 5:20

DRUBULIS NETS 21 (4 3-POINTERS), WILLMOTT 11 PTS

SP-F Boys Remain Unbeaten,Edge Rahway, 53-46, in OT

By ALEX LOWESpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Highboys basketball team continued itswinning ways with an impressive,53-46, overtime victory against UCCValley Division rival Rahway on Janu-ary 17 at Scotch Plains. RaiderTommy Drubulis pumped in 21 pointsto lead all scorers. The victory wasthe Raiders’ 12th in a row to start theseason after winning just three gamesall of last year. Rahway entered withjust one loss and had been spotless(3-0) in division play.

“This was a huge win for us withouta doubt,” said second year Raider HeadCoach Steve Siracusa. “Not only wasthis a game between two unbeaten

teams in the division but also it meantsomething special to us as they hadbeaten us twice last season.”

While the Raiders have vaulted tothe top of the standings and gainedattention as one of the surprise teamsof the season, there was still the linger-ing question about whether or not earlyseason wins over softer non-confer-ence opponents would translate intosuccess when they hit the UCC ValleyDivision schedule. That question wasanswered emphatically against Rahwayas the Raiders led most of the way, thenshowed mental toughness when thevisitors rallied late to tie it. Instead offolding, the Raiders held off Rahway’slast-second bid to win the game inregulation. Once the overtime started,the Raiders dominated, outscoring theIndians 9-2.

“Many people may not have be-lieved in us to this point but we do,”said Siracusa. “Rahway is a tough teambut they aren’t the only tough team wehave faced so far and they won’t be thelast. There are a lot of teams in theconference who can win. We stayedmentally tough when they made a runat us late. They earned this win.”

Against Rahway, the Raiders wouldbe in for a dogfight from the outset.The division front-runners traded bas-kets throughout the first quarter with

the Raiders coming out of the periodholding a slim 12-10 lead. A three-point basket by Keyshawn Cummingsgave the Indians their first, and as itwould turn out, only lead of the gameat 13-12 early in the second quarter.The Raiders got the lead right back onJohn Petris’ jump hook in the lane thatmade it 14-13. The back-and-forthcontinued throughout the second quar-ter until Drubulis drained back-to-back 3-pointers in the final two min-utes to stake the Raiders to a 24-18lead at the half.

Nigel Nelson extended the lead to26-18 with a steal and a lay-up 30seconds into the third quarter. ScotchPlains-Fanwood would stretch the leadto nine points, eventually gaining a 33-24 advantage with just over two min-utes left in the period. But Rahwayroared back and pulled to within twopoints at 35-33 by the end of the quar-ter. The visitors tied the game at 35-35with 6:00 remaining in regulation onan inside basket by Zion Cooper.

The Raiders took a three-point leadat 38-35 on a baseline trey fromDrubulis, his fourth of the game. TheRaiders would spend the rest of thefourth quarter fighting off Rahwayefforts to close the narrow gap. TheIndians finally did just that after

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Plaintiff: DITECH FINANCIAL LLCVS.Defendant: STANLEY W. PEARSON III;

LYNNE M. PEARSON, HIS WIFE AND MID-LAND FUNDING LLC



The judgment amount is: ***Four HundredSeventy-One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-Nine and 73/100*** $471,969.73.

The property to be sold is located in the BOR-OUGH OF FANWOOD, County of Union andState of New Jersey.

It is commonly known as 180 NORTHMARTINE AVENUE, FANWOOD, NEW JER-SEY 07023.

It is known and designated as Block 15, Lot 17.The dimensions are approximately 90 feet X

256 feet.Nearest cross street: Pleasant Avenue.Prior lien(s): Chicago Title Insurance Com-

pany issued an Indemnification Letters regard-ing Prior Mortgages and Prior Judgments (SEEATTACHED EXHIBIT “B”).

Total Upset: ***Four Hundred Eighty-FourThousand One Hundred Seventeen and 03/100*** $484,117.03 together with lawful interestand costs.





Joseph CryanSheriff

Attorney:STERN, LAVINTHAL & FRANKENBERG, LLC105 EISENHOWER PARKWAYSUITE 302ROSELAND, NEW JERSEY 07068(973) 797-11004 T - 01/26, 02/02, 02/09& 02/16/17 Fee: $191.76





Plaintiff: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLONFKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEEFOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT,INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-29T1,MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFI-CATES

VS.Defendant: ARI MILTON BRAFMAN AND

ALISON HART BRAFMAN, H/W; AMERICANEXPRESS BANK FSB; MORTGAGE ELEC-TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC.SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’SWHOLESALE LENDER



The judgment amount is: ***One Million NineHundred Ninety-One Thousand Thirty-One and36/100*** $1,991,031.36.

The property to be sold is located in Town ofWestfield in the County of Union, and State ofNew Jersey.

Commonly known as 1031 Minisink Way,Westfield, New Jersey 07090.

Tax Lot 24, Block 306.Dimensions of Lot: (Approximately) 126 feet

wide by 169 feet long.Nearest Cross Street: Morning Glory Lane.Total Upset: ***Two Million Twenty-Nine Thou-

sand Five Hundred Nine and 67/100***$2,029,509.67 together with lawful interest andcosts.




Joseph CryanSheriff

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Alex Lowe for The Westfield Leader and The Times

BIG AFTERNOON ON THE COURT...Raider Tommy Drubulis, right, came up big in the game against Rahway on January17. Drubulis scored 21 points, including four 3-pointers, in the 53-46 overtime victory.


SLIPPING AROUND BEHIND...Blue Devil Nick Rabinowitz, front, slips behind Terrier Tom Schlittler in his 113-lb boutduring a quad match in Westfield on January 21. Rabinowitz claimed an 8-0 majority decision.


Raider Boys Rap Rahway, 53-46CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

Blue Devil ‘D’ Halts Farmers in Hoops, 33-21CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

That victory also elevated the BlueDevils right into the mix for a top-3seed in the Union County Tournament(UCT) that will begin on February 10.Of the four most likely candidates tofill the slots, the Lions also have lossesto the Patrick School and the NewProvidence Pioneers, while the Pio-neers lost twice to the Patrick Schooland have a win over the Blue Devils,who also lost to the undefeated PatrickSchool girls, who appear to be in the

driver’s seed for the top seed. All fourteams have a strong chance to emergeas the UCT champions.

“I think at this point in the season,everything is up for grabs. All thelosses in the top-4 are to each other.It’s hard to argue who’s got that upperhand. It doesn’t factor in all the en-ergy and team camaraderie and allthat’s going to come into play in thecounties,” Rinaldi said.

Ryan led the offense against theUnion Farmers with 16 points, includ-ing a pair of 3-pointers, and also madefive steals, pulled seven rebounds andadded an assist. Devitt scored six pointsand was tops under the boards witheight rebounds and four blocked shots.Three was the magic number for Elliottas she had three points, three assistsand three steals. Rinaldi had five re-bounds, two assists and two steals.Jenna Iorio (3 rebounds) and Lily Mazeach contributed four points andLauren Sgro had four rebounds, twothefts and an assist.

The Blue Devils’ defense allowedonly one bucket as they won the firstquarter handily, 11-2. The most impres-sive score was Ryan’s steal that sheconverted to a lay-up. Ryan sank a pairof 3-pointers and added a lay-up as theBlue Devils won the second quarter,10-7, to carry a 21-9 halftime lead.

But Lady Farmer Nneka Monemeseemed to take control in the thirdquarter and scored eight of her 10points, giving Union a 10-6 edge forthe quarter. In the meantime, the BlueDevils were off the mark offensively.

This apparently was a wakeup callfor the Blue Devils who again tight-ened their defense to permit only twomore points in the final quarter astheir offense added a pair of freethrows each by Iorio and Ryan and alay-up by Devitt.

“We really came out strong in thefirst half. On the defensive side, wewere very good. Offensively, we werea little shaky at first but I think westayed composed. The second half,they brought it to us but we had to staycomposed and didn’t let them get toour heads,” Elliott accessed.

As to Moneme taking control in thethird quarter, Rinaldi answered, “Wedid a really good job in the first half of

just containing and playing defense asa team. I think the third quarter wecame out flat. She loves that shortjumper. She got a couple of those off ofrebounds because we really weren’tboxing out in the third quarter. Overallthat pull-up jumper was what reallykilled us. We didn’t get out that well.”

Because of the Blue Devils’ tight-ened defense in the fourth quarter andthe Farmers’ added defensive pres-sure, the game did get a bit morephysical, especially from Moneme.

“There was a little bit of tension therebut I was trying to hold it together andnot let her get to my head. Yes! I got togive it back a little bit. Aside from thatI tried to stay composed,” Rinaldi said.

Looking ahead to the second half ofthe season, Elliott said, “We have tokeep doing what we are doing, playteam basketball, keep moving the ballaround and just have our defense con-trolling the game.”Union 2 7 10 2 21Westfield 11 10 6 6 33

BAKIE SINKS 23 (5 3-POINTERS), LIBRERA HITS 16 PTs

Cranford Hoop Boys OutlastGovernor Livingston, 68-67

By ALEX LOWESpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

In a season filled with close losses,the Cranford High School boys bas-ketball team finally got one to go theirway at the end. The Cougars pickedup their second win of the season witha 68-67 victory over GovernorLivingston in a game on January 19 atMartin Gymnasium in Cranford. Se-nior Ryan Bakie scored a game high23 points, which included drainingfive three point baskets.

“I just took what the defense wasgiving me tonight,” said Bakie. “Thethree point shot is a part of our game andwhen it is there we are going to take it.”

The Cougars roared out of the gate,scoring 25 points in the first quarteras they built an eight-point advantageat 25-17 by the end of the period.Cranford used the long range game togreat effect in the opening quarter,

connecting on four 3-pointers. Butthe visiting Highlanders were noslouches from the beyond the stripe.Governor Livingston stayed in thecontest by matching Cranford bomb-for-bomb after the Cougars initialsurge. Governor Livingston playersBilly Pencek (25 points) and RyanDavey (22 points) were particularlysharp combining for 10 three-pointshots between them as Cranford heldto a 38-30 lead by the half.

As has been the case in so many ofthe Cranford losses this year, the Cou-gars went through a dry spell thatallowed the opponent back into thegame. This time the scoring droughtcame at the start of the third quarterand lasted over five minutes as Gov-ernor Livingston went on a 10-0 runthat gave them a 40-38 lead.

“We need to get rid of these thirdquarter lulls that we seem to go through

all the time,” said Cranford Head CoachRyan Huber. “We let teams back intogames and being a younger, new groupof players we sometimes don’t recoverfrom that. It is easy to forget that RyanBakie is the only kid returning from latyear’s team that played in every game.We graduated nine seniors coming intothis season. We are actually 12 pointsaway from being 7-3. Had we ex-ecuted in some of those close earlylosses we could be sitting here with amuch better record.”

On this night though, Cranfordwould not wilt under pressure. ChrisLibrera answered the GovernorLivingston run with a 3-point shotthat put Cranford back on top at 42-40with just over two minutes remainingin the third quarter. Another 3-pointerby Bakie to end the period extendedthe Cranford lead to 45-42 headinginto the fourth quarter.

Librera came up big scoring on adrive through the lane and drawing afoul that he converted into a 3-pointplay to start the fourth quarter. Team-mate Colin Budries then scored on afast break to up the Cougar lead to 10at 53-43 with 6:51 left in regulation.Bakie again drained another 3-pointergiving Cranford an 11-point bulge at56-45 with 5:30 to play.

Cranford would have to fight off afurious Highlander rally in the game’sfinal minute. But Bakie and teammateKyle Ledford secured the victory byhitting three out of four free throws inthe final 30 seconds. GovernorLivingston’s Ryan Davey drained a 3-point basket as the clock expired topull the Highlanders to within onepoint in the final score, 68-67.

“It has been a tough start to the sea-son,” said Bakie. “We’ve lost a lot ofclose games but we still have half of theschedule remaining to be played. We canstill get a good seed for the county if wego out and execute in tight situations.”

Librera had 16 points for Cranfordand Ledford chipped in with 12 points.Cranford improved to 2-9 on the sea-son (2-3 in division play). GovernorLivingston dropped to 4-7, (0-5 indivision).Gov. Livingston 17 13 12 25 67Cranford 25 13 7 23 68

WHS Boys, SPF Girls Win UCT Swim TitlesCONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

in the 100 back (52.70). But GriffMorgan had a pair of seconds (200and 100 free), Collins had a second inthe 50 free and third in the back-stroke, Ryan Bebel had a second (IM)and fifth (100 free), Eric Bebelnotched two thirds (50 and 100 free),Daniel was also fourth in the IM(1:58.86, for No. 8 all-time at WHS!),and Steve Warren was second in the100 breaststroke (59.34).

Three of the Blue Devils’ bestswims were in the relays, where theybroke three meet records and oneschool record.

“Three county records and oneschool record, that’s a pretty goodday,” WHS coach Jeff Knight said.

It was Knight’s 10th UCT title in 11years, leaving him two behind formercoaches Perry Coultas and BruceJohnson, who both won 12.

Lindros, Warren, Daniel andCollins opened the meet with a1:35.54 in the medley, No. 2 all-timeat WHS. They needed all of that, too,because SPF was close behind at1:36.49.

The Bebels, Jack Cifelli and Mor-gan set a school record in the 200 freerelay, clocking in at 1:27.22, againjust ahead of SPF’s 1:28.39. The oldschool record of 1:27.80 was set lastyear by Collins, Eric Bebel, RyanDaniel and Austin Kreusser.

Collins, the Bebels and Morganwrapped things up with a 3:11.92 in

the 400 free, another No. 2 all-timeperformance.

“We didn’t win many races, but therelays showed how deep our team is,”said Morgan, the sixth member of hisfamily to captain a WHS swim team,following his father Dan (’80), unclesJames (’82) and Chris (’84), sisterKatie (’07) and brother Matt (’09).

SPF’s girls won all three relays.Erika Frazier, Rachel Maizes,Stephanie Judge and Megan Smallwent 1:47.74 to win the 200 medleyand the Raiders were on a point-scoring roll.

“It was nice to open up with a niceswim in the medley,” SPF coach JessHulnik said. “Overall, we swam well,from top to bottom.”

The Raiders’ foursome of MayaDunchus, Small and the Maizes sis-ters, Rachel and DeeDee) won the200 free relay (1:39.49) in maybe themost exciting race of the girls’ meet.Cranford (1:39.66) and Westfield(1:39.87) were with them pretty muchstroke for stroke.

DeeDee Maizes, Caroline Warren,Judge and Frazier closed the meetwith a winning 3:36.51 in the 400 freerelay.

Judge and Frazier finished 1-2 inthe 100 butterfly, while R. Maizesand Anna Dunches finished 1-2 in the100 breaststroke.

Hulnik thought every swimmer SPFentered scored points.

“That doesn’t happen often,” shesaid.

The Blue Devils finished second forthe third straight year, after winningthe previous 22 in a row from 1993-2014. There were some strong swimsfor first-year coach Steve Whittington.Junior Muriel Maloney was outstand-ing, with a fourth in the 100 free (53.84)and third in the 100 back (59.07).Junior Emma Conlon was fourth in the200 free (1:59.06) and went 54.96 inthe 100 free, sophomore Keeley Th-ompson was fourth in the 50 free(24.80) and went 1:01.12 in the 100back, while freshman Abby McKinneywas sixth in the 100 fly (1 .92).

Maloney’s times were both Top 15List, No. 6 all-time in the 100 free andNo. 3 in the 100 back.

WHS finished fourth (1:52.83) inthe medley relay, and third in both the200 and 400 (3:44.35) free relays.

Sophie Kudryashova of New Provi-dence set a pair of meet records, in the200 free (1:50.61) and 100 free(51.14), where the previous mark wasby her older sister Julia in 2011.

Oak Knoll’s Lindsay Criqui wasthe other double winner. She cap-tured the 200 IM (2:07.25) and 100backstroke (57.82).

The other girls winner was GL’sSarah Montagna, who won the long-est race, the 500 free, by the smallestof margins, .03 of a second over SPF’sWarren at 5:16.09 to 5:16.12.

BOYS UCT SCORES:TEAM SCORES: 1 Westfield (W) 459.

2 Scotch Plains-Fanwood (SPF) 378. 3Summit (S) 277. 4 Governor Livingston(GL) 269. 5 Oratory (O) 186. 6 New Provi-dence (NP) 153. 7 Union (U) 86. 8 Cranford(C) 74. 9 Elizabeth (E) 49. 10 Johnson (J)47. 11T Dayton (D), Plainfield (P) 40. 13Linden (L) 36. 14 Union Catholic (UC) 34.

200-MEDLEY RELAY: 1 (W) (DavidLindros, Steven Warren, Colin Daniel,Aedan Collins) 1:35.54, Meet record, pre-vious record 1:36.07, Westfield 2016. 2SPF 1:36.49. 3 (S) 1:43.28. 4 (O) 1:43.35.5 (GL) 1:43.41. 6 (NP) 1:45.69.

200-FREESTYLE: 1 Josh Cohen (SPF),1:42.15. 2 Griff Morgan (W), 1:45.87. 3Brian Kenny (SPF), 1:47.19. 4 Cole Bligh(S), 1:48.87. 5 Andrew Meisner (O),1:50.79. 6 Nick Youssef (W), 1:51.93.

200-INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1 ChrisBondarowicz (SPF), 1:53.86. 2 Ryan Bebel(W), 1:57.24. 3 Alan Shao (SPF), 1:58.14.4 Colin Daniel (W), 1:58.86. 5 Eric Chang(SPF), 2:00.60. 6 Matthew Zarrelli (GL),2:04.58.

50-FREESTYLE: 1 Kai Legband (U),21.57. 2 Aedan Collins (W), 21.76. 3 EricBebel (W) 21.95. 4 Michael Rash (SPF),21.97. 5 Kilian Quinn (GL), 22.17. 6 NickHeath (SPF), 22.30.

100-BUTTERFLY: 1 Alan Shao (SPF),52.47. 2 David Lindros (W) 52.78. 3 ColinDaniel (W), 53.61. 4 Patrick Heffernan(O), 54.71. 5 Cooper Prieto (W), 55.44. 6Evan Kavanagh (NP), 55.51.

100-FREESTYLE: 1 Kai Legband (U),46.15, Meet record, former record 46.75,Josh Bennett (1987) and David Hua (2016).2 Griff Morgan (W), 47.99. 3 Eric Bebel(W), 48.14. 4 Nick Heath (SPF), 48.58. 5Ryan Bebel (W), 48.70. 6 Dylan Ingerman(S), 50.59.

500-FREESTYLE: 1 Josh Cohen (SPF),4:35.02, Meet record, former record4:36.39, Josh Cohen 2016. 2 JackO’Halloran (GL), 4:52.12. 3-Cole Bligh(S), 4:57.82. 4 Brian Kenny (SPF), 4:58.14.5 Andrew Meisner (O), 4:58.28. 6 Matthew

Zarrelli (GL), 5:01.02.200-FREESTYLE RELAY: 1 (W) (Eric

Bebel, Ryan Bebel, Jack Cifelli, Griff Mor-gan) 1:27.22, Meet record, former record1:27.85, Westfield 2014. 2 (SPF) 1:28.39.3 (GL) 1:31.58. 4 (S) 1:33.54. 5 (C) 1:36.47.6 (NP) 1:36.79.

100-YARD BACKSTROKE: 1 DavidLindros (W), 52.70. 2 Eric Chang (SPF),54.16. 3 Aedan Collins (W), 54.36. 4 ElisSartorio (GL), 55.14. 5 Jack O’Halloran(GL), 56.45. 6 -Conor Fagan (S), 56.97.

100-BREASTSTROKE: 1 ChrisBondarowicz (SPF), 57.54. 2 StevenWarren (W), 59.34. 3 Michael Rash (SPF),1:00.62. 4 Stefan Crigler (W), 1:02.18. 5Jake Lessner (W), 1:02.37. 6 AidanHerrighty (O), 1:02.88.

400-FREESTYLE RELAY: 1 (W)(Aedan Collins, Eric Bebel, Ryan Bebel,Griff Morgan) 3:11.92, Meet record, formerrecord 3:14.57, Summit 2013. 2 (SPF)3:18.34. 3 (S) 3:26.23. 4 (GL) 3:28.96. 5(O) 3:30.78. 6 (NP) 3:33.96.

GIRLS UCT SCORES:TEAM SCORES: 1 Scotch Plains-

Fanwood 430. 2 Westfield 297. 3 Gover-nor Livingston 228.50. 4 Oak Knoll (OK)225. 5 Cranford 224. 6 Summit 212. 7 NewProvidence 168. 8 Kent Place (KP) 105.50.9 Union Catholic 103. 10 Union 46. 11Plainfield 33. 12 Elizabeth 28. 13 Johnson26. 14 Dayton 6.

200-MEDLEY RELAY: 1 (SPF) (ErikaFrazier, Rachel Maizes, Stephanie Judge,Megan Small) 1:47.74. 2 (C) 1:50.35. 3(OK) 1:51.85. 4 (W) 1:52.83. 5 (S) 1:53.40.6 (GL) 1:54.47.

200-FREESTYLE: 1 SophiaKudryashova (NP), 1:50.61, Meet record,previous record 1:52.48, Erica Wirth, 2015.2 DeeDee Maizes (SPF), 1:54.52. 3 MargieKeenan (OK), 1:57.08. 4 Emma Conlon(W), 1:59.06. 5 Caroline Warren (SPF),1:59.50. 6 Emily Wilson (C), 1:59.51.

200-INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1 LindsayCriqui (OK), 2:07.25. 2 Rachel Maizes(SPF), 2:09.27. 3 Lauren Byrne (C),2:09.72. 4 Autumn Keats-O’Connor (NP),

2:12.75. 5 Kaitlyn Hersch (S), 2:15.19. 6Sarah Montagna (GL), 2:15.83.

50-FREESTYLE: 1 Katelyn Furhmann(UC), 24.49. 2 Isabella Desimone (C),24.55. 3 Abby Claus (S), 24.58. 4 KeeleyThompson (W), 24.80. 5 Emily Wilson(C), 25.07. 6 Maya Dunchus (SPF), 25.22.

100-BUTTERFLY: 1 Stephanie Judge(SPF), 57.74. 2 Erika Frazier (SPF), 58.57.3 Bailey Gold (GL), 59.16. 4 Anna Dunchus(SPF), 59.52. 5 Maggie O’Donnell (C),1:00.07. 6 Abby McKinney (W), 1:00.92.

100-FREESTYLE: 1 SophiaKudryashova (NP), 51.14, Meet record,former record 51.53, Julia Kudryashova2011. 2 DeeDee Maizes (SPF), 52.65. 3Abby Claus (S), 53.15. 4 Muriel Maloney(W), 53.84. 5 Isabella Desimone (C), 53.95.6 Katelyn Furhmann (UC), 54.09.

500-FREESTYLE: 1 Sarah Montagna(GL), 5:16.09. 2 Caroline Warren (SPF),5:16.12. 3 Katie Greer (S), 5:22.08. 4Aidan Donahue (GL), 5:24.04. 5 RachelDiFabrizio (SPF), 5:24.66. 6 Olivia Barcia(SPF), 5:31.83.

200-FREESTYLE RELAY: 1 (SPF)(Rachel Maizes, Maya Dunchus, MeganSmall, DeeDee Maizes) 1:39.49. 2 (C)1:39.66. 3 (W) 1:39.87. 4 (GL) 1:44.82. 5(NP) 1:46.33. 6 (OK) 1:46.87.

100-BACKSTROKE: 1 Lindsay Criqui(OK), 57.82. 2 Bailey Gold (GL), 58.86. 3Muriel Maloney (W), 59.07. 4 Erika Frazier(SPF), 1:00.31. 5 Ariana Russo (OK),1:00.41. 6 Stephanie Judge (SPF),1:00.67.

100-BREASTSTROKE: 1 RachelMaizes (SPF), 1:04.88, Meet record,former record 1:04.96, Jodie Thompson2013. 2 Anna Dunchus (SPF), 1:09.15. 3Autumn Keats-O’Connor (NP), 1:09.46. 4Olivia Lamb (OK), 1:10.35. 5 AshlynShallcross (GL), 1:10.61. 6 Kaitlyn Hersch(S), 1:11.24.

400-FREESTYLE RELAY: 1 (SPF)(DeeDee Maizes, Caroline Warren,Stephanie Judge, Erika Frazier) 3:36.51.2 (S) 3:42.36. 3 (W) 3:44.35. 4 (OK)3:46.60. 5 (GL) 3:47.79. 6 (NP) 3:53.85.

Cummings sank a pair of free throwsto tie the game at 44-44 with just overa minute on the clock.

Rahway had the best chance to winthe game in regulation after they re-bounded a missed shot by Drubuliswith just less than 30 seconds left.After committing a foul, the Raiderssurvived when Zion Pendleton misseda pair of free throws with :26 left. TheIndians grabbed the rebound thoughbut were turned away when LamontCruse came up with a big time defen-sive stop against Pendleton as he drovethe lane with time expiring in regula-tion. Cruse, a junior, had a huge gameoff the bench, effectively handling theball from the point guard position andlimiting turnovers.

“When I come into the game I’mexpected to take care of the ball,” saidCruse. “The team is depending on meto do that and to play good soliddefense. We try to limit the opponentto less than forty points each game.

We feel like if we can do that, we havea good chance to win games.”

In overtime, Rahway took a brieflead on a pull up jumper by Cummingswith 3:13 left but it was all Raidersafter that. A pair of free throws byDrubulis tied the game again at 46-46. Then Dwight Laylor put the Raid-ers ahead to stay with an inside bas-ket. The Raiders would score ninestraight points to close out the con-test, including going 5-for-8 from thefoul line.

“This was a very highly intensegame,” said Drubulis. “We knewRahway was good. I think defensewas the difference today and it usu-ally is when we are playing well. Ithink we began to realize that we wereputting something together after theJP Stevens win. It was a tough gameand we got through it and there havebeen a few like that since.”Rahway 10 8 15 11 2 46SPF Raiders 12 12 11 9 9 53

Lady Blue Devils HaltRaider Cagers, 55-26The Westfield High School girls

basketball team upped its record to 9-2 with a 55-26 victory over hostingScotch Plains-Fanwood on January 21.Grace Elliott scored 14 points, andadded six rebounds, five assists andfive steal for the Blue Devils, whileMolly Ryan sank 13 points and addedfive steals, an assist and two rebounds.

Blue Devil Lily Maz had eightpoints, three steals, two assists andthree rebounds. Shannon Devitt, whohad two points, added seven rebounds,three steals and two assists. DanielleRinaldi (2 assists, 2 steals) and JennaIorio (3 steals, 2 assists, 2 rebounds)each scored six points. Sam Stravachhad four points, five rebounds, twosteals and a theft. Nicolina Albanohad two points and two rebounds,Casey Popowski had two reboundsand two steals and Lauren Sgro addeda steal and a rebound.

Abbe-Gayle Burton led the Raid-ers with 10 points and StefanieDeVizio added seven points as didBrianna O’Brien. Kaysia Minor andSummer Sheppard each added a point.

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PUBLIC NOTICETOWNSHIP OF CRANFORD

ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Febru-ary 6, 2017, at 8:15 P.M., the Township ofCranford Zoning Board of Adjustment (the“Board”) shall hold a public hearing in theTownship of Cranford Municipal Building,located at 8 Springfield Avenue, Cranford,New Jersey to review and take action uponthe application by 7-Eleven, Inc. (the “Ap-plicant”) for preliminary and final major siteplan, use variance, bulk variance and de-sign waiver/exception approval (the “Ap-plication”) of its proposed development ofproperty having a street address of 49South Avenue West, located at the inter-section of and having frontages on bothSouth Avenue West and Lincoln AvenueWest, and being designated on the taxmaps of the Township of Cranford as Block473, Lot 1 (the “Property”). The Property islocated in the Office Residential Characteror “ORC” Zone, as well as the SpecialImprovement District.

The public hearing on the Application is acontinuation of public hearing(s) that com-menced on this Application in June of 2016.There were several subsequent publichearing(s) on the Application during 2016.

The Applicant proposes the redevelop-ment of the Property as a conveniencestore with related site improvements in-cluding, but not limited to, parking, lighting,drainage, landscaping and signage. TheApplicant proposes expanding and con-verting the existing structure into a 24-hourconvenience store, and adding a masonrytrash enclosure and an enclosure for HVACand other mechanical equipment. TheApplicant proposes eliminating the north-ern access driveway along Lincoln Av-enue West and consolidating both drive-ways along South Avenue West. The Ap-plicant proposes approximately sixteen(16) parking spaces on site, with increasedlandscaping, lighting and open space onsite, and proposes new brick pavers, curb-ing, and sidewalk around the perimeter ofthe Property. The Applicant proposes afreestanding monument sign, wall signage,an ATM interior sign, and window graphicson the building as well.

The Applicant seeks approval of a usevariance, as convenience stores are notexpressly permitted within either the ORCZone or the Special Improvement District.Additionally, the Applicant seeks approvalof bulk variances, design waivers or ex-ceptions as deemed applicable for thefollowing: (i) front yard setback than lessthan required; (ii) side yard setback is lessthan required; (iii) parking in the front yard

where same is not permitted; (iv) no land-scaped buffers along side yards and rearproperty line where same is required; (v)no second story is proposed where sameis required; (vi) trash disposal area locatedbetween the front façade and the right ofway, where same is prohibited; (vii) load-ing space proposed in front yard, wheresame is prohibited; (viii) pole lighting ishigher than permitted; (ix) accessory struc-ture in front yard where same is prohibited;(x) accessory structure closer to right ofway than permitted; (xi) freestanding signarea greater than permitted; (xii) freestand-ing sign height greater than permitted;(xiii) freestanding sign is internally lit, whereonly externally lit signs are permitted; (xiv)wall sign proposed closer to a residentialzone than permitted; (xv) wall sign project-ing further from wall than permitted; (xvi)signage uses more than three (3) colors,where same is prohibited; (xvii) proposedsigns are internally lit, which is not permit-ted; (xviii) plastic signage proposed wheresame is prohibited; (xix) five (5) signs pro-posed where two (2) are permitted; and(xx) freestanding sign is closer to right-of-way than permitted. The Applicant alsoseeks any additional exceptions, waivers,variances, interpretations, de minimis ex-ceptions, and other approvals reflected onthe filed plans (as same may be furtheramended or revised from time to timewithout further notice) and as may be de-termined to be necessary during the re-view and processing of the application.

When the application is called, inter-ested parties may appear at the hearing orany adjournment thereof either in personor by attorney, ask questions, and presentevidence and offer statements or docu-mentation that may be relevant to the Ap-plication. The public hearing may be con-tinued without further notice on such addi-tional or other dates as the Board maydetermine. At least 10 days prior to thepublic hearing, the application, maps, plansand related supporting materials will beavailable for public inspection at the Zon-ing and Planning Office, located at theTownship of Cranford Municipal Building,8 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, New Jer-sey, on working days during regular busi-ness hours, which are typically 8:00 AM to4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

7-Eleven, Inc.By: Jason R. Tuvel, Esq.Rubin & Dombeck, LLC

141 Ayers CourtTeaneck, New Jersey

201-578-1578Attorneys for Applicant

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PUBLIC NOTICETOWNSHIP OF SCOTCH PLAINS

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the following Ordinance was passedon first reading by the Township Council ofthe Township of Scotch Plains, County ofUnion, New Jersey on the 17th of January2017, and that said Ordinance will be con-sidered for final adoption at a meeting ofthe said Township Council to be held in theCouncil Chambers, 430 Park Avenue, onthe 21st day of February 2017 at 7:00 p.m.,at which time and place a public hearingwill be held prior to final passage of saidOrdinance and all interested persons willbe given an opportunity to be heard con-cerning the same. Copies of said Ordi-nance can be obtained from the TownshipClerk’s Office at any time prior to finaladoption at no cost to any member of thegeneral public who requests same.

ORDINANCE 2017-1

ORDINANCE ESTABLISHINGTRAFFIC CONTROL STAN-DARDS AND REQUIRE-MENTS FOR CONSTRUC-TION AND ROAD REPAIRSIN THE TOWNSHIP OFSCOTCH PLAINS.

ORDINANCE 2017-2

ORDINANCE APPROPRIAT-ING THE SUM OF $185,000FROM THE NEW JERSEY DE-PARTMENT OF TRANSPOR-TATION IN CONNECTIONWITH THE PROJECT KNOWNAS “EAST SECOND STREET(SEC. 2), MILLING & TOPCOURSE PAVING”.

ORDINANCE 2017-3

ORDINANCE TO ENACT AR-TICLE 2-38 (HEALTH BEN-EFITS) IN CHAPTER II (AD-MINISTRATION) OF THE RE-VISED GENERAL ORDI-NANCES OF THE TOWNSHIPOF SCOTCH PLAINS TO PRO-HIBIT PART TIME AND AP-POINTED OFFICIALS FROMRECEIVING HEALTH BEN-EFITS FROM THE TOWN-SHIP.

BOZENA LACINA, RMCMunicipal Clerk

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Alex Lowe for The Westfield Leader and The Times

SETTING UP A PLAY...Cougar Alex Gall, No. 14, looks to set up a play in the game against the Governor LivingstonHighlanders in Cranford on January 19. The Cougars outlasted the Highlanders in a wild 3-pointfest, 68-67.

PUBLIC NOTICEBOROUGH OF FANWOOD

NOTICE OF INTRODUCTION OFORDINANCE 17-01-R

AND PUBLIC HEARING

An ordinance was introduced by theMayor and Council of the Borough ofFanwood on January 17, 2017. Copies ofthis ordinance can be obtained withoutcost in the Clerk’s Office, at the FanwoodBorough Hall, 75 North Martine Avenue,Fanwood, New Jersey between the hoursof 8 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday.

This Ordinance amends the exemp-tion and abatement of real propertytaxes for commercial and industrialstructures in Rehabilitation Area.

This ordinance is scheduled for publichearing and adoption on February 6, 2017,at 7:00 P.M., Fanwood Borough Hall, 75North Martine Avenue, Fanwood, NewJersey.

Eleanor McGovernBorough Clerk

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PUBLIC NOTICETOWNSHIP OF SCOTCH PLAINS

TOWNSHIP COUNCILSPECIAL MEETING NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the Township of Scotch Plains hasscheduled a SPECIAL MEETING for Tues-day, January 31, 2017 at 6:00 PM andWednesday, February 15, 2017 at 6:00P.M. The purpose of the meeting is for:

Executive SessionAffordable Housing Element

and Fair Share PlanFormal action may be taken at these

meetings.The meeting will be held in the 2nd Floor

Council Meeting Room at the TownshipMunicipal Building, 430 Park Avenue,Scotch Plains, New Jersey. The Townshipof Scotch Plains does not discriminateagainst persons with disabilities. Thoseindividuals requiring auxiliary aids andservices must notify the ADA Coordinatorof the Township of Scotch Plains as soonas possible in advance of the meeting.

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PUBLIC NOTICESUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

CHANCERY DIVISIONUNION COUNTY

DOCKET NO. F-021902-16FILE NO. 22220-16

NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANT

(L.S.) STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO:THOMAS D. YOUNG, SR., HISHEIRS, DEVISEES AND PER-SONAL REPRESENTATIVESAND HIS, HER, THEIR OR ANYOF THEIR SUCCESSORS INRIGHT, TITLE AND INTER-EST; THOMAS D. YOUNG,JR., HIS HEIRS, DEVISEESAND PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES AND HIS, HER,THEIR OR ANY OF THEIRSUCCESSORS IN RIGHT,TITLE AND INTEREST; CAR-NIVAL LEISURE INDUS-TRIES, INC.; TYISHABRANTLEY; JEANNIE EMCCOY;

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED ANDREQUIRED to serve upon PELLEGRINOAND FELDSTEIN, LLC, plaintiff’s attor-neys, whose address is 290 Route 46West, Denville, New Jersey, an Answer tothe Second Amended Complaint filed in aCivil Action, in which TTLBL, LLC is theplaintiff and THOMAS D. YOUNG, SR.,HIS HEIRS, ET ALS; are defendants, pend-ing in the Superior Court of New Jersey,Chancery Division, UNION County andbearing Docket No. F-021902-16 withinthirty-five (35) days after January 26, 2017exclusive of such date. If you fail to answeror appear in accordance with Rule 4:4-6,Judgment by Default may be renderedagainst you for relief demanded in theSecond Amended Complaint. You shallfile your Answer and Proof of Service induplicate with the Clerk of the SuperiorCourt of New Jersey, Hughes Justice Com-plex - CN 971, Trenton, New Jersey 08625,in accordance with the Rules of Civil Prac-tice and Procedure.

You are further advised that if you areunable to obtain an attorney you may com-municate with the Lawyer Referral Serviceof the County of Venue and that if youcannot afford an attorney, you may com-municate with the Legal Services Office ofthe County of Venue. The telephone num-ber of such agencies are as follows: Law-yer Referral Service 908-353-4715 - LegalServices Office 908-354-4340.

THE ACTION has been instituted for thepurpose of foreclosing the following taxsale certificate:

1. A certain tax certificate 13-0156, soldon 10/10/2013, dated 10/16/2013, and wasrecorded on 11/12/2013 in Book 13689 at

Page 777, made by DAVID MARSHALL,Collector of Taxes of PLAINFIELD, andState of New Jersey to TTLBL, LLC andsubsequently assigned to plaintiff, TTLBL,LLC. This covers real estate located inPLAINFIELD, County of UNION, and Stateof New Jersey, known as LOT 21 BLOCK335 as shown on the Tax Assessment Mapand Tax Map duplicate of PLAINFIELDand concerns premises commonly knownas 824 EAST 2ND STREET, PLAINFIELD,New Jersey.

YOU, THOMAS D. YOUNG, SR., HISHEIRS, DEVISEES AND PERSONALREPRESENTATIVES AND HIS, HER,THEIR OR ANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORSIN RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST andTHOMAS D. YOUNG, JR., HIS HEIRS,DEVISEES AND PERSONAL REPRE-SENTATIVES AND HIS, HER, THEIR ORANY OF THEIR SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT,TITLE AND INTEREST, are made partydefendant to the above foreclosure actionbecause you are the owner of a propertywhich is the subject of the above entitledaction.

YOU, CARNIVAL LEISURE INDUS-TRIES, INC., are made party defendant tothe above foreclosure action because onSeptember 13, 1996, a judgment was en-tered in the Superior Court of New Jersey,Essex County, by Carnival Leisure Indus-tries, Inc. against Thomas Young disclos-ing a debt in the amount of $16,286.46,plus costs. Said judgment was entered asJudgment No. J-154810-1996. Said judg-ment is subordinate to the Plaintiff’s lien.

YOU, TYISHA BRANTLEY, are madeparty defendant to the above foreclosureaction because on February 4, 2003, achild support judgment was entered in theSuperior Court of New Jersey, UnionCounty, by Tyisha Brantley against Tho-mas Young Jr. Said judgment was enteredas Judgment No. J-031025-2003,CS83043704A. Said judgment is subordi-nate to the Plaintiff’s lien.

YOU, JEANNIE E MCCOY, are madeparty defendant to the above foreclosureaction because on April 5, 2010, a childsupport judgment was entered in the Su-perior Court of New Jersey, Union County,by Jeannie E McCoy against ThomasYoung. Said judgment was entered asJudgment No. J-090947-2010,CS82778287B. Said judgment is subordi-nate to the Plaintiff’s lien.

DATED: January 20, 2017Michelle M. Smith, Clerk

Superior Court of New JerseyPELLEGRINO & FELDSTEIN, L.L.C.Denville Law Center290 Route 46 WestDenville, New Jersey 07834(973) 586-23001 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $107.10

PUBLIC NOTICE

FSPY Men’s 30+ BasketballGame Results & Standings:The last of the unbeatens took it on

the chin, as a trifecta of nail-bitershighlighted Week Five play in theFanwood-Scotch Plains YMCAMen’s 30+ Basketball League.

Falcons 61, No Conscience 58: Abarnburner opened the day’s action,as the Falcons, led by Jason Shann’s24 points and seven rebounds, handedNo Conscience its third straight loss.Rookie Clay Torres chipped in 14points and seven rebounds, and cen-ter Troy Sims double-doubled (10and 10) for the victors. N.C. received57 of its 58 points from the quartet ofGregg Carder (18), Stephen Murray(16), Tim Gray (14) and Captain ChrisMattina (9). Both teams are now 2-3for the season.

Size Matters 43, Get Buckets 40:Size Matters, playing without its lead-ing point-getter and rebounder, Cap-tain James Patrick, surprised previ-ously undefeated Get Buckets, to forgea tie atop the standings. Jason Pompeopaced a balanced Size attack with 11points, while Scott Lowder and ChrisBurke each tallied 10 points. GetBuckets’ prolific scorer Jamal Berrywas held in check, his 16 points fivebelow his norm. Captain Justin Fioryhit four from downtown to accountfor his 12 points.

Hickory Hoosiers 47, SlammaJamma 33: Joe DeGennaro and DavidFerreiro both fired in 13 points, as theHoosiers coasted in the only game ofthe day not decided in the final minute.Slam Jam found the iron unkind, con-necting on just 32 percent of theirtries, including 0-7 from beyond thearc. First-year player Greg Josephsen(11 points) and veteran Dave Berger(10) reached double figures, whilethe league’s top rebounder, GavinFord, hauled down 12 caroms.

Flash-N-Bang 64, Drive N Dish60: Two 1-3 teams in search of win No.2, battled to avoid the basement. League-leading scorer Warren Lowe poured in27 points, and running mate OmarGlover contributed 16 points and 10boards, as Flash-N-Bang held off apesky DND bunch. Guard BrianCiemneicki drove and dished for 24points and five dimes, while thefrontcourt tandem of Chris Beaudry (11and 9), and Steve Lee (11 and 7) wereworkmanlike for the tough luck losers.

Week Six play saw two once-beatensquads separate themselves from therest of the pack as the teams reachedthe midpoint of the regular season.

Get Buckets 59, Slamma Jamma37: The league’s all-time leadingscorer, Jamal Berry, turned in a vintageperformance (31 points, 11 boards, 5-8 from beyond the arc), as Get Bucketsrebounded from its lone loss in Week5. KG, Kevin Gannon, double-doubled(14 & 12), and veteran Mike Rucciocontributed nine points & seven car-oms for the winners, now tied atop thestandings. Slam Jam, losers of two in arow, received 15 points & eight re-bounds from Gavin Ford and 13 pointsfrom Dave Berger.

Size Matters 55, Falcons 45: SizeMatters kept pace with Get Bucketsin the standings, due in large part torookie Chris Burke (14 points) andJason Pompeo’s 13 points & nineboards. Captain James “Big Smooth”Patrick (9 points) and Scott Lowder(8 & 7), took matters into their ownhands as well. The Super Bowl-boundFalcons were kept in the contest bycenter Troy Sims (15 & 9), and Cap-tain Jason Shann (15 points, 3-5 fromthe land of plenty).

No Conscience 55, Drive N Dish49: No Conscience snapped a three-game skid, thanks to a balanced attack.Stephen Murray and Chris Mattinaboth drained three from downtownand finished with 11 points apiece,Gregg Carder & Tim Gray each tallied10, and Jason Holley did the workunderneath (8 & 8). Drive N Dishsuffered its fourth straight defeat, allby six points or less. Greg Shea (15points), Chris Beaudry (14 & 9), SteveLee (9 & 9) and Brian Ciemneicki (8points, 6 assists) accounted for 46 ofDND’s 49 total marks.

Hickory Hoosiers 64, Flash-N-Bang 54: Geoff Gonzalez drilled theopposition for 19 points, and three ofhis frontcourt mates – Craig Cichocki(14 & 11), Joe DeGennaro (13 & 13),and Dave Ferreiro (12 & 11) – fash-ioned double-doubles, as the red hotHicks won their third consecutive,after starting the season 0-3. OmarGlover (20 points, 8 boards) andWarren Lowe (18 points) were solidin a losing cause.

STANDINGS:TEAM W LGet Buckets 5 1Size Matters 5 1Slamma Jamma 3 3Hickory Hoosiers 3 3No Conscience 3 3Falcons 2 4Flash-N-Bang 2 4Drive N Dish 1 5

Cougars Top Hanover Park,Queen of Peace Wrestlers

The fourth-ranked Cranford HighSchool wrestling team settled 11th-ranked Queen of Peace (QOP), 37-25, in Cranford on January 21 thentraveled to Hanover Park on January22 and defeated the 12th-ranked Hor-nets, 36-28. The double victories el-evated the Cougars’ record to 11-0.

The QOP match featured two ma-jor showdowns. At 113-lbs, fifth-ranked Enrique Sanchez defeatedCougar Anthony Capece, 8-3, and at132-lbs, Cougar Chris Scorese toppedRay Wetzel, 6-4. In the other bouts,Cougar Connor Halpin nipped MattChimato, 4-2, at 126-lbs. TomDiGiovanni claimed a 10-0 majordecision over JeanCarlo San Juan at138-lbs and Mike Nigro won by 1:39injury default over Justin Guzman at145-lbs.

Cougar Brian McGovern edgedJacob Cardenas, 2-1, at 170-lbs andAJ Bencivenga dropped a tight, 3-2,

decision to Mike Pillot at 152-lbs.Cougar Vince Concina pinned MikeMejia in 1:25 at 182-lbs, Dylan Budnikpinned Keyon Means Bowman in 5:10at 220-lbs and Alex Esposito pinnedJason Kopich in 2:35 at 285-lbs.

The match against Hanover Parkalso featured some major showdowns.Hornet Nick Raimo, ranked No. 1 at126-bs, jumped up to 132-lbs and stungNo. 4 ranked Scorese, 11-6, and LouRaimo, ranked No. 3 at 132-lbs, jumpedup to 138-lbs and nipped DiGiovanni,9-8. In other very close bouts, Nigropulled out a 7-6 victory at 145-lbs,Halpin was edged, 3-2, at 126-lbs andAnthony Ramirez lost, 5-4, at 220-lbs.

The Cougars harvested huge bonuspoints with pins from Concina (rankedNo. 6 at 170-lbs) at 182-lbs,McGovern at 160-lbs, Capece at 120-lbs, Josh DeChillo at 170-lbs andEsposito at 285-lbs. Bencivenga wonby decision at 152-lbs.

Abel Crespo to the mat with a reversehead throw in 49 seconds.

The first bout of the evening, how-ever, began at 106-lbs. Pat Kalnins,who placed third at the Union CountyTournament (UCT) battled PantherGabe Leo, who had placed second.Leo took a 4-1 lead but made a cardi-nal error by hanging his head. Kalninscapitalized and clamped Leo with areverse cradle in 1:59.

“He was over me. I hooked his legthen I got his head and I was able toroll him over onto his back,” Kalninsdescribed.

As to his pin of the person whoplaced second at the UCT, Kalninscommented, “It feels pretty good.”

Panther Mark Montgomery (UCTchamp) knotted the team score at 6-6when he pinned Evan Kanterman in1:06 with an arm bar/tight waist at113-lbs. After Capece’s victory, Pan-ther Josh Mejia squeezed out a 2-1victory over Connor Halpin at 126-lbs when he got two back points witha spread eagle (banana split). At 132-lbs, Scorese presented an exhibitionof nearfalls, tilts and a cradle to claima 15-0, 5:25 technical fall over DylanCamilo.

DiGiovanni had no takers at 138-lbs to receive a forfeit and to put theCougars in front, 20-9. The 145-lbbout went to overtime and PantherElvin Guerrero scored a double-legtakedown to edge AJ Bencivenga, 5-3. Another battle at 152-lbs had Pan-ther Rene Perez using his twininggrapevine takedowns to top MikeNigro, 7-3.

Emerging from the JV ranks MattDoran was one of several Cougarswho exercised fine top control andadded a pair of takedowns and areversal to beat Jeff Garcia, 6-1, at160-lbs.

“Tough on top! It’s good to get awin from guys who aren’t always theguys who are getting the wins in toughmatches. Going into this weekendwhere we have Queen of Peace,Hanover Park, just knowing that we

have a team effort and a JV guy whogot a win. We just won the JV cham-pionship, so it’s good to know we cancount on them not to just save uspoints but to get us wins. It’s going tobe a big test for us this weekend,”Coach Gorman said.

After McGovern’s and Concina’svictories made the team score 34-15,Cougar Dylan Budnik pinned VinnyFigueredo, who took second in theUCT at 220-lbs, in 2:00 with an armbar/half nelson at 195-lbs.

“Me and my partner AnthonyRamirez were really working on thatin the room. We have been grinding itout in practice and it worked out onthe mat,” Budnik said.

Budnik also had come off a strongshowing having placed third at theUCT.

“I think I made a lot of progressfrom last year. I feel going forwardyou only do that when you get betterin the room for districts and regions,”Budnik said.

At 220-lbs, Ramirez became a vic-tim of a double-leg tackle to a pin bySean Matthews with 10 seconds left.Cougar Alex Esposito also had notakers at 285-lbs to receive a forfeit.

“We have great captains in ‘Gov’[McGovern] and ‘Gi’ [DiGiovanni].As a team, we hang out. We have a lotof fun together. It’s really helping usnot only off the mat but to keep ongoing to the playoffs [sections andtournaments],” Budnik said.

BOUT SEQUENCE:106: — Kalnins (C) p Leo 1:59113: — Montgomery (R) p Kanterman,1:06120: — Capece (C) d Mejia, 4-3126: — Mejis (R) d Halpin, 2-1132: — Scorese (C) tf Camilo, 15-03:25138: — DiGiovanni (C) won forfeit145: — Guerrero (R) d Bencivenga, 5-3 OT152: — Perez (R) d Nigro, 7-3160: — Doran (C) d Garcia, 6-1170: — McGovern (C) p Crespo :49182: — Concina (C) p Hilburn 4:08195: — Budnik (C) p Figueredo 2:00220: — Matthews (R) p Ramirez 5:50Hwt: — Esposito (C) won forfeit

WF ‘Y’ Devilfish DominatePatterson Memorial Invt’l

The Westfield Area “Y” Devilfishhad a host of standout swims at the RyanMarie Patterson Memorial Invitationalheld at Raritan Bay “Y” in Perth Amboy,and captured first in 26 individual events.Clare Logan took seven top finishes(50-free, 50-back, 100-free, 200-free,100-back,100IM, 200IM) and set a newWY record in the girls 9-10 100-backwith a time of 1:10.93.

Julia McGann grabbed five firstsfor the 13/14 girls (100-free, 200-free,100-back, 200-back, 200IM) and RoanBaker led the 11/12 boys with four topfinishes (50-fly, 50-back, 100-breast,200-free). Other firsts: Maggie Burke(50-free), Emily Constable (50-breast,100-breast), Ashley Gao (25-breast),Emily Gao (50-fly), Viv Jeckell (50-free), Sofia Leonetti (100-breast, 200-breast), Cole Sharkey (200-free), TJ

Walsh (200IM).OTHER TOP-8:

8U girls: Emelia Dengler 6th (25-breast), 7th (25-free); MadelineEdmonson 5th (25-free, 25-back), 7th(25-fly).

9/10 girls: Ava Benson 4th (200IM),5th (50-breast), 7th (50-fly, 100-back);Emily Constable 3rd (50-back, 50-free, 100IM), 4th (200-free), 5th (50-fly); Emma Ferraro 6th (100-breast);Emily Gao 2nd (50-back, 50-free, 100-fly), 3rd (200IM), 4th (100-back), 5th(100IM); Isabella Giacobbe 8th (100-back, 200-free, 200IM); JulianneKamins 5th (50-free); Clare Logan2nd (50-fly); Catherine Ritter 6th (50-free); Isabelle Shih 8th (100-fly); ChloeYu 7th (100-breast); Claire Yu 8th(100-breast)

9/10 boys: Will Heinze 5th (100-back); Cole Sharkey 2nd (50-free),3rd (100IM), 6th (50-breast); LoganSwenson 7th (50-free)

11/12 girls: Abby Bebel 8th (50-breast); Viv Jeckell 3rd (50-fly, 100-back, 100IM), 4th (50-back), 5th (100-free); Erin McKinney 6th (50-breast),7th (50-free); Bridget Mooney 5th (50-free); Gigi Sandull 2nd (50-breast), 3rd(50-free, 100-breast), 4th (100-back),5th (50-fly), 6th (50-back), 8th (100-free); Clara Yu 4th (50-breast)

11/12 boys: Kevin Gao 6th (200IM);Carsen Sharkey 7th (50-back); MattSwenson 2nd (50-fly, 50-back), 4th(100-free), 6th (100-breast); Chris-tian Tedesco 2nd (50-free), 4th (50-breast), 5th (100IM), 6th (100-back);TJ Walsh 5th (50-fly); Kevin Warren8th (200IM)

13/14 girls: Maggie Burke 3rd (100-free), 4th (50-back), 5th (100-back), 6th(50-breast); Alyssa Corvelli 4th (200-back); Sofia Leonetti 7th (100-free), 8th(100-back, 200IM); Erin McAndrew6th (200-breast); Julia McGann 4th (100-breast); Tori Sandull 8th (200-free);Bridget Thomas 2nd (100-free), 3rd(200-free), 5th (200IM), 6th (200-back),7th (200-fly)

13/14 boys: Seth Camacho 5th (100-back); Steven Gorelik 6th (50-fly);Matt London 7th (200-free), 8th (100-back); Barney Veres 4th (200-fly), 5th(50-free), 8th (200-free); Sid Tangri8th (200-fly)

15-18 girls: Kelly Lawrence 6th (50-back); Courtney Thomas 5th (200IM),6th (100-free), 7th (100-breast)

FSPY Boys Black Team FallsTo Red Bank ‘Y’ Swim BoysThe Fanwood-Scotch Plains boys

Black swim team fell to the Red Bank“Y” Red Team, 169-207, at the dualmeet on January 14 at the Red Bank“Y”. The FSPY team recorded besttimes and several Top-3 finishes invarious events.

FSPY TOP-3:8U: Aaron Frank, Sean Stanik,

Harrison McClure swept 1-2-3 in 50-free and 25-back. In 25-breast, Dou-glas Gee and Braden Michaelstouched 2-3. In 25-fly, ZacharyMcGeehan and Michaels placed 1-3.The medley relay team of Stanik,McClure, McGeehan and Frank tookfirst.

9-10: Owen Waibel (2nd 100IM,50-back), Robert Lambert (2nd 100-free) and Ryan Jawor (3rd 100-free).Tyler McGeehan (2nd 50-breast),Evan Weber (2nd 50-fly).

Relays — Jawor, Waibel, Priesingand McGeehan touched second and

Lambert, Weber, Calderone andCondell touched third.

11-12: 200IM — Corey He, AidanTrenery and Brandon Cortez swept.Corey He also won the 50-breast.Darien Betances (1st — 100-free and50-back). Richard Park (2nd 50-fly),Hirad Sharifian (3rd 100-free) andTrenery (3rd 50-breast). Medley re-lay — Trenery, Betances, He andSharifian placed first and Park, Cortez,Linenberg and Kim touched third.

13-14: Jeremy Kronheimer (2nd— 200IM, 100-breast) and MatthewChen (3rd — 200-free). The relayteam of Merkle, Kronheimer,Kaminskas and Chen placed third.

15-18: Alan Shao (100-fly), ChrisBondarowicz (200-breast) and JoshCohen (200-ree) took first. Shao(200IM), Bondarowicz (200-fly) andCohen (100-back) took second. EricChang (3rd 100-back) and Logan D’Amore (3rd 200-free). The relay teamof Chang, Bondarowicz, Shao andCohen just got out touched and fin-ished second.

The Fanwood-Scotch Plains “Y”(FSPY) Girls “white” team defeatedthe Gateway Family “Y” (GFY) atRahway branch on January 14.

Individual Medley (IM): 9-10100IM — Brooke Labarge andPhoebe Kaplan took 1-3. 11-12 200IM— Katelyn Gaulin, Molly Brennanand Anna Linenberg swept 1-2-3, re-spectively. 13-14 200IM — EmmaRoute and Louisa Sperrazza claimed1-2, while Aubrey Bagdonas, NatalieEdman and Ana Kobori swept 1-2-3in 15-18 200IM.

Freestyle: 8U 50-free — Jamie Trelatouched third. 9-10 100 — Kate Labargeand Sophia Yalcin touched 1-3. 11-12100 — Avery Higinbotham, Alex Mooreand Sarah Phillips swept 1-2-3. 13-14200 — Julia Yick, Hope Best and AmayaWilkerson took 1-2-3. Maya Grantz,Hannah Davis and Nina Paradiso swept1-2-3 15-18 200-free.

Breaststroke: 8U 25-breast —Amy Jiang and Lexi Baglien took 1-2. 9-10 50-breast — Brooke Labargeand Elaina Yick took 1-3. 11-12 50-breast — Katelyn Gaulin, JessicaRojek and Reagan Hickey touched 1-2-3, while Aislinn Mooney, LilyHolston and Amaya Wilkerson sweptthe 13-14 100-breast. 15-18 100-breast — Ana Kobori, Natalie Edmanand Hannah Crisafulli swept.

Backstroke: 8U 25-back — Sophia-Francesca Isleta took second. 9-10 50-back — Kate Labarge and Sophia Yalcintook 2-3, while Alex Moore, Avery

Higinbotham and Sarah Phillips sweptthe 11-12 50-back. 13-14 100-back —Hope Best, Louisa Sperrazza and An-gela Tramontana swept. 15-18 100-back — Maya Grantz, Hannah Davisand Isha Rai swept.

Butterfly: 8U 25-fly — Amy Jiangplaced third. 9-10 50-fly — PhoebeKaplan and Kayla Kerr placed 2-3.11-12 50-fly — Anna Linenberg,Molly Brennan and Jessica Rojekswept. 13-14 100-fly — Emma Route,Faith Best and Julia Yick swept. 15-18 200-fly — Nina Paradiso andAubrey Bagdonas took 1-2.

Medley relays: 8U 100-medley —Amelia Nath, Jamie Trela, SophiaFrancesca Isleta and Ella Lin won. 9-10 200-medley — Sophia Yalcin,Phoebe Kaplan, Brooke Labarge andKate Labarge won, and Elorie Howell,Lindsay Trela, Lily Gaulin and KaylaKerr took second. 11-12 200-medley— Sarah Phillips, Katelyn Gaulin,Anna Linenberg and AveryHiginbotham took first while AlexMoore, Reagan Hickey, MollyBrennan and Jessica Rojek took sec-ond. 13-14 relay — Emma Route,Aislinn Mooney, Lily Holston andHope Best won and Louisa Sperrazza,Amaya Wilkerson, AngelaTramontana and Faith Best placedsecond. 15-18 — Isha Rai, HannahCrisafulli, Ana Kobori and NinaParadiso claimed first, and AubreyBagdonas, Natalie Edman, MayaGrantz and Hannah Davis took sec

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICEBOROUGH OF FANWOOD

UNION COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

BOND ORDINANCE STATEMENTS AND SUMMARIES

THE BOND ORDINANCE PUBLISHED HEREWITH HAS BEEN FINALLY ADOPTEDON DECEMBER 19, 2016 AND THE 20-DAY PERIOD OF LIMITATION WITHIN WHICHA SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING QUESTIONING THE VALIDITY OF SUCH ORDI-NANCE CAN BE COMMENCED, AS PROVIDED IN THE LOCAL BOND LAW, HASBEGUN TO RUN FROM THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS STATE-MENT.

ELEANOR MCGOVERNBOROUGH CLERK

ORDINANCE 16-19-S

BOND ORDINANCE AMENDING BOND ORDINANCE NUMBER 16-01-SFINALLY ADOPTED BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGHOF FANWOOD, NEW JERSEY ON MARCH 7, 2016

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF FANWOOD,IN THE COUNTY OF UNION, NEW JERSEY (not less than two-thirds of all the membersthereof affirmatively concurring), AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Bond Ordinance of the Borough Council of the Borough of Fanwood,in the County of Union, New Jersey (the “Borough”) entitled “Bond Ordinance ProvidingAn Appropriation Of $965,000 For Various Capital Improvements For And By TheBorough Of Fanwood In The County Of Union, New Jersey And, Authorizing The IssuanceOf $489,250 Bonds Or Notes Of The Borough For Financing Part Of The Appropriation”finally adopted on March 7, 2016 (the “Ordinance”) is hereby incorporated by referencein its entirety.

Section 2. Sections 3(a)(1) and 3(a)(4) of the Ordinance is hereby amended in itsentirety as follows:

Appropriation Estimated Periodand Estimated Maximum Amount of

“Improvements Cost of Bonds or Notes Usefulness1. Various road improvements $650,000 $218,500 20 yearsincluding but not limited to Madison Avenue,including curbs and sidewalks, milling and paving, includingall work or materials necessary therefor or incidental thereto.

4. Streetscape on South Avenue 200,000 190,000 15 yearsbetween Martine Avenue and Terrill Road, including all work or materials necessarytherefor or incidental thereto.

The Ordinance is hereby further amended by deleting the reference of 17.90 years forthe useful life and substituting in lieu therefor 16.94 years.

Section 3. The capital budget of the Borough is hereby amended to conform with theprovisions of this ordinance to the extent of any inconsistency herewith. The resolutionsin the form promulgated by the Local Finance Board showing full detail of the amendedcapital budget and capital program as approved by the Director of the Division of LocalGovernment Services is on file with the Clerk and is available there for public inspection.

Section 4. This Section 4 constitutes a declaration of official intent under TreasuryRegulation Section 1.150-2. The Borough reasonably expects to pay expenditures withrespect to the Improvements prior to the date that the Borough incurs debt obligationsunder this Bond Ordinance. The Borough reasonably expects to reimburse suchexpenditures with the proceeds of debt to be incurred by the Borough under this BondOrdinance. The maximum principal amount of debt expected to be issued for paymentof the costs of the Improvements is $489.250.

Section 5. All other provisions of the Ordinance shall remain unchanged.Section 6. This amendatory bond ordinance shall take effect twenty days after the first

publication thereof after final adoption as provided by Local Bond Law.1 T - 01/26/17, The Times Fee: $98.94

PUBLIC NOTICEBOROUGH OF GARWOOD

NOTICE OF PENDINGBOND ORDINANCE AND SUMMARY

The bond ordinance, the summary termsof which are included herein, was intro-duced and passed upon first reading at ameeting of the Borough Council of theBorough of Garwood, in the County ofUnion, State of New Jersey, on January24, 2017. It will be further considered forfinal passage, after public hearing thereon,at a meeting of the Borough Council to beheld at its meeting room in the MunicipalBuilding, 403 South Avenue, Garwood,New Jersey, on February 14, 2017 at 7:15P.M. During the week prior to and up toand including the date of such meetingcopies of the full ordinance will be avail-able, at no cost and during regular busi-ness hours, at the Clerk’s office for themembers of the general public who shallrequest the same. The summary of theterms of such bond ordinance follows:

BOND ORDINANCE NO. 17-02

TITLE: BOND ORDINANCETO AUTHORIZE THE ACQUI-SITION OF A NEW GARBAGETRUCK IN, BY AND FOR THEBOROUGH OF GARWOOD, INTHE COUNTY OF UNION,STATE OF NEW JERSEY, TOAPPROPRIATE THE SUM OF$200,000 TO PAY THE COSTTHEREOF, TO MAKE ADOWN PAYMENT, TO AU-THORIZE THE ISSUANCE OFBONDS TO FINANCE SUCHAPPROPRIATION AND TOPROVIDE FOR THE ISSU-ANCE OF BOND ANTICIPA-TION NOTES IN ANTICIPA-TION OF THE ISSUANCE OFSUCH BONDS.

Purpose(s): Acquisition of a new auto-motive vehicle, including original appara-tus and equipment, consisting of a gar-bage truck for the use of the Department ofPublic Works in, by and for the Borough.

Appropriation: $200,000Bonds/Notes Authorized: $190,400Grants (if any) Appropriated: $-0-Section 20 Costs: $2,000Useful Life: 5 years

This Notice is published pursuant toN.J.S.A. 40A:2-17.

Christina M Ariemma, RMCMunicipal Clerk

Borough of GarwoodCounty of Union

State of New Jersey1 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $53.04

Probitas Verus Honos

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Photo Courtesy of Andrew Hooey

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS...Cougar Vince Concina, top, begins to set up theTurk ride to get back points in his 182-lb bout against No. 12 Hanover Park.Concina got the pin and the No. 4 Cougars beat the Hornets, 36-28.

PUBLIC NOTICEBOROUGH OF GARWOOD

TAKE NOTICE THAT THE MAYOR ANDCOUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OFGARWOOD WILL HOLD A SPECIALMEETING TO DISCUSS BREAKINGDOWN THE BUDGET PROCESS.

THE MEETING WILL BE HELD ONTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017, AT 7:00P.M., IN THE ALL PURPOSE ROOM OFLINCOLN SCHOOL, 400 SECOND AV-ENUE, GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY.

NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN.

CHRISTINA M. ARIEMMA, RMCMUNICIPAL CLERK

1 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $14.79


PUBLIC NOTICETOWN OF WESTFIELD

PLANNING BOARD

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that on Mon-day, February 6, 2017 at 7:30 PM in theTown of Westfield Municipal Building,Council Chambers, 425 East Broad Street,Westfield, New Jersey, a PUBLIC HEAR-ING will be held by the Planning Board ofthe Town of Westfield for site plan andvariance approvals (Sections 11.28E1:front yard setback – 40 feet required, 72.6feet proposed; 11.28E6: coverage by im-provements – 70% maximum, 85.8% pro-posed; 17.02E: loading spaces – 4 spacesrequired, 1 loading space proposed;17.03C5: parking setback from front prop-erty line – 72.6 feet required, 6.6 feetproposed; 17.03C5: parking setback fromside street property line – 71.7 feet re-quired, 5.3 feet proposed; 17.03C5: park-ing setback from rear property line – 2 feetrequired, 1.4 feet proposed; 17.03D3: load-ing area setback from side street propertyline – 71.7 feet required, 48 feet proposed;17.05D: access aisle width for loadingspace – 55 feet minimum, 19 feet pro-posed; 17.10B2: illumination for low levelvehicle activity – 0.5 footcandles mini-mum, 0 footcandles provided; 17.10B2:illumination for low level vehicle activity –4:1 uniformity ratio required, undefinedratio; 17.10C: ground level illumination atproperty lines – 0.5 footcandles maximum,1.5 footcandles proposed; 17.10E: lightfixture height above grade – 15 feet maxi-mum, 15 feet 6 inches and 16 feet pro-posed; 17.11B: height of screening trees –5 feet minimum, 2-4 feet proposed; 16.04:drive-thru canopy signs not permitted inGB-3 Zone; 16.04E1B: main entrance signheight – 12 feet maximum, 18 feet pro-posed; 16.04E1C: main entrance sign hori-zontal dimension – 20 feet maximum, 35.4feet proposed; 16.04E1D: main entrancesign vertical dimension – 2.5 feet maxi-mum, 3.75 feet proposed; 16.04E2A: mainentrance signs on corner lots – 1 additionalsign permitted, 4 additional signs proposed;16.04E2B: 2nd main entrance sign height– 12 feet maximum, 13 feet and 18 feetproposed; 16.04E2C: 2nd main entrancesign horizontal dimension – 10 feet maxi-mum, 10.3 feet and 35.4 feet proposed;16.04E2D: 2nd main entrance sign verti-cal dimension – 1.5 feet maximum, 1.6feet, 1.7 feet and 3.75 feet proposed;16.04E4: sites are prohibited from havingboth freestanding signs and wall signs inGB-3 Zone, both types of signs proposed;16.04E4D: freestanding sign area – 16square feet maximum, 29.2 square feetproposed; 12.07D: fence and wall height –6 feet maximum, 8 feet proposed) andsuch other variances, relief and/or waiversthat may be required upon an analysis ofthe plans and testimony at the PUBLICHEARING on the Application submitted bythe Applicant, 2016 Crossways WestfieldLLC, for the properties located at 1130-36,1138 & 1144 South Avenue West, Block2606, Lots 3, 2 & 1 on the Tax Map of theTown of Westfield. The properties areowned by Westfield Holdings LLC, PeterK. Ganz and Mormile Brothers and arelocated in the GB-3 Zone. The Applicant isproposing to remove all existing structuresand build a CVS pharmacy of approxi-mately 13,194 square feet with a drive-thru, parking, signs and related site im-provements.

When the case is called you may appeareither in person or by agent or attorney andpresent any objections which you mayhave to the granting of this Application. Acopy of the Application materials and plansare on file and available for PUBLIC IN-SPECTION in the Planning Office, 959North Avenue West, Westfield, New Jer-sey, during that office’s normal businesshours.

HEHL & HEHL, P.C.Attorneys for the Applicant

1 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $78.03

CLASSIFIEDS




NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANT

(L.S.) STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO:HENRY A. FRYSTAK, EXECU-TOR OF THE ESTATE OFHENRY C. FRYSTAK; HENRYA. FRYSTAK, INDIVIDUALLY;MRS. HENRY A. FRYSTAK,WIFE OF HENRY A.FRUSTAK;

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED ANDREQUIRED to serve upon PELLEGRINOAND FELDSTEIN, LLC, plaintiff’s attor-neys, whose address is 290 Route 46West, Denville, New Jersey, an Answer tothe Complaint filed in a Civil Action, inwhich PRO CAP 4, LLC BY ITS CUSTO-DIAN US BANK is the plaintiff and HENRYA. FRYSTAK, EXECUTOR OF THE ES-TATE OF HENRY C. FRYSTAK, ET ALS;are defendants, pending in the SuperiorCourt of New Jersey, Chancery Division,UNION County and bearing Docket No. F-027287-16 within thirty-five (35) days afterJanuary 26, 2017 exclusive of such date.If you fail to answer or appear in accor-dance with Rule 4:4-6, Judgment by De-fault may be rendered against you for reliefdemanded in the Complaint. You shall fileyour Answer and Proof of Service in dupli-cate with the Clerk of the Superior Court ofNew Jersey, Hughes Justice Complex -CN 971, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, inaccordance with the Rules of Civil Practiceand Procedure.

You are further advised that if you areunable to obtain an attorney you may com-municate with the Lawyer Referral Serviceof the County of Venue and that if youcannot afford an attorney, you may com-municate with the Legal Services Office ofthe County of Venue. The telephone num-ber of such agencies are as follows: Law-yer Referral Service 908-353-4715 - LegalServices Office 908-354-4340.

THE ACTION has been instituted for thepurpose of foreclosing the following taxsale certificate:

1. A certain tax certificate 13-00250,sold on 6/27/2014, dated 7/2/2014, andwas recorded on 9/4/2014 in Book 13813at Page 345, made by STACEY L.CARRON, Collector of Taxes of LINDEN,and State of New Jersey to PRO CAP 4,LLC BY ITS CUSTODIAN US BANK andsubsequently assigned to plaintiff, PROCAP 4, LLC BY ITS CUSTODIAN USBANK. This covers real estate located inLINDEN, County of UNION, and State ofNew Jersey, known as LOT 24 ADTL LOTS:4, 8 BLOCK 207 as shown on the TaxAssessment Map and Tax Map duplicateof LINDEN and concerns premises com-monly known as 830 NORTH WOOD AV-ENUE, LINDEN, New Jersey.

YOU, HENRY A. FRYSTAK, EXECU-TOR OF THE ESTATE OF HENRY C.FRYSTAK and HENRY A. FRYSTAK, IN-DIVIDUALLY, are made party defendantto the above foreclosure action becauseyou are the owner of a property which is thesubject of the above entitled action.

YOU, MRS. HENRY A. FRYSTAK, WIFEOF HENRY A. FRUSTAK, are made partydefendant to the above foreclosure actionbecause plaintiff has been unable to deter-mine whether defendant HENRY A.FRYSTAK is married, and if married, thename of HENRY A. FRYSTAK’s spouse. IfHENRY A. FRYSTAK is married, the plain-tiff joins MRS. HENRY A. FRYSTAK, WIFEOF HENRY A. FRUSTAK as a defendantfor any possessory or marital rights youmay have.

DATED: January 20, 2017Michelle M. Smith, Clerk

Superior Court of New JerseyPELLEGRINO & FELDSTEIN, L.L.C.Denville Law Center290 Route 46 WestDenville, New Jersey 07834(973) 586-23001 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $81.09




NOTICE TO REDEEM

US BANK CUST FORACTLIEN HOLDING I; PLAIN-TIFF VS. DAVID STERN ;KAREN STERN, HIS WIFE;BARBARA STERN; BENEFI-CIAL NEW JERSEY INC. D/B/A BENEFICIAL MORTGAGECO.; FIA CARD SERVICES NAN/K/A BANK OF AMERICA,NA; ROBERTS WILLIAMS;XARA SPORTSWEAR USAINC; VANTAGE CUSTOMCLASSICS; AVIS RENT ACAR SYSTEM T/A CAR RENT-ALS INC; STATE OF NEWJERSEY; DEFENDANT(S)

TO: ROBERTS WILLIAMS;PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an order

made on January 20, 2017, the SuperiorCourt Fixed March 6, 2017 between thehours of nine o’clock in the forenoon andfour o’clock in the afternoon, prevailingtime, at the office of the Tax Collector ofSUMMIT, located at 512 SPRINGFIELDAVENUE, SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY 07901as the time and place when and where youmay pay to the plaintiff the amount sofound due for principal and interest on itscertificate of tax sale as follows:

LOT 6 BLOCK 2205 on the tax duplicateof SUMMIT. Total amount required to re-deem tax sale certificate no. 14-8 is$66,224.46, together with interest fromDecember 30, 2016 and costs of $1,541.30.

And that unless, at the same time andplace, you or one of you redeem by payingthe aforesaid sum so found due to plaintiff,then you, and each of you shall be de-barred and foreclosed of and from all rightand equity of redemption of, in and to thelands and premises above set out anddescribed in the complaint and every partthereof, and that the plaintiff be vested withan absolute and indefeasible estate ofinheritance in fee simple in said lands andpremises.

Anything to the contrary notwithstand-ing, redemption shall be permitted up untilthe entry of final judgment including thewhole of the last date upon which judg-ment is entered.

Michael G. Pellegrino, Esq.Attorney for Plaintiff

PELLEGRINO & FELDSTEIN, L.L.C.290 Route 46 WestDenville, New Jersey 07834(973) 586-23001 T - 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $54.06

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICENEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT, BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION SERVICES1035 PARKWAY AVENUE, PO BOX 600

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 08625Notice is hereby given that bid proposals will be received via the Internet until 10:00:59

A.M. on 2/2/17, downloaded, and publicly opened and read, from Bidders classified underN.J.S.A. 27:7-35.1 et seq.; in the CONFERENCE ROOM-A, 1st Floor F & A Building, NewJersey Department of Transportation, 1035 Parkway Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey08625; for:

Route 82, Rt 124 to Rt 439, Resurfacing, Contract No. 000153670,Township of Springfield and Union Township, Union County;

100% State; UPC NO: 153670; DP No: 16142Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 (P.L 1975, c.

127); N.J.A.C. 17:27.Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 19:44A-20.19, contractors must provide a Certification and

Disclosure of Political Contribution Form prior to contract award.Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 52:32-44, contractor must submit the Department of Treasury,

Division of Revenue Business Registration of the contractor and any named subcontrac-tors prior to contract award or authorization.

Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.51, contractors must be registered with the New JerseyDepartment of Labor, Division of Wage and hour Compliance at the time of bid.

Plans, specifications, and bidding information for the proposed work are available at BidExpress website www.bidx.com. You must subscribe to use this service. To subscribefollow the instructions on the website. Fees apply to downloading documents and plansand bidding access. The fee schedule is available on the web site. All fees are directlypayable to Bid Express. Plans, specifications, and bidding information may be inspected(BUT NOT OBTAINED) by contracting organizations at our Design Field Offices at thefollowing locations:

200 Stierli Court One Executive Campus Rt 70 WestMt. Arlington, New Jersey 07856 Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08002973-601-6690 856-486-6623

3 T - 1/12/17, 1/19/17 and 1/26/17, The Leader Fee: $165.24

WESTFIELDSunday, January 8, Joseph Bruno, 52,

of Westfield was arrested and chargedwith driving while under the influencepursuant to a motor vehicle accident atEast Broad and Elm Streets. He wasprocessed, issued multiple summonsesand released to a responsible person.

Friday, January 13, Stephanie Castro,32, of Irvington was picked up at theEssex County jail and arrested on anoutstanding Westfield criminal warrantwith $1,000 bail (no 10-percent cashalternative). She was processed and bailwas posted.

Saturday, January 14, Alex K. Bartley,24, of Cranford was arrested on an out-standing Cranford traffic warrant pursu-ant to a motor vehicle crash investigationon East South Avenue. He was trans-ported to police headquarters for arrestprocessing and was released after posting$250 bail.

Saturday, January 14, a resident of the800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue re-ported being the victim of a theft. One ormore unknown suspects gained entry intothe victim’s motor vehicle and stole awallet containing multiple credit cardsand personal items. The vehicle wasparked in the victim’s driveway at thetime.

Sunday, January 15, Robert M. Norton,33, of Bayonne was arrested on a Bayonnetraffic warrant, with $816 bail, pursuantto a motor vehicle stop at North ChestnutStreet and Mountain Avenue. He wastransported to police headquarters, pro-cessed and released after posting bail.

Sunday, January 15, Kwasi Sekyi-Nyamekye, 30, of East Orange was ar-rested subsequent to a motor vehicle stopon Trails End Court on outstanding traf-fic warrants from the Elizabeth PoliceDepartment, with $500 bail, and Newark,with $100 bail. He was transported topolice headquarters, processed and re-leased on his own recognizance on bothwarrants.

Sunday, January 15, Brandon Heath,35, of Linden was arrested subsequent toa motor vehicle stop at a municipal lotbetween Elm and Prospect Streets on anoutstanding Union Township traffic war-rant with $200 bail. He was transported topolice headquarters, processed and re-leased after posting the full cash bail.

Sunday, January 15, an attempted resi-dential burglary and criminal mischiefwere reported on the 300 block ofRoanoke Road. The incident occurredon November 25, 2016 at 6:40 a.m. Oneor more suspects attempted to rip theelectrical box off the exterior of theresidence, causing damage.

Sunday, January 15, Anthony Gaddy,22, of Plainfield was arrested on an out-standing Westfield traffic warrant with$500 bail pursuant to being picked upfrom the Plainfield Police Department.Further investigation revealed that he hada criminal warrant from Piscataway, alsowith $500 bail. Gaddy was processed andheld after being unable to post bail.

Sunday, January 15, Aidan Donadio,20, of Mountainside was arrested oncharges of possession of less than 50grams of a controlled dangerous sub-stance (CDS), identified by police assuspected marijuana, and possession ofdrug paraphernalia, pursuant to a motorvehicle stop at Central Avenue and Wash-ington Street. He was processed and re-leased on a summons.

Tuesday, January 17, Latanya Bailey,41, of Plainfield was arrested at thePlainfield Police Department on aWestfield traffic warrant with $1,035 bail.She was transported to Westfield policeheadquarters, where she was processedand taken to the Union County jail in lieuof bail.

FANWOODTuesday, December 20, Autumn Terry,

27, of Fanwood was arrested and chargedwith possession of suspected marijuanaafter police responded to the 170 block ofCoriell Avenue on a report of a suspi-cious person. When the officers arrivedthey located two individuals. A checkshowed an active Fanwood warrant forTerry. While placing Terry under arrestpolice found a suspected marijuana ciga-rette on her. Terry was processed, chargedwith possession of marijuana and releasedpending her court appearance.

Sunday, January 8, Nicholas Koch, 34,of Fanwood was arrested on the 200block of Midway Avenue on an activewarrant out of Westfield. He was pro-cessed, posted bail and released.

Sunday, January 8, Alejandro Guays,40, of Elizabeth was arrested on an activewarrant out of Westfield after a motorvehicle stop at East 3rd Street and TerrillRoad. He was processed, posted bail andreleased.

Tuesday, January 10, James Muse, 50,of Elizabeth was arrested on charges ofpossession of marijuana, possession ofmarijuana with the intent to distributeand possession of drug paraphernalia af-ter a motor vehicle stop at Terrill Roadand East 2nd Street. While the officer wasspeaking with the driver he could detecta strong odor of marijuana coming frominside the vehicle. The officer searchedthe vehicle and found the suspected mari-juana. Muse was processed and releasedpending his court hearing.

Wednesday, January 11, Eric Maga-zine, 43, of South Amboy was arrested onactive warrants out of Berkeley Heightsand Union after a motor vehicle stop atSouth Avenue and Laurel Place. He wasprocessed and released by both Munici-pal Courts.

Thursday, January 12, Richard Reid,53, of Plainfield was arrested on an activewarrant out of the Union County Sheriff’sOffice after a motor vehicle stop on the150 block of South Avenue. Reid wasprocessed and turned over to the UnionCounty Sheriff’s Office.

Monday, January 16, LakramSeebarran, 45, of Jersey City was arrestedon an active warrant out of Alpine after amotor vehicle stop at Terrill Road andEast 7th Street. He was processed, postedbail and released.

CRANFORDWednesday, January 18, Russell Keller,

54, of Linden was arrested on charges ofpossession of a controlled dangerous sub-stance (CDS), identified by police asheroin; possession of paraphernalia anddriving while intoxicated (DWI). While

conducting an unrelated follow-up in-vestigation, detectives encountered a sus-picious occupied 2003 Ford in the area ofBroad and Elm Streets. Following aninvestigation at the scene police deter-mined that the driver, Keller, was operat-ing the vehicle while under the influence.Police also located heroin on Keller.Keller was arrested, processed and re-leased to a friend, pending a SuperiorCourt appearance. Additionally, he wasissued motor vehicle summonses for pos-sessing an open container of alcohol in amotor vehicle, reckless driving and im-proper parking.

Friday, January 20, John Kube, 30, ofLinden was arrested and charged withDWI after police responded to the area ofEdgar and Richmond Avenues on a reportof a suspicious person. Upon arrival unitsencountered the individual, identified asKube. Following an investigation at thescene police determined that Kube wasoperating a vehicle while under the influ-ence of alcohol. Kube was arrested, pro-cessed and released to a family memberpending a Municipal Court appearance.

ASIAN ANTIQUES WANTED

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Mountainside School District3:00 p.m. – Midnight

Black Seal License requiredCall (908) 232-3232 Ext. 100

NURSERY WORKERS NEEDED

4 temp Nursery workers needed2/27/17 – 11/10/17. Workers willplant, cultivate & hand harvestcontainer and field grown nurserystock according to supervisor’sinstructions. Must have 3 monthsexperience operating 50+ HP farmequipment including bobcat/ forklift& affirmative verifiable jobreferences. Guaranteed 3/4 ofcontract hours. Work tools,supplies, equipment provided atno cost. Conditional housingprovided for non-commutingworkers. Random drug testing atemployer’s expense. Saturdaywork required. Must be able to lift50-75 lbs. on a consistent basis.Transportation & subsistencereimbursed to worker uponcompletion of 50% of contract orearlier if appropriate. $12.38/hr orcurrent applicable AEWR. Raise/bonus at employer discretion.Worksites in Erie & Niagara CoNY. EOE. Report or send a resumeto nearest local NJ Career Centeroffice or call 908-412-7980 &reference Job #NY1192389.Russell’s Tree & Shrub Farm LLC–East Amherst, NY.

FOR SALE

Sofa, 93" wide, floral design,good condition. $300.

or best offer. Cash and carry.Text (908) 477-5148 for pix.

LINDEN ESTATE SALE

817 Erudo StreetFri 1/27 & Sat 1/28

10am to 3pmContents of home, Living Room,Dining Room, Bedroom Furniture,Winter Musette Piano, Roll TopDesk, Cedar Chest, Linens,Clothing, Costume Jewelry,Christmas Decorations, WickerPorch Set, Garden Tools & More!For Pics: DovetailsUSA.com

HELP WANTED

OFFICE OPPORTUNITYAR / Invoicing Associate - Small,pleasant, friendly officeenvironment needs a fourth personto complement three businessprofessionals. Job involves billing,data entry, and some customerservice. Knowledge of accountingsoftware, preferably AccountMate,is a plus. We are a financially solidprivate company. We offer agenerous salary, bonus, medicaland pension. The office is locatedin Clark. Please email resume to

[email protected]

FARMWORKERS NEEDED

20 temp farm workers needed2/27/17 – 11/7/17. Workers willperform various tasks involved inplanting, cultivating & harvestingvarious crops according tosupervisor’s instructions. Musthave 3 months verifiableexperience operating 50+hp farmequipment & affirmative verifiablejob references. Guaranteed 3/4 ofcontract hours. Tools, supplies,equipment provided at no cost.Conditional housing provided fornon-commuting workers. Randomdrug testing at employer’sexpense. Transportation &subsistence reimbursed to workerupon completion of 50% ofcontract or earlier, if appropriate.EOE. $12.38/hr. or applicablepiece rates depending on cropactivity. Worksite in Orleans &Monroe Co NY. Report or send aresume to nearest local NJ OneStop Career Center office or call908-412-7980 & reference Job#1194394. RM Zingler Farms-Kendall, NY

FREELANCERS [email protected]

PUBLIC NOTICESCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD

BOARD OF EDUCATION

MEETING NOTICE

PTA Coffee with The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education will be atTerrill Middle School on Tuesday, Febru-ary 7, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

Deborah S. SaridakiSchool Business Administrator

Board Secretary1 T - 1/26/17, The Times Fee: $11.22

Robert Edward Dinsmore, 97, WasLongtime Resident of Westfield

Robert E. Dinsmore

Robert E. Dinsmore, 97, ofWestfield, N.J. passed away peace-fully at Father Hudson House (Centerfor Hope Hospice) in Elizabeth, N.J.on Tuesday, January 17, 2017.

Born in Brogue, Pa. on November9, 1919, to Harry and Clara GipeDinsmore, Bob lived inBrogue, Pa. and gradu-ated from Red Lion HighSchool in 1936. Hegraduated in 1940 fromLebanon Valley Collegewith a bachelor’s degreein accounting and theWharton School of Busi-ness, University of Penn-sylvania, with hisM.B.A. in 1946.

Bob enlisted andserved in the U.S. Armyin 1942 and was honor-ably discharged, with aGood Conduct Medaland three Bronze Stars, in 1945. Heserved on the Quartermaster ExhibitTeam and was later stationed with theArmy Signal Corps in Corsica. Heparticipated in the Quartermaster Ex-hibit of the Army War Show in Decem-ber, 1942, during which he met andspoke to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt,who upon observing his demonstra-tion of the steam kettle said, “You willgo very far, young man!”

Bob is predeceased by his wife of28 years, Mildred Morris Dinsmore;his parents, Harry and Clara GipeDinsmore, and his brother, Dale V.Dinsmore.

He is survived by his daughters,Karen Dinsmore of Westfield and Su-san Dinsmore Kassel; his son-in-law,Russell J. Kassel of Yorktown, Va.;granddaughter, Katrina J. Kassel, andher husband, Daniel Impson, of Nor-folk, Va.; grandson, Scott C. Kassel ofYorktown, Va., and great-grandson,Wesley Aleksandr Impson, as well ashis sister-in-law, Elizabeth Dinsmoreof Brogue, Pa., and his nephews, theirspouses, children and grandchildren;his best friend, Thelma (Mickey)Asakawa (John) of Vero Beach, Fla.,and his cat companion, Allie.

Bob met his wife, Mildred, in NewYork City, where they wed at theWaldorf Astoria in 1960. They livedin Westfield from 1960 to 1963. Aftermoving to Mountain View, Calif., forthree years, they returned to Westfieldin 1966, as a family of four, and Bobremained there for the remainder ofhis life. He retired in 1986 from aposition he remembered fondly, asManager of Office Administration forAmstar Corporation (Domino Sugar)

after 36 years.Bob was a stalwart caregiver of his

late wife, Mildred; a dedicated fatherwho moved his daughters multipletimes into new dorm rooms and apart-ments; a proud grandfather and newgreat-grandfather; a loyal and cher-

ished companion to hisbest friend, Mickey, anda nurturer of countlessdogs, cats and birds. Heset a fine examplethroughout his life, thank-ing his daughter, Karen,and his caregivers untilhis last day. In 31 yearssince his retirement, Bobenjoyed traveling and vis-iting friends and family,driving across the coun-try several times. He wasan excellent correspon-dent, sending postcardsfrom every stop. He en-

joyed his record number of trips toWalt Disney World, Williamsburg,Va.; his African safari following theloss of his wife, and his trip to Italywith his daughter, Karen, at age 85.Bob enjoyed his time walking andeating breakfast every day at Perkinswith Mickey; his visits with his fam-ily; watching his Oakland (formerlyPhiladelphia) Athletics and his Yan-kees, and cuddling his stuffed bean-ies or his adopted dog, Nick, andfeline companion, Allie.

Funeral services were private. Bobwas interred next to Mildred inSomerset Hills Memorial Park inBasking Ridge, N.J.

The family wishes to thank all ofthe wonderful caregivers at FatherHudson House for their devotion,admiration and care to Robert. In lieuof flowers, the family wishes dona-tions to be made in Bob’s name toCenter for Hope Hospice and Pallia-tive Care, 1900 Raritan Road, ScotchPlains, N.J. 07076.

January 26, 2017

Marilyn D. Teitelbaum, 95, WasBeloved Mother and Grandmother

Marilyn Teitelbaum

Marilyn D. Teitelbaum, 95, belovedwife of the late Arthur Teitelbaum,died peacefully on Monday, January23, 2017.

A private burial will be held atFairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J.Arrangements were made by GrayFuneral Home inWestfield. Family andfriends are invited to aMemorial Service at theRedeemer LutheranChurch, 2309 Route 70,Manchester, N.J., at 11a.m. on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 1, 2017. For furtherinformation or to sendcondolences to the fam-ily, please call the churchor Gray Funeral Home;grayfuneralhomes.com.

Born on June 3, 1921,to Carl Hammer and Evia Rassmussenin Superior, Wis., Marilyn oftenshared stories of her life on LakeSuperior and was always very proudof her Swedish heritage. Soon afterher birth, both of her parents suc-cumbed to pneumonia. She was raisedby her loving grandmother. At the ageof 18, Marilyn left home and traveledto Washington, D.C. She accepted aposition with the government andcontributed to the war effort in sup-port of victory in World War II.

On a blind date, Marilyn met andfell in love with a Navy Carrier WorldWar II pilot. She married ArthurTeitelbaum on November 13, 1943.When Art completed his tour of duty,they settled in Elizabeth, N.J. In 1954,they chose to raise their family inWestfield. While living in Westfield,Marilyn worked with the crisis hotlineCONTACT We Care.

For the past 30 years, Marilyn en-joyed participating in volunteer orga-nizations with her friends and neigh-bors in the community of Leisure Knoll.The Redeemer Lutheran Church be-came a very important part of her life.At Thanksgiving, you could findMarilyn volunteering to collect tur-keys and all the holiday “fixings” forthe less fortunate. As an active mem-

ber of Leisure Knoll Singles and Help-ing Hands, Marilyn always found timeto perform “many acts of kindness.”

Marilyn is survived by her son,Steven C. Teitelbaum, and his wife,Margaret, of Annandale, N.J., formerlyof Westfield, and her daughter, Susan

Teitelbaum Riess ofGlastonbury, Conn. Alsomourning her loss andcelebrating her life are herthree beloved grandchil-dren, Christopher (Jes-sica) Teitelbaum, KatieTeitelbaum Reeves (Don)and Ann Teitelbaum; twogreat-grandchildren,Samantha and AvaReeves, and two stepgreat-grandchildren,Drew and Julian. Theybrought Mimi much joy

and happiness.In her memory, contributions may

be made to Center for Hope, 1900Raritan Road, Scotch Plains, N.J.07076.

January 26, 2017

– Obituaries –Virginia Maher, 91, Westfield Resident;Enjoyed Church and Family Vacations

Virginia Maher

Virginia Maher, 91, passed awaypeacefully on Tuesday, January 17,2017, at home at 92 Sum-mit Court in Westfield.

Mrs. Maher was born andraised Virginia (Ginny)Maier in Eagle Grove, Iowa.She attended college,worked briefly as a model,then as a stenographer forthe FBI in Chicago, thenmarried FBI Special AgentJohn F. Maher in 1953. Shehad five children, and re-sided since 1960 inWestfield, where she was anactive member of the HolyTrinity Roman CatholicChurch and later St. Helen’s RomanCatholic Church, enjoyed bridge club,worked as a waitress for many years atthe Rustic Mill Diner in Cranford,loved her poodle, Brindle, and en-joyed family vacations in New Hamp-shire, Florida, California, Hawaii, Ire-land and Iceland.

She was predeceased by her hus-band, John, and is survived by her

children, WilliamMaher, Dr. John Maher,Dr. Elizabeth Maher,Anne Maher and FBISpecial Agent JamesMaher. She greatly lovedher five grandchildren,Kieran and DeclanBorcich of Bronxville,N.Y., Justine Maher ofChula Vista, Calif., andJameson and NicholasMaher of Westfield.

Viewing was held Fri-day, January 20, at DooleyColonial Home in

Westfield. A Mass of Christian Burialwas celebrated Saturday, January 21, atSt. Helen’s Church in Westfield, withburial at Fairview Cemetery inWestfield.

Donations may be made to theWestfield Volunteer Rescue Squad.

January 26, 2017


Grade 6Honor Roll

Benjamin Abrams, Aaliyah Adams,Matthew Angulo, Caitlin Applebee,Diego Arcila, Cara Argila, Jack Barnett,Shayna Braunstein, Michael Brennan,Lucy Burke, Isabella Calamusa, Mat-thew Castucci, Brody Chin, Alec Choi,Benjamin Cohn, Isabella DeCrosta,Nishaan Desai, Sofia DiIorio, AngelinaDiaco, Raymond Dickscheid, Will-iam Dietrich, Joseph Domingues, KateEng, Timothy Ennis, Mia Erath, EmmetFeeney, Dylan Fei, Stephen Folkart,Bradley Frank, Sophie Gannon,Kathryn Germinder, Katarina Gindel,Andrew Giuliani, Bartosz Gorski,Sophie Gotliboym, Charlotte Gumpel,Diego Gutierrez, Maya Handler, Mat-thew Higgins, Avery Higinbotham,Owen Higinbotham, Dara Hsu, JoyHuang, Aniket Iyer, Tyler Jachera,Ethan Jaffe, Adam Kern, Alexis Kern,Rebecca Kessler, Morgan Kinard,Alisa Lamastra, Catherine Lavin,Samuel Leibowitz, MirandaLemansky, Michael Levin, Tian Liao,Ava Losardo, Shawn Lyght, AmandaMagee, Emma Margolis, Kyle Minall,Lauren Mirenda, Salma Mohammed,Elizabeth Moose, Stephanie Muenzen,Paul Mullarkey, Calum Murray, AlexisO’Brien, Diego Otero, Sophia Paleski,Sarah Paul, Aaron Perrotta, OwenPickel, Kathryn Power, Brigitte Priel,Reese Priel, Benjamin Pritzker, SophiaRomeo, Nikita Sahasrabudhe, FinnSautner, Niyati Shah, Jion Shim,Abigail Skibinsky, Elizabeth Sleat,Madeleine Smith, Anna Soifer, SarahSorkin, Olivia Stahley, Shaan Trehan,Ava Van Tassel, Guy Varela, HaleyWarren, Kelvin Williams, Kiley Wirth,Andrew Wolff, Bennet Xia, JeremyZimmerman

Grade 6High Honor Roll

Emma Alchus, Alana Beardsley,Elizabeth Bedatsky, Chloe Burfeindt,Joseph Catalano, Bridget Davis,Meredith DeFouw, Stefini Drivas, SaraFeeney, Neve Ferreira, Emily Filipski,Ethan Filler, Weston Fischer, JessicaGallagher, Bridget Hernandez, JacobJones, Meredith Kenoff, Maya Khan,Samantha Klausner, Anthony Malta,Ryan Matulonis, Sophie Meinke,Giulianna Milano, Matthew Nervi,Abbie Sapira, Nicholas Schmidt,Gabrielle Smulewitz, Sean Stuart,Chelsey Tang, Matthew Teevan, RyleeTighe, Kelsey Tse, Ryan VanOstenbridge, Natasha Vega, PatrickWatt, Danielle Wester

Grade 7Honor Roll

Bridget Abbott, Andrew Abrantes,Mary Adekunle, Andrew Allen, ShaanBardolia, Ryan Beauregard, KaiBobrow, Brooke Boissonneault, JuliaBonhote, Luke Brencsons, JohnBurke, Ariel Burman, AnthonyCerino, Joshua Chan, SebastianClarke, Sofia Corsaro, BrandonDiDario, Isabel Elimu, Bridget Ennis,Kerry Ericksen, Evan Fitzgerald,Lauren Fitzgerald, Joshua Gabbai,Sophia Gallahue, Patricia Gillen,Alyssa Glickstein, Lindsey Goldberg,Catherine Grandmaison, AidanHeifetz, Megan Hillyer, HannahHuang, Lily Hughes, Jacob Jablon,Amir Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, EthanKelly, Adam Kiell, Andrew Kipp, RiyaKishen, Dylan Klein, Jenna Lee, NoaLevine, Annette Liang, OliviaLinderman, Alexander Lo, LaurenMagrino, Ellora Majumdar, BrandonMelnitsky, Maximus Mercurio,Michael Minniti, Jake Monroy, AidanMooney, Rory Moser, Abdulaye-Albert Ndiaye, Matthew Power, ElinaPuri, Ethan Raderman, Grace Regan,Brodie Robertson, Samuel Rouder,Morgan Ryan, Noah Sadler, AnnaSaltzman, Isabela Segarra, Evan Sena,Jessica Steinberg, Diana Stinkova,Morgan Switsky, Hadassah Tabak,Eleni Theocharopoulou, YasminUlerio, Miles Varner, SamanthaWalden, Amy Walejewsky, JuliannaWarren, Zachary Winigrad, VivianWorley, Thomas Wright

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Aditya Aggarwal, Alice Bachman,Janet Bai, Meagan Bourke, MarinBrace, Avery Burman, VictoriaCirillo, Sofia Ciullo, Colin Clarke,Amelia Collins, Griffin Coolidge,Jack Devine, Samantha Edelman,Amanda Filipski, Ivana Fontora,Alessandro Frias, Audrey Gabbai,Alexa Gingold, Alina Gonzalez,Amanda Hill, Matthew Hui, MatthewLevine, Noah Levy, Zachary Levy,Rachel Manette, Caitlin Maughan,Eamonn McGovern, Ava McKenzie,Gabriel Melville, Allison Miller,Fatima Mirza, Aislinn Mooney, GavinMorrobel, Kayla Morrow, IsaiahNathaniel, Aditya Phatak, EllePriesing, Jessica Rojek, BenjaminRoot, Sydney Sadler, GiancarloSchifano, Joshua Seewald, SophieShapiro, Anna Sicoli, Emily Sicoli,Keeran Sivaneri, Victoria Solsky,Rebecca Strug, Isaac Tu, Lucas Vega,Megan Walsh, Jamie Weinberg,Eliyah Wong, Alexandra Xu, JuliaYick, Andrew Yu, Victor Zhang

Grade 8Honor Roll

Kieren Adams, OluwaseunAdekunle, Ryan Agnello, Jesse Artz,Tobias Bachman, Eshaan Basu, AnaniBattle, Jake Bensulock, DevonBotney, Grace Brennan, AmayaCasterlow, Janandre Castro, AlyssaChen, Matthew Cieslinski, JulietteCiullo, Abigail Colao, Dante Corsaro,Yeda Couto-Erickson, John Dazzo,Matthew Dembiec, Sofia Dietze,Katie Dore, Rachel Ducran, KaleighEinhorn, Gabriella Essenfeld, HannahFiller, Joshua Fox, Benjamin Freed-man, Dylan Fuimo, Olivia MarieFusillo, Matthew Granizo, BrandonGreenberg, Anabelle Griffin, EveHarrison, Lily Holston, TaylorHopkins, Zachary Jachera, JessicaJimenez, Ryan Jones, Jordan Katz,Hailey Kinard, Benjamin Krauss, Jo-seph Larmore, Alex Laucik, MeaganLavin, Amelia Lieberman, MeganLozito, Zachary Lubeck, MichaelMarino, Connor McElroy Barker, RoyMcGowan, Erin McNulty, VincentMilano, Emily Muench, Jake Niessen,Max Niessen, Nicole Oslislo, MichaelPaleski, Elisabeth Pickel, CarlyRinaldi, Matthew Sabony, RohanShah, Leo Shear, Caitlyn Sinagra,Christopher Skwirut, ChristopherSmith, Daniel Soler, Lucy Spitzer,Nathaniel StaRosa, AlexandraSwiatek, Serena Thomas, MackenzieTrenk, Arianna Ursino, Zoe Vasquez,Eric Watt, Allison Weisser, KyleWester, Annie Zames


Ezri Abraham, Manasvini Anjaria,Liam Avila, Gabriel Bachman, TracyBagdonas, Jack Bard, William Barnett,Sofia Beardsley, Julia Blaschak, Jor-dan Choi, Christopher Colasanti,Charles Coolidge, Danielle Coyne,Katherine DeFouw, Michael DePaola,Macy Doll, Ryan Eng, Maura Farrell,Conor Feeney, William Felcone,Justyanna Fortna, Jamie Frank, ChiragFuria, Alexis Gutierrez, Abigail Hanvey,Ethan Heifetz, Rebecca Hernandez,Marlena Holston, Jackson Hopkins,Meredith Hough, Kayla Hsu, DanielaJayinski, Luke Jones, Zuri Kennedy,Joseph Kern, Emily Kessler, GabrielleLancaster, Jonah Leibowitz, MatthewLondon, Rachel Lubeck, Corinne Lyght,Jack Manville, Jack Masella, ClareMcGuinness, Mae Merkle, SeanMerkle, James Middleton, EmiliaNathan, Natalia Nervi, AnthonyNgumah, Julianne O’Brien, MaxwellOross, Ohm Parikh, Derek Porter, JulianRijo, Lisa Ritter, Miles Roper, AbigailRyan, Katherine Ryan, MaximilianSalameh, Erica Schug, Alexa Seefeldt,Isabella Sena-Cash, Peter Shih, SerenaSirchio, Rachel Small, Felicia Rae Su,Matthew Syvertsen, Haley Tavares,Giorgiana Vacca, Remi Ventura, MayaWaldman, Carly Walker, Ryann Wall,Alexander Werkheiser, Zoe Wernsing,Jamie Wirth, Ciara Worthey

YOUNG GIVERS...The Student Government Association at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School donated $750 to the Breast Center at Overlook Hospital.Funds were raised by selling pink homecoming tee shirts in honor of breast cancerawareness month. The tee shirts were worn by students at the homecomingfootball game and were so popular, they sold out. The entire Student GovernmentAssociation, pictured above, presented check at Overlook Hospital on December2. Pictured are, front row, left to right: Lukas Stein, Katherine Keiser and MaxLusk. Back row, left to right: Benjamin Schneider, M.D., Medical Director; AnneDavidson, Coordinantor of the Breast Center; Alexa Hudak, Taylor Zucosky, GiaPares, Grace Murphy, Gabriella Marino, Sam Lusk and Henry Lewand.

STUDYING CELLS... Judy Minnium of Scotch Plains and Giavanna Brito ofWoodbridge, freshmen at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, enjoymodeling the four stages of cell division (mitosis) using pipe cleaners and oreos andsprinkles in Dr. Susan Zusman's Biology class. The class is currently focusing onthe cell cycle and how its misregulation can cause cancer.

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McBain Named toFall 2016 Dean's ListONEONTA, N.Y. – Emily McBain

of Westfield, was among 1,515 SUNYOneonta students who earned Dean'sList honors for the fall 2016 semester.To qualify for the Dean's List, a stu-dent must earn a grade-point averageof 3.5 or higher while carrying a courseload of 12 hours or more.

Sacred HeartAnnounces Dean’s List

FAIRFIELD, C.T. – AmandaWomelsdorf of Westfield was namedto the Dean’s List of Sacred HeartUniversity. Amanda is a Junior ma-joring in Psychology with a minor inCriminal Justice.

WESTFIELD – How much screentime is too much? More than 1,500Westfield intermediate school stu-dents probed the answer to that ques-tion this week in grade level assem-blies arranged by their counselors. Ina film called Screenagers, sixth, sev-enth and eighth graders at Edison andRoosevelt Intermediate Schools wereshown examples of how excessivedigital use can impact school, familyand social life.

The film also provided tips on howto help families minimize harmfuleffects and find balance. All parentswere invited to attend the eveningshowing of Screenagers on January10 at Edison Intermediate School.Screenagers probes into the vulner-able corners of family life, includingthe director's own, and depicts messystruggles over social media, videogames, academics and internet addic-tion. Through surprising insights fromauthors and brain scientists, solutions

emerge on how parents can empowerkids to best navigate the digital world.

After watching Screenagers in theEdison auditorium, sixth grader TheoKarter pledged, “I am going to ignorethe phone more and put it down. Thiswas an in depth look at the subject.”Classmate Oliva Rosario came awaywith this lesson, “Maybe you shouldnot spend so much time, but only alittle to benefit yourself. You can turnoff your phone and block your texts.”

Roosevelt Assistant Principal,Brian Gechtman, stated, “The filmgenerated rich discussion topics, rang-ing from how screen time affects face-to-face communication to the impor-tance of setting non-negotiable rulesas a parent.”

Edison Counselor, Kerry Webster,noted that the reactions and opinionsbrought about by the viewing willcontinue. “This Friday we will de-brief in our advisory groups whicheach consist of a staff members andapproximately 10 students. We meetonce a month for affective lessons,and certainly Screenagers has stimu-lated much thinking for our discus-sion.”


JMU Announces Fall2016 Dean's List

William & MaryAnnounces Dean's List

WILLIAMSBURG, V.A. – NatalieAnn Marcotullio from Westfield wasrecently named to the Dean's List atthe College of William & Mary forthe fall 2016 semester.

In order to achieve Dean's List sta-tus, a full-time degree seeking under-graduate student must take at least 12credit hours and earn a 3.6 QualityPoint Average during the semester.

William & Mary is the second old-est institution of higher learning inthe United States.

Perri FleischmanNamed to SUNY

Oswego Deans' ListOSWEGO, N.Y. (01/23/2017)--

Perri E. Fleischman of Scotch Plains,a junior human development major,earned Deans' List recognition atSUNY Oswego for fall 2016.

She was among students who re-ceived a grade point average of 3.3 to3.79. Oswego students receiving aGPA of 3.8 to 4.0 earn President's Listrecognition.

WESTFIELD – The Westfield Pub-lic Schools, in conjunction with Youthand Family Counseling Service, areoffering a free time management pre-sentation for all Westfield parents. Itwill be hosted by Westfield SchoolParent Teacher Organizations in twolocations: Franklin School, 700 Pros-pect Street, today, at 7 p.m., andTamaques School, 641 Willow GroveRoad, on Tuesday, January 31, at 7p.m.

Facilitator Carol M. Pedro, MA,

LPC, has designed the presentationto include recommendations on learn-ing effective time management, howto end the “homework nightmare”,and ways to organize daily routinesfor the best results. Attendees alsowill receive handouts and tip sheets.Ms. Pedro is a licensed professionalcounselor, working with children andfamilies for 15 years. Work experi-ence includes creating parent educa-tion programs in various counselingcenters and hospitals.

Local Students Named toUniv. of Vermont Dean's List

HARRISONBURG, V.A. – JamesMadison University announced thatthe following students made the dean'slist for the fall 2016 semester.

Margaux Natiello of Westfield, whois scheduled to graduate in 2019 andis majoring in dance.

Jane Aronds of Westfield, who isscheduled to graduate in 2018 and ismajoring in hospitality management.

Jennifer Tresnan of Westfield, whois scheduled to graduate in 2017 andis majoring in interdisciplinary lib-eral studies.

Cameron Kutzer of Cranford, whois scheduled to graduate in 2018 andis majoring in marketing.

Kristin Leu of Cranford, who is

scheduled to graduate in 2019 and ismajoring in marketing.

Shanna Kelly of Westfield, who isscheduled to graduate in 2020 and ismajoring in media arts and design.

Catherine Meixner of Westfield,who is scheduled to graduate in 2017and is majoring in media arts anddesign.

Laura Streaman of Westfield, whois scheduled to graduate in 2017 andis majoring in media arts and design.

Morgan Garofola of Cranford, whois scheduled to graduate in 2019 andis majoring in nursing.

Haley Latourette of Mountainside,who is scheduled to graduate in 2017and is majoring in political science.

Wheaton CollegeTells Dean's List

WHEATON, I.L. – Wheaton Col-lege student James Schetelich ofScotch Plains, was named to theDean's List for the fall 2016 semes-ter.

To earn Dean's List honors atWheaton, an undergraduate studentmust carry 12 or more credit hoursand achieve a 3.5 grade point aver-age or higher on the 4.0 scale.

BURLINGTON, V.T. – The fol-lowing students have been namedto the dean's list at the University ofVermont.

To be named to the dean's list,students must have a grade-pointaverage of 3.0 or better and rank inthe top 20 percent of their class intheir respective college or school.

Nora Aronds, of Westfield; SaraFetter, of Westfield; KatherineFischer, of Westfield; JonathanKelly, of Westfield; Scott

Quisenberry, of Cranford; HaileyReilly, of Westfield; AnnieResnikoff, of Westfield; AllysonTazbin, of Westfield; Joseph Guidi,of Scotch Plains and Ani HsuObrock, of Scotch Plains.

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By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGERfilm critic

Watching director Theodore Melfi’sHidden Figures, about the African-American women working for NASAwho were instrumental if not indis-pensable to getting our first man inspace, we scratch our heads and can’thelp but ask ourselves, “How come Ididn’t know this?” But figuring thetruth here isn’t rocket science. So manyyears after the fact, it’s the same depthof prejudice that hampered KatherineG. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, MaryJackson and their sister colleagues fromconvincing the space agency of theirgenius that has squirreled away theirstory.

This is a civics lesson, especiallyimportant at this tremulous juncturewhen a sizable portion of our popula-tion wishes to forego the humanitarianadvancement of our species for thesake of a personal interest that they’vebeen tricked into believing is at warwith all progressive thought. As such,its dramatically satisfying treatise onthe snail’s pace of civil rights is just asmuch pragmatic as it is sweetly ideal-istic. By personalizing the tale throughthe eyes of its three protagonists, thescreenplay studies the stresses, fearsand ingrained mysteries of bigotry.

Thus we shockingly learn that, atLangley Research Center in Hampton,Virginia, where Al Harrison, playedby Kevin Costner, heads the SpaceTask Group of the era’s supposed Bestand the Brightest, Jim Crow is verymuch alive and at work, keeping hu-mankind from its destiny. There, work-ing at the segregated West Area Com-puters section, circa 1962, Katherine,a math wiz played by Taraji P. Henson;Dorothy, a team leader portrayed byOctavia Spencer; and Janelle Monáe’sMary Jackson, an engineer, crunchimportant numbers in relative obscu-rity.

But, as necessity is the mother ofinvention, sometimes it can also be thearbitrator of racial tolerance: i.e. - Asadmirable as Branch Rickey’s deci-sion was to have Jackie Robinson breakthe Major League Baseball color line,it was essentially a way for the sport toat last avail itself of the vast talent poolswelling the Negro leagues. Likewise,when it’s discovered just how brilliantKatherine is, she’s invited to workalongside her white counterparts. How-ever, just like the famed BrooklynDodger, her admittance is fraught withrather unseemly resistance.

In a tragicomic comment on theinvisible wall that defies reason in thename of deep-rooted bias, it is a whilebefore Costner’s Al Harrison, the egg-head boss under pressure to catch upwith the Russians following theSputnik’s success, becomes aware ofthe roadblocks Katherine faces. Buthe is a devoted scientist who doesn’t

suffer foolery. So, when he discoversthat Katherine is away from her deskfor inordinate amounts of time be-cause she has to run a half mile eachway to the “colored only” bathroom,we cheer his abashment and resolu-tion.

In smart, contextual contrast to thehard work of tearing down the unpro-ductive, age-old injustice of discrimi-nation that Katherine, Dorothy andMary devote themselves to, directorMelfi intersperses the drama with real-life images from the era. Footage ofPresident John F. Kennedy exhortingus to noble deeds cannot help but bringa tear as we are reminded of the hopefor social enlightenment that wassnatched from us.

Putting it in perspective, while weAmericans at that time, both Demo-crat and Republican, were of coursedevoted to our partisan ideologies, wewere not so divided that we couldn’timagine a greater good… one we knewwe were capable of attaining if weselflessly sought it. But the assassina-tion launched a cynicism that erodedthe postwar feeling of renewed inno-cence, vitality and goodwill, causingus a suspicion of conspiracy at almostevery turn, too often corroborated. Ithelped fuel the revolutionary 1960s,was held at bay, but has now againreared its ugly head.

Our story takes place at the nexusbetween these two epochs, when thecountry still has an appetite for real,honest-to-goodness heroes and anx-iously anticipates our astronauts catch-ing up with and surpassing those darnRussian cosmonauts. The Cold War isbeing played out in the heavens. Man-aging a balancing act between suingfor their rights and nonetheless cham-pioning the pioneering efforts of aland that once counted them as 3/5thsof a citizen, the story of our math-ematical troika is an uplifting, educa-tional and compelling lesson in patrio-tism.

Coupled with the technical ins andouts of putting a manned rocket outamong the stars, this PG-rated cornu-copia of human potential should beliberally shown in schools whereverparents want their children to be ableto say, “Yes we can.” Indeed, we areimpressed as well as thankful when welearn that John Glenn insisted thatKatherine look over the trajectory num-bers before he would leave Earth. Forin the process, the mathematician didsome trailblazing of her own, clearingthe path for future generations to dreamout in the open, and not as HiddenFigures.

***Hidden Figures, rated PG, is a Twen-

tieth Century Fox release directed byTheodore Melfi and stars Taraji P.Henson, Octavia Spencer and JanelleMonáe. Running time: 127 minutes

Continuo Arts CelebratesA Decade of Music

TOP PLAYERS...Seven Westfield High School (WHS) Band students wereaccepted to the 2017 New Jersey Music Education Association Region Band orOrchestra. Three of the seven students placed first overall in their instrument:Dale Beyert - Wind Ensemble and Orchestra, Trumpet; Michael Hauge - WindEnsemble, Eb and Bb Clarinet, and Brooke Walden - Wind Ensemble andOrchestra, Piccolo and Flute. In addition, Austin Chen performed on trumpetwith the Symphonic Band; Matthew Schiff - Wind Ensemble, Alto and BassClarinet; Sara Shen - Symphonic Band, Flute; and Daniel Shenker - SymphonicBand, Alto Saxophone. The performances took place on January 8 and January15 – both at Montgomery High School. Pictured, from left to right, at the January15 regional concert are: Trevor Sindorf – WHS Band Director, Matthew Schiff,Brooke Walden, Sara Shen, Dale Beyert, Austin Chen, Michael Hauge, DanielShenker, and Chris Vitale, WHS Band Director. The seven students also audi-tioned for All-State on January 21.

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2/1 6:30 pm Excel Basics-Advanced computer class

2/2 2:00 pm Origami-Make a Valentine’s Token w/Joy Lara

2/2 7:00 pm Raconteur Radio presents “Gaslight”

2/3 1:30 pm TGIF! Georgia O’Keefe (video)

2/4 2:00 pm Lincoln Center Local: Lang Lang at the Philharmonic 2015

2/8 7:00 pm Armchair Art Tour: Meet Ben Franklin

2/10 1:30 pm TGIF! Ella Fitzgerald (video)

2/14 10:00 am Coloring for Adults (Supplies provided)

2/17 1:30 pm TGIF! Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (video)

2/24 1:30 pm TGIF! Movie: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2/1, 8, 15, 22 10:30 am Time for 3’s Storytime (caregiver attends)

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2/3, 10, 17, 24 10:00 am Playgroup for Babies 0-23 months (caregiver attends)

2/3 3:45 pm Chess Club for Kids (must know how to move pieces)

2/7, 14, 21 1:00 pm Afternoon Fun for 4’s and 5’s Storytime

2/7 6:30 pm Evening LEGO Club (grades 1-5)

2/9 7:00 pm Scavenger Hunt at Library (child must know how to read)

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Pushcart Players PresentStone Soup and Other Stories

SUMMIT – The Continuo ArtsFoundation begins its 10th anniver-sary year and celebrates a decade ofmusic, inspiration and opportunity.In its relatively short tenure, theContinuo Arts notable impact includesthe establishment of New Jersey’smost comprehensiveintergenerational choral program withseven choirs for singers of all ages;producing concerts and premieringmajor choral and orchestral works inCarnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, theMusic Center at Strathmore, makinghistory as the first US organization topresent a concert inside the SistineChapel, on the Paper Mill Playhousemain stage for 42 shows premieringDisney’s The Hunchback of NotreDame, producing the Minuetto Mu-sic Festival and serving as musicalambassadors around the world at pres-tigious international music festivalsin Rome, Vatican City, Ireland, CzechRepublic, and other world stages ofnote.

Opening their new facilities thisSeptember at 36 Chatham Road inSummit, Continuo launched a Con-servatory of Music offering musiclessons in voice, piano, instrumentalas well as music theory and auditionprep, musical theater workshops and

summer programs. In addition to theFoundation office and studios, theContinuo Conservatory Hall is hometo the seven weekly choir rehearsals.

“We are excited to celebrate withthe community and to expand ourmusical offerings and outreach to lo-cal singers, artists and composersacross greater New Jersey,” saysCandace Wicke, Executive Directorand Principal Conductor. “This year’sfirst event takes place Sunday, Febru-ary 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the ContinuoArts Conservatory Hall and the pub-lic is invited to our 2017 Annual FundKick-off Cabaret. There will be per-formances by Conservatory and mem-ber soloists, ensembles, as well ashors d’oeuvres and beverages. Therewill be entertainment for everyone toenjoy!”

Opportunities for local singers in-clude choirs for children, youth,adults, seniors and professionals; callto schedule your audition today. Pri-vate lessons are available for begin-ners to advanced students with a freeintroductory lesson and assesment,music theory and audition prep, mas-ter classes and music theater work-shops. For additional information visitcontinuoarts.com or call (908) 264-5324.

RAHWAY – Pushcart Players, NewJersey’s Emmy nominated and award-winning touring theater for youngaudiences presents Stone Soup…andother stories at 10:30 a.m. on Wednes-day, February 8 at Union County Per-forming Arts Center, Rahway NJ.

Stone Soup… is a charming musi-cal compilation of short literary fa-vorites from Africa, India, EasternEurope and the United States ofAmerica. Filled with exuberant mu-sic, fantasy, and comic plot lines,each tale introduces the spirit andcustoms of these unique cultures. Inso doing, the production provides aspringboard for reading and subse-quent literacy-related activities.

“The play gently raises universalvalue clarification issues,” said RuthFost, Pushcart’s founder and co-au-thor of the play. “Family audienceswill be delighted by the show. Thenthey’ll find themselves discussing whycertain characters made certainchoices, and how outcomes wouldhave differed with different behavior.That being said, the show is still afun-filled romp through delightfulstories.”

The cast of Stone Soup…andother stories includes: OscarCastillo, Christina Gordon, ChrisMorrissey and Phebe Taylor. Artis-tic director Paul Whelihan guidesthe production. Orchestrations areby Tony Award-winner, LarryHochman. Choreography is by SusiePaplow.

Oscar Castillo, a graduate of KeanUniversity with a BFA in theatre,co-founded The Theatre Project andperforms frequently throughoutNYC with Peculiar Works Produc-tions. Christina Gordon is a NewJersey native with an M.F.A. inActing from Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts.She’s performed in Good People(The Public Theatre & ShadowlandTheatre), A Midsummer Night’sDream, As You Like It and Reasonsto be Pretty. Television credits in-clude: “HAPPYish,” “Person of In-terest” and “Guiding Light.” She

can be seen in the films “I HateBeing Black” (which she co-wroteand produced) and “Damsel.”

Chris Morrissey recently graduatedwith a BFA in Musical Theatre fromthe Cincinnati College-Conservatoryof Music (CCM) where he receivedthe Lehman Engel Award for Excel-lence in Musical Theatre. Chris hasperformed at venues across the coun-try including Paper Mill Playhouse,Lincoln Center, and the KennedyCenter. Phebe Taylor has been aPushcart Player since 2004. She wasrecently seen flying around as Peterin “Peter Pan” at Beef and BoardsDinner Theatre. A company memberof the Heartland Actors’ RepertoryTheatre in Indianapolis, she appearsin their summer Shakespeare produc-tions, and is a frequent performer atIndianapolis' Phoenix Theatre, in suchshows as Urinetown, Bloody BloodyAndrew Jackson, The Zippers ofZoomerville, Boston Marriage, Pe-ter and the Starcatcher, and the Na-tional New Play Network's “RollingWorld Premiere” of End Days.

Paul Whelihan directs, stage-manages and performs off-Broad-way (47th Street Theater, 59 East59 Theatres, NY Fringe Festival, 54Below) and regionally (RoyalPoincianna Playhouse, BrowardCenter for the Arts, Centenary Stage,The Bickford Theatre, The Grow-ing Stage, Luna Stage Company,Forum Cultural Arts Center, QuilloArts Center, Premiere Stages,Dreamcatcher Rep) in musicals, dra-mas, and original works. He hasappeared in locally produced tele-vision, film, and web series projects.

Larry Hochman is the Tony Award-winner for orchestrations for “SheLoves Me” (2016 revival) and Tonyand Drama Desk award-winner for“The Book of Mormon.” He receivedTony nominations for The ScottsboroBoys, Monty Python's Spamalot,(Hochman also received Drama Desknominations for both), Fiddler onthe Roof (2004 revival) and A ClassAct. Larry composed additionalmusic for Disney’s Little Mermaid.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR...The Westfield High School choirs will reprise theirannual Night of Love Songs on Saturday, February 11 at 7 p.m.

WESTFIELD – The Westfield HighSchool (WHS) Choir Department willperform “A Night of Love Songs” onSaturday, February 11 at 7 p.m. (dooropens at 6:30 p.m. in WHS CafeteriaB) under the direction of JohnBrzozowski, Choir Director. Whilehaving coffee and desserts, enjoy anevening of wonderful solo and groupperformances by members of theWHS Choir. In addition, there will bemany beautiful gift baskets to raffleas well as a 50/50 raffle. Tickets willbe sold at the door and are $5 perstudent and $10 per adult. This event

is being sponsored by the WestfieldChoral Parents Association, Inc., andthe proceeds will be applied towardchoral performance opportunities forthe students, such as trips, cliniciansand special events.Planning is under-way for the choir's spring 2018 trip toHelsinki and the Baltic States.

For more information, or to make amonetary or other charitable dona-tion, please contact Holly Zakharenkoat [email protected], ElianaCarvajal at [email protected] orKarna Cestero [email protected].

WESTFIELD – The Town BookStore will host a meet-and-greet forlocal TV critic Alan Sepinwall, co-author of “TV (The Book): Two Ex-perts Pick the Greatest AmericanShows of All Time” on Saturday, Janu-ary 28, from 2 to 4 p.m.

The authors have established thePantheon of top TV shows using acomplex, obsessively all-encompass-ing ranking system by which to orderand stack them up against each other.With a mix of lively entries on criti-cally acclaimed and commercially suc-cessful classics such as “Seinfeld,”“The Sopranos,” “Star Trek,” “TheSimpsons” and “Twin Peaks” and illu-

minating essays on short-lived favor-ites such as “Taxi,” “Freaks and Geeks”and “My So-Called Life,” “TV (TheBook)” is sure to spark conversationand debate among readers.

Mr. Sepinwall, who has been writ-ing about television for over 20 years,began as an online reviewer of“NYPD Blue,” then for 14 years wasthe TV critic for The Star-Ledger,then at HitFix.com and now as au-thor of the popular blog What’s AlanWatching? on Uproxx.com.

The Town Book Store is located at270 East Broad Street in Westfield, atthe corner of East Broad and ElmerStreets.

Local Student Named toHamilton College Dean's List

CLINTON, N.Y. – Brian P. Burns,son of Laura and Jeffrey Burns ofScotch Plains, has been named to theDean's List at Hamilton College forthe 2016 fall semester.

To be named to the Dean's List, astudent must have carried throughoutthe semester a course load of four ormore graded credits with an averageof 3.5 or above.

Mr. Burns, a senior majoring incinema and media studies and litera-ture, is a graduate of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School.

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SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT...The JCC of Central New Jersey’s Youth Community Theater Group, in its ninth year,is excited to present Peter Pan on Thursday, February 2 at 7 p.m., Saturday, February 4 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, February5 at 2 p.m. All performances are at Terrill Middle School, 1301 Terrill Road in Scotch Plains. The show features second toeighth grade students from Scotch Plains, Westfield, Cranford, and Springfield. Tickets are on sale online only atwww.brownpapertickets.com. Ticket sales will close 24 hours prior to show dates; remaining seats will be available at thedoor. For more information, visit www.jccnj.org or contact Jordyn Barry at [email protected].

New Jersey Festival OrchestraOffers Luxury Car Raffle

WESTFIELD – Raffle tickets arenow on sale for a chance to win abrand new 2017 Mercedes BenzC3004-MATIC. What’s more, amaximum of only 200 ticketswill be sold, meaning that withthe purchase of just one ticket,the chance of driving away inthis top-of-the-line luxury sportssedan is one in 200 - exception-ally attractive odds for any raffle.

The raffle has been launchedby The New Jersey Festival Or-chestra in conjunction with RayCatena of Union. All proceedswill go to support the NJFO mis-sion to bring the joy of music tounderserved communities, de-velop music education programsfor children, and bring music therapyprograms to hospitals and hospices.

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The raffle drawing will takeplace on Saturday, March 4 at 10p.m. at the NJFO post-concertreception hosted by Ray Catenaof Union. All raffle ticket pur-chasers are invited to attend thegala reception but are not re-quired to be present to win. Thereception and drawing follows

the NJFO presentation of Verdi’s LaTraviata, which will be performed byNJFO at the Presbyterian Church inWestfield at 7 p.m. that evening.

Commented NJFO Board Presi-dent Keith Hertell, “This exceptionalraffle is not just a chance to win ahighly desirable luxury car, it is alsoan opportunity to simultaneously sup-port a much needed and worthwhilecause. We invite all members of thecommunity to purchase a ticket andjoin us in our mission to bring thepower of music to where it can reallymake a difference.”

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WESTFIELD – The exciting springseason of Mostly Music opens on Sun-day, February 5 with a program starringSusanna Phillips, the MetropolitanOpera’s lyric soprano, Anne-MarieMcDermott, the virtuoso pianist andPaul Neubauer acclaimed violist. Theprogram features a variety of vocalmusic with many of the salon typesongs including an obbligato instru-ment. Music from the British Isles,Russia, France and Italy for voice, violaand piano composed by Rachmaninoff,Arensky, Gounod, Tosti and more willbe performed.

On Sunday, March 5, Mostly Musicwelcomes back our past virtuosos, vio-linist, Ani Kavafian of the Music Soci-ety of Lincoln Center, recording artistand soloist and Carter Brey, soloist andprincipal cellist of the New York Phil-

harmonic along with Ida Kavafian, vio-linist, Steven Tenenbom, viola and PaulNeubauer, violist. The program, “TheCzechs in America” will include worksby Antonin Dvorak and BohuslavMartinu. Dvorak composed his “Ameri-can” Quartet and Quintet while visitingthe Czech-speaking community inSpillville, Iowa. Both pieces will beperformed at the concert. Martinu, spentmore than a decade in New York Citywhere he composed “Three Madrigalsfor Violin and Viola, H. 313. This musichas it’s roots in Bohemian-Moravianfolk themes and dances.

Mostly Music concerts take place atTemple Emanu-El, 756 East BroadStreet, Westfield at 3:30 p.m. Furtherinformation is available on the website-http://mostlymusic.org/tickets-sub-scriptions or call (973) 762-0180.

Local Artists to Exhibit atSouth Avenue Arts in Garwood

ErratumIn the January 19 edition of The

Westfield Leader and The ScotchPlains-Fanwood Times the articleabout Richard Kline inadvertentlyreferred to him as Mr. King. We re-gret the error.

GARWOOD – The Contempo-rary Art Group has announced itsmember show at South Avenue Artsfrom Wednesday, February 1 toTuesday, February 28. An openingreception will be held on Friday,February 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. SouthAvenue Arts is located at 221 SouthAvenue in Garwood.

Open daily Monday to Friday 12p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 9:30a.m. to 12 p.m. for more informa-tion, visitwww.southavenuearts.com.

The Contemporary Art Group is anot-for-profit organization that was

established in 2006. The group isaffiliated with the Watchung ArtsCenter, where the membership of60 local artists meets monthly andexhibits in various venues in NewJersey throughout the year.

Participating local artists in theSouth Avenue Arts show are: DianeGallo, Charlann Meluso, AliciaFlynn Cotter, Don Kuhn, KathyNademus, Ruth Brown, MelHolsten, Virginia Carroll, MargaretMcCrary-Anderson, LinneaRhodes, Dorothy Bellew, MonicaSchraiber Otero, Barbara Uhr,Cecily Sullivan, Lesya Hanenko

Dovbenko, Tamara HanenkoDeNais, Maryann Ficker, BrookeGardiner, and Sharon Reed.


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CONCINA GRABS 100TH CAREER WIN, KALNINS CLAMPS LEO, BUDNIK PINS FIGUEREDO

Cougar Matmen Top Panthers in Rivalry Showdown, 46-21By DAVID B. CORBIN

Specially Written for The WestfieldLeader and The Times

Senior Vince Concina joinedChris Scorese and TomDiGiovanni as members of the“100-career win club” on thisyear’s Cranford High School wres-tling team during a rivalry matchwith Roselle Park in Cranford onJanuary 18. The 7-0, fourth-ranked Cougars also achieved ararity by defeating the Panthersfor the third straight year, thistime by a 46-21 margin.

“We went through this match afew times and we had it a little bitcloser than it was. After watchingthem wrestle in counties, weknew they had a tough team.Sometimes it’s just the match-ups. Both of us [coaches] did alittle maneuvering around,” saidCougar Head Coach Pat Gorman,who added, “A lot of alumni weresending messages that this isthe first time that we have beatenRoselle Park three years in a rowsince 1963. There was a little bitextra pressure there.”

Jumping up to the 182-lb class,

after amassing a number of backpoints with his patented Turkand chin hook nearfalls, Concinacelebrated his 100th victory whenhe twisted Devin Hilburn with acorkscrew maneuver to record a17-1, technical fall in 4:08.

Scorese reached his 100th vic-tory at the NJSIAA Champion-ships last March and DiGiovannigained his at the recentBethlehem Catholic ChristmasTournament. But there are stilltwo more members, AnthonyCapece and Brian McGovern, whoare approaching that magic num-ber on this team that may be oneof the best in Cranford wrestlinghistory.

“I think McGovern is in the high

80s and Capece is in the 90s,”Coach Gorman noted.

Capece got one win closer tothat mark but it was a tough onewith Jon Mejia at 120-lbs. After ascoreless first period, Mejia es-caped and added a defensivetakedown to grab a 3-0 leadbefore Capece managed toquickly escape. Capece escapedin the third period then scoopedup a double-leg takedown to earna 4-3 decision. McGovern’s boutat 170-lbs was much quickerwhen he tossed Abel Crespo tothe mat with a reverse head throwin 49 seconds.

The first bout of the evening,however, began at 106-lbs. PatKalnins, who placed third at theUnion County Tournament (UCT)battled Panther Gabe Leo, whohad placed second. Leo took a 4-

1 lead but made a cardinal errorby hanging his head. Kalnins capi-talized and clamped Leo with areverse cradle in 1:59.

“He was over me. I hooked hisleg then I got his head and I wasable to roll him over onto hisback,” Kalnins described.

As to his pin of the person whoplaced second at the UCT, Kalninscommented, “It feels prettygood.”

Panther Mark Montgomery (UCTchamp) knotted the team scoreat 6-6 when he pinned EvanKanterman in 1:06 with an armbar/tight waist at 113-lbs. AfterCapece’s victory, Panther JoshMejia squeezed out a 2-1 victoryover Connor Halpin at 126-lbswhen he got two back points witha spread eagle (banana split). At

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132-lbs, Scorese presented anexhibition of nearfalls, tilts and acradle to claim a 15-0, 5:25 tech-nical fall over Dylan Camilo.

DiGiovanni had no takers at138-lbs to receive a forfeit and toput the Cougars in front, 20-9.The 145-lb bout went to over-time and Panther Elvin Guerreroscored a double-leg takedown toedge AJ Bencivenga, 5-3. An-other battle at 152-lbs had Pan-ther Rene Perez using his twininggrapevine takedowns to top MikeNigro, 7-3.

Emerging from the JV ranksMatt Doran was one of several

Cougars who exercised fine topcontrol and added a pair oftakedowns and a reversal to beatJeff Garcia, 6-1, at 160-lbs.

“Tough on top! It’s good to geta win from guys who aren’t al-ways the guys who are gettingthe wins in tough matches. Go-ing into this weekend where wehave Queen of Peace, HanoverPark, just knowing that we havea team effort and a JV guy whogot a win. We just won the JVchampionship, so it’s good toknow we can count on them notto just save us points but to getus wins. It’s going to be a big testfor us this weekend,” CoachGorman said.

After McGovern’s and Concina’svictories made the team score34-15, Cougar Dylan Budnikpinned Vinny Figueredo, who tooksecond in the UCT at 220-lbs, in2:00 with an arm bar/half nelsonat 195-lbs.

“Me and my partner AnthonyRamirez were really working onthat in the room. We have beengrinding it out in practice and itworked out on the mat,” Budnik

said.Budnik also had come off a

strong showing having placedthird at the UCT.

“I think I made a lot of progressfrom last year. I feel going for-

ward you only do that when youget better in the room for dis-tricts and regions,” Budnik said.

At 220-lbs, Ramirez became avictim of a double-leg tackle to apin by Sean Matthews with 10

seconds left. Cougar AlexEsposito also had no takers at285-lbs to receive a forfeit.

“We have great captains in ‘Gov’[McGovern] and ‘Gi’ [DiGiovanni].As a team, we hang out. We havea lot of fun together. It’s reallyhelping us not only off the matbut to keep on going to the play-offs [sections and tournaments],”Budnik said.

BOUT SEQUENCE:106: — Kalnins (C) p Leo 1:59113: — Montgomery (R) p Kanterman,1:06120: — Capece (C) d Mejia, 4-3126: — Mejis (R) d Halpin, 2-1132: — Scorese (C) tf Camilo, 15-03:25138: — DiGiovanni (C) won forfeit145: — Guerrero (R) d Bencivenga, 5-3 OT152: — Perez (R) d Nigro, 7-3160: — Doran (C) d Garcia, 6-1170: — McGovern (C) p Crespo :49182: — Concina (C) p Hilburn 4:08195: — Budnik (C) p Figueredo 2:00220: — Matthews (R) p Ramirez 5:50Hwt: — Esposito (C) won forfeit


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By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

GARWOOD — At the Tuesdaynight meeting of the GarwoodCouncil, a settlement agreementwas approved to resolve an af-fordable-housing lawsuit, the taxrevaluation process and the 2017application to the Department ofTransportation (DOT) for roadwork was discussed, and a$200,000 bond ordinance wasapproved to authorize the acqui-sition of a new garbage truck.

After meeting in closed ses-sion, the council unanimously au-thorized Mayor Charles Lombardoand Borough Administrator/ClerkChristina Ariemma to execute asettlement agreement in the formapproved by Borough AttorneyRobert Renaud. The settlementrelates to the affordable-hous-ing units Garwood is responsiblefor. Ms. Ariemma requested TheWestfield Leader file an OPRA(Open Public Records Act) re-quest in response to a requestfor information on the lawsuit.

Former councilman Jim Mathieuaddressed the council to discussthe town-wide tax revaluation.According to state.nj.us, revalu-ation is a program that is initi-ated by a municipality to ap-praise all real estate according toits fair market value in compli-ance with state law. Revaluationbrings all properties to 100 per-cent, insuring that owners paytaxes based on the fair marketvalue of their property. Fair mar-ket value is defined as the pricea property would sell for be-tween a buyer and seller.

Mr. Mathieu told The Leader

that the last time Garwood had areassessment was 1984. “We areso far outside that we now haveto do a revaluation,” he said.Reassessment, like a revalua-tion, seeks to spread the taxburden equally, but in most casesthe process is conducted in-housewithout the aid of an outsiderevaluation/appraisal firm. Re-valuation will require the bor-ough to hire outside aid.

“Although Garwood has notbeen mandated to undertake oneyet, it [revaluation] is going tobe coming down the line,” Coun-cilwoman Ileen Cuccaro said.“This is a very costly process,which would cost the taxpayersaround $200,000.”

Mr. Mathieu urged the councilto “start to accrue the $200,000cost,” asking if the borough was“waiting for a lawsuit.”

“We are trying to figure outhow to start accruing money with-out a burden to the taxpayer,”Councilwoman Cuccaro said.

“It’s a burden no matter howyou look at it,” replied CouncilPresident Sara Todisco.

Councilwoman Cuccaro saidthat the Administrative ReviewCommittee has “decided to takea closer look” at a proposal sentby a resident urging the councilto ask the Union County Free-holders for at least a portion ofthe funding for the revaluation.

“We believe it is worthwhile toseek assistance from our countygovernment,” she said. “We willmake a recommendation oncewe have a draft.”

Council President Todisco statedthat the Finance Committee wasin “unanimous agreement” tomove forward with the plannedbudget process. She reported thatshe has asked all departmentheads to “come up with three

ways to save money” and askedthem to give her a short summaryabout their budgets.

Ms. Todisco reminded residentsthat the Finance Committee willhold a “Breaking Down the Bud-get” meeting on Tuesday, Febru-ary 7, at Lincoln School at 7 p.m.,at which time residents are wel-come to share their thoughts andhave their questions answered.Items that will be discussed in-clude the tax bill, 2-percent caplaw and surplus, among otherbudget items.

Councilwoman Cuccaro also re-ported that the Laws and LicenseCommittee recommended an in-crease to liquor license fees,which had not been modified since2010. She also stated that thecommittee would like to intro-duce an ordinance to prohibithandicap street parking if theapplicant has a driveway. “Obvi-ously if there are mitigating cir-cumstances that would cause theapplicant to not comply, that canbe addressed on a case-by-casebasis,” she said.

The council also discussed thegrant application to the DOT forroad paving. “We are supposedto put in for what we foreseedoing,” Council President Todiscosaid. “We talked about doingmore [paving] than we usuallydo.” She stated that the councilneeded to prioritize the streetsthat needed to be done.

“Even if we put in for $500,000,we will probably only get$200,000,” Ms. Ariemma stated.

The council discussed approv-ing an ordinance to require thewater company to pave the wholestreet if the company shouldhave to do work on a recentlypaved street to avoid “patch-work” paving.

Garwood Council Settles COAHLawsuit; DOT Application

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Committee Authorizes SaleOf Birchwood Property

By MICHAEL BONACCORSOSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

CRANFORD – The TownshipCommittee on Tuesday nightpassed a resolution authorizingacquisition of 215-235 BirchwoodAvenue for $18.5 million.

As previously reported thetownship is purchasing the prop-erty from S. Hekemian Group.The committee has said the town-ship is acquiring the land in orderto reduce the density by 37 per-cent from 360 to 225 units andseeking another developer forthe property.

Deputy Mayor Patrick Giblin wasthe sole negation 4-1 vote onTuesday’s resolution. Mr. Giblinsaid the development is not fis-cally conservative and could beburdensome to residents. Mr.Giblin said dollars for flood re-search and other resident con-cerns mentioned at previousmeetings are not accounted forin the $18.5 million bond.

Barbara Krause, a long-time

resident, said nothing has beenmentioned addressing wetlandsand bodies of water that run nextto the Birchwood Development.Ms. Krause said the project canbe positive, however, a floodedbuilding or property would be amajor setback for the town. Shesuggested research should bedone to further investigate if adetention wall is needed. Ms.Krause stated his intentions werenot to complain, but open aneducated dialogue on protectingCranford’s investment.

The United States Army Corps.of Engineers have released theirfindings on Cranford’s flood pre-vention and river system. A fullreport can be found on theCranford Township website. Com-missioner Mary O’Connor will hostoffice hours in the municipal build-ing on Tuesday, February 7 from6:30 to 8 p.m. to discuss CranfordFlood Risk Management situa-tion. Any questions can be sentto her email m-

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Garwoodian LaughsI have to laugh every time I

hear Donald Trump talk aboutreceiving a mandate from theAmerican people. Last time Iread, the American people over-whelmingly supported HillaryClinton for President – by overtwo million votes. Seems to methe only mandate I see in thosenumbers is not to have DonaldTrump elected President.

Bill Nierstedt,Garwood

County Should Use Runnells Surplusfor Property Tax Re-Valuations

Dear mayors and council mem-bers of the 21 Union Countytowns, the Freeholders and man-ager of Union County govern-ment: this is a taxpayer andresident of the county.

Toward the serious and expen-sive issue of town-wide reevalu-ations that we towns face, I sub-mit a proposal that will make allthe 21 town governing bodiesand the County Freeholders looklike heroes to their constituents,based simply on redirecting ex-cess residents’ tax monies backto the constituents needs.

First some background and thenthe proposal: On May 16, 2014,April 23,2015 and May 22, 2015,I noted in letters to the towns theongoing process that UnionCounty government, by sellingRunnells Specialized Hospital willremove all operational costs fromthe county budget and, thus, ifthe county did not reduce countytaxes from the savings, theywould accrue in the vicinity of$15 to 23 million that year. I hadexplained this to the Freeholdersat their budget meeting backthen, but they possibly did notunderstand the gravity of theunexpected good fortunes. Onepositive response that was moti-vated from my questions andcommentary was the reactivecreation of the Union County in-frastructure grants to the towns.This grant program was createdout of the $4-million profit gainedfrom the Runnells sale.

Last year, 2015, the second fullyear after the Runnells sale, ac-cording to my prognosis, thecounty budget suddenly explodedwith a $50-million surplus, awhopping and unheard of 10percent of their budget of $500million! Most of this is certainly

the direct result of the “Runnellsoperating cost savings.” Yet overthe last two years, in observingthe county budget cycles, eventhough their running fund bal-ance was growing fast, the free-holders still increased the countytaxes a total of another $14 mil-lion. Presently, this is the thirdyear of the Runnells cost sav-ings, and again I am predictingthat there could be approximately$65 to 75 million in surplus. Notethese monies may not appearjust in the direct budget line itemcalled surplus, but, like the otheryears, the county may feel theneed to spread these moniesaround and within myriad lineitems of their 2017 budget butmay have no tangible offsettingappropriations. In the past year,attending the freeholder meet-ings, Union County has not iden-tified any major pressing costimpacts on the horizon they needto take care of. In the next fewweeks, the county manager plansto submit a draft budget to theFreeholder finance committee sothis is the perfect time to enactthis.

The proposal: Just last year Inoted to the freeholders for this2017 budget year, the possibilityof the county achieving a “zero”tax increase which has never beenachieved in the known past. Butsince the costly re-evaluation ofall towns are close to being man-dated by the state, this concernmust take priority in the minds ofthe governing bodies both on thelocal and on the county level.This suggestion would take theform of a county grant to all 21towns. An approximation of thecost for all 21 towns re-evalua-tion if totaled up would be in therange of $25 to 30 million and

Local Letters to the Editorthe grant could easily take shapeas a 50 percent matching typegrant. (or a 100 percent costcoverage would even be a betteridea). The details either could behashed out in an inter-govern-mental committee, or if you like,I offer my services to get in-volved in addressing the detailswith the towns and/or other resi-dents could also get involved.This would go toward towns al-ready paid for re-evals or in theplanning stage. We now have theguaranteed resources to put thisexpensive re-valuation headacheto bed.

With the county having a great$15 to $20 million extra cashflow annually and no pressingexpenditures, the next possibil-ity could be to build a centralarchive for all the towns docu-ments, much like Passaic Countyhas. This is also a pressing itemto be considered downstream asa shared service. Or an alterna-tive shared service could be topay down county and local towndebts freeing up even more cashflow. These would make greatfreeholder initiatives.

I would certainly look forwardto any and all governing bodiesinput and consent and the recog-nition that this constructive ideawould alleviate the cost burdenson the taxpayers. Let’s get thisdone!

Bruce PatersonGarwood

The council approved the full-time hire of William Petterway tothe staff of the Department ofPublic Works (DPW) to fill a posi-tion left void by a retirement,with Councilwoman Cuccaro andCouncilman Joe Sarno votingagainst. The DPW had been work-ing with a full-time staff of sevenand hiring seasonal workers.

“I would rather pay unemploy-ment for a seasonal worker thanpick up the tab for a full-timeworker forever,” CouncilwomanCuccaro said.

Councilwoman JenBlumenstock responded by say-ing, “Part of the reasoning is tolook at the future.” She statedthat the DPW would see moreretirements by the end of theyear and having trained staffmembers would be beneficial tothe department. “Putting it offjust delays the inevitable,” shesaid.

The next meeting of theGarwood Council will be held onTuesday, February 14, in CouncilChambers, located at 403 SouthAvenue.

o’[email protected] committee reported that

25 to 30 roads will be repairedthroughout Cranford duringspring. Ms. Krause said PittsfieldStreet has numerous potholesand needs to be completed thisspring.

Township Engineer O’Brien saidhow much each road is repairedwill be determined by budgetedcapital available for projects. Mr.O’Brien’s goals for each roadranged from simple patch workto curb improvement and drive-way-apron road improvement.

Mr. O’Brien said the baseballfield and Lincoln School basket-ball courts are nearing comple-tion pending the weather in up-

coming weeks.Cranford’s Daughters of the

American Revolution (D.A.R.) willbe celebrating an eight anniver-sary of the refurbishment of theWorld War I flagpole. The D.A.R.will be presenting the townshipwith a national award for pre-serving the landmark. Commis-sioner Ann Dooley said the flag-pole will be repainted sometimein spring.

Ms. Krause, the event chair-woman, said the ceremony willbe in March and will be adver-tised in municipal building andthe newspaper.

Commissioner Andis Kalnins an-nounced that the Cranford Cham-ber of Commerce held a kickoffparty on Tuesday, January 31from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at theCranford Hotel.

Resolutions were passed au-thorizing tax refunds to lien hold-ers, to expunge 2017 propertytaxes for a 100 Percent DisabledVeteran, and authorizing an in-crease in the change fund for theCranford Building Department.

Appointments by Mayor Tho-mas H. Hannen, Jr. of MarthaSturm as a member of the treeadvisory board, serving a three-year term, and of ChristopherChapman as a Class II memberof the planning board for a one-year term were announced.

Garwood Council

Sale of Birchwood Property

Friday Senior ClubPosts Casino Trips

CRANFORD — The Friday Se-nior Club of Cranford sponsors atrip the second Wednesday ofthe month to Resorts Casino atAtlantic City. Trips are plannedfor February 8, March 8 and April12. The bus leaves from the Cen-tennial Avenue Pool parking lotat 11 a.m. and returns to Cranfordat 7 p.m. The cost is $30 with a$25 slot play back. For reserva-tions, call Helen at (908) 654-1236.





Rock Historian to DiscussPopular Music of the ’60s

CRANFORD — Rock historianVincent Bruno will present twoprograms in February on thepopular music of the 1960s. Bothprograms will take place at theCranford Community Center, lo-cated at 220 Walnut Avenue.

The first lecture, “The Sixties:The British Invasion,” will be heldon Wednesday, February 15, at 7p.m. It will focus on the rise ofthe British pop and rock acts thatinvaded American shores in the1960s.

From pop groups like TheBeatles, The Animals, The DaveClark 5 and The Kinks, to psyche-delic and progressive bands suchas The Who, Pink Floyd, Creamand Traffic, Mr. Bruno will ex-plore highlights from landmarkrecordings that clearly definedthis British pop renaissance era.The presentation also will touchon aspects of British popular cul-ture, including cinema, fashion,television and UK underground,the influence of which added tothis remarkable period.

Mr. Bruno’s second presenta-tion, “The Sixties: The AmericanPop/Rock Era,” will take place onThursday, February 23, at 7 p.m.This lecture will explore the riseof the many innovative artists

who created new sounds thatcaptivated a generation, andwhose influence endures five de-cades later. From the Brill Build-ing songwriters like BurtBacharach and Carol King to theart of Bob Dylan, from PhilSpector’s Wall of Sound, to theCalifornia magic of Brian Wilsonand the Beach Boys, Mr. Brunowill examine folk, rock, rhythmand blues and pop, as well as therock festivals that defined theera.

Each program is two hours inlength and both will include au-dio clips and slides. The two lec-tures mark Mr. Bruno’s fourthand fifth appearances at the Com-munity Center, where he alsolectured on The Beatles, TheBeatles as solo artists and thefilm Help!

Mr. Bruno’s work as a rock his-torian focuses on The Beatlesand the 1960s. In addition, hehas taught in multiple settingsfor more than 35 years, includingstints at LaGuardia CommunityCollege, Empire State Collegeand Union County College.

These programs are sponsoredby the Friends of the CranfordPublic Library. Admission is freeand all are welcome.

Free Tax Counseling to BeAvailable at Cranford Ctr.

CRANFORD — The Cranford Rec-reation and Parks Department, inconjunction with the AmericanAssociation of Retired Persons(AARP), is accepting appoint-ments for free tax assistance.

Cranford and Garwood taxpay-ers can call the Recreation andParks Department at (908) 709-7283 to reserve a time slot with atax practitioner. Hourly appoint-ments are being made on eitherMondays or Fridays beginningFriday, February 3, from noon,1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. All appoint-ments will be at the CranfordCommunity Center, located at 220Walnut Avenue, in Room 204.The last appointment to receivetax assistance will be Monday,April 10. No appointments will bemade on Monday, February 20(Presidents’ Day) and Friday, April14 (Good Friday), as the Commu-nity Center will be closed.

This service is for residents ofCranford and Garwood, and isgeared to senior citizens and arearesidents with low to moderateincome. Filing assistance is pro-vided for Federal and New Jerseystate income tax returns, andthe Property Tax ReimbursementProgram (PTR 1 and 2). Federaland state returns are filed elec-tronically.

Participants should bring thefollowing information: copies ofFederal and State returns for2015 along with 2016 wages,interest, dividends, capital gains,Social Security, etc. (forms 1099,1099R, 1099B-W2 and SSA), andtheir property tax bill for 2016. Aform of identification is requiredand, if requesting direct depositor payment, individuals are askedto bring a blank check showingthe account number and routingnumber.

Christina M. Hinke for The Westfield Leader and The TimesMESSAGE OF PEACE...Caroline makes a peace bracelet for teens at CovenantHouse. This was one of many volunteer opportunities available at the FirstPresbyterian Church of Cranford during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day OfService on January 16.

Local Artists to Exhibit atSouth Avenue Arts in Garwood

GARWOOD – The Contempo-rary Art Group has announcedits member show at South Av-enue Arts from Wednesday,February 1 to Tuesday, Febru-ary 28. An opening receptionwill be held on Friday, February3 from 7 to 9 p.m. South Av-enue Arts is located at 221 South

Avenue in Garwood.Open daily Monday to Friday

12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Satur-days, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. formore information, visitwww.southavenuearts.com.

The Contemporary Art Groupis a not-for-profit organizationthat was established in 2006.

The group is affiliated with theWatchung Arts Center, wherethe membership of 60 local art-ists meets monthly and exhibitsin various venues in New Jerseythroughout the year.

Participating local artists inthe South Avenue Arts showare: Diane Gallo, CharlannMeluso, Alicia Flynn Cotter, DonKuhn, Kathy Nademus, RuthBrown, Mel Holsten, VirginiaCarroll, Margaret McCrary-Anderson, Linnea Rhodes, Dor-othy Bellew, Monica SchraiberOtero, Barbara Uhr, CecilySul l ivan, Lesya HanenkoDovbenko, Tamara HanenkoDeNais, Maryann Ficker, BrookeGardiner, and Sharon Reed.

HARRISONBURG, V.A. – JamesMadison University announcedthat the following students madethe dean's list for the fall 2016semester.

Cameron Kutzer of Cranford,who is scheduled to graduate in2018 and is majoring in market-ing.

Kristin Leu of Cranford, who isscheduled to graduate in 2019and is majoring in marketing.

Catherine Meixner of Westfield,who is scheduled to graduate in2017 and is majoring in mediaarts and design.

Laura Streaman of Westfield,who is scheduled to graduate in2017 and is majoring in mediaarts and design.

Morgan Garofola of Cranford,who is scheduled to graduate in2019 and is majoring in nursing.

Haley Latourette ofMountainside, who is scheduledto graduate in 2017 and is ma-joring in political science.

JMU Announces Fall2016 Dean’s List

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