Cedar Grove News

MENDHAM TWP. - There will be a new administrator in the township school district.

Cedar Grove Board of Education members told the public last week they are being challenged to come up with a balanced budget for 2010-2011. During last weeka s meeting, BOE Vice President Anthony Palma outlined a number of external factors that could impact the budget, including a state proposal to use district funds to reduce this yeara s state ...

Fast-moving snow showers that struck the area during morning rush hour last Thursday left behind a big causality: A Cedar Grove fire engine that had its rear smashed after a crash with a car on East Lindsley Road.

On Monday, Jan. 25, police charged a township man with the theft of lost or mislaid property.

Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. has talked for months about his vision to merge Bloomfield Tech, Newark's North 13th Street Tech and West Caldwell Tech into a new campus that would provide a state-of-the-art facility and save costs.

Gerard and Jeanne Cipriano formerly of Newark and Verona celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Jan.

In an effort to provide relief to taxpayers this year, the Cedar Grove Township Council is suspending collection of a tax it uses to buy open space.

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at 10:50 a.m., Officer Frank Pumphrey initiated a motor vehicle stop for an observed violation.

Special education students in Verona and Cedar Grove middle schools failed to meet a federal standard for performance on standardized tests, according to a report from the New Jersey Department of Education.

Cedar Grove police on Tuesday released partial descriptions of two men they say barged into a woman's home in the Bradford Arms Apartment complex nearly two weeks ago.

EDITORa S NOTE: Town News compiles its Police Blotter from information provided by area police departments.

On Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 6:13 a.m., police responded to the area of Ridge Road near Rugby Road on a report of a motor vehicle crash involving a deer.

The Cedar Grove Board of Education approved adding two more courses to the high school curriculum at its meeting Tuesday.

Lamp Clinic in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, has been providing desperately needed medical care, medicines, water, food and legal services completely free to residents of Cite Soleil, one of the city's poorest slums for three years - well before disaster struck this week.

Tony and Adrian Perry of TAB The Band perform at Maxwell's. The members of Boston 's TAB The Band come by their rock swagger honestly or at least genetically.

On Monday, Jan.4 at 5:26 p.m., Ptl. Carolyn Zajack initiated a motor vehicle stop for an observed violation .

Cedar Grove Mayor Joseph Chiusolo prepares to swear in the township's newest volunteer fire chief, John Bannon, during a town council meeting held Monday night at the Municipal Building on Pompton Avenue.

The Montclair Health Department is partnering with other local health departments to offer H1N1 vaccinations to the general public.

The North Essex Holiday Fund, a nonsectarian program of the United Way of North Essex which provides financial assistance to needy families and individuals in Montclair, Glen Ridge, Verona, Cedar Grove, the Caldwells, Essex Fells, Fairfield,, Livingston, and Roseland, has concluded its 2009 campaign.

Anthony Perrotti of West Essex is about to pin Brandon O'Rourke of Cedar Grove for the quarter final win during their 119 pound bout at the Newark Academy Wrestling Invitational.