Vote Count	Percent
Dale I. FAVORS		699		12.09%
Mary WASHINGTON-NIEVES	767		13.27%
Stephen STEGLITZ	736		12.73%
Michael GOLDBERG	1,206		20.86%
Janine BAUER		1,226		21.21%
Nancy GOULD		1,144		19.79%
Write-In		3		0.05%
Total			5,781		100.00%

Facing a continuing decline in advertising revenues, The Star-Ledger announced today it will reduce employee salaries and no longer cover the entire cost of employee health-care plans.

According to a new book, the painter Vincent van Gogh did not slice off his left ear in a fit of madness and drunkenness in Arles in December 1888. His ear was severed by a sword wielded by his friend, the painter, Paul Gauguin, in a drunken row over a woman called Rachel and the true nature of art.

According to the township's zoning regulations, houses of worship are permitted in R-3 single-family residential zones having at least three acres. The Bogomilsky property is 1.2 acres and therefore is in violation of the zoning code.

usan Walsh, deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, said all seven of the state's probable cases had "travel associations" with Mexico and California. None of the seven patients was hospitalized, Walsh said. She declined to say where they are from, other than "across the state." She also said none of New Jersey's probable cases involved schools.

Police Chief Robert J. Cimino allegedly manipulated promotion procedures and the Township Committee created a law to ensure a Cimino favorite became a captain, a civil lawsuit claimed. Those represent just some of the allegations raised by Vincent J. Cuozzo and Michael J. Mault, both lieutenants who have worked for more than 20 years in the department. They feel they were passed over for promotion improperly.

Yun is quoted in one e-mail as boasting that he has been "the largest one-stop supplier" of sensitive military and similar equipment for South Korea for the past 30 years.

The main floor hallways of Columbia will be lined with tables filled with the accomplishments of the many CHS clubs and teams. Sports teams display their trophies and pass out game schedules. The clubs each demonstrate their own activities; for example, the quiz bowl holds a mock tournament and the astronomy club invites the community to look through the school’s treasured telescope, in the astronomy tower.

The biannual event, a benefit for the South Orange Historical and Preservation Society, provides curious neighbors as well as architecture buffs from the region an indoor/outdoor exploration of residences that they would not ordinarily get to see. The Saturday tour, timed perfectly to coincide with the peak blooms of daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, cherry trees, and magnolias is open to the public between 11 and 4. A donation is required.

According to a letter that went home to parents last week, Dr. Anjelica Allen, the principal of [Marshall] school, has a peanut allergy. Recently she was sitting next to a colleague who was eating peanut butter and went into anaphylactic shock. Thankfully, the principal has recovered, as I understand, but in response to this incident, the school went into food lock down. The school is now peanut-free.

But the methodology used by the ALA--taking the worse readings from monitors in different counties in each state--has been called too "absolutist" and too generalized by some critics to assess the overall health impact on the public.

"They assume the entire county has the same air quality as the place where the monitoring station is. If you have perfect compliance you get an "A," if not, you fail," said Ken Greene of the American Enterprise Institute.

Pamela Means is touring in advance of a new album release of acoustic originals, in anticipated follow-up to both Pamela Means Jazz Project, Vol. 1, "Top 10 Album of 2007" (muruch blogspot), in which, "Means takes her rightful place among contemporary superstar jazz vocalists such as Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones" (Curve Magazine); and the preceding politically-provocative Pamela Means release, Single Bullet Theory, named 2004 "Outmusic Outstanding New Recording."