http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/index/ en dave@davidrossdesign.com Copyright 2009 2009-05-20T10:39:39+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/booker_endorses_divincenzo/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/booker_endorses_divincenzo/#When:10:39:39Z Read story. 2009-05-20T10:39:39+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/foreclosures_hit_local_economy/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/foreclosures_hit_local_economy/#When:10:34:23Z The median assessed value for auctioned homes in all three towns was $391,000. 2009-05-20T10:34:23+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/case_against_aris_killer_mysteriously_silent_in_halls_of_justice/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/case_against_aris_killer_mysteriously_silent_in_halls_of_justice/#When:10:20:24Z Fond memories and questions about justice. 2009-05-20T10:20:24+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/old_police_station_named_one_of_ten_most_endangered_historic_sites_in_nj/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/old_police_station_named_one_of_ten_most_endangered_historic_sites_in_nj/#When:10:18:08Z No, seriously. In other news, Columbia High School named tallest building in New Jersey. 2009-05-20T10:18:08+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/jefferson_school_principal_leaving/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/jefferson_school_principal_leaving/#When:09:36:53Z Read story. 2009-05-20T09:36:53+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/montclair_art_museum_considered_selling_portrait_of_its_founding_member/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/montclair_art_museum_considered_selling_portrait_of_its_founding_member/#When:13:34:25Z But didn't. 2009-05-16T13:34:25+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_superintendent_of_schools_retiring/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_superintendent_of_schools_retiring/#When:13:19:28Z Read story. 2009-05-16T13:19:28+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/flu_like_symptoms_require_seven_day_absence_from_school/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/flu_like_symptoms_require_seven_day_absence_from_school/#When:11:03:22Z Following CDC lead, district chooses being safe rather than sorry. 2009-05-15T11:03:22+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_forced_to_layoff_three_cops/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_forced_to_layoff_three_cops/#When:11:01:01Z Read story. 2009-05-15T11:01:01+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/low_spending_equals_low_turnout_in_local_elections/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/low_spending_equals_low_turnout_in_local_elections/#When:10:57:26Z Read story. 2009-05-15T10:57:26+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/legendary_blues_guitarist_hubert_sumlin_is_in_town_may_16/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/legendary_blues_guitarist_hubert_sumlin_is_in_town_may_16/#When:17:26:16Z Details. 2009-05-14T17:26:16+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/chefs_night_in_maplewood_raises_money_for_charity/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/chefs_night_in_maplewood_raises_money_for_charity/#When:12:42:08Z 15 chefs, 40 wines. 2009-05-14T12:42:08+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/news-record_coverage_of_pure_progress_victory_in_south_orange/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/news-record_coverage_of_pure_progress_victory_in_south_orange/#When:12:40:17Z Read story. 2009-05-14T12:40:17+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/search_on_for_new_south_mountain_principal/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/search_on_for_new_south_mountain_principal/#When:11:21:44Z Read more. 2009-05-13T11:21:44+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/pure_progress_candidates_win_in_another_landslide/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/pure_progress_candidates_win_in_another_landslide/#When:11:21:25Z 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% Patch story | NY Times Local story | Star-Ledger story 2009-05-13T11:21:25+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_greenlights_trader_joes_petsmart/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_greenlights_trader_joes_petsmart/#When:10:49:22Z Read item. 2009-05-13T10:49:22+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/environmental_tests_on_dehart_field_indicate_no_dangerous_toxins/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/environmental_tests_on_dehart_field_indicate_no_dangerous_toxins/#When:10:46:21Z DeHart renovations can go forward. 2009-05-13T10:46:21+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/job_cuts_and_salary_reductions_at_the_star-ledger/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/job_cuts_and_salary_reductions_at_the_star-ledger/#When:12:13:01Z 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. Tip to gain readers: Maybe lighten up on those pop-up ads? Read story. 2009-05-08T12:13:01+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/county_passes_693_million_budget/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/county_passes_693_million_budget/#When:12:12:24Z The budget eliminates 219 positions -- 68 via layoffs. 2009-05-08T12:12:24+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_police_sue_maplewood_police_chief_over_promotions/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_police_sue_maplewood_police_chief_over_promotions/#When:22:46:58Z Thanks to poster DottyParker @MOL for news tip. Read Star-Ledger item. 2009-05-07T22:46:58+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/mol_caption_contest/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/mol_caption_contest/#When:15:07:29Z Classroom conundrum. 2009-05-07T15:07:29+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_mountain_principal_gibbons_pledges_to_fight_on_against_boe_irrational/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_mountain_principal_gibbons_pledges_to_fight_on_against_boe_irrational/#When:04:35:19Z Read more. 2009-05-07T04:35:19+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_lays_off_3_police_officers/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_lays_off_3_police_officers/#When:04:34:36Z Read more. 2009-05-07T04:34:36+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/will_johnny_cokes_get_justice_whats_it_to_you_pal/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/will_johnny_cokes_get_justice_whats_it_to_you_pal/#When:22:17:21Z Right here. 2009-05-06T22:17:21+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/van_gogh_likely_did_not_cut_his_own_ear_off/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/van_gogh_likely_did_not_cut_his_own_ear_off/#When:10:17:25Z 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. Not local, but interesting. 2009-05-06T10:17:25+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/seven_charged_two_arraigned_on_complaints_by_rev._georges_wife/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/seven_charged_two_arraigned_on_complaints_by_rev._georges_wife/#When:09:34:43Z Millburn bat saga continues. 2009-05-06T09:34:43+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/grand_jury_to_hear_fatal_car_crash_case/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/grand_jury_to_hear_fatal_car_crash_case/#When:21:14:21Z The accident killed Ari Vuotila, 39, of South Orange. It occurred at the intersection of Parsonage Hill Road and Long Hill Drive. Read more. 2009-05-05T21:14:21+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/hundreds_turn_out_to_ask_boe_what_theyre_thinking_by_firing_popular_effecti/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/hundreds_turn_out_to_ask_boe_what_theyre_thinking_by_firing_popular_effecti/#When:15:19:39Z Drive toward educational mediocrity underway in SO/M. Popularity, effectiveness and high test scores apparently embarrass BOE and superintendent. 2009-05-05T15:19:39+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_rabbi_file_dueling_suits_over_house_of_worship/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/millburn_rabbi_file_dueling_suits_over_house_of_worship/#When:08:48:16Z 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. Read more. 2009-05-05T08:48:16+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/parents_urge_boe_to_save_popular_effective_principals_job/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/parents_urge_boe_to_save_popular_effective_principals_job/#When:08:43:01Z Read story. 2009-05-05T08:43:01+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/popular_principal_not_re-appointed/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/popular_principal_not_re-appointed/#When:08:40:55Z Read story. 2009-05-05T08:40:55+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/columbia_high_school_graduate_mark_rudds_book_reviewed_in_ny_times/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/columbia_high_school_graduate_mark_rudds_book_reviewed_in_ny_times/#When:08:34:31Z Read review. First chapter is here. 2009-05-05T08:34:31+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_garden_club_72nd_annual_plant_show/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_garden_club_72nd_annual_plant_show/#When:20:52:47Z Details 2009-05-04T20:52:47+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/the_strollers_present_the_philadelphia_story/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/the_strollers_present_the_philadelphia_story/#When:20:51:15Z May 8 & 9, 15 & 16 at 8:00 PM; May 10 at 2:00 PM at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts 2009-05-04T20:51:15+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_farmers_market_staying_put/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_farmers_market_staying_put/#When:20:28:56Z That would be on Springfield Avenue at corner of Indiana 2009-05-04T20:28:56+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/ready_for_more_news_about_news/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/ready_for_more_news_about_news/#When:20:01:55Z Maplewoodian editor is cranking the news on news out at his day job. 2009-05-04T20:01:55+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/folk_singer_pete_seegers_90th_birthday_celebrated_in_maplewood/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/folk_singer_pete_seegers_90th_birthday_celebrated_in_maplewood/#When:18:56:36Z Read story. 2009-05-04T18:56:36+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/proposed_changes_in_master_plan_would_raise_height_requirements_for_structu/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/proposed_changes_in_master_plan_would_raise_height_requirements_for_structu/#When:13:49:59Z Read story and opinions. 2009-05-02T13:49:59+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/is_principal_gibbons_being_ousted/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/is_principal_gibbons_being_ousted/#When:13:37:20Z More than 150 posts on MaplewoodOnline indicate this is a bit of a shock. Letter-writing campaign underway. 2009-05-02T13:37:20+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nj_awaits_confirmation_of_seven_cases_of_swine_flu/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nj_awaits_confirmation_of_seven_cases_of_swine_flu/#When:11:20:10Z 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. Read more. 2009-04-30T11:20:10+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/race_takes_center_stage_at_event_sponsored_by_community_coalition_on_race/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/race_takes_center_stage_at_event_sponsored_by_community_coalition_on_race/#When:11:17:42Z Read story. 2009-04-30T11:17:42+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/lawsuit_accuses_maplewood_police_chief_of_manipulation/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/lawsuit_accuses_maplewood_police_chief_of_manipulation/#When:23:39:54Z 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. Read story. 2009-04-29T23:39:54+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/short_hills_resident_indicted_for_exporting_nuke_intel_for_south_korea/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/short_hills_resident_indicted_for_exporting_nuke_intel_for_south_korea/#When:19:16:27Z Holy hats! 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. Read all about it. 2009-04-29T19:16:27+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nytimes_local_artist_series_sarah_petruziello/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nytimes_local_artist_series_sarah_petruziello/#When:19:09:29Z Read interview. 2009-04-29T19:09:29+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/tonight_is_chs_in_action_night/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/tonight_is_chs_in_action_night/#When:11:38:10Z 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. Read more. 2009-04-29T11:38:10+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_orange_house_tour_tale_of_two_pool_tables_and_seven_homes/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_orange_house_tour_tale_of_two_pool_tables_and_seven_homes/#When:11:33:33Z 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. Read more about the May 2 event 2009-04-29T11:33:33+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/on_the_banning_of_nuts/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/on_the_banning_of_nuts/#When:11:24:12Z 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. Read more. 2009-04-29T11:24:12+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nj_has_worst_air_in_the_nation/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/nj_has_worst_air_in_the_nation/#When:11:20:08Z 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. Read story. 2009-04-29T11:20:08+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_first_aid_squad_needs_60000_to_stay_open/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_first_aid_squad_needs_60000_to_stay_open/#When:00:23:45Z Read story. 2009-04-29T00:23:45+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_orange_averts_layoffs/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/south_orange_averts_layoffs/#When:00:22:52Z Read story. 2009-04-29T00:22:52+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/video_of_maplewoods_spring_open_market/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/video_of_maplewoods_spring_open_market/#When:10:05:22Z See video. 2009-04-27T10:05:22+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/pamela_means_at_the_underground_may_2/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/pamela_means_at_the_underground_may_2/#When:10:02:50Z 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." Read more. 2009-04-27T10:02:50+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/bat_saga_reverend_says_his_sons_were_in_danger/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/bat_saga_reverend_says_his_sons_were_in_danger/#When:09:55:33Z Read more. The discussion about this on MaplewoodOnline is up to 550 posts. 2009-04-27T09:55:33+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_fire_department_medical_call_fees_likely_to_rise/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_fire_department_medical_call_fees_likely_to_rise/#When:09:50:24Z Current rate is $300 and may rise to $400, which is going rate in other municipalities. Read more. 2009-04-27T09:50:24+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/fire_on_train_tracks_in_newark_create_ongoing_delays_for_riders/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/fire_on_train_tracks_in_newark_create_ongoing_delays_for_riders/#When:09:43:16Z Some delays expected over the next few weeks. First person account of having trip cut short on NYTimes Local. 2009-04-27T09:43:16+00:00 http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_bike_swap_to_be_held_may_2nd_at_orchard_park/ http://www.maplewooddispatch.com/index.php/site/maplewood_bike_swap_to_be_held_may_2nd_at_orchard_park/#When:09:37:20Z 11am-3pm. Free general admission; $5 to sellers. 2009-04-27T09:37:20+00:00