SOUTH ORANGE
Wednesday
May 20, 2009
Foreclosures hit local economy
The median assessed value for auctioned homes in all three towns was $391,000. Via NY Times Local.
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Friday
May 15, 2009
Low spending equals low turnout in local elections
Thursday
May 14, 2009
News-Record coverage of Pure Progress victory in South Orange
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Wednesday
May 13, 2009
Pure Progress candidates win in another landslide
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 7:21 am
Tuesday
May 5, 2009
Grand jury to hear fatal car crash case
The accident killed Ari Vuotila, 39, of South Orange. It occurred at the intersection of Parsonage Hill Road and Long Hill Drive. Read more. Via NY Times Local.
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Wednesday
April 29, 2009
South Orange House Tour: Tale of Two Pool Tables and Seven Homes
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 Via MOL Blogs. 7:33 am
Tuesday
April 28, 2009
South Orange averts layoffs
Wednesday
April 22, 2009
Creating a Community Vision: Conversation #4
The next South Orange vision planning event is scheduled for Thursday, April 30, 2009 at SOPAC (in the Loft) from 7:30pm to 9:00pm. The Cecil Group will be presenting the draft version of their recommendations.
12:48 pm
Essex County school election results
South Orange and union work together and avoid layoffs
The terms of the plan dictate that members will contribute anywhere from 0.5 percent to 2 percent of their wages to cover their health insurance policies depending on the type of coverage they have, but the provision expires on Dec. 31, 2010. (They currently pay nothing for their health care.)Read more. Via Patch. 6:23 am
Tau dedication ceremony
A group of middle school students, having studied Mr. Smith’s work in recent weeks, acted as docents for curious onlookers. An art class worked on pencil sketches, trying to capture the many perspectives “Tau” gives, when viewed from various angles.Read more. Via NY Times Local. 6:13 am
Monday
April 20, 2009
Remembering the Holocaust in Maplewood and South Orange
Arts supporters argue art adds more to home values than higher taxes detract from them
Supporters of Judy Wukitsch, the assistant director of South Orange's Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs, say that including her post in a layoff plan could jeopardize the village as an arts destination and, by extension, its soulful, communal character.Read more. Via Star-Ledger. 6:43 am
River cleanup in South Orange part of Earth Week celebration
About 50 residents including Seton Hall University students, members of the Pure Progress campaign, and local business owners met for the Main Street South Orange annual Rahway River Clean-up.Read more. Via NY Times Local. 6:42 am
Friday
April 17, 2009
Oiling eggs
South Orange union considers concessions to save jobs
Roughly 60 unionized South Orange workers are being asked to bite the financial bullet to avert a scheduled layoff of 12 village employees, including 11 of their own.Read more. Via Star-Ledger. 4:50 am
“She” exhibit at Pierro Gallery
"She” presents the work of four talented New Jersey artists — Christine Gatti, Stephen Rice, Anthony Santella and Joan Goldsmith — tackling a serious subject: women, the “She” in the exhibition’s title.Read more. Via NY Times Local. 4:47 am
Thursday
April 16, 2009
Can SHU help South Orange with budget crunch?
[T]o those who complain that the university is a drain on the local budget that is being underwritten by propertytax payers, Mr. Borowick replies that if Seton Hall weren’t in South Orange, the community’s economy would collapse.Short answer: no Read more. Via NY Times Local. 5:50 pm
Monday
April 13, 2009
Vision-Action-Balance ticket launches web site
Not easy to tell if it's a web site or a groupware site for the ticket to organize. See it here.
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Saturday
April 11, 2009
South Orange’s Pure Progress ticket announces detailed platform
The Pure Progess ticket of Trustee Michael Goldberg, Janine Bauer and Nancy Gould has published its campaign platform on its web site, pureprogress.org, this morning. The platform is arranged in six categories: taxes, redevelopment, transparency, supporting education, public safety, and cultural affairs/open space. Each category is broken into three areas: what Pure Progress promised in its 2007 campaign, what it has accomplished to date, and what it intends to continue doing, if re-elected.
Read more. Via Maplewood Dispatch.
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