| Master Plan: Really talking trash in Dover
By: Cindy Forrest
Staff Writer
Implementing the three "R’s" - recycle, reuse, and reduce is taking hold at the municipal level throughout the state of New Jersey in order to keep the Garden State from becoming the Garbage State.
In Dover, Mayor James Dodd and the Board of Aldermen have adopted a new Recycle Element for the Master Plan that will bring the town inline with its state mandated responsibilities. The goal of the new plan is to have the town recycling at least 50 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, including yard waste and vegetative waste, by the year 2015. The goal is actually the same as one that was targeted to be accomplished by Dec. 31, 1995, but was never met.
"I don’t think any town in Morris County met that state goal," said town engineer and planner Michael Hantson.
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Hayes chosen to lead the Board of Education
By: Genny Elias Warren
Correspondent
At its reorganization meeting Thursday night, the Boonton Township Board of Education elected a new president and vice president.
John Hayes was elected as the new president of the board, which holds its meetings in the library media center at Rockaway Valley School. Robin Kalfus was elected vice president of the board.
John Murray II, business administrator/board secretary, told the board that in the recent election, the three members up for re-election won their bids. They are: Robin Kalfus, Marie Naeem and Valerie Harrs.
Murray also informed the board that the 2008-09 budget proposal had passed by a margin of 27 votes with 290 residents voting for the budget and 263 against it. Voter turnout, he reported, was 557 people, which represented about 18 percent of the total voting population for the township.
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A laughing 'Forum' is underway in Dover
By: Elizabeth Martin
Managing Editor
The Dover Little Theatre is so small you would think you had stumbled into someone’s heavily curtained living room were it not for the rows of seats. The tiny stage and small house make for an intimate theatre-going experience. To be sure, an actor falling off stage and into you is a genuine concern for those in the first row, and this petite stature quite evidently carries over into the theatre’s budget.
However, what the Dover Little Theatre does have in abundance, at least in their latest musical endeavor, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” is heart.
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” is an exceedingly well-known musical, with book and lyrics by the acclaimed Stephen Sondheim. The plot of the musical is based upon the comedies of the ancient Greek playwright, Plautus. The musical has won several Tony awards, both in its original Broadway run in 1962 and in subsequent revivals. Such famous Broadway stars as Zero Mostel and Nathan Lane have played the leading role of Pseudolus, both earning Tony’s for their portrayals.
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Fundraisers are a way of life for parochial schools
By: David Jiminez
Staff Writer
 Staff photo by Pierfrancesco Baccaro
Like everything else in today’s economy, “the cost of running a private school has increased,” said Sister Marie Dilorenzo, school principal and a member of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, a Franciscan religious order.
Located in Rockaway Borough, Sacred Heart School is a small Catholic school of 230 students attending pre-K to eighth grade. The school survives on a $1 million annual budget of which a fraction, about $90,000, is generated from fundraisers. The remaining funds are produced from tuition, grants and donations, forcing the 43-year institution to operate on a shoestring.
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Testoni faces the challenge of the tunnel
By: Lisa Kintish
Staff Writer
Crossing over the bridges and tunnels to get into New York City is common place for many living in northern New Jersey, but few do so by foot as Linda Puso and her husband have done on several occasions. No, it is not to save gas or lessen their carbon footprints, although there is always a good cause spurring them to run where most only drive. Most recently, the Parsippany couple ran through the Lincoln Tunnel to raise money for Special Olympics New Jersey.
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Montville H.S. girls track relay team takes first
 Photo courtesy of Elaine Fano
The Montville girls freshman/sophomore 4x100 and 4x200 meter relay team had a spectacular past friday. They won the 4x100 m. relay in the Morris County Fr./So. meet on Friday, April 18 and won the Fr./So. 4x200 m. relay at the Milburn Relays on Saturday, April 26. The team consists of, from left: Amanda Fano, Lindsey Danilack, Rebecca Fano and Amanda Tedeschi. |
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