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IN THIS ISSUE IN THE NEWS C h e c k o u t Q u i l t T o d a y ’s h e r i t a g e d i s p l a y e d K i d s SERVING ABERDEEN, HAZLET, KEYPORT AND MATAWAN Page 25 Page 3 NOVEMBER 29, 1995 40 C EN TS VOLUME 25, NUMBER 48 H azlet P B A seeks $20M from tow n BY MARILYN DUFF money to recreation and township orga nizations. Staff W riter The PBA claims the township made T he Hazlet police union this week libelous and slanderous statements about filed a notice of intent to sue the the PBA in a Sept. 5 letter to residents and township and the five members of again in Oct. 17 and Oct. 31 press releases. the Township Committee for $20 million in The first press release was about a political a libel action. memo found in the police department. The The presentation of the claim, prepared second claimed PBA Vice President by Fred Klatsky, the attorney for Hazlet Russell Surdi helped put up campaign signs Local No. 189 of the Patrolmen’s while on duty, and that the matter was Benevolent Association (PBA), seeks $4 whitewashed by the police’s Internal million in damages each for five com Affairs Department. plaints. Because the township is a public entity, “We’re not looking to bankrupt the it had to be given six months’ notice of the town. We’re looking to send a message,” pending suit. said Attorney Mike Bukosky, an associate The PBA is seeking $4 million for loss of Klatsky. of revenues due to damage to its reputation “It’s just going to cost the taxpayers within the community; $4 million for dam more money,” Mayor Mary Jane Wiley said age to its reputation and that of its individ Monday. Committee members only ual members; $4 million for interference received copies Nov. 22, so they had not with its ability to seek contributions as a had a chance to discuss it yet, Wiley said. charitable organization; and $4 million each She said they will probably turn it over to for impugning the reputation of Patrolman their insurance company. Russell Surdi and the reputation of Lt. “To me it’s nonsense,” Wiley said. She Robert Mulligan, the internal affairs officer. had been under the impression the PBA The PBA claims the committee violated wanted to make peace following the elec its civil rights and filed a Civil RICO tion, where PBA-backed Democrats won (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt two seats on the all-Republican committee. Organizations Act) Claim, charging it But PBA President Arthur Lynch said engaged in union-busting tactics. the suit is in response to everything that “Usually towns don’t behave in that happened over the past year. The PBA has manner,” said Bukosky, referring to press gone to court on two occasions to stop the releases critical of the PBA which were committee from interfering with day-to-day faxed to local newspapers. “It’s unheard of operations of the police department, and has where they would get together and send out Teacher Dot Bonilla of the YM CA Children’s Center on Broad Street in Matawan “expended numerous amounts of money,” press releases.” helps day care pupil Anjali Tam py with a project. The center is expanding to meet the dem and for day care. Related story on page 12. said Lynch. The Oct. 17 press release “contained Lynch said if the PBA receives any numerous libelous and/or slanderous state ___________________ (Photo by Jackie Pollack) monetary settlement, it will donate the ments,” the PBA claims in its notice. C orp s taking tim e to m u ll ferry p lan ______________ BY MARILYN DUFF______________ Branch, Haggerty said. There is no time limit on when To construct the Bayshore ferry complex, which the decision must be made. would operate between Belford and Manhattan, the Staff W riter Henry Nicholson, director of the Monmouth County county needs a corps permit to widen Comptons Creek, he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could decide T Division of Transportation and project manager for the a federally maintained channel, from 120 to 200 feet. early next year whether to grant the county a county, said on Monday that the county hopes to get The county also must get a permit to install 1,720 feet of permit to build a commuter passenger ferry ter word from the corps soon. Despite the opposition, he bulkhead alrtng the east bank, and to disturb approxi minal in Belford Harbor in Middletown. Or it could remains optimistic. mately 6.6 acres of wetlands. withhold a decision until the end of 1996. While there has been talk of possible alternative The project would be built on the west end of a 288- Either way, James W. Haggerty, chief of the corps’ sites, Nicholson said, “There aren’t any.” . acre tract between Comptons Creek and the Naval Eastern Permit Section in New York City, last week said The county has ruled out the west bank of Comptons Weapons Station Earle property in Leonardo, which the it is going to be “one of the most difficult permit deci Creek, where the Spy Harbor development is planned. county acquired in the 1980s. It would occupy about 23 sions we’ve had to make,” because of the strong opposi “The problem there is we’re not protected,” said acres along the creek. tion and the many issues involved. Nicholson. Haggerty said the major issues the corps has to The ultimate decision will be made by Joseph J. 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INDEPENDENT, NOVEMBER 29, 1995 3 THIS ISSUE: A K eyport fam ily has adopted three greyhounds, w hich were used as race dogs, to save them from exterm ination.Page 16 ANTIQUE QUILTS — Visitors study details of antique quilts in the new “Gatherings: America’s Quilt Heritage” exhibit at Monmouth Museum in Lincroft. The exhibit includes quilts from around the country and will remain RECULAR FEATURES through Jan. 14. (Photo by Debra L. Rothenberg) • Calendar Page 24 • Classifieds Page 45 • E d ito ria ls P a g e 2 2 A m erica’s quilts o n d isp lay • L e t t e r s P a g e 2 2 • M ilestones P a g e 3 6 BY MARILYN DUFF quilt was sold out-of-state, Kentucky was Heritage” exhibit, which will be at • Obituaries Page 38 losing knowledge about its heritage. Monmouth Museum through Jan. 14, is Staff W riter Since then, over 157,000 quilts have part of a larger exhibition developed over • Police Beat P a g e 3 5 MIDDLETOWN — One is composed been documented as part of over 40 regional a three-year period by the Museum of the • R eal E state P a g e 3 9 and state-wide quilt documentation projects. entirely of ribbons won by a Delaware fam American Quilter’s Society in Paducah, • S p o r t s P a g e 4 1 The documentation includes photographs, ily’s livestock. Another, created in 1893 in Ky., with funding from the Lila Wallace- • Y esteryear P a g e 3 3 descriptions, and family stories related to the Reader’s Digest Fund. Massachusetts, contains 7,500 different quilts. pieces that together form a postage stamp. The traveling exhibition includes 30 One project in Georgia conducted 76 quilts selected from the original 77-quilt They are part of a new exhibition at “quilt days,” events where a team of experts Monmouth Museum called “Gatherings: exhibition.