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S13 PI **********CAR-RT L0T**C015 * 1 WESTFIELD MEMORIAL LIBRARY 550 E BROAD ST WESTFIELD NJ 07090-2116 07090211650 HAPPY HEW YEAR 9b ftopulos, Hon abiruB. {Vrbrnintus USPS 680020 OUR 115th YEAR - ISSUE NO. 52-2005 e>tI7 H i n O , State September .1.1MQ Periodical - Postage Paid al West field. N J. Thursday, December 29, 2005 (908) 232-4407 www.goleader.com press @> goleader.com SIXTY CENTS Councilman Rafael Kc^ifTCourt scrutinizes a voter entry with a missing address; YEAR OF THE “^'...Between a legal dispute between the Downtown Westfield ( ’nr.™™!!™A ¥oa^ W" ld JfJ!M,nt blowing November election, on gift cards, discussioh of retiring the Westfield gift coin and the production of prototype parking tokens, 2005 was “The^ ear of the ‘W.’” estfield Corporation and Westfield Area Chamber of Commerce over the use of a script “W” Second Half o f2005 Saw New Police Chief, Battle over “W,” Iraq War Debate JULY nel taking over responsibilities for a parking ticket voided for her son baseball field, softball field, six-lane than 13 years of service. DePalma made to the planning and Westfield the local television station's opera and trying to cover it up by lying. all-weather running track, combina Township Manager Thomas Atkins zoning board regarding set-backs, At its June 29 meeting, the Board tions and programming. Detective Chambers' attorney tion football/soccer field and fitness warned of "a very, very difficult bud building heights, alley ways and park of Education (BOE) approved the The police defeated the firemen charged that Police Chief Bernard circuit. appointment of Dr. Linda Schmidt to get year" in 2006 due mainly to in ing requirements. 30-15. while raising $ 18,000 forchar- Tracy tried to terminate the detective Community groups, houses of the newly created position of direc creased mandated expenditures. The building project at 300 South ity, in the township's third annual after the social relationship between worship, volunteers and local gov tor of human resources. Dr. Schmidt The Fanwood-Scotch Plains Ro Avenue, approved in 2004, began “Bravest vs. Finest" charity softball detective and chief changed. ernments mobilized to send much- will take on the duties of outgoing tary Club briefed township council with the demolition of the old struc game at Brookside Park. Scotch Plains need supplies to New Orleans and Assistant Superintendent of Human members on its plans to restore the tures on the site. Fanwood BOE President Linda Nelson ad Gulf Coast slates devastated by Hur Resources Dr. Margaret Dolan. Dr. Revolutionary War-era Frazee House Mountainside The Fanwood Community Emer mitted that an impasse existed in ricane Katrina. Dolan is the assistant superintendent and asked for a long-term lease for The Mountainside Board of Edu gency Response Team (CERT) hosted contract negotiations between the County Republicans and Plainfield of curriculum for the 2005-2006 the acre of township-owned property cation (BOE) Board approved a new a free eight-week course teaching district and the teachers union, and Mayor Al school year. on which the house is send/receive agreement with Gover 6citizens disaster prevention and re she said a mediator was needed to McWilliams went to By a vote of 6-0. Westfield Town situated. The resto nor Livingston High School in Ber action. arrange the details of a new contract. court after County Council approved Darielle Walsh to ration project is part keley for borough students attending Mayor Mahr and the borough coun The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Educa Clerk Joanne Rajoppi fill the Third Ward council seat va cil officially renamed Fanwood Av \ V. of the centennial cel the high school. tion Association’s contract expired deemed the mayor ebration of Rotary cated by new mayor Andrew enue to Manfra Place in honor of Ray on June 30. Mountainside police apprehended eligible to run for re- Clubs around the Julio Clusan, 43, of Union after he Skibitsky. Manfra. who retired this year after The township council approved a election as a Repub world. reportedly displayed a firearm and de Resident Sean Baran serving 47 years as the new sign ordinance that will stan f lican in November Trip Whitehouse manded that the manager of the Echo was recognized interna borough’s Public Works dardize the size and placement of per a “Sore Loser’s” was appointed to the Queen Diner on Route 22 open the tionally for his volunteer Director. The street leads ■ tf business establishment signs, stream law prohibiting can Scotch Plains- register, which contained $93 in cash. efforts as an EMT to aid into the DPW's building. line the application process and lessen didates who lose in those hurt in the July 6 Fanwood Board of Garwood The Department of En the need for many applications to be the primary to switch XaSCOBZB« f Education. London subway bomb vironmental Protection The Garwood Borough Council approved by the zoning board. parties and run in the The township tabled an ordinance to create the po ing. Sean, an EMT and a (DEP) conducted testing Fanwood General Election. member bf the Westfield Jon Corzine with BUI Clinton council awarded a sition of borough administrator. of a possible underground Fanwood Library Director Dan Mayor McWilliams $99,893 bid for con Rescue Squad, saw the OCTOBER gasoline leak near the Weiss was stabbed by his estranged eventually lost his legal case. struction of a five-bay storage struc tragedy from atop a Union County Freeholder Vice Getty Station on Third ex-wife, Rosemary Dunlap, as he left Former President Bill Clinton ture at the Public Works facility on double-decker bus while Chairman Alexander Mirabella an Street after testing discrep work on August 1. Mr. Weiss sur headlined a rally for N.J. gubernato Plainfield Avenue that will house re trying to commute to his nounced that he would form a com ancies alerted officials to vived stab wounds to his neck. Ms. rial candidate Jon Corzine Septem cently-purchased equipment that is last day of work at Brit mittee to search for available land to Sean Baran the possible leak. Test Dunlap was arrested and arraigned ber 29 at Kean University in Union. shared by Scotch Plains, Fanwood ish-American Business build a new fire academy to replace wells were installed on on charges of attempted murder. Her Westfield and the Scotch Plains-Fanwood the existing aging Linden facility. Inc. He left the bus and identified Third Street to monitor the situation. bail was set at $150,000. The Westfield Fire Station on North Board of Education himself as an EMT from America to Westfield Mountainside Mr. Weiss married fiancee Mary Avenue was the location of live satel Three months after its application a police officer and was immediately The Westfield Area Y held a cer Mountainside school administrator/ Olive Smith on the grounds of lite news broadcasts by NBC and was rejected by the zoning board, put to work. Sean, along with a fe emony to dedicate its new East Broad board secretary'Paul Vizzuso was re Fanwood Borough Hall on August CNN. The story aired across the coun Cumberland Farms, the owner of the Street family branch on October 2.. male British doctor and other volun moved from his position. Chief School 19. He thanked the community for try. known as “Slim Jim," featured Gulf station on Route 22, said it Town council and mayoral candi teers, including off-duty doctors, Administrator Richard O'Malley said the outpouring of support as he re firefighter Jim Pfeiffer with 16- would likely file a new application to dates debated a range of issues on nurses and firefighters, set up a medi that Mr. Vizzuso's removal was rec covered. month old John Butterfield. expand the facility. October 17 at a forum sponsored by cal center in the nearby Hilton hotel. ommended by Interim Chief School Due to staunch opposition from Westfield firemen and police res The planning board approved a the League of Women Voters and The NJ Transit commuter train service Administrator Walter Rusak. Mr. neighboring residents, developer cued the child from a 10-foot hole major subdivision application for a on the Raritan Valley Line was sus Westfield Leader. Vizzuso had been with the district for Robert Kraus decided to withdraw where the child had fallen and be six-home development on Pheasant Scotch Plains pended July 11 from 8 to 9:20 a.m. the past four years. his application for a parking lot be came trapped on August 22 at Lane along the township’s border Seventeen months after being due to a bomb scare resulting from The borough dedicated a clock in hind residences on Old South Av Tamaques Park. They lowered their with Plainfield. A split board ap named the township's youngest po the discovery of a suspicious-look front of the borough hall in memory enue. slimmest member down the shaft proved a waiver to Com lice chief. Mark Zyladied ing book bag that was abandoned at of Captain Todd Turner who was The borough council, acting as the through a one-foot clearance headfirst merce Bank to allow the suddenly on October 14. the northside entrance stairs to the killed in an auto accident in August downtown redevelopment agency, by tying a rope to his ankles. He bank's Park Avenue Westfield train station platform. The of 2003. His funeral four days later approved the second application for grabbed the child, yelled up to the branch to keep in place drew a crowd of mourn Union County Bomb Squad deto Garwood downtown on August 9. Developers rope crew, and they yanked him out.