WF Hit with Tragedy on Anniversary of 9/11
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Fred Lecomte for The Westfield Leader Lauren S Pass for The W estfield Leader EMERGENCY RESPONSE...Multiple emergency rescue teams responded to PARADE OF DEMONSTRATORS...Members of the Westfield Police Depart Lauren S Pass for The Westfield Leader Westfield High School on September 11 after a fallen tree limb injured ment wore posters calling for fairer contract wages and carried American flags JIM P FOR JOY...First Ward Republican Councilman-elect Sal Carunna, left, numerous students, including one seriously. A State Police helicopter trans throughout the downtown on in September. Pictured, above, the peaceful demon and his wife Darleen, right, raise their glasses and celebrate upon learning of his ported the injured student to an area hospital. strators cross from the Westfield Train Station to proceed down Elm Street. win for the council seat. In Second Half of Year GOP Sweeps in FW and SP, Upset DEMs in WF; WF Hit With Tragedy on Anniversary of 9/11 Hy I.AIJREN S. PASS, FRED ROSSI and of their property line. The town owned Prolific artist and author Wende of a new park on Plainfield Avenue, versary of ihe tragic events of Sep lives from the DOT to review planned SUZETTE F. STALKER three 50-by 100-foot tracts of land Devlin passed away peacefully after with Mayor Marks expiessing his tember 11. 2001. changes for the circle. The project is Specially Written for The We afield Umler and wanted to prepare the land for struggling with a long illness. A hope that the facility, which will During the governing body’s regu not supposed to start until the Spring Editor’s Note: The following is a use. The land is under Green Acres mother of seven children, a grand include soccer and baseball Fields, lar meeting, held on the eve of the of 2004. summary o f news events in Scotch jurisdiction as a part of the pool mother to 20 and a great-grandmother will be ready for use in Spring 2003. one-year observance, Mayor Louis Historic preservation expert Nancy Plains, as reported hy The Westfield complex. The neighbors sued the to two, 84-year-old Mrs. Devlin, Lisa Alter resigned from the WF Jung read a resolution lauding the Zerbe spoke to some 50 people at a Leader amt The Times, that occurred town for a restraint, but a judge de maintained her role as motivational BOE to attend graduate school. Seven "unwavering commitment" of special forum in Fanwood regarding during the second half of 2002. nied them and the fence was in matriarch to her family, a welcom candidates offered to fill the remain Americans to remember the victims a proposed historic district involving stalled. ing friend to neighbors and strangers ing two years of her term. and support the nation. homes along North and Maitine Av July Upon his retirement from the and a lover of the arts right up until The SP Township Planning Board Additionally, a ceremony was held enues. By a 3 to 2 council vote, Mark Fanwood force July I, former Police her death. approved the application of Com by the Fanwood Volunteer Fire De Addressing residents' questions Peek, of the law firm of DiFrancesco, Chief Robert Carboy was saluted by Following a review of three design merce Bank to build a branch office partment on the anniversary date, and concerns, she told her audience Bateinan. Coley. Yospin. Kunzman, the governing body and his colleagues concepts for renovation of ball fields at the comer of Park and Mountain while the borough's TV-35 featured that property values go up in historic Davis and Lehrer, PC. in Warren, for 38 years of service to the commu at Park Middle School, the Fanwood Avenues. a special program of music and im areas; that homeowners are not di was named to replace Wilfred nity. fie was succeeded by Donald Borough Council endorsed a plan Members of the governing body ages in remembrance of area resi rected on what to do with their prop Coronato as Fanwood's new Bor Domanoski. calling for elimination of the exist honored Rpih Page upon her retire dents who were losl in the terror erties and that such status has pro ough Attorney. Mr. Coronato had The area paid for the mild winter ing baseball field and the addition of ment after more than a decade as attacks. tected other historic areas against resigned a month earlier to pursue a as a nearly month-long heat wave, three basebail/softball fields, two secretary to the Fanwood Planning The MS BOE announced that public encroachment. job opportunity. with temperatures on July 4 nearing soccer fields and one football field. Board. She had also served for seven- Deerfield School, which was sched Wrapping up the month was the Judge Edward Beglin barred the 100 degrees, settled over the north The project was jointly funded by and-a-half years as secretary to the uled to be ready on August 25, would community’s seventh annual Fanny closing of South Chestnut Street in east. Scotch Plains, Fanwood and the now defunct Fanwood Board of Ad not open until at least September 16, Wood Day celebration, featuring a Westfield. The town had been clos Mark Eslasser was named as the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of justment. delaying school by nearly two weeks. festive array of exhibits, activities, ing the street from the Garwood line Chief Executive Officer of the Education, each of which provided More than 500 participants turned "None of us are happy,” Board Presi food, contests and entertainment. Net to Fourth Avenue on some evenings Westfield Y, succeeding Stan $ 100.0(H). Union County matched out for the Seventh Annual 5K Race dent Richard Kress stated. The open proceeds from the event benefited and weekends when the fields were Kaslusky, who retired. Mr. Eslasser the towns’ combined $300,000 con and Invitational Wheelchair Event ing of Beechwood School was de the downtown. officially began his new position on tribution, for a final figure of sponsored by CONTACT We Care layed from September to November. being used at Gtimbert Park Garwood October July 22. $600,000. on August 17 at Fanwood' s LaGrande The existing portion of WHS sued Westfield, citing that the town Opponents and proponents of a The design concept backed by Park. The event, which also includes needed permission from the Depart August opened on schedule after being un proposed traffic light at Central Av Fanwood officials was also favored a KIDS Sprint, is the non-profit ment of Transportation (DOT) in or The Westfield Town Council got der construction during the summer. enue and Clover Street attended a by the Scotch Plains Township Coun agency's major fundraiser each year. The new science addition remained der lo close the street. into a heated discussion during a Public Safety Committee meeting cil and Killam Associates, the firm under construction during the school The Scotch Plains (SP) Township conference session when it was re Septem ber held by Councilwoman Claire heading the design of the "Field of Council voted to place a 11011-bind vealed that Councilmen Lawrence As the nation and Westfield re year. Lazarowitz. All of the residents Dreams" project. On September 21, Westfield’s Sep ing referendum on the November Goldman and Kevin Walsh secretly membered those lost on September agreed that pedestrian safety was a The Board of Education initially tember 11 tn memorial was dedicated. ballot asking voters their opinion on met with police during contract ne 11.2001, a large branch from an oak concern on Central Avenue, but were supported an alternate concept whether the state should convene a gotiations. The contract had expired tree in front of WHS fell on a group The ceremony drew a crowd of over heated in their discussion of how to whereby the existing baseball field 1,000 people as the glass spire al the constitutional convention to address on January I of 2002, and was still in of students. Freshman Greta remedy the problem. A representa would remain, while another base corner of North Avenue and East property tax reform. The council negotiation. Because the meeting was , Sehoenemann was killed and a dozen tive from Union County, whose ball field, two soccer fields and a Broad Street was lit for the first time. ilf the State Legislature^, not TUiCvt-cTi Tir reciw-hij. Council other students were injured. Students project the light is, was also present football field would be added. Westfield police, fire and emergency apparent indifference to a statewide man Rafael Betancourt asked The organized a candlelight vigil on the al the meeting. However, the board later opted to ballot question on the issue. Leader to transcribe their audiotape front lawn of the high school and medical personnel stood as a silent At the next public meeting of the support the first concept, follow mg a honor guard for 36 hours leading up Westfielder Mary Lynne of the meeting. The tape was tran hundreds of students walked from WF council residents presented peti presentation By a Killam Associates to the ceremony. Pomerantz died from Necrotizing scribed and Councilman Betancourt WHS to The Presbyterian Church for tions for and against the proposed representative and recommendations Residents of Cranford Avenue in Fasciitis, a bacterial infection com submitted it to he included in the her funeral carrying banners in light. Councilwoman Lazarowitz from Scotch Plains Recreation De WF were upset with the lack of main monly know n as “flesh eating" dis minutes of the next public meeting. memory of Greta. came under fire for holding a com partment Chairman Ed Zazzali.