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Awarded Best CommunityNewspaper in NewJersey Multi-Award Winner SOUTH northjersey.com/southbergen including First Place Awards MARCH 28, 2013 New Jersey Press Association BERGENITE 2011 Days of grandeur here again Concerts in the park could be liability for towns BY MATTHEW MALYSA Staff Writer Jazz about licensing The Rutherford mayor and The issue: Performing council were recently made rights orgs want towns to aware that the borough could be pay licensing fees to found in violation of copyright protect from copyright laws for a lack of musical licens- ing for public performances of infringement at events. music at Rutherford sponsored The law: The Copyright Law concerts and festivals according to a correspondence from a per- requires music users get forming rights organization. permission from each Music licensing fees are com- songwriter/composer to mon for restaurants and bars that play live music, but this is a play their music. fairly new How it works: For a fee to RUTHERFORD concept for munic- main performing rights STAFF PHOTO/JAIMIE WINTERS ipalities – at least in Rutherford. orgs, a town gets Iviswold Castle was opened up to Felician faculty and students last week after the 14 year renovation was completed earlier To offer live music legally, ven- discounted blanket ues in most cases must pay licensing. this month. licensing fees that approach or exceed $1,000 a year. What is the problem: Towns There are three main perform- say promotional companies 14 years in the making, Iviswold ing rights organizations men- tioned in the U.S. copyright law already pay the fees and renovations are complete - Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), officials are hesitant to pay American Society of Composers, $1,000. BY MATTHEW MALYSA was purchased by David Authors and Publishers Staff Writer Brinkerhoff Ivison in 1887. (ASCAP) and SESAC, Inc. The What could happen: Towns Ivison, a well known textbook organizations specialize in music could be fined for music at The $9 million transformation publisher in the late 19th-centu- performance rights management of the historical Iviswold Castle ry, turned the house into much of and represent their respective concerts in the park, on Felician College campus in what it resembles today. His songwriters, composers and streets fairs etc. Rutherford is finally complete— architect, William H. Miller, used music publishers to make sure after nearly 14 years of careful, un-coursed brownstone that was they receive all of the royalties step-by-step restoration. obtained from a local Belleville entitled to them. the obligations to pay royalty for After considerable delays due quarry to line the walls. He While promoters and live to the project’s general contrac- added turrets, iron railing bal- music venues are well aware of SEE MUSIC, PAGE A5 tor filing for bankruptcy in the conies, a music room and the 2012, the 18,000 sq. foot castle, porte-cochere. The castle was which houses both student areas modeled after the style of and administrative offices, is now Chateau de Chaumont in the the operational campus focal Loire Valley in France. point that college officials had The building, which Ivison Town to get first hoped it would be. named Iviswold Castle, has Last week, local media took a changed hands several times dur- STAFF PHOTO/JAIMIE WINTERS castle tour hosted by the project’s ing its existence, with ownership The original staircase was replaced in the 1960s with a principal varying from a private residence modern one. Using old photos the college decided to bring chief since 2008 RUTHERFORD architect, to a men’s club until it eventual- Annabelle ly became vacant by 1937. Fair- back the grandeur of the foyer and rebuilt the original Radcliffe-Trenner, who detailed leigh Dickinson University pur- stairway. BY MATTHEW MALYSA longevity pay Inside the extensive work that went into chased the building in 1942, and Staff Writer and bonuses breathing new life to the three- converted it into classrooms, a –when he Police salaries story, 25-room 19th-century cas- library and administrative offices. Mayor Joe DeSalvo was retired. at a glance tle. According to Radcliffe-Tren- expected to appoint Lt. John R. The council “The college had a choice of ner, in the process of converting Russo as the new Rutherford can either A6 doing something much simpler, the building for educational pur- Chief of Police at the March 26 accept or deny but opted to really commit to poses, FDU concealed many of council meeting, which took the mayor's keeping the history of this build- the original castle finishes, place after press time. appointment at the March 26 ing alive. Everything they did, the including decorative painted ceil- The Rutherford Police meeting. decisions they made, were fiscal- ings, plaster cornices, walnut Department has been without a Russo scored the highest on ly responsible. Where they paneling, frescos, chandeliers chief the civil service police chief thought it would make a great and skylights that became hid- RUTHERFORD since exam according to Mayor visual impact, they spent the den by drop ceilings, room par- 2008, DeSalvo. The mayor can choose money, and where we could titions and heavy coats of paint. when the council opted to elim- from the top three scoring candi- save, we saved. It was a very "All kinds of amazing things inate the position in favor of dates of the test. good systematic approach to the were covered over," she said, appointing a civilian police project,” said Radcliffe-Trenner. stating that thankfully, workers director. Captain Hal Ciser has Salary ordinances As she led the tour, the archi- took measures to hide many of been running the RPD for the In order to regulate the salary tect explained how the building the building’s now coveted treas- last two years, after former Police for the police chief position, the was originally built by New York ures rather than demolish or Director John Thompson retired council has already introduced newspaper tycoon and land remove them during the castle’s in February 2012. Thompson two ordinances, which will developer Floyd W. Tomkins in conversion into an educational earned $82,000 a year, with no change the salaries for the posi- 1869, and as a simple stone, space. STAFF PHOTO/JAIMIE WINTERS health benefits, and former tions of police chief and police mansard-roofed, two-story stone FDU closed the Rutherford Police Chief Steven Nienstedt captains. Borough Attorney house. That building was greatly The drawing room with its hand painted trompe-l'œil ceiling earned approximately $180,000 enlarged and redesigned when it SEE CASTLE, PAGE A6 fully restored might be available for rentals in the future. annually -- between base pay, SEE POLICE, PAGE A6 INSIDE Museum in transition In full swing K BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE . D1 OPINION . A4 Doors remain closed, Baseball, softball I N CROSSWORD . .B2 LAW AND ORDER . A2 PLEASE RECYCLE. DINING . B2 PUBLIC NOTICES . .C4 WE USE PAPER MADE director resigns coverage WITH AN AVERAGEOF ENTERTAINMENT . B2 SCHOOLS. C3 25%RECYCLED CONTENT. MARKETPLACE . .D7 SPORTS . .C1-C2 100% RECYCLABLE OBITS. C5 A3 C1 0% DEFORESTATION FEATURED HOME FEATURED AGENT AREA'S TOP SELLINGBROKER! 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Airborne sidered necessary since the work for all,” Sheehan said. “They has been covered with “infilling “We are confident that we have dust isn’t expected because river will be done at least 1,000 feet should go down until they hit sediment” in the meantime. Issues to the EnCap $50 million fiasco. identified and addressed all of the material has high moisture content from the nearest residential area, clean sand.” being addressed by the dredging Borough Attorney Dick potential operational issues, and will be transported with water the report indicated. In sampling programs and stud- are due to “historical contamina- Allen said the taxpayers should including those concerning the on top. Since most work will be done ies cited by the report, core sam- tion” and not as a result of “ongo- not worry about losing money, tides and barges,” CPG spokesper- Generally the chemicals in con- during the day, staged lighting isn’t ples showed a dioxin concentra- ing operations from the CPG or because they are not the ones son Ray Germann said. centrations found in the river don’t anticipated outside of sunrise or tion over 3,000 milligrams per any other private or public par- purchasing the bonds. Taking the engineers and con- emit odors; however, the sediment dusk on cloudy days. Barges mov- kilograms, a number that drops to ties,” he said. "At least there's one biblical tractors’ experience into account, could produce hydrogen sulfide, ing at night require lighting direct- under 500 below 5.5 feet. Average truth to this: the borough won't the EPA believes the schedule can known to have a rotten egg smell. ed at the river to navigate. Resi- concentrations of mercury, ben- Flooding issues have any responsibility over be met, said David Kluesner, EPA All naturally occurring sediment dents can log complaints, which zoapyrene, PCBs and other chem- Removing the top two feet is this transaction," Allen assured.