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a r m e r à arket TODAY at. The Rahway Train Station P l a z a noon >° 6 pm Farmers market Fresh fruits and vegetables have returned for the season with Rah way’s annual farmers market. Page 8 LINDEN, N.J WWW.LOCALSOURCE.COM 75 CENTS VOL. 89 NO. 29 THURSDAY JULY 27, 2 0 0 6 City witnesses Third quarter real estate taxes due third murder Third quarter real estate taxes are due Aug. 1 for Elizabeth with a 10- By Dan Burns distribution and disorderly conduct day grace period, Aug. 25 for Lin Staff Writer over the past few years. den with no grace period, 25 days LINDEN — A 31-year-old Eliza This is the third murder to occur in from mailing in Rahway and Aug. 1 beth man was found murdered on the Linden this year. A 33-year-old Mor for Roselle with a 14-day grace 800-block of Chandler Avenue Satur ristown man was fatally stabbed out period. day at approximately 2:20 a.m. side an Elizabeth Avenue bar in Febru Mail tax payments to Tax Collec Police discovered Lawrence ary. In March, a 16-year-old boy tor’s Office, 50 Winfield Scott Lapierre, 31, of Bond Street in Eliza stabbed his 19-year-old brother, Jef Plaza, Room 102, Elizabeth 07201; beth, lying on the ground unattended. frey December, to death on Dill 301 North Wood Ave., Linden He had suffered a gunshot wound to Avenue. 07036; 1 City Hall Plaza, Rahway the upper torso. Lapierre’s friends and family set up 07065; or 210 Chestnut St., Roselle Paramedics responded to the scene, a memorial to him at the foot of a stop 07203. but Lapierre had already succumbed sign at the intersection of Chandler For more information, call the to his wounds, according to Linden Avenue and East Henry Street. About Elizabeth Tax Collector’s Office at Police Captain Michael Boyle. He was 15 candles and a handful of stuffed 908-820-4111, the Linden Tax Col pronounced dead at the scene. animals and flower bouquets lay on lector’s Office at 908-474-8434, the Police have not yet narrowed down the ground there, propping up pictures Rahway Tax Collector’s Office at their search on who the killer is and of Lapierre with friends. Nearly 20 732-827-2050 or the Roselle Tax what the motive for the slaying was. balloons are wrapped around the green Collector’s Office at 908-245-9000. “At this point, we’re still looking stop sign pole, most of which bear into all different aspects of the case Lapierre’s nickname “Puck.” Water report complete Photo By Sean Havey and cannot say for sure what the cause Pictures at the memorial show United Water Rahway customers A passerby checks out the remains of Linden's Don Alex restaurant, which burned in a fire was,” Boyle said. Lapierre as a strong-looking, stocky should have already received a last week. Police are currently checking the man who often sported a beard. mailed copy of the Consumer Confi area for anyone who may have infor Anyone with information on the dence Report on drinking water mation on the shooting or on case is asked to call Linden Detective quality. Lapierre’s prior whereabouts. Police Alavaro Goncalves at 908-474-8536 “We’re pleased to advise our cus Blaze also expect to receive autopsy results or Union County Prosecutor’s Office tomers that our water continues to early next week, according to Boyle. Detective David Nechamkin at 908 meet or exceed all state and federal destroys The shooting took place approxi 527-4500. All calls will be kept confi regulations for safe drinking water,” mately three blocks away from the dential. John Ludington, operations manag intersection of St. Georges and Chan Dan Burns can be reached at 908 er said. restaurant dler avenues, an area where police 686-7700, ext. 120, or theprogress@the- To receive a copy of the report, By Dan Burns have made multiple arrests for drug localsource.com. call 877-303-2435. Copies of Staff Writer the report can also be LINDEN — Fifteen hours after a downloaded on the Internet at powerful fire devastated a Wood Rahway appoints www.unitedwater.com. Avenue restaurant, three firefighters and a policeman stood watch over the Linden Lions donate wet, charred and weakening remains superintendent The Linden Lions Club recently of the building’s structure. donated television magnifying They were on around-the-clock fire By Kitty Wilder served in that position until earlier this screens to assist senior citizens. watch, not only to make sure the blaze Photos Courtesy of Jon Young Managing Editor month when the board appointed In attendance at the presentation didn’t rekindle, but also to make sure Flames leap out of windows of Don Alex restaurant July RAHWAY — When Frank Buglione interim superintendent. were Sister Anastasia Hearne, the building didn’t collapse on any 19, above. Crews, including Linden's Fire Department, Buglione began his teaching career in Now that he has officially taken Dominic Caggiano, Robin Trinidad, one. below, battle the blaze. one of the city’s elementary schools lead of the district, Buglione said his Thomas Magcino, Josephine “If someone walks underneath that 34 years ago, he didn’t really expect experience working in different posi Caggiano, William Schneider, Caro building they could get rich,” a fire that one day he’d take control of the tions during the last three-and-a-half line Costa and Donna Yesinko. man said offhand, alluding to the entire district. decades will help him understand the potential of a lawsuit if the building On Tuesday, that stretch of the district’s needs. Man faces sentencing collapsed on a pedestrian. “The wind imagination became a reality when the The former English teacher will for Linden robbery could blow a wall down now if it Board of Education appointed make language arts proficiency a dis wants to, so we have to play it safe.” trict priority because “reading and An 19-year-old Elizabeth man is Buglione superintendent of schools by Playing it safe for emergency writing are the keys to all subjects,” he facing a five-year state prison term a unanimous vote in the absence of response officials included blocking when he is sentenced next month for members Frank Cicarrell and Dawn said. off the corner of the sidewalk where being the “inside man” in a robbery Rodger. Improving language arts skills, the fire occurred, at the intersection of He will take over for former super especially at the elementary school at a car parts store in Linden last North Wood Avenue and Price Street. year. intendent William Petrino at a salary level, will increase student achieve Pedestrians walked through cones on Miguel Torres of Jefferson of $161,200. Petrino took a position as ment in later years, Buglione said. the street placed a safe distance from superintendent of the Union County Another priority will be maintain Avenue will appear before Superior the building. Court Judge Joseph Donohue Aug. Educational Services Commission ing and improving the district’s facili Firefighters were still spraying earlier this month. ties, Buglione said. The board is cur 25 to be sentenced on second-degree water on certain sections of the interi robbery charges. For Buglione, the appointment is rently considering a “laundry list” of or about 15 hours after the fire was put Torres stood before the judge another step up the ladder he has capital projects. out. under oath and admitted that he let Even though the fire was declared Fire officials were still investigat climbed since 1972 — the year he Buglione said the challenge before The fire began at 11:23 p.m. on began teaching sixth-grade at Franklin two accomplices into an auto parts under control three hours after it ing the cause of the fire as of press the district will be to balance taxpay July 19, inside the Don Alex restau store where he worked on St. began, it was still smoldering at time Tuesday. They have already Elementary School. ers’ needs with the school system’s rant. It was declared under control George’s Avenue after hours and around 6 a.m., according to Callahan. determined the fire originated in the Buglione then spent three years needs. approximately three hours later, teaching language arts to seventh- and Buglione credited the district’s cus they held up other employees at The fire appeared to cause damage kitchen on the first floor of the build gunpoint on May 7 of last year. according to Acting Deputy Chief to two adjoining businesses on Wood ing, according to Callahan. eighth-graders at the district’s junior todial staff on continuous work main Thomas Callahan. “A followup investigation by Avenue. The building was condemned by high school before taking a dis taining and repairing facilities. Twenty fire trucks from 16 differ trictwide position as coordinator of His years of building relationships Linden Detectives David Kother Officials on the scene had to evac the city on July 20, the day the fire ent municipalities responded to the and John Johnston led to the defen uate 14 families from an apartment was extinguished. federal and state projects. with teachers and staff throughout the blaze, according to Callahan. dant’s arrest several days after the building on East Price Street, just As of press time Tuesday, it was In that role, Buglione oversaw a district and his own experience work “Eighty fire personnel were on the range of programs funded through ing in various positions will help him robbery, even though he refused to behind the Don Alex restaurant.