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Mountainside Ech County leader Wewtpapcrs VOL, 27 NO, 1! MOUNTAINS!DE« N.J,, THURSDAY. JUNE 4, 1915 — 3* Two seefioni. Court reverses officer's fii A Union County Superior Court according in a published report, the races and leaving patrol to consort initiated in 19^ -ra judge Tuesday struck down tht* 1981! police sergeant said he was "pleased with prostitutes challenged the legality ol the dismissal of Mountainside police' with the bottom line" of the ruling, "It is the opinion of this court that council's hearings, in which the vote officer iiaymond Delia Serra, but but needs further time to review the in cases in which the police officers to dismiss him was :i-2, and con- decided to impose a six month decision with his attorney were dismissed, most of the offenses tended that one of the councilman suspension and $],00u fine as more On No\ 21, 1982. the council voted were more serious than those in- should not have been allowed to vote appropriate punishments. "Hi to convict Delia Serra of various volved herein." the judge stated due to a conflict of interest Feller judge Milton A Feller reversed offenses, including failure to back up The judge also said thai council ruled that the council violated the the council's decision to dismiss another police officer, failing to had chosen to concentrate on the Open Public Meetings Act by going Delta Serra from the force in respond properly to a police negative aspects of Delia Serra's into closed session to deliberate November 1982 following his con dispatcher and failing . to file a record without balancing the letters Delia Serra s fate, but the Appellate viction on 24 of :J0 Police Department requiri-d report of commendation and appreciation Division later reversed this decision, infractions in November 1982 The judge noted that in contrast to he had received during his 20-plus ruling that there was no violation of But the judge ordered that Delia Delia Semis case, in other New, years on the force the Sunshine Law and denying the .Serra immediately begin,serving the Jersey court cases where police Litigation in the patrolman s case conflict of interest claim six-month suspension and pay a officers were dismissed from the has continued for more than two and When asked for a comment on $1,000 fine force the charges were much more a half years, during which time, Tuesday's ruling. Borough Ad- In his ruling, Feller threw out senou> Feller noted examples numerous legal appeals have con ministrator Jim Roberts said the eight of those charges, allowing Ifi of where officers were dismissed on tinually prevented"the council from governing body would reserve the infract ions to stand charges such as gross in- implementing its decision to dismiss comment until it has had a chance to Delia Serra could not be reached subordination, assault and battery Delia Serra read and discuss the judge's 27-page fnr comment on the ruling, though on a prisoner, bookmakmg on horse Court action in the case was decision Artist's works peek through windows Renowned Mountainside artist and ar chitectural portraits were commissioned by Go." and "What Kind of House is That''" The ehitectural historian Harry Devlin is featuring corporate or state • organizations to com books are the basis of a four-part documentary, DIP. DUNK AND DIVE!—At least that's what borough his drawings during the Westfield series memorate specific historic buildings rerun periodically on public ielevison He is swimmers plan to do after the water's added. Contractors display of "Windows on Westfield," now- Most of the paintings that compose a body of currently concentrating on a major book, 15 added the finishing touches of paint last week to the inside of through June 15,' work numbering more than 100 major pain years in the making, entitled "Portraits of this 12-foot diving tank, at the Mountainside Community Devlin, also a nationally recognized tings are of buildings that caught Devlin's •American Architecture," to be published by Pool, which opens this Saturday for summer fun. Nestled off illustrator and writer, chose two centra! interest as examples of disappearing ar the end of the year.by the firm of David Godine of Mountain Avenue adjacent to Echo Lake Park, the pool business district street scenes, thu North chitectural forms of Boston offers pjenty of sun and swimming for members and their Avenue Train Station- and the Miller-Cory "Devlin's realistic style faithfully guests. For membership fees and hours of operation, contact House, to comprise the series reproduces every detail of the building's form •Jardine said the black and white drawings the Recreation Office at 232=0015. (Photo by John Boutsikaris) Commissioned by tht' Westfield Area while he adds a pervasive tone or mood that which depict familiar Westfield scenes are Chamber of Commerce! the series started in lifts the painting from the classification of available as signed and numbered limited 1981 and is now complete with four editions illustration and defines its artistic quality." editions ready for framing "The Westfield Series has attracted a loyal Jardme said Prints are on sale at Jeannetle s Gift Shop, group of patrons," said Susan Jardine, Framed prints can he seen during the spring 277 K Broad St , Juxtaposse Gallery at 58 Elm County buys option executive director of the chamber. "Since promotion in the windows of Milady's Shop on St , or the chamber office at 225 E Broad Si Devlin's work is rarely sold in reproduction, East Broad Street, Korden Realty on Elm A brochure illustrat.ng "The Westfield the limited edition prints are a unique op. Street and in Jane .Smith's display windows Series" is available at the three "Windows on for incinerator site portunity to own his work. near the parking lot entrance Westfield " locations, and at the chamber of- Jardme added the Westfield Series is Devlin has used his architecural paintings to fice Anyone seeking further information about By PHILIP GIMSON vironmental Protection (EJEP). to representative of Devlin's interest in ar illustrate two books which he wrote on ar the series may contact Jardine. Westfield Area t Union County Board of develop a long-term solution to the uhitecturai subjects and that some of his ar ehitecture — "To Grandfather's House We Chamber of Commerce. P.O. Box 81, 07091 Freeholders Chairman G, Richard county's garbage disposal crisis. Malgran said Friday that several Since the court-ordered closure of steps must still take place before the the Industrial Land Reclaiming county can act on an option landfill in EdUon April 1, the county Young poet envisions tile limited, free agreement to purchase 23 acres of has been trucking some of its waste land off Route 1 in Rahway targeted to the Edgeboro Disposal Inc. land- By SHAWN EVA\> Timothy Palmien, a studejt at "At first, I was confident ,>nd then "I like to write about things that as-the site for a $150 million resource fill in East Brunswick under a In one of her poems, Stephanie Mountainside's VailDeane School I got there f to meet the judging bother me. depending on what kind recovery plant. controversial contingency plan Levine of Mounta inside wrote: and two other Newark Academy panel) and 1 saw that there were so of mood I'm in And I also like to "First it will be necessary to developed by the DEP. "Maybe my life is only an students from other, areas were many other people there. I never influence people through my conduct an environmental impact ephemerai beam of brightness, chosen as Governor's Scholars in knew there were so many people writing, "she said , study," Malgran stated, "Then we briefly severing barren blackness Science to attend the Governor's interested in writing; then, I wen! Continuing, she said, "I would like According to Ken Marsh, the head before and after. " home and became kind of have to get our financing in order of the county's Environmental School of the Sciences at Drew to someday do something'with my before we can even proceed with Levine, the 17-year-old daughter University this summer, - depressed, ' she said writing My dream or high goal is to Planning Division, development of But the depression didn't last very write a novel — something to blow purchasing the property." the resource recovery plant is not of Arthur and Carol Levine of 1253 Levine said she has always en- Under the five-year option Deerfield Court, has been named as joyed writing and was influenced long, because she was soon notified people's minds and have them step scheduled for completion until that she was chosen as one of the back and look at the world " agreement, with Dorbett Inc., the December 1989. a Governor's Scholar by officials at early on in the fourth grade. county will spend some $76,000 in the Newark Academy, Livingston, for "I actually became interested finalists The concluding lines in the young, Marsh said that the county would "1 was so happy when I learned writers poem, entitled. "Maybe," first year for the right to purchase have to select a "competitive bid" her skills in creative arts and then because my fourth grade the property, which is currently writing. teacher emphasized creative types they had chosen me' I was very reads: from among six separate proposals excited," she said "Maybe my consciousness .will, priced at $1.5 million, Malgran said. submitted by contractors for While the talented Levine may of things and I really liked it — in With each succeeding year that the turn to her pad and pencil during fact, that was the first thing I really A member of th editorial board of somehow transcend this clumsy, development of the plant.