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1990-12-13.Pdf T. SERVING CRANFORD, GARWOOD and KENILWORTH A Forbes Newspaper "USPS 136800 SecondClass : Vol. 97 No. 50 Published Every Thursday Thursday, December 13,1990 Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 50 CENTS In brief Neighboring residents CHS concert object to ball league's Cranford High School's win- ter concert, featuring the lights at Adams Avenue school's orchestra and choirs, will take place at 8 p.m. next By Cheryl Moulton Adams Avenue fields, assuring the Thursday. Page B-6. , •1 It remains anyone|s ball game board the-14 light poles would not in the Cranford Baseball League^ impact the residents. Those living . (CBL) vs. residents'' contest, re- within close proximity of the Shop for PTC garding the i proposed. 40-foot fields have claimed Memorial lights at Adams Avenue baseball, Field is not a fair duplication of Nine Cranford stores will fields. The matter will continue at Adams Avenue playing fields, and participate., in the Parent Wednesday's Planning ; Board object to the. league's using it as Teacher Council's "Shopping meeting;/ ' ( . an example. They maintain the for Scholars" benefit Sunday. Nov. 28,. at CBL's last appear- lights, regardless of a strict 9 p.m. They will donate a portion of ance, and second .hearing before him off time, will disturb their Sunday's .sales to the PTC the Planning Board, neighborhood quality of life. scholarship fund. residents - came : to. object while Albert Sender, attorney for CBL supporters stood by 10 deep CBL, emphasized the closest pro- at the doorway of Room 10? of the posed light pole would be 310 feet Church fair Municipal Building. Objecting res- from a resident's property, a mea- •', '• •. •. • • . •. ^ - idents spoke out against the lights, surement determined by. CBL ,:. Funds raised by Cranford indicating they' have endured president Kurt Petschow, He also United Methodist Church Photos by DIanne Deverson > loudspeaker noise, parking profch said the league Had" consented tq Sunday .wilL be donated'to. fc The William Sanzo residence at-3$:Miincee;br. pdisplayy $ s ad WpnEJerlahd of lems:and litter pjr-ttieirpropertws eliminating—the-, use 'ofl loUd:; Heifer Project International, a hollday^cenesJricludihg the above rrnv^>^.'.xti;-_u, l ."»"•-,'••. 'djHngtes^ non-profit agency that pro- CBL' representatives, however, Chris Chapman, a resident of vides livestock to needy fann- cited Memorial Field as an exam- Buchanan Street adjacent to Me- ers. Page B-5. ple of the proposed lighting at the : (Please turn to page A-15) Garwood Attorney suggests town The borough has ushered in the holiday season with its an- nual tree lighting cere- be exempt from LDO mony.i.Borough Council paid its final tribute to the. late Mayor Georgiana Gurrieri. By Cheryl Moulton used as an example the '"unpleas- Pages A-8 and A-9. If the township attorney has ant application to construct the anything to do with it, Cranford compacted at the Conservation will not be subject to its own zon- Center." Taylor said the ensuing ing and development laws, saving lawsuit caused the township Hoop previews the township from further "tem^ delay-.' additional "needless ex- pests in a teapot" . po: . ^ Weir as some vilification Brearley and Cranford var- from a small vocal segment of the sity basketball teams will The Township Committee, seemingly in agreement with public." make their season debut to- According to Taylor, Cranford is morrow night Page B-l. Taylor, Tuesday passed a resolu- tion requesting Planning Board "the only municipality" who "sub- review and recommendation' of jects themselves to' this, kind of the proposed amendment, to thfl qbuse," indicating he had "been Leaf pickup Land Development Ordinance trying for years to get the govern- (LDO). Taylor's recommendation ing body to change the law," but The township will make its came on tiie heels of tl^e recefat hajjj flgver. bpen: al^le to get "more final swing through Cranford selective application of the LDO than two memfciers to agree with next week to pick up the last by Mayor Ed Force in approving me." Taylor maintains "an earlier of theleaves. the reconstruction 'of the Adams Township Committee, in its infi- Avenue baseball field parkhjglot, nite wisdom, saw-fit to explicitly without site plan approval from enac^ a LJ3O (Land Development Hartz plan the Planning Board* Or proper no- Ordinance) in which it subjected tification to fellow governing body itself to ineet all of the requires Hartz continues to present to members. FOrce, who indicated at ments contained therein," ... the planning Board the site Hardwiek are pessimisticj the tiihe he did not believe the While "Taylor, township attorney plan for redevelopment of its township should be above its own for nine years,' sayi his reatsoning 31>acre Walnut Avenue prop- laws, said he Would condone is based on Hie iact the township erty. Page A-15. aboiit changing the LDO/ Taylor himself (Please turn to page A-15) Fee fight By Ro9alle Gross districts to urban schools over the hears what people, are saying," State legislators told a com- next five years. Bassano said. School board member James bined meeting of the Cranford Cranford schools expect to lose The senator said that after Festivities to continue Van Horn continued to ques- Board of Education and Township $1.47 million in state.aid by/1995- hearings are held, legislation "Home for the Holidays" festivities will continue tonight with tion bills submitted by board Committee last Thursday that 96 and will have to pay $4 million would be drafted to amend the Santa Glaus' strolling the downtown area. Freshly popped corn attorney Irwin Weinberg over their only hope of making changes in Social Security and pension QEA. > : :,.;,V • •,,,::,:•:••.-, • and roasted chestnuts will.be handed out by members of the the last three years. Page A-2. to the Quality Education Act benefits by then. The QEA has .'. Bassano has hot yet chosen & Chamber of Commerce. (QEA) of 1990 is to convince Gov. shifted these costs from the state date for the local hearing, but said Shuttle buses will be available today and tomorrow to bring Florio that his new school funding to local school districts. • it probably would be held in Ken- workers from the business park downtown dijring their lUnch Drop course bill will mean political suicide. Bassano, calling Florio the ilworth. The borough, he said, is hour. Many stores will be open Sunday. • Sea Louis Bassano and Assem- "most strong-headed" of ;the four an example of a community that Beginning Saturday all downtown parking meters will be The Board of Education will blyman Chuck Hardwick were in-, governors he has worked with, is not affluent; but will lose all its bagged, allowing shoppers free/parking during; the last 10 shop- decide Monday whether to yited to the second joint meeting said he plans to hold a Hearing in aid in five years. •..'•.- ping days. Santa will showup again from 1 to 3 p.m. drop the high school's medical of the school and municipal gov- January on the QEA He said . Hardwick, who ran in the gu- Last weetfs celebrations were very successful, according to laboratory techniques course erning bodies to comment on the hearings will be held throughout bernatorial primary lctst year, said downtown manager Marta Person, who helped roast chestnuts for as part of a proposal to revise impact of the QEA, The Republi- the state to gather testimony from any change "has to be in the heart shoppers at Thursday's open house. Citing the success of the the curriculum. Page A-3. can lawmakers were pessimistic school officials and citizens on the and mind of Florio. If he doesn't event, Chamber president Paul LaCorte said, "It was really about changing the law that shifts impact of the law and proposed make changes, he jvvill be a one- crowded for about an hour," state aid from suburban school changes. "I hope the governor Gift books (Please turn to page A-15) Book reviewer Tirana Mirante Town hires picks this season's favorites for holiday gift giving. Page B-6. consultant office fire Mail slots on insurance costs millions Press releases, letters to the editor/classified ads and pay- By Cheryl Moulton Union County Arson Squad in- ments may be delivered to the The township has hired a con- vestigators yesterday said the fire Chronicle through mail slots sultant to remedy the ailing town- which severely damaged a Com- located at the side of each of- ship health insurance plan des- merce Drive office building and fice door. tined for a 65 percent increase in- its contents Monday night was ac- crease in 1991. cidental. After taking a hard look at the Capt John Langan, commander prospect of a $385,000 rise in in-, of the Arson Squad said that the Paper drive surance premiums, the Township fire, was accidental and that no Committee agreed to hire the con- evidence of criminal activity was Boy Scout Troop 178 of St sulting flrnjj of ShiWar Associates discovered. ... Michael's School will conduct of Morristown to analyze the cur- But fire officials were still un- its monthly paper and alumi- rent plan and to make recommen- able to determine the cause of the num can collection Saturday dations on cutting costs. The fire which was reported at 5:57 from 9:30 am. to 3:30 p.m. at choice came after the governing p.jn; in a third floor office of the Conservation Center.' body interviewed several consult: Meeker-Sharkey Associates, 21 Newspaper must be tied. The ants, opting to hire Shikiar, a firm Commerce Drive. Employees who recyclables will be collected at that has been in business for nine saw the flre reported it to police the trucks not the dumpsters.
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