Vol. 144, No. 3 Saturday, January 15, 2005 Piscataway pitching school expansion Special election slated for Jan. 25 asks for additional $14.6 million PISCATAWAY — The town­ by voters in March 2002. If approved, the tax impact School; provide for the con­ built to accommodate 1,700 ship Board of Education has The election will be held on the average home assessed struction of five new science students, 2,200 are now authorized a special election Jan. 25. The district will also at $109,000 would be $55.23 laboratories, art studios, enrolled. Next year, 2,300 stu­ seeking approval for an addi­ hold two information meet­ per year, or $4.60 per month, music rooms, a 1,200-seat the­ dents will be enrolled. tional $14.6 million to com­ ings on the referendum — 10 at current lending rates. The ater and upgrades to existing If voters approve the refer­ plete a district-wide expan­ a.m. today at Arbor School additional funds will connect science laboratories and air endum, the additional funds sion and renovation program and 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Anthony and Patton conditioning. that was originally approved Schor Middle School. Buildings at Piscataway High Piscataway High School was Continued on page A2 More charges SCHOOLS filed in BATTLE Metuchen and Middlesex tax flap high school players battle during Metuchen’s 60-42 BOUND BROOK — victory Jan. 7. For recent Somerset County Prosecutor results, see page B 1. Wayne Forrest announced last week that a series of criminal complaints were filed in Superior Court in Somerville charging Rafael Rosario with eight additional crimes, including theft by deception and tax violation, in connection with an ongoing investigation into Cafe Imperial. The additional charges are second degree failure to sur- position, second degree theft by deception, third degree fil­ Milestone ing false tax reports, third degree misapplication of marked entrusted property, third degree tampering with public MAACO Collision Repair & records, fourth degree decep­ Auto Painting honored Kim tive business practices and Hullfish, the franchise oper­ Learning to live without fourth degree false swearing, ator at 224 Lincoln Blvd., for officials reported. producing $1 million in Rosario, 43, a borough resi­ sales. A record 125 of 500 Calendar dent, is principal owner of MAACO franchises reached Cafe Imperial, Forrest said. the million dollar milestone According to the prosecutor, in 2004. It was the sixth spreads Rosario and Kenneth time that the Middlesex Henderson, currently sus­ facility achieved the mile­ pended borough police chief, stone. Hullfish is shown with anti-drug were arrested Oct. 19 of last his wife Marylyn; his daugh­ year by Somerset County ter, Michelle Keller and her Prosecutor’s Office detectives boyfriend Geoff Brobst. message Elisa Chaudet. a and charged with second fifth grade pupil at degree official misconduct and conspiracy to commit By ADAM HOCHRON Stoney Brook School in official misconduct. Staff Writer Branchburg, Forrest said the New Jersey BEDMINSTER — In a time Division of Taxation, Office of when the advertising and the created this Kiwanis patriotic rhyme for Criminal Investigation and entertainment industry is Division of Alcohol Beverage being scorned for producing her anti-drug poster, above, Control and Department of returns violent and graphic material, Labor all joined the investiga­ Kiwanis is back in Edison 12 Somerset County youths which appears as tion and are actively assisting with the formation of a new were honored by their par­ part of the 2005 the prosecutor’s office. dub sponsored by the ents, local police and digni­ Anti-Drug The charges filed against Calendar Kiwanis Club of Woodbridge. taries for posters that pro­ Rosario allege that he filed produced by the The new organization mote a life without drug and false sales and use tax quar­ Somerset County already has more than 20 alcohol abuse. terly returns on behalf of the Prosecutor's members. Not only did they receive restaurant. The charges allege Office. Zach Kiwanis is an international congratulations, eight he consistently underreport­ received savings bonds of Horton, left, a fifth service organization made up ed the amount of business $100, three received $200 sav­ grader at the of service-minded men and sales tax received by Cafe ings bonds and one Saint Elizabeth Imperial for 1999-2003. women who believe that our Bernardsville pupil received a School in In addition, Rosario alleged­ children are the future and $500 savings bond for having Bernardsville, ly illegally withheld more who are interested in improv­ his design voted best of all. All autographs a than $75,000 from the ing their communities. of the winning entries were copy of the Division of Taxation and State The organization includes made into a calendar. calendar. of New Jersey during the Circle K for college students, As part of the Somerset same period, Forrest said. Key Club for High School County Prosecutor’s Office Forrest said the $75,000 does students, Builders Club for 2005 anti-drug calendar, fifth not include fees, penalties Junior High and K Kids in and sixth grade pupils from and interest potentially due. grade school. around the county were chal­ Henderson was arrested last The Kiwanis Club of Edison lenged to design their best fall on charges he tipped off is currently meeting at the anti drug and violence adver­ Rosario about an impending tisements. raid by state liquor law inves­ Main Street Tratto’ria, 413 As the best design of the cal­ tigators. Henderson was eat­ Main St., Metuchen. 6 p.m. endar, now in its seventh year IMAGE COURTESY OF ing dinner at the Cafe on the first and third THE SOMERSET of existence, Zach Horton, a COUNTY Imperial on Oct. 17 when he Wednesdays of the month. fifth grader at the Saint PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE learned that state Alcoholic (ABOVE); GEORGE The next meeting is sched­ PACCIELLO/STAFF uled for Wednesday. Continued on page A2 PHOTOGRAPHER (LEFT) Continued on page A2 There is also a Key Club in the J. P. Stevens High School that needs the sup­ port of the Kiwanis Club. For additional information, Board rejects parking plan Bound Brook man call Gwen at (908) 500-2730 strip mall at the corner of No renovation or other con­ during the day or (908) 781- E d - n0\e: n 's ’ at 6862 in the evening. appeared on Dec. 11, 2004, is Park and West Golf avenues struction work on the strip being reprinted because it ong- may be heading to court. mall is planned, according to charged with rape _________ inally contained inaccurate According to Zoning and representatives of information about what Code Enforcement Officer Scotchbrook. BOUND BROOK — A man faces charges of kidnapping and ' Scotchbrook Associates, owners John Pabst, Scotchbrook The Planning Board raping his former girlfriend, an 18-year-old woman. of an existing strip mall at the Associates, owners of the requested the zoning board Jose Raul Escano-Rodriguez, 22, of Linden Avenue waS . comer of Park and West Golf site, have filed a suit in state consider the variance on the arrested Tuesday morning near a section of woods in comm entary................... avenues, were seeking when Superior Court in New parking spaces. After hear­ Bridgewater where the rape was said to have taken place. The _ .. ., - - they appeared before both the Brunswick against the ing the request, the zoning woods are off Vosseller Avenue north of the Bound Brook bor­ Community Lite ............» -0 Planning Board and Zoning Zoning Board of Adjustment, board rejected it on Sept. 9. der. „ , p i Board of Adjustment. The which had upheld Pabst’s rec­ During a planning board Escano-Rodriguez has been charged with one count of aggra­ o ports................................ applicants were only seeking ommendation that the center hearing on the application vated sexual assault, first degree; one count of kidnapping, sec­ have 70 parking spaces. held Dec. 1, Mayor Daniel ond degree; one count of terroristic threats, third degree; and Entertainment.............B-6 atPh!7 o m Jla parkingplan at Scotchbrook had requested Gallagher, who also sits on one count of weapons possession, third degree. He is being a variance so it would only the planning board, said held in the Somerset County Jail on $75,000 cash bail. Obituaries................... A -7 By LIBBY b a r sk y need 26 spaces at the site, work on the variance request According to a release from the Somerset County’ prosecu­ rnnntv News ' A-5 Correspondent which houses a Chinese take­ should be stopped until any tor’s office, the suspect picked up the woman around 5:17 a.m. county mews................ #*□ SOu TH p l a in f ie l d - out restaurant, an auto parts litigation is settled. The Tuesday at her South Bound Brook home. store, a kitchen cabinet store board did not take any action Police LOO................. A-3 An issue over the number of Continued on page A2 parking spaces needed for a and periodical distributor. at that meeting. Saturday, January 15, 2005 The Chronicle (£) beScRIfct +HE pRO»»«M,C.HM|eMae aK O P P 0R+ U w ; + y, Piscataway pitching school expansion spokesman with the New Continued from page A1 Jersey Schools Construction will also allow the district to Corp., the agency created to construct 10 classrooms and a spearhead the state’s focus gymnasium at Grandview as and financial commitment to well as install air conditioning, improving school facilities. and upgrade the parking, main Additionally, global events entrance, rest rooms and elec­ such as a building boom in trical systems. At Knollwood China have increased the cost and Randolphville schools, the of construction materials. The funds will include the installa­ price of petroleum, used in tion of air conditioning rubber materials, is another throughout the buildings, and factor.