January 14, 2012 at 10am to April 1, 2012 at 5pm – Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
January 28, 2012 from 10am to 5pm – Maplewood Memorial Library
January 29, 2012 from 10:30am to 11:30am – First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County
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By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
According to local officials, Maplewood police have recently upped outreach efforts to increase the number of women and minorities hired as officers in the department.
Steps included advertising in black and Hispanic newspapers, and reaching out to area churches, including two in the mostly black community of Irvington.
Police Chief Robert J. Cimino, appearing Jan. 21 for a budget…
Posted by News-Record on January 27, 2012 at 11:30am
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Kings Supermarket, an anchor store in Maplewood Village, has expressed a willingness to consider moving across the street to the site of the current post office, Mayor Vic De Luca said last week.
At a Jan. 19 community meeting devoted to the…
ContinuePosted by News-Record on January 26, 2012 at 3:27pm
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
New carpeting in Maplewood Memorial Library and crime-fighting equipment are among the $4.5 million in big-ticket items that heads of municipal departments in Maplewood asked for this year.
The projects and their costs were outlined in documents made available at the budget hearing Jan. 21, the first in a series of such township committee meetings.
Officials made it clear Saturday that…
Posted by News-Record on January 26, 2012 at 12:39pm
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
The entire athletic field at Maplewood’s DeHart Park has to be torn out and resodded because of a mistake made during the installation, the township said.
Plastic netting is throughout the grass field, said Mayor Vic De Luca, who expressed concern that someone might get injured playing there.
He could not explain the presence of the netting but made clear that the township will not be…
ContinuePosted by News-Record on January 24, 2012 at 10:50am
By Michael D’Onofrio and Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writers
A proposed Chinese-language charter school that would have served South Orange-Maplewood, along with West Orange, was rejected last week by the state’s top education official for a second time.
The office of Acting Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf would not discuss why he turned down the Hua Mei application, one of 17 charter-school applications statewide that Cerf was considering.…
Posted by News-Record on January 23, 2012 at 5:00pm
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
The streets of Maplewood were safer in 2011.
Police reported a sharp drop in burglaries that contributed to an overall 8.9 percent decrease in major crimes.
Homicides and car thefts also decreased, said police Chief Robert J. Cimino Jan. 11 when releasing crime statistics. Cimino lauded the work of the officers in the department, and cited the benefits of intelligence sharing with other…
Posted by News-Record on January 20, 2012 at 11:00am
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