PARSIPPANY — There is a fault in JCP&L’s main feeder cable that supplies power to the Township’s Powder Mill booster station.
Due to the lack of power to the station, the Township’s Water Utility is unable to pump and distribute water from it. Water is currently being supplied to residents via the Klondike booster station.
Until the power is restored to the Powder Mill booster station, we ask that residents residing in the Glenmont and Powder Mill North and South areas conserve water. Water usage should only be used for needed activities, i.e. consumption, cooking and medical. Residents in these areas should not water lawns and ornamental shrubbery, fill pools or wash cars.
Township Water Utility crews are working closely with JCP&L to fix the problem as soon as possible. It is expected to be fixed by early this evening. We ask that you continue to conserve water until further notice.
PARSIPPANY — In 1989, when Frank Priore learned that his drivers license had long since expired, he not only renewed his license immediately, but he suspended himself as Mayor of Parsippany for one day.
“I think that is the fairest thing I could do with myself,” Priore said at the time.
After a reporter had informed the former mayor that his license had lapsed, Priore leaped into action and demanded that the Chief of Police issue him a summons to ‘set an example.’
“He was kind of shocked,” Priore said at the time. “He said ‘I can’t give you a ticket,’ and I said, ‘You’re being ordered to give me a ticket.'” Priore paid the fine and docked himself a day’s pay.
Last week Parsippany Focus received text messages along with several photos attached from two Lake Hiawatha residents. Both residents, neighbors of Mayor Barberio, complained that a large pickup truck remained parked smack on the middle of Hizzoner’s front lawn.
“I don’t know who to complain to,” one resident lamented, “how do I ask housing [officer] or the police to knock on their boss’ door and say ‘hey move that truck off your [expletive] lawn.'”
Parsippany Code 213-19 (7) states: The parking of any motor vehicle by an owner, occupant or operator on the lawn of any residential property is strictly prohibited. All vehicles must park on an improved surface, either paved by asphalt or similar-type material or stoned as a parking area in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 225, Land Use, Subdivisions and Site Plans.
The pickup truck in question according to the mayor’s neighbors has been parked on his lawn since at least last Wednesday and as of early Monday evening, continues to remain on his front lawn.
Parsippany Focus emailed both Police Chief Paul Philipps and Mayor Barberio what they feel should be the appropriate action taken. We will update when either the mayor or chief respond.
What do you think?
UPDATE: Parsippany Focus received a message that as of 9pm Monday, the truck was removed from the lawn and is now parked on the street.
MORRIS COUNTY — For the 13th year, Morris County’s Annual National Night Out event was held on Tuesday, August 4.
The local take on the national event was held from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Mennen Sports Arena in Morris Township and offered a variety of free attractions, including food, drinks, live entertainment, ice-skating, and giveaways.
Fire, police, and rescue personnel was on hand to demonstrate a range of skills and equipment used in helping protect Morris County residents.
“This is a perfect event to bring together our police, fire and county rescue teams with county residents, to have them explain what they do, talk about important community crime and safety efforts, and also to have a good time at the ice rink on a hot summer night,’’ said Morris County Freeholder Douglas Cabana in a statement.
Parsippany Rescue and Recovery and Denville Fire Department extricated a vehicle as part of the demonstration.
The Morris County Park Police offered registration for their Child ID cards, an initiative launched in 2000 that has registered more than 1,000 children annually.
Mennen Arena is located at 161 East Hanover Avenue, Morris Township.
National Night Out, which began in 1984, is an annual nationwide community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer and better places to live. It provides an opportunity to bring police and residents together in a positive setting, while promoting a countywide sense of community.
The event is meant to increase awareness about police programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, neighborhood watch and other anti-crime programs.
Neighborhoods across the nation host block parties, festivals, parades, cookouts and other community events with safety demonstrations, seminars, youth events, visits from emergency personnel and exhibits.
The National Night Out event in Morris County had will a special focus on families, and the police, rescue and emergency services available to them.
Visitors were able to investigate the essential equipment of police, fire, and emergency teams, including motorcycles, ambulances, all-terrain vehicles, fire engines, and squad cars.
The horses of the Morris County Park Police’s award-winning Mounted Equestrian Unit also was on hand.
“The Morris County National Night Out for the past seven years has received national recognition because it offers a comprehensive array of participating agencies to educate the public on available community services,” said Park Police Lt. Gabriel DiPietro.
Each year since 2007, the National Association of Town Watch has named the Morris County’s National Night Out event a national award winner.
Chief Dave Doyle and the Morris County Park Police, who co-sponsor the event, will be on hand to detail their role in law enforcement in Morris County. The Park Police Department currently patrols park facilities in cars and on motorcycles, bicycles, all-terrain vehicles, and horses to ensure public safety.
Barney Collins and Paul Anderson
Barney Collins, Paul Anderson, Risto “Chris” Savanovic, Jake Beg, Joe Bellardino and Francisco Munoz from Parsippany Rescue and Recovery
Connor Lynch, 8, and Tyler Zeis, 12, was inside the Rescue and Recovery truck
Meredity Petrilo, Jessica Soto and Al Goldberg, Morris County Animal Response Team
Morris County OEM Director Jeff Paul, Parsippany Rescue and Recovery Member Jake Beg and Parsippany Police Chief Paul Philipps
Parsippany OEM Member Nicolas Limanov with Eddie from the Morris County Sheriff’s Office
Karen DeChristopher with Eddie from the Morris County Sheriff’s Office
Parsippany Police Patrolmen Remo D’Alessandro and Brian Conover had a display of illegal drugs
The Peluso Family
Howie Forman, Sue Rosenthal, Karen DeChristopher, Bonnie Rosenthal and Margie Forman from American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life
Thousands come out for the annual National Night Out
Robert Peluso Jr checking out the rescue truck
Karen DeChristopher with Remo D’Alessandro and Patrolman Brian Conover
County of Morris Mass Care Unit
The big toys
Rescue and Recovery Members preparing to demonstate a vehicle extrication
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
Hundreds watch the first responders do a vehicle extrication
Jake Beg communicating with fellow members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
Members of Parsippany Rescue and Recovery extricating a vehicle as part of a demonstration
PARSIPPANY — The Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills announced a significant collaboration between the Township and the Morris County Sheriff’s Office.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Mayor James Barberio met with Morris County Undersheriff William Schievella, to discuss numerous opportunities in community outreach with the Sheriff’s Department. One important initiative that has worked well in the past is contact with the Asian community to provide education and awareness programs about specific crimes and scams inherent to their population. They are planning to continue the program again this year and possibly to include other groups as well.
Another of the upcoming collaborative law enforcement community policing programs that has had a positive outcome is Operation Take Back. Co-hosting with the DEA and the Morris County Sheriff, Parsippany will actively participate in setting up a location to collect unwanted medications.
The strategies set forth by the partnership between the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills and the Morris County Sheriff’s Office are meant to develop and implement recommendations and ideas that can help to establish public safety while building public trust. Community policing emphasizes proactive problem solving and developing solutions to conditions pertaining to public safety. Rather than simply responding to crimes once they have been committed, community policing concentrates on preventing crime and eliminating the fear that it creates.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany teen Shreya Durbha who was recently crowned as Miss Teen India International participated in the FIA Indian Independence Day Parade held in New York City on Sunday, August 16.
Sunday’s walk down Madison Avenue, from 38th Street to 27th Street is expected to make the Guinness record as the biggest Indian parade held outside India. More than 30,000 people participated in the parade. Movie stars, cricketers and politicians from India wowed the crowd. The parade was full of color, dance, music and festivities marking the 69th birthday celebration of Indian Independence.
PARSIPPANY — Street Hockey Clinic 2015-2016 Middle School Ice Hockey Signups will take place at this event. If your child will be attending sixth, seventh or eighth grade they are eligible to participate. The clinick will be held on Saturday, August 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Parsippany Roller Rink (Route 202 / Parsippany Boulevard) (Parsippany Boulevard, North of Waterview Boulevard on left).
If interested you must bring the following equipment: Helmet, Gloves, Hockey Stick, RollerBlades, Knee and Elbow Guards / Shin Guards.
All players will receive A Parsippany Regional hockey shirt when at the event.
PARSIPPANY — The Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills received a complaint on Friday, April 17 and subsequently conducted an inspection at the property of 17 Cherokee Avenue, Lake Hiawatha.
The inspection confirmed an overgrown lawn; bushes, weeds and fallen branches.
The last known owner of record of the property is Stanley & Diane Yotka.
The property is identified as Block 550, Lot 4 on the tax map of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills.
A Notice of Violation was mailed to Stanley & Diane Yotka on April 21 and June 4, which was returned unopened on June 12, 2015.
The township made attempts to obtain mail forwarding information from the mortgage holder, Assurant Field Asset Services, with no success. In addition, the Township Tax Collector has no mail forwarding information on file.
A hearing was held on June 11, 2015 in First Floor Conference Room at Parsippany-Troy Hills Town Hall to discuss the owner’s failure to abate the violations, at which time Stanley and Diane Yotka failed to appear. Due to the lack of response and the condition of the property, the Director of Planning, Zoning, Housing, Fire Prevention, and Construction has determined that the Property has been abandoned. In accordance with Chapter 213, Housing and Property Maintenance, §44, Municipal Intervention, of the Township Code, the Township Housing Department will remied the situation by having the lawn mowed by an outside contractor at a cost not to exceed One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,750.00).
The Township Code further allows that the expenditure of municipal funds to put the Property in proper condition may be charged against the Property as a lien and shall be added to and become and form a part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon the Property.
The Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills hired an outside contractor and at a recent visit to the property, the overgrown lawn was mowed; the bushes, weeds and fallen branches has been cleared.
The Township Council passed a resolution to place a lien on the property at its meeting on Tuesday, July 14. The resolution was presented by Council Vice President Robert Peluso, seconded by Councilman Louis Valori and voted 5-0 by the members of the Council.
Empty beer bottles were left on the back porchThe bushes were trimmedThe Township hired a vendor to clean up the home that was abandoned by the homeowner
MORRIS COUNTY — Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, Roxbury Township Police Chief James Simonetti, and Denville Township Police Chief Christopher Wagner announce that Abner O. Irias-Paz, age 24 of Victory Gardens, New Jersey has been charged with multiple counts of armed robbery.
During the months of May and June multiple armed robberies of area gas stations occurred within Roxbury Township and the Township of Denville. Through a collaborative investigation, Irias-Paz was developed as a suspect.
Irias-Pas was taken into custody early this morning as he was observed leaving his residence. This was the result of a joint investigation conducted by the Roxbury Township Police Department, the Denville Township Police Department and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office Intelligence Unit.
Abner O. Irias-Paz was charged with three (3) counts of Robbery, a first degree offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:15-1a(2); three (3) counts of Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, a second degree offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-5b; three (3) counts of Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose, a second degree offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:39-4a; three (3) counts of Theft, a third degree offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:20-3; and three (3) counts of Terroristic Threats, a third degree offense, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:12-3b.
The Honorable James M. DeMarzo, J.S.C., set a blanket bail of $300,000.00 with no 10% option. A bail source hearing requirement, waiver of extradition, and surrender of passport were further conditions of the bail. Irias-Paz was remanded to the Morris County Correctional Facility.
The investigation is active and ongoing. No other information is being released at this time.
Prosecutor Knapp would like to thank the Roxbury Township Police Department, Denville Township Police Department, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office Intelligence Unit, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, and the Randolph Township Police Department who participated in the efforts that contributed to this arrest.
RANDOLPH — County College of Morris (CCM) has an impressive lineup of new and existing noncredit programs to assist individuals with enhancing their professional skills for career success. Classes begin in early September with registration now taking place.
All the details on this fall’s programs can be found in the Fall Continuing Education brochure by clicking here.
Information sessions also will be held on Thursday, September 3, at 6:30 p.m. There will be individual sessions for 11 different programs; and Admissions counselors will be on hand to assist those interested in pursuing a for-credit degree. See the Fall Continuing Education brochure for the location of each session and additional details.
New for this fall, CCM has teamed up with the American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC) to upgrade its Medical Billing and Coding program. Now graduates will qualify to sit for the AAPC Certified Professional Coders exam – the industry accepted initial certification for employment.
Adding to CCM’s entry-level healthcare programs, the college will be offering the New Jersey Board of Nursing approved Certified Homemaker/Home Health Aidecourse. In just four weeks, students can begin working in the healthcare field.
Additionally, CCM is expanding training programs in one of the fastest growing health fields, addictions counseling, with the Chemical Dependency Associate, Peer Recovery Support Certificate. This course is designed for people already working in the field who lack certification. Best of all, the training hours can all be used toward the Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor program.
Another new program is the Toastmasters Basic Business Communications course to help participants gain the confidence to give high-quality, engaging presentations, along with developing basic meeting management, critical thinking and listening skills. Also being offered is the Non-Profit Fundraising Essentials Certificate to help individuals working with nonprofit organizations to create an effective annual fundraising plan and program.
In addition, CCM once again is offering the alternate route to teaching program, known as New Pathways to Teaching in New Jersey (NPTNJ). This fall, the college is offering the Stage II course for the first time in several years after adding back Stage I training last year. Stage I will be offered again in the spring. And the Introduction to Teaching: 24-Hours Component course will be offered in September, January and June. NPTNJ is best for people interested in K-5, 6-12 subject matter and special education licenses. For more information on this program, click here.
Returning programs include an array of healthcare professional certifications, basic and advanced PC skills courses, New Jersey construction official courses, a full complement of business skills certificates and much more. CCM is a rich resource for Morris County residents. Be sure to take a look at the Fall Continuing Education brochure by clicking hereto learn about all that is being offered.
PARSIPPANY — Township of Parsippany-Troy is extremely grateful to Provident Bank for sponsoring the concert by “Time Machine” on Thursday, August 13. This amazing band had the audience dancing on the lawn and rocking to an array of selections both old and new.
The sale of Time Machine tee shirts was successful with all proceeds going toward sending a little cancer victim to Disney World.
Adding to the success of the evening was the always delicious barbecue sponsored by Parsippany ShopRite with proceeds being donated to the Parsippany PAL.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Chief Paul Philipps, Parsippany Focus Publisher Frank Cahill and Recreation Superintendent Joseph Plescia
OEM Volunteer Karen DeChristopher, Dawn Keimel and OEM Volunteer Edy Toussaint
Allison and Sara Larger, Sabinet and Olivia Haeupl and Kathy Larger enjoying the sounds of the Time Machine
Kiwanis Action Club member Brian Daly
Kiwanis Action Club member Brian Daly
Nancy and Davey Willans enjoying the music
The crowd enjoying the Time Machine
Joyce Garrow enjoying the concert
Mayor James Barberio addressing the audience
Mayor James Barberio addressing the audience
Pledge of Allegiance
OEM members Pradip Trevedi, Nicolas Limanov, Karen DeChristopher and Claus Finke volunteering during the concert at Vetrans Park
Provident Bank, 401 Smith Road, was the main sponsor of the concert
The Time Machine
Provident Employees Ylka Padilla, Kati Orahood, Naima Reig, Mercedes Covert–Muzio and Christine Matthews were giving out popcorn to the crowd
Parsippany Woman’s Club President Marilyn Marion and Betsy Lowry, President Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance
Madison Thiel, Jennifer Thiel, Dylan Deuer, Omar Santos and Ryan Chmura
Toni Bosskay, Shop Rite’s Catering Coordinator, Tony Bonavitacola, Execuritve Director PAL, Allison Ferguson, Store Manager, and Brian Hyland
Parsippany Recreation Superintendent Joseph Plescia and Tony Bonavitacola, Executive Director PAL
“I don’t know who to complain to,” one resident lamented, “how do I ask housing [officer] or the police to knock on their boss’ door and say ‘hey move that truck off your [expletive] lawn.'”
The pickup truck in question according to the mayor’s neighbors has been parked on his lawn since at least last Wednesday and as of early Monday evening, continues to remain on his front lawn.
PARSIPPANY — Street Hockey Clinic 2015-2016 Middle School Ice Hockey Signups will take place at this event. If your child will be attending sixth, seventh or eighth grade they are eligible to participate. The clinick will be held on Saturday, August 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Parsippany Roller Rink (Route 202 / Parsippany Boulevard) (Parsippany Boulevard, North of Waterview Boulevard on left).
