Parsippany PAL presents a “Grand Tasting” Event

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Jul 12, 2017

PARSIPPANY — Parsippany P.A.L. presents a “Grand Tasting” event sponsored by Joe Canals Discount Liquor to be held on Saturday, July 22 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

There will be over 25 vendor tables with tastings of the finest in craft beers, fine wines, and unique spirits and appetizers included.

Industry experts will serve you samples of their, newest, best and most special products.

Like discovering new wine, beer and spirits? Like to enjoy a summer afternoon with great people and to raise money raise some cash.

The Grand Tasting event will be held at Knoll East Country Club Parsippany, 12 Knoll Road.

All proceeds go to the Parsippany Police Athletic League.

Purchase tickets for $50.00 each at Parsippany PAL Youth Center, 33 Baldwin Road or Joe Canals, 799 Route 46 East.

Britcher Leone provides backpacks for Campers attending YSC Summer Camp

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 12, 2017

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britcher backpacks — Armand Leone, Esq. founding member, Britcher Leone, LLC; Morris McKenzie, Situation Response Team Coordinator, Youth Consultation Services, and E. Drew Britcher, Esq., founding member, Britcher Leone

PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS — Britcher Leone Founding Members E. Drew Britcher, Esq. and Armand Leone, Esq. have led a project that has donated more than 100 backpacks for campers heading off to Youth Consultation Service’s (YCS) Summer Camp in Blairstown. Each filled with a pair of flip flops, swim goggles and with the camper’s own personalized name tag, the backpacks were supplied to more than 100 campers attending the two-week sleepover camp.

“For more than a decade, Britcher Leone has supported various YCS projects, and we are very excited to have been able to receive the financial support of our colleagues to give these special children a small gift as they headed off to camp, many, for the first time,” explained Britcher.

YCS Summer Camp is for YCS children who have suffered trauma, either through chaotic or abusive childhoods, or from severe autism or other developmental disabilities, and as a result, have been removed from their homes. YCS Summer Camp is for many, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, boating, swimming, camp arts and crafts, nature walks, camp songs and more. For two weeks, campers take part in activities that encourage teamwork and confidence and offer them exciting experiences in a caring and safe environment.

“Drew Britcher and Armand Leone are true champions of the children of YCS. We are so grateful for their support of YCS Summer Camp, as well as their amazing generosity throughout the year,” said Francis Spiegel, assistant vice president of development for YCS Foundation.

About YCS
Founded in 1918, Youth Consultation Service (YCS) provides mental health, education and social services, healing hearts and renewing hope for over 1,700 NJ children each day. YCS makes a real difference in the lives of those who have suffered at the hands of abuse and neglect, have developmental disabilities, or face mental health challenges and intervenes at a time of intense crisis in a child’s life to provide clinical care, health, social services, education, and love. YCS residential programs include group homes, shelters and foster care. Its special education and autism schools welcome children from YCS and from the community. YCS outreach includes home visitation and family preservation programs designed to help children and their families regain their emotional strength without disrupting their lives any further.

About Britcher Leone, LLC
Britcher Leone is a law firm specializing in personal injury and medical malpractice, with offices in Parsippany and Glen Rock. The firm is also focused on such matters as serious/catastrophic injury, birth injury, vehicular accidents, product liability, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, and defective drugs and medical devices. For more information click here.

Update: Target; CVS Pharmacy and Starbucks will replace Pathmark

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 11, 2017

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Parsippany-NJ-ext_design_063017x — Architect drawings of the front of the proposed Target Store

PARSIPPANY — As reported on Parsippany Focus, Monday, July 10, the Parsippany-Troy Hills Planning Board voted unanimously to approve the application for preliminary and final site plan and related “C” variance approval. The property is located at 1123 Route 46, designated as Block 729, Lot 7 on the official tax map of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills. A tentative March 2018 opening date is planned.

CVS Pharmacy and Starbucks will be inside of the Target store, using the same entrances as Target, similar to their Fairfield and East Hanover locations.

Starbucks, which is under construction at the former Burger King is less than one mile away. CVS, which opened last year at the corner of Cherry Hill Road and Route 46 is approximately three miles away.

The Property is located in the B-1 Business District. The property located on the corner of Route 46 and South Beverwyck Road has approximately 19 acres and contains a total of 211,000 square feet of retail, food establishments and banks.

Federal Realty proposes to lease approximately 65,000 square feet of the Shopping Center formerly occupied by Pathmark to Target. CVS Pharmacy and Starbucks will be located inside of the Target.

Target plans to renovate the existing façade of the building by removing an existing 3,168 square foot canopy and by constructing a new 514 square foot building addition and 493 square foot canopy.

The renovation will result in a net reduction in building coverage of approximately 2,165 square feet.

Target also proposes a major renovation of the interior of the store, which consists of approximately 65,106 square feet.

The renovated interior space will include approximately 7,845 square feet of grocery space.

Because the proposed renovation of the interior space includes grocery space, the required number of on site parking spaces will be decreased from 1,371 to 1,275.

Federal Realty previously obtained a variance to permit the Shopping Center to be served by only 1,040 parking spaces.

Current tenants located in the Troy Hills Shopping Centerinclude Michaels, Dollar Tree, Smashburger, Sport Clips, Subway, Petco Supplies & Fish, Sprint, Sally Beauty Supply, Massage Envy Spa, Cups Frozen Yogurt, Pro Hair Cutters, Convenience Liquors, Chipotle Mexican Grill, L.A. Fitness, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill, McDonald’s, Wells Fargo Bank and Panera Bread.

To view a complete site plan of the shopping center click here.

In addition to the former Pathmark space, there are two other vacancies in the center. One vacancy measures 1,538 square feet and the second measures 2,018 square feet.

Pathmark closed in November 2015, after The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, parent company for A&P and Pathmark, announced on Monday, July 20, 2015 that it has filed for bankruptcy.

On Wednesday, July 5, Waterview Marketplace broke ground to contract a new shopping center on Waterview Boulevard just off Route 46. This location is less than three miles from the proposed Target. Originally it was rumored that Target was planning on opening a larger box store in Waterview Marketplace, but the size of the project was reduced, and the maximum size of the stores was limited.

The center will be anchored by a new Whole Foods Market that will occupy 48,000 square feet of the 150,150-square-foot center set to open in 2018. This Whole Foods Market store is set to become the third location in Morris County, and will feature indoor and outdoor dining space for customers.

EagleMania to perform on Thursday during Parsippany Summer Concert Series

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 11, 2017

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PARSIPPANY — EagleMania – The World’s Greatest Eagles Tribute Band, will be performing on Thursday, July 13 during Parsippany’s Summer Concert Series. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park, 1839 Route 46 East.

EagleMania has dedicated themselves to faithfully reproducing the music of The Eagles. Since their inception, EagleMania has been thrilling audiences all over the country with their stunning five part harmony and their uncanny ability to emulate the unmistakable sound of The Eagles. Their show consists of the Eagles’ greatest hits, as well as some of the solo work of Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Joe Walsh. If you like The Eagles you will love EagleMania!

For more information on the Summer Concert Series, click here.

Oh deer … These two deer hang out at the Board of Education building

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 11, 2017

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PARSIPPANY — These two deer has been hanging out at the Board of Education building located at 292 Parsippany Road. On numerous occasions Parsippany Focus has seen these deer on the front lawn. On Sunday, we just had to stop by and take some fun pictures. We know this is not breaking news, but the deer actually posed for these pictures. I guess it was a real slow news day!

The pair are walking on the lawn on the side of the Board of Education building

The deer at the Board of Education building

Letter to the editor: Mandatory Recycle Law Ignored Lost Race of America

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 11, 2017

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Dear Editor:

Recycle in most places substandard; since the law was enacted “Mandatory Recycling” in April 1987. Accumulative effects of being lax increases or keeps steady the costs, while damaging the environment. It also encourages to the public the attitude of laxness and proper conscience discipline. In places like Parsippany conditions like lax sanitation/recycle ordnances should not be tolerated or excepted as norm. It is all to easy to simply pass off costs to taxpayers divided among those citizens whom do care and separate materials and others that do not. They do not’s reap this reward and all suffers especially nature and the nations resources.

Above photo was taken in Ringwood. These receptacles are present and accounted for at most small malls and store area. Why should Parsippany be any different? Most large Shopping establishments and Mall areas at totally lacking in this responsibility. How are we allowed to continue not at least in better attempts to manage our tremendous waste? We have allowed this norm of trash/litter and undisciplined home and business practices to exist; time to attempt a change. Ordinances of this type; clean community, sanitation, housing, must be enforced and encourage constantly.

Parsippany needs more than one sanitation officer of inspection and needs to enforce/fine repeated offenders, until things improve. Parsippany has several Municipal Offices, Housing, Health, Roads, Stormwater, Parks Forestry, Planning, Zoning, all seem oblivious to this on-going sub-standard norm.

The civil law of “usufruct” seems no longer to exist in society, how is that? A Civil Law term referring to the right of one individual to use and enjoy the property of another, provided its substance is neither impaired nor altered. lack of street cleaning, and waste separation disciplines hurts us all now and into the future. Witnessing a local employee watering the flower pots along North Beverwyck and leaving the trash in front of the flower pot unabated in the street after watering the flowers, shows a serious disconnect, between the Municipal Work Force and the community that employs them; this disconnect with reality exists everywhere. Is this the American exceptionalism that allegedly makes us somehow superior?

By officials continuing to ignore or deny these circumstances our society slips further into empty and fake values. Without civic virtue or consciences we are meaningless insects consuming the planet and ruining the beauty and grace of god and man, our own worse enemies into a class of people whom share an uncaring individual mind-set. Right now Parsippany tax payers are inflicted with an almost $2 million dollar sanitation expenditure. Guess that amount is not enough to warrant any actions by this administration to at least try to do better.

They have accepted the down-fall of the condition as normal. As the saying goes these colors (This Flag) don’t run. We also don’t clean or enforce basic clean community duties and responsibilities any longer. Dirty Streets, dirty rivers and streams. Name one place where plastic and other debris is not present, and ready to spread further and further into the fabric of Mother Nature? What are we really celebrating on July 4th? We seem to be celebrating the lack of common sense in all sphere of sustainable life.

Finally: Waste disposal costs money. Your local community pays about $75 per ton of general trash to dispose of this waste at a landfill or incinerator. You are paying for this waste disposal through your local taxes or through trash haulage fees. (believe Parsippany in nearly $2Million in fees a year)

By reducing the amount of waste you generate or sending materials for recycling you not only reduce the waste disposal costs for your community but your local town profits from the sale of these materials to recycling companies. The more you recycle the more money a community can make from the recycling collection and consequently the more money the town has to spend on local schools and other services.

Recycling helps conserve valuable resources and energy.

Recycling helps to protect the environment.

Nick Homyak
Lake Hiawatha

Abandoned dog found tied to pole in shopping center

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 10, 2017

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PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany Animal Control wants your help. This abandoned dog was found tied to a pole behind a shopping plaza in Parsippany on July 7.

They are looking for information on who left him there. He was not wearing a collar but is microchipped to a previous owner. He appears to have received medical care fairly recently for his skin issues.

Please share widely, as someone from a veterinary office or local resident may recognize him.

If you have any information please call Parsippany Animal Control at (973) 263-7083 or the Parsippany Police Department at (973) 263-4300.

The Parsippany Animal Control is located at 1069 Parsippany Boulevard.

Marks Paneth Celebrates Opening of Expanded Parsippany Office

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 10, 2017

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mayor james barberio — Harry Moehringer, Managing Partner of Marks Paneth LLP; James Barberio, Mayor of Parsippany-Troy Hills; and John Evans, Partner-in-Charge of Marks Paneth’s Parsippany office

PARSIPPANY — Leading accounting, tax and advisory firm, Marks Paneth LLP, celebrated the opening of the firm’s expanded Parsippany office with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house attended by clients, colleagues, Morris County officials and other members of the New Jersey business community.

“Marks Paneth has a long, rewarding history of serving the residents and businesses of this state,” said John Evans, Partner in Charge of Marks Paneth’s New Jersey office. “We are excited for this opportunity to further our commitment to all of our clients, business partners and employees who call New Jersey home.”

Parsippany Mayor James Barberio, who participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony, added: “Parsippany is known for its great corporate community. We are proud to be able to attract top firms like Marks Paneth and offer a prime location for them to conduct business and meet client needs.”

Located at 8 Campus Drive in the Mack-Cali Business Campus, the relocated office primarily provides tax and audit services to commercial businesses, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, as well as litigation support services for attorneys. New Jersey is one of seven office locations for NYC-headquartered Marks Paneth, which is ranked among the Top 30 accounting firms in the nation and the Top 10 accounting firms in the Mid-Atlantic region by Accounting Today.

Marks Paneth LLP is a premier accounting firm with origins dating back to 1907. With a team of nearly 700 professionals, the firm provides a full range of audit, accounting, tax and consulting services, with specialties in international tax, forensic accounting, litigation support, family office and financial advisory services. Marks Paneth professionals deliver expert knowledge in a wide range of industries, including real estate, hospitality and restaurants; nonprofit, government and healthcare; manufacturing, wholesale and distribution; theater, media and entertainment; high-net-worth; and financial and professional services. The firm offers expanded resources through its subsidiary technology consulting firm, Tailored Technologies, LLC, and its membership in Morison KSi Ltd., a global association of professional service firms serving clients’ cross-border accounting, tax and consulting needs. Headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and Florida, Marks Paneth is ranked by Accounting Today as the 30th largest accounting firm in the nation and among the top 10 in the Mid-Atlantic Region. For more information click here.

Target; CVS Pharmacy and Starbucks will replace Pathmark

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Frank L. Cahill

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Jul 10, 2017

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PARSIPPANY — Federal Realty Investment Trust, owners of Troy Hills Shopping Center, appeared before the Parsippany-Troy Hills Planning Board on Monday, July 10, and made a formal presentation to renovate the former Pathmark store into a Target, Starbucks and CVS Pharmacy. The board voted unanimously to approve the application for preliminary and final site plan and related “C” variance approval. The property is located at 1123 Route 46, designated as Block 729, Lot 7 on the official tax map of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills. A tentative March 2018 opening date is planned.

The meeting was attended by only four residents.