PARSIPPANY — Parsippany-Troy Hills Police is on the scene of Exxon, On The Run, 2959 Route 10, across the street from Kafe Mozart, on a report of a vehicle crashing through the front window. No injuries were reported.
Parsippany Building Department and Parsippany Board of Health was called to the scene to determine the extent of the damages.
Parsippany Focus will update this story as details become available.
PARSIPPANY — Parsippany Police Dispatchers received a 911 call reporting that a male student had collapsed and was unresponsive at Central Middle School, at approximately 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 3.
Dispatchers were further advised that CPR was in progress by staff at the School. Par-Troy Emergency Medical Services, Saint Clares Paramedics, along with multiple Parsippany Police Patrol Units responded to the scene.
Emergency Personnel immediately began treating the victim upon their arrival. Par-Troy Emergency Medical Services and Saint Clares Paramedics transported the student, with police escort, to Morristown Medical Center.
The student is currently in critical condition.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the student was participating in gym class when he asked to be excused to the bathroom.
A short time later other students utilized the same bathroom and alerted the gym teacher that something may be the matter with the person in the bathroom stall.
Staff immediately responded to the victim and began rendering aid.
PARSIPPANY — A student at Central Middle School had a medical emergency, on Thursday, March 3 at approximately 10:57 a.m.
He was attended to by staff and medical personnel and has been transported to a local hospital.
The parents of Central students have been notified of the situation and during the medical emergency Central went into a soft lockdown so that medical emergency personnel had free access to the building.
The school district is providing counselling services to staff and students who witnessed the medical emergency.
Central Middle School is running its normal schedule and we will provide updates as soon as they are available.
It’ll be crisp and dry Thursday, but a shot of snow is expected for New Jersey beginning late Thursday or early Friday morning. Two to three inches of snow will fall along most of the Interstate 95 corridor and in Monmouth and northern Ocean counties, according to the National Weather Service. One to two inches are…
PARSIPPANY — Deputy Police Chief Richard Pantina held the promotion to the rank of Sergeant for Officer Peter Rizzolo. The promotion was held in the Council Chambers at Town Hall on Wednesday, March 2. Sergeant Rizzolo, 46, started his career with the Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department in 1992.
He is a graduate of the 41st Basic Police Officers class at the Morris County Public Safety Academy and has an Associate Degree from the County College of Morris. He currently serves on the Tactical Rifle Team and also holds certifications as a Crash Investigator, Firearms Instructor and DARE Instructor.
Sergeant Rizzolo also received two Unit Commendation Awards and one Command Citation Award during his time at the Parsippany Police Department. He will remain assigned to the Patrol Division. He is a married father of three and his father Robert Rizzolo is a retired Detective from the Parsippany Police Department.
The family celebrated the promotion at Kafe Mozart.
PARSIPPANY — Intervale School, along with many other schools in United States, celebrated Read Across America by celebrating Dr. Seuss birthday on Tuesday, March 1. Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel on March 2, 1904.
NEA’s Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss.
Geisel published 46 children’s books, often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter. His most-celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Fox in Socks, The King’s Stilts, Hop on Pop, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. His works have spawned numerous adaptations, including 49 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for PM, a New York City newspaper. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
He was a perfectionist in his work and would sometimes spend up to a year on a book. It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book. For a writer he was unusual in that he preferred to be paid only after he finished his work rather than in advance.
Geisel’s birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.
PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany Rescue and Recovery Unit held a training session on their new equipment made by Res-Q Jacks, on February 21.
These jacks are designed to stabilize a vehicle no matter the position of a vehicle after a motor vehicle accident. The jacks are designed to assist in other areas of technical rescue including partial building collapse and trench rescue.
The jacks were purchased through Mid-Atlantic Safety and as apart of the purchase a day of free training was included. “The jacks look overwhelming with all of the parts included in each set but after using them Sunday they are relatively quick and easy to use. They are an amazing tool and hold a car in any position without an inch of movement.”
The most important aspect of a motor vehicle accident is to secure the car for the safety of the passengers and the rescue technician. If a car has movement when the passenger is being removed it can cause further injuries. The same goes for the rescuer, a car can move and fall on top of them if it is not properly stabilized. It also make working with the Jaws of Life easier when working against a solid surface rather than a wobbly, not stabilized car. The training lasted about eight hours and over twenty-five members were on hand to receive certificates of completion for the new equipment.
Since 1960, a special unit in Parsippany’s network of emergency responders has been hard at work developing skills and tactics for dealing with unique problems. The members of this unit have all signed up to do something that is vastly different from the more commonly known branches of emergency response in the fire departments and ambulance squads. Like the firefighters and EMTs, members of this unit assist residents of Parsippany and surrounding towns during some of the most frightening and desperate times, when lives are on the line. However, the Parsippany Rescue & Recovery Unit is on call to handle the types of emergencies that require a special level of skill, precision, and specialized training.
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PARSIPPANY — Frank Cahill, Chairman of Parsippany Economic Development Advisory Committee, Robert Parker, Chief Executive Office New Bridge and Tom Williams, member Parsippany Economic Development Advisory Committee celebrated the ribbon cutting of New Bridge’s Parsippany location. The Economic Development Advisory Committee presented New Bridge with a plaque welcoming the company to Parsippany.
NewBridge’s 15,320 square-foot center is located at 1259 Route 46, Troy Office Center. The facility has 20 counseling rooms and spacious group therapy rooms.
The Purpose of the Economic Development Advisory Committee is to serve in an advisory capacity and shall, upon request of the Township Council, provide information, advice and recommendations relating to the promotion of Economic Development in the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills. Each member is chosen with a special view to qualifications and fitness for service on the Committee. All members are volunteers.
Furever Home Dog Rescue (FHDR) has been rescuing puppies and dogs from a high kill shelter in North Carolina for over seven years. They have safely found furever homes for over 800 pups. They are not a shelter, they foster the pups in private homes until suitable, loving homes are found.
Last week FHDR rescued Summer and Winter, two sweet 9-10 week old lab mix puppies. Despite every precaution the shelter and FHDR followed, these puppies somehow contracted Parvo. Parvo is a serious and potentially deadly disease with only a 50% chance of survival. In all the years FHDR has been rescuing pups they never had a pup contract parvo.
FHDR placed Summer & Winter in a critical care hospital in Lebanon and the medical costs of treating them are significant and mounting every day. FHDR receives no outside financial help as they are a small, private rescue group. Some felt that they should have just let these babies go, but they just couldn’t do that. They’ve been failed once by humans so they had to give them every chance possible. Currently, Summer is showing improvement and her chance of survival is good. Winter, sadly, is still fighting for her life. The vets are still hopefully that she will come through. She is such a little fighter. The costs are astronomical and FHDR just don’t have the funding to cover their care. The next few days are critical.
In the past seven years FHDR has never asked anyone to help with the added expenses. They are in desperate need of funds to continue Summer and Winter’s treatment.
Please if you can contribute any amount towards helping Summer and Winter it would be so gratefully appreciated. Please do what you can and share Summer and Winter’s story with your family and friends that may want to help. The group understands if you are not in a finanical situation to help, but they appreciate you reading this story and, of course, please send good thoughts and prayers to Summer and Winter.
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PARSIPPANY — Before the recent Parsippany-Troy Hills Town Council meeting, Parsippany Mayor James Barberio, right, honored Bruce and Karen Rand on their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple has lived in Parsippany for all of those years.
Mayor James Barberio presented the Rand’s with a proclamation that read:
Whereas, the year was 1965 and the place was University of Maryland where Bruce Rand first caught glimpse of Karen Smith wearing a lovely blue dress and carrying a flute. Never before had he seen anyone more beautiful and it was no doubt that it was love at first sight; and
Whereas, Karen Smith and Bruce Rand were shortly thereafter united in marriage on February 18, 1966 and are now celebrating their golden wedding anniversary; and
Whereas, the newlyweds settled in Maryland where Bruce worked in a bank while attending school and Karen was a stay-at-home mom until working in an insurance company to help put Bruce through college; and
Whereas, as a certified public accountant with Touche Ross & Co., Bruce often moved his family around until finally settling in Parsippany in 1983 where they have resided ever since; and
Whereas, over the course of their marriage, Karen and Bruce raised two lovely daughters, Jennifer and Victoria, and their wonderful family continues to flourish with son-in-law, Andy, and two beautiful granddaughters, Logan and Taylor; and
Whereas, this is an important milestone in their lives marking fifty years of love, devotion and mutual support that enable them to be the strong loving couple they are and the good friends and caring neighbors they have been to so many throughout the years.
Now, Therefore, I, James R. Barberio, Mayor of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, do hereby extend personal congratulations to Bruce and Karen Rand on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and further extend best wishes for continued health and happiness in the years ahead.
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