PARSIPPANY — Jordan Valori was commissioned as Second Lieutenant In the United States Army. She will be serving in the Nursing Corp. She graduated from the University of Scranton. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Her sister Amanda Valori Trainor is a Captain in the United States Air Force as a Civil Engineer. She is currently assigned to an Expeditionary Unit at McGuire Air Force Base. Amanda’s unit is the 321st Contingency Response Group
They are both graduates of Parsippany Hills High School.
PARSIPPANY — Through Kafe Mozart’s “Dine for Dollars” program they were able to make a donation to American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
Karen DeChristopher’s team “Angels for Hope” recently participated in a fundraising event at Kafe Mozart, 2900 Route 10 West, Parsippany. This year the employees of Western Pest will be joining Karen’s team. Western Pest is also a major sponsor of this year’s event.
The group distributed flyers to friends, family and team members and when presented at Kafe Mozart the group received 10% of the proceeds.
Karen DeChristopher said “My reason for participating in my Relay For Life event is personal. We all participate in Relay events because we’ve been affected by cancer in some way and because a Relay For Life event gives us the power to make a difference and fight back. This is my opportunity to honor cancer survivors, remember people we have lost, and help raise funds for groundbreaking research, information and services for people fighting cancer.”
Rely for Life Central Morris County will be held at County College of Morris, 214 Center Grove Road, Randolph starting at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 and will end at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 5.
For more information on Relay for Life, click here.
At Relay For Life events, communities across the globe come together to honor cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against a disease that has already taken too much. The funds raised truly make a difference in the fight against cancer just ask one of the nearly 14 million cancer survivors who will celebrate another birthday this year!
Relay For Life teams camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around a track or path at a local high school, park, or fairground. Events are up to 24 hours long, and because cancer never sleeps, each team is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times.
PARSIPPANY — Boulevard Plaza in Parsippany has traded hands in a competitively bid sale orchestrated by Cushman & Wakefield’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group. A private investor purchased the 86,000-square-foot, five-story office building located at 1055 Parsippany Boulevard from its owner of more than 25 years.
Boulevard Plaza is currently 85 percent leased to 33 tenants. The building offers affordable space with the advantage of 24-hour access and a grab & go café on site. “With 15,000-square-foot floor plates, this asset is very well sized for the immediate market,” noted Cushman & Wakefield’s David Bernhaut, who handled the sale with team members Andrew Merin, Gary Gabriel, Brian Whitmer, Andrew Schwartz and Frank DiTommaso. “Boulevard Plaza caters specifically to smaller users, and its flexible floor plans easily divide as small as 1,000 square feet. In turn, its extensive and diverse tenant roster minimizes rollover risk”, said DiTommaso.
The property is located along Route 46 at the intersection of I-80 and I-287, two of Northern New Jersey’s major commuter roadways. Visible from I-287, Boulevard Plaza also provides immediate access onto Routes 202 and 10. This highlyamenitizedandaccessible location provides excellent proximity to local hotels, retail shopping, and quality residential areas.
“Parsippany, and the larger Morris County market, is recognized as a premier location for business and known for its affluence, diversified housing and deep labor pool,” Schwartz said. “The opportunity to purchase a quality, value-add office building with excellent historical occupancy levels attracted significant investor interest.”
Based in East Rutherford, Cushman & Wakefield’s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group specializes exclusively in investment sales of office, industrial, multifamily and retail properties throughout New Jersey, New York, Fairfield County, Conn., Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The team has completed $21.7 billion worth of transactions since 2000, closing on $2.0 billion in 2015.
PARSIPPANY — Jean Marie Marsicovete, Lake Hiawatha, was among more than 1,650 students have been named to the Spring 2016 Dean’s List at Kutztown University. To be eligible for Dean’s List, an undergraduate student must be registered for at least 12 credits and have a minimum grade point average of 3.60. Marsicovete is a graduate of Parsippany High School
Founded in 1866, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is a proud member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education located on 289 acres nestled in the beautiful East Penn Valley in Berks County, between Reading and Allentown, Pennsylvania. KU is just two hours from New York City; 90 minutes from Philadelphia. As the region’s center for excellence in academics, culture and public engagement, KU’s programs and reputation for quality offer students the opportunity to discover lifelong avenues of learning and discovery.
KU students select from more than 100 areas of study within four colleges in a diverse liberal arts academic environment. To complement their studies, KU’s NCAA Division II athletics program with 21 varsity sports joins the more than 160 student clubs and organizations providing students with a variety of activities for learning and discovery. For more information, click here.
RANDOLPH — County College of Morris (CCM) presented diplomas to the Class of 2016 during its 47th commencement ceremony.
Dr. Edward J. Yaw sings with the County College of Morris (CCM) Chamber Choir during the college’s 47th Commencement Ceremony, the last one he has presided over after serving as CCM’s second president for 30 years. He will be retiring at the end of August
Approximately 1,400 students – many who are transferring to top four-year institutions to earn their bachelor’s degrees – were eligible to receive diplomas in one of four degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Science and Associate in Applied Science. The five most popular programs CCM students received degrees in are Business Administration, Humanities Social Science (Liberal Arts), Nursing, Criminal Justice and Biology. The graduates completed their studies between August 2015 and May 2016. More than 400 students from the Class of 2016 took part in this year’s commencement ceremony.
Included among the top schools across the country that CCM graduates are transferring to are Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Pace University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Savannah College of Art and Design, Syracuse University, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, along with New Jersey’s leading colleges and universities.
More than 400 graduates from the Class of 2016 at County College of Morris participated in the college’s 47th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 27Dr. Edward J. Yaw, who will be retiring at the end of August, gave his final CCM commencement address. Holding to college tradition, he used that opportunity to highlight several outstanding graduates and the diversity of the CCM student body.
In an effort to advance world peace and human understanding, CCM also recognized the winner of its Peace Prize at the ceremony. The winner of the 2016 CCM Peace Prize is Mirella Quintana, of Dover, for her video “Unity and Laughter Through Peace.” Her faculty mentor was Susan Miller, assistant chair and assistant professor of the Business Administration Program at CCM.
The winning project each year receives a $1,000 award, provided by the CCM Foundation. Quintana also will have her name added to a permanent plaque of Peace Prize winners located in the Student Community Center.
This is the 14th year the college has awarded its Peace Prize, which is organized and administered by Professor Peter Maguire of the Department of English and Philosophy. Established in the fall of 2001, the Peace Prize competition provides students with the opportunity to apply their imagination and creativity to the design and production of a work that both commemorates the events of September 11, 2001 and makes a positive statement about the importance and pursuit of world peace.
The CCM Alex DeCroce Media Center streamed the commencement ceremony live on the college’s YouTube channel at http://tinyurl.com/gufwu8x making it available for viewing from computers, smartphones and tablets. That video can still be viewed on YouTube for those who were unable to watch it live.
PARSIPPANY — Members of the Parsippany High School Bands were washing cars recently to raise money for their group.
The band won the State Championships last year, the Group IV 2015 National Championship earlier this month, and the U.S. Marines’ Esprit de Corps Award.
PHS Bands Car Wash
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Brielle Wyka washing cars
Noah Lustig washing off the car
Kyle Contaldi washing cars
Victoria Dobkowski washing cars
Board of Education Member Tim Berrios
Casey Cogan and Sachi Walmiki advertising the car wash
The Parsippany High School Marching Band will be performing on Monday, May 30 during Parsippany’s Memorial Day Parade.
MORRIS COUNTY — Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp announces that on Thursday May 26, Deputy Chief of Investigations Denise H. Arseneault was honored by New Jersey Women in Law Enforcement with the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
New Jersey Women in Law Enforcement was founded in 2004 by a group of dynamic female law enforcement executives representing federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies. They are a professional organization of both men and women who work together to strengthen public recognition of the unique contributions women have made to the profession of law enforcement. The annual awards ceremony was held at the Rutgers University Douglass Student Center in New Brunswick.
Deputy Chief Arseneault began her law enforcement career in 1988 serving as a Special Investigator for the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General.
In 1992, she joined the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office as a detective. During her tenure with this office, Deputy Chief Arseneault was assigned to numerous capacities at various levels within the organization. As a detective she served in the General Investigations Unit, Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit, Domestic Violence Unit and on Trial Team 1. In 2001 she was promoted to Detective/Supervisor of Trial Team 1 before returning to the Domestic Violence Unit as a supervisor in 2002.
She was subsequently promoted to Sergeant that same year. As a Sergeant, Deputy Chief Arseneault supervised the Domestic Violence Unit then the General Investigations Unit. In 2004 she was promoted to the position of Lieutenant where she led the General Investigations Unit, Computer Crime Unit, the Family Division, the Megan’s Law Unit and the Specialized Services Unit.
After serving nine years as a Lieutenant, Deputy Chief Arseneault was promoted to the position of Captain in 2013. As a Captain, she led the Specialized Crimes Division consisting of the Professional Standards Unit, Financial Crimes Unit, Bias Crimes Unit, Juvenile/Missing Persons Unit, Weapon Return Unit, Domestic Violence Unit, and Community Affairs Unit. In recognition of her unwavering leadership, numerous accomplishments and her vast amount of knowledge, she was promoted to Deputy Chief of Investigations of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office on February 2, 2015. Deputy Chief Denise Arseneault is now second in command of all law enforcement personnel serving in the organization.
Prosecutor Knapp said “Deputy Chief Arseneault is a source of leadership, inspiration, stability and integrity. We are fortunate to work with someone of such high caliber. Her dedication to the law enforcement profession and contributions made to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office cannot be overstated. Deputy Chief Arseneault’s career accomplishments is clear evidence that she is most deserving of the Lifetime Achievement Award”.
PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department has been getting a large amount of calls regarding someone calling and claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This phone call is a scam. Please read below for more information on this scam and other similar ones.
IRS, Immigration, and other Government Organization Scams
If you receive a phone call that claims to be from the IRS, Immigration, or other Government Organizations which threaten you with immediate arrest or the issuance of a warrant unless you wire them money it is a scam. Even if the caller ID shows a legitimate government organization it can be a scam because modern technology lets criminals spoof, which means fake the name and number, which makes them appear legitimate. They may tell you that you owe various amounts in back taxes. They may threaten to deport you, which will not happen.
They may also claim that your identity was stolen and you need to pay a certain amount of money to redo your immigration paperwork, usually a few hundred, to a few thousand dollars. Whenever you get this type of call and you think it may me legitimate please search the internet for the phone number to the supposed agency that is calling you and call it back to inquire about the legitimacy.
Do not believe the number they are giving you to call back. You can also try doing a search of the phone number they are calling from on the internet and see if it is associated to scams. This method is not fool proof since they can fake the legitimate number to come up on caller ID as I said earlier. Never give personal information to anyone even if they request it. Never wire money, purchase visa gift cards, or money cards like Green Dot and give them the information. Once they have the wire information, gift card numbers, or Green Dot information they will get the money and you will not get it back.
Laws have changed that let the IRS call for outstanding taxes, but this has not started yet. The IRS will first send you notifications via mail. There is currently an effort underway to stop the IRS from being able to call you or have a collection agency call you to collect owed taxes. If and when that does pass we will update the public.
If you simply get the phone call, but do not send them any money you can report the phone call with the FTC at the below website.
If you are a victim of the scam AND send them money please call the Parsippany Police Departments non emergency phone number at (973) 263-4300.
MADISON — Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp and Chief Darren P. Dachisen of the Borough of Madison Police Department announce that Chad Rybka, 33, of Bernards Township, pled guilty today to one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child – Possession of Child Pornography, a crime of the third degree.
On February 23, 2016, law enforcement officers in the Brunswick Division of Police, Brunswick, Ohio, learned that a 17-year old girl was using a Twitter account to communicate with an adult male and that she sent nude images of herself to the male at his request.
The investigation determined that the adult male in question was Chad Rybka, and that he had been communicating with the 17-year old girl over a period of approximately four to six months on Twitter’s “messenger” application.
The Brunswick Division of Police reported the matter to the Madison Police Department, who immediately advised the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. A subsequent investigation led by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office Sex Crimes/Child Endangerment Unit determined that Rybka was in possession of a number of nude images of the victim.
Under the terms of the plea agreement, Rybka resigned employment as a Madison Borough Police Officer and is also required to forfeit future public employment.
At the time of his resignation, Rybka had been employed as a police officer with the Department since August 2007.
Chief Darren Dachisen of the Borough of Madison Police Department stated: “The Madison Police Department immediately contacted the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office and cooperated fully in their investigation upon learning of Officer Rybka’s misconduct. The Madison Police Department also immediately suspended Officer Rybka and has accepted his resignation of employment effective immediately. The Madison Police Department has been proudly serving the Borough of Madison since 1890 and has zero tolerance for any police officer misconduct that adversely effects the Borough’s reputation or the integrity of the Police Department.” Chief Dachisen added that “The actions of one individual does not define our agency and the outstanding work my officers do on a daily basis.”
The Honorable Thomas J. Critchley, J.S.C., presided over the plea.
Prosecutor Knapp would like to thank the Borough of Madison Police Department, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office’s Sex Crimes/Child Endangerment Unit, High Tech Crimes Unit, and Professional Standards Unit, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office – Criminal Investigations Section, and the Brunswick (Ohio) Division of Police, whose combined efforts contributed to the investigation and resolution of this matter.
HACKENSACK – Forty-six people have been arrested in three states and $2 million cash seized in what investigators are calling a large-scale criminal enterprise involving gambling, money laundering and racketeering. Investigators say Robert “Elvis” D’Alessio, 62, of Little Falls, operated an illegal enterprise in and around Bergen County, employing a hierarchy of more than 50 gambling…
PARSIPPANY — Through Kafe Mozart’s “Dine for Dollars” program they were able to make a donation to American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
