Residents have petitioned the Cedar Grove Zoning Board and Township Council in previous months to deny an expansion proposal from St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church.
The Cedar Grove Zoning Board is scheduled to discuss an expansion project proposal for St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday. St. Mark's, located at 5 Woodstone Dr., is looking to expand the church while adding additional parking. The proposal has brought several residents to the podium at Cedar Grove Township Council meetings. The proposal has been scheduled to go before the Board in previous months but has been rescheduled several times, said Cedar Grove Planning Zoning Coordinator Jackie Koster. The proposal is now back on the Board's agenda for a public meeting at 8 p.m. at Town Hall, 525 Pompton Ave. A meeting agenda is attached. Highpoint resident Stacy Kilkenny addressed the council during a public meeting in June. “We think (…
Group seeks ban against fathers who allegedly drank, lit fires, left children unattended during five-hour party.
Verona parents who are angry about a group of fathers who supposedly got drunk at a school camping trip have taken their issue to the Internet. After demanding that the Verona School Board take action, parents have launched an online petition trying to get the fathers banned from future school trips. As of Monday, the petition had 20 signatures. The fathers are accused of leaving their charges while they lit fires and drank alcohol in another cabin during a five-hour party. The camping trip, at the YMCA Camp Bernie in Port Murray, was for Verona’s fifth graders from the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School. At the June 19 school board meeting, parents demanded the board take action against the parents. Schools Superintendent Steven Forte said the…
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4:06 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012
Were talking accountability here………………. Why should the BOE punish the all future Verona parents for the actions of the 5th grade class Camp Bernie parents?? The Class of 2019 should be the only class monitored since their chaperones were the only ones showing poor judgment. Let the “Class of 2019” parents pay expense’s for “Police monitoring/escorts” on other activities for the “Class of 2019” … more ›