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37,500 in Lakewood
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Gustavo Martínez Contreras Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
LAKEWOOD - How are private school students in
the township getting to school today?
The answer was a mystery Thursday after the
head of the consortium that arranges transportation
for 37,500 private school students said it would stop
providing the service because it was “fiscally irre-
sponsible to continue operations.”
The email from Lakewood Student Transporta-
tion Authority Executive Director Avraham Krawiec
to the state monitor who oversees the district said it
would be “ceasing busing as of Friday … indefinitely
Sea Bright’s Mad Hatter finally sees finish line
after 7 years of Sandy, legal and money fights
Michael L. Diamond Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
SEA BRIGHT – The Mad Hatter is close to final-
izing a deal with a private lender, its owners said,
in a move that would clear the way for the land-
mark bar and restaurant to finish construction.
Scott and Amy Kelly said their bid to rebuild
the business destroyed by superstorm Sandy
should take another 16 weeks once they pay out-
standing bills and get contractors back on board.
“You really can’t put words on it,” Scott Kelly
said Tuesday. “This is our livelihood. This is what
we left in 2012, and we want to get back here in
the worst way. Every time we start getting mo-
mentum, there’s a roadblock or a hurdle we have
to overcome.”
When it is done, the $6 million Mad Hatter is
See MAD HATTER, Page 4A
The Mad Hatter in Sea Bright, owned by Scott and Amy Kelly, pictured above, is under construction
and close to completion. It’s been a long struggle for the owners to rebuild
after being wiped out by superstorm Sandy close to seven years ago.
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Remnants of tropical Freeholder Jack Kelly announced that Ocean County
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until we can resolve the matter.”
Township and district officials said such a move
could affect public school students as well. An agree-
ment between the township and school provides that
the local government will pay for nonmandated busi-
Here’s how
to find a job
See LAKEWOOD, Page 4A
Author of new book on careers
offers info, tips for applicants
Michael L. Diamond Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
EAST BRUNSWICK – The Breakfast Club NJ con-
vened on a recent Saturday morning as it has each
week for the past 18 years, bringing together workers
displaced in the middle of their careers.
The topic: how to turn social media sites like
LinkedIn into a human connection that will help them
overcome the robotic applicant tracking system that
otherwise would weed them out.
“It’s all about having that (professional) network,”
said Frank Kovacs, founder of The Breakfast Club and
co-author of a new book “Career In Transition: 101 Les-
sons to Achieve Job Search Success.”
New Jersey workers who lose their jobs in their 50s,
40s and even 30s face an uphill climb to find a new job
with the same pay and benefits. Employers are creat-
ing jobs that didn’t exist when they were in college.
They seem enamored of younger, tech-savvy young-
sters. And older workers can easily get discouraged.
The scenario isn’t uncommon, experts say, despite
a record-low unemployment rate that should be tilting
the labor market in favor of workers.
The struggle has prompted Kovacs and co-author
Mark Beal, a Rutgers University professor of public re-
lations, to help them develop a strategy that makes
older workers’ job searches less intimidating.
See WORK, Page 5A
NJ Transit looks
to address ailing
stations, vehicles
Colleen Wilson North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
The effects of “duct tape and chewing gum” are on
full display at NJ Transit, Kevin Corbett, the struggling
agency’s president and CEO, said this week.
After diluted budgets limited the agency’s ability to
maintain its trains and buses — as well as stations,
maintenance yards and rail bridges over the last dec-
ade — Corbett has ordered a new capital plan to pro-
vide for more regular repairs and upgrades for NJ
Transit equipment and properties.
Corbett has ordered a survey of the agency’s build-
ings and other assets to prioritize what goes into the
five-year capital plan, which is expected to be an-
nounced in March. Developing this what-to-fix road
map was a priority when he took the reins of NJ Transit
in January 2018, Corbett said this week.
“One of the first things I wanted to do was go over
the five-year capital plan and was told NJ Transit does
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Soulful singer Kodi Lee
is ‘America’s Got Talent’ champ

“America’s Got Talent” has a new

champion. Kodi Lee was crowned the
Season 14 winner during Wednesday’s
live, two-hour season finale.
Lee, who is blind and has autism,
had been the front-runner of the NBC
talent show since earning a Golden
Buzzer during the auditions round
from Gabrielle Union. Lee not only
pulled at the judges’ heartstrings, but
America’s, winning the most viewer
votes.
Lee beat out nine finalists, includ-
ing five other Golden Buzzer winners,
and walked away with a $1 million
prize and headliner status for an “AGT”
show in Las Vegas.
Detroit Youth Choir finished sec-
ond, and comedian Ryan Niemiller fin-
ished third.
No Spears, no decisions made
at closed court hearing
A hearing Wednesday on the future
of the court conservatorship that for 11
years has controlled the money and af-
fairs of Britney Spears ended with no
rulings announced and no appearance
from the pop star.
The hearing was cleared of the pub-
lic and media after Los Angeles Supe-
rior Court Judge Brenda J. Penny
agreed with requests by attorneys that
the hearing and transcripts be sealed
because of what would be revealed
about Spears’ medical, mental and fi-
nancial issues, along with details
about her two young sons.
In May, Spears, 37, made a rare ap-
pearance in the same courtroom for
another closed conservatorship hear-
ing after she had asked to speak to the
court.
Her request raised the possibility
that she could be seeking changes in
the arrangement that she has largely
quietly accepted for years.
Rapper recounts abduction
for jury at NYC trial
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine described
for a Manhattan jury Wednesday de-
tails from his life of crime with a vio-
lent street gang, including getting ab-
ducted at gunpoint amid a dispute be-
tween warring factions of the crew.
Testifying as a prosecution witness
at the federal trial of two alleged mem-
bers of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods,
6ix9ine said that defendant Anthony
“Harv” Ellison and another armed man
grabbed him out of his car and forced
him into a stolen vehicle one night last
July. Jurors saw a video shot from the
rapper’s car showing how his driver
gave chase before the gunmen scared
him off.
Prosecutors say Ellison, a gang en-
forcer, was angry at the rapper – also
an admitted Nine Trey member – for
aligning himself with one of his rivals.
6ix9ine testified how Ellison and his
cohort drove him around, stopping at
various points to taunt and beat him.
trying to save USS Ling
Ricardo Kaulessar North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Two fathers and their sons were on
the road for 16 hours from Indiana to
New Jersey before arriving in Hacken-
sack on Saturday morning to reach
their ultimate destination: the USS
Ling.
Lewis Palmer, his son Robert, and
Mark Gatton and his son Nick, were
among a small group of submarine en-
thusiasts who came to check out the
condition of the World War II-era sub-
marine docked in the Hackensack Riv-
er behind the former headquarters for
The Record for decades.
Their visit is part of a monumental
task that would take an entire fleet to
carry out: pulling the 312-foot, 2,500-
ton maritime vessel out of its current
location and bringing it all the way to
Louisville, Kentucky.
There, it would be the centerpiece
of the newly formed Louisville Naval
Museum, which would be based in the
Ohio River or on land in the downtown
area at the site of a now-defunct
barge-building company.
“Hopefully, we can get it out of here,
but we’re here to get that done,” Palm-
er said. “This is a kind of fact-finding
mission.”
The USS Ling was once the featured
exhibit of the New Jersey Naval Mu-
seum, which since 1972 was housed in
a trailer on a parcel of land owned by
the Borg family, The Record’s owner
until 2016.
However, the USS Ling and the mu-
seum have both seen better days.
Both were closed in 2012 after flood-
waters from Superstorm Sandy dam-
aged the gangplank to the submarine
and the museum. Last year, vandals
cut locks and opened hatches that led
to the submarine being flooded with
Hackensack River water.
After reading stories about the USS
Ling being vandalized, Palmer, who re-
sides two hours north of Louisville,
said he got together with some other
individuals to “save the submarine
and see if we can give it a good home.”
He said getting it to Louisville
would require getting it towed to New
York, where it would be restored to
continue the trip down the Atlantic
Seaboard to Florida. Then it would
make its way to the Gulf of Mexico, sta-
tioning in New Orleans, where it would
be pulled up the Mississippi River and
then east on the Ohio River.
He estimates it would cost at least
$10 million for the project, although he
said he has commitments from vari-
ous donors who would back much of it.
The reconnaissance on the subma-
rine itself was just as much an under-
taking as potentially hauling the mas-
sive water craft thousands of miles
away.
Several members of the group,
Hackensack police officer William Moyano greets World War II U.S. Navy Veteran
Joseph R. Mongelli, 99, at the site of the USS Ling, which sits in the mud on the
Hackensack River in Hackensack. Mongelli was part of the group that was
assessing the possibility of moving the vessel.
PHOTOS BY CHRIS MONROE/SPECIAL TO USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
The USS Ling was burglarized in the
summer of 2018, reportedly causing
damage of hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
which also included David Laney, a vol-
unteer fireman from Pennsylvania, and
Seth Weiner, who came from upstate
New York and is a former curator for the
New Jersey Naval Museum, first worked
at getting onto the submarine.
That required mowing the overgrown
grass, done by Matthew Benedykcinski,
a former petty officer second class with
the Navy and another founder of the
Louisville Naval Museum, on the land
near the sub. Doing that allowed for a
flatbed truck to tow the gangplank hid-
den behind some bushes to the wooden
dock, unsteady in some spots, to even-
tually connect it to the ship.
When several attempts at that failed,
group members then found a South
Hackensack Fire Department boat, ob-
scured by tall grass near the riverbank,
and transported equipment and them-
selves to the sub.
Once they got onto the USS Ling, they
checked different sections of the sub-
marine to see how badly it has flooded,
its stability and if conditions are feasi-
ble for people to do any further explora-
tion.
After about five hours, which includ-
ed stoppage twice by police and fire offi-
cials questioning Palmer and other
members about their activities, and by
an individual identified as Gilbert De
Laat, president of the Submarine Me-
morial Association, which once ran the
museum, the group wrapped for the day.
Palmer and others who made it onto
the submarine deck observed that the
water coming from inside the sub was
“filthy and smelly with debris floating in
the water,” and tried to discern where
there were leaks, but access could not
be gained into the submarine. They also
hoisted a new American flag that had
not been there for some time.
Palmer said they would come back
later in the day to explore the Hacken-
sack River with members of the Sea
Scouts Ranger 39, a program of the Boy
Scouts, based in Englewood, to explore
if the river is passable.
He hopes that people will understand
why he and his group are embarking on
this task.
“Some people are concerned with
bringing her out of New Jersey, that we
are taking her away from New Jersey.
We’re not out to do that,” Palmer said.
“We’re just out to save it. If it happens
here in New Jersey, I will get behind it.
But for now, it’s Louisville.”
Email: kaulessar@northjersey.com

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, Sept. 20, the 263rd
day of 2019. There are 102 days left in
Ocean Gate councilwoman Lakewood
the year.
On this date in:
fined for paid borough job police get
1519: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
Magellan and his crew set out from
Spain on five ships to find a western
Amanda Oglesby Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
to NJ.com. A spokesper-
son for the state Depart-
ment of Community Af-
3rd report
passage to the Spice Islands. (Magel-
lan was killed enroute, but one of his
OCEAN GATE – Borough Council-
woman Joella Nicastro has been fined
fairs, which oversees
the Local Finance of shooting
this month
ships eventually circled the world.) by a state ethics panel for improperly Board, did not immedi-
accepting a paid position as a consult- Nicastro ately return a call seek-
1873: Panic swept the floor of the New ant to a municipal anti-drug program ing comment.
York Stock Exchange in the wake of and taking in more than $8,600 in Nicastro did not return a message
railroad bond defaults and bank fail- compensation for the work, according from a reporter, but her attorney Dan- Keith Schubert Asbury Park Press
ures. to a report on NJ.com. iel G. Leone said she was appealing the USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY

1881: Chester A. Arthur was sworn in
as the 21st president of the United
States, succeeding the assassinated
James A. Garfield.
1962: James Meredith, a black stu-
dent, was blocked from enrolling at
the University of Mississippi by Demo-
cratic Gov. Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith
was later admitted.)
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The New Jersey Local Finance
Board fined 72-year-old Nicastro $600
for serving as a paid consultant to the
town’s Municipal Alliance, an anti-
drug program, according to the report.
The board said Nicastro’s conduct,
which occurred in 2014 and 2015, vio-
lated a number of state laws, according
to the report.
In 2014, Nicastro was appointed by
the Borough Council to serve as the
program’s adviser for a stipend of
$3,941 for the last seven months of that
year. She continued to serve on the
council after the appointment.
The Local Finance Board found that
Nicastro violated ethics laws by ac-
cepting the position and pay while
serving as a councilwoman, according
decision.
“She refutes the charges and the de-
cision of the Local Finance Board and
looks forward to an opportunity to de-
fend herself at a hearing,” he said.
Nicastro is seeking re-election to a
three-year term on the council.
Ocean Gate Mayor Paul J. Kennedy
has come under similar scrutiny; the
mayor held four paid public jobs in the
borough in 2014 when the Local Fi-
nance Board fined Kennedy $700.
Amanda Oglesby is an Ocean Coun-
ty native who covers Brick, Barnegat
and Lacey townships as well as the en-
vironment. She has worked for the
Press for more than a decade. Reach
her at @OglesbyAPP, aoglesby@gan-
nettnj.com or 732-557-5701.
LAKEWOOD – Police responded to
a shots fired call for the third time this
month, according to Lakewood Police
Chief Gregory Staffordsmith.
The most recent call came around 6
p.m. Wednesday , Staffordsmith said.
“Upon arrival, the occupants of 82 Er-
ica Road advised Officer Nadine Clarke
that they heard approximately four
gunshots but did not see anyone in the
area.”
The investigation is ongoing and
the “Lakewood Police Department De-
tective Bureau is actively following up
on several leads,” Staffordsmith said.
Anyone with additional information is
urged to contact the Lakewood Police
Department at 732-363-0200.

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OCEAN & MONMOUTH
Lawsuit goes after ‘sanctuary state’
Ocean County official: Policy in ‘conflict with federal law’
Erik Larsen Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
TOMS RIVER – Gov. Phil Murphy and
state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal
are trying to turn New Jersey into “a
sanctuary state,” Freeholder Jack Kelly
said as he announced that Ocean Coun-
ty had filed a federal lawsuit against the
administration.
No one seems to know the origin, but tags on branches
along bike path having an enchanting effect on passers-by
Messages are left on the wishing trees in Wall. No one is quite sure who set up the trees, but dozens have left messages.
SUSANNE CERVENKA/ASBURY PARK PRESS
‘Wishing trees’ in Wall
sprout messages of hope
Susanne Cervenka
Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
WALL – Get ready to make a wish, my
friends said.
I was on my first bicycle ride in ages
and wondered if this was some super-
stition I hadn’t heard of coming from
Ohio.
“No,” they said with wide smiles. “It’s
the wishing tree.”
The massive pine tree, which sits off
Atlantic Avenue and Ramshorn Drive, is
Stafford man pleads guilty
to theft from Sandy victims
Joshua Chung Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
TOMS RIVER – A Stafford home im-
provement contractor has pleaded
guilty to theft in relief funds from super-
storm Sandy victims, authorities said.
George LaRosa, 50, of Barnegat
pleaded guilty to one count of second-
degree theft by failure to make required
disposition, according to a news release
from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Of-
fice.
After Sandy, LaRosa was involved in
contracts with 19 homeowners through-
out Ocean County to repair homes dam-
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The litigation, filed Wednesday, is
over the “Immigrant Trust Directive,”
which Grewal announced last Novem-
ber and which is now in effect state-
wide.
Under the policy — which carries the
weight of law — local, county and state
law enforcement officers must not stop,
search or detain immigrants at the re-
quest of U.S. Immigration and Customs
impressive in its own right. But, if you’re
driving past, you probably won’t notice
the dozens of tags dotting its branches
along the side facing the Edgar Felix
bikeway, a 5.4-mile rail trail that links
Allaire State Park to Manasquan.
The tags hung from the lower
branches like ornaments on a Christmas
tree. A wooden crate sitting in the shade
beneath its branches contained black
permanent markers and white compos-
ite tags anyone could use to add their
own wishes to the tree.
I understood why this tree impacted
aged by the storm.
LaRosa did not make
those repairs and used
the money for his per-
sonal use before closing
his business, leaving
LaRosa homeowners with seri-
ous damages, authorities
said.
The plea agreement recommends a
sentence of three years in prison, with
$456,650 in restitution. LaRosa agreed
to make full restitution.
In 2016, LaRosa and his company, GL
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The directive has compelled Ocean
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Police
arrest
burglary
suspect
Berkeley man accused
of series of break-ins
Andrew J. Goudsward Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
BERKELEY – A 32-year-old town-
ship man suspected of burglarizing
several businesses and at least one
home in Ocean County was taken into
custody Monday, police said.
Christopher Butler, of the Bayville
section of Berkeley, is facing charges of
burglary, theft and criminal mischief
in connection to break-ins at a town-
ship home and two businesses on
Route 9 earlier this week, township po-
lice said in a Facebook post.
Police also named Butler as a sus-
pect in a series of burglaries in which
money, jewelry and oth-
er valuables were stolen
from businesses along
Route 9 in recent
months. The break-ins,
which started in June
and have continued
Butler through this month, all
occurred in the middle
of the night and involved forced entry,
police said.
Detectives from several area police
departments collaborated to investi-
gate the burglaries and eventually
identified Butler as a suspect and lo-
cated several vehicles suspected of be-
ing used in the crimes, according to the
Facebook post.
my friends so much once I got off my On Sunday, Berkeley police tied
bike and started reading the messages. Butler to a home burglary. A woman
Some were lighthearted. Some were told police she awoke to find an intrud-
heartbreaking. In the middle of my er in her home rummaging through her
ride, I’d stumbled upon a heartwarm- belongings. She confronted the man
ing symbol of hope. who then assaulted her and fled, police
“I wish I was a fish.” said.
“I wish the world was peaceful and “The victim was able to gather key
for a dirt bike.” evidence linking Butler to this rob-
“I wish people would live in the mo- bery,” according to the Facebook post.
ment.” “As a result Berkeley detectives issued
“I wish for my son’s sobriety.” an arrest warrant for Butler.”
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expected to be three stories and 15,000
square feet, making it a centerpiece of
Sea Bright’s commercial district.
Its menu will include the pizza that
helped it make its name. It will serve al-
cohol and feature live music.
And it will have jaw-dropping views
of the ocean to the east and the river to
the west — the natural beauty that the
Kellys have seen both as a blessing and a
curse.
But first, they need to face one more
challenge in a seven-year journey that
tested their resolve and had neighbors
wondering about a worst-case scenario:
What happens if the Mad Hatter winds
up an unfinished hulk?
“It’s very important that they com-
plete it because it’s an eyesore, and they
know it,” said Brian George, owner of
Northshore, a clothing store next door to
the Mad Hatter. “Hopefully they’ll be
open by Memorial Day. We need it to be
completed.”
Scott and Amy Kelly, both 48, have
heard the whispers.
They and their three children have
yet to return to their home in Sea Bright
that was damaged by Sandy, and they
are living in a rental nearby while they
wait for it to be demolished and rebuilt.
The Kellys have owned the Mad Hat-
ter since 2006, although Amy has con-
tinued to work full time in financial ser-
vices.
When Sandy left the Mad Hatter
filled with water and sand, they pledged
to rebuild, winning approval from the
New Jersey Economic Development
Agency for a $5 million disaster loan.
They came up with an ambitious plan
for a restaurant and bar that was three
times the its original size. And they
quickly ran into resistance from a
neighbor, Jennifer Walsh, who lives just
a few arm lengths away next door and
worried the expansion would attract too
Lakewood
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ng for public students so long as the
LSTA provides the same service for pri-
vate school students.
“It’s going to be a nightmare, more
than 30,000 kids trying to get to school
without the transportation that they’re
entitled to,” Lakewood Mayor Raymond
Coles told the Asbury Park Press.
Busing is considered a necessity for
all students in Lakewood, even those
“nonmandated” students who live with-
in two miles of their school, because of
the traffic-jammed roads, lack of side-
walks and poor lighting.
In an interview at his office, Krawiec
said the LSTA had not been paid since it
began providing the service at the start
of the school year Sept. 6.
“The LSTA is awaiting for the final
word,” Krawiec said Thursday afternoon.
“We started the school year (providing
service) in good faith and we’re now
waiting details of what the set up will
be.”
Lakewood school officials were short
on answers.
School board attorney and spokesper-
son Michael Inzelbuch said he could not



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Construction continues on the Mad Hatter in Sea Bright, owned by Scott and
Amy Kelly. DOUG HOOD/ASBURY PARK PRESS
many people and generate too much
noise.
The Planning Board approved the
project in 2016 after hours of back-and-
forth testimony, stirring up issues as de-
tailed as noise-minimizing technology
and as broad as whether Sea Bright
would lose its small-town charm.
It had to approve the project again a
year later after a state Superior Court
judge ruled the board violated the Open
Public Meeting Act and sent the appli-
cation back to them.
The Kellys in the back of their mind
knew that the EDA loan wouldn’t be
enough. They applied for another disas-
ter loan, this time from the U.S. Small
Business Administration, that they
planned to use to complete the project.
But the federal government shut
down last December in a budget fight,
bringing their application to a halt and
comment on the LSTA situation, but said
that if it were to cease operations it could
“affect adversely both public and non-
public students, which is unacceptable.”
Board President Moshe Bender said
the district and LSTA were talking but he
could not say whether there would be
busing for the private school students
today.
Both Bender and Krawiec said the
LSTA and the school district had yet to
sign a contract. It was unclear why that
had not occurred two weeks into the
school year.
“I was assuming this would impact
private schools,” Bender said. “Honestly
speaking, as of (Thursday) morning,
based on what I’m seeing, I am con-
cerned about the public schools as well.”
Krawiec said that the consortium he
runs has been busing close to 37,500 pri-
vate school students, including 22,500
mandated students and 15,000 “courte-
sy” students.
The latter refers to students who live
within two miles of the school they at-
tend. The private students mainly attend
Orthodox Jewish yeshivas.
The school district and the township
provides busing for the roughly 6,000
public school students, both mandated
and “courtesy” students.
Echoing an email the LSTA sent to
sending them back to square one of the
process, they said. Construction
stopped while the searched for another
lender.
“Some people are afraid to say some-
thing,” Amy Kelly said. “Just, they don’t
want to broach it because it has been a
long time. Our friends know. And people
who approach us, we just tell them it’s
taken longer than we expected, ever.”
Sea Bright, on a peninsula between
the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury
River, was among the hardest hit towns
at the Shore when Sandy struck in 2012.
The storm surge topped nine feet and
battered homes and businesses alike.
But the borough painstakingly has
come back with new businesses appar-
ently unafraid of a repeat. Tommy’s Tap
+ Tavern opened on the site of the for-
mer post office. Rory’s Pub replaced
Harry’s Lobster House. Alice’s replaced
Lakewood school district state monitor
David Shafter, Krawiec said in an inter-
view that school busing is in jeopardy
because it was “fiscally irresponsible to
continue operations.”
“Despite numerous requests of start
up monies that the state monitor has
previously approved to be given to our
entity previously, we have received no
response,” reads the email first pub-
lished by The Lakewood Scoop.
Krawiec added: “Of course I worry. I
have children in school too. But we are
not set up financially.”
Shafter did not return phone calls and
messages seeking comment.
The Press has previously reported
that the Lakewood School District’s
transportation costs for public and non-
public pupils has risen 34 percent in six
years, to more than $31 million. Two-
thirds of the funds are spent on busing
children enrolled in 130 private Orthodox
Jewish yeshivas in Lakewood.
For the last three years, the LSTA has
provided nonpublic pupil transportation
in Lakewood, under a pilot program the
New Jersey Legislature created in 2016.
In July, the township signed an agree-
ment to act as intermediary between the
local school board and the LSTA; but the
agreement fizzled only a week later
when the board of education began deal-
 
Steve’s.
McLoone’s Rum Runner reopened in
2016. Donovan’s Reef rebuilt and
opened in 2017.
This summer? “Sea Bright was pop-
ping,” said Melissa D’Anna, owner of
Lucky Dog Surf Shop, which opened
here three years ago. “It was so packed
you couldn’t walk down the boardwalk.”
“Having (Mad Hatter) back would
complete the whole Sea Bright experi-
ence, for people visiting and the locals,”
she said. “It’s a very missed staple.
Something needs to go there.”
For the Mad Hatter, the summer
came and went quietly for the seventh
time.
The Kellys spoke to the Asbury Park
Press on a tantalizingly clear September
day. From the top floor is an unmatched
view of the boardwalk, the beach and
the ocean, a hint of what is to come.
Not that restarting the project will be
easy. One subcontractor, Servair Air
Conditioning & Refrigeration Co. in Key-
port, filed a lawsuit in July in Monmouth
County Superior Court, saying it was
owed more that $172,000.
Scott Kelly said once the financing is
completed, he can pay his vendors and
bring back the general contractor, Long-
view Construction Management.
After that? It should be 16 weeks.
“Amy and I know this is what we
want to do,” Scott Kelly said. “We’ve
been pushing for this and we’ve come so
far. I feel these hurdles that hit us now,
they’re nothing when we look at what
was happening six years ago, seven
years ago, when we were dealing with
complete unknown-ness about what
was going to happen to our future.”
“Now we know,” he said. “But this is
(just another step) for us. Get this re-
built. Then we’ve got to start talking
about moving home.”
Michael L. Diamond is a business re-
porter who has been writing about the
New Jersey economy for 20 years. He
can be reached at 732-643-4038; mdia-
mond@gannettnj.com; and on Twitter
@mdiamondapp.
ing directly with the transportation con-
sortium.
The LSTA had abruptly been can-
celled on July 1, after it was unexpectedly
left out of the new state budget signed by
Gov. Phil Murphy. The state doled out
$2.4 million yearly to subsidize the
LSTA.
Parents and students lived months of
uncertainty with the looming threat of
losing all school transportation nearing
as the summer break was coming to an
end.
But days before the school year start-
ed in early September, the township an-
nounced an agreement to continue foot-
ing the $1.9 million tab for courtesy
transportation for public school stu-
dents as long as the LSTA did the same
for private school pupils.
Krawiec said that they offer both
courtesy and mandated school transpor-
tation charging the school district $22.5
million for the 2019-20 school year, only
enough to fund transportation for
22,500 students.
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Lakewood. He is graduate of the Univer-
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symposium Tuesday in New Brunswick. JASON TOWLEN/ASBURY PARK PRESS
Work
Continued from Page 1A
The hiring industry has gone online, from LinkedIn
to resume-scanning algorithms, but consider this: Job
referrals account for 7% of all applicants but 40% of all
hires, they said, citing a University of Michigan study.
The human touch is at the heart of The Breakfast
Club. Kovacs, a technology executive who had a meet-
ing in the World Trade Center on Sept. 10, 2001, started
the group to help workers who lost their jobs in the re-
cession that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
It is a chance for them to have doughnuts and cof-
fee, hear speakers, meet recruiters, network and prac-
tice their elevator pitches, the 15-second introduction
designed to capture the audience’s attention.
The years since the group’s founding have included
the housing bubble’s collapse followed by the longest
economic expansion on record. But the estimated
6,000 workers that have come through The Breakfast
Club have encountered a familiar tune, no matter the
state of the economy. Older workers fear their years of
experience aren’t all that it’s cracked up to be. In short,
they fear they are overlooked because of their age.
Michael Calabria, 55, a finance executive from
Scotch Plains, spent more than 28 years in the cosmet-
ics industry before he was let go in a restructuring.
He’s returned to the same company, but only on a
short-term contract. So he came to The Breakfast Club
hoping to find a lead to a permanent, full-time job. The
connections he makes are invaluable, he said.
You need “an advocate at the company who’s going
to say, ‘Yeah, he’s got experience, but his experience is
going to be worth it,’ or, ‘Yeah, he might be at the higher
end of the range that you want to pay, but he’s worth
it.’” Calabria said. “If you don’t have that advocate in
the company, you’re almost dead in the water.”
New Jersey job market has grown modestly since
the beginning of the year. In August, it added 1,100 jobs
— a gain of 2,300 public sector jobs and a loss of 1,200
private sector jobs, the New Jersey Department of La-
bor and Workforce Development reported Thursday.
But its unemployment rate fell to 3.2%, the lowest
on record that dates to 1976.
Yet the demand for older workers seems less robust.
A quarter of unemployed workers ages 55 and older
nationwide had been out of work for more than six
months. By comparison, 19.5% of workers ages 16 to 54
were in the same boat, according U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics data from last month.
It can create upheaval. A survey by the Heldrich
Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers
University of workers ages 45 and older found 74%
said their financial situation was fair or poor. And half
eventually took a job below their education or experi-
ence level.
“If they lose a job, they’re much more likely to be out
of work over six months,” said Maria Heidkamp, direc-
tor of the school’s New Start Career Network, a pro-
gram for mid-career workers who have been unem-
ployed or under-employed for more than six months.
For baby boomers and Generation X, the landscape
has changed — but not as much as they might think,
Kovacs and Beal said.
For all of the technology breakthroughs in the past
two decades, for all of the noise on social media, the
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job hunt process still requires a human network.
“You need to be a marketer because you need to get
yourself noticed,” Beal said. “Simply pushing the ‘send’
button on a resume to an online application isn’t the
way to do it. Even though most people say, ‘I applied to
50 places, 30 places,’ that’s only half the job. The other
half is a proactive human interaction approach. You
need to find someone who knows someone who knows
someone.”
How do you do it?
1. Keep a positive outlook
Staying positive under circumstances in which you
are asked to swallow your pride is a lot to ask. But the
Breakfast Club NJ is built on a theory of paying it for-
ward. It is led by volunteers, many of whom learned
about the group through their own job losses.
The authors say there will be good days and bad
days. But a positive outlook will rub off on your friends,
family and colleagues.
2. Be proactive
Workers who once used social media to post pic-
tures of their family vacations should turn the medium
into an outlet that makes them an expert, or, in the
digital age, a “thought leader.”
Post interesting stories. Comment on other posts.
Keep your communication positive.
Meantime, don’t let your search for a perfect job get
in the way of progress. A temporary assignment can
lead to a full-time job. Freelancing can take off.
3.Think strategically
Identify your top 20 employers, learn what they are
looking for and try to make connections that can lead
you to the hiring manager.
Find out what skills you’ll need to work there and
consider returning to school to learn them.
“Continuous learning has never been as important
as it is now given the unprecedented pace of change
and volume of change we are experiencing,” they
wrote.
4. Market yourself
In the social media world, individuals themselves
are brands, forcing them to ask: What is the story they
are trying to tell?
They should explain the value they bring to the ta-
ble in a short pitch that gets to the point. And they
should make sure their digital presence supports it.
Is their email address professional? Is their Face-
book page family friendly? Did they get into an exple-
tive-filled Twitter fight? Does a Google search of their
name turn up a criminal record? (If so, be proactive
and address it with a potential employer up front).
“Most individuals who are competing for job oppor-
tunities don’t consider themselves brands, but they
are,” Beal and Kovacs wrote. “And they need to market
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A Morristown man groomed for more than 20
years by a terrorist organization was charged
Thursday with scouting possible targets for attack
in New York City, authorities said.
Alexei Saab, 42, was arrested in July but Thurs-
day was charged in a nine-count indictment for his
support of the terror group Hezbollah, according to
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Founded in the 1980s, Hezbollah is based in Leb-
anon and was started with support from Iran after
the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Its mission in-
cludes establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state
in Lebanon.
Authorities said Saab joined the terror group in
1996 and legally came to the United States in 2000.
In 2008, he became a naturalized citizen.
Some of the locations Saab scouted for Hezbol-
lah include the United Nations headquarters, the
Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square,
the Empire State Building, and local airports, tun-
nels, and bridges, the Department of Justice stated.
His reports focused on weak points of the struc-
tures.
“Even though Saab was a naturalized American
citizen, his true allegiance was to Hezbollah, the ter-
rorist organization responsible for decades of ter-
rorist attacks that have killed hundreds, including
U.S. citizens and military personnel,” said Manhat-
tan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement.
“Thankfully, Saab is now in federal custody, and
faces significant prison time for his alleged crimes.”
20 years in Hezbollah
His involvement with Hezbollah started with
scouting. He watched Israeli and Southern Leba-
nese soldiers before his training intensified in 1999,
authorities said.
By 1999 he started practicing with weapons in-
cluding an AK-47, an M16 rifle, a pistol and gre-
nades. He continued his work with explosives in the
following years, authorities said.
Saab lied on his application for citizenship when
he failed to mention his tie to the terrorist organiza-
tion, authorities said. After he came to the United
States he maintained contact with the Islamic Jihad
Organization.
His alleged terroristic acts were not limited to the
United States. At some point during his Hezbollah
affiliation he tried to kill someone abroad he sus-
pected of being an Israeli spy, firing a gun at him
twice though the weapon malfunctioned, according
to the Department of Justice.
As of 3:30 p.m. Thursday, no court hearing had
been scheduled, according to the Manhattan U.S.
Attorney’s Office where the indictment was filed.
Saab also went by the aliases Ali Hassan Saab,
Alex Saab, and Rachid. A LinkedIn profile for Alex
Saab that includes an engineering degree from Leb-
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tion technology at Covanta in Morristown. It also
lists him as an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College
New York.
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not have one,” Corbett said. “For a major
billion-dollar enterprise, multi-billion
dollar enterprise to not have a capital
plan and be an operating entity like this
was pretty shocking to me.”
Diverted dollars fund operations
NJ Transit has in recent years been
planning capital improvement work on
a year-to-year basis, and seeing fewer
and fewer dollars going to these projects
to instead fill deficits in the operating
budget.
Corbett estimated about $8 billion in
the last decade was diverted from the
capital budget to fund the agency’s op-
erations.
“When I came in, we were about half-
way through that fiscal year, but we’d
only got $25 million in capital projects
out ... I said, ‘$25 million — we’re going
to die, there’s no way this place could
continue and function,’” he said. “It’s
going to be like a patient on a table that
isn’t getting enough blood or IV fluids.”
The hemorrhaging can be seen by
of bus and rail stations:
❚ Platforms are in disrepair
❚ Dozens of stations are not in com-
pliance with federal disability laws
❚ Escalators are disabled
❚ Decades-old trains and buses need
replacement
All of these are in addition to the fre-
quent delays, cancellations and over-
crowded commutes due, in part, be-
cause there aren’t enough engineers or
failing equipment.
Filling vacancies, learning from
the MTA
Vacancies in the short-staffed, 180-
person capital planning and projects
department are being filled, including
the recent hire of Rich Schaefer, who
Corbett said took a pay cut from engi-
neering firm HNTB Corporation to be-
come NJ Transit’s chief engineer and
help oversee the capital plan.
Anthony D’Amico LLC was also
awarded a $500,000 two-year contract
at this month’s board meeting to work
with Schaefer and his team on the plan’s
development.
The New York-based vendor, formed
last year by its namesake who is a recent
retiree after 35 years at the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, was awarded
the contract without the agency seeking
other bids.
“With the time constraint we were
under, and the familiarity that he has,
and the fact that he has actually assem-
bled a five-year capital plan (with the
MTA),” Corbett said, “we really wanted
to grab him with his talent.”
D’Amico oversaw several major MTA
projects, including the reconstruction of
the Cortlandt Street Station after 9/11,
the Subway’s 7 train extension to Hud-
son Yards and the Second Avenue Sub-
way, a project Corbett also worked on
prior to joining NJ Transit when he was
with engineering firm AECOM.
When asked about whether he’s
worked with D’Amico, Corbett said they
did not.
“I’ve never had a business relation-
ship at all,” he said.
Meanwhile, fares have risen
If delivered on time, NJ Transit’s cap-
ital plan will come as state budget plan-
ning begins in Trenton.
About 40% of the agency’s revenue is
from fares — which have been raised
five times since 2000, including a 22
percent increase in 2010 — and the rest
is federal and state aid, but there has
never been a dedicated source of that
state funding, making that year-to-year
revenue stream unreliable.
“We need advocacy for multi-year
funding of a robust capital plan, other-
wise you get these ups and downs in
funding,” Corbett said, adding that the
new capital plan will help put this in
perspective.
When asked if the state Legislature
had an appetite to figure out a dedicated
funding stream for NJ Transit, Senate
Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg said
she wasn’t certain.
“Do I think a dedicated source of
funding is preferable but have we come
to some way to do that? Not just yet.
Hopefully we’ll have a new NJ Transit
board in the not-too-distant future and
we can address those issues with their
input,” she said.
Matt Saidel, a spokesman for Gov.
Phil Murphy, said in a statement that
the administration has provided “his-
toric funding increases” to the agency
that the governor has vowed to fix.
“This funding has allowed the agency
to begin a rebuilding process to restore
safety and reliability for commuters af-
ter years of mismanagement and ne-
glect,” Saidel said, adding that state
mandates are now in place to guide the
turnaround of the agency.
The state Legislature approved a $50
million net increase for NJ Transit dur-
ing budget negotiations in May, up from
the $25 million originally proposed by
Murphy.
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tion. The new policy has
incensed Kelly and other
freeholders on the five-
member, all-Republican
board, who preside over a
county where Trump won
more than 65 percent of
the votes cast for presi-
dent in 2016. To be sure,
the county delivered
more votes for Trump
than any other in New
Jersey, even though Hilla-
ry Clinton ultimately won
the state’s 14 electoral
votes.
“The attorney general
is following the political
will of the governor, in or-
der to make New Jersey a
sanctuary state,” Kelly
said in his public remarks
Wednesday evening from
the dais of the freeholder
board. “That is a political
position.”
Ocean County was
committed to cooperating
with law enforcement at
every level of govern-
ment, said Kelly, who is
director of law and public
safety on the board.
“However, we are not
going to violate state law,”
he said. “So, the way we’re
moving forward is by fil-
ing this complaint in fed-
eral court because we be-
lieve it is an issue that is
bigger than Ocean County
and that ought to be heard
in federal court because
lish statewide law en-
Court in Trenton and is
comprised of three
forcement policies, in- counts alleging violations
cluding policies that pro- of the United States and
mote police-community New Jersey constitutions,
trust and encourage vic- as well as federal and
tims and witnesses to co- state laws.
operate with law enforce- The suit also cites sta-
ment,” Moore said. tistical data from the
As the office previous- Ocean County Depart-
ly stated, the attorney ment of Corrections,
general’s authority — which reports that 17.7 %
which has been used by of foreign-born inmates
prior attorney generals at the jail were subject to
across gubernatorial ad- immigration detainers
ministrations — extends upon their release from
to all 36,000 law enforce- the county jail between
ment officers in New Jer- Jan. 1, 2017 and July 31,
sey, whether they work at 2019.
New Jersey State Police, a An immigration de-
local police department, tainer or immigration
or a county sheriff ’s of- hold is a notification from
fice, Moore said. ICE to state, county and
The Immigrant Trust local law enforcement
Directive does not pro- agencies that a suspect in
vide “sanctuary” to indi- their custody is also
viduals who commit wanted by ICE for a de-
crimes in New Jersey; it portation or a deportation
provides assurances to hearing.
victims and witnesses of In count one, the suit
crimes that they can go to claims that the U.S. Con-
state and local law en- stitution’s supremacy
forcement officers in New clause prevents states
Jersey without fear of de- from acting in a manner
portation, Moore ex- that impedes or frustrates
plained. federal laws and regula-
The 13-page lawsuit tions.
was filed in U.S. District “The historic police
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powers of the state do not
supersede the federal
government’s preemptive
authority over matters in-
volving immigration and
naturalization,” the suit
argues.
In count two, the litiga-
tion makes the case that
the New Jersey attorney
general is in violation of
the state constitution,
which gives counties and
local governments broad
discretion to manage
their own affairs — re-
ferred to in the suit as the
“home rule doctrine.”
Moreover, citing an
1887 New Jersey law, the
county quotes: “It shall be
lawful for the board of
chosen freeholders of any
county in this state to as-
sume and thereafter to
exercise the custody, rule,
keeping and charge of the
county jails in their re-
spective counties, and of
the prisoners therein,
whenever any such board
shall decide, by the af-
firmative votes of two-
thirds of all its members,
so to do, and shall file a
certificate of such deci-
sion attested by the direc-
tor and the clerk of such
board, in the office of the
secretary of state.”
In count three, the
county argues that the
state attorney general
does not have the consti-
tutional, statutory and
common law powers to
control how a county jail
shares information with
other law enforcement
agencies.
“The directive’s de-
clared source of legal au-
thority directly conflicts
with the New Jersey Leg-
islature’s expressed in-
tent to vest power and au-
thority in county govern-
ments to control county
jails and the sharing of in-
mate information,” ac-
cording to the suit.
“Even though the New
Jersey Legislature could
have empowered the at-
torney general under this
statutory scheme, the
Legislature deliberately
and clearly chose to em-
power county govern-
ments to control county
jails subject to the rules
and regulations promul-
gated by the commission-
er of the New Jersey De-
partment of Corrections,
which has recognized the
authority of county gov-
ernment to share, if it so
decides, inmate informa-
tion with other law en-
forcement agencies,” the
suit reads.
“The attorney general’s
directive is arbitrary, ca-
pricious and unreason-
able and thus constitutes
an abuse of discretion as
applied to plaintiffs” it
continues.
The freeholder board
wants the federal judicia-
ry to declare the Immi-
grant Trust Directive as
“unconstitutional, invalid
and unenforceable and
for such other relief as the
court deems just and eq-
uitable,” the suit con-
cludes.
Ocean County General
Counsel John C. Sahrad-
nik and Associate Coun-
sel Christopher A. Khata-
mi are representing the
county government in the
matter.
Erik Larsen has cov-
ered politics, crime and
unusual events at the Jer-
sey Shore for more than
20 years. Contact him at
732-682-9359, elar-
sen@gannettnj.com or on
Twitter at @Erik_Larsen.

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Tesla sales
unfair, say
car dealers
NJ group says company
gets ‘special treatment’
David P. Willis
Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY

New Jersey’s association of new car dealers has

taken the state to task over alleged “special treat-
ment” shown to Tesla, the Silicon Valley electric car
manufacturer.
The New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers
has filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Division of
Consumer Affairs, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle
Commission and Tesla, accusing the state of allow-
ing the car manufacturer to disregard rules and laws
governing car sales and advertising in New Jersey.
“Why do powerful Silicon Valley and Wall Street
players like Tesla get a pass, while Main Street, local
businesses are required to play by the rules?” said
Jim Appleton, president of NJ CAR.
State officials had no comment on the lawsuit.
Tesla did not immediately comment.
The lawsuit reignites a dispute that has smoldered
for years over how Tesla is allowed to sell cars in New
Jersey. State law says new cars can only be sold
through dealer franchisees. Manufacturers, like
Ford, General Motors and Honda, are not allowed to
sell cars directly to consumers.
Tesla doesn’t have a dealer network and instead
sells cars through its stores, which serve as show-
rooms where customers can meet with a sales per-
son, see a Tesla and configure their own vehicle.
The state initially said Tesla couldn’t sell cars di-
rectly to consumers. But in 2015, the state Legislature
granted Tesla an exemption, limiting the car manu-
facturer to four sales locations. Tesla currently has
stores in Springfield, Cherry Hill, Paramus and the Target in Toms River is getting a makeover. DAVID P. WILLIS/ASBURY PARK PRESS
Short Hills Mall.
It also has a fifth location at Garden State Plaza,
the lawsuit states, calling it an “unlawful retail loca-
tion” used to sell cars. A sixth sales location, this one
in Lawrence Township, also is in the works, the law-
suit states.
Tesla has said the Garden State Plaza location is a
Target renovations
“gallery” and not a store. But NJ CAR called it a “flim-
sy basis to circumvent” its limit of four stores.
Why should consumers care if a dealer or a manu-
facturer sells them a car?
coming to 3 area stores
Dealers are on the side of consumers when it
comes to making sure warranty and recall work is Middletown, Manalapan, Toms River get upgrades
completed, Appleton said.
“An automaker sees warranty and recall work as What’s Going There? ❚ Modern decor and fixtures, additional manne-
an expense, which they seek to avoid at every turn,” David P. Willis quins and specialty LED lighting to create a “hip and
he said. “Auto dealers, under franchise laws, are paid Asbury Park Press cool, warming and inviting” shopping experience.
by the manufacturer to fix their mistakes and so auto USA TODAY NETWORK – N.J. ❚ Dynamic merchandise displays throughout the
dealers see recall and warranty work as revenues and store, including in home, apparel and beauty, to “in-
they seek to have the manufacturers live up to their spire” guests and help visualize how to pair products
obligations.” The red sign says “Big changes in store.” together.
In mid 2018, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Com- Target is renovating its stores in Middletown, Ma- ❚ An updated Order Pickup and guest service
mission cited Tesla for operating a fifth sales loca- nalapan and Toms River. The work, which includes counter.
tion. But it later settled with Tesla after the car com- updated decor and fixtures and steps to make it easier ❚ A nursing space to make shopping easier for new
pany said it does not conduct sales at the Garden to pick up online orders, is expected to be completed moms.
State Plaza gallery. this fall, a Target spokeswoman said. In a blog post, Joe Perdew, Target’s vice president
“Those with the duty and authority to uniformly The stores remain open during the renovations. of store design, said merchandise displays in rede-
enforce our consumer protection and motor vehicle It is part of an effort by Target to remodel more than signed stores will create “shops” throughout the store.
laws have sat on their hands allowing Tesla’s chal- 1,000 stores by the end of 2020, including 300 this “The Beauty department looks like a specialty
lenged business practices to go unabated,” said An- year. Since it started the program in 2017, Target has shop that inspires and invites guests to try the prod-
gelo J. Genova, a lawyer with Genova Burns LLC, spe- renovated stores in Ocean Township and Howell. ucts, and in Home, products are on display in lifestyle
cial counsel to NJ CAR in a statement. “These projects transform the shopping environ- settings so guests can imagine what they’ll look like in
The lawsuit accuses the New Jersey Division of ment, featuring end-to-end improvements in our de- their own homes.”
Consumer Affairs of failing to enforce consumer laws cor, lighting and merchandise displays,” Brian C. Cor- Target said the efforts are working. In the second
regarding alleged violations of advertising regula- nell, Target’s chairman and chief executive officer, quarter, comparable sales grew by 3.4 percent with a
tions by Tesla. said in comments to investors earlier this year. “In ad- growth rate of 1.5 percent in stores and 34 percent on-
The dealer group accuses Tesla of “bait and dition, they incorporate changes to optimize digital line, the company said.
switch” sales tactics, accepting deposits and adver- fulfillment, enabling speed and reliability for our Spot a construction project in Monmouth or Ocean
tising Model 3 cars for $35,000, which it does not sell guests and efficiency in support of our financial per- counties and want to know What’s Going There? Con-
at that price on its website, the lawsuit states. formance.” tact business writer David P. Willis at dwillis@gan-
David P. Willis: @dpwillis732, 732-643-4039; In Middletown, Toms River and Manalapan, nettnj.com, and we will look into it for a future col-
dwillis@gannettnj.com. planned enhancements include: umn.

Fishermen demand their say over offshore wind energy

Wayne Parry
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WILDWOOD - Fishermen insisted to a congression-
al subcommittee looking at offshore wind energy that
they be consulted when crucial decisions are being
made on the development of such projects, including
where they are located and the level of access to the
waters near them.
Fishermen should have been brought into the plan-
ning process from the start, Peter Hughes, of Atlantic
Cape Fisheries, told U.S. House members from New
Jersey and California who were holding a hearing
Monday at the Jersey Shore.
“Look at these slides,” he said, referring to diagrams
of where proposed wind projects would be built.
“They’re right smack dab where we are fishing. This is
going to put people out of business.”
The purpose of the hearing was to gather input from
the fishing industry and its advocates to be considered
in future regulation of the nascent wind energy mar-
ket.
So far, a single five-turbine wind farm off Block Is-
land, Rhode Island, is the only operating offshore wind
farm in the U.S., but states up and down the East Coast
are readying plans for similar projects.
Capt. Ed Yates, a fisherman from Barnegat Light
said flounder, cod and other species have moved away
from underground cables at a wind project off Den-
mark.
“How does offshore wind energy affect the fishing
industry?” he asked. “The answer we get from the
wind operators is ‘We won’t fully understand the im-
pacts until the facilities are already built.’ ”
Frederick Zalcman, head of government affairs for
Orsted, the European wind farm operator currently
planning projects on the U.S. East Coast, said the com-
pany has met with fishing interests and will continue
to do so.
Orsted recently changed plan specifications in
Massachusetts and New York, he said, “at consider-
able time and expense to the company” to address
concerns from fishermen. They included reconfiguring
the design of a Massachusetts plan to allow fishing
boats to better maneuver around and between tur-
bines, and changing the location where a power cable
came ashore in New York.
As additional plans are developed, he said, “we will
have to prove ourselves” in terms of listening to the
fishing industry.
The Responsible Offshore Development Alliance
formed last year to represent the interests of the fish-
ing industry regarding offshore wind. The group’s ex-
ecutive director, Annie Hawkins, said more scientific
studies are needed, adding there has been virtually no
public discussion of important questions like how
wind energy projects would be dismantled after reach-
ing the end of their lifespans.
The hearing was chaired by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a
California Democrat, and Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Demo-
crat who represents the area of southern New Jersey
including southern Ocean County.
Southern New Jersey’s port is second in the nation
after the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area in terms of
the value of seafood brought ashore each year, fisher-
men at Monday’s hearing said.
“Anyone who has ever had a bowl of clam chowder
owes a thank you to the development of New Jersey’s
fishing industry,” Hughes said.
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Trees good, Tobia said.

Continued from Page 3A
“I wish I could hug my mom once
more.”
It turns out there’s another wishing
tree across town along Baileys Corner
Road. The one I visited was a short walk
from the Allenwood General Store, a
landmark in the township’s historic Al-
lenwood section. My friends first no-
ticed the tree earlier this summer.
During most of their bike rides, they
stop to read messages. Sometimes,
they’ll leave a few wishes of their own.
The sign at the base of the tree tells
the public how to leave their wishes. But
it provides no clues about what in-
trigued me the most: Why is this tree
here? And who is the person or group re-
sponsible for starting it?
A nod to the heavens
Wishing trees are part of many cul-
tures as a way for people on Earth to
send their messages to their ancestors
or gods, says John Shors, the author of
“The Wishing Trees,” a novel about a fa-
ther and daughter who grieve the tragic
loss of their wife and mother by leaving
messages behind for her on wishing
trees.
Shors, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, first
encountered wishing trees while living
in Japan. People write down their wish-
es and tie them to branches of trees,
which send their messages up to the
heavens, he says.
Bamboo trees were initially used be-
cause they grew so straight and point
toward the heavens. It has since
morphed to include other trees. A wish-
ing tree art installation by Yoko Ono in
1996 suggested using local trees.
The wishes on the Wall trees cover
the political spectrum. It may be one of
the few places these days where people
whose views are diametrically opposed
can co-exist peacefully. The trees bring
people together.
The Allenwood tree made me happy.
But Shors says that’s not really the
point.
“The concept of the wishing tree is
not to make the observer feel better. The
concept is to make the participants feel
better,” he said. “It’s cathartic in a way.”
Typically in Japan, the wishes are
written on paper and discreetly folded
up and tied around the branches.
“The intent would not be for a strang-
er to read that wish and pray for that
person. It’s an individual personal pray-
er that goes up to God or the gods or an-
cestors asking for help,” Shors said.
Maybe that’s why it felt a bit like I was
intruding as I interviewed township res-
ident Tom Kelly, 28, as he wrote his wish
for the tree at Baileys Corner Road.
Kelly saw the wishing tree by Allen-
wood General Store as he was riding his
bike a day earlier and stopped to take a
closer look.
“It was something interesting. I
pulled over to see what it was about
(and) if it was supporting anything,” he
Messages on the wishing trees in Wall range from lighthearted to heartbreaking.
A sign at the base of the tree tells the public how to leave their wishes.
PHOTOS BY SUSANNE CERVENKA/ASBURY PARK PRESS
said.
The messages that stuck with him
were the ones from children. One wisher
wanted to be a fish. The next wanted to
go to Wrestlemania. Yet another wished
for good grades.
“They’re very honest,” Kelly said be-
fore I left him so he’d have a private mo-
ment to write his wish.
While the wishing trees of Japanese
tradition may have been a personal
meditative process, Dr. Anthony Tobia
also sees how Wall’s wishing trees have
taken on a communal aspect.
“Someone else’s wishes for a dog (or)
an extra hug for mom might be a moti-
vating factor for some. They are moti-
vated to be part of the process,” said To-
bia, a psychiatry professor at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in
New Brunswick.
“It’s a contagion that is started by
someone else fulfilling their own wish,”
he told me.
And it also fulfills a part of human na-
ture to feel like we are part of a greater
“There is this universal phenomenon
that is across cultures that there is a
need for something to be larger than us,”
he said. “The tree in your community is
a great example.”
Whose idea was this?
I figured the search for the back story
of the wishing tree would be easy. I
knew a few people in Wall I was certain
would have the answer.
First stop in my search: Wall Admin-
istrator Jeffrey Bertrand. Surely he
might know about the trees, which sit
on township property.
I was wrong. He hadn’t heard of
them.
That brought out a fear I had when I
started my search.
“If this tree requires a permit, and it
doesn’t have one, please forget I called,”
I said, knowing that those words
couldn’t close Pandora’s box if I had in-
deed opened it.
His response allayed my concerns
somewhat. If a wishing tree was the big-
gest issue he’d have to address that day,
well, he’d be having a pretty good day.
My search led to more and more dead
ends, but I was still hopeful I could easi-
ly solve the wishing tree mystery. Call
up the Herberts, owners of Allenwood
General Store, and “the knowers of all
things,” several people suggested.
All things except, of course, the wish-
ing tree’s mysterious originator. But the
Herberts offered me a tip. It might be a
children’s recreation group.
It seemed like a good lead. Many of
the messages asking for things like dogs
and dirt bikes bore the scrawl of a child
learning to write.
I reached out to some friends who are
counselors in Wall schools. If it wasn’t a
school program, perhaps they knew
about it?
One of the return messages was en-
couraging. Yes, she did know about it.
And she thought it was run by Hill and
Dale, a organic farm located next to the
Baileys Corner wishing tree.
Hill and Dale owner Bob Chinery has
been watching the messages grow on
the trees. Some days five or six people
stop by to add their wishes. Some days
it’s quiet.
“It just gives you a good feeling know-
ing people are coming together for
something like this,” he said.
But, no, Chinery said, he’s not the one
supplying the tags and markers for the
trees, though he is planning to write his
own wish on the tree one of these days.
Chinery mentioned another local
farm, but that, too, was a bust.
I still would like to know who started
this. I might have to add that wish to one
of the trees.
Susanne Cervenka covers Monmouth
County government and property tax
issues, winning several state and re-
gional awards for her work. She’s cov-
ered local government for 15 years, with
stops in Ohio and Florida before arriv-
ing in New Jersey in 2013. Contact her at
@scervenka; 732-643-4229; scerven-
ka@gannettnj.com.

Obituaries Pelosi offers negotiation

plan to curb drug prices
Joan Elizabeth Kirby Leonard Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONG BRANCH - Joan Elizabeth Kirby Leonard
passed away on September 17th with her loving WASHINGTON – House Speaker
family by her side. She was born on September 30, Nancy Pelosi, trying to seize the agenda
1924 to James Chasey Kirby and Asenath Jeffrey Kir- on a top consumer issue, announced an
by at Monmouth Memorial Hospital (Monmouth ambitious prescription drug plan
Thursday that would allow Medicare to
Medical Center), Long Branch. negotiate prices for seniors and young-
She was a true New Jersey and Long Branch na- er people.
tive having lived almost her entire life within one The proposal would direct Medicare
block of her birthplace, was graduated from Long to bargain over as many as 250, but no
Branch High School in June, 1942 and attended fewer than 25, of the costliest drugs. In-
the Red Bank Business Institute. In March, 1943 sulin is on the list. Drugmakers that re-
Joan began work as a clerk typist at the U.S. Army fuse to negotiate could face steep pen-
alties. Companies that raise prices be-
Research and Development Command, Fort Monmouth and retired 38 years
yond inflation would have to pay re-
later as a Financial Management Analyst at Communications Electronics bates to Medicare.
Command, Fort Monmouth. After retirement she worked part-time for The plan would limit copays for sen-
several government contractors. Joan was a member of St. Luke’s United iors covered by Medicare’s “Part D”
Methodist Church, Long Branch. prescription drug program to $2,000.
Joan enjoyed reading, animals especially dogs, traveling with family and Medicare-negotiated prices would be
friends in early years and with husband, John, in later years but most of all available to other buyers, such as em-
she enjoyed being Nanny to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ployer health plans.
Polls show that high drug prices
Joan was predeceased by her parents, husband John F. Leonard, Jr., daugh- have Americans worried, and regard-
ter-in-law Ann Marie Natale Boa and her brother, Dr. James C. Kirby, Jr. less of party affiliation, they want Con-
She is survived by her beloved family, son Joseph “Marty” Boa, Jr. and his gress to act. As a candidate, President
wife, Kerry Shea Boa, granddaughters Joann, DMD and Mark Stettler and Donald Trump called for Medicare ne-
Colleen and Stephen Carter, great-grandchildren Ann Marie Stettler and gotiations but then later seemed to
Shane and Benjamin Carter and sister-in-law Carol Bradford Kirby. Joan is drop the idea.
also survived by dear step-children and their families, Patricia and Richard Pelosi, D-Calif., said her goal is a deal
that Trump can sign on to and that
Bovie, Teresa Leonard-Gilham, William and Faith Leonard, Peter Leonard could pass the GOP-controlled Senate.
and John Leonard. “We want a solution in Congress,
Visitation Monday, September 23rd 4:00 – 7:00 pm at the Woolley-Boglioli and we want it now,” Pelosi said.
Funeral Home, 10 Morrell Street, Long Branch. Funeral service Tuesday, But in the Senate, Republican John
September 24th 11:00 am at the funeral home. Burial to follow in Woodbine Cornyn of Texas said the proposal “has
Cemetery, Oceanport. absolutely no chance – zero, zip, nada”
Donations may be made in Joan’s memory to St. Luke’s United Methodist – of passing. Some House Republicans
quickly dismissed it as “socialism.”
Church, 535 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740 or Monmouth County SPCA,
The 2003 law that created Medi-
260 Wall Street, Eatontown, NJ 07724. For messages of condolence, please care’s prescription drug benefit barred
visit Joan’s page of tributes at www.woolleyboglioli.com. the program from negotiating prices, a
restriction Democrats have long op-
posed. Most Republicans say price ne-
gotiations are best left to private play-
ers such as insurance companies.
The industry group Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of Amer-
ica said Pelosi’s plan was “radical” and
would usher in an era of government
price-setting that would “blow up” the
current system, stifling innovation.
The legislation leans left politically
and appears to be tailor-made for Pelo-
si’s Democratic majority in the House.
But in a signal that Pelosi wants a deal,
it also incorporates ideas from the
Trump administration and from Re-
publican and Democratic senators.
Pelosi’s proposal would:
❚ Authorize Medicare to negotiate
prices for up to 250 drugs with the
greatest total cost to society. That in-
cludes pharmacy drugs under the Part
D prescription benefit, and Part B med-
ications dispensed in doctors’ offices,
such as many cancer drugs. Medicare
would negotiate for as many drugs as
possible on a list refreshed annually,
but no fewer than 25.
❚ Require drugmakers to pay rebates
to Medicare if they raise prices beyond
the increase in inflation. That idea re-
sembles a plan from Sens. Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-
Ore. Their proposal has cleared a key
committee, with Trump’s support. But
many Senate Republicans oppose in-
flation rebates, and it’s unclear what
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-
Ky., plans to do next.
❚ Limit what seniors pay out of pock-
et for their medications to $2,000 a
year. Currently, Medicare’s pharmacy
benefit has no cap on copays, and the
advent of drugs costing hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year has left
some seniors saddled with bills that ri-
val a mortgage payment. An out-of-
pocket limit is part of the Grassley-Wy-
den bill and is backed by the admini-
stration.
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Lakewood schools
avert busing shutdown
Payment, contractual dispute still needs resolution
Gustavo Martínez Contreras Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
LAKEWOOD – Thanks to last-minute intervention
from the state, the yellow school buses rolled Friday
in Lakewood and thousands of private school stu-
dents didn’t have to miss school. It’s unclear how
long that will last.
Mayor Raymond Coles credited a late-night phone
See BUSING, Page 5A
Raising awareness
Protesters in Washington, D.C., gather near the National Mall and march to the U.S. Capitol as part of a
global strike urging world leaders to act on climate change on Friday. JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY
Few take to streets in NJ,
but thousands globally
protest climate change
Joe Strupp Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
While hundreds of thousands of protesters hit the
streets worldwide Friday as part of a global Climate
Change Strike to promote awareness, things were
mostly quiet in New Jersey.
Some places, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
At Toms River High School North, a student tried
to organize a walkout to mark the international pro-
test effort, but district officials shut it down.
“The gentleman who posted that (protest notice), I
do not think quite understood (school procedures),”
said Principal Ed Keller. “He is going to work with the
adviser of our green team to get his message out to
students in other ways.”
While students were not allowed to leave class,
See CLIMATE CHANGE, Page 8A
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Woman still
missing after
house fire
But police found other tenant,
who now faces weapons charges
Andrew J. Goudsward and Keith Schubert
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USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
After a massive three-alarm fire burned an Ocean
Township home nearly to the ground last week, two
people disappeared.
They were tenants, old family friends who were
renting — along with a few others — the $1.7 million
home set back along Wickapecko Drive. On the morn-
ing of Sept. 12, the home erupted in flames and, after-
ward, two of its residents couldn’t be found.
The next day, authorities solved one mystery, but
encountered a whole new one. Police found and arrest-
ed 49-year-old Ronald Teschner, 60 miles away in Pat-
erson driving his housemate’s white 2019 Jeep Chero-
kee. Multiple shotguns were stashed inside, according
to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
The other tenant, Jacqueline Terrulli, 65, has van-
See FIRE, Page 8A
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front of Toms River High School North on Friday. It’s a beach party this weekend in Asbury Park.
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Jett and the Blackhearts, Bad Religion, Work in Pro-
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Motown releases 60 unheard
songs from Wonder, Gaye, others
Unearthed tracks by Stevie Won-
der, the Temptations, Diana Ross & the
Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5
and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
are among 60 Motown songs released
Friday on streaming and download
services after decades in the vaults.
All of the newly remastered songs
are from 1969 — a pivotal period for
Motown as its artists, songwriters and
producers began moving into ambi-
tious new territory.
The 50-year-old recordings were
withheld at the time for a variety of
reasons, said Harry Weinger, vice
president of A&R with Universal Music
Enterprises, which oversees Motown’s
catalog.
“There (was) an opening for writers
and producers to experiment with the
Motown sound but, for certain topics,
or musical ideas, or even artists, the
company (wasn’t) ready,” Weinger said
in a statement. “Or, it’s a simple case of
having only so many slots for releases.
So, until now, those songs went unre-
leased.”
Cornell’s teenage daughter
releases song produced by him
A ballad that Chris Cornell pro-
duced for his daughter Toni when she
was just 12 is being released. “Far Away
Places” was written by Toni three
years ago and was one of the last songs
Cornell recorded before his death in
May 2017.
The song was released on iTunes on
Thursday and is available on other
streaming services. It is featured in a
short film, also titled “Far Away
Places,” by Tatiana Shanks, a family
friend. The movie has been featured in
international film festivals, and the
song has won awards at various film
festivals.
Proceeds from the single’s sales will
be donated to The New York Society
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil-
dren.
Thunberg has 2 books coming
out soon in the United States
Swedish climate change activist
Greta Thunberg has two books coming
out in the United States, including an
English-language edition of her mem-
oir.
Penguin Press says it will release
Thunberg’s memoir “Our House Is On
Fire” and a collection of her speeches,
“No One Is Too Small to Make a Differ-
ence,” that will include her forthcom-
ing address at the U.N. Climate Action
Summit in New York. “No One Is Too
Small to Make a Difference” is sched-
uled for November. Her memoir, co-
written with her parents and sister,
will be released next year.
The 16-year-old Thunberg has
quickly become an international force
for urgent climate action. She was in
Washington for several days of rallies
and lobbying efforts before Friday’s
planned global climate strike.
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Joseph P. Smith Vineland Daily Journal
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BRIDGETON – About eight members
of the New Jersey State Police were
searching the area between Mayor Ait-
ken Drive and the Cohanzick Zoo on Fri-
day morning, aided by a helicopter.
It was the fifth day of the search for
5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez, who
was reporting missing from the park
around 5 p.m. Monday.
The State Police unit was walking
the tree line at the City Park and Zoo
sign at Washington Street on Friday.
Police also were looking at a canal near
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Pair denied release in officer’s assault
Tom Nobile North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
New Jersey law enforcement brass
and 50 State Police troopers packed a
Hackensack courtroom on Friday at
the first appearances of a couple who
allegedly pummeled a trooper during a
Route 80 traffic stop last week.
A state Superior Court judge or-
dered Alecia Jones and Tyson Stamper
to remain in jail at the hearing, as a sea
of blue-jacketed troopers looked on si-
lently, along with state Attorney Gen-
eral Gurbir Grewal and Bergen County
Sheriff Anthony Cureton.
Jones and Stamper allegedly at-
tacked Trooper Nelson Campoverde
after being pulled over in Hackensack
the morning of Sept. 14, The trooper
was hospitalized with broken facial
bones after the assault left him lying
bloody on the side of the highway, ac-
cording to police reports.
Prosecutors on Friday said the
trooper has undergone two surgeries
since then to have plates inserted in
his face and his eyes realigned. He re-
turned home from Hackensack Uni-
versity Medical Center on Thursday.
“We do not yet know the level of
Comedian sues Cheech’s Own coffeehouse
Mike Deak Central Jersey Courier News
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SOMERVILLE – Richard “Cheech”
Marin and his company, Koo Koo Ba-
nana, have filed a lawsuit in a Califor-
nia federal court against Cheech’s
Own, a Main Street coffeehouse, over
trademark infringement.
Marin, half of the legendary com-
edy team, Cheech and Chong, filed the
suit on Wednesday, alleging that
Cheech’s Own’s use of his name is a
“knowing, malicious, oppressive,
fraudulent act, calculated to harm
(Marin’s) brand and existing trade-
mark” and a “naked attempt to profit
off Cheech’s name.”
Koo Koo Banana is the registered
owner of the federally registered
trademark, “Cheech.”
The principal of Cheech’s Own, Ste-
ven Chiocchi, said in a statement that
he denies the allegations.
“I created my coffee brand based on
my own personal nickname. I have
used the Cheech’s Own brand for years
without incident,” Chiocchi said. “I
have never associated myself or my
business with Mr. Marin, nor have any
desire to. We are local, home-grown
coffee company, and it is offensive that
Mr. Marin and his management com-
pany are trying to shut down our be-
loved business that has no impact on
his distinct business endeavors. We
will take appropriate measures to de-
fend our brand and reputation.”
In his lawsuit, Marin includes the
United States Patent and Trademark
Office’s letter rejecting Cheech’s Own
application for a trademark, saying
that “consumers would reasonably be-
lieve Cheech Marin is connected” to
Cheech’s Own.
“Since celebrities are commonly as-
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foot-6 to 5-foot-8, with a thin build, no
facial hair and acne, according to the
alert.
On Thursday, Cumberland County
Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae
spoke about the search at a press con-
ference.
“Time is of the essence,” Webb-
McRae said. “We need to find young
Dulce. As time passes, it gets harder to
find her.”
Dulce Maria Alavez COURTESY Dulce’s grandmother also spoke, is-
suing a plea in Spanish for help in find-
ing the girl.
Police have been treating the case as “Please, if you have any information,
an abduction since Tuesday, and an help us find my granddaughter,” she
Amber Alert was issued late that night. said. “Do not be afraid of the police. We
Dulce was believed to have been tak- have not been able to eat nor sleep.”
en in a red van Monday by a light- Anyone seeing the vehicle described
skinned, possibly Hispanic man. in the Amber Alert is asked to call 911 or
The man further is described as 5- the Bridgeton police at 856-451-0033.
Alecia Jones cries as she leaves a Tyson Stamper also appeared in front
Hackensack courtroom on Friday. TARIQ of Bergen County Superior Court
ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Judge Satterly on Friday.
permanency of his injuries,” Assistant car. When Campoverde attempted to ar-
Prosecutor Nicholas Ostuni said. rest him, Jones — the driver — got out of
The severity of the alleged attack the car and pushed the trooper, prose-
prompted Judge James Sattely to order cutors said.
that Jones and Stamper remain in jail Campoverde responded by using
for the duration of their cases. pepper spray, sparking a melee on the
Jones, 22, of Hillside and Stamper, roadside in which Jones and Stamper
also 22, of Elizabeth are charged with tackled the trooper to the ground and
aggravated assault on a law enforce- “landed haymakers,” Ostuni said.
ment officer. Four drivers, including an off-duty
Authorities said Campoverde pulled New York City police officer, witnessed
the pair over at 9:50 a.m. for speeding. the struggle and came to Campoverde’s
During the stop, Jones and Stamper al- aid, authorities said.
legedly became irate with the trooper “They beat him until they were
after he issued a ticket. stopped by other people,” Assistant
Stamper allegedly confronted Cam- Prosecutor Christine Gorzelany said of
poverde and refused to get back in the the couple.
Cheech Marin is the owner of Koo Koo Banana, which owns the “Cheech”
trademark. Koo Koo Banana has sued Cheech’s Own’s coffeehouse in Somerville
over its use of that name. RICH POLK/GETTY IMAGES
sociated with food product lines and
Cheech Marin already endorses a bev-
erage, the public would reasonably as-
sume a connection between him and
food products, such as coffee, coffee-
based beverages, and coffee beans,”
the federal office wrote.
The lawsuit calls the letter “damn-
ing.”
Marin’s lawsuit asks for a court in-
junction ordering Cheech’s Own to
stop using its corporate name, stop us-
ing its website address (Cheechs
own.com), turn over all documents,
goods and other material with the
name Cheech.
The lawsuit also ask for monetary
damages and “all gains, profits, bene-
fits and advantages” derived from the ”I have used the Cheech’s Own brand
use of the name. for years without incident,” said
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Ex-pastor charged with sex assault

Police say incident occurred in 1990s
Kathleen Hopkins
and Andrew J. Goudsward
Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
TRENTON – A retired, former pastor
of St. Veronica Roman Catholic Church
in Howell has been arrested and
charged with sexually assaulting an un-
derage girl in the 1990s, authorities said.
The Rev. Brendan Williams, 78, who
now resides in a retirement community
for Catholic clergy in Lawrence, was ar-
rested Friday and charged with second-
degree sexual assault related to criminal
sexual contact on a victim who was
younger than 13, Attorney General Gur-
bir S. Grewal and Monmouth County
Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni
said in a news release.
Williams was pastor of St. Veronica
Roman Catholic Church in Howell when
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the alleged criminal acts occurred be-
tween 1997 and 1999, the news release
said. He is alleged to have touched the The Rev. Brendan Williams is the
former pastor of St. Veronica’s Church
See PASTOR, Page 4A in Howell. ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE

Whale
dies after
becoming
stranded
Authorities are trying to
identify cause of death
Dan Radel Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY

ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK – The

Marine Mammal Stranding Center is
trying to determine the cause of death
of a juvenile minke whale that beached
Thursday at the state park.
Robert Schoelkopf, executive direc-
tor of the center, said the whale
showed no signs of a ship strike. He
said his staff was performing a necrop-
sy — an autopsy, except for animals —
in hopes of learning the cause.
His staff received the call of the
beached whale at 3 p.m. Thursday, he
said. The whale had died by the time
they got there, he said. The whale has
since been moved to a work area to be
examined. The Ocean County sheriff’s house is slated to be taken apart brick by brick. COURTESY OF THE OCEAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
The mammal was about 18 feet in

Sheriff’s house and

length. Minkes are the smallest of the
baleen or filter-feeder whales. They
can reach lengths of up to 35 feet and
weigh up to 20,000 pounds, according
to the National Oceanic and Atmos-

jail to be dismantled
pheric Administration.
NOAA reports that since 2017, there
has been an unusually high number of
minke strandings on the Eastern sea-

See WHALE, Page 4A

Historic building in a state of ruin for more than 30 years.

A minke whale COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL
OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
in Ocean County
dates back to 1851
Erik Larsen Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
TOMS RIVER – One of the oldest
government buildings in Ocean Coun-
ty is to be “deconstructed” sometime
in the next few months, after standing
The 21⁄2-story Ocean County sheriff ’s
house, which was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1983, is to
be taken apart brick by brick after the
county government met all of the re-
quirements from the state Department
of Environmental Protection to do so
five years ago.
“It’s not like we’re going to take a
wrecking ball and knock it down,” said
Assistant County Administrator Mi-
chael J Fiure, who has been tasked with
overseeing the process since 2014.
“We have a historic consultant who
we’ve hired, who’s going to be on site,
who’s going to be observing what’s be-
ing taken down, what needs to be curat-
ed, what needs to be logged and what
needs to be saved,” Fiure said. “So, it’s
not even going to be an easy demolition,
it’s going to be a very intense demoli-
tion.”
Bids from qualified demolition con-
tractors are expected to be received by
mid-October with the Board of Free-
See BUILDING, Page 11A

Beach rescue included man trying to save others

Ken Serrano Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
BELMAR – The water was rough as
Nicholas Siokalo broke himself away
from his beach birthday celebration
with friends after seeing a woman and a
young boy struggling in the surf and
waving.
So, without giving it much thought,
Siokalo waded into the water to help
them.
“I’m a pretty tall guy so I thought I
could at least touch the bottom there,”
said the 6-feet, 6-inch tall Towson,
Maryland man.
Siokalo was wrong.
The beach just north of the 15th Ave-
nue jetty looked deceptively normal
Sept. 14, the day of Siokalo’s heroics, but
the water treacherous, said Harry Har-
sin, Belmar’s chief lifeguard, who led
the crew that saved Siokalo and the two
others.
“It just dropped off like a cliff,” he
said. “As soon as you dropped off that
sandbar you were over your head and at
the mercy of the current.”
Of the 30 rescues Harsin and his crew
made over the weekend, about 20 of
them were at the 15th Avenue jetty, he
said. The rescue of Siokalo and the oth-
ers from the rip current about 1 p.m. was
“the most harrowing,” Harsin said.
Beachgoers could see the same risks
this weekend, he said.
“We give a lot of credit to that guy
Nick. He risked his life to go out and try
to save this woman and that little boy,”
Harsin said. “Unfortunately he ulti-
mately became a victim.”
Harsin cautions anyone, even a Nicholas Siakalo braved the dangerous
skilled swimmer, who doesn’t know surf in Belmar on Sept. 14 to save two
people, getting caught in it himself.
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Shaped by storm and tides, Island Beach State Park is a narrow barrier island
stretching for 10 miles between the restless Atlantic Ocean and the historic
Barnegat Bay. PETER ACKERMAN/ASBURY PARK PRESS
Whale
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board from Maine to South Carolina.
In the last three years, there have
been 66 strandings in that stretch of
coast. Four, not including Thursday’s,
occurred in New Jersey.
Schoelkopf said this is the second
confirmed minke death this summer at
the Shore.
In June, a minke whale about 12-feet
long swam into Sandy Hook Bay Marina
and became lodged in a dock.
This was the third confirmed whale
stranding this summer. In August, a
humpback whale that had died in the
ocean and was carried by the current
washed up at Sandy Hook.
Pastor
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victim’s intimate parts with his hands
on at least three occasions during that
time period — twice in Colts Neck and
once at a location in Ocean County, the
news release said.
Williams is the second priest to be
charged in criminal cases filed by the
New Jersey Clergy Abuse Task Force,
which was formed by Grewal in Sep-
tember 2018 to investigate allegations
of clergy abuse.
Last month, the task force secured a
four-year prison term for the Rev.
Thomas Ganley for sexually assaulting
a teenage girl in the early 1990s, while
he was at St. Cecelia Roman Catholic
Church in the Iselin section of Wood-
bridge.
Williams was arrested by members
of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s
Office who are assigned to the task
force.
The investigation started with a call
to the Clergy Abuse Task Force Hotline,
the news release said.
“Once again a call to our hotline has
led to a thorough investigation by mem-
bers of our Clergy Abuse Task Force and
charges against a priest who allegedly
assaulted a young girl many years ago,”
state Attorney General Grewal said in
the news release. “No person is above



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Island Beach State Park. FILE
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del is not reporting the news, you can
find him in a college classroom where
he is a history professor. Reach him
@danielradelapp; 732-643-4072; dra
del@gannettnj.com.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir
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the law and we want survivors to know
that, despite the passage of time, jus-
tice may still be within reach.”
Williams was one of 30 former clergy
members identified as being credibly
accused of child sex abuse in a list re-
leased by the Catholic Diocese of Tren-
ton in February. The Diocese said Wil-
liams had been ordained in 1965 and
faced multiple credible allegations of
child sex abuse.
Before St. Veronica, Williams had
been assigned to St. Joan of Arc Parish
in Marlton and St. Raphael-Holy Angels
Parish in Hamilton. He also served as
the chaplain of St. Thomas Aquinas
High School in Edison.
Williams was one of six clergymen
on the Diocese’s list that had at some
point been assigned to St. Veronica.
Williams supervised another clergy-
men Richard Milewski who had been
Beach rescue
Continued from Page 3A
“the ways of the ocean” to at very least
call 911 before trying to rescue some-
one. Siokalo’s situation is not an un-
common one, Harsin said.
Siokalo, 27, who regards himself as
a strong swimmer, reached the boy, 7-
year-old Chase Hannawacker of Bor-
dentown, who was about 30 yards out,
he said. The other swimmer, 24-year-
old Emily Hannawacker, who was on
the jetty, asked Siokalo to stay with the
boy, Siokalo said,
Siokalo began to tire.
“I was treading water for as long as i
could,” Siokalo said. “That’s when it
kind of hit me. I wasn’t able to move all
that much. I started freaking out just a
little bit.”
Lifeguards stationed at the 17th Av-
enue lifeguard stand saw the three
swimmers in distress, radioed a call to
headquarters and went over to the
them. The lifeguards were on duty for
the Belmar Pro surfing contest that
weekend, Harsin said.
With the season winding down,
only a skeleton crew was waiting at
headquarters at 10th Avenue for any
calls, Harsin said. They hustled into
quads and went to the scene.
About 10 lifeguard, some armed
with lines and flotation devices, joined
in the rescue.
Exhausted, slipping in and out of
consciousness and vomiting water,
Siokalo was the worst of the three
when they were out, Harsin said.
“He was on his last leg,” he said.
Emily Hannawacker suffered
scrapes to her knees from getting
accused of sexually abusing an altar
boy at St. Veronica’s in the 1980s. Wil-
liams was named in a 2009 lawsuit
against Milewski that alleged Williams
knew or should have known about the
abuse, according to Asbury Park Press
archives.
Williams was quoted in a 2002 Press
article on the growing sexual abuse
scandal in the Catholic Church, which
at that point was only beginning to
come to light.
“What I am getting from people is
that we all feel a great sense of sadness
that these things have happened to our
church that we love,” he was quoted as
saying. “We are looking for and search-
ing for root causes of these things, of
how these abuses could creep into our
church, and the priesthood of all
places.”
“Many victims of clergy abuse have
been forced to suffer in silence for ex-
tended periods of time and this trauma
has cast a shadow over their lives,”
Monmouth County Prosecutor Christo-
pher J. Gramiccioni said in a statement.
“We hope that bringing charges against
predatory clergy members will bring
some measure of peace to those who
have been victimized.”
Grewal’s task force uses subpoenas
and other investigative methods to un-
cover evidence of sex abuse in the
Catholic church and investigate at-
tempts to cover up incidents.
A team of detectives and prosecutors
 
“He risked his life to go out and try to
save this woman and that little boy.”
Harry Harsin
Belmar chief lifeguard, on Nicholas Siokalo
thrown into the jetty, he said. Chase was
unharmed.
The weather at the Shore this week-
end is forecast to be sunny and in the
mid-80s.
The weather and the rip current risk
could spell trouble, Harsin said. The
lifeguard service is off-duty for the sea-
son.
A corps of volunteers will be on hand
but will not be stationed on the beaches,
meaning a delay in any rescue.
Hurricane Humberto was expected
to keep the rip current risk high on Fri-
day and possibly into the weekend, said
Valerie Meola, meteorologist at the Na-
tional Weather Service in Mount Holly.
The rip current risk could drop on Sat-
urday and further on Sunday. That’s the
hope, she said.
“If it looks rough, it is rough,” Harsin
said. “Don’t go in because there’s no life-
guards on duty.”
Medics took Siokalo to Jersey Shore
University Medical Center where he was
treated, observed and released within a
few hours.
“Looking back, I don’t know if I would
have done anything differently,” said
Siokalo, who does marketing and
branding for DeWalt power tools. “I’m
just incredibly grateful. We all made it
out alive.”
Ken Serrano has covered breaking
news and crime in New Jersey for more
than 20 years. Reach him at 732-643-
4029; kserrano@gannettnj.com
from all 21 New Jersey county prosecu-
tors’ offices and the state Division of
Criminal Justice are involved in the ef-
fort.
The task force was formed after an ex-
plosive grand jury report from Pennsyl-
vania accused more than 300 clergy
members of sexually abusing children
over seven decades.
“We urge all survivors, witnesses of
sexual abuse, and others with informa-
tion to call our hotline: 855-353-6548,,”
said Veronica Allende, director of the at-
torney general’s Division of Criminal
Justice.
The investigation into Williams is ac-
tive and ongoing, authorities said. Any-
one with information is asked to call Sgt.
Michael Magliozzo or Detective Thomas
Manzo of the Monmouth County Prose-
cutor’s Office at 732-431-7160. The case
has been assigned to Thomas Fichter, as-
sistant Monmouth County prosecutor.
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Jersey since 1985, covers crime, court
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Music festival
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Steel Pulse and more take over Sunday.
There’s also a surfing component
with top area talent riding in “expres-
sion sessions” between the two stages.
Many of the musicians will be showing
their own art work at the Danny Clinch
Transparent Gallery pop-up in Bradley
Park, and also playing in city night-
clubs late into the evening.
More than 35,000 are expected for
each day.
Organizers and city officials en-
courage attendees to use public trans-
portation to the fest — the Asbury Park
train station is a 15-minute walk from
the show.
Streets near the fest — including
Ocean Avenue — will be closed
through Sunday. Attendees can exit
and re-enter the fest over the week-
end, so city businesses are expecting
you. There’s a “Shop.Here.Now” block
party in the Cookman Avenue district
from noon to 5 p.m. today and Sunday.
“(In previous festivals) what we
saw was people stepping off the train
with tunnel vision, walking down
Cookman and not stopping to shop,”
said Asbury Park Deputy Mayor Amy
Quinn. “Once you got into the festival,
you couldn’t leave. That did a lot of
damage to our local businesses. Now
for Sea.Hear.Now you can leave and
re-enter and the businesses are put-
ting on Shop.Here.Now so fans coming
off the trains can rest, shop or check-
out the restaurants and shops.”
The fest is produced by locals
Clinch and Tim Donnelly and C3 Pre-
sents, the team behind Lollapalooza,
Busing
Continued from Page 1A
call to Gov. Phil Murphy’s staff with
keeping the buses running, after the
consortium that arranges the transpor-
tation said it would cease to do so “in-
definitely,” because of a payment and
contractual dispute.
The action would have meant some
37,500 private school students would
have had to find alternative transporta-
tion — and likely forced the cancellation
of some classes.
Coles told the Asbury Park Press on
Friday the state intervention was only a
short-term solution and that the parties
still had issues to work through. He said
buses would continue to run Monday.
The Lakewood Board of Education
will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Monday in the Lakewood High School
Commons, at 855 Somerset Ave.
“The LSTA (Lakewood Student
Transportation Authority) agreed to
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Austin City Limits Music Festival,
Shaky Festivals and more.
Clinch is the Toms River native who
has photographed the greats of music,
from Bruce Springsteen to Tupac Sha-
kur. He curates the scene at the Trans-
parent Gallery, inside The Asbury hotel,
where his work is shown and local and
national acts play.
The city has a history of big beach
music festivals. The Bamboozle festival,
which starred Bon Jovi, the Foo Fight-
ers, Skrillex and Incubus, took place on
the North Beach in 2012.
The former WNEW-FM Memorial
Day beach concerts drew tens of thou-
sands fans to the Asbury Park beach in
the late ’80s and early ’90s to see music
stars the Georgia Satellites, Roger
McGuinn, the Smithereens, Glen Burt-
nik, the Stray Cats, Cracker, Joan Jett
and more.
Yup, the same Joan Jett who’s play-
ing this weekend.
Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native,
covers entertainment and features for
the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey.
His multiple awards include recogni-
tion for stories on both Bruce Spring-
steen and Snooki. Contact him at
@chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com.
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keep the buses running,” Coles said af-
ter Thursday’s reprieve. “It’s a big relief
knowing that kids will be able to get
safely to school (on Friday).”
Lakewood school district officials did
not respond to a request for comment
on Friday.
On Friday morning, in Chateau Park,
where dozens of children get picked up,
some parents interviewed by the Press
said they were unaware that the trans-
portation was even in doubt.
“It would have been chaotic for ev-
erybody (if buses hadn’t shown up) this
morning,” one mother said.
The drama came to light on Thursday
when the head of the Lakewood Student
Transportation Authority, Avraham
Krawiec, said the consortium he runs
would stop providing the service be-
cause it was “fiscally irresponsible to
continue operations.”
He said the issue was nonpayment
and a contract that had not yet been
fully executed. On Friday, Krawiec wrote
in an email to the Press: “The details are
still being worked on. We’re hopeful
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Company, regulators split
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NEW YORK – What makes Impossi-
ble burgers possible? An engineered in-
gredient that makes the veggie patty
look bloody — and one of many new
concoctions food regulators expect to
see more of in the coming years.
Several new vegetarian products are
competing to win over meat lovers, but
two California companies — Impossible
Foods and Beyond Meat — are grabbing
attention for patties that are red before
they’re cooked, making them resemble
raw beef.
The ingredient Impossible uses
hadn’t been sold before, and regulators
and the company disagreed about
whether its purpose was to add color, or
just flavor. The company’s cooked bur-
gers have been in restaurants since
2016, but it wasn’t until July that the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave
the OK that let Impossible sell its red,
uncooked “beef ” in grocery stores.
This week, Impossible announced its
first retail locations, grocery stores in
Southern California.
To replicate the taste of beef, Impos-
sible Foods said it scanned plants for
molecules that would mimic a protein in
meat that contains iron and makes
blood red. It eventually settled on some-
thing called soy leghemoglobin, found
in the root of soy plants.
To make it, Impossible inserts syn-
thetic versions of sections of soy DNA
into yeast so the yeast produce soy legh-
emoglobin during fermentation.
“No plant is actually touched in the
process of us making this protein,” said
Smita Shankar, a biochemist with Im-
possible Foods.
The ingredient is supposed to be no
more than 0.8% of the patty.
For many ingredients, companies
don’t have to get FDA approval before
putting them in food.
Companies and the scientific experts
they hire can declare independently
that ingredients are “generally recog-
nized as safe.” They don’t have to tell
regulators, but often do to generate con-
fidence among investors and the public.
The FDA doesn’t technically approve
a company’s GRAS declaration, but will
issue a letter saying it has “no ques-
tions,” which is seen as agreement.
over the weekend things will be re-
solved.”
Coles said that a late-night call with
George Helmy, chief of staff to the gov-
ernor, helped avert a shutdown.
On Friday, a Governor’s Office
spokesperson added little clarity to the
controversy, saying, “We’re having diffi-
culties getting answers.”
Interviewed Thursday afternoon at
his office, Krawiec said the LSTA had not
been paid since it began providing the
service at the start of the school year
Sept. 6.
“The LSTA is awaiting for the final
word,” Krawiec said Thursday after-
noon. “We started the school year (pro-
viding service) in good faith and we’re
now waiting details of what the set up
will be.”
The busing consortium has been
busing close to 37,500 private school
students, including 22,500 mandated
students and 15,000 “courtesy” stu-
dents.
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Impossible says soy leghemoglobin
had “self-declared GRAS status” since
2014 when a panel of experts it con-
vened declared the ingredient safe.
The company also later submitted a
GRAS notification to the FDA that re-
ceived a “no questions” response last
year.
They don’t usually get much atten-
tion, but companies constantly devel-
op new flavors, sweeteners and other
ingredients. As startups try to change
the way food is made, including by
replicating meat and eggs without ani-
mals, the regulators expect innovation
to accelerate.
The FDA notes companies are re-
sponsible for ensuring the safety of
their food and that it has the power to
determine a substance is not safe.
Still, groups including the Center for
Science in the Public Interest and En-
vironmental Defense Fund have criti-
cized the system that lets companies
make their own safety determinations.
A lawsuit by advocacy groups chal-
lenging the system is ongoing.
Unlike some other ingredients, new
color additives have to be approved to
be used in food.
That led to a quibble between Im-
possible and regulators.
Impossible Foods has said the sole
purpose of soy leghemoglobin is flavor.
But the FDA noted the company’s own
website said the ingredient contrib-
utes to the patties’ meat-like color.
The dispute was resolved after Im-
possible filed paperwork to get the in-
gredient approved as a color additive.
The FDA approved that in July.
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content.
tend. The private students mainly at-
tend Orthodox Jewish yeshivas.
The school district and the township
provide busing for the roughly 6,000
public school students in Lakewood,
both mandated and “courtesy” stu-
dents.
Transportation for these students
was not directly affected by the LSTA’s
threatened action, though officials said
any action that denied transportation to
the private school students could force
the denial of services to the public
school students as well.
Busing is considered a necessity for
all students in Lakewood, even those
“nonmandated” students who live with-
in two miles of their school, because of
the traffic-jammed roads, lack of side-
walks and poor lighting.
Gustavo Martínez Contreras covers
Lakewood. He is graduate of the Univer-
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about a dozen non-student adults showed up to pro-

mote climate awareness. They were met on campus by
Toms River Police Officer Graham Borg, who is as-
signed to the school.
He told them they were not allowed on school prop-
erty, but could gather on the sidewalk in front, which
they did.
But there was plenty of action elsewhere.
Some 100,000 people turned out to chant and
march in Manhattan; New York City excused the city’s
1.1 million students from classes, provided they
skipped with their parents’ permission. They assem-
bled in Foley Square, carrying hand-painted signs and
banners, before making their way to Battery Park.
Large crowds were also reported in San Francisco,
Baltimore and Des Moines, and in cities around the
globe.
A check of Monmouth and Ocean county school
districts found none offering official protests to coin-
cide with the international event.
Howell Schools Superintendent Robert McGarry re-
sponded to an inquiring email with a note that listed
the five New Jersey Department of Education sanc-
tioned reasons for missing school — protests not being
among them. Climate change activists participate in an environmental demonstration as part of a global youth-led day of
“As you can see, we do not have discretion to allow action on Friday in New York. Hundreds of thousands of young people sent a message to leaders headed for
students to leave and have it count as an excused ab- a United Nations summit: The warming world can’t wait for action. BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP
sence,” McGarry said.
Borg said students concerns would be addressed in
other ways.
“The kids need to be in class, get an education and
while we support their initiatives we feel that there are “We’re concerned about the climate
other ways for them to demonstrate their feelings for
the causes,” Borg said. and the climate-denying government
Several of the adult protesters said they just wanted we have now. What is the legacy we are
to join in the global day of support for climate change
awareness. leaving?”
“We’re concerned about the climate and the cli- Frank Schneider
mate-denying government we have now,” said Frank Berkeley resident who participated in the climate change protests
Schneider of Berkeley. “What is the legacy we are leav-
ing?”
Wes Dalzell, who held a sign declaring, “ACT NOW,” wood, Montclair, Morristown, New Brunswick, Prince-
said the only way to help is to speak out. “We’ve got to ton, Red Bank, Ortley Beach, and Teaneck.
do something and the Congress is doing nothing.” A group of about 15 protesters demonstrate on Old “Today is a great day of action,” Jeff Tittel, director
As the group held up their signs, some of the pass- Freehold Road in front of Toms River High School of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said in a statement.
ing motorists along Old Freehold Road in front of the North. No students participated in the event, even “Children, students, parents, and seniors are march-
high school offered honks of support. though it was organized by a student at the school. ing for action on climate change. The students are
“I just care about the earth,” protester Ellen Cata- DOUG HOOD/ASBURY PARK PRESS leading the strikes and calling on politicians that the
lano of Browns Mills said. “I want to raise awareness.” house is on fire and we need immediate action on cli-
The event was one of many nationwide that were mate change.”
held to promote the need for action on climate change. the world. The urgency of the climate crisis requires a Joe Strupp is an award-winning journalist with 30
Climatestrike.net, one of several sites where the walk- new approach and a just response centered on human years’ experience who covers education and Mon-
outs were listed and promoted stated: rights, equity, and justice. Follow the actions and join mouth County for APP.com and the Asbury Park Press.
“Young people have woken up much of the world the movement.” He is also the author of two books, including Killing
with their powerful Fridays For Future school strikes In New Jersey, other towns that participated with Journalism on the state of the news media. Reach him
for the climate. Now, millions of adults are joining in a school-based and non-school events included: Belvid- at jstrupp@gannettnj.com and at 732-643-4277. Fol-
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ished. No one has heard
from her since the fire.
Authorities have been
at the scene of the fire day
after day this week, con-
ducing searches and try-
ing to entangle what hap-
pened to Terrulli.
“My aunt had the big-
gest heart and was the
first to help anyone,” her
niece Jennifer Terrulli
COMING THIS SUNDAY
sage to a reporter. “We are
not stopping this search
until we find her.”
Helping an old friend
Jacqueline Terrulli,
who previously owned a
beauty salon and Botox
clinic in Jackson, lived in
the Ocean Township
home with her sister,
brother and mother. She
decided to temporarily
take in Teschner, an ac-
quaintance she had
Jacqueline Terrulli, left,
and Ronald Teschner
known for years through
mutual friends, Jennifer
Terrulli said.
It was typical of Jac-
queline Terrulli, her niece
said. While living in
Ocean, she took in 26
stray cats, building a
backyard hard home for
them complete with heat
and electricity.
“Her whole life she had
a love for animals like no
other,” Jennifer Terrulli
said.
Teschner had a long
history of criminal activ-
ity including multiple
stints in state prison and
convictions for assault,
drugs and burglary, ac-
cording to court records.
But Terrulli wanted to of-
fer him a place to stay.
Eventually, the ar-
rangement appeared to
wear on Terrulli. NJ.com
reported that an affidavit
filed in support of
Teschner’s arrest in Pat-
erson stated that on the
night before the fire, she
told one family member
that “she was tired of
Teschner and going to
bed.”
House catches fire
Just after 7:30 a.m. on
Sept. 12, a neighbor first
reported a fire at a Wicka-
accounted for.
would turn out to be
They
Teschner and Terrulli.
Jennifer Terrulli and
her mother raced to
Ocean Township from
their North Jersey home
when they heard about
the blaze. Jacqueline Ter-
rulli’s brother, sister and
mother were away on a
trip at the time so the
family knew they weren’t
injured.
But Jacqueline had
stayed home. They tried
to reach her again and
again, but there was no
answer and eventually
they began to think
“something wasn’t right,”
Jennifer Terrulli said.
A discovery
in Paterson
Teschner was found in
the early morning hours
of Sept. 13 in Terrulli’s
Jeep with shotguns in the
vehicle, authorities said.
According to a Go-
FundMe account started
on behalf of her relatives,
jewelry and other items
belonging to her family
members were found in
eluding. Unlike the gun
charges, which were filed
in Monmouth County, the
other offenses originated
in Paterson and were is-
sued when he was al-
ready behind bars.
Teschner remains in
jail awaiting a hearing
scheduled for Monday
where a judge will decide
whether he will remain
locked up while the case
moves forward. Attorney
information for Teschner
was not immediately
available.
On Wednesday, more
than two dozen law en-
forcement officers from
multiple agencies
searched the home and
combed the surrounding
woods. Personnel from
the Monmouth County
Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals
have been on site to pro-
tect Terrulli’s beloved
stray cats.
Authorities haven’t re-
leased any updates on the
investigation since Tues-
day when the prosecu-
tor’s office announced
Teschner’s arrest. Mean-
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Nuclear power plant shuts down Building

Operations halt after Pa.
refuses financial rescue
Ledyard King USA TODAY
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – Even 40 years
later, John Garver vividly remembers
the metallic taste of the nation’s worst
commercial nuclear disaster.
An acrid odor permeated Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania’s capital city, the morning
of March 28, 1979.
“We had this smell in the air, wonder-
ing what it was,” recalled Garver, 80,
now a retired salesman. “Well it didn’t
take us long to find out ... that the acci-
dent started.”
Some 14 miles away, the “accident”
was unfolding in Unit 2 at the Three Mile
Island Nuclear Power Plant, triggering
panic, confusion and, within days, an
evacuation order.
The partial meltdown sparked na-
tional protests, prompted increased
safety standards for the nuclear power
industry, and largely stymied the indus-
try’s momentum for decades until re-
cent alarm over climate change has
made some begin to embrace expanding
carbon-free nuclear power.
At noon Friday, the remaining reactor
(Unit 1) generated its last kilowatt of en-
ergy and closed, a victim not of the anti-
nuclear movement but rather of simple
economics. Even though the plant is li-
censed to operate until 2034, Exelon
Generation ceased operations after the
state of Pennsylvania earlier this year
refused to throw the company a finan-
cial lifeline.
While it may not produce power,
Three Mile Island will continue to gen-
erate memories, said local historian Erik
Fasick.
“It shouldn’t be forgotten,” he said,
the towers looming over his shoulder as
he stood outside the plant’s grounds
along Route 441. “It’s the most impor-
tant event that’s occurred in this area
since the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.”
Nuclear energy comeback
The closure of Three Mile Island
comes as nuclear power is getting a sec-
ond look thanks to the devastating im-
pact of climate change.
Nuclear is the largest single supplier
of carbon-free energy in the nation, pro-
viding about 20% of U.S. energy. With
environmental groups and Democratic
lawmakers calling for ambitious dead-
lines to wean the country off fossil fuels
that emit greenhouse gases, advocates
say nuclear power is emerging as a nec-
essary ingredient of any response plan.
Some Democratic presidential candi-
dates have touted the benefits of “next-
generation” nuclear power — or at least
said it’s worthy of consideration — as
they push for alternatives to coal, oil
and gas.
“Right now, nuclear is more than 50%
of our non-carbon causing energy,” Sen.
Cory Booker, D-N.J., told a CNN town
hall on climate change earlier this
month. “So people who think we can get
there without nuclear being part of the
blend just aren’t looking at the facts.”
But economic factors, mainly from
the production of cheap natural gas and
increasingly affordable renewable
sources, are slowly driving nuclear pow-
er out of business. In addition, dimin-
ished demand has hurt profitability, as
have rising costs to operate them, ana-
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the United States’ worst
commercial nuclear power accident, shut down at noon on Friday.
JEFF FUSCO/GETTY IMAGES
lysts say.
TMI’s shuttering means there will be
97 commercial reactors at 59 plants
scattered across 30 states.
Only one new nuclear power plant
has come online in the United States
since 2010: The Watts Bar Unit 2 in Ten-
nessee, according to the U.S. Energy In-
formation Administration. Two more
reactors are under construction in Geor-
gia, according to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
But six reactors at five plants have
been mothballed since 2013, and several
others are slated to close in the next few
years if they do not receive new finan-
cial support, according to a report last
year from the Union of Concerned Sci-
entists.
“Public confidence in nuclear energy,
particularly in (the) USA, declined
sharply following the Three Mile Island
accident,” according to the World Nu-
clear Association, a pro-industry group.
“It was a major cause of the decline in
nuclear construction through the 1980s
and 1990s.”
The accident
Construction of the plant along the
Susquehanna River near Middletown
began in 1968 with the first reactor going
online six years later. Unit 2 came online
in December 1978, less than three
months before its accident. Both were
operated at the time by Metropolitan
Edison. (Exelon, the current owner,
didn’t take over TMI until 2000).
At around 4 a.m. Wednesday, March
28, 1979, a mechanical or electrical fail-
ure prevented two pumps from sending
water to steam generators, which cool
the nuclear reactor. A chain of events,
punctuated by a stuck valve at the top of
the pressurizer that was not detected,
led confused operators to take steps
that exposed the core, leading to a par-
tial meltdown.
A chemical reaction formed a bubble
of hydrogen gas inside the reactor. Op-
erators reduced the bubble’s size
through periodic venting to the atmos-
phere through April 1. The plant entered
a “cold shutdown” on April 27.
Over the next several days, there
were conflicting messages about the se-
verity of the crisis and how much radia-
tion had been released.
Fueling those fears was the release 12
days earlier of “The China Syndrome,” a
Hollywood thriller starring Jane Fonda
about an accident at a nuclear power
plant that was eerily similar to the sce-
nario that unfolded at Three Mile Is-
land, named because it sits three miles
downriver from the center of Middle-
town.
Unit 2 never reopened thanks to the
malfunction of a tiny valve. Unit 1 re-
turned to service in October 1985 un-
der new management (GPU Nuclear
Corporation) following the U.S. Su-
preme Court’s decision not to block the
restarting.
The accident forced drastic changes
in nuclear power plant operations and
safety measures. More stringent train-
ing procedures were adopted. Plants
were upgraded to be more secure.
Communication protocols between
plant operators and area governments
improved. More comprehensive warn-
ing and preparation regimens were
adopted. Evacuation plans grew more
sophisticated.
There has been no major problem at
a U.S. nuclear plant since Three Mile
Island.
The challenge of nuclear waste
It will be decades before the iconic
towers are dismantled.
The first step to decommissioning
the site involves transferring fuel to
storage in casks made of stainless
steel and concrete, for secure contain-
ment. That should happen around
2022, according to a timeline provided
by Exelon.
The disassembling of the plant’s
largest components, such as the cool-
ing towers, are not expected to happen
until 2074. Four years after that, all ra-
dioactive material will be safely stored
or removed from station.
In 1987, Congress selected Nevada’s
Yucca Mountain, a remote section of
the Mojave Desert that sits about 90
miles northwest of Las Vegas, to be-
come the nation’s permanent reposi-
tory for nuclear waste generated by
utility power plants and the military.
The Energy Department began pur-
suing a license for the facility in 2008.
But the Obama administration aban-
doned the project three years later
amid intense opposition from resi-
dents and political leaders in Nevada,
including Harry Reid, who at the time
was the Senate’s top Democrat.
With Reid gone, Congress keeps
trying to revive the Yucca proposal.
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holders to award a contract before Hal-
loween.
If there are no issues, the contract
documents should be signed in No-
vember and demolition could start as
soon as December, Fiure explained.
Construction began on the sheriff ’s
house — and five attached jail cells —
in 1851 on the grounds of the newly
built courthouse on Washington
Street.
It was the second county building
constructed after the courthouse at a
cost of $4,250 — almost $130,000 in
today’s dollars.
Built in the Federal-Greek Revival
architectural style, its brick structure
was painted in the same cherry red
color as the more prominent court-
house it was tucked behind.
For 75 years, the county sheriffs and
their families occupied the house after
Joseph Parker, the inaugural office-
holder, first moved into the taxpayer-
funded accommodations in the spring
of 1852.
It was and remains the only public
residence of a government official in
Ocean County.
The house had a parlor, dining room
and kitchen on the first floor and three
bedrooms on the second floor. A cupo-
la atop the house was added with a bell
inside it that the sheriff was to ring in
the event of a prisoner escape.
The sheriff required such an official
residence, so he could supervise and
care for the inmates who were in his
custody, while the sheriff ’s wife pre-
pared and served all their meals.
By the 1920s, a professionally oper-
ated and much bigger jailhouse was re-
quired to meet the needs of a growing
county.
Sheriffs ceased to use the house as a
residence by the 1930s and the struc-
ture was converted into office space for
an expanding county bureaucracy.
However, the filing cabinets and
other 20th century office equipment
that would be moved into the house
over the next 50 years were too heavy
for its 19th century wooden floors. Ulti-
mately, all that excess weight, as well
as the wear and tear, weakened the
structure.
In December 1986, county building
inspectors ordered the evacuation of
the sheriff ’s house after it was deemed
structurally unsafe. From that time on,
the house was left to crumble as the
exterior walls of a modern justice com-
plex encased it within an ever-narrow-
ing courtyard of 20th and 21st century
edifices.
Indeed, the sheriff ’s house today is
no longer accessible or even visible to
the public — except from a glass corri-
dor linking two courthouse buildings.
The courtyard is used as a secure
parking lot for state Superior Court
judges and other senior-ranking coun-
ty officials while the crumbling house
sits boarded up, surrounded by over-
grown vegetation and a high chain-
link fence mounted with “Danger” and
“Keep Out” signs.
Sheriff Michael G. Mastronardy
said regardless of whatever historical
value the house may have had at one
time, it’s an eyesore today that ought
to have come down a long time ago.
“It’s an embarrassment,” Mastro-
nardy said.
“If it wasn’t in such a deteriorating
condition, the house probably could
have been restored,” Fiure said. “But,
by the time the county started looking
into this in the early 2000s, it had al-
ready deteriorated so much that there

Australian PM visits the White House was no way to restore it.”

Darlene Superville ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Daring the weather
to interfere, President Donald Trump
promised Australian Prime Minister
Scott Morrison “something very spe-
cial” with a rare Rose Garden dinner un-
der the stars Friday night. Plan B: Take
the White House state dinner party in-
doors in the unlikely event that rain-
drops start to fall.
“The first lady has done an incredible
job tonight,” Trump pronounced in ad-
vance as he sat with Morrison at mid-
morning. “The only thing that can dam-
pen it would be rain and we’re not ex-
pecting any rain. But if it rains, we head
over to the State (Dining) Room and
we’ll be just fine.”
The president and his wife, Melania,
welcomed the leader from Down Under
and his wife, Jenny, earlier Friday for the
state visit with a spirited arrival cere-
mony on the South Lawn. The welcome
featured Marine band performances of
the two nations’ anthems, a 19-gun sa-
lute and inspection of U.S. troops. Hun-
dreds of guests, including schoolchil-
dren waving miniature Australian and
American flags, were on hand to wel-
come them.
The prime minister is just the second
foreign leader to receive the high diplo-
matic honor of a U.S. state visit during
Trump’s administration.
After the arrival ceremony, Trump
and Morrison went inside to begin their
President Donald Trump and
Australian Prime Minister Scott
Morrison greet guests on Friday at the
White House. PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP
talks, the wives repaired to the Green
Room for tea and White House staff be-
gan the work of transforming the fam-
ous garden just outside the Oval Office
into an open-air dining venue.
Guests were to sit at a mix of round
and rectangular tables draped in alter-
nating yellow and green tablecloths in
tribute to Australia’s national colors and
dine on sunchoke ravioli, Dover sole and
apple tart a la mode. Temporary flooring
was laid over the grass.
Dinner centerpieces feature more
than 2,500 yellow California roses and
Australia’s national flower, the golden
wattle, while the garden itself will be
decorated with white and yellow roses.
Musical groups from the U.S. military
will provide entertainment.
Still unknown Friday afternoon were
the potential big names on the tightly
held guest list, along with the designer
and description of the first lady’s eve-
ning gown. But the names of some of
those who plan to attend have trickled
out, including Australian golfer Greg
Norman, a friend and sometime golf
partner of Trump’s; Republican Sen.
Roy Blunt of Missouri; and Lachlan
Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corp., the parent
of Fox News Channel, one of the presi-
dent’s favored cable TV networks.
“It’s so beautiful and it will be so dif-
ferent,” Trump said about his first
state dinner in more than a year, not-
ing that he had watched a rehearsal.
“And we look up to the skies and we’re
just going to hope that it’s not going to
rain. And if it is, that’s OK, too, because
that will work out also.”
Morrison, who has been in office for
a little over a year, thanked Trump for
the “tremendous honor.”
At an afternoon news conference in
the grand East Room, Trump said he
and the prime minister “talked about
everything you can talk about,” includ-
ing military issues and trade. Morrison
said he and the president share a “pas-
sion for jobs” and he commended
Trump for his record on job creation.
On a big day for diplomacy, Morri-
son and his wife also worked in a State
Department luncheon hosted by Sec-
retary of State Mike Pompeo.
Australia was last a recipient of a
U.S. state visit in 2006, when Presi-
dent George W. Bush feted Prime Min-
ister John Howard.
In a letter to Fiure in May 2014, Rich-
ard Boornazian, then-assistant com-
missioner for Natural and Historic Re-
sources in the DEP, wrote that the New
Jersey Historic Sites Council had ac-
cepted the county’s application to dis-
mantle the building and the DEP con-
curred.
However, there were five condi-
tions:
1. That an interpretive display be
created to explain the significance of
the sheriff ’s house and its role in the
history and placed in a prominent
public area.
2. That every part of the interior and
exterior part of the structure be pho-
tographed.
3. That the county appoint an his-
toric architect to come up with a pres-
ervation plan to better take care of its
historic buildings.
4. That the foundation of the build-
ing be retained at grade level and filled
in in order to preserve the footprint of
the building once it is razed.
5. Prior to demolition the county
must salvage and curate artifacts from
the house and loan them to the county
cultural commission or historical soci-
ety for display.
County officials agreed and now
five years later the conditions are
ready to be met.
Erik Larsen has covered politics,
crime and unusual events at the Jersey
Shore for more than 20 years. Contact
him at 732-682-9359, elarsen@gan
nettnj.com or on Twitter at
@Erik_Larsen.
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Grapes are delicate fruits — it
doesn’t take much to ruin a harvest.
That’s why Nicolaas Opdam, expert
grape grower and winemaker at Laur-
ita Winery in the New Egypt section of
Plumsted, is paying so much attention
to the weather.
Recent years have forced Laurita to
put more labor and more money into
protecting its grape harvest compared
to years past, said Opdam, who has
made wine for 46 years.
Opdam said more severe and more
frequent rainstorms along with hotter
summers are bringing new challenges
to growing grapes in New Jersey.
“The climate has changed,” said the
68-year-old winemaker. Changing
weather patterns are affecting multi-
ple aspects of life in the Northeast, not
just on farms, but in coastal cities
threatened by sea level rise and urban
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NEPTUNE – One man is dead and another injured
following a Friday evening shooting near the R-NU
Barbershop on the corner of Route 33 and Old Corlies
Avenue, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J.
Gramiccioni announced Saturday.
The two victims transported themselves separately
to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Gram-
iccioni said in a news release. Wayne E. Jones, 46, of
Neptune was pronounced dead at 9:02 p.m., Gramic-
cioni said.
The other victim, a 42-year-old Trenton man, was
treated and released, the prosecutor said.
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They call to request a favorite teacher or to complain
about a grade. They intervene in homework assign-
ments and fill in their kids’ college applications. They
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easier and help them succeed. Their actions are well-
intended but not harmless, say counselors and parent-
ing experts, who stress that young people need to learn
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Andrews to receive AFI
Life Achievement Award Continued from Page 1A

The American Film Institute is hon-
oring Julie Andrews with its Life
Achievement Award.
The organization said Friday that
Andrews will receive the award at the
Gala Tribute on April 25 in Los Ange-
les. It will be broadcast on TNT.
Andrews’ acting career has
spanned several decades, winning an
Academy Award in 1965 for her star-
ring role in “Mary Poppins.” She also
starred in “The Sound of Music” and
“The Princess Diaries.”
Andrews received a Grammy Life-
time Achievement Award in 2011. She
also won two Grammys through “Mary
Poppins” and “Julie Andrews’ Collec-
tion of Poems, Songs and Lullabies.”
Former makeup artist for Rose’s
show sues, alleging harassment
The former chief makeup artist at
Charlie Rose’s interview show is suing
him, saying the disgraced television
journalist ran a “toxic work environ-
ment” for women.
Gina Riggi said in her harassment
lawsuit filed Thursday that she worked
for 22 years for Rose and Bloomberg,
the company where his Manhattan
studio was located.
She lost her job in 2017 after Rose
was fired by PBS and CBS News for
sexual misconduct.
Her lawsuit seeks unspecified dam-
ages “and equitable relief for the harm
she has endured.”
Riggi charges that Rose treated his
studio as a sexual hunting ground for
attractive young women. She says he
groped and pawed female staff mem-
bers, stared at their breasts, and dan-
gled job prospects to wine and dine
women.
His attorney, Jonathan Bach, did
not immediately return messages
seeking comment. But he told Variety
that Rose denied the charges and
would vigorously contest them.
‘Little People, Big World’ star
Roloff is engaged to boyfriend
Amy Roloff, the matriarch featured
in TLC reality show “Little People, Big
World,” is engaged.
The 55-year-old confirmed the
news to People Friday, saying she was
“thrilled” by the proposal from boy-
friend Chris Marek.
“I’m excited, I’m so surprised, I’m
thrilled,” she told the outlet. “I never in
a million years thought I’d be getting
married again, but I also hoped for it!
Now that it’s happening, I couldn’t be
happier or more excited.”
She also shared the news on social
media, along with a photo of her ring.
“Guess what! I wanted to share with
you – I’m engaged!” she captioned the
photo. “I was so surprised when Chris
asked me to marry him. I said YES... I
couldn’t be happier and so looking for-
ward to this new part of our life jour-
ney together. I’m blessed. Love you
Chris. I love us.”
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1961: The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission issued rules prohibiting racial
discrimination on interstate buses.
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centers faced with increasingly hot
summers.
New Jersey students, along other
youth across the nation, drew attention
to the issue Friday with school walkouts
and in-school activities. The action
came ahead of the United Nations Cli-
mate Action Summit, which begins
Monday in New York City and aims to
address challenges related to climate
change and fossil fuel emissions.
In New Jersey, farmers say they are
already feeling the changes: more fre-
quent, heavy downpours; sodden
springs that delay plantings; and crops
damaged by new pests and diseases.
Climate change brings other poten-
tial problems. A warming climate can
dry soil out quickly on farms, harm
heat-sensitive plants and increase the
chances of severe drought, according to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That could mean greater costs for ir-
rigation among the Garden State’s more
than 9,000 farms.
Climate change is a problem many
farmers, climatologists and agriculture
experts expect will only get worse in
years to come.
“It’s like being in Atlantic City,” said
Opdam. “You put your money down and
you hope you win.”
Sinking tractors and
slumping productivity
The Garden State’s changing climate
conditions are making these wins more
difficult.
Farmers are finding it harder to rely
on experience to decide when to plant
and harvest, said Art DeGaetano, pro-
fessor of earth and atmospheric sci-
ences at Cornell University and director
of the Northeast Regional Climate Cen-
ter.
Across the northeastern United
States, the climate is getting warmer
and wetter, and that’s delaying spring
planting, said DeGaetano.
That extra rain has delayed farm-
hands at Honey Brook Organic Farm in
Pennington, Mercer County, and forced
the elimination of some of the plant-
ings, said owner Jim Kinsel.
New Jersey’s precipitation has in-
creased 9% over the past century, ac-
cording to the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection. In fact,
2018 was the wettest year on record in
New Jersey, according to David Robin-
son, New Jersey’s state climatologist.
When the ground is too wet, “it will
not support equipment and it’s damag-
ing to the soil” to work it, Kinsel said.
Heavy tractors and farm equipment
just sink into mud. Frequent rain can
delay plantings by weeks, Kinsel said.
This year staff at his 100-acre Honey
Brook Organic Farm, which normally
has 7 acres of sweet corn planted, had
time to plant just 1 acre due to heavy
spring rains, Kinsel said.
“Our staff is already working 70-, 80
hours a week,” he said. “It’s not like they
can work 160 hours a week.”
Even a half-inch of rain in a week can
soften the soil so much that tractors
can’t enter the fields, he said.
“We’re kind of expecting that it’s just
going to get worse from here on,” Kinsel
said of climate change. “We’re going to
have to figure out how to make this
work.”
Peter Fury, executive director of the
New Jersey Farm Bureau, said the last
two years have brought New Jersey
above-average rainfall that has impact-
ed farmers across the region
“Last growing season we had 65
inches of rain,” he said. “That’s 20 inch-
es more than the 45 we normally get.”
More pests and higher costs
Wetter growing seasons aren’t the
only problem. Since 1900, New Jersey’s
average temperature has increased 2.2
degrees, according to the DEP. The
speed of warming has also accelerated
since 1980, the agency says.
In fact, this summer was the fifth-
warmest on record for New Jersey, ac-
cording to the Northeast Regional Cli-
mate Center.
As New Jersey’s climate warms,
southern insects are moving north,
forcing some farmers to pay for pesti-
cides and fungicides they never had to
purchase previously, say climatologists
and farmers.
Laurita Winery, like other farms, is
spending more on fungicides and pesti-
cides to protect the grapes through the
humid and hot weather, winemaker
Opdam says.
Nicolaas Opdam, expert grape grower and winemaker at Laurita Winery in the
New Egypt section of Plumsted, talks about how rising temperatures are
affecting grape production in the vineyard. THOMAS P. COSTELLO/ASBURY PARK PRESS
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Laurita Winery’s grapes are one of
New Jersey’s many crops that are
susceptible to climate change.
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The winery staff also had to harvest
their grapes earlier than usual this year,
due to unusually hot weather. Heat rip-
ens and sweetens the grapes, but can
also lead to early spoilage on the vine,
said the expert winemaker.
“We’re adjusting. We’re learning,”
Opdam said beside large steel tanks
and stacks of oak barrels holding this
year’s harvest.
But winemakers aren’t the only ones
worried about climate change affecting
their crops.
“I think most (farmers) are identify-
ing a longer growing season,” said Rob-
inson, the New Jersey’s climatologist.
“That’s not necessarily always a good
thing.”
That longer growing season provides
more opportunities for pests and dis-
ease to infect various varieties of crops,
he said.
When 75-year-old Pam Mount first
began farming decades ago with her
husband Gary in Lawrence Township,
Mercer County, New Jersey’s climate
wouldn’t support crops year-round.
These days, her staff at Terhune Or-
chards harvest throughout the year, she
said.
“It’s hotter and hotter,” said Mount, a
former president of the New Jersey Ag-
riculture Society.
But that longer season has come
with a hefty price, she added. Invasive
species have made their way into New
Jersey, and mild winters are not cold
enough to kill them off, she said. The
pests are causing damage and costing
her farm more in labor and insecticide,
Mount said.
“Here (in New Jersey) we probably
have every disease and insect known to
man,” she said. “Farmers are incredibly
adaptable (but) that kind of adapting is
costly, you have to figure out how to pay
for it and… sell that crop at a profitable
rate.”
In 2017, each New Jersey farm was
worth, on average, more than $1 million,
according to the USDA. Yet profits for
New Jersey farmers are slim, and in-
creasing costs to manage pests, fungus
and irrigation reduce those profits,
farmers said.
The effects of climate change “can
reap havoc with crops across the board,
whether it’s vegetable or fruit crops or
grain crops,” said William T. Hlubik, di-
rector of the Rutgers Cooperative Ex-
tension of Middlesex County’s EARTH
Center in South Brunswick. The center
offers agriculture and environmental
training programs and also serves as a
research station.
Hlubik said Rutgers University is
testing new varieties of crops at its agri-
culture experiment stations, varieties
that scientists and farmers hope will
prove to be more resilient to New Jer-
sey’s changing conditions.
The state’s already 2-degree temper-
ature increase is expected to continue
rising; Hlubik said the region could
warm anywhere from 4 to 10 degrees by
2080.
“That (temperature rise) is extreme-
ly significant and could cause some se-
rious issues for farmers, and for every-
thing,” Hlubik said.
New Jersey farms don’t have to be
victims of climate change; they can be
part of the solution to slowing warming
trends, said Fury, of the New Jersey
Farm Bureau.
“The farms could play a positive role
in climate mitigation,” he said. “The
farms themselves can sequester carbon
in the soil.”
The USDA is looking to agriculture,
often chided for being a massive pro-
ducer of greenhouse gasses, to instead
become “carbon sinks” for the planet.
While tilling, animal manure and clear-
ing fields through burning put carbon
into the air, farm soil can play a reverse
role by absorbing carbon, according to
the USDA.
Scientists are studying methods for
crop rotation, reducing soil erosion and
limiting plowing to learn which ways
best absorb carbon out of the air, ac-
cording to the Union of Concerned Sci-
entists, an organization that looks to
science to solve environmental prob-
lems.
Mount, of Terhune Orchards, who
also sits on the advisory committee of
the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Al-
liance at Rutgers, hopes to see farms
compensated in the future for seques-
tering carbon. These farms could also
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
eliminating the need to ship foods
around the world, she added.
“Somebody’s going to have to figure
out how to get the carbon out of the air,”
said Mount. “There are sensible things
and practical things that can happen.”
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native who covers Brick, Barnegat and
Lacey townships as well as the environ-
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Solar farm the ongoing groundwater clean-up.

Continued from Page 3A
mental Protection Agency. The solar ar-
ray will not be placed on or near a land-
fill on the property which still holds bur-
ied drums, Dietrich said.
Trish Archimbaud, who lives near
the St. Catharine Boulevard entrance to
the property, off Route 37, urged the ap-
plicant to consider adding security to
the site. She said she frequently sees
children on bicycles or on foot illegally
entering the site.
Toms River Merchant Solar has no
plans to add security personnel to the
property, but the solar array will be sur-
rounded by a fence that will supplement
the fencing that already encloses the Ci-
ba site, according to engineer Dietrich.
The solar farm, which would be built
on 117 acres of the 1,200-acre property
off Route 37, would contain 90,000 to
92,000 solar panels, making it the larg-
est such installation in the state.
Project Engineer Joseph Dietrich said
that 28 megawatts of the electricity —
enough to power about 4,000 homes —
generated by the solar field will be dis-
tributed into the PJM regional electrical
grid through Jersey Central Power &
Light lines.
Two megawatts of electricity will be
used to power the pump and treat sys-
tem that BASF operates on the site to re-
move contaminants from groundwater,
Dietrich said.
Toms River Merchant Solar is seek-
ing approval to use 5 megawatts of elec-
The former Ciba-Geigy Corp. Superfund site in Toms River is now owned by
BASF. The Toms River Planning Board delayed a decision on building a massive
solar panel farm on the site until its Oct. 16 meeting. FILE
tricity — enough to power about 830
homes — to service customers enrolled
in New Jersey’s Community Solar Ener-
gy Pilot Program.
That program gives priority to local
residents, and requires that 50% of the
electricity generated be distributed to
low- and moderate-income residents.
Construction on the solar array could
begin by February or March if the pro-
ject is approved soon. It’s expected to
take six months to build the solar farm.
Toms River Merchant Solar has
signed a 40-year lease with BASF for the
sections of the 1,200-acre that were
used for Ciba’s industrial dye-making
operations.
The federal Environmental Protec-
tion Agency has been overseeing clean-
up at the Ciba site since the property
was placed on the federal Superfund list
in 1982. The company ceased all opera-
tions at the Toms River plant in 1996.
More than 10 billion gallons of pollut-
ed groundwater has been extracted
from the ground, treated to remove con-
taminants, and then recharged onto the
ground in the property’s northeast cor-
ner, according to EPA.
About 1.5 million gallons of ground-
water are pumped up and treated each
day. Groundwater clean-up is expected
to continue for at least 20 more years.
The former Ciba property is still un-
der the jurisdiction of the EPA and the
state Department of Environmental
Protection. The solar farm application
received conditional approval from the
state Board of Public Utilities earlier this
year, and Dietrich noted that all con-
struction at the site will be supervised
by EPA, to make sure it does not impact
Toms River Merchant Solar has ap-
plied for a Coastal Area Facilities Review
Act (CAFRA) permit from the DEP. The
application will be open for public com-
ment through Oct. 17, according to DEP
spokeswoman Caryn Shinske, and a de-
cision on it will be made after the com-
ment period has concluded.
Ciba spent more than $300 million to
treat groundwater and clean up toxic
waste on its property, and spent mil-
lions more to settle three lawsuits relat-
ed to toxic waste on its land and the pol-
luted groundwater that it caused.
A 1999 state and federal study deter-
mined that some Toms River residents
had been exposed to chemical pollut-
ants from the site that had leached into
private wells and the public drinking
water system decades ago.
The same study determined that the
site no longer posed an environmental
threat because polluted wells have been
sealed and groundwater treatment is in
place.
Cleanup of toxic soil and the removal
of thousands of waste-filled drums was
finished in 2010, and BASF finished con-
struction of a more efficient groundwa-
ter treatment system in 2013, and began
operating it in 2014.
Jean Mikle covers Toms River and
several other Ocean County towns, and
has been writing about local govern-
ment and politics at the Jersey Shore for
nearly 35 years. A finalist for the 2010
Pulitzer Prize in public service, she’s also
passionate about the Shore’s storied mu-
sic scene. Contact her: @jeanmikle, 732-
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Police identified the driver of the Mit-
subishi as 86-year-old Ombra DeMaio,
of the Whiting section of the township.
DeMaio, who was wearing a seat belt at
University Medical Center in Neptune
with neck and chest injuries following
the crash.
The driver of the Toyota — 46-year-
old Marco Sadsad, of Barnegat — was
taken to Community Medical Center in
Toms River with non-life-threatening
injures.
He was not wearing his seat belt at
the time of the collision, police said.
Monmouth Ocean Hospital Service
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Both vehicles sustained “extensive Andrew Goudsward covers crime
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fentanyl, authorities said. plane was shot down during World War II, Paul Cy-
Sherod Coleman, 35, of Lake-wood, pleaded bowski is coming home.
guilty to two counts of possession with the intent to Cybowski’s remains were positively identified on
distribute fentanyl and one count of a certain per- July 9, and the Air Force staff sergeant will be buried,
son not to have weapons, according with full military honors, alongside his family in Holy World War II veteran Paul Cybowski crouches in the
to a news release from the Ocean Redeemer Cemetery on Wednesday. front row, second from the left. COURTESY OF PAUL FUSCO
County Prosecutor’s Office. “We are honored that he is coming back,” said J.
In September 2016, Coleman was Jake Martinez, commander of VFW Post 6763 here.
arrested after a motor vehicle stop “It’s wonderful that they’re bringing a resident of Miller said she still remembers when they got the
during an ongoing investigation into South Plainfield back to rest at home.” news that Cybowski was missing in action and pre-
illegal drugs in the the Lakewood During the war in 1942, Cybowski enlisted in what sumed dead.
Coleman area. Coleman was found to be in was then known as the United States Army Air Forces. “I was there when they got the telegram and when
possession of a significant amount of “My grandma was not happy about it,” Cybowski’s two soldiers came to the door,” she said. “I remember
fentanyl, as well as a handgun with a high-capacity oldest niece, Jeanette Miller, said, referring to his how Grandma cried and cried.”
magazine, authorities said in the news release. mother. “But he wanted to go.” Cybowski never married or had children. His par-
Coleman is scheduled to be sentenced by state Cybowski became a staff sergeant in the 373rd ents, Lenora and Paul, and five siblings, Adolph, Estelle,
Superior Court Judge Michael T. Collins on Jan. 31, Bombardment Squadron, 308th Bombardment Helen, Lucille and Jean, are all deceased, leaving ex-
2020. Group, based in Yangkai, China. He was assigned as a tended family to plan a proper funeral service along
Joshua Chung covers breaking news. A lifelong tail gunner with the Flying Tigers on a B-24 bomber. with the military. As the oldest living relative, Miller
Jersey Shore resident, he is a recent graduate of On his last visit home, his mother, Lenora, had an un- was tasked with choosing where his remains would be
Michigan State University. Contact him at jchung@ easy feeling. buried. While some relatives wanted a military service
gannettnj.com or at 732-557-5748. “She didn’t want him to go back,” said Miller, who at in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C.,
the time was living with her grandparents, who were Miller decided Cybowski should be buried with his fam-
Cybowski’s parents. “She was crying in Polish, asking ily here.
him not to go. In hindsight, I wonder if she felt he “He’ll be with his family in his hometown, where he
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Her intuition was right. Holy Redeemer.”
and Air System On Sept. 15, 1943, Cybowski, 26, was on a bombing Paul Fusco of Manchester grew up in the borough
mission over Haiphong, French Indochina (now Viet- and is married to Cybowski’s niece, Jane. Fusco served
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day, and all seemed to be
running smoothly.
Sawyer Hicks from
Stockton, California,
found his spot behind a
fence next to the surfing
competition.
“We’ll watch the surf-
ers during the day and
the bands at night,”
Hicks said. “This is the
plan.”
“I didn’t even look at
the setlist,” said friend
Theresa Danetti of Long
Island.
“It’s all about the
weather and the environ-
ment,” Hicks said.
It was high 70s and
sunny in Asbury Park on
Saturday.
“Everybody is here to
have a really good time,”
said Debbie DeLisa of the
Wonder Bar. “It’s run
very well.”
The Wonder Bar is
hosting festival after-
parties this weekend, in-
cluding Waiting for Mon-
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Dave Matthews Band,
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There’s also a surfing
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talent riding in “expres-
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the two stages.
Many of the musi-
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Danny Clinch Transpar-
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Bradley Park.
Organizers and city
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— the Asbury Park train
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Shooting that the barbershop remained closed.

Continued from Page 1A
shots likely were fired inside the barber-
shop.
Police tape remained wrapped
around the corner of the barbershop for
much of Saturday as police continued to
investigate, but was removed by late af-
ternoon.
Earlier in the day, an officer was seen
leading a police dog around the scene to
sniff out any clues.
By the early evening hours the busy
intersection had returned to normal,
and there was no visible evidence of the
violent events that had taken place
there the night before, beyond the fact
It’s the second time in a year that the
barbershop has been home to a crime
scene, which a taxi driver pointed out as
she yelled “two times!” from her window
while passing the crime scene Friday
night.
Last Nov. 10, Randolph Goodman, 43,
of Neptune was shot to death in an
apartment adjacent to the barbershop.
Marcus Morrissey, 48, of Asbury Park,
was arrested following an intense man-
hunt and charged with first-degree
murder, first-degree robbery and weap-
ons offenses in connection with the fa-
tal shooting.
The shooting adds to an already vio-
lent summer in Asbury Park and Nep-
tune that has left multiple people in-
jured and an Asbury Park man dead,
which neighbors lamented at the scene
of last night’s shooting.
One homeowner compared the
neighborhood to parts of the war-torn
Middle East and quipped that despite
the violence his property taxes continue
to rise.
Saturday afternoon an employee of
the gas station across the street, who
asked to remain anonymous, said he
was mostly unfazed by the shooting.
“It’s already a bad neighborhood,” he
said.
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Anyone with information about the
shooting is urged to contact Detective
John Sosdian of the Prosecutor’s Office
at 800-533-7443 or Detective Erick
Amadruto of the Neptune Police De-
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Week ending Friday, September 20, 2019
Hottest Summer
A full 90 percent of the
world’s population just ex-
perienced the hottest sum-
mer on record, according to
the U.S. agency NOAA.
While it was the second-
hottest on record world-
wide, most people live in
the Northern Hemisphere,
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tie with 2016 as the hottest
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• French researchers say
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predictions point to an at-
mosphere up to 2 degrees
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U.N. report had warned.
Earthquakes
Tall buildings in
the Philippine
capital of Manila
swayed as an un-
dersea temblor struck to the
east of Luzon Island.
• Earth movements were
also felt in central Nepal,
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,
northern Turkey and south-
central Alaska.
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Imelda
Kiko
Lorena
Tropical Cyclones
Houston and many other
parts of southeastern Tex-
as were deluged by huge
amounts of rainfall from the
stalled remnants of Tropical
Storm Imelda.
• Category-3 Hurricane
Humberto lashed Bermuda
as Hurricane Jerry formed
just to the north of the Wind-
ward Islands.
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million tons of contaminated
water from the cooling pipes
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“I think it’s a byprod-
uct of the current state of
our society and our cul-
ture,” said Lauren Muriel-
lo, founder and director of
the Well Being Therapy
Center in Montville and
Short Hills. “Parents have
a lot of resources and a lot
of education and are try-
ing to protect their kids
from experiencing hard-
ship or stress.
“But of course what we
see then are adolescents
and adults who are not
capable of dealing with
stress,” Muriello said,
“because they didn’t have
to face all those little chal-
lenges when they were in
middle school and high
school, because well-in-
tended parents trying to
make it easier indirectly
caused them to miss
those life lessons.”
Concerns about over-
the-top parenting have
been around for years,
to try to get a grade
changed, for instance.
“Especially if the grade
changes, what has the
student learned?” Con-
way said. “The student
has learned that hard
work and achievement
are not the most impor-
tant components, in the
end — the actual grade
earned is more important
and that his or her parent
will swoop in to save the
day.
“Students need to
learn to advocate for
themselves, especially as
they get into middle and
high school,” he said.
“Teachers are good peo-
ple, and students just
need to ask for help.”
Fred Douglas, a coun-
selor at Parsippany High
School, said technology is
partly to blame for the
rise in hyper-parenting.
People often post on
social media about who
their child got as a teach-
er, what classes they are
taking and what he or she
has accomplished. The
media’s focus on rank-
ings of top schools has
also fueled a frenzy,
Douglas said. Parents
may feel like they’re
missing out and apply
pressure on their child or
school.
But overall, he sees pa-
rental involvement as
critical to a child’s devel-
opment — and encour-
ages it.
“The lingering mes-
sage for that student is
‘I’m important, people
care about me, and I’d like
to perform well,’” said
Douglas, who is also
president of the Morris
County Professional
Counselor Association.
“That carries over tenfold
when they develop in
themselves the pride of
doing something well.”
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spring.
In an interview after
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is a problem. He said he
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He has read essays writ-
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seen parents make mis-
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“Gone are the days of
they need for life, say ex-
perts.
helicopter parents,” Gant
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dozer parents who clear
the way for them through Counselors suggested
life.” ways that parents can re-
In a study released last frain from the bulldozer
year, researchers from approach while still help-
the University of Minne- ing their children excel in
sota found that over-con- school and learn impor-
trolling parents made it tant life skills.
harder for young people Conway said parents
to navigate school envi- should monitor children’s
ronments. work and seek help
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regulate their emotions from a teacher, tutor or
and behavior effectively counselor. Most impor-
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Bad behavior includes
confronting referees
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USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Bulldozer parents crossing the line in
high school sports have become such a
major issue that schools are having a
tougher time retaining coaches, leagues
are seeing a decrease in referees — and
the nation’s governing athletic organi-
zation is answering back.
“At this point, I think we can all agree
that sometimes the parents are over the
top,” said Larry White, executive direc-
tor of the New Jersey State Interscho-
lastic Athletic Association.
As a result, over the summer the Na-
tional Federation of State High School
Associations introduced a video to edu-
cate parents on how to handle the myri-
ad of emotions they may experience
while sitting in the stands watching
their children play.
“The Parent Seat” is a six-minute,
how-to-behave video that the federa-
tion encourages schools to show par-
ents during preseason meetings.
“We’ve had a lot of schools across the
country embrace it,” said Dan Schuster,
the federation’s director of educational
services, “because we all recognize that
we really have to look at ourselves in the
mirror when it comes to our behavior.”
Poor parental behavior at games in-
cludes berating coaches’ decision-mak-
ing and referees’ calls, confronting them
afterward in the parking lot, and con-
tacting a school administrator to have a
coach fired.
Parental involvement has increased
so much this decade that Rich Hansen,
president of the nation’s largest foot-
ball-only league, the 112-team North Jer-
sey Super Football Conference, says
that working with them has become the
job’s biggest challenge.
“Parental communication is proba-
bly the hardest part of this deal,” said
Hansen, longtime football coach and
athletic director at state powerhouse St.
Peter’s Prep in Jersey City.
Wanted: Coaches
who stick around
Overzealous parents are making it
difficult to hire and hold on to coaches,
according to athletic administrators in
the region. They say that aggressive
parents, while a relatively small group,
are a primary cause for a higher job
turnover rate among coaches.
For instance, in the North Jersey In-
terscholastic Conference, coaching
openings have increased 40 to 50 per-
cent over the past half-dozen years, said
Stan Fryczynski, executive director of
the 38-team league, made up of schools
from Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Mor-
ris counties.
“There’s been an unbelievable turn-
over in the last five or six years — unbe-
lievable,” said Fryczynski, whose duties
include posting job openings. “I just feel
like I’m constantly putting up coaching
jobs. There were a lot of other reasons
why there were coaching turnovers, but
you have to conclude the reason for
some of them is, unfortunately, the dis-
content that takes place.”
Hansen agreed.
“I would be inclined to believe that
it’s probably a similar rate across the
board for all sports in all leagues,” he
said. “In all probability, the head coach
[turnover] may not be as significant, but
the assistant coach changes are proba-
bly closer to 40, 50 percent, for sure.”
Teaching coaches
to deal with parents
How to deal with aggressive parents
has become a more significant topic of
discussion for coaches, said Frank Nop-
penberger, who runs seminars for
coaches in the Garden State and is exec-
utive director of the 30-plus-team
Greater Middlesex Conference.
“If you call any AD and say, ‘Give me
your four worst parents ever,’ they’ve
got them,” said Noppenberger, a former
coach and athletic director at East
Brunswick. “Everyone’s got their four,
five parents and they say, ‘Man, alive,
they just don’t get it.’ ”
Noppenberger said these are com-
mon questions he is asked by coaches:
How do I deal with a parent that’s
screaming on the sideline during a ga-
me?How do I deal with a player going
over to their parent during a game, or at
halftime, and talking to them instead of
me?
“I think we all know people who have
gotten out of the business because they
just don’t feel they’re capable of, or want
to deal with, parental intervention,”
Hansen said. “And I don’t think it’s prev-
alent in one sport. I just think it’s preva-
lent in high school sports, period.”
Breaking the chain of command
Parents who choose to play politics
make it especially difficult for coaches,
athletic directors and principals.
At virtually every school, if parents
have an issue, they are supposed to
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Rich Hansen, athletic director and
football coach at St. Peter’s Prep, said
working with players’ parents has been
the hardest part of his job. CHRIS
PEDOTA/USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
schedule a meeting with the coach. If
there is still a problem, parents should
request to meet with the athletic direc-
tor.
Instead, a few parents will bypass the
coach and athletic director and ap-
proach a higher-up, such as a member
of the Board of Education.
“They’ll tell you that the parent who’s
really out of sorts will completely cir-
cumvent that chain of command and
will go immediately past the school su-
perintendent and go to a board member
that’s a next-door neighbor, or someone
that they’ve helped or assisted, or just
politically affiliated with,” Fryczynski
said. “It becomes very dangerous.”
A single parent who plays politics can
create a domino effect that can negativ-
ely affect not just one team, but an en-
tire athletic program.
“Is it because one parent thinks that
by being pushy and going to the board,
or the president of the booster club, or
any type of outside influence, that they
feel that their kid got an advantage?”
Noppenberger said. “Now the other par-
ents think, ‘Well, if [that student’s] par-
ents are going to do that, I’m going to do
that.’ So they copycat that, and the
squeaky wheel gets the oil.”
Fryczynski recalls an episode in his
league when a few parents took issue
with a coach, and it ended up in front of
the Board of Education — with the
coach’s job on the line. Former players
came to the coach’s defense, and he re-
turned to the sideline.
“Imagine the stress that it put on the
coach and his staff and the kids on the
team,” Fryczynski said. “This individual
rode the storm out and stayed, but there
are a lot of people who will say — and
have said — ‘It just isn’t worth it,’ and
they walk away.”
Louder parents
equal fewer referees
Verbally abusive parents are contrib-
uting to a decrease in referees in North
Jersey, said Carmine Picardo, a former
athletic director who assigns officials
for football games in the North Jersey
Super Football Conference and North
Jersey Interscholastic Conference.
“It definitely has an impact on
officials in all sports, for sure,” Picardo
said.
He said the number of candidates at-
tending training classes for the north-
ern chapter of the New Jersey Football
Officials has dropped about 50 percent
since the start of the decade, to under
20 per class.
“By and large, the great majority of
parents who come to games act appro-
priately,” Picardo said. “They’re there
with their child and have a good experi-
ence. But, unfortunately, there are a few,
and the few make enough noise to make
things difficult for everyone, not just of-
ficials.”
Introducing ‘The Parent Seat’
Thus, the video called “The Parent
Seat.” It had been viewed on the Nation-
al Federation of State High School Asso-
ciations site more than 10,000 times
through late August, Schuster said, and
downloaded more than 1,200 times
since it debuted in July.
The video’s narrator begins by telling
viewers, “In this seat, the pressure is
high.”
The video underscores the “many
feelings and emotions” parents will face
rooting for their child, such as “sheer
joy” and “utter disappointment.”
“The National Federation has always
been known for sportsmanship,” said
Sharon Hughes, executive director of
the 41-team Big North Conference.
“That’s the most important thing when
you’re dealing with high school sports,
because they’re just not getting the best
role models when they watch TV.”
The video offers parents 10 sugges-
tions on how to deal with a game situa-
tion.
One is “The 24-Hour Rule.”
The narrator says, “If you ever feel
compelled to confront a coach, take
some time to collect your thoughts and
allow your emotions to settle before you
do. If after 24 hours you still feel com-
pelled to address an issue, call and
schedule an appointment.”
“We’re trying something new, and we
really stand behind the message,”
Schuster said. “And if this is going to be
an extension of the classroom, and we
believe it is, and what educators believe
it is, here’s some of the things we want
you to know as a sport parent.”
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“She cheated on me,” Bryan Cordero-Castro re-
portedly told police the night he was arrested.
“Kill me, shoot me,” he reportedly implored of
them.
Instead, detectives asked why he wanted to kill his
ex-girlfriend.
“I don’t know. I was very crazy,” Cordero-Castro
responded.
He told the detectives he used a steak knife. He
snapped because he was jealous, he said.
The victim, covered in blood, collapsed inside her
aunt’s home and died shortly afterward.
Judge accuses chief
justice of misconduct
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TRENTON – John F. Russo Jr., the embattled state
Superior Court judge facing removal over his com-
ments asking an alleged rape victim if she kept her
legs closed, has now hurled a misconduct accusation
at Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, which the state Su-
preme Court quickly rebuffed.
Russo, of Toms River, filed a motion seeking to
have Rabner disqualified from the removal proceed-
ings, accusing the chief justice of violating the code
of judicial conduct by issuing “an extraordinary and
unprecedented press release’’ accompanying a com-
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of Judicial Conduct that prohibits judges from pub-
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‘Guardian angel’ daughter donates
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Anthony DeAngelis was giving up on life. His alco-
holism had led to liver failure, which in turn led to he-
patic encephalopathy — a decline in brain function as
a damaged liver is unable to remove toxins from the
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Cordero-Castro, 20 years old at the time, now
faces trial in the murder of Madison Wells, a junior at
Long Branch High School with whom he had a 10-
month relationship.
But after Wells broke off the relationship, Cordero-
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On Sept. 8, 2018, Cordero-Castro went looking for
Wells at her aunt’s house in Long Branch, Superior
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her up and brought her to the house, “Madison’s Alyssa DeAngelis donated two-thirds of her liver to
phone was blowing up,” Escandon said, explaining her father, Anthony DeAngelis, whose alcoholism led
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STONE HARBOR – New Jersey,
which has waged relentless court bat-
tles to build protective sand dunes
along its coast, may take the unusual
step of trimming some large dunes and
using the sand to widen the beach in
front of them.
The proposal would appear to fly in
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to ensure dunes are in place along most
of the state’s 127-mile coastline. That
included court cases against dune op-
ponents and people seeking financial
compensation for the loss of oceanfront
property and ocean views.
But a special set of circumstances,
including robust dunes that are consid-
erably larger than minimum standards,
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al sand pumping site off limits to feder-
ally funded projects, has led U.S. and
state authorities to consider “harvest-
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10 feet or more higher than minimum
standards, would be used to widen the
beach in badly eroded areas where
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ter and the dunes.
“One of the benefits of this approach,
if used, would be to manage sand on the
beaches and dunes without having to
take sand from offshore,” said Larry
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partment of Environmental Protection.
Stephen Rochette, an Army Corps
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tactic having been used before in New
Jersey. A decision by state and federal
agencies on whether to proceed could
be made within two weeks after study-
ing the dunes that would be affected.
It is being considered because a site
in the Hereford Inlet, which was previ-
ously used to dredge sand for beach re-
plenishment projects in the area, has
been put off limits for such a federally
funded project by the U.S. Fish & Wild-
life Service. The agency acted recently
under a 1982 law passed by Congress to
Murder trial
Continued from Page 1A
that the teenager was getting repeated
text messages and phone calls from
Cordero-Castro.
So, Wells stepped outside to talk to
him, the judge said.
“When she returned, she was cov-
ered in blood,” Escandon said. “She
was stabbed and she passed away in
the home.”
Within hours, police arrested Cor-
dero-Castro at his cousin’s house on
Morris Avenue in Long Branch.
Police hadn’t asked Cordero-Castro
any questions when he blurted out,
“She cheated on me. Kill me, shoot
me,” Escandon said.
“It appears they were just made
spontaneously,” Escandon said of
those statements.
Defense attorney Adam Jon Weisb-
erg tried to have the things Cordero-
Castro said to police suppressed.
But, Escandon, in a ruling issued on
Sept. 11, said most of what Cordero-
Castro said to police after he was ar-
rested can be presented to a jury.
That included Cordero-Castro’s
statement, “She cheated on me,” and
things he said about snapping with
jealousy and being “very crazy” in re-
sponse to questions about why he
wanted to kill Wells, the judge said.
It also included the defendant’s
statement that he used a steak knife
that was missing a handle, as well as a
picture he drew of the weapon for de-
tectives, the judge ruled.
In addition, the jury that will pre-
side over Cordero-Castro’s trial can
consider what he said during his “rath-
er half-hearted attempt” at escape,
when he was being booked at Long
Branch police headquarters, the judge
said.
“When he was trying to flee, he said
the word, ‘bye,’ ” Escandon said. “He
was quickly apprehended without
ever leaving the booking room.”
The only statements a jury won’t be
able to hear are things Cordero-Castro
said about the clothing he was wear-
ing, Escandon said in his ruling.
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the case with Stone Harbor. of the beach or more, Farrell said. That
The agency issued a similar opinion leaves plenty of margin for part of their
to the Army Corps in 2016. sand to be removed and spread out in
Affected towns including Stone Har- front of them to widen the beach.
bor and Avalon have threatened litiga- Tim Dillingham, executive director
tion over the restriction. Stone Harbor’s of the American Littoral Society, called
mayor and three council members on the dune-trimming plan a better option
its beach committee did not respond to than using sand pumped from offshore.
requests for comment. “The Army Corps views it as ‘excess’
“The federal project is without a since it is beyond their design profiles,”
sand source for Stone Harbor going for- he said. “Harvesting and placing in
ward,” said Stewart Farrell, director of front, on the beach, maintains the risk
Stockton University’s Coastal Research reduction design the project started
Center and a leading expert on New Jer- with. It doesn’t create more vulnerabil-
sey beaches. ity, and it takes the project back to its
The “harvesting” plan is an option in starting profiles.”
Madison Wells, 16, a high school student in Long Branch, was fatally stabbed last
year. Her ex-boyfriend has been charged with her murder. ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE
Escandon noted that after Cordero- he had a good enough command of the
Castro first blurted out the statement, English language to understand what
“She cheated on me,” detectives read was going on, and if he didn’t, there was
him his Miranda rights, which include a Spanish-speaking detective on hand
the right to remain silent and to have an to explain anything he didn’t under-
attorney present during questioning. stand.
After that, a detective asked Cordero- “The interview was conducted in
Castro if he was still wearing the same English and Spanish,” Escandon said.
clothing he had on when he was at the “He does have a command of the Eng-
home of Wells’ aunt earlier in the eve- lish language, such that he was able to
ning, Escandon said. Cordero-Castro communicate with his former girlfriend
responded that he was and that he via text. He is a graduate of Long Branch
hadn’t changed his clothes since then, High School.”
the judge said. Cordero-Castro, now 21, is being held
At that point, Cordero-Castro hadn’t without bail in the Monmouth County
formally waived his right to remain si- Jail to await trial. He is charged with
lent, so a jury will not be allowed to hear murder, possession of a weapon for an
that statement, the judge ruled. unlawful purpose, unlawful possession
But a jury can hear all the other state- of a weapon, attempted escape and
ments he made, including his conversa- stalking. Cordero-Castro has a confer-
tion with detectives after he formally ence in the case today before Superior
waived his rights, Escandon said. Court Judge Marc LeMieux.
“There is nothing here to suggest that Kathleen Hopkins, a reporter in New
Mr. Cordero-Castro was coerced or Jersey since 1985, covers crime, court
threatened,” the judge said. “There’s ev- cases, legal issues, unsolved mysteries
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Temples to boost holiday security

Move made after
rise in anti-Semitic
slurs and attacks
Deena Yellin North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Jewish worshippers attending up-
coming holiday services will face a pha-
lanx of new security measures — in-
cluding a stepped-up police presence —
as synagogues react to a rising tide of
anti-Semitic violence.
In Closter, Temple Emanu-El now
dedicates more than 12 percent of its op-
erating budget to security, a number
that has steadily risen in recent years,
according to temple leaders. Police
chiefs around New Jersey said they plan
to increase patrols near Jewish institu-
tions in the coming weeks.
Across New Jersey and the nation,
synagogues have expanded existing
safety measures, adding concrete barri-
ers, armed guards and metal detectors
as the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
holidays approach. For Jews, it’s the
first High Holy Day season since a gun-
man massacred 11 worshippers in a
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Pittsburgh synagogue last October, and
a second attack killed one person and
injured three others in California.
The heightened anxiety drew more
than 100 community leaders and law A police officer examines a schedule of
Jewish holidays at a meeting. DEENA
See TEMPLES, Page 4A YELLIN/USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY

Guilty
plea in
heroin
operation
State will recommend
6-year prison sentence
Keith Schubert Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY

TOMS RIVER – One of the people

implicated in a Ocean County narcot-
ics distribution operation that was in-
vestigated by multiple law enforce-
ment agencies for three months has
pleaded guilty to selling heroin, ac-
cording to a news release posted on the
Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office
Facebook page.
Xavier Nelson, 29, of Toms River,
pleaded guilty on Friday Sept. 13 to dis-
tribution of heroin. The state is recom-
mending a six-year prison sentence
with a 36-month period of parole ineli- The B-52s perform at the Sea.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park on Sunday. PHOTOS BY DOUG HOOD/ASBURY PARK PRESS
gibility, according to the release.

Dancing in the sand

The state is also recommending
Nelson concurrently
serve a three-year sen-
tence for a guilty plea he
previously entered for
possessing heroin and
fentanyl with intent to
distribute, according to
Nelson the statement.
The guilty plea
comes after a 2018 in-
vestigation that resulted in authorities
finding “250 wax folds of heroin, as
well as additional quantities of co-
caine and marijuana” in three homes
in Lakewood and Toms River, wrote
Bryan Huntenburg, a spokesman for
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Bill-
himer.
Five people were charged as a result
of the investigation.
Shanice Reason, 26 at the time,
shared an apartment with Nelson in
Toms River that investigators believed
was used to store and sell drugs out of.
She was charged with heroin posses-
sion, cocaine possession, heroin or
fentanyl possession under half an
ounce with intent to distribute, co-
caine possession with intent to dis-
tribute under half an ounce and mari-
juana possession. She was released
pending a court appearance, the pros-
ecutor’s office said.
Another home owned by Pilar Rosa-
rio, 23 at the time, was also believed by
investigators to be used in the opera-
tion.
Rosario was charged with heroin or
fentanyl possession, heroin or fenta-
nyl possession with intent to distrib-
ute under half an ounce and marijuana
possession and released from the jail
pending trial, the prosecutor’s office
said.
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Thousands flock
to Sea.Hear.Now
festival on beach
Chris Jordan Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Yes, a loud “Rock Lobster” was on
the beach in Asbury Park on Sunday,
Sept. 22.
We can thank the B-52s for that.
They were one of the main stage acts
at the second annual Sea.Hear.Now
fest, which ran on Saturday and Sun-
day.
“Now, let’s go to the beach,” said
Fred Schneider of the B-52s prior to
“Rock Lobster.” “Oh, we’re at the
beach. Let’s stay where we are!”
Many in the crowd, more than
35,000, did a combination of a Shim- A fan reacts during the B-52s’ performance at the Sea.Hear.Now festival in
my and a Twist in the sand. Asbury Park on Sunday.
Smiles were contagious.
The fest, headlined by the Dave
Matthews Band on Sunday evening,
after press time, brought together ele-
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Sand will be dumped along coastline
Dan Radel Asbury Park Press Branch, with the former paying 75% of years.
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY the cost. However, after superstorm Sandy,
The borrow site is a sand ridge 5 the Army Corps replenished the coast to
LONG BRANCH – This fall the U.S. miles off the coast of Sea Bright. build back the beach to the 1994 design,
Army Corps of Engineers will start de- The Army Corps has been using the this time with Elberon, Deal, Allenhurst
livery of 1.3 million cubic yards of sand borrow site since the original beach and Loch Arbour. That project was com-
to the northern Monmouth County replenishment project in 1994, Shea pleted in 2014 and was fully funded by
coastline. said. federal dollars.
The $26.3 million beach replenish- This wave of beach fill is part of a re- Weeks Marine, headquartered in
ment project will fill erosion hot spots nourishing cycle established with the Cranford, was awarded the Sea Bright to
in the towns of Long Branch, Mon- original project, which covered 18 miles Long Branch contract after a public bid
mouth Beach and Sea Bright, Jason of coast from Manasquan to Sea Bright, period, Shea said.
Shea, Army Corps project manager, excluding Elberon, Deal, Allenhurst, When Jersey Shore native Dan Radel
told the Press. and Loch Arbour. It was completed in is not reporting the news, you can find
The federal government will pick up 2001. him in a college classroom where he is a
about $17 million of the cost. The re- The project included periodic history professor. Reach him @danielra
maining $9.3 million will be split by nourishment of the restored beaches delapp; 732-643-4072; dradel@gan
the state of New Jersey and Long on a six-year cycle for a period of 50 nettnj.com.
4A ❚ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 ❚ ASBURY PARK PRESS e

Diocese in NY files for bankruptcy Heroin

Carolyn Thompson ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Roman Catholic Diocese of
Rochester was the first in New York to seek bankruptcy
protection under the weight of new sexual misconduct
lawsuits, but lawyers and church leaders say it may
not be the last.
Each of the state’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses
faces financial pressures as a result of the state’s new
Child Victims Act, which temporarily set aside the
usual statute of limitations for lawsuits to give victims
of childhood sexual abuse a year to pursue even dec-
ades-old claims. More than 400 cases have been
brought against the dioceses since Aug. 14, when the
law’s one-year “look back” period for such suits began.
Representatives from the dioceses of Buffalo, Rock-
ville Centre, Albany and Ogdensburg said they haven’t
decided as they consult with legal, financial and insur-
ance experts.
“While we evaluate our options, filing for bank- Continued from Page 3A
ruptcy protection remains one of those options,” said
Darcy Fargo, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Og- At the time of the initial investigation authorities
densburg, which covers the rural, northernmost tip were looking for then 19-year-old Asianna Marlow of
of the state. Lakewood to be charged with conspiracy to possess
Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone has said he is close with the intent to distribute under half an ounce of
to deciding whether to file for bankruptcy protection heroin or fentanyl, the prosecutor’s office said.
or litigate the nearly 140 new lawsuits his diocese is Another person, Dominique Swain, then 22, from
facing. Toms River, was arrested in the roundup and charged
The Diocese of Albany, meanwhile, faces more with marijuana possession and released, the prose-
than 30 lawsuits so far, but spokeswoman Mary De- cutor’s office said.
Turris Poust said the diocese won’t make any deci- Keith Schubert is the morning breaking news re-
sion until “the full financial scope” of the Child Vic- porter. He is a recent graduate at the University of
tims Act is known. Minnesota and has worked in multiple newsroom in-
The Diocese of Rochester sought bankruptcy cluding the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the St.
court protection Sept. 12 because of the new wave of Paul Pioneer Press. He can be contacted via text, call
lawsuits, becoming the 20th Roman Catholic diocese or signal at (732) 239-8731 or emailed at kschub
to do so nationwide in a sexual abuse reckoning that ert@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at
has now stretched for 17 years. @keithsch94.

Temples are taking security more

seriously than ever. Con-
League’s annual audit.
In April of this year, a
gregants, meanwhile, are worshipper was gunned
Continued from Page 3A increasingly taking mat- down in a Poway, Califor-
ters into their own hands nia, synagogue. In July,
enforcement officers to to deter potential threats. an elderly man standing
Hackensack on Friday for “The number of people outside of a Miami syna-
a briefing with state At- requesting training to be- gogue was shot six times
torney General Gurbir come volunteers at their in the leg as he waited for
Grewal and the Bergen synagogue is growing in prayers to begin, and over
County sheriff and prose- anticipation of the high the past month, Orthodox
cutor. holidays,” said Jason men in Brooklyn have
“The county is pre- Friedman, executive di- suffered repeated as-
pared for the high holi- rector of the New York- saults.
days.” said Bergen Prose- based Community Secu- “There’s been a nor-
cutor Mark Musella. “We rity Service. malization of anti-Semi-
are vigilant and we ask The nonprofit has tism that, as recently as
you to be vigilant.” trained more than 5,000 five years ago, people
Two Bergen County The Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh last year is one reason North people nationwide in se- never thought would
SWAT teams have been Jersey synagogues have put in place new security measures. curity tactics since its in- have taken place,” said
assigned to respond CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER ception in 2007. Since Evan Bernstein, NY/NJ
swiftly to any incidents Pittsburgh, the all-volun- regional director of the
and to aid local police de- teer force has grown by ADL, which has tracked
partments, Musella told ty specialists. County in Teaneck, one seen an increase in atten- 40 percent, Friedman such incidents since the
the audience. Officials “Five years ago, no- of the synagogue leaders dance since Pittsburgh,” said. 1970s.
also stressed that houses body would have imag- in attendance. “We have said Ritchard Rosen, Yonatan Stern, direc- In New Jersey, Jews
of worship can apply for ined that we would all to remind ourselves that president of the Fair tor of Cherev Gideon Is- leaving an Englewood
grants to help pay for have armed guards but there are more good peo- Lawn Jewish Center. “We raeli Tactical Training synagogue were verbally
guards and other mea- now we all have them,” ple in the world than will not give in to anti- Academy in Honesdale, harassed by individuals
sures and request safety said Rabbi Ephraim Si- bad.” Semites. We need to Pennsylvania, said he’s in a car last year and pelt-
assessments from securi- mon of Chabad of Bergen “Our synagogue has show them we will are not been inundated with cli- ed with stones. Anti-Se-
afraid.” ents from the New York mitic flyers supporting
His temple as well as and New Jersey area the Ku Klux Klan and fea-
others around the U.S. seeking training in defen- turing photos of Adolf
PUBLIC NOTICE have boosted security sive gun tactics ever since Hitler were distributed in
TO ALL REGISTERED VOTERS IN FAIR HAVEN AND COLTS NECK ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the shootings last year. Cherry Hill’s Jewish
IN THE COUNTY OF the Jewish New Year, “Our numbers of custom- Community last October.
MONMOUTH which starts at sundown ers have quadrupled and Most recently, a driver
on Sept. 29. Yom Kippur, it hasn’t let up. We had to nearly struck two Jewish
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School Elections to be held on September 24, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 8: 00 for Fair Haven and from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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of Oct. 8. Sukkoth, a bis are coming to us.” scenities and slurs.
(1) any person attempting to vote may be challenged by a candidate, by the duly authorized challenger for a week-long holiday, will Attacks against Jewish New Jersey ranked
candidate or a political party or on a public question, or by a member of the district board of elections, because the begin on Oct. 13. Americans and their in- third in the nation last
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(2) members of the district board and all duly authorized challengers are prohibited from challenging, week, rabbis generally since 2015, rising to 1,879 dents, after California,
delaying or preventing the right to vote of any person because of that person’s race, color, national origin, expected declined to discuss spe- last year, according to the and New York, according
manner of casting a vote or residence in a particular housing complex or section of a municipality or county; cific steps but said they Anti-Defamation to the ADL.
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Misconduct
Continued from Page 1A
The state Supreme Court responded Friday with a
two-page order denying Russo’s motion to disqualify
the chief justice.
Rabner’s July 17 statement, which accompanied a
complaint to remove Russo from the bench, called for
the development of an enhanced training program for
judges in the areas of sexual assault, domestic vio-
lence, bias and diversity and also said the state Su-
preme Court would consider the full range of potential
discipline, up to and including removal from office, for
Russo.
“Alerting judges and the public to the purpose of ju-
dicial discipline, and announcing mandatory training
for judges, do not present a basis for disqualification,”
said the Supreme Court order, which was signed by
Rabner.
It said that Rabner’s statement in July reiterated an
order by the Supreme Court, directing the clerk to file a
complaint for Russo’s removal and suspending him
without pay, but it did not “address the merits of the
upcoming proceeding or the discipline that should be
imposed.”
The Supreme Court’s order also denied Russo’s re-
quest to rescind an order appointing a three-judge
panel to oversee his disciplinary proceeding.
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Russo, a former mayor of Toms River and the son of
the late state Sen. John F. Russo Sr., was first
appointed to the bench in Ocean County in
December 2015.
Russo’s attorneys, David Corrigan and Amelia Car-
olla, on Thursday filed an answer to the removal com-
plaint, which was made public Friday.
The answer asserts that removal is not warranted to
preserve the public’s confidence in the judicial system
because Russo, at oral arguments before the state Su-
preme Court on July 9, “acknowledged his missteps
and accepted the responsibility for his actions.’’
Russo’s attorney said in their answer that Russo
was newly appointed to the bench when the alleged
infractions occurred, and he complied with all re-
quests by his superiors to make sure any mistakes
weren’t repeated.
It also said that Russo did not intentionally breach
the judicial code of conduct and “did not mean to
cause harm, but instead chose words poorly, some-
thing to which he admits wrongdoing and will be care-
ful not to repeat in the future.’’
Russo’s answer claimed that the Supreme Court has
never before sought removal of a judge when it wasn’t
recommended by the court’s Advisory Committee on
Judicial Conduct, which earlier this year recommend-
ed that Russo be suspended.
Autism
Continued from Page 1A
a person behind it.”
Times have changed. On Thursday the U.S. Senate
unanimously approved the Autism CARES Act, send-
ing the $1.8 billion package to President Donald
Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
Smith was the prime sponsor of the House of Repre-
sentatives’ version of the bill, his fourth autism-relat-
ed measure to pass through Congress since that meet-
ing with the Gallaghers. Fellow New Jerseyan Robert
Menendez sponsored the Senate version.
The bill will authorize funding for programs at the
National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Con-
trol, and the Health Resources and Services Admini-
stration over five years, reauthorizing a similar bill
from 2014. It will fund a combination of research, de-
tection and intervention programs, and cover the ex-
pansion of autism-related activities.
“We’re ecstatic,” Smith said. “What a difference this
is going to make.”
One stated aim of the legislation is to address the
needs of those who have “aged out” of most available
autism services after turning 21. It amends existing
law to reflect the need for research, surveillance, edu-
cation, detection, and intervention for individuals
with autism spectrum disorder of all ages — not just
children.
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Russo, a former mayor of Toms River and the son of
the late state Sen. John F. Russo Sr., was first appoint-
ed to the bench in Ocean County in December 2015. He
is suing his former boss, Superior Court Judge Marlene
Lynch Ford, assignment judge for Ocean County, in
federal court in a lawsuit claiming he was discriminat-
ed against because he has a disabled son.
Russo’s pending federal lawsuit was filed after Ford
in April 2017 removed Russo from duty after she
learned of an allegation that he had thrown a file at his
law clerk. Ford also cited bizarre behavior on Russo’s
part, as well as the colloquy he had with the alleged
rape victim for which he is now in hot water.
After Ford removed him from duty, Russo was on a
paid leave of absence from May 2017 until December
2108, when Rabner reassigned him to Burlington
County.
His annual salary in 2017 was $165,000, but it in-
creased to $173,000 on July 1, 2018, when all state
judges received a raise.
Russo, in his answer filed with the Supreme Court,
says his “immediate suspension without pay is signifi-
cantly harsh and punishing” because the state Consti-
tution mandates that he can’t work in any other capac-
ity while his disciplinary proceeding is pending.
Kathleen Hopkins, a reporter in New Jersey since
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mysteries and just about every major murder trial to
hit Monmouth and Ocean counties. Contact her at
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“Every year 50,000 young people who become
adults are on the spectrum, and they’re going to need
jobs, education, housing,” Smith said. “We’re going to
try to make sure nobody is left behind.”
Menendez said the legislation “marks a leap for-
ward in federal autism policy by recognizing the needs
to invest in research to address an individual’s evolv-
ing needs across a lifespan.”
There are an estimated 1.5 million American chil-
dren with autism, a population that exploded in recent
years. New Jersey has the nation’s highest rate, with 1
in every 34 children identified with autism spectrum
disorder, according to a study by the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention released last year.
On Thursday, as Congress sent the Autism CARES
Act to Trump, Smith thought of the Gallaghers, whose
two toddlers Alana and Austin are now adults in their
20s.
The family’s push back in 1997 helped lead to the
enactment of Smith’s first bill on the issue — the Au-
tism Statistics, Surveillance, Research and Epidemiol-
ogy Act of 2000, which opened the door for compre-
hensive federal funding.
“There was very little research going on and the
Gallaghers were desperate for help,” Smith said. “The
CDC didn’t want my first bill. Now they’re more than
happy to talk about it.”
Jerry Carino is news columnist for the Asbury Park
Press, focusing on the Jersey Shore’s interesting people,
inspiring stories and pressing issues. Contact him at
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The New Jersey Department of
Health announced that 65 mosquito
samples across 13 counties had
tested positive for Eastern Equine
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LAKEHURST – Joint Base McGuire-
Dix-Lakehurst leadership is warning
its staff and their families to protect
themselves from mosquitoes after an
insect containing a potentially deadly
virus was discovered in a trap by a
housing area on the McGuire section
of the joint base.
Base staff announced on Facebook
that they would be applying a fogged
insecticide to mosquito breeding
grounds near the United Communities
Housing development in order to re-
duce the spread of Eastern Equine En-
cephalitis.
The housing community lies west
of the New Egypt section of Plumsted.
The Eastern Equine Encephalitis
(EEE) virus can cause rare, but poten-
tially deadly brain infections, accord-
ing to the Centers for Disease Control.
About 30% of people who test positive
for the virus die, and many of those
who survive suffer ongoing neurologi-
cal issues, according to the CDC.
Last week, the New Jersey Depart-
ment of Health announced that 65
mosquito samples across 13 counties
had tested positive for the virus since
the beginning of the summer season.
In August, an older man in Somer-
set County was hospitalized with the
virus, and later discharged to a reha-
bilitation center, according to the
health department.
The virus has caused three deaths
across Connecticut and Massachu-
setts so far this year, according to CNN
and WBUR, Boston’s public radio sta-
tion.
Symptoms of EEE include sudden
headache, high fever, chills, and vom-
iting four to 10 days after a mosquito
bite, according to the health depart-
ment. Severe cases can cause disori-
entation, seizures, coma or death.
The virus affects both humans and
horses. Though horses can be vacci-
nated against the virus, there is no
such vaccine for humans.
Officials with the joint base and
state health agencies are urging resi-
dents to use mosquito repellent con-
taining DEET, picaridin, IR3535 or oil
of lemon eucalyptus on exposed skin
and clothing. The New Jersey Depart-
ment of Health advises parents not to
use insect repellent on children under
2 months old and to not use lemon eu-
calyptus on any children under 3 years
old.
Other bite prevention includes
wearing long-sleeve shirts and pants
outdoors and repairing tears in win-
dow and door screens to keep mosqui-
toes outside.
“Through strong state and local
partnerships, we are able to greatly re-
duce the risk of mosquito-borne ill-
nesses,” state Department of Environ-
mental Protection Commissioner
Catherine R. McCabe said in a news re-
lease last week. “The public has to do
its part, too. Dumping out standing
water on your property goes a long way
toward reducing mosquito bites by
limiting where they grow.”
McCabe advisedresidents to empty
water from anywhere that could breed
mosquitoes, such as flower pots, pet
dishes, birdbaths and swimming pool
covers. Residents were urged to clean
up leaves from gutters, remove trash
around a property that could hold wa-
ter, clean and chlorinate swimming
pools, and aerate ornamental pools.
New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture
Douglas H. Fisher also urged horse
owners to be vigilant in vaccinating
their animals against EEE and other
mosquito-borne diseases.
Amanda Oglesby is an Ocean Coun-
ty native who covers Brick, Barnegat
and Lacey townships as well as the en-
vironment. She has worked for the
Press for more than a decade. Reach
her at @OglesbyAPP, aoglesby@gan
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Experts struggle to stop vaping
Some split over whether
to punish or treat teens
Erin Richards, Justin Murphy
and Max Cohen
USA TODAY
Braden Brown, a junior at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,
knows the risks of using e-cigarettes
and abstains during the week.
But on Friday and Saturday nights,
or during a “Sunday Funday” of drink-
ing, he’ll go through a Juul — a popular
type of e-cigarette — or two, even if it
makes him feel funny at hockey prac-
tice the next day.
“Breathing wasn’t harder, but it felt
like something was up,” said Brown,
22, a junior from Plano, Texas.
As health officials try to understand
what’s causing lung injuries related to
the use of e-cigarettes and vaping,
they’re also waging a multipronged
fight to get young users to quit. They’re
facing not only indifference and feel-
ings of invincibility by the teens but
also physiological addiction.
School, health and government offi-
cials also say they’re struggling to turn
young people away from vaping and e-
cigarettes at the same time that mar-
keting campaigns present the prod-
ucts as safer than regular cigarettes.
The medical community hasn’t had
enough years to study the long-term
health impacts of the products, health
experts say.
“There’s a campaign of misinforma-
tion when you use the word ‘safe,’ ”
said Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonol-
ogist and tobacco treatment specialist
at Johns Hopkins University. “Even
compared to the relative risk of using
regular cigarettes, that doesn’t tell us
the actual risk to you and to someone
who has never smoked a cigarette.”
Christy Sadreameli, a pediatric pul-
monologist at Johns Hopkins, put it
more bluntly Wednesday in a webinar
for the American Lung Association.
“These products were designed to
appeal to teens and to go undetected
by adults,” she said. “According to the
surgeon general, there’s no safe level
of exposure to nicotine.”
At least six people have died in the
recent outbreak. The Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention last week
confirmed 380 cases of vaping-related
lung illness in 36 states and one U.S.
territory.
The U.S. Food and Drug Admini-
stration is studying more than 120 vap-
ing product samples submitted by
states associated with cases of patient
lung injury. The samples are being
studied for the presence of chemicals
such as nicotine, THC and other can-
nabinoids, along with cutting agents
and other additives, pesticides,
opioids, poisons and toxins, FDA
spokesman Michael Felberbaum said.
The FDA plans to soon release a
plan to take popular flavored e-ciga-
rette varieties such as menthol and
mint off the market. The CDC is warn-
ing young people to refrain from vap-
ing.
Rates of teen nicotine vaping more
Sea.Hear.Now
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Ellaina Stolp of Syracuse and her
friends were watching the “Expression
Session” surfers in the ocean while the
B-52s played.
“We love it,” Stolp said. “We go back
and forth from watching the surfers
and dancing to reggae in the sand.”
The reggae came courtesy of Steel
Pulse on Sunday. Dispatch and the
Dropkick Murphy’s also played on
Sunday.
A set of sparkling folk-rock by Den-
ver’s The Lumineers capped the fest’s
Day 1.
The band performed material from
their latest album “III,” including “Jim-
my Sparks,” and their hits, capped by
“Stubborn Love.”
They have affection for New Jersey.
Founding members Wesley Schultz
and Jeremiah Fraites are from Ramsey.
Schultz spoke of defending the honor
of Jersey in the Denver club scene
when they were coming up. They in-
cluded a song they used to cover there:
an acoustic version of Bruce Spring-
steen’s “Thunder Road,” which segued
into “Big Parade.”
Schultz also gave a shout out to
Danny Clinch, a founder of the festival
who also took “III”-related publicity
shots for the band.
“All the beautiful pictures you see of
our band were taken by him for this al-
bum, and they’ve been my favorite,”
Schultz said. “He a photographer and
he puts on this festival and you’re all
here because of his vision.”
The fest is produced by locals
Clinch and Tim Donnelly and C3 Pre-
sents, the team behind Lollapalooza.
Clinch is a Toms River native who has
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“Current efforts by the vaping indus-
try, government agencies, and schools
have thus far proved insufficient to stop
the rapid spread of nicotine vaping
among adolescents,” the report said.
More than 1 in 4 12th graders and
more than 1 in 5 10th graders reported
vaping in 2019, according to data in the
report compiled by researchers at the
University of Michigan.
“New efforts are needed to protect
youth from using nicotine during ado-
lescence, when the developing brain is
particularly susceptible to permanent
changes from nicotine used and when
almost all nicotine addiction is estab-
lished,” the report said.
Officials at K-12 schools, where e-cig-
arette and vaping use has soared, are
struggling with how to balance disci-
pline for using tobacco products on
school grounds with treatment and
counseling.
Districts have started installing vap-
ing censors in bathrooms to catch stu-
dents using the products at school. Oth-
er districts have hired additional staff to
better patrol bathrooms and hallways.
In Fort Myers, Florida, the Lee Coun-
ty School District saw tobacco and drug
offenses on school grounds soar in the
2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. Tobac-
co use or possession offenses in the
95,000-student district increased al-
most fivefold; drug use offenses more
than doubled.
Much of those were due to kids being
caught vaping at school, said district
spokesman Rob Spicker.
In August, the district opened a new
center where students suspended for
such offenses are sent for 20 days. At
the center, the students essentially
complete their studies online, under the
supervision of staff, for the four weeks,
but they also receive mentoring and
drug-treatment counseling.
Outside Rochester, New York, the
West Irondequoit Central School Dis-
trict adopted an education and treat-
ment model, hoping to understand why
teenagers are vaping rather than simply
Thousands watch the B-52s perform at the Sea.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park
on Sunday. DOUG HOOD/ASBURY PARK PRESS
photographed the greats of music, from
Bruce Springsteen to Tupac Shakur. He
curates the scene at the Transparent
Gallery, inside the Asbury Hotel, where
his work is shown and local and nation-
al acts play.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise; Joan Jett
and the Blackhearts; Bad Religion; Work
in Progress, featuring “Stranger Things”
star Gaten Matarazzo; and more per-
formed on Saturday at the fest.
The city’s nightclubs were just as
lively long into the night with festival af-
ter-parties.
Clinch, Jake Clemons, Luke Spiller
from the Struts, Nicole Atkins, Mike
McCready of Pearl Jam, Christopher
Thorn of Blind Melon and more alter-
nately joined St. Paul and the Broken
Bones and the Tangiers Blues Band on
stage at the Stone Pony late Saturday
punishing them for it.
Lindsay Snyder, a substance abuse
counselor, said students have been
some of the greatest advocates for the
school to address the issue. She recalled
what one young woman said at an open
forum: “I feel like we should be afraid
because we’re being treated as guinea
pigs.
“They have the understanding that
we don’t know what this is going to
cause long term, but in the teenage
brain, that’s not deterring them from the
risk,” Snyder said.
Surveys in the district of about 3,500
students showed almost half of stu-
dents had vaped at least once, and 10%
were chronic/potentially addicted.
The first time students are caught
vaping, they must take an educational
course online, then create a poster or
public safety announcement reflecting
what they learned. The second offense
triggers what Snyder called a “therapeu-
tic intervention,” differing based on the
situation.
Some college students say they are
increasingly nervous about vaping.
Some even say they are quitting as a re-
sult of government reports.
University of Pittsburgh junior Shan-
nah Stone heeded the warnings. She de-
cided to quit using a Juul after hearing
the news that people were falling ill.
Even though Stone said she vaped
less frequently than many of her
friends, she did not want to risk illness.
“I want to make sure this stupid habit
doesn’t kill me,” she said.
Brown said some of his friends had
thrown away their Juuls and vaping
products, especially after a few friends
were hospitalized for vaping-related ill-
nesses.
“When I started seeing all these
things, it was a huge incentive not to do
it anymore,” he said.
Still, the allure of the products is
strong, which is why Brown still in-
dulges in a Juul or two on the weekend,
when it’s time to party.
“If flavored pods are banned, I might
just quit altogether — I wouldn’t go out
of my way to get it as much,” he said.
“I’m just a little weak when I’m intoxi-
cated.”
and into Sunday morning. Downtown,
Dave Hause and the Mermaid led a punk
rock cover-song revue at the House of
Independents that included Pete Stein-
kopf and Bryan Kienlen of the Bounding
Souls and Jay Bentley of Bad Religion on
stage.
But the wild card of the show was 17-
year old Matarazzo, a Little Egg Harbor
native, coming on stage to sing Cheap
Trick’s “Surrender.”
A happily stranger moment for the
Sea.Hear.Now.
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A worthwhile trade
According to the United Network for
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Americans awaiting liver transplants,
and more than 1,000 die each year be-
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Living donors are not stuck with a
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quickly. By June, Alyssa DeAngelis’ liver
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Her dad’s liver began failing in 2014.
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The transplant took place in March at
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“The recovery could not have gone
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ing his housemate’s car after she mysteriously van-
ished following a devastating fire at her expansive
rental home frequently interrupted a hearing Mon-
day at which a judge ordered him held without bail to
face trial.
At the onset of the hearing before Superior Judge
Paul X. Escandon, Ronald Teschner, 49, of Ocean
Township, protested the fact that news media were
present and said news reports had falsely accused
him of being a sex offender.
Then, when Assistant Monmouth County Prose-
cutor Joseph Cummings said shotguns and jewelry
belonging to his housemates were found in the vehi-
cle he was driving when he was arrested Sept. 13,
Teschner interjected, “It’s costume jewelry. Are you
kidding?”
Teschner also blurted out that he didn’t know he
was charged with assaulting an officer who arrested
him in Paterson.
“Well, now you know,” Escandon told him.
Although Cummings identified the missing wom-
an in court only by the initials, J.T., she has been pub-
licly identified as Jacqueline Terruli, 65.

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Overparenting
Freehold e-cigarette user describes
college-age kids
hospital scare he blames on vaping can do more
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him. The 24-year-old township resident told the Asbury Park Press in an
This story is part of a series on the disruptive —
exclusive interview that he used e-cigarettes, or vaped, for about 31⁄2 and potentially damaging — impact of bulldozer
parenting. The series also covers the K-12 years,
years without any difficulties. But in August, out of nowhere, he says, he high school coaches and the workplace.
started experiencing pain in his lungs. He saw a local doctor who diag- For many families, September can be an emotional
month. It’s the first time their 18-year-old, newly
nosed him with pneumonia and treated him with antibiotics. adult child is away from home and on their own at col-
lege.
See VAPING, Page 6A For parents and guardians accustomed to being in-
tensely hands-on with their children — telling them
Mike Maestri of Freehold Township started vaping when he gave up smoking what to do, how to do it, when to do it and in what
cigarettes, thinking it was a safer alternative. When he started feeling very sick, order or, better yet, just doing it for them — they can
he went to the hospital and discovered he had bilateral pneumonia. get knocked off balance to realize they no longer have
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their grades.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Motown mogul Gordy announces
his retirement at 89 years old
The Motown mogul who launched
the careers of numerous stars like Ste-
vie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael
Jackson has announced his retire-
ment.
The Detroit Free Press reported Ber-
ry Gordy said he had “come full circle”
at a 60th anniversary event for Mo-
town Records on Sunday.
The 89-year-old Detroit native built
Motown Records into a hit-making
music, film and television empire that
shattered racial barriers and intro-
duced the world at large to the sounds
of R&B, soul and funk. Gordy sold the
record label in 1988, but remained ac-
tive, developing a musical and staying
involved with the Motown Museum’s
$50 million expansion campaign.
Speaking about retirement, Gordy
said he has “dreamed about it, talked
about it, threatened it” for years.
Director Lee Daniels also presented
Gordy with the Motown Legacy honor.
Television celebrity chef and
restaurateur Ruiz dies at 44
Television celebrity chef and res-
taurateur Carl Ruiz has died. He was
44.
His New York City restaurant, La
Cubana, confirmed his death in an In-
stagram post on Sunday.
The restaurant said “no words can
fully express our sadness at the sud-
den loss of their dear friend and broth-
er.” The cause of death was not imme-
diately clear.
An Institute of Culinary Education
graduate, Ruiz made frequent appear-
ances on The Food Network channel as
a competitive chef and judge. He also
opened a slew of restaurants around
the world.
La Cubana, his most recent restau-
rant, opened in Manhattan’s Chelsea
neighborhood in June and features the
cuisine of his Cuban heritage. The res-
taurant said it plans to honor Ruiz’s
memory by establishing a scholarship
for aspiring chefs.
ShotSpotter
Continued from Page 1A
tion for the city of Asbury Park and
Neptune Township. We need invest-
ment from from those municipalities.”
He called on Neptune Mayor Carol
Rizzo and Asbury Park Mayor John
Moor to “find a funding solution” in
their upcoming budgets for the technol-
ogy. The exact dollar figure that each lo-
cality would have to contribute remains
unclear.
Rizzo said she’s asked the Neptune
Police Department to review the pro-
posal for the ShotSpotter technology
but said it would be too early to deter-
mine whether the township would pro-
vide funding support.
“It’s definitely something that will
have to be shared with Asbury,” Rizzo
said. “Political boundaries are not re-
spected by people with guns.”
Asbury Park officials have expressed
concern about the costs associated
with the program. Deputy Mayor Amy
Quinn said the city was continuing to
evaluate the proposal for the technol-
ogy.
“I can say that we continue to meet
with the prosecutor’s office. We’re set-
ting up a meeting with ShotSpotter.
We’re hopeful that Neptune comes to
the table with these discussions. What
this is going to cost the city, those num-
bers are all over the place.”
In New Jersey, ShotSpotter technol-
ogy has been deployed in Trenton,
Plainfield, Piscataway, Paterson and
Newark, according to the company’s
website.
The system uses acoustic sensors to
detect gunshots and can determine if
there is one or multiple shooters, as well
as the caliber of the weapon that was
fired. The company has technicians
who monitor the system 24/7 who
Blaze
Continued from Page 1A
Monmouth County Prosecutor
Christopher Gramiccioni has been
pushing Neptune and Asbury Park to
purchase ShotSpotter technology.
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/ASBURY PARK PRESS
quickly analyze the data before police
are notified. The system pinpoints
where the gunfire originated from and
can be integrated with camera systems
to zoom in on the affected areas.
The data is sent to law enforcement
in less than a minute.
Sam Klepper, senior vice president
of marketing and product strategy for
ShotSpotter, said measures are taken to
help ensure privacy.
“Humans don’t listen to any audio
until it’s verified as a probable gunshot
incident. To protect the privacy and in-
dividual rights, we don’t provide any
access of databases of where the sen-
sors are to the community or to the po-
lice,” Klepper said.
Joe Giacalone, a retired New York
Police Department sergeant and ad-
junct professor at John Jay College, said
technology can’t replace the value of
having more police officers on the
ground. “The people that live in the
neighborhoods, they know the guns are
going off, I think the police know where
the guns are going off, that’s why you
need to target those areas,” Giacalone
said. But Duanne Small, an Asbury Park
community activist who has pushed for
more job training programs for youth to
reduce crime, said he thinks the tech-
nology would help law enforcement.
“It’ll help, sure it will help,” Small
said. “I understand what the prosecutor
is saying. He’s got a job, whatever can
help them do their job, that’s what we
want.”
But Small said he wanted to see more
of a focus on preventing crime in neigh-
borhoods in Asbury Park and Neptune.
He said the main solution for that prob-
lem is economic opportunities.
“These kids are shooting in broad
daylight, so they don’t care about a
camera or ShotSpotter,” Small said.
One of the communities that has
found ShotSpotter useful is Newport
News, Virginia.
Steve Drew, chief of police, said the
technology has helped police respond
quickly to reports of shots fired and
helped them locate crime scenes. He
said starting up the technology in one
of the most violent stretches of the city
cost around $300,000.
Klepper said the program typically
starts off in a three-square-mile section
of the localities that implement it.
“What we’ve seen in law enforce-
ment is, we see more and more people
not calling about gunfire,” Drew said.
But since the city debuted the tech-
nology he’s seen a noticeable differ-
ence. “We’re getting to scenes much
quicker,” Drew said.
Drew said the ShotSpotter technol-
ogy had helped in several instances
where people reported being shot, and
police were able to determine they had
accidentally shot themselves because
the technology did not register any gun-
shots at the sites where they claimed
they had been shot.
“Can you say this reduces crime? I
don’t think you can measure it directly,”
Drew said. “I think it’s an added asset.”
Austin Bogues spotlights the chang-
ing development scene in Asbury Park
and Neptune Township. You can con-
tact him at 732-643-4009 or abogues@
app.com.

Musician Bivins helps to launch “J.T. was an on-again, off-again girl-

Boston youth basketball league
Michael Bivins, a founding member
of the bands New Edition and Bell Biv
Devoe, is turning his attention from
music to sports.
The Roxbury YMCA in Boston said
Bivins teamed up with Puma to spon-
sor a basketball league for kids ages 9
to 13. Every Saturday for 10 weeks,
eight teams will compete in the league,
expected to draw 100 youths.
Puma and Bivins’ BivFam Founda-
tion are covering all expenses.
Bivins is a Boston native who still
lives in the city and fondly remembers
his own days playing youth basketball.
In a statement from the Y, Bivins
compared the league to winning a
Grammy.
Bivins said, “I wanted to — like we
say in the music industry — remix it
and bring it back.”
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friend of the defendant,” Cummnings
said, after describing Teschner’s long
criminal history and pointing out that
one of his convictions involved domes-
tic violence.
Cummings said Teschner has crimi-
nal convictions for robberies, burglar-
ies and assault, and he suggested the
defendant’s demeanor shows it would
be a risk to release him from jail.
Teschner took exception to Cum-
mings’ comment about his demeanor.
“What if I said that because you look
like a pedophile, you’re a pedophile,”
Teschner said, interrupting the assis-
tant prosecutor.
“That is one of the few charges he
has not been convicted of,” Cummings
shot back, adding that Teschner had
once been charged with sexual assault,
but the charge had been dismissed.
Escandon agreed with Cummings
that Teschner couldn’t be freed without
the risk that he would attempt to ob-
struct justice or endanger the public.
He seemed particularly concerned that
Teschner, if released, would contact his
other housemates, who are potential
witnesses in the case.
The judge expounded on Teschner’s
record of criminal convictions, which
also includes larceny, possession of a
controlled dangerous substance, crimi-
nal trespass, and aggravated assault on
a law-enforcement officer.
Teschner was one of two people re-
ported missing after the $1.7 million
rental home he was staying at with Ter-
rulli and Terrulli’s relatives on Wicka-
pecko Drive in Ocean Township was de-
stroyed in a three-alarm fire on Sept. 12.
Terrulli is still missing. Teschner was
arrested the next day in Paterson in
Terrulli’s 2019 Jeep Cherokee, which
contained shotguns, authorities said.
Cummings said jewelry belonging to
Terrulli and another of Teschner’s
housemates also was found in the vehi-
cle.
Teschner has been charged by Mon-
mouth County authorities with two
counts of unlawful possession of a
weapon, three counts of receiving sto-
len property and two counts of being a
person who by law is not allowed to
have a firearm because he is a convicted
felon.
He also is facing charges, originating
in Paterson, of aggravated assault on a
law enforcement officer, eluding police
and heroin possession.
Anthony Aldonasi, deputy assistant
public defender, argued that there was
Ronald Teschner, who is facing various charges after an Ocean Township home
fire in which one of the residents is still missing, sits during an appearance in
state Superior Court in Freehold on Monday. THOMAS P. COSTELLO/ASBURY PARK PRESS
no probable cause to charge Teschner
with the crimes. He said Teschner had
no knowledge of the items that were in
the Jeep.
Because the vehicle belonged to Ter-
rulli, “anything in that car ...could be
hers,” Aldonasi said.
“He’s adamant of his innocence —
adamant,” Aldonasi asserted.
The defense attorney argued there
was no basis to bring charges against
Teschner in Monmouth County be-
cause he was arrested in Paterson,
which is in Passaic County.
Escandon dismissed that argument
and said he found probable cause to
charge Teschner with the crimes.
“There is evidence to suggest the car,
the shotguns and the jewelry were at
one time at Wickapecko Drive in Mon-
mouth County,” the judge said.
At the very outset of the hearing,
Teschner insisted on speaking.
“Judge, can I say something?” he
said.
“Not until you talk to your attorney,”
Escandon replied.
Then, after Aldonasi privately con-
ferred with his client, Teschner blurted
out, “I have no control over the media
being here?
“When you have someone writing
something in the news that’s false
about you, and you read it, and then I
can’t get out, I don’t understand how
they could write,” he said, before being
cut off by the judge.
“You’re not going to be tried in the
newspaper,” Escandon told him, saying
the news media has the right to report
on case.
At times, Teschner spoke over the
judge, who was trying to move forward
with the proceeding.
“They can write something that’s not
true about me?” Teschner said. “One id-
iot from the Asbury Park Press wrote
something about sex crimes. I ain’t nev-
er been convicted of sex crimes.”
In previous reports about the case,
the Asbury Park Press has included in-
formation about Teschner’s criminal
history, but that did not include any
mention of convictions for sex crimes.
During most of the hearing, Teschn-
er kept his back to the courtroom gal-
lery in which members of the media
were gathered.
In the week following the fire, police
kept a strong presence at what re-
mained of the five-bedroom house
Teschner lived in with his housemates.
Officers from at least three different
agencies were seen combing the woods
near the house, while a mobile com-
mand center served as the base for a
search party of dozens of officers. Au-
thorities have not revealed details of
the search.
Terrulli, former owner of a beauty
salon and Botox clinic in Jackson, tem-
porarily took Teschner into the home
she shared with her sister, brother and
mother — relatives who weren’t home
when the fire erupted, according to her
niece, Jennifer Terrulli. Jacqueline Ter-
rulli knew Teschner for years through
mutual friends.
The niece said that was typical of her
aunt, who also had taken 26 stray cats
onto the property.
Kathleen Hopkins, a reporter in New
Jersey since 1985, covers crime, court
cases, legal issues, unsolved mysteries
and just about every major murder trial
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Details emerge in Brick dad’s death
2 charged in murder were bunk mates
Alex N. Gecan Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
TOMS RIVER – The two men charged
in the murder of a Brick man were bunk
mates for several months at a juvenile
correctional facility, police records ob-
tained by the Asbury Park Press show.
The beating death of Mark Richard
Austin also involved a baseball bat and
evidence of drug use, according to the
affidavit. One of the suspects said the
other, the victim’s son, had threatened
him with a gun, forcing him to bludgeon
the 55-year-old victim, according to the
affidavit.
Greenwald Caterers in Lakewood was destroyed by a fire on Sunday. There were no injuries reported, said Lakewood
Police Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith. THOMAS P. COSTELLO AND MIKE DAVIS/ASBURY PARK PRESS
Lakewood caterer
left reeling after fire
No cause identified
yet; no one injured
Keith Schubert Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
LAKEWOOD – As Issac Greenwald
stepped out of his black SUV to inspect
the damage caused by a two-alarm fire
Sunday evening to his 25-year-old ca-
tering business, Greenwald Caterers,
positivity, not sorrow, was the senti-
ment he expressed.
“What am I supposed to do?” Green-
wald said, standing in the street cov-
ered in the remains of the fire. “I got
parties tonight, parties tomorrow, a big
program on the holiday coming up ...
you know, you just keep going.”
Greenwald was in synagogue when
he found out about the fire, he said. And
when he first got to the scene all he saw
was smoke. “I saw smoke coming out, I
said, ‘OK, no big problem, we’ll be
closed for a few weeks.’ ” But the 8 p.m.
fire on East Eighth Street quickly grew,
requiring five companies from across
northern Ocean County to help tame
the blaze. There are no injuries report-
ed, said Lakewood Police Capt. Gregory
Staffordsmith. After speaking with a
fire marshal, Greenwald said they had
2 New Jerseyans killed each month on the job
Susanne Cervenka Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Two New Jerseyans were killed and
nearly two dozen more were severely in-
jured on the job each month during
2018, according to a USA TODAY NET-
WORK New Jersey analysis.
At least 22 New Jerseyans died on the
job during 2018, compared with 23
deaths reported in 2017, according to the
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health
Administration Fatal Inspection data.
Through cell phone records and inter-
views, investigators tracked the move-
ments of 28-year-old Mark J. Austin of
Brick and his alleged accomplice, 28-
year-old Jeray Melton of Salem, Salem
County. The two men are facing charges
in the killing of Austin’s father, Mark
Richard Austin, 55, at the Brick home
where both Austins lived.
The statements the younger Austin
gave police did not line up with where
his mobile devices told police he had
gone the day of his father’s killing, ac-
cording to an affidavit.
The homicide first came to light with
a 911 call at 11:07 p.m. on Sept. 7, wrote
Firefighters from across northern Ocean County worked to extinguish a fire at
Greenwald Caterers on Eighth Street in Lakewood on Sunday night.
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/ASBURY PARK PRESS
no idea how the fire started.
Greenwald said he has other proper-
ties that can house his catering opera-
tions and all catering commitments will
be met. He also said he has insurance
on the building. The smell of the fire,
which was still lingering Monday morn-
ing, was the first thing a neighbor said
she noticed when the fire started.
At least another 283 people were se-
verely injured in private sector jobs in
2018, up from 239 people injured in 2017,
according to the OSHA Severe Injury
Report database.
OSHA requires employers to report
all severe work-related injuries, which
include amputations, loss of an eye or
other injuries that require inpatient
hospitalization. The federal OSHA data
only tracks severe injuries of New Jer-
seyans who work in private sector. New
Jersey has separate regulations for
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Brick police Detective Mark Byrne. The
caller reported a man unresponsive at
770 Acorn Drive in Brick. Police officers
went to the home, entered through the
unlocked front door and “discovered
what appeared to be a person covered in
blankets” Byrne wrote. Underneath was
the elder Austin, dead, “with apparent
blunt force trauma to the face.”
Outside the home police spoke with
“I ran to the attic and to the base-
ment,” she said, “I thought the fire was
in my house.”
Houses near the hall were evacuated
and had their power shut off from about
9 p.m. to 1 a.m. as a precautionary mea-
sure, another resident said.
See CATERER, Page 7A
state, county and local government em-
ployees who are injured on the jobs.
The federal workplace fatality data,
however, includes both private and
public sector employee deaths.
Fatalities
❚ Description: Work-related deaths
that were investigated by federal or
state OSHA
❚ 2017: 23
❚ 2018: 22
Austin Melton
Austin’s ex-wife Barbara Austin, 56, who
owned the home, and a friend of the vic-
tim, Jeremy Londino, 26, Byrne said.
They said the victim had called Londino
earlier that evening, around 7:47 p.m., to
ask him to bring over water and chips.
See MURDER, Page 4A
Music and
film festival
to return in
April 2020
More details ahead on
panels, special guests
Alex Biese Asbury Park Press
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
The Asbury Park Music and Film
Festival will return to the city by the sea
in 2020.
The festival, now in its sixth year,
will take place Thursday, April 23, to
Sunday, April 26, in Asbury Park, the
Asbury Park Press can exclusively re-
port.
Stars of film and music such as Bruce
Springsteen, Danny DeVito, David
Crosby, Cameron Crowe, Wyclef Jean
and Peter and Bobby Farrelly have been
among the guests to appear at the festi-
val over the years. Details on screen-
ings, performances and panel discus-
sions for 2020 are expected to be re-
vealed in the coming months via the
festival’s website, www.apmff.org, as
well as its Facebook, Twitter and Insta-
gram pages.
The Asbury Park Music and Film
Festival, which launched in 2015, bene-
fits under-served children in Asbury
Park and the surrounding areas by pro-
viding music education, instruments
and social connection opportunities.
The Asbury Park Press and RWJ Bar-
nabas Health sponsor the festival as
founding partners, with First Atlantic
Federal Credit Union as the presenting
sponsor and the Jay and Linda Grunin
Foundation and Madison Marquette as
sponsors. The festival’s co-chairs in-
clude Sony Pictures Classics co-presi-
dent and co-founder Tom Bernard, pho-
tographer and filmmaker Danny Clinch,
Amazon Music’s global head of music
catalog Adam Block and Tom Donovan,
the former Asbury Park Press president
See FESTIVAL, Page 4A
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Traumatic injuries to bones,
nerves, spinal cord
❚ Description: Includes bone frac-
tures, paralysis resulting from traumat-
ic spinal cord injury and pinched nerves
resulting from traumatic injury
❚ 2017: 84
❚ 2018: 98
Open wounds
See JOB DEATHS, Page 4A
4A ❚ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 ❚ ASBURY PARK PRESS
Festival
Continued from Page 3A
and publisher and president of the
Northeast Group of the USA TODAY NET-
WORK who retired in June. “Over the last
five years, the Asbury Park Music and
Film Festival has produced some of the
most memorable events to take place on
both stage and screen in the history of the
city,” said Bernard in a statement.
Job deaths
Continued from Page 3A
❚ Description: Includes amputa-
tions, cuts and lacerations, gunshot
wounds, stabbing or impaling wounds.
❚ 2017: 71
❚ 2018: 78
Other traumatic injuries and
disorders
❚ Description: Includes asphyxia-
tions, strangulations, drownings, elec-
trocutions, internal injuries, crushing
injuries and poisonings.
❚ 2017: 32
❚ 2018: 38
Traumatic injuries and disorders
unspecified
❚ Description: Traumatic injuries
for which details are not available. This
may include car crashes where injuries
were not provided or nonfatal blunt
force trauma where the body part affect-
ed is not known.
❚ 2017: 6
❚ 2018: 18
Murder
Continued from Page 3A
But when Londino got there at 9 p.m. he
found Austin dead on a sofa with blood
on the walls and ceiling.
Londino and a a friend of his, Arthur
Smith, 54, tracked down Barbara Austin
at the home of her boyfriend, Michael
Rodgers, 66, and returned with her to the
Acorn Drive home, where she “noticed a
baseball bat on the floor” and leaned it
against a wall and cabinet in the kitchen,
Byrne wrote. They left the home, Smith
taking Austin back to Rodgers’ home, ac-
cording to the affidavit. It was Barbara
Austin and Rodgers who made the 11:07
p.m. 911 call.
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early hours of the next morning,
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covered a bat “with apparent blood
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gesting narcotics.”
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of Sept. 6 and that on the afternoon of
Sept. 7 he had spoken with his father.
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well as to communicating through Face-
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its, and rein them in, experts say.
While it might feel right in the short
term to clear the hurdles from a child’s
path, the long-term effects of overpa-
renting can contribute to creating an
adult who is more prone to anxiety and
depression, studies show. “Helicopter
parenting or overparenting creates an
obstacle for a child — it robs them of
agency, self-efficacy and the chance to
live a normal, healthy life,” said Julie
Lythcott-Haims, former dean of fresh-
men and undergraduate advising at
Stanford University.
“If it continues through those four
years, they emerge from college without
the skills needed in the workplace, and
now we have a generation of kids whose
mental health has been really under-
mined,” Lythcott-Haims said.
Luckily, it’s never too late to stop the
unhealthy patterns of bulldozer parent-
ing, and there are helpful ways to change
without making a child feel as if they’re
being abandoned.
Are you a bulldozer?
Fiercely directive, overprotective,
concierge.
These are the three types of overpa-
renting that Lythcott-Haims has identi-
fied in her research and that she de-
scribes in her book “How to Raise an
Adult.”
Fiercely directive parents might want
to meet with a faculty member over
grades or curriculum concerns because
they’ve set an expectation for what their
child will do with their life.
“They’re conditioning their love and
approval on whether the child follows
the path that the parents have laid out
for them,” Lythcott-Haims said.
Overprotective parents don’t only
want to stop their child from physically
falling, but also want to protect them
from emotional hurdles, such as a dis-
pute with a roommate. “They feel they
need to protect their child from having a
hurt feeling,” she said.
A parent who wants their student’s
password to register for classes? That’s
the concierge parent, who acts more like
a personal assistant rather than some-
one guiding their child toward inde-
pendence.
“Even though the person is 18 or 19
years old, the parent doesn’t believe
their student can fill out forms on their
own, and they’re probably right, because
they never had the chance to,” Lythcott-
Haims said.
But failure — the thing from which
parents want to protect their children —
is the most important learning tool for
life. “The most powerful teaching tools I
have as a teacher require kids to be able
to be comfortable with a little bit of frus-
tration,” said Jessica Lahey, a Vermont
high school English teacher and author
of “The Gift of Failure.”
“Overparenting as a way to make
things better for your kids and make
things easier for your kids actually un-
Vaping
Continued from Page 1A
He went home. Instead of getting bet-
ter, he said he got worse. A debilitating
cough kept him up at night. He couldn’t
keep food or liquids down. He says he lost
nearly 15 pounds in two weeks, a lot for a
guy who’s 5-foot-6.
“I found him on the bathroom floor in
pain, doubled-over, crying, because he
just kept vomiting,” said his mom, Rose-
ann Maestri.
Mike’s father took him to the emer-
gency room at CentraState Medical Cen-
ter, here, where he underwent more tests,
including CAT scans of his lungs.
Maestri has since recovered. But as
health officials continue to investigate
the cause of a mysterious vaping-related
respiratory illness that has sickened hun-
dreds and killed eight people nationwide,
Maestri believes himself to be one of the
victims. As of Thursday, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention re-
ported 530 cases of severe lung illness
associated with e-cigarettes across 38
states and one U.S. territory. That total
has risen by 150 from a week ago.
None of the deaths has occurred in
New Jersey. However, as of last week, the
New Jersey Department of Health had
confirmed nine cases of the mystery ill-
ness and was investigating two dozen
other possible cases.
The department has started to post
weekly updates on the cases. The New
Jersey victims range from 15 to 51 years of
age. Nirav N. Shah, a pulmonologist and
medical director of CentraState’s inten-
sive care unit, told the Press that the hos-
pital has had three confirmed cases of
lung illness associated with vaping since
the summer.
Due to federal privacy laws, Shah
could not confirm if Maestri was one of
those cases. However, Maestri told the
Press that Shah treated him in the hospi-
tal. “The first thing he asked me (was),
‘Do you smoke cigarettes?’ I was like,
e
dermines their ability to learn and to be-
come more competent on their own,” La-
hey said.
Colleges answer the call
A few decades ago, parents would
drop off their students on move-in day
and leave, but in the late 1990s, it be-
came the norm for them to stick around
and ask about financial aid, curriculum,
course requirements — questions stu-
dents should have been capable of ask-
ing but weren’t.
Lythcott-Haims says this is in part a
product of the “play date,” which started
to gain popularity in the mid-1980s, as
pictures of missing children began ap-
pearing on milk cartons and child ab-
ductions became a concern.
Simultaneously, in a growing number
of households, both parents worked full-
time, so play time needed to be sched-
uled. Scheduled play in turn led to par-
ents’ closely watching kids play, and
then to becoming directly involved in
their play, Lythcott-Haims said.
By the early aughts, colleges and uni-
versities began answering the rising
trend of helicopter parents by holding
parent orientation sessions to meet their
needs while also discussing boundaries.
“Now, it really is a growing trend for
colleges and universities to completely
dedicate an office for our parents and
family members,” said Ashlea Coulter,
associate director of the Office of Parent
and Family Programs at Rutgers Univer-
sity. “We serve as a place to go so they
can get involved and get support.”
What began as a one-day orientation
for parents of new Rutgers students now
includes quarterly newsletters with
15,000 subscribers that give parents in-
formation about deadlines, as well as
year-long programming that includes
such events as tours of the dining halls
and other university buildings.
Other campuses condense events
and activities for parents to experience
campus culture in one weekend.
For instance, Sarah Lawrence College
in Bronxville, New York, has a long-
standing tradition of hosting parents
and families for a weekend in October.
“It’s an opportunity for the students
to show their families what they’ve been
working on during the first few weeks in
school, experience the campus together
and meet their new friends,” said Bren-
dan O’Callaghan, the college spokes-
man.
No, you can’t see their grades
While basic information about col-
lege or university resources is readily
available to parents, they aren’t allowed
to access their child’s records at any col-
lege or university because of the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of
1974.
“Colleges are in direct relationship
with the student, and we’re really limit-
ed in what information we can share
about a student with a parent or anyone
else,” O’Callaghan said. “They’re adults
once they turn 18, but some parents re-
act to that saying, ‘Well, two months ago,
this person was living in my house.’ ”
nope, not in the past three, three and a
half years. He goes, ‘More importantly, do
you vape?’ ” Maestri said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administra-
tion has also begun a criminal probe fo-
cusing on the supply chain.
New York and Michigan have an-
nounced temporary bans this week on
most flavored e-cigarettes. New York’s
ban is for 90 days while Michigan’s is 180
days. Pro-vaping advocates, meanwhile,
are pushing back against government ac-
tion, warning that a ban on flavored e-
cigarettes will result in those products
becoming available on the black market.
While acknowledging the seriousness of
the current outbreak, some users note
that smoking tobacco kills 480,000 peo-
ple a year in the U.S.
Like many people, Maestri said he
started vaping at age 22 to quit smoking
cigarettes, a habit he started when he was
15. He said he used several different types
of vaping products over the years.
Maestri said he no longer considers
vaping to be a safe alternative to smoking
tobacco, although vaping companies
point to studies that say it is healthier
than smoking.
“Everything that people have been
telling me, like, ‘(Vaping’s) not better for
you, it’s still bad. They just don’t know
enough about it.’ … All those people were
right and I was wrong, and I hate admit-
ting I’m wrong,” Maestri said.
Difficult to diagnose
Shah said CentraState had four pa-
tients complaining of pain in their lungs
come through the ER this summer. Some
were initially diagnosed with pneumonia
and given an antibiotic.
He said they all presented very similar
symptoms: respiratory symptoms such
as a cough, shortness of breath or chest
pain. Some also had gastrointestinal
symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting.
“They all had characteristic patterns
of abnormalities on the x-rays, which ini-
tially led us to believe that it was pneu-
monia. But many of them did not respond
Ashlea Coulter, associate director of new student and family programs,
addresses parents and families during the Rutgers Parent Orientation at the
Livingston Student Center in Piscataway last month.
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Anything in a student’s record that
isn’t available on a public directory, in-
cluding grades, conduct records and in-
volvement, is considered private, said
Dr. Anne Newman, associate vice chan-
cellor for student affairs and dean of stu-
dents at Rutgers University.
Students can sign a waiver if they
wish to give their parents permission to
see their records, but Newman recom-
mends having an open conversation
about this and reaching an agreement
together. Students can withdraw their
waiver at any point, so a one-year agree-
ment, for example, is possible, she said.
There are exceptions to the law, how-
ever. Health and safety emergencies are
exempted, as well as concerns of drug or
alcohol abuse, Newman said.
And if parents have concerns about
their child’s mental health or behavior,
they can use the parent office or student
affairs division as a resource.
“What we usually talk to parents
about is, look, I might not be able to spe-
cifically talk to you about what’s in your
student’s record, but let’s talk about how
you would resolve this situation or en-
courage your student,” Newman said.
“Do you really need to know the grades?
Or would it be better to know the re-
sources you can recommend to your stu-
dent in order to improve?”
How to stop bulldozing
The most crucial reason to put an end
to overparenting is to stop the long-term
harm it inflicts on a child or adult, ex-
perts say.
“Parental involvement is related to
many positive child outcomes, but if not
developmentally appropriate, it can be
associated with higher levels of child
anxiety and depression,” according to a
2013 study that surveyed 297 college
students. That study found that stu-
dents who said they had helicopter par-
ents reported “significantly higher levels
of depression and less satisfaction with
life.”
Another study in 2011 of 300 college
students found that “helicopter parent-
ing is negatively related to psychological
well-being and positively related to pre-
scription medication use for anxiety/de-
Mike Maestri of Freehold Township started vaping when he gave up smoking
cigarettes, thinking it was a safer alternative. When he started feeling very sick,
he went to the hospital and discovered he had bilateral pneumonia.
PETER ACKERMAN/ASBURY PARK PRESS
to standard antibiotics,” Shah said.
These patients had something else in
common, Shad said. They vaped.
Shah said when they realized it wasn’t
pneumonia, but inflammation of the
lungs, they started to treat patients with
steroids.
Maestri says he started to recover
once he was switched to a steroid treat-
ment. Federal and state investigators are
still trying to pin down the cause of the
ailment. To date, no specific e-cigarette
or vaping product, additive, or substance
has been found to be linked to the exist-
ing cases, the CDC said.
According to the CDC, e-cigarettes can
contain volatile organic compounds, nic-
otine, ultra-fine particles, cancer-caus-
ing chemicals, heavy metals such as nick-
el, tin and lead. Some vaping products
use flavoring chemicals such as Diacetyl,
which has been linked to serious lung
disease. Maestri says he doesn’t know
how much his lungs have been damaged
as a result of vaping. Since being dis-
charged from the hospital a month ago,
he’s gained his weight back. But he now
pression and the recreational consump-
tion of pain pills.”
There are healthy ways for parents
and guardians to stop bulldozer parent-
ing behavior when their children reach
the college level, the experts said.
“Instead of calling an adviser or the fi-
nancial aid office yourself, sit with your
student and go over the questions and
then let them call,” Coulter said.
Parents can have their student sit
with them when they pay their term bill
so the student can see how to pay it and
become more aware of the investment
being put into their education.
Lythcott-Haims, the author of “How
to Raise an Adult,” lists three habits par-
ents can drop immediately:
1 Stop saying ‘we’ when you really
mean your child. You don’t have a mid-
term — your child does.
2 Stop arguing with authority fig-
ures. Teach your children to advocate
for themselves with respect to authority
figures.
3 Stop doing their homework. It’s
unethical.
“What parents don’t realize when
they do the homework, or registration,
or email, is what they’re really doing is
telling their child’s psyche, ‘Hey, kid, I
don’t think you’re going to be successful
at this task, so I need to do it for you’ —
and that really messes with a person
psychologically,” Lythcott-Haims said.
Lahey, who often gives advice to par-
ents at college orientations, said the
best way to step back is to communicate
that you’re putting faith back in your
child’s abilities.
She suggested this statement as a
starting point: “I am really sorry, but I
think I’ve done too much for you, and
this is really your time to shine, not
mine. I’ll be here for you to talk through
things and if you want to rehearse con-
versations with professors, but it’s no
longer my place to run interference for
you. You’re an adult now. I have more
faith in you than I’ve been giving you
credit for.”
Catherine Carrera covers Rutgers
University and higher education trends.
Write to her at carrera@northjer
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Help quitting
CentraState offers a five week vaping
cessation program for teens. Teens
meet with a certified tobacco treatment
specialist for a private assessment,
then attend four group meetings. For
more information call 732-308-0570.
fears the change of weather or the slight-
est sniffle. He will have to be sure to get a
pneumonia shot once a year.
There’s one thing he’s sure about: He’s
done with vaping.
“Nobody knows the long-term effects.
Nobody knows what’s going to happen in
20 years. Even doctors are still learning
what’s going on,” Maestri said.
“Just don’t do it. It’s not worth it,” is his
advice. “I thought I was going to die.”
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history professor. Reach him @danielra
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American Dream fall opening will be in phases

Melanie Anzidei North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
When American Dream opens next month, only two
of its attractions will be ready to go.
On Oct. 25, the public will finally get a first look inside
the project’s theme park and NHL-regulation-size ice
rink. But guests will have to wait until late November to
check out the indoor water park; early December for the
snow park; and March 2020 to shop and dine, officials
announced.
Officials unveiled details for a string of opening cele-
brations, described as “chapters.”
The project’s phased openings span through next
March — with a large portion of the center’s retail and
dining offerings slated to open by spring. It remains un-
clear whether officials anticipate having any shopping
or dining open before then, and a spokesperson declined
to provide further comment.
“We’re not ready to provide additional opening de-
tails,” an American Dream spokesperson said in an
email Monday.
In July, officials announced that American Dream
would open in October. It was the first time officials re-
leased a specific opening date to the public, after blow-
ing past previous projections for spring and summer
launches.
At the time, officials said they anticipated opening
the center’s theme park, water park, snow park, ice rink
and 18-hole Angry Birds miniature golf experience. Ac-
cording to their most recent projections, it seems that
most of those attractions will open before the end of this
year — although no specific update has been shared re-
garding the mini golf.
Below are what officials have confirmed will be open-
ing, and when.
Chapter 1, Oct. 25
Officials expect to open two of American Dream’s en-
tertainment options: Nickelodeon Universe and Theme
Park and The Rink at American Dream.
The theme park will feature more than 35 rides, rec-
ord-breaking roller coasters and other attractions; it
also mirrors the Nickelodeon theme park at Mall of
America, which is Triple Five’s sister property. The ice
rink will eventually become a home for open skating, fig-
ure skating, hockey tournaments and other events. The
ice rink’s opening will be followed by a “spooky skate”
for Halloween, on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Chapter 2, Nov. 27
DreamWorks Water Park is slated to open the day be-
fore Thanksgiving. The indoor water park will feature
more than 40 slides and 15 attractions. It will have the
world’s largest wave pool, the world’s tallest indoor
body slide, and an estimated 31 luxury cabanas designed
by New Jersey native Jonathan Adler.
Chapter 3, Dec. 5
Just one week after the water park debuts, American
Dream’s long-anticipated indoor snow park, called Big
SNOW, is slated to open.
Guests will have the chance to ski and snowboard all
year long at this portion of the property. The snow park
will be more than 800 feet long, 200 feet wide and 16
stories tall, according to American Dream’s website. The
park will also feature The Shops at Big SNOW, which is
being described as a “retail environment that is truly ex-
periential.”

Chapter 4, March 2020

Obituaries
Walter A. Patterson Jr
OCEAN GROVE - Wal-
ter A. Patterson Jr. Age
98 passed away on Sun-
day, September 22, 2019,
at Manor By The Sea in
Ocean Grove, NJ. He was
born in Asbury Park and
was a life resident of the
Jersey Shore.
Walter graduated from
APHS and was an Army
Veteran of WW11 serv-
ing in the 832nd Signal Corps and worked in
the Federal Government Civil Service. He was a
member of Farmingdale American Legion Post
# 178, the VFW of Asbury Park and a life long
member of The Atonement Lutheran Church in
Asbury Park. Walter Loved being with his family,
playing bocce, the ocean and the beach. He was
a proud American who served his country with
distinction.
Walter is predeceased by his loving wife Edwina
(2003). He is survived by one daughter, Ann Clark,
two grandchildren; Christine and Thomas all of
Hazlet, NJ.
Visitation will be held Wednesday, September
25, 2019, 4-7 pm at Buckley Funeral Home, 509
Second Ave, Asbury Park NJ. Funeral Service 11 am
on Thursday at Buckley Funeral Home. Interment
immediately following Monmouth Memorial Park,
Tinton Falls.
For condolences please visit www.buckleyfu-
neralhome.net
Eileen Gallagher
HOWELL, NJ - Eileen
McCarey Gallagher, 86,
passed away peacefully
surrounded by all of her
children. Eileen was born
and raised in Jersey City
and resided in Wall, NJ
before settling in Howell,
NJ. Eileen attended St.
Michael’s High School
and worked for Western
Electric prior to retiring
to raise her six children. She was actively involved
in all of her children’s activities and especially
enjoyed her participation in the St. Peter’s Prep
Mothers’ Club, where all four of her sons attended.
In her later years she was a member of the Women
of Irish Heritage Club where she celebrated her
Irish roots. Her best days were spent with friends
and family, good food, and a glass of Pinot (one
ice cube).
Eileen was a loving wife, mother, grandmother,
and sister. She was predeceased by her husband,
Thomas, her parents Bridget and Bernard Mc-
Carey, and her sister Anna Rose Whaley. She is
survived by her children Thomas and Diana Gal-
lagher, Michael and Julia Gallagher, Karen Galla-
gher, John and Mark Kourey, James and Darlene
Gallagher, and Patti and Sean Saganey, her sisters
Mary Fischer and Bernadette Russo, brother-in-law
Kevin and Margaret Gallagher, grandchildren Lau-
ren, Dylan, Michael, Colleen and Tony Cramond,
Haley and Kevin Brady, McCarey, James, Jaclyn,
Liam, Richard, Eileen, and many grandpups. She
will be missed by all.
Visiting will be Wednesday, September 25, from
4-8 PM at the O’Brien Funeral Home, 2028 Hwy
35 at New Bedford Rd., Wall. Funeral Mass will
be Thursday, September 26, 2019, 10:30 AM at St.
Margaret’s Church, 3rd and Ludlow Aves., Spring
Lake, NJ. Burial will follow in Brig. Gen. William
C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wright-
stown, NJ. In lieu of flowers, donations to the
American Cancer Society in her memory will be
greatly appreciated. For more information or to
send condolences please visit www.obrienfuner-
alhome.com.
This fourth phase seems to be when the rest of the
project will open.
In March, more than 350 shopping venues are ex-
pected to debut, officials said. This includes stores by
luxury brands Hermès, Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent
and Moncler, and specialty shops by Saks Fifth Avenue
and Tiffany & Co. The complex is expected to have stores
Wilberta Schreiber for retailers like Zara, H&M, Uniqlo and Primark, also
slated to open by spring. More than 100 dining destina-
WHITING - Wilberta Schreiber, 94, passed away tions are also expected to debut around this time, but
on September 12, 2019. She was born in Wood- officials did not specify which ones would be ready.
bridge, NJ to the late John and May Antonette. Officials also expect the following to open by March:
Willie married the love of her life, Thomas Merlin Entertainments’ SEA LIFE Aquarium and LEGO-
Schreiber, in 1943. They were married for 72 years LAND Discovery Center; CMX Luxury Movie Theater;
before his passing in 2015. Willie lived in Dumont, Kidzania; American Dream’s 300-foot Observation
NJ for 33 years before relocating to Whiting, NJ Wheel, and other attractions.
in 1982. She was a member of St. Elizabeth Ann
Seton Church in Whiting and found great strength
in her Catholic faith.
Willie was a devoted mother and homemaker
who embraced every moment with her family.
Ramapo College
Family visits and summer vacations were cherished
memories for all. She will always be remembered
launches search
for her extraordinary gift giving at Christmas.
She possessed so many talents including baking,
for new president
sewing and knitting, which she freely shared with Catherine Carrera North Jersey Record
others. And she was especially athletic, even into USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
her golden years.
Ramapo College of New Jersey’s president, Peter P.
Willie leaves behind nothing but beautiful Mercer, will step down in 2021 after a 16-year tenure, an
memories of the time she spent with family and
uncommonly long term among college presidents.
friends. Her children will be forever grateful for The college board of trustees announced this week
her love, laughter and the importance she placed that Mercer will serve until his contract ends on June 30,
on all of us being together. 2021. The board formed a presidential search committee
Willie was predeceased by her son, Gary, grand- which has begun a national search for a replacement.
daughter, Elizabeth and her brother, Harry. She is “Ramapo College students and alumni have benefited
survived by her son, Thomas and his wife, Made- from his steadfast vision and his unwavering dedication
to the mission of the college,” Board Chair William F. Da-
line of Whiting, NJ; three daughters and sons-in- tor said of Mercer. “The board of trustees
law, Linda and Bruce VanKlompenberg of Berlin, is confident that the college will continue
MD, Kathy and Lawrence Webb of Whiting, NJ to thrive under his leadership for the next
and Mary Beth and Robert Nicholas of Monroe, two years.” Under his contract, Mercer
NY. She is also survived by six grandchildren and gets an annual salary of $380,385 and is
eight great-grandchildren. eligible to receive a performance bonus
A Memorial Mass will be offered on Thursday, each fiscal year up to 15 percent of his
base salary. Mercer
September 26th at 10:45am at the All Saints Chapel Board Vice Chair Susan A. Vallario is
of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 30 Schoolhouse chair of the search committee, which will include stu-
Road, Whiting, NJ. Inurnment will follow at the dent, faculty, staff, alumni, administration and Ramapo
Chapel. Arrangements are under the direction of College Foundation representation.
Manchester Memorial Funeral Home, Whiting. The college will distribute a request for proposal in
For information and condolences, please visit our October for a search firm and plans to identify the firm
by January, a college representative said.
website at manchestermemorial.net
Mercer became the college’s fourth president in
2005, after serving as dean of the law school at the Uni-
Marilynn P. Lawrence M. Fain versity of Western Ontario, where he also earned his law
Casagrande degree and taught law. He was a faculty member at the
TOMS RIVER - Law- University of Calgary, University of Detroit and Univer-
TOMS RIVER - Mar- rence M. Fain 69 years sity of Windsor, and a research scholar at the University
ilynn P. Casagrande, old of Toms River of Michigan. “Dr. Mercer is a tremendous asset to public
75, of Toms River, NJ, passed away September higher education in New Jersey,” Dator said.
Mercer served on the College Affordability Study
passed away peacefully 22, 2019. For visitation
on September 21, 2019, Commission under former Gov. Chris Christie and was
and service informa- past vice chair of the New Jersey Association of Colleges
at Aristacare of Man- tion visit our website and Universities Presidents Council.
chester. She was born in at www.silvertonmemo- Several local organizations have recognized Mercer
Lakewood, NJ, and was rial.com. Silverton Me- for his leadership at Ramapo College over the years.
a lifelong resident of morial Funeral Home The state liberal arts college has grown in class size,
Toms River. Marilynn 2482 Church Rd., Toms undergone a number of renovations and added several
was a wonderful wife new buildings and academic programs to its Mahwah
River is in charge of the campus under Mercer’s leadership, including the open-
and mother who truly arrangements. ing of the Anisfield School of Business, equipped with a
put the word home in trading lab.
homemaker. She en- “The college has seen substantial growth in its rep-
joyed creating a warm, utation, campus facilities and academic programs,”
loving atmosphere for Mercer said in an email on Wednesday. “The success of
her family and friends our alumni and the generosity of our donors are a testa-
to enjoy. ment to the value of the education that Ramapo College
provides.” Between the fall of 2006 and this semester,
Marilynn was prede- For
making
a

the number of applications the college received each
ceased by her beloved Charitable
year grew from 4,430 to 7,329. The number of those ad-
husband Richard Alan Donation
mitted each year grew from 815 to 1,030 in that time.
Casagrande in April according
to
the
“My last 14 years as president of Ramapo College have
of 2019, and her son been full of challenge and reward,” Mercer said. “Over
Mark Casagrande in family’s
wishes, the next two years, I look forward to helping bring to fru-
go
to

2015. She is survived ition the new Learning Commons and continuing to ad-
vance our mission as New Jersey’s designated public
by her devoted daugh- MFHBDZDPN
liberal arts college.” Mercer’s long tenure is unusual, giv-
ter, Mary Casagrande of PCJUVBSJFTBQQ
and

en the average six and a half year term of college presi-
New Egypt, NJ, and her follow
the
prompts. dents in the United States. The American College Presi-
sister Barbara Winship dent Study in 2017, which is produced every five years by
of So. Toms River, NJ. the American Council on Education, showed the average
A Graveside Service was down from seven years in 2011 and eight and a half
will be held on Thurs- years in 2006.
day, September 26, at 11 Ramapo College, founded in 1969, currently has a stu-
dent enrollment of about 6,100. It has an operating bud-
AM at St. Joseph Cem-
get of $160 million. The college began celebrating its
etery, 62 Cedar Grove 50th anniversary at the start of this semester and will
Road in Toms River. continue celebrations over the next two years, with the
Anderson & Campbell opening of a new Learning Commons in 2021.
Funeral Home of Toms Catherine Carrera covers Rutgers University and
River is in charge of the higher education trends. Write to her at carre
arrangements. ra@northjersey.com. Follow her on Twitter @CattCar
rera.
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Swamps saved by environmentalists

Events predate
American Dream
Melanie Anzidei North Jersey Record
USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY

When Bill Sheehan steers his boat up

and down the Hackensack River, he fo-
cuses on the small details.
The ospreys, bald eagles and herons
that populate the wetlands. The kayak-
ers and boaters who coast past him. The
anglers patiently anticipating a tug on
their lines.
He even savors one unusual struc-
ture that rises out of the watery land-
scape and looms over the phragmite-
covered mudflats — American Dream,
the mammoth, 3-million-square-foot
retail and entertainment complex,
which has been nestled, often dormant,
in the heart of the Meadowlands for
decades, wedged in between the river’s
wildlife and New Jersey’s concrete in-
frastructure.
That’s because for Sheehan, the pro-
ject that is slated to open this fall serves
as a daily reminder of a fading chapter in
the river’s lifetime — a chapter that in-
volved a years-long battle to save a big
chunk of the Meadowlands that conser-
vationists won nearly two decades ago.
A chapter that unravels like a David and
Goliath tale, between local environmen-
talists and an out-of-state developer.
“Every time I go down the river on by
boat,” Sheehan said, “I look and I see ea-
gles in the trees, and I see herons along
the shoreline. Yeah, this is the way it’s
supposed to be.”
Sheehan, the Hackensack River-
keeper, played an instrumental role in
the late 1990s orchestrating a grassroots American Dream, at the site of the old Continental Arena, is scheduled to open this fall. The surrounding wetlands have
movement to keep a mega-mall from been preserved. PHOTOS BY VIOREL FLORESCU/USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY
being built on 206 acres of untouched
wetlands. He, and more than a dozen
other local environmental groups, law- Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey
yers and public officials, rallied against Sierra Club, another local environmen-
the Meadowlands Mills project, the pre- tal group involved in the opposition, re-
cursor to what we know now as Amer- called how tense public opposition was.
ican Dream. His organization collected more than
“Long after I’m gone, future genera- 30,000 signatures opposing the project.
tions are going to have a Meadowlands With so much outcry, and because of
to enjoy,” Sheehan said. “If we didn’t do how far-fetched he believed the propos-
what we did, God knows what would be al was, he never anticipated the mall to
here.” get approval.
The tale has become a forgotten foot- “Hundreds of people came out in op-
note in the long, winding history of the position. That’s why I don’t think they
American Dream project, which had would have ever gotten permits, be-
gone through two developers before Tri- cause there was just so much opposi-
ple Five took over in 2011. Most people tion,” Tittel said.
start the clock on American Dream’s Local business groups and unions fa-
history in 2002, when requests for pro- vored the proposal, citing the creation
posals were sent out to potential bid- of jobs and economic revenue. Mean-
ders to redevelop the 104-acre Izod Cen- while, environmentalists wanted to
ter site, at the time called Continental protect the wetlands.
Airlines Arena. They forget the war The meetings were as tense as public
waged between local activists and the hearings could get, those who were
Meadowlands Mills project years earli- there recalled. Sheehan said he pur-
er, when the project was being proposed chased a remote starter for his car be-
elsewhere. cause he feared it might explode when
“The backstory on the American he turned the key.
Dream starts out way, way back,” Shee-
han said. Fate intervened

A shopping mall on wetlands In the early 2000s, “fate intervened,”

The backstory begins sometime in
1996, Sheehan recalls.
He and other local activists had been
butting heads with the Hackensack
Meadowlands Development Commis-
sion, a state agency that would later be
renamed and eventually absorbed by
the New Jersey Sports and Exposition
Authority.
The commission had proposed a
Special Area Management Plan, which
called for the development of 2,200
acres, including 842 acres of federally
protected wetlands. The plan was ex-
pected to generate $875 million from
fees charged to developers that would
be used to preserve a remaining 7,000
acres of wetlands over 20 years, The
Record reported at the time.
“The impacts to other wetlands from
that filling process would have basically
zeroed out the ecological value of the
Meadows,” Sheehan said.
Around that time, the Mills Corpora-
tion, a Virginia-based firm that special-
ized in building malls, announced plans
to fill 206 acres of wetlands in the Mead-
owlands to create a mega-mall called
the Meadowlands Mills project.
Developers proposed a 2.1 million-
square-foot shopping center, 1,000 ho-
tel rooms, and 2.2 million square feet of
office space on a 592-acre tract owned
by Empire Ltd. of Wood-Ridge, just east
of the Meadowlands Sports Complex off
Paterson Plank Road in Carlstadt. That
area is still often referred to as the Em-
pire Tract in Carlstadt.
“We immediately said this is not go-
ing to happen,” Sheehan said. “When I
say we, I mean the environmental com-
munity in New Jersey.”
Sheehan estimated that local envi-
ronmentalists had rallied between 15 to
20 groups to work together against
Meadowlands Mills.
“We just pushed, and pushed, and
pushed, and pushed, and organized,
and organized, and organized,” Sheehan
said. “There were very few people in the
state of New Jersey who didn’t know
that there was a battle brewing in the
Meadowlands.”
Sheehan recalled.
The new millennium was a pivotal
time for the Meadowlands, and New
Jersey politics. The fight with Mills was
ongoing, and the Special Area Manage-
ment Plan was still on the table. But a
change in policy really paved the way for
a silver lining in their fight to protect the
wetlands, Sheehan recalled.
In March 2001, Acting Gov. Donald T.
DiFrancesco announced his opposition
to the mega-mall in Carlstadt, and sug-
gested an alternative that would keep
the economic benefits of the project in
New Jersey: why not build the mall at
the Continental Arena site, if the Nets
and Devils move out? (Spoiler alert:
both sports teams did.)
The surprise announcement got the
ball rolling.
Sheehan was soon named a trustee
of the Meadowlands Conservation
Trust, a state agency formed to acquire
and preserve “environmentally valuable
land” and enhance the Hackensack
Meadowlands District and Hackensack
River Watershed.
The Hackensack Meadowlands De-
velopment Commission dropped the
word “development” from its name —
and the group got a new executive direc-
tor.
By 2003, after nearly six years of bat-
tle between developers and activists,
the Mills Corporation turned its atten-
tion from the Empire Tract to the Conti-
nental Arena site, where they eventual-
ly began a new project, named Xanadu.
Then in 2004, the Meadowlands
Commission approved a new master
plan that placed 8,400 acres of the dis-
trict’s wetlands and waterways into
conservation.
That same year, as part of a deal with
the New Jersey Sports and Exposition
Authority to build Xanadu on state land
near the Continental Airlines Arena, de-
velopers agreed to donate the Empire
Tract to the New Jersey Conservation
Trust. The land was renamed the Rich-
ard P. Kane Natural Area, after New Jer-
sey Audubon’s former vice president.
By September 2005, the commission
appropriated $3 million to begin resto-
In the 1990s, when Xanadu was first proposed, there had been plans to build the
then-massive project on a plot of land known at the Empire Tract in Carlstadt.
Bill Sheehan, known as the Hackensack Riverkeeper, and a group of activists
fought developers and, eventually, the project was moved to an
already-developed plot of land — the Continental Arena. “Long after I’m gone,
future generations are going to have a Meadowlands to enjoy,” Sheehan said.
ration of the former Empire Tract. Offi- most of his life in Secaucus. He fell into
cials applauded the move. his activist role after he witnessed the
“For years, the Empire Tract was at marshes in his town disappear. Wet-
the heart of the quintessential Meadow- lands were filled to make way for devel-
lands debate — open space or develop- opments now common along the Mead-
ment,” Charles A. Richman, then the owlands Parkway, and also on the other
chairman of the Meadowlands Com- side of town where the re-purposed Mill
mission, said at the time. “The Richard Creek Mall sits, or near the Harmon
P. Kane Natural Area will be preserved Meadow shopping plaza. He didn’t want
forever, and funding we’ve put aside to- the same fate for the Empire Tract.
day will make sure this amazing piece of “Those wetlands, when I was a kid
land gets restored to a new glory.” we called them the swamps, and that
was a place we went to play and hang
Filling in ‘the swamps’ out and we enjoyed being out there,”
Sheehan said. “And all of a sudden, they
Today, the Empire Tract is filled with started filling it all in and it became pri-
wildlife, and the occasional rogue piece vate property, and they took it away
of Styrofoam. from us. If I said anything, I was told by
That mega-mall? It’s now inching older and wiser folks not to be too loud.”
closer to opening day, some 25 years af- He couldn’t help but be loud when
ter local activists started mobilizing the Meadowlands Mills project was pro-
against retail in the wetlands, under a posed.
new name and new leadership. It was These days, Sheehan spends most of
built on land that was already mostly his time wearing many hats. He’s an ex-
developed, and it is going to be much ecutive director, a trustee, an advocate.
more than a mall; the project has He’s working on reviewing the new
evolved by about 1 million square feet Meadowlands Master Plan, which is
since its Meadowlands Mills days. due for an update in 2020. He’s facing
Those two battles — against the new battles, like a power plant that was
Meadowlands Mills proposal, and the recently proposed in the Meadowlands.
push against the Special Area Manage- But, he’s still Captain Sheehan, cruis-
ment Plan — were defining moments for ing the Hackensack River, wearing his
the Meadowlands and the Hackensack “Make American Green Again” hat. And
River watershed, Sheehan said. They when he gets the chance, he’ll point out
were also defining moments for the the American Dream project, then tell
Hackensack Riverkeeper, which formed you a story about the wetlands where it
in 1997, and also for Sheehan. was originally supposed to be built.
Sheehan, a fisherman, had lived