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Montville Girl Scouts sending holiday cheer to GIs in Iraq

Holiday Mail for Heroes part of national outreach - Nikki Coan's sentiments toward American troops overseas are pretty typical for a 10-year-old. 

"I think they're very brave to go out and fight for our country," she said. "They don't see their families a lot."

But in a few weeks' time, hundreds of American servicemen and women who won't be home for the holidays will receive a little Christmas cheer, courtesy of the fourth-grader and her fellow Girl Scouts in Montville.  See Daily Record.

Friday - Why the Printer Won't Work

LDA President Concerned Over Power Lines

Terry Cavanaugh is a long time Montville resident and is President of the Learning Disabilities Assn. of New Jersey.  She writes the following:        

 PSE&G has NEVER answered the question of the long-term neurological impact this will have on our children -

The Learning Disabilities Association has been very active in collecting data on the effects of pollutants on the pre-natal fetus - this includes diesel fuel emissions ( school buses idling in front of schools) , toxins in cleaning fluids, lead poisoning, etcetcetc ad nauseum - the biggest problem, despite the admirable efforts of citizens to clean up the environment, is that it takes TEN YEARS for studies to be validated!!!! DO WE WAIT TEN YEARS TO FIND OUT THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED???

The Story of Towaco

Hat tip to Christina Renfer and Terry Cavanaugh    

A TOWACO RESIDENT GAVE THIS WRITING TO ME AS A MATTER OF INTEREST.  AT THE NOVEMBER 21st TCA MEETING,  MEMBER DAVE VIRKLER READ THE NARRATIVE TO THE MEMBERSHIP AND CAPTIVATED THEIR INTEREST. WHEN READING, PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1951 AND THE REFERENCES ARE OF THAT TIME.  TRY TO IDENTIFY THE PRESENT DAY LOCATIONS. 

 

THANK YOU – CHRISTINA RENFER

 

 

We think this was written by Mrs. Walter Read (Gertrude) circ 1951. She lived on the hill behind the post office.

 

Montville teachers awarded 4% raises

Montville school pact demonstrates problem -   

The Montville Board of Education just concluded a contract with its teachers, awarding them average increases of slightly more than 4 percent in each of four years, one year of which is retroactive. Yes, teachers made slight concessions in regard to health benefits, but that lowers the value of the increase by merely 0.3 percent, said Jon Alin, the school board president.  See Daily Record.

Montville woman sees art in nature, on the stage

By Michael Daigle • Daily Record •

November 17, 2008

Gladys Nemirow has taken on some issues -- a state bear hunt, a deer hunt in her Lake Valhalla neighborhood in Montville -- where she has said forcefully "No, don't do that, " but last weekend she stood in a room decked out in purple with stars dancing on the ceiling and said cheerfully, "Yes, yes, yes."

As the fundraising chairwoman of the Women's Theater Company of Parsippany, Nemirow, a member of the company's board of trustees, worked for the past eight months to pull together a fancy fundraiser at the Parsippany Community Center that netted the theater company $15,000, or as she said, "Enough to put on a play and half."

The arts are vital, she said. They are as important to our lives as water is to a person in the desert, she said.

"Art and music are the two things that we cannot live without," Nemirow said.

Daily Record

GI Auto Speaks - Montville Township Responds

The owner of GI Auto Salvage recently sent out a letter  ( Download gi_auto_speaks_out.pdf)about his proposal to build a Lowe's and Sports Authority shopping center on what is currently the junkyard at the end of Old Bloomfield Avenue.

Montville's Township Committee sent out a response ( Download TwspResponse.pdf ) in which it "finds it necessary to correct the misrepresentations" in that letter.

What do Montville residents think? Should the Lowe's and Sports Authority be approved or is some other use better?

Discuss on OurMontville.com blog.