SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION TODAY

Came across one candidate for the school board today, Bill Gaudelli, who was pressing the flesh outside Tuscan. Vote 2-9 p.m.

TEACHERS UNION IN FULL FORCE

They were out again with the I Am SOMEA T-shirts today at Tuscan School, where bulletin boards remain empty, and likely elsewhere. 


Oddly, several teachers declined to be photographed. So much for unity.

DE LUCA DANCE

The highlight for me of the great visit Monday night by Kenyan tribal leaders at the Maplewood Library was Mayor Vic De Luca dancing with the chief.


Photo courtesy of PATCH.

POETS NIGHT OUT

Our resident poet laureate Tina Kelley, she late of the NY Times and also a Covenant House author, was seen doting on her two favorite pastimes - poetry and knitting.


She sat at the open mic at the main library Monday night that she operates as folks offered their prose, while also working on her latest knit-one, pearl-two.


More form PATCH here.

DOG CRACKDOWN

Scanner reports health department at Memorial Park to crackdown on owners letting dogs run without leashes, a no-no

OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT'S $100,000 CLUB

Interesting finding at The Star-Ledger site, we have 35 people in the school district making more than $100,000 per year.


Is that high or low? Perhaps, perhaps not


See them HERE

OUR TAX INCREASE

A great new Star-Ledger option allows you to check your taxes and other government info.


The property tax option finds our taxes went up an average of $524.58 last year to an average annual payment of $13,023.00, with 57% going to schools, worth noting.


See it all HERE.

TEACHERS GOING TOO FAR, AGAIN

The teacher's union bulletin board fiasco gets worse. Now word comes that some students started a petition asking that the green bulletin boards protesting contract talks be put back up again with their work.


Of course, when they put the petition up, it was mysteriously pulled down.


Screw the kids again!