June 4, 2014 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVII, No. 2
COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD
Then & Now
Ferraro’s credentials questioned By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Is Frank Ferraro, the exiled on-leave Kearny superintendent of schools, properly certified to be a public school administrator? Maybe not, says Kearny Board of Education general counsel Kenneth Lindenfelser. Of course I am, says Ferraro. This debate figures to drag on for at least another month or so, at which point the BOE will have to resolve a separate question about who’s the leader of the gang – since, on June 30, Acting Superintendent Patricia Blood’s contract extension runs out. Meanwhile, though, there is the Ferraro matter to consider. Last Tuesday, Lindenfelser updated the BOE on the status of an “investigation” into Ferraro’s academic credentials that began in March when the BOE hired the Check-M-Out detective agency for $5,000 to check his background. Lindenfelser said he’d expected to give his report in private session but said that Ferraro had waived his right to privacy. Ferraro, however, wasn’t at the meeting. He was vacationing in Italy. The Observer wasn’t at the meeting, either; a reporter was attending a Kearny Town see FERRARO page
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By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
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hat you’re looking at above is Omaha Beach on the coast of Normandy, France. ‘Now,’ it is a peaceful strand, a place
will be observed Friday. It has been seven long decades since June 6, 1944, and the world has changed in ways those living then could never have foreseen. What must never change is our country’s acknowledgement
of contemplation. ‘Then,’ it was a place of unimaginable horror. And valor. This week, we decided to use The Observer’s popular photo feature to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, which
of the debt of honor we owe the men who endured that lethal storm of combat. There are some still among us, but too few and fewer every day, who were there. As D-Day must never be see D-DAY page
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Bar, eatery shut for ABC violations By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A local tavern has been ordered shut for 60 days, and a local eatery that serves liquor will be closed for a week, after the owners pleaded guilty to a series of Alcoholic Beverage
Ponte Romana, didn’t contest the charges. Initially, attorney James Madden entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Gill Mill licensee John Hodnett but, in the end, he and his client accepted a reduced penalty. The Gin Mill was charged with allowing narcotics activity on the premises on Oct.
Control violations. Last Tuesday, after a premeeting public hearing, the Kearny governing body slapped liquor license suspensions on The Gin Mill, Brighton and Afton Aves., and Ponte Romana Restaurant, Kearny and Johnston Aves. Luis Gomes, licensee of
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8, 2013; purchase of alcoholic beverages from a prohibited source, transporting alcoholic beverages without proper documents and allowing a licensed business to be conducted in such a matter to become a nuisance, all on Dec. see ABC page
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