August 27, 2014 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVII, No. 14
COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD
• EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
School getting facelift By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent EAST NEWARK – As summer’s clock winds down to the start of classes for the fall term, East Newark Public School is making all kinds of preparations to welcome students and staff back in style. Newly installed Superintendent/Principal Patrick Martin recently ticked off a list of improvements that staff and borough workers have done to enliven the century-plus-old building. “We’ve undergone a huge facelift,” said Martin. Among the improvements he listed were these: * All classrooms have gotten new window shades. “Many didn’t have any to begin with,” he said. * The school’s early childhood center, located in the borough rec center, had a new air-conditioning system and a new refrigerator installed. * A borough maintenance crew was doing some repairs in the school’s boys’ bathroom and came across original floor tiles, Martin said, so that flooring has been restored. * The school’s kindergarten classroom – whose wall coloring probably has remained untouched for many years – is being painted, along with a see SCHOOL page
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Koppers developer picked Photo courtesy HCIA
Aerial view shows HCIA-owned Koppers site in foreground.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY –
H
opes by Kearny to secure a developer for the old Koppers Coke Peninsula Redevelopment site have taken one step forward and two steps back.
Kearny and Tierra Solutions, the owners of two of the three parcels in the South Kearny meadows area targeted for redevelopment, teamed with the Hudson County Improvement Authority, the third property owner, to jointly market the moribund site for new
ratables in hopes of maximizing the future value of the property. To that end, the HCIA – acting on behalf of all three – invited prospective developers to submit proposals which were eventually narrowed to a short list of two: The Morris Companies and
Cleaner/Matrix. On Aug. 13, the HCIA board of commissioners authorized its representatives to designate The Morris Companies as the prospective developer – but only for the HCIAowned Koppers site – and to see KOPPERS page
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Too many birds of a feather flock to Nutley By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
NUTLEY – Fire hoses didn’t work. Boom-boxes didn’t work. Will “fogging” do the job? Only time will tell. The “job” is to drive the
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starlings from DeMuro Park, where they reportedly have been roosting in massive numbers. Roosting and pooping. It’s the pooping that has the township concerned. “They’re lovely little birds,” said Nutley Commissioner
Mauro G. Tucci, “but when they roost in the thousands, they create a problem.” Which is why, for several nights last week, the park was temporarily closed for “fogging,” the spraying of an “environmentally responsible” aerosol called Methyl Anthranilate.
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On Aug. 11, Tucci, director of Parks & Recreation, sent out an email alert to Nutley residents explaining the situation and noting that the town had contracted with a company called the Bird Doctor Nationsee FOGGING page
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