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May 13, 2015 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVII, No. 51 Visit our

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COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD

Mapping out a new future

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

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• EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY

Santos retreats on F/T KEARNY – Don’t blame some members of the Kearny governing body for holding more than one public job – they’re simply showing their skills at multitasking. That’s the contention of Mayor Alberto Santos, who doubles as the clerk to the Hudson County Board of Freeholders. Santos’ comments, made at the April 28 mayor/Town Council meeting, came in the context of his defense of why Kearny elected officials – as “full-time” employees – should be entitled to collect state health benefits if they are so inclined – including the “newbies” elected to the council since the state health benefit law was amended in 2010 mandating local contributions by employees. At that meeting, the mayor and Town Council voted for the introduction of an ordinance “declaring the members of the Town’s governing body to be full-time elective officers ….” A public hearing on the ordinance was slated for May 12 but Santos told The Observer last week he would ask the council to pull the ordinance

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Tracey Marinelli has landed a new job in Little Falls.

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – ith a bit more than three years remaining in her contract, Lyndhurst’s chief school administrator is leav-

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ing. Tracey Marinelli, who has served in the Lyndhurst school district’s highest post since 2010, was hired April 28 by the Little Falls Board of Education to take over July 1, as its new superintendent, at $145,000 a year.

It’s the cat’s meow! By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent

KEARNY – Last year, this community was embroiled in a cat fight. The claws were out. The fur was flying. And various other feline-related metaphors. The source of the

controversy was the feeding of colonies of feral cats by members of Kearny’s colony of humans. Luckily, sanity -- and governmental intervention -- prevailed. Under an ordinance adopted by the Town Council in November, Kearny established a Trap/Neuter/Return

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As part of her duties, Marinelli will also be principal assigned to the district’s School 3 for grades 3 and 4. Little Falls, with an exclusively elementary school enrollment of about 900, has no high school and sends its 8th-grade graduates to

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