Aug. 10, 2016 Edition of The Observer

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

River jumper still missing By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – here is Keith Jean? That’s what police continue to ponder after Jean jumped into the Passaic River to avoid capture by police last Wednesday, Aug. 3, and has yet to turn up. Authorities speculate he may have drowned or possibly met his demise in a water/sewer chamber or somehow made his way to safety. According to Harrison Police Lt. David Doyle, the episode began at about noon on Aug. 3 when a Harrison police officer observed a black Chevy Impala parked at a fire hydrant at Second St. and Cleveland Ave. The officer noticed that two of the occupants were going in and out of the Impala and scanning a parking lot that has been targeted by numerous car burglars.

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N.J. State Police boat and crew search for Keith Jean (inset) after he had jumped into the Passaic River and swam to a PVSC sewer drain at the foot of Clay St. in Newark.

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Key town employees leaving next year

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent

KEARNY – Like the N.Y. Yankees, Kearny will be looking to fill some key positions in its lineup because the veterans now in those slots will be moving on soon.

Michael Martello, who serves a dual role as the town’s construction official/town administrator, has filed his retirement papers, as has Kim Bennett, the town’s principal personnel director. Unless either has a change of heart, each is scheduled to go Aug. 1, 2017.

By then, Bennett said she will have logged “25 years and nine months” with Kearny, having started as a clerk-typist in recreation, then shifting to finance and, after that, payroll. “I’ve had the privilege of watching the personnel office grow in to the full functioning office that it is today. I’ve had

the pleasure of implementing ADP’s self-service website and mobile app available to all employees,” Bennett said. “I’ve had a great career with Kearny thanks to every employee I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and working with, including the Police and Fire Chiefs.” Between 1996 – when she

was put in charge of personnel – and today, the number of full- and part-time town employees has fallen, from 465 to 375. Next to leave town employment will be Police Chief John Dowie, who will reach the see RETIREMENT page

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