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SCHUYLER SQUEEZE Local businesses feeling the pinch with prolonged drainage work along road By Ron Leir
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mall businesses at the south end of Schuyler Avenue in Kearny are getting squeezed – all casualties of a prolonged flood mitigation undertaking by the town. The problem has become yet another in a long list of hurdles to overcome over a multi-year period, which, up to now, the town has managed to handle. These challenges included securing easements from neighboring property owners to locate a pump station behind the Hindu Community Center and a discharge force main across a developer’s See SCHUYLER, Page 15
Kearny HS Project Graduation needs community’s help By Kevin A. Canessa Jr.
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roject Graduation at Kearny High School has existed since 1996, and for many of those years, one sponsor — the Kearny Applebee’s — has contributed over 75% of the food needed to feed 400 graduates for eight
hours. However, the local franchise informed Project Graduation the last week of May — just a few weeks before the major event — they are no longer in a position to do so. So Kearny high Project Graduation President Ann Rodriques and the committee are scrambling to either find a
group of restaurants willing to help or to raise the money to purchase the food. The menu is typically 300 hamburgers, 300 hot dogs, six trays ofchicken tenders, 200 chicken wraps, six trays of meatballs, eight trays of pasta (ziti, stuffed shells or cavatelli & broccoli), 200 veggie wraps, four trays
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of tossed salad, plus the items purchased or donated by teachers, board of education members — such as ice cream sundae supplies, fruit salad, rolls and donuts or breakfast, chips, snacks, water, soda. While it might seem cheaper See GRAD, Page 19
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