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By NATALY CUEVAS It was thumbs-up for portable toilets at the Municipal Recreation Complex but thumbs-down for a drinking fountain during this week’s Borough Council session. A resolution approving a lease agreement for a portable toilet at the municipal field was approved during the council’s Tuesday session. Since the complex is adjacent to the [...] Today’s late-arriving snowstorm means early dismissals for borough schoolchildren. Irving School students will go home at 12:30 a.m. Bartle School students will leave at noon. Middle School students will go home at 12:39 a.m. and Highland Park High School students will leave at 12:22 a.m. Pre-K students will be dismissed at 10:55 a.m. Highland Park schools will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 10, in anticipation of a major snowstorm. The announcement was made this evening from the office of Dr. Frances Wood, Superintendent of Schools. Highland Park schools will open two hours later this morning because of snow, district officials have announced. In an e-mail alert distributed Wednesday, Feb. 3, the two-hour delay was announced for schools throughout the district. Irving Primary School classes will begin at 10:30 a.m. and continue through 3 p.m. Bartle Elementary School classes will begin at 10 a.m. [...] “Sing for the Children of Haiti,” a concert to raise funds for relief work in Haiti, is set for Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. in Highland Park High School, 102 North Fifth Avenue. Musicians are being sought to volunteer for the show, which will include a bake sale and art auction. The suggested donation is [...] After digging (or snowblowing) out from last night’s snowstorm . . . . . . borough residents and their children headed for the slopes of Donaldson Park for some sled action. A proposal to turn a Cleveland Avenue site into an administrative and training center for a Newark-based union local is under consideration by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The proposal from Local 32 of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators & Allied Workers is to convert vacant manufacturing and warehouse space at 318 Cleveland [...] A two-story addition to the rear of a house on North Eighth Avenue was approved last night by the borough Zoning Board of Adjustment. The addition, proposed by Kenneth and Debbie Blatt of 103 North Eighth Avenue, required a variance because zoning requires a 20-foot setback from the rear property line. The addition would reduce that [...] The Highland Park Food Pantry asks for donations of non-perishable, Thanksgiving-themed food items for distribution to needy families. Canned foods such as cranberries, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin-pie filling are examples of non-perishable Thanksgiving items. Donations may be left at marked bins in Borough Hall, Stop N’ Shop, the Senior/Youth Center, Saiff Drugs, and Anna’s Health Food. Donations [...] Tomorrow will mark the last Farmer’s Market of the year. Now in its 19th year, the Highland Park Farmer’s Market will lie fallow for the rest of the year and the first few months of 2010. The popular local food market will return on Friday, June 18. |
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