Highland Park Planet (https://highlandparkplanet.org/category/local-news/page/18/)
The Planning Task Force, new superintendent, beautification of “The Wall,” election of mayor to full four years, retirement of Halloween’s Santa Claus are the items on the Highland Park Planet’s High Five list for 2015. What is on your community list of memorable happenings? READ MORE
PSE&G asks its customers to be on high alert for scammers in person or on the phone that demand immediate payment with a “pre-paid” credit card. The attempts to illegally extort money out of gas and electric customers are particularly prevalent at this time of the year. READ MORE
Highland Park is in the process of preparing its new affordable housing – third round – plan and is “not asleep at the switch. The municipality is working closely with the superior court judge to come up with a compliant plan as soon as the judge determines the town’s fair share obligation. READ MORE
After acting at a previous meeting to approve the funding for the purchase of a foreclosed home at 203 South Sixth Avenue, the Highland Park Borough Council at its most recent meeting approved the funding for the demolition of the foreclosed home and the building of a “very modest, yet functional” building for teen activities. READ MORE
Rite Aid, essentially asking for forgiveness rather than permission, won that forgiveness on Nov 12, 2015 when the HP Planning Board granted the Raritan Avenue Rite Aid relief from the conditions of its 2007 site plan approval. After acknowledging that its recent renovations and implementation of 24-hour-per-day service were in violation of its site plan approval, Rite Aid asked the planners and won relief based on its arguments that its service to the community justified the changes in its original approvals. READ MORE
Highland Park celebrates Small Business Saturday, Tree Lighting Party (Nov. 28) – and big savings on gas heating bills – thus providing more money to spend on supporting local retailers. READ MORE
Council at its Nov. 10th meeting honored the five Highland Park High School students who participated in the ROOTS Project Inc., a non-profit organization, whose mission is to inspire individuals to catalyze social change by challenging injustice and inequity. READ MORE
U.S. Congressman Frank Pallone is holding an interfaith open-to-the-public discussion with Pastor Seth Kaper-Dale and Rabbi Bazeley on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, 12 noon at the RCHP, 19 South Second Avenue. Congressman Pallone urges as many as possible to attend this thoughtful dialog on the challenges of terrorism and immigration.
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Sixteen individuals have been arrested and charged with taking part in a scheme to pass bad checks in four counties and collect more than $100,000 from local banks and check-cashing businesses, according to a Nov. 18 announcement from Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief Stephen J. Rizco of the Highland Park Police Department. READ MORE
Save our Schools candidates Robert Magaziner, Sharice Richardson, and Ruth Beyer were the winners in the Highland Park School Board against incumbent Claire Berkowitz and Michael J. Greenberg. Democrats won in Middlesex County Freeholder race and NJ Assembly 18th District race.. READ MORE