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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Memorial Fundraiser For Mt. Olive Native Thursday

Friends rallying around the family of Budd Lake native and Belvidere resident Chris Connors who was killed in a car accident on Route 46 in October.

Friends of Chris Connors, the Mt. Olive Native killed in a car accident on route 46 in October, are hoping to make the holidays a little brighter for his family by hosting a fundraiser Thursday night at 8 p.m. at the Corner Pub in Flanders. Connors left behind wife Michelle and children Michael, 12, Alexis, 11, Justin, 8, and Kayla, 7. This is not the first fundraiser organized for the Connors clan since the accident. Connors was known in life as someone loved by everyone, and his spirit of thoughfulness and putting others first sparked a grassroots efforts to give back to his family in their time of need. Indeed his hometown 'Lakers and adopted community of Belvidere has been holding bake sales at sporting events as well as fundraiser t-…

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Hopatcong 9/11 Memorial to be Featured in Book

The Port Authority featuring how towns used World Trade Center steel in their memorials.

Mayor Sylvia Petillo said Tuesday a story and photos about the borough’s 9/11 Memorial will appear this fall in a new book produced by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey highlighting how towns used steel artifacts from the World Trade Center to create memorials. She said at the request of the Port Authority she wrote a description of how the steel was obtained and transported to Hopatcong from New York City. She said borough officials went to New York to get the artifacts. Local fire trucks lead the way. While they were in New York, Petillo said, the public works department called towns along Route 80 to alert local police  that the steel was going to pass through their town. The result, she said, was that in each town local …

susan

7:07 am on Monday, August 20, 2012

i lost family that day too i don't mind what they did but i am tired of the town complaining they don't have money for this and that but the maintenance department does alot of favors for their family cause i live on a block where the work is done on   more ›

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