I never imagined I would be kicking off my re-election campaign for Common Council at a time like this--because, a few months ago, I couldn’t imagine “a time like this,” I’ve heard many people in Summit voice the same sentiment. As the current Chair of our town’s Safety and Health Committee responding to the global pandemic; as a lifelong citizen of a town facing ...
When I took my oath of office two and a half years ago, I was honored and excited to help lead our beloved city, but also ready for the challenge to not simply maintain Summit’s excellence, but improve upon it. Never could I have dreamed the direction our city--and our country--would take during that time. Before this past January, Council’s most pressing issues included our work to ...
06/01 - At 1901 hours a report was taken for an attempted burglary to an unsecured motor vehicle parked in the driveway to a Woodland Avenue residence. The victim reported to have witnessed a black male, wearing an orange shirt enter the vehicle. Upon confrontation by the resident, the individual vacated the area in a white Mercedes SUV. At the time of the report, nothing appeared to have been ...
By SUMMIT VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD
Summit’s EMS Volunteers answered 117 emergency calls for assistance in May. These included 71 medical emergencies: eight motor vehicle accidents, including two rollovers, a car into a pole and another into a building; 14 traumatic injuries; 13 falls; two reports of poisoning or overdose; one allergic reaction; one maternity call; one possible case of ...
By PAMELA HEGARTY
July 4, 2020On July 1, the Hickory Tree Chorus presented, via Zoom, two $1,000 Diane Cecala Memorial Scholarships to two extraordinarily talented high school graduates.
Emma Kaiven is a graduate from Warren Hills High School, where she was a member of the Select Choir, Advanced Choir, and Rock and Pop choir, singing the parts of Soprano 1 and 2 throughout her four years. She has been a part of a majority ...
Get ready and get back to some of your favorite classes at the Y! After 3 long months of quarantine, the Summit Area YMCA is now offering outdoor group exercise classes, small group training and personal training sessions (weather permitting)! Members can now enjoy Barre, Bootcamp, Cardio, HIIT, Strength, Cycling, LesMills, Yoga, and more, live and in person -- outside at the Y!
In addition, ...
By PROMINENT PROPERTIES SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
Prominent Property Sotheby's International Realty's regional Summit office provides an inside look at the Summit real estate market, utilizing Garden State Multiple Listing Service statistics illustrating the numbers and trends that tell the story.
This edition of the Summit Real Estate Report details information from April - May, ...
By DAVID G. DIETZE, JD, CFA, CFP™
As America went into lockdown from the fiercest pandemic in a century, travel took a back seat to safety and home. Vacations, commuting, dining out, attending sporting events, trips to casinos, all came to a screeching halt. These businesses closed their doors, furloughed their employees and went into survival mode. They hoped to shepherd their cash to make it through a ...
By ATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEM
Is your family ready to enjoy summer – safely? On this Community Conversation, Atlantic Health System’s Christopher Zipp, DO, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Morristown Medical Center, and a physician with Atlantic Medical Group shares some important tips on summer safety, and why, as we coexist with COVID-19 – if you don’t have a family doctor – you ...
By STACEY M. VALENTINE, PARTNER, AVELINO & HARTLAUB LLP
Planning is always important, but never more than in a global pandemic when we are all confronted with the possibility of our own mortality. If you’ve never executed estate planning documents or if you haven’t updated your plan in the last three to five years, it’s time to talk with your estate planning professionals to make sure that your family is ...
By JCP&L
Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) subsidiary, has completed inspections and conducted equipment maintenance projects across its 13-county service area to enhance customer service reliability as part of its annual summer preparedness plan. The company is also ready to respond to power outages caused during the Atlantic hurricane ...
By COUNTY OF UNION
The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is asking county residents to join a global initiative to reduce their plastic waste during the month of July, and hopefully long after. Plastic Free July is a world-wide movement that encourages people to become part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can all have cleaner streets, oceans and beautiful litter-free ...
By JOHN CHRISTMANN
A Monumental History Lesson
On July 4, 1863, Union soldiers began the arduous and grizzly task of burying over 7,000 dead bodies in trenches and shallow graves. Later, as rains had washed away the ground cover re-exposing the stench of blackened and gnarled limbs, the town of Gettysburg took on the task of exhuming the bodies and consecrating them in the newly created Soldiers National ...
