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• Student spotlight: Nick Wilde 

  by Editor on September 3rd, 2010 | Comment

  

  Compiled by MadisonChatham This Week

  NICHOLAS (NICK) WILDE  GRADE: High school freshman  TOWN: Madison

  Nick graduated from the prestigious American Boychoir School in Princeton and is attending Madison High School this year.

  Nick, what is your favorite subject? Until this year, it has always been math and science. But this past year, I have enjoyed social [...]

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• Why I live here: Helen Moore-Gillon 

  by Editor on September 3rd, 2010 | Comment

  

  HELEN MOORE-GILLON  AGE: 45  HOMETOWN: Forest Row, England  OCCUPATION: Starbucks barista  LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS: Sorry, due to lack of personal organization, no local organizations  LIVED HERE SINCE: August 1998

  Why do you live in Madison? Helen Moore-Gillon: I live in Madison because it's a lovely, safe, small town close to glorious woods to walk my dog in, minutes from world-class shopping, [...]

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• Hot property in Chatham: 21 Garden Ave. 

  by Editor on September 2nd, 2010 | Comment

  

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  This beautiful three-bedroom Chatham home is in a prime location on Garden Street, and everything the borough has to offer is in walking distance.

     The spectacular new eat-in kitchen has lots of natural light, and the lovely dining room was renovated in 2005. The home has three nicely-decorated bedrooms [...]

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• Recent property transfers 

  by Editor on September 2nd, 2010 | Comment

  Chatham  28 Meadowbrook Road, Timothy Ryan, Joanna Ryan, $940,000 (Kurt Ekert) 33 Oak Hill Road, Edward Chernosky, Stacy Chernosky, $1,120,000 (Arnim Holzer) 65 N. Summit Ave., Catherine Rocco, John Bergstrom III, $575,000 (Katy Bolster) 8 Rose Terrace, Eric Chiao, Ann Yamabayashi, $869,500 (James Lamar)

  Gillette  190 Mountain Ave., Timothy Gard, Susan Shrader, $400,000 (Tracy Roberts) 920 Meyersville Road, Robert Carrico, [...]

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• My business: Centercourt Athletic Club 

  by Editor on September 2nd, 2010 | Comment

  

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   Clay Bibbee is the managing partner and High Performance Tennis Academy director at Centercourt Athletic Club in Chatham.

  Why did you start the business? Clay Bibbee: The new owners wanted to provide an upscale facility to include not only tennis, but provide the opportunity for fitness, platform tennis, swimming, golf instruction [...]

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• Eating out in Madison: Nautilus Diner 

  by Editor on September 2nd, 2010 | Comment

  

  By JAMIE DUFFY SPECIAL TO MADISONCHATHAM THIS WEEK

  It seems every New Jersey town has a diner, and in Madison, it's the Nautilus. Right in the heart of town, it's been around since the day when diners first started lighting up the American landscape with a silvery nickel glint bouncing off the street lamps.

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• Tampa Bay Bucs tab Kareem Huggins, former Bayley-Ellard star, as backup RB 

  by Jake Remaly on September 1st, 2010 | Comment

  TAMPA, Fla. — Kareem Huggins, a star running back at Bayley-Ellard in Madison, has been named as the backup running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Huggins, who was not drafted after a stellar football career at Hofstra, caught on with the Bucs last season but saw little playing time, spending most of the [...]

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• Chatham law firm’s ex-office manager accused of embezzling $1.1 million 

  by Jake Remaly on September 1st, 2010 | Comment

  By PEGGY WRIGHT • DAILY RECORD

  The former office manager for a Chatham-based law firm is accused in a lawsuit of embezzling more than $1.1 million that she and her boyfriend allegedly used for personal bills and to restore a vintage car.

  A lawyer representing the law firm of Maloof, Lebowitz, Connahan & [...]

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• Local hero: Alex Post, caring for 32 trees 

  by Editor on September 1st, 2010 | Comment

  

  By JAMIE DUFFY SPECIAL TO MADISONCHATHAM THIS WEEK

  Alex Post took on an Eagle Scout project that may just turn him into a gardener.

     Along King's Road just under the train trestle, there is a row of small trees on the train side and a shorter one opposite. Each one is covered by a [...]

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• We want to know: What’s on your iPod? 

  by Editor on September 1st, 2010 | Comment

  By The Editor MadisonChatham This Week

  We'll be singing When we're winning We'll be singing ... I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to Keep me down ...

     How great was Chumbawamba? How great was 1997's "Tub Thumping"? Almost as good, perhaps, as Spirit's "Fresh Garbage." Boy did that [...]

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• Glide time: Olympian teaches skating classes 

  by Editor on September 1st, 2010 | Comment

  

  By KATELYN FARAGO MADISONCHATHAM THIS WEEK

  Chatham mother-of-two Karen Rowland has found a unique way to get in some much-needed "me time."

     Every Tuesday, she spends her lunch hour gliding across the ice with Olympic figure skater JoJo Starbuck.

     "It's wonderful," she said. "It clears my head. It's invigorating."

     Rowland is [...]

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• 90 seniors evacuated from Juniper Village due to smoke 

  by Jake Remaly on August 31st, 2010 | Comment

  Police and fire officials evacuated 90 Juniper Village senior housing residents from their building Tuesday morning after a patrol officer responding to a fire alarm saw smoke coming from a second-floor light fixture, police said.

  The smoke in the building on Southern Boulevard quickly dissipated and residents were allowed to return to their units by [...]

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• Duncan Robertson’s silent tree stump protest 

  by Jake Remaly on August 31st, 2010 | Comment

  

  By JAMIE DUFFY • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD

  CHATHAM — There wasn't a noisy campaign to stop Chatham from putting sidewalks on the western side of lower Elmwood, which leads to Milton Avenue School, but Duncan Robertson still was opposed to it.

  Workers arrived to take down trees for the sidewalks the day [...]

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• Where Is It? 

  by Cara Townsend on August 30th, 2010 | Comment

  

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• Delays, detours: 8 to 10 weeks of Lincoln Place construction starts tomorrow 

  by Jake Remaly on August 30th, 2010 | Comment

  From Madison Police:

  Construction on Lincoln Pl. will begin tomorrow.  Expect delays and detours for approx. the next eight to ten weeks.

  The road, which is adjacent to the train station and visible to passersby through train windows, is slated to receive upgrades, including trees, widened sidewalks and lampposts, as well as the [...]

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