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• My business: Centercourt Athletic Club 

  by Editor on September 2nd, 2010 | Comment

  

  Compiled by MadisonChatham This Week

   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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• Madison shuttle would link downtown, Drew, FDU 

  by Jake Remaly on August 30th, 2010 | Comment

  

  County College of Morris celebrated last spring when bus service to the Randolph campus, originally slated for elimination by NJ Transit, was restored.

  Now it appears students at Drew University and Fairleigh Dickinson University could be getting a new mass transit option, according to Rob Jennings's Morris Commuting column today. Here's the column:

  Hanover-based [...]

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• Madison to fix Brooklake Road 

  by Jake Remaly on August 30th, 2010 | Comment

  By JAMIE DUFFY • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD

  MADISON -- Resident Theresa Zwick said she breathed a "a big sigh of relief" now that her borough has made solid plans to fix a stretch of Brooklake Road that was overdue for repairs.

  "It has huge potholes. We call them trenches," said Zwick who lives [...]

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• How we met: Jason Merrick and Kimberly Salokas 

  by Editor on August 29th, 2010 | Comment

  

  Compiled by MadisonChatham This Week

  JASON MERRICK & KIMBERLY SALOKAS AGES: 26 and 24 HOMETOWNS: Madison and Wantage ENGAGED SINCE: March

  How and when did you meet? We met while attending Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2004. She was a freshman and I was a junior, both going for degrees in marketing.

  What was your first impression of [...]

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• Footnotes offers new season of classes 

  by Editor on August 29th, 2010 | Comment

  

  As the school year approaches, Anne Fattal's Footnotes, a studio for the performing arts, is expanding its class offerings for the 2010-11 season.

     Anne Fattal's Footnotes, celebrating its 22nd year in Chatham, is in the Hickory Square Mall, 641 Shunpike Road, Chatham Township. The studio houses three custom dance rooms, complete with maple floors, [...]

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