November 27, 2013 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVI, No. 27
COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD
Wall departs borough
A ‘pitch’ for parking
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – Friday, Nov. 13, turned out to be an unlucky day for the local government of North Arlington. That’s the day it lost its top-ranking municipal employee. Terence Wall, who served as the borough clerk, municipal administrator and qualified purchasing agent, has left North Arlington to become the township administrator in Cranford. At its Nov. 12 meeting, the borough governing body signed off on “releasing” Wall, who, in his administrator job, serves at the pleasure of the mayor and council. Wall was tenured in the clerk slot last year. Mayor Peter Massa, reached last week in Atlantic City where he was attending the annual N.J. League of Municipalities convention, said that Wall “had been looking for a new job for several months and last week, he told me he got an offer from Cranford.” Massa said that Wall has agreed to be available as a “non-paid consultant” through the end of the year. Newspaper advertisements soliciting a new borough administrator were slated to be placed in this past Sunday’s newspapers and on the League of Municipalities website, the see WALL GONE page
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Main photo by Jim Hague, inset by Ron Leir
A ground-level view of Red Bull Arena. Inset: Red Bulls GM Jerome de Boutin speaks to guests at stadium last week.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON –
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he New York Red Bulls need more parking to accommodate the crowds showing up for their
home games, here in Harrison, and the team is taking active steps to get it. So said Red Bulls GM Jerome de Bontin last Wednesday night, during a meeting of Harrison Business Connections, an alliance of
Harrison-based business organizations and those doing business in Harrison, held at the Red Bull Arena. Guests were given tours of the “skyboxes,” team warmup and locker rooms and the field-level Ferrari-style
A little bit of ‘Paradise’ at KHS By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
KEARNY – With the winter season rapidly approaching, theatergoers may be looking for something to latch onto to quicken the pulse a bit. Kearny High School may
have just the right solution when it presents “Vacancy in Paradise” as its annual drama performed by members of the senior class for the public. The show runs Dec. 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Tickets, available for purchase at the door, are $5 for students and senior
citizens and $7 for adults. The action of this 1962 comedy in three acts is focused on the Paradise Glen Cabins, a rustic and rundown lodge in the Lake region of New Hampshire, which Wally Bigelow, the failed son of a salesman, stumbles upon. After meeting Ellen, the
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seating “manager’s boxes,” at the arena which opened in March 2010 as the new home for the Red Bulls, formerly known as the MetroStars. Interested in any of the 40 see PARKING page
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owner’s daughter, and after learning that the summer resort has spawned a few weddings, Wally hits on a scheme to put the place back on its feet and “sell” romance bigtime – even if it means setting up a match between the see PLAY page
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