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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

PHOTO: Groundbreaking on Springfield Avenue

Township officials join developers and Assemblyman McKeon to kick off construction of a mixed-use building across from Police & Courts Building and Walgreens.

  Mayor Vic DeLuca, Deputy Mayor Kathleen Leventhal and other township officials, as well as Assemblyman John F. McKeon, hoisted shovels Wednesday morning to ceremonially break ground on a mixed-use residential and commercial building at 1611 Springfield Ave. in Maplewood. The project, which has been in the works for several years, will feature 5,275 square feet of retail space on the ground floor as well as six apartments on the second floor. Daibes Gas 14 LLC, a subsidiary of Daibes Enterprises of Edgewater, will construct the building, to be located on a triangular plot of land across the street from the Police & Courts Building and from Walgreens on Burnett Avenue. Also on hand for the groundbreaking were vice president Danny Daibes …

Friday, December 14, 2012

Who Will Govern Maplewood in 2013?

Hint: the times are probably not much a changin' in town politics.

Update 12/15, 12:52 p.m.: Patch has updated the article with a comment from Township Committee member Jerry Ryan. At the end of each year, the five members of the Maplewood Township Committee select a Mayor, Deputy Mayor and board and committee assignments for the following year. The Mayor is then officially installed at the annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 1. Vic DeLuca has been Mayor of Maplewood for four straight terms. Is he likely to be chosen again by the committee members? "You'll find out on Dec. 18," said DeLuca in a phone interview. That is the date of the next regular meeting of the township committee.  "We have a caucus meeting each year," he said. "In the past we've had that meeting in public." So far, the signs point …

John Harvey

10:07 am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Vic, as you consider the possibility of being re-elected Mayor this evening what would you offer as your three most significant accomplishments this year, and why? also, what do you consider your most significant leadership quality? Other TC Members - if you consider yourself a candidate for Mayor or Deputy Mayor, I would ask you to answer the same questions. Thanks - John   more ›

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