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The Livingston Planning Board, at its November 21 meeting, approved InSite Development Partners, LLC’s amended site plan for 644 Route 10. The Board also heard from Devan Partners LLC regarding the construction of a dental office at 505 South Livingston Avenue, ultimately pushing back a vote to December 19.

45 South Livingston Avenue

Prior to their meeting, the Board held a consistency review of Ordinance 19 of the Township Council, a redevelopment plan to build a new apartment complex at 45 South Livingston Avenue. The review sought to determine how an updated version of the ordinance fit Livingston’s Master Plan. It included a reduction in both height and market-rate units from the previous version of the ordinance.

The Camuso Holiday Display will open for the 2023 season this Saturday evening at the Oval, in front of the gazebo.

The exhibit is open weekdays from 5 to 9 p.m. It will close at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays this December.

The display will open on S aturday, December 2, with a performance by the Livingston Starliners DanceTeam at 6:30 p.m. Lights will go on at 7 p.m. Ernie Camuso’s great grandchildren, the Rentis family, will lead the lighting. The evening will also include trackless train rides, a choir quartet in the gazebo, and a bouncy house.

The “elves” on the Display Committee are hard at work preparing for the opening. Its members have been meeting to raise funds and to plan improvements to the display.

“We vowed last year that 2023 would be bigger and better than ever,” said Chief Elf Tom Cooney.

Town Hall was filled to a standing room only capacity on Monday, November 27, as a controversial ordinance was passed, five months after it was first introduced, at the Township Council meeting.

The ordinance was to formally adopt the 45 South Livingston Avenue District Redevelopment Plan. Dozens of residents spoke at length, both in opposition and support of the ordinance, prior to its passage.

When comment on the ordinance began, Council member Shawn Klein recusedhimself for the duration of the meeting, due to a conflict of interest. In a closed executive session prior to the regular meeting, the Council had also discussed Fair Share Housing, specifically the 45 South Livingston Avenue project that was to be voted on that evening.

Livingston resident Erica Goldring was an insurance defense attorney before giving birth to her son. She expected to go back to work, but found that her priorities had changed. The decision wasn’t easy, but Goldring decided to take a pay cut and entered a new chapter in her life as a mother.

“I said to myself, ‘I’m taking my maternity leave, and I’m definitely going to be back. I put deposits on day cares. I was like, I’m doing this. And then, my baby was born,” she said.

Having a hard time adjusting to this huge change in her life, Goldring found comfort in cooking for her son.

ROAD WORK: New asphalt paving top course is being installed on the full length of Cliffside Drive by crews of Stanziale Construction. The work was being done between the street intersections with Riker Hill Road and North Hillside Avenue on Wednesday, November 15. Russell Jones Photo

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No Garbage Recycling on Thanksgiving

All Livingston Township offices will be closed on Thursday, November23, and Friday, November 24, for the Thanksgiving holiday.

No Collection November 23 Garbage will not be collected on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, for Monday/Thursday streets. Garbage will be collected on those residents’ next regularly scheduled day, which is Monday, November 27.

There is no change to regular Friday garbagepickup onNovember 24 for streets with Tuesday/Friday collection.

There will be no regular mixed paper recycling pickup on Thursday, November 23, and collection will move one day later, affecting Zones 4 and 5.

The Livingston Police Department is continuing its increased patrols on various streets this week, according to Chief Gary Marshuetz.

In the upcoming week, the police will perform radar enforcement and address other traffic safety concerns on Sycamore Avenue, Champion Boulevard, Walnut Street, Laurel Avenue, and Wilson Terrace.

The enforcement will beginFriday, November 24, and run through next Friday, December 1, at which time the added patrols will move on to new areas of the township.

Enforcement on East and West Mc-Clellan Avenue, Winchester Road, (Continued on Page A-6) Belmont Drive, Baker Road, and East and West Cedar Street will continue through Friday, November 24.

Check next week’s issue of the Tribune for the latest list of streets.

has an amended schedule for the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day holidays.

For Thanksgiving, the Tribune’s offices will close at 1 p.m. today, Wednesday, November 22. The office will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 23 and 24.

For Christmas, the Tribune will close at 2 p.m. on Thursday, December 21. The office will be closed on Friday, December 22, and Christmas Day, Monday, December 25. The paper will be published as usual that Thursday, December 28, and the deadline will remain Tuesday, December 26, at noon.

For New Year’s, the office will again close at 2 p.m. that Thursday, December 28. The office will also be closed Friday, December 29, and Monday, January 1. The Tribune will publish on Thursday, January 4, and the deadline for that week’s paper will remain noon on Tuesday, January 2.

WORK DISPLAYED FOR A GOOD CAUSE: The gallery at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox and Roach Realtors at 79 South Livingston Avenue is featuring work by Livingston artists Jan Press, Nancy Dinar, and Sue Greenwald through January 31. Standing next to Press at the art opening on November 16 is Punam Bhargava, sales associate with the realtor. A portion of sales will be donated to Sunshine Kids Foundation. The gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunshine Kids, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to children with cancer. Dinar, the West Essex Tribune’s former editor, has won numerous awards for her photography over the past three-plus decades. She has also been invited to display some of her work in an upcoming exhibit at Town Hall.

A year-long project to remediate mold damage on dozens of West Essex Tribune bound copies by Livingston Fire Department president Tom Cooney and numerous helpers has been completed.

“The Eagle Has Landed!” Cooney announced recently in an email to the Tribune. The last of the newspaper’s bound copies that had been in Cooney’s care at the Camuso Holiday Display storage bam, had been moved back to the Livingston Public Library after undergoing a year’s worth of painstaking remediation.