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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.

Over the summer, Girl Scout Troop 20170 members and Livingston High School freshmen Brooke Kalva, Shelby Walvick, and Magdelene Meyer earned their Silver Awards.

The SilverAwardis the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn.

In order to earn the prestigious award, the Scouts must research an issue they care about, address the issue, and take action in their communities to create a difference. They also need to contribute at least 50 hours to their project, which is to be led by a girl or group of girls.

Brooke Kalva created her proj ect, the YES (Youth Environmental Society) Club in Heritage Middle School, in order to create a paper recycling program at the school.

ACADEMY GRADS: The Livingston Police Department has graduated the fourth class from its Citizens Police Academy program. The academy was a no-cost 11-week program designed to give participants an understanding of the operation of the Livingston Police Department and a working knowledge of what law enforcement entails. Participants learned about many aspects of police work, including dispatch, traffic enforcement, Emergency Service Unit, firearms, drone operations, criminal investigation, and community policing. Shown at the graduation ceremony are, in front, Chief Gary Marshuetz, Benjamin Dang, Cindy Jacobowitz, Sandy Goodman, Marian Allegrino, Mona Desai, Shila Wattamwar, John Martucci, Officer Joy Klapal, and Police Chaplain Rev. Dan Martian. In the back are dispatcher Gerard Falzo, Murtaza Kathawala, Jay Patel, Paul Altman, Jeffrey Hinkley, Ganesh Kamath, Philip Chaiklin, Ken Heilpern, Sgt. José Antunes, Hao Wu, Police Chaplain Rev.

During its meeting on Tuesday, November 14, the Livingston Board of Education finalized its budget goals for the school year and heard a presentation about a project being started at Mt. Pleasant Middle School.

Israel-Hamas War

Superintendent of schools Matthew Block started the meeting by speaking about the Israel-Hamas war, andhow the district is educating students on the matter.

Block said that educators were receiving strongly-worded conversations from community members, demanding that they discuss the war more, or differently, or they not discuss the subject at all.