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Livingston’s annual September 11 Ceremony of Remembrance will be held on Monday, September 11, at the September 11 Living Memorial Garden in Memorial Park. The program will be held at 6:30 p.m., rain or shine.

Livingston Boy Scouts will serve as honor guards, leading the Pledge of Allegiance. The Livingston High School chorus, under the direction of Joshua Salzman, will sing the National Anthem. The chorus will also sing Let There Be Peace on Earth, You’ll Never Walk Alone, and God Bless America.

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Jeff Friedman, founder and director of the Livingston Coat Drive and Livingston Philanthropies, has announced that the organization is still in need of volunteers for the upcoming Coat Drive season.
Donations of both toiletries and coats are continuing to come in on a regular basis. “Generous Livingston residents continue to visit Livingston Philanthropies partner, the West Essex Tribune, with coats, small-size toiletries, diapers, feminine hygiene pads, men’s suits and more,” he explains. “And our highly successful ‘Personal Shopping for the Homeless’ initiative has not been forgotten during warm months. With Labor Day and back-to-school sales all over the place, the Tribune has continued to receive a steady flow of new socks, underwear, shirts, coats and winter accessories.”

During the past week, members of the Livingston Fire Department responded to two motor vehicle accidents, burning electrical wires, and a carbon monoxide alarm.

On Wednesday, August 23, firefighters went to the scene of a motor vehicle accident at 180 Passaic Avenue. According to the accident report, Guy Colavito of Caldwell was driving a 2008 VW Jetta on Passaic Avenue when he collided with an unoccupied landscape trailer owned by Steven Bini Landscaping, which had been parked at the side of the road.

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DRIVE SAFELY! Livingston Police Officers Kevin Mullaney and Joy Klapal display a sign reminding residents to drive safely, as school is opening next week. “The Livingston Police Department would like to remind residents that school begins on Tuesday, September 5, and that they should drive carefully, especially around schools, and obey the signals of stopped school buses,” said Officer Klapal.

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SPORTS MEMORABILIA AT LIBRARY: Longtime Livingston resident Bill Jacobowitz has been collecting sports memorabilia for more than 45 years and running his Skybox Sports Collectibles store in town for close to three decades. Beginning on September 5, he will share memorabilia from 1910 to the present in the Livingston Public Library’s display case, focusing on the history of baseball in New York.

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The Livingston Clergy Association and Livingston Committee for Diversity and Inclusion are co-sponsoring a candlelight vigil, “Unite Against Hate,” on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, at 7:45 p.m. The event will be held, rain or shine, at the Presbyterian Church of Livingston, located at 271 West Northfield Road. The vigil has been organized in response to the anti-Semitic, racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and to express the condemnation of bigotry and hatred as a community.

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The Livingston Zoning Board of Adjustment, at its August 29 meeting, approved five residential applications, including two for homes being constructed by Habitat for Humanity. Three items were adjourned to future meetings.

Habitat for Humanity Homes

Citing the existing undersized lot, Habitat for Humanity was granted side yard setback variances of three feet and five feet, and a side yard aggregate variance of six percent, to construct a new single family home at 24 Burnet Street.

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Sam’s story starts in mid-November of 2016, when Jim Huddock, a 9-1-1 dispatcher with the Livingston Police Department, was working the afternoon shift. He got a call about a dog running loose around Saint Barnabas Medical Center. He alerted animal control officer Jimmy Salvadore, who was able to secure the frightened animal. It was a male German shepherd, who, says Jim, “was more scared than anything else.”

When Salvadore takes in a stray animal, the first thing he does is try to locate its owner. But, perhaps to hedge his bets, Salvadore sent a photo of the beautiful dog to his buddy Jim, because, laughs Huddock, “Jimmy knows I love shepherds – and he knows I’m a sucker!”

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ECLIPSE EXCITEMENT: Livingston residents joined people all over the country in observing Monday afternoon’s eclipse of the sun. Many residents gathered at the library and the Oval to track the progress of the eclipse, which in Livingston, was partial.

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NEW TEACHERS ATTEND ORIENTATION: There are 45 new teachers and professional staff members in the Livingston public schools taking part in a program aimed at teaching them the things they need to know to be successful in their new classrooms. The agenda includes building positive relationships with students, planning and preparation, the “heart of curiosity,” communication, and technology.

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