Feb 11, 2013 - Commissioner Steven Rogers met this morning (2/11/13)) with representatives of Environmental Protection Agency, the director of the Essex Regional Health Commission, and representatives of the Nutley Board of Education in order to obtain facts related to the dioxin testing on the Passaic River.

"I am satisfied that the EPA will now communicate closely with the Nutley Health Department with regard to the work and testing being done on the Passaic River,"

He also stated that "in order to ensure the effective and efficient flow of information from the EPA, Sandy Harris, the Director of the Essex Regional Health Commission will take the lead on reviewing and disseminating testing results, reports, and studies to the Township of Nutley. Also, the Health Department will be in close contact with the Nutley Board of Education as testing and other work being completed on the Passaic River is in progress."

Jan 7, 2013 - Twenty-eight years ago this week, Charles Kucinski was elected president of the Nutley Board of Education.

Last night,the same and energetic Mr. Kucinski, with his six-year-old grandson at his side, once again was elected, unanimously, by school trustees to a new term as board president.

Kucinski hasn't been a board member for all those past 28 years but in April 2010, he decided to

Thomas Sposato, who finished with the most votes in November's school board election, nominated Victoria Flynn for the vice presidency and her election was unanimous.

Jan 3, 2013 - Town Commissioners tonight devoted most of their first meeting of the new year to technical issues mandating financial adjustments.

Finance Commissioner Tom Evans, for example, noted that contributions to pension funds are up this year which is good news for taxpayers. But on the other-hand, Evans said 2013 is the year that the town's garbage collection contract must be renegotiated and that could end up being unusually costly.

Another good news vs. bad news item involves Nutley's being the front runner in a new county program

Changes in Internal Revenue Service procedures mandates that beginning this year, all part-time students involved in summer work, especially in the Parks and Public Property Department, no longer will be salaried but will will be paid by vouchers and might be forced to file income tax returns to "get some of their money back."

Nov 24, 2014 - An angry-sounding Mayor Alphonse Petracco called NJHometown Saturday to emphasize that his plan to reorganize the Nutley Police Dept., contrary to an early news article,

Petracco says he will reintroduce his plan.

Nov 21, 2012 - Maintaining the position of deputy police chief in Nutley is a waste of money, Public Safety Director and Nutley Mayor Alphonse Petracco says. He he wants to eliminate the position, instead replacing the deputy chief with two captains for what he says would result in a $145,000 savings to taxpayers.

But other Commissioners disagreed with Petracco's plan which they said had not been discussed and reviewed by the

In practice for several years, all five members of the commission review and discuss, sometimes for weeks in advance, important pieces of legislation. The full-board review is designed to avoid high costs and inefficiencies that traditionally are associated with the commission form of government.