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TAMPA, Fla. — Kareem Huggins, a star running back at Bayley-Ellard in Madison, has been named as the backup running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Huggins, who was not drafted after a stellar football career at Hofstra, caught on with the Bucs last season but saw little playing time, spending most of the season on the [...]

By PEGGY WRIGHT • DAILY RECORD The former office manager for a Chatham-based law firm is accused in a lawsuit of embezzling more than $1.1 million that she and her boyfriend allegedly used for personal bills and to restore a vintage car. A lawyer representing the law firm of Maloof, Lebowitz, Connahan & Oleske filed the lawsuit late [...]

Police and fire officials evacuated 90 Juniper Village senior housing residents from their building Tuesday morning after a patrol officer responding to a fire alarm saw smoke coming from a second-floor light fixture, police said. The smoke in the building on Southern Boulevard quickly dissipated and residents were allowed to return to their units by [...]

By JAMIE DUFFY • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD CHATHAM — There wasn’t a noisy campaign to stop Chatham from putting sidewalks on the western side of lower Elmwood, which leads to Milton Avenue School, but Duncan Robertson still was opposed to it. Workers arrived to take down trees for the sidewalks the day after the council voted [...]

From Madison Police:

Construction on Lincoln Pl. will begin tomorrow .  Expect delays and detours for approx. the next eight to ten weeks.

The road, which is adjacent to the train station and visible to passersby through train windows, is slated to receive upgrades , including trees, widened sidewalks and lampposts, as well as the installation of badly needed storm [...]

County College of Morris celebrated last spring when bus service to the Randolph campus, originally slated for elimination by NJ Transit, was restored. Now it appears students at Drew University and Fairleigh Dickinson University could be getting a new mass transit option, according to Rob Jennings’s Morris Commuting column today . Here’s the column: Hanover-based TransOptions is planning [...]

By JAMIE DUFFY • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD MADISON — Resident Theresa Zwick said she breathed a “a big sigh of relief” now that her borough has made solid plans to fix a stretch of Brooklake Road that was overdue for repairs. “It has huge potholes. We call them trenches,” said Zwick who lives on Niles [...]

CHATHAM — Police on Sunday responded to the parking lot of Cafe Beethoven on Main Street for a report of a struck pedestrian. An investigation revealed a 2008 BMW driven by Florham Park resident Marc P. Drouet, 46, was backing out of a parking space and knocked a pedestrian, Gretchen Giacomaro, 35, of Morris Plains, [...]

By KATELYN FARAGO • DAILY RECORD MADISON — Less is more, said Morristown mother Blanca Doyle, of moving her eldest son into his college dormitory for the first time. The Doyle family arrived at Drew University at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, armed with essentials like a bedspread for 18-year-old Eric’s first days of college. The move-in worked [...]

By JAMIE DUFFY • SPECIAL TO THE DAILY RECORD The Chatham Board of Education voted against Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to limit school superintendent salaries to $175,000 per year, but it wasn’t because they think it’s a bad idea. “We fundamentally disagreed with the approach that the governor is taking over home rule around negotiations,” board [...]

From Fred Snowflack’s Morris Politics blog:

A few months ago, Thomas R. Calcagni , who worked with the future governor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, was nominated to be head of the state’s division of consumer affairs. A problem was that Calcagni lived in New York. So, the nomination was withdrawn. Today, Christie nominated Calcagni again. What’s different? He has since moved [...]

Madison residents are reporting speeding and a disregard for stop signs on Sayre Court, which one person described as a “dense residential area and people drive on the street like it’s a freeway!” Another Fixer Upper report says a “Don’t Walk” signal at Ridgedale and Park avenues isn’t working properly. People can monitor reported traffic problems via the Fixer [...]

Chatham resident Dr. Leo Francis , president of Publicis Medical Education Group in New York, part of the Publicis Healthcare Communications Group Network, was named one of the 100 most inspiring and influential people in the life sciences industry in the July-August issue of PharmaVOICE magazine . Each year, the magazine recognizes top leaders in all areas of the [...]

Madison’s Shop Madison program created a Facebook page last summer and, since then, more than 1,000 people have “liked” the page, essentially signing up to receive event information and sales notifications posted to the website. Members of the business community say it’s good for business, but reaching the 1,000-fan milestone (1,068 as of this writing, [...]

By PEGGY WRIGHT • DAILY RECORD A citizen’s group has filed a lawsuit to void an ordinance passed by the Chatham Township committee in June because it believes the law was enacted so field lights could be erected on a soccer field at the Cougar Field athletic complex. The lawsuit, made public Tuesday in state Superior Court, [...]

On Ted Carroll’s first cast of the night, he got a lot of nibbles. On his second cast, a very, very large striped bass went for the live eel hooked as bait at the end of his line. The 13-year-old Chatham resident reeled in the fish over the next 10 minutes and when it got [...]

By ELLEN S. WILKOWE • DAILY RECORD Garden State residents might not love the hot, humid weather, but a taste of this summer’s Jersey tomatoes will make it all seem worth while. “This year so far has been excellent for tomatoes,” said Peter Nitzsche, agricultural and resource management agent Cooperative Extension of Morris County. “Plenty of [...]

WHY I LIVE HERE: KENT STEVENS AGE: 71 CURRENT HOMETOWN: Chatham Township OCCUPATION: Retired from scientific writing at Johnson & Johnson LIVED HERE SINCE: 1978 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS: Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township, Friends of the Library of the Chathams, Morris Habitat for Humanity. Why do you live in Chatham Township? Kent Stevens: We came to New Jersey [...]

Prosecutors: Real motive is that Rev. Edward Hinds learned of Jose Feliciano’s criminal past By PEGGY WRIGHT • DAILY RECORD The janitor accused of stabbing the Rev. Edward Hinds at St. Patrick’s Church in Chatham claims the cleric wouldn’t let him end a homosexual affair — but authorities say that’s a fabricated, self-serving story to mask the [...]

A four-day festival featuring bands, theatrical acts, an 80-foot Ferris wheel and fireworks is scheduled for next month next to where the New York Jets practice. The first Rotary Family Festival at Florham Park is scheduled for Sept. 9 through 12 and will be held on more than 20 acres of land adjacent to the [...]