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WEATHERINSIDE TODAYINDEX
Vol. 262, No. 24
Get local breaking news 24/7 at nj.com/cumberland
In loving memory ...Vigil held for Ronald “Blue” Bowman
Staff photo by Cindy Hepner
Steve Bowman embraces Donna Bowman during the prayer vigil for Ronald ‘Blue’ Bowman at the Bridgeton Senior High School in Bridgeton Friday.
Inside look at Rallycross racing
Staff Photo by Bryan Littel
Ramana Lagemann whips through the modified Lightning rally course at the New Jersey Motorsports Park during a preview of this weekend’s U.S. Rallycross event.
Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner
Running Back Jerome Scurry leaps to catch the pass during drills at football practice for the Bridge-ton Football team Thursday.
Practice makes perfectJones sentenced
for theft and fraud
Still faces felony charges
News file photo
MICHAEL JONES
Schundler fired after Race to the Top gaffe
BRET SCHUNDLER
By Jason [email protected]
BRIDGETON — A Bridgeton man currently facing felony murder in connection to a automobile-related death of an 81-year-old man in March was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for a series of unre-lated charges.
M i c h a e l A. Jones, 46, pleaded guilty in July to three separate indict-ments for theft and credit card fraud, regard-ing incidents dating back to September 2009. They include two counts of third-degree fraudulent use of a credit card, committed on Oct. 8, 2009, in Bridgeton and Upper Deerfield Township; and t h i r d - d e g r e e theft, committed Sept. 25, 2009, in Bridgeton.
The most recent of the three, a charge of third-degree theft, occurred just days before the fatal motor vehicle accident, on March 26.
The crash that claimed the life of 81-year-old Vineland resident Alfred Costantino occurred at about 9:15 a.m. on
(See JONES, Page A-12)
By Jason [email protected]
BRIDGETON — The Cumberland County freeholder board on Thursday approved a pair of contracts for con-struction of a new office for the county prosecutor at the former Vine Street School.
Five months after the freeholders sent the project back to the request for proposal (RFP) stage, and having split the project into two parts, the board opted to go with Lammey & Giorgio, out of Haddon Township, for con-verting the old school into a new prosecutor’s office, and Bridgeton firm TJD for the construction of an on-site parking garage.
TJD was the lowest bidder for the parking garage project, submitting a contract for $118,055, with an esti-mated 1,080 hours of work.
Lammey & Giorgio’s winning proposal of $289,930, with 2,790 estimated work hours, was more expensive than two other submissions — Millville company KBA offered $201,135 while Seiler/Drury, of Norristown, Pa.,
Vine St. School bids awarded
(See BIDS, Page A-12)
Noise suit against Millville dismissed
By Anthony [email protected]
MILLVILLE — As I sat in the passenger’s seat with no control over where the vehicle was headed, I began to sec-ond guess my decision, and several questions ran through my head.
Just how fast were we going?
Would I ever see my son again?
Was that my lunch?Most importantly: Why
would I ever get in a car with Dave Mirra?
It came at the invita-tion of the New Jersey Motorsports Park, in
(See RALLYCROSS, Page
By Beth DeFalco and Geoff MulvihillAssociated Press Writers
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie fired his educa-tion commissioner Friday, days after it was revealed that a simple mistake on an application might have cost New Jersey a $400 million education grant.
The dismissal of Com-missioner Bret Schundler comes after New Jersey became the top runner-up for the Race to the Top grants, missing out by only a few points. The Star-Led-ger of Newark later report-ed that budget figures for the wrong years were sup-plied in one section of the application.
Christie had defended Schundler on Wednes-
day and blamed the U.S. Education Department for considering form over sub-stance. Christie said this week that Schundler gave the federal government the missing information dur-ing a meeting in Washing-
(See FIRED, Page A-12)
From staff reports
MILLVILLE — A Superior Court judge has dismissed a complaint filed by Track-Racket against the City of Millville seek-ing enforcement of the city’s nuisance ordinance against New Jersey Motors-ports Park.
TrackRacket, a citizen group formed in response to noise generated by the motor-sports park, filed suit against both the city and NJMP late last year. The ruling issued Thursday by Superior Court Judge
Anne McDonnell deals only with the case against Millville.
The court found that since the city had already exempted track operators from the city‚s existing noise ordinance, craft-ing specific standards for noise generated by the facility, the city could not be com-pelled to enforce its public nuisance ordi-nance against NJMP.
TrackRacket founder Michelle Post brought the suit, along with group mem-bers David Carrow, Elizabeth Milne and
Byron Robbins. They claim the noise has damaged property values and the quality of life for residents living near the track, and that NJMP misled residents about potential noise and the economic benefits the park would bring to the region.
In 2004, the city and NJMP officials agreed to an 80 decibel limit on noise emanating from the facility. Tests con-ducted since by both the city and track operators determined that the park has remained within that limit.
Post said this is not the end of Track-Racket’s efforts.
“While TrackRacket is disappointed with the court’s decision, its cause and case remain alive and well against the NJMP and the unacceptable noise ema-nating from the track,” she said. “All of the claims for public and private nuisance as well as its statutory claims against the NJMP, none of which were addressed by the court‚s decision, remain.
(See LAWSUIT, Page A-13)
By Joe [email protected]
BRIDGETON — Beside human free will, why would the Almighty allow a beloved local mentor such as city Board of Education member Ronald “Blue” Bowman to be murdered?
Maybe so that more than 200 could gather in front of Bridgeton High School Friday evening in a vigil
organized by outreach group Ambassadors for Christ, to attest to the way he changed so many lives.
It could be so that Karen Barnett of Bridgeton Youth to Youth, a group working to steer area kids toward the straight and narrow, could let us know Blue was a men-tor to future mentors.
Perhaps his death will help prompt the families gath-ered there to plant throughout the city, signs that read
(See VIGIL, Page A-6)
