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Vol. 261, No. 125
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‘Welcome to Millville,home of Miss N.J., Ashleigh Udalovas’
“I’d like to see a big sign saying ‘Welcome to Millville, home of the 2010 Miss New Jersey, Ashleigh Udalovas.’”
— Ashleigh Udalovas
Ashleigh Udalovas
Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner
When she first started competing, Udalovas said she had to choose a platform and she wanted to pick a cause that was interesting to her. Literacy was an easy choice for someone who grew up loving books and reading.
MillvillegraduatestonightBy Joe [email protected]
MILLVILLE — School officials here postponed Millville Senior High School’s graduation ceremony until tonight, at 6 p.m.
Unlike Thursday’s severe thun-derstorm forecast with winds reach-ing 70 mph that never even hap-pened, tonight’s forecast will feature clear skies and temperatures in the 80s.
Millville police officer jobs saved
By Jean Jones
MILLVILLE — Much has been writ-ten about the new Miss New Jersey, Ashleigh Udalovas, of Millville.
But not much about the girl behind all the hype.
In person, the daughter of Serge and Betteann Udalovas is not the glamorous beauty queen one might expect, but a very down-to-earth young woman whose natural beauty needs no enhancement, who has planned for her future and worked hard to get there.
The Millville Senior High School graduate credits a teacher with get-ting her interested in the Miss America program as a way to earn scholarship money.
She was attending Cumberland County College and competed first, in 2007, as Miss Vineland.
While it was well-publicized that she had competed last year and was first runner-up, Ashleigh really has compet-ed for four years, placing second run-ner-up four years ago, then second run-ner-up again the next year, when she competed as Miss Brigantine Resort.
Last year she competed as Miss Cumberland County and this year as Miss All-State.
“It was a long road, and difficult at times,” she said.
What she emphasized, and what not many people realize, is that the Miss America organization is a major pro-vider of scholarship money for young women.
You don’t even have to win. You can get money for winning for
interview, or talent, or one of the other competitions.
(See UDALOVAS, Page A-3)
By Jason [email protected]
MILLVILLE — An agreement has been reached between the Millville police unions and the city that paves the way toward eliminating the need for both a tax increase and layoffs at the police department.
Commissioners Dave Vanaman and Joe Derella, along with representatives from Police Benevolent Association Local 213 and the city Superior Officers Association, announced Thursday that the unions have agreed to
eight voluntary furlough days in order to circumvent the nine proposed layoffs.
“The agreement reached, which was accepted by the unions last night, calls for taking eight unpaid furlough days, or less, if budgetary issues become more favorable,” said Vanaman, who is director of public safety, reading from a prepared statement.
“For those furlough days, Commissioner Derella and I have signed off on an agreement that there will be no layoffs in the police department.”
(See MILLVILLE, Page A-5)
“The best part about it was the look on the nine police officers’ faces, who were going to be cut. What we wanted to do was save the jobs of police officers.”
— Millville PBA PresidentOfficer Anthony Loteck
By Joe [email protected]
BRIDGETON — A South Pine Street teen had a stun gun and brass knuck-les armed with a blade when he was arrested Wednesday night, city police said.
The 15-year-old boy was arrested at 9:30 p.m., at his father’s South Burl-ington Road home.
He was found there by his father after allegedly breaking into the house.
It was there, police said, that he was found to have a number of stolen items valued at about $600 or more altogeth-er, at least some of which were from the father’s home.
They included video games, a Play Station game system, a number of DVDs, three cell phones and others.
Det. Lt. Michael Gaimari on Thurs-day said police were still trying to determine where the boy had gotten some of the items.
The teen had been reported missing earlier in the day by Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) officials. DYFS had temporary custody of the boy, Gaimari said.
He added that someone earlier in the day reported that a juvenile had tried to use a stun gun on him.
The boy was charged with aggra-vated assault, burglary, theft and two counts of possession of a weapon. He is in the Juvenile Detention Center.
Teenwieldedstun gun
TRENTON (AP) — Atlantic City Electric says it is working to restore power to some 65,000 customers who lost service as a powerful line of thunderstorms swept through South Jersey Thursday afternoon.
The utility said the hardest hit areas were Camden and Gloucester counties. Outages were caused by lightning strikes and high winds that brought trees and limbs down on wires.
The utility said it expects to make significant prog-ress in restoring power Friday, but said restoration efforts might last through the weekend.
Forecasters say drier and slightly cooler air is expected across the region on Friday and Saturday.
65,000 losepower in S.J.Whelan, Sheppard take budget bull by the horns
By Jason [email protected]
BRIDGETON — The Cumberland County free-holder board on Thursday approved a budget total-ing $142,770,805.03 for the 2010 fiscal year, including $82,938,491 to be raised through taxation — the same as the 2009 budget.
The vote was 6-1, with Freeholder Deputy Director Joe Pepitone dissenting.
The budget calls for 34 layoffs, 23 of which are in addi-tion to 11 others that were made effective May 12.
The 2010 budget also includes an additional 19 “adjust-ments,” or unfilled vacancies, on top of 21 adjustments that have already been made.
In addition, employees in management and other
departments will take six furlough days.The budget also includes approximately $7.7 million in
surplus spending. This leaves the county with approxi-mately $11 million in remaining surplus, according to officials.
Most of the freeholders endorsed the budget while decrying the circumstances that led to it.
“This is the best possible budget under the worst pos-sible conditions,” said Freeholder Director Lou Magazzu. “I’ve been doing this for 13 years and this is the hardest budget I’ve had to work on.”
United Auto Workers Local 2327 President Fran Smith stated that more than 130 county employees will be required to take furlough days, most of them being UAW members.
No more in the dark
(See COUNTY, Page A-5)