BHCW 01/14/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkley Heights This Week…. This week, residents learned of a controversial and inaccurate email from Ms. Bradford that invoked volunteer organizations and spun Ms. Khanna’s ability to hold a job as a negative in her attempt to convince people to write to the County Superintendent to support Angela Penna. BHCW discovered Dr. Varley received a...
What’s Important to Know About NJ This Week -01/13/2024
Ambitious Week for Murphy on Education, Immigration, Mental Health and More…. Education From NJ Education Report: “While the work of cementing important changes and implementing them on the ground has just begun, Governor Murphy’s proposed initiatives reflect those for which our coalition has long advocated, such as investment in teacher training, literacy assessments of students, and collaboration with local universities...
BHCW Top Ten Videos of 2023
…and 2022. While less popular than our print media, we take pride and have fun on our YouTube channel. We still managed to get 14k views and about 1k hours of watch time in 2023, so no, we aren’t going to be famous anytime soon. With that said, we’d still like to present our Top Ten for 2023. Immediately after,...
Potential Superintendent Candidates for Berkeley Heights Public Schools
Berkeley Heights Board of Education should look at familiar names nearby in searching for their next full-time Superintendent -Written by an Educator in The Community On December 26, 2023, Dr. Melissa Varley resigned as Superintendent of Berkeley Heights Public Schools (BHPS) effective June 30, 2024, if not sooner. Having said this, a search for a new Superintendent of Berkeley Heights...
BHCW NightWatch Episode 24: Attorney Walter M. Luers Accepts BHCW Open Government Award, Discusses OPRA and OPMA
Walter Luers Bio Copy of Award See All Night Watch Episodes
BHCW 01/07/2024 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkley Heights This Week…. This week’s newsletter walks residents – step by step- through how the BHPSNJ Administration and Penna Bloc conspired to create one of the most chaotic reorganization meetings this District has ever experienced. From policies put in place last year during the lame-duck session to an incomplete and potentially illegal meeting agenda...
The Whole Story Behind Agenda Items A and I: Payroll and Ethics
Notes from Laura on the voting at the re-org meeting No Board members voted against agenda item I in an attempt to stop payroll from issuing paychecks on 1/15/24. When the motion to vote was made for resolution I, Board members had an issue with how Agenda Item I was worded. They did NOT have an issue with paying BHPS...
Ms. Penna and Ms. Stanley: Here’s a Compromise
Email John sent to the Board Earlier Today on the President Deadlock: I would be ok with Angela Penna being president if the following occurred: -Committee Memberships need to be approved by a majority vote of the BOE -Committees are taped and provided to the public -The 48 hour rule is removed -The the power of the President is diminished...
Tense moment during the Berkeley Heights Township Re-Org Meeting On Reappointment of Municipal Judge
Mr. Donnelly and Mayor Devanney discuss the reappointment of Judge DeMassi; Mr. Donnelly abstains from the vote after guidance from counsel. Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel
BHCW’s Top Ten Articles of 2023
….and if you’re interested- 2022 & 2021 2023 was an incredible year for BHCW. Remember that we are a hyperlocal government information source for a small community, yet our print content has attracted over 174,000 views and over 70,000 readers this year. We’ve developed partnerships outside of Berkeley Heights and have heard from residents in other communities in NJ about...
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