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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Education

The Real Story on How the January Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting Fell Apart

Nothing occurs in a vacuum. The chaos that happened at the most recent Berkeley Heights BOE Meeting was set in place well before any BOE member stepped through the Governor Livingston cafeteria door and, as mentioned in the intro I wrote about Melissa Varley’s letter to staff, it started in the District’s Central Office. There is no longer any question...
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Berkeley Heights BOEBOE Agendas and Meeting Summaries

Ignorance of Parliamentary Procedure Is Creating Chaos & Harming Our District

Edmund Tom Maciejewski For those of you following Thursday’s Super Chaotic Board of Education Meeting. One thing, regardless of where you stand on Angela Penna forcing this chaotic situation, is that nobody on the board, nor the lawyer nor the administrator understands Robert’s Rules of Order which is what governs the rules of the meeting. Case in point, Sai made...
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The Community Voted For Change & BHPSNJ Administration Can’t Seem to Let Go

With A Split Board, The former Majority May Be Resorting to Desperate Tactics on Day One   The Board Agenda for the Re-Organization Meeting has been the same for decades.  However, it appears the District is attempting to change the rules to prevent the change the community has voted for in the past three years.  Multiple individuals have emailed and called the...
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BOE Agendas and Meeting Summaries

Councilman Paul Donnelly Emails Mayor Devanney On Vote to Reappoint Municipal Judge

Earlier today, BHCW posted a video clip on a tense discussion between Councilman Donnelly, Mayor Devanney and the Township Attorney.  Soon after we were cc’d on an email from Councilman Donnelly to Mayor Devanney.  It read as follows:   Dear Angie, all, During last night’s Town Council meeting on Jan 2, 2023, I asked you and council to table the...
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Designed To Fail: Last Year’s BOE Majority Created Conditions For Chaos

Berkeley Heights Residents should pay close attention to this Thursday’s BOE Re-Org Meeting Yesterday, Laura wrote about the BOE Agenda and pointed out some concerning facts surrounding the differences between this year’s and last year’s reorganization meeting.   The most notable changes, in my opinion, were the removal of appointments and new business.   The Board Attorney has been a significant sticking...
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