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Chilton O'Brien, Beaumont, Tex., for defendant-appellant.
Edward H. Green, Beaumont, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.
Lawrence L. Germer, Beaumont, Tex....
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HACKENSACK -- Former Lyndhurst Superintendent Joseph Abate Jr. will take over leadership of the Hackensack school district in December, the Board of Education announced Wednesday.
Abate, 62, will replace interim Superintendent Raymond Gonzalez, who is leaving to take a position in Wayne.
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LYNDHURST -- The school district will have some tough choices if the $34 million budget it proposes at tonight's Board of Education meeting is rejected by taxpayers next month.
Schools Superintendent Joseph Abate said Tuesday he foresees the elimination of five additional teachers, a principal, a supervisor and the district's all-day kindergarten program if the scaled-down proposal is rejected.
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Fifty years after the late Joseph Abate opened Luigi's Apizza, his first pizzeria, in New Haven, his son, who has the same name, has opened a new Luigi's on Washington Avenue - continuing the family's legacy in the pizza business. "There's a lot of good memories," said the younger Abate, adding that many customers have visited his new pizzeria at 323 Washington Ave. since it opened in January to reminisce about the pizzas his late father started making a half-century ago. "We get so many great compliments.
Abate, who also owns Giuseppe's Apizza in East Haven, decorated the 2,400-square-foot restaurant to resemble the pizzerias his father used to own, with red vinyl booths, a jukebox and a black- and-white-tiled floor.
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WHAT'S NEW: In Lyndhurst, construction of the indoor swimming pool at the high school at Fern and Weart avenues is nearing completion with its exterior nearly complete, an Olympic-sized pool dug, wall tiles set and plumbing fixtures installed.
It's beginning to look like a pool," Superintendent Joseph Abate said. "But it's still a hard-hat project," meaning that observation inside is restricted because of construction conditions.
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LYNDHURST -- Longtime schools superintendent Joseph Abate Jr. has announced his retirement, citing the forced elimination of programs in this year's budget and pension reform. His retirement will become effective July 1.
Abate, who doubles as business administrator, made the announcement at Monday's Board of Education reorganization meeting.
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NEW JERSEY'S school superintendents have sued the state to protect their unlimited rights to high salaries, generous benefits and budget-busting retirement payouts. Their complaint exhibits an impressive combination of tone deafness and poor timing.
The state's superintendents association and four individual superintendents including Lyndhurst's Joseph Abate Jr. filed the lawsuit against state Education Commissioner Lucille Davy in federal court in Trenton last week. The group representing school business administrators filed a similar lawsuit in state court this week. The administrators argue that recent attempts to limit their pay are arbitrary and unconstitutional.
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Federal authorities have subpoenaed Lyndhurst for documents relating to the school district's business dealings with an athletic equipment supplier from Pennsylvania.
Superintendent Joseph Abate Jr. said he received the grand jury subpoena Wednesday morning, adding that it focused on Circle System Group of Easton, whose former president admitted a year ago to defrauding school districts in New Jersey.
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LYNDHURST School officials have announced an agreement with a church that will allow the district's 16 special-needs students to begin attending classes in the borough Sept. 1 as scheduled.
District officials said they negotiated the deal after it became clear that construction on the students' new academic home - classrooms in a $3 million educational and recreational facility - would not be completed until at least mid-September, Superintendent Joseph Abate said.