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C-2 THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1994 LOCAL NEWS THE COURIER-NEWS I CENTRAL JERSEY Squad veteran looks at job from a different perspective mm will pay the estate will pay $190,000. According to the lawsuit, Storey, 20, had drank "large amounts" of beer at the party on South Middlebush Avenue, even though he was underaged. "They were at the party for about three hours and then when they left at around 11 p.m. Terence Storey was again driving," said Hibble's Edison lawyer, James Weber.

Storey was given the car keys by a person at the party, Weber said. When he first arrived at the backyard party, he had to hand them in at the gate, the lawyer said. Virginia Hibble, who also was in the car and was 17 at the time of the accident, was injured as were Per-one's children Leann and Eugene. She sued for the wrongful death of her husband and for her own injuries. The couple had a one-month old child at the time of the accident, Weber said.

David P. Willis Jersey's towns. t' If; i 1 'J Law makes TKR pay municipalities As part of its franchise agreements with Central Jersey towns, TKR Cable Co. has mailed checks totaling $759,980.08 to the 27 municipalities it serves in Somerset, Middlesex and Monmouth counties. The figure represents 2 percent of revenues collected by TKR in Central Jersey for basic cable fees in 1993.

"It's by law that this is done," said Nancy Hartmann, a TKR spokeswoman. "This is public utility law. We've always done it. It's also in our contracts with the communities in which we operate. We report it publicly because a lot of people are not aware that the money goes back into their communities." TKR would not disclose the amounts it paid to individual communities.

Sending the two percent checks are standard cable industry practice, said Charles Turner, general manager of Storer Cable Communications System in Plainfield. TKR's payments represent a 5 percent jump over last year's, said Hartmann, representing an equivalent jump in basic cable revenue. Revenue from premium channels is not included. "Yes, we did manage to make more money than we did the year before in total basic revenue," she said. "That's certainly not a question." However, she said, recent federal re-regulation of the cable industry cut into those revenues.

Without the re-regulation, TKR would have taken in even more and the communities would have received more as a result. "The jump (in basic cable revenue) from '91 to '92 was nearly twice that amount," said Hartmann. Andy Seiler SOMERSET COUNTY Car crash lawsuit settled for $405G The wife of a Somerset man killed in a 1988 car crash following a party at a Franklin Township home settled her civil lawsuit Tuesday for $405,000 against the car's driver and the homeowners. Richard Hibble, 19, died on Aug. 20, 1988 after a car driven by Terence G.

Storey, 20, of Bound Brook struck a utility pole on Route 518 between Canal Road and Laurel Avenue. Storey also was killed. Hibble's wife, Virginia, sued Storey's estate; Ada Golaszewski, who had a birthday party at her house for her daughter, Deborah; and the car's owner, Audrey Perone. The trial before state Superior Court Judge Marilyn Rhyne Herr was to start in Flemington Tuesday morning when the sides settled. The Storey estate's Readington lawyer, Edward Martin, said the insurance carriers decided to settle the case for $405,000.

The homeowners HUNTERDON COUNTY Fautenberry death sentence upheld John Fautenberry, a former Clermont County, Ohio, man accused in five slayings from New Jersey to Alaska, has lost his first attempt to stay out of Ohio's electric chair. The Ohio First District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County Wednesday affirmed Fautenberry's conviction for the fatal shooting and robbery of Joseph Daron Jr. of Milford, Ohio. Appeals judges also upheld Fautenberry's death sentence. Fautenberry was arrested in 1991 after a killing spree that authorities said began in Oregon a year earlier.

Daron, an insurance manager, was fatally shot March 17, 1991 after he picked up Fautenberry hitchhiking. Fautenberry, 31, was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of miner Jeff Diffee in Juneau, Alaska. In September, he received a life sentence in New Jersey after pleading guilty to the murder of trucker Gary Farmer at an Interstate 78 rest stop in Bloomsbury. He also faces charges in two slayings in Oregon. MIDDLESEX COUNTY EDISON Weather delays Customs auction The U.S.

Customs Service public auction scheduled for today in Edison has been canceled due to hazardous weather. The new date for the auction is Friday, April 15. For more information contact the public auction line at (703) 351-7887. Christine Sokoloski MIDDLESEX Road opened after gas leak search Public utility crews were unable to locate a suspected gas leak that closed a portion of Bound Brook Road Tuesday and reopened the road after By EVELYN APGAR Courier-News Writer SOMERVILLE Ingrid Hill may be down, but she's not out. A 19-year veteran of the Somer-ville First Aid and Rescue Squad, the borough resident found she needed the services of the Manville Rescue Squad herself when she was involved in an accident on Route 206 on Jan.

30. Hill, who said she's recovering nicely from an injury to her neck, said it was the first time she was on the other side of a stretcher. She started her career in the Branchburg Rescue Squad and then moved to the Somerville First Aid Squad. "When you've done this for as many years as I was, you never think you'll get in this position," she said. A week before her ice-related accident, Hill was sworn in as the vice president of the Fifth District of the New Jersey State First Aid Council.

The council functions as a liaison between the various first aid and rescue squads throughout the state. The Fifth District is made up of 17 volunteer first aid and rescue squads from within Somerset County. The Council was especially pleased that Gov. Christine Whitman attended the ceremony, Hill more than 12 hours of digging, sniffing and searching. "There was no gas leak, there was no damage to the gas main," said Frank Centore, a spokesman for Public Service Electric Gas.

"We had several crews out there all day. They tested the area thoroughly." After inspecting the gas main running below Bound Brook Road, crews scoured the area between South Lincoln Avenue and Coleman Street, using monitoring devices and a "sniff-detection truck" in an attempt to detect the smell of natural gas. Centore said the crews deemed the area safe. Pasquale DiFulco UNION COUNTY Trash incinerator ready for testing Trucks began delivering the first loads of garbage to Union County's Resource Recovery Facility in Linden on Monday, as the facility prepares to begin test operations. The state Department of Environmental Protection and Energy issued final approval on Friday for the facility to begin operations.

"New Jersey has the strictest environmental laws in the country," said Jeffrey Callahan, executive director of the county facility. The 3-day supply of municipal garbage is needed before testing can be Road in Flemington, was issued a summons Feb. 4 for driving without a license. Frank E. Bramwell, 45, of Holland Avenue, was charged Jan.

28 with assault on a police officer and possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana. PLAINFIELD Gregory Cousar, 21 of 1 100 W. Third St. was charged Tuesday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to disri-bute. Police said they picked up Cousar in the 600 block of Roosevelt Avenue on a Union County Sheriff's warrant charging him with receiving stolen goods.

Police said a quantity of suspected crack cocaine was discovered when Cousar was being processed at headquarters. Darryl Stocks, 34, of 1222 W. Front St. was charged Tuesday with possession of a controlled dangerous subtance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of school property near his home. A 74-year-old woman reported her right arm was injured when a man grabbed her purse, containing $15, in the parking lot of Foodtown, 1400 South Monday.

Jerome Fort, 25. of 41 1 Arlington Ave. was charged Monday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute in the 700 block of South Second Street. A 47-year-old Union Township woman reported Monday a man entered her store in the 100 block of Madison Avenue and ran off with her purse, which contained $800. A 35-year-old man reported Monday he was assaulted Saturday at Roosevelt Avenue and East Sixth Street and was robbed of $20.

A 64-year-old Piscataway woman reported her purse containing $150 was grabbed from her in the 600 block of Park Avenue Monday. A radio was reported stolen Monday from a residence in the 600 block of Watchung Avenue. William Roach, 39, of Edison was charged Monday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute in the 500 block of West Fourth Street. Gregory Davis, 27, of 1 1 14 Park Digest of news stories from Central been set, fire officials said Wednesday after an investigation of the site. "It's considered suspicious and turned over to our (police) detective bureau," Fire Prevention Officer E.

John Baab said. "There was probably some type of accelerant used." Police will conduct an arson investigation, Baab said. The house near Route 27 was owned by the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, which was planning future expansion, Baab said. Firefighters said Tuesday that the blaze was fully involved by the time they arrived. The house was gutted but there were no injuries.

Baab said authorities don't yet know whether windows or doors to the two-story house were unlocked. Officials are still unsure what caused the fire since the building was supposed to be unoccupied. "I know that the residents that were in there moved out," said Abbe Abboa-Offei, a spokesperson for the church. "It was going to be knocked down." The house stood on the site of a planned 4 million new church building, she said. After it is built, the existing church on Route 27 is to be torn down, she said.

The fire will have no effect on the expansion project, Abboa-Offei said. "We're supposed to break ground this summer." Sandy Loveli HILLSBOROUGH Leaky school roof will be studied An architectural firm has been appointed to develop plans in replacing the portion of the Hillsborough School roof facing Route 206 due to leaky conditions. Nam Kim Park, the architect the board has used for the $13.4 million schools improvement referendum approved in 1992, was appointed Monday night for the $250,000 project. The money for the project will come out of a $1 million reserve the board had in the improvement project. The board got the huge reserve from favorable bidding, schools Administrator Tom Venanzi said.

The portion of the roof facing Am-well Road was replaced last year at a cost of $200,000. The Route 206 side of the roof hasn't been replaced since the school was built in 1956. The board hopes to go to bid soon and work will begin when school ends in June, Venanzi said. The project should take four to five weeks. Dawn Onley BRIDGEWATER A Bedminster woman who thought she was getting a good parking space at the Bridgewater Commons Saturday was credited by police with alerting them to a couple of shoplifting suspects.

The woman told police she waited near a parked car because she had seen the driver behind the wheel, and anticipated he would pull out. Instead, she watched the man get out of the car, enter the back seat, empty a shopping bag, and walk back toward the mall. The woman thought the man's actions were suspicious, and told security people in one of the stores. The subsequent surveillance of the original suspect, and the car itself, led police to arrest Dionisio Parra, 31, of Jackson Heights, Y. and Julio Ramos, 27, of Queens, N.Y.

Police said both were seen repeating the procedure of bringing items to the car. The pair was charged with shoplifting merchandise valued at $2,060 from Cache, $2,795 from Ann Taylor and $2,522 from Victoria's Secrets. They were lodged in the Somerset County Jail. A 27-year-old Somerville man was charged Sunday with soliciting without a permit. Police said Darin L.

Zeno of 80 Brookside Somerville had driven up to a home in the 800 block of Miller Lane and attempted to sell food products to the resident. Police said they issued the summons after being called to the scene because the suspect's car had become stuck In ice and he couldn't back out of the driveway. FAR HILLS Victor Lopez of Bernardsville was charged Feb. 2 with impeding traffic, failure to have motor vehicle insurance, possession of a fraudulent driver's license, and driving without a license, when police spotted his car being pushed from behind by another vehicle on Route 202. Police also arrested Sergio Cabana, 40, of Flushing, N.Y,, and charged him with impeding traffic.

FRANKLIN (Somerset) 1 A 27-year-old Somerset man Ingrid Hill down, but not out said. Whitman was the first governor to attend a council event, she added. "I did have the honor of meeting the governor," Hill As district vice president, Hill said she will attend council meetings and bring information about council policies back to her district. A bookkeeper for the Bridgewa-ter-Raritan Board of Education, Hill said the "greatest satisfaction" of her position with the rescue squad is reading at the squad meetings the "very nice letters that remind us what we've done" for people. gin at the facility.

The garbage will be brought to the facility from the AMS Transfer Station in Elizabeth. Callahan said that by the end of the week, the facility will begin producing electricity by burning non-recyclable garbage. At the same time, Union County will drastically reduce its dependency on out-of-county and out-of-state landfills for the disposal of garbage. Testing of the facility will continue for six weeks. Full commercial operation is expected to begin in March, about three months ahead of schedule.

The facility will be able to process 1,440 tons of garbage a day. Approximately 40 percent of the waste processed at the facility will be supplied by Bergen County through an inter-county agreement. WESTFIELD Board may cancel upcoming vacation The Board of Education will consider canceling the February vacation to make up for two school days lost to snow. Superintendent Mark Smith announced this week that if the board approves the calendar adjustment at its meeting Tuesday, Westfield schools will conduct full-day sessions on Feb. 21 and 22.

Smith's recommendation followed discussions with the teachers' association, building principals and presidents of the Parent-Teacher Association and Parent-Teacher Organization. Barbara Bowers Place was charged Monday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the 1200 block of Arlington Avenue. A scanner valued at $1 ,700 was reported stolen from a limousine parked in the 600 block of West Front Street. SCOTCH PLAINS Richard M. Corbet, 33, of Edison was charged Saturday with possession of cocaine on Prospect Street, where Kevin Kennedy, 27, of Parlin and Ray Ranucci, 40, of Holm-del were charged with possession and use of cocaine.

John Scognomillo, 27, of East Hanover; John Galli, 28, of Newark and Greg Segreti, 33, of Old Bridge were charged Friday with possession of marijuana on Martin Place. An attendant at Scotch Plains Exxon reported Thursday he was robbed of $70 by a man armed with a small, silver automatic handgun. A pipe threader, copper fittings and faucet fixtures were reported, stolen Thursday from a trailer at a construction site on Clydesdale; Road. i David S. Fowler, 23, of 196 lisle Terrace and Johnetta M.f Gaddy, 18, of 340 Franklin both Plainfield, were charged Thursday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to' distribute following a motor vehicle stop on Terrill Road near Front Street.

SOMERVILLE A gym bag was reported stolerf Monday from South Cadillac A 1990 Honda was reported stolen Monday from outside a Main, Street pizzeria. Two Somerville boys have been; charged with spray-painting graffiti' on the walls of a half-dozen build-i ings in the Somerville business disi trict on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Police! said the pair, aged 16 and 17, admitted writing their street names with-red and black paint.

Police said they' found a number of young people who were able to translate the street! names to their real identities. i Stereo equipment was reported stolen Tuesday from a residence on; Third Street. i BRIDGEWATER Men arrested after selling stolen goods Thieves who obviously took great precautions to avoid setting off alarms at Hamilton School while they burglarized three classrooms apparently got careless when they went to sell the loot, police reported Wednesday. Police in Rahway arrested three males who were attempting to sell musical instruments stolen from the school to the Loria Music Store in Rahway. Local police said a store employee became suspicious when he saw the name of Hamilton School on one of the instrument cases.

The employee checked with area police departments to determine if there was a Hamilton School in the area after the would-be peddlers had indicated they were from Green Brook. Officers said they were present, taking a report on the burglary, when school officials got a call from Rahway asking them to identify the kinds of instruments that were stolen. It could not be determined whether the suspects arrested in Rahway are juveniles or adults. School officials told police that a trumpet, violin, trombone, flute, saxophone and clarinet were among musical instruments taken. Also missing are compact and laser disc players, a small collection of compact discs and other stereo equipment.

Police said separate trips were made through windows into each of three classrooms. They said the thieves apparently were aware that alarm mechanisms would have detected their presence if they had gone from one classroom to the next through a hallway. Tek Talmont FRANKLIN (Somerset) Abandoned house fire may be arson A fire at an abandoned house on Oxford Place Tuesday may have be changed? Should building, 455 Hoes Lane. (908) 562-2310. Plainfield Planning Board, 8 p.m., regular meeting, City Hall, 515 Wat-chung Ave.

(908) 753-3421. Scotch Plalns-Fanwood Board of Education, 7:30 p.m. agenda meeting, administration building, Evergreen Avenue and Cedar Street, Scotch Plains. (908) 232-6161. Somerset County Board of Freeholders, 3 p.m.

agenda meeting, County Administration Building, 20 Grove Somervllle. (908) 231-7037. Somervllle Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., workshop meeting, district Office. (908) 218-4102. South Bound Brook Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, N.K.

Brampton School, 125 Madison St. (908)356-0621. South Bound Brook Planning Board, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Borough Hall, 12 Main St. (908) 356-0258. South Plainfield Board of Education, Committee of the Whole, 8 p.m., Administration Building, Cromwell Place.

(908) 754-4620. Warren Township Committee, 7:30 p.m., work meeting, Municipal Building, 467 Mountain Blvd. (908)753-8000. Watchung Borough Council, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 15 Mountain Blvd. (908) 756-0080.

SATURDAY Bedminster Township Committee, 9 a.m., budget meeting, municipal garage, Miller Lane. (908) 234-0333. Clinton Common Council, 9 a.m.p.m., budget meeting, Municipal Building, 43 Leigh St. (908) 735-8616. I i mmmm Gov.

Whitman has expressed a willingness to discuss 'recertification" for public school teachers with tenure to ensure that those who are burned out are not kept in the classroom. The suggestion that the state look at tenure policies and recertification has met with a great deal of controversy, concern and in some cases outright condemnation. Should tenure policies teachers face recertification to keep their jobs? (908) 707-3262 To express your view, please call the number above to leave your taped message 24 hours a day. Deadline is noon Friday. Give your full name (spell out your last name), town and phone number for verification.

Responses will be published in Monday's Courier-News. escaped injury Sunday night when someone fired several shots at his 1981 Buick as he drove on Parkside Street, near Mark Street. Police said at least one of the shots hit the car. Police said that during their investigation of the incident, they received inforfnation which prompted them to seek, and obtain, permission to search a residence in the immediate area. Police said the search produced a sawed-off shotgun and a substance believed to be cocaine.

However, police said they do not believe the shotgun was involved in the shooting incident Sunday night. As of late Tuesday, no arrests had been made and no motive for the shooting had been supplied by anyone, police said. A juvenile reported being punched in the face on Franklin Boulevard Sunday night. MONTGOMERY A radar detector valued at $50 was reported stolen Monday morning from a 1993 Mercedes while it was parked at Stroh Associates, Tamarack Circle. Police said entry to the car was gained by cutting the cloth roof of the vehicle damage estimated at $350.

Thirty sheets of plywood valued at $350 were reported stolen Saturday from a construction site on Red Fox Court. NORTH PLAINFIELD An undetermined quantity of merchandise was reported shoplifted Monday from Fabric Land. A piece of brass pipe was confiscated Monday from one of two 13-year-old boys involved In a fight at the Middle School. Officials at the school quoted the boy as saying he brought the pipe to school because he was afraid he was going to be jumped. Police said the weapon was not used in the fight but other pupils were aware the boy had it at school and alerted authorities.

A bicycle was reported stolen Tuesday from a rear yard on Manning Avenue. PEAPACK-GLADSTONE Kim D. Budd, of Clover Hill THURSDAY Alexandria Board of Adjustment, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Lester D. Wilson School, Pittstown. (908) 996-7071 Bedminster Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., agenda meeting, township school, 234 Somervllle Road.

(908) 234-0768. Berkeley Heights Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., conference meeting, administration building. (908) 464-1601. Bernards Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building, Collyer Lane, Basking Ridge. (908) 204-3014.

Bernardavllle Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., work meeting, Municipal Building, 166 Mine Brook Road (908) 766-3000. Delaware Board of Adjustment, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Township Hall, Sergeantsvllle. (609) 397-3240. Franklin (Hunterdon) Township Committee, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, Sidney Road. (908) 735-5215.

Franklin (Somerset) Township Council, rescheduled regular council meeting, municipal building, 475 De-Mott Lane, Somerset. (908) 873-2500. Green Brook Township Committee, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 111 Qreenbrook Road (908) 968-1023. Hunterdon County Planning Board, 8 a.m., regular meeting, County Administration Building, 1 E. Main Flemington.

(908) 788-1490. Middlesex Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., special meeting, High School, 300 Kennedy Drive. (908) 968-2442. Placataway Township Council, agenda meeting, 8 p.m., municipal.