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Friday, January 25, 2013

10-Year Plea Deal Offered to Ex-Bernardsville Administrator

Patrick Lott, former Bernardsville Middle School assistant principal, offered plea deal on charges regarding hidden cameras in Immaculata High School showers.

The Somerset County Prosecutor's office has offered a plea deal of 10 years of jail time to Patrick Lott, the former assistant principal at Bernardsville Middle School, to settle up charges that he had videotaped nude boys in the showers at Immaculata High School prior to his arrest in December 2011. The offer was made publicly on Friday morning in the courtroom of state Superior Court Judge Julie Marino in Somerville. Laurie Head-Melillo, a prosecutor for Somerset County, named the proposed jail term during a brief appearance before the judge. Lott's attorney, James Wronko, said he would need time to discuss the deal with his client. Marino granted him permission to return to court with an answer in three weeks, on Feb. 15. At that time, …

Friday, July 27, 2012

Judge Says He'll 'Butt Out' of Hockey Rink Decision

Basking Ridge resident Doug Wicks fails to convince a judge to order Bernards Township to further study plans for local roller hockey rink.

A state Superior Court judge in Somerville on Friday said he will "butt out" of the Bernards Township Committee's decision to seek bids for an asphalt, rather than a tile, surface of a closed roller hockey rink. Specifically, Judge John Coyle denied resident Doug Wicks' motion asking that the township's engineer, Tom Timko, be required to do futher study into whether there is a drainage problem at the rink at Harry Dunham park that could prevent plastic tiles from being placed on the surface now. Wicks and his attorney, Jonathan Burnham of Glen Gardner, had argued that the township's taxpayers could save up to $100,000 if the township followed the manufacturer's directions properly for installing a plastic rink surface instead. But, taking…

doug wicks

4:24 pm on Saturday, July 28, 2012

That simply was not the case. It’s a matter of the town engineer complying with the established law. The township committee agreed to bid out the tiles in June of 2011 and the tiles were included in the bid documents. So it is clear that the committee wanted the tiles included in the bid package But the town engineer failed to comply with the law and specify it in compliance with the engineering …   more ›

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