Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 9:39 am:

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Maplewood succeeds in evicting porn shop

Thursday, August 26, 2004

Maplewood Mayor Fred Profeta announced yesterday that a porn shop, which has been the target of criticism in town, has been evicted from its building.

The store on Springfield Avenue is adjacent to a property that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints is in the process of building on.

"It's a problem in that it has not been an incentive for making that a pedestrian-friendly area," said Profeta. "There have been a whole lot of people who hate it."

The township asked the owners of the building to evict the porn shop in exchange for approvals for renovations on the property.

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Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 9:58 am:

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Montclair has received about 20 proposals from consultants seeking the job of rolling out a town "branding" strategy complete with logo, slogan and marketing campaign.

"They had to be wheeled down to my office on a cart," Township Manager Joseph Hartnett said of proposals that arrived by Monday's deadline.

The proposals, he said at Tuesday night's council meeting, range from less than $20,000 to more than $250,000.

"We're moving forward, full speed ahead," he said of his initiative to open the lines of communication between Montclair and its citizens.

Hartnett said he received about 50 suggestions for slogans in the past few days alone.

That search is part of a wider communications initiative that includes better use of the town's local cable TV station and a revamping of the town Web site.

To that end, the town also is seeking a full-time Webmaster, which has generated more than 90 applications, he said.

Montclair also is seeking a communications consultant, a post that has generated 61 proposals ranging from $9 an hour to $200 an hour, he said.

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