School District of the Chathams District Policy 0110 - Identification, School District of the Chathams. Accessed July 15, 2022. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Chatham School District. Composition: The School District of the Chathams is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Chatham Borough and Chatham Township in the County of Morris."
History, Chatham Township. Accessed April 24, 2021. "The most important transportation development was the coming of the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1837. This led to sharp increases in the population, which resulted in incorporating Chatham, Madison and Florham Park as separate boroughs."
History, Chatham Township. Accessed March 23, 2020.
Joint Municipal Court, Chatham Township. Accessed March 23, 2020. "The Joint Municipal Court serves five towns: Borough of Madison, Borough of Chatham, Township of Chatham, Township of Harding, and the Township of Morris."
Master Plan: Circulation Plan Element, Chatham Township. Accessed March 23, 2020. "The other bus route is a non-daily local County service route (MCM-8). In Chatham Township it follows Fairmount Avenue and Meyersville Road."
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Mayor and Committee, Chatham Township. Accessed May 5, 2024. "The Township form of government is the oldest form of municipal government in New Jersey.... Under the current township government laws, the township committee remains the backbone of the municipality's government. Voters elect the township committee's five members. The elections are partisan and the committee members serve three-year staggered terms. The Township Committee elects the mayor for a one-year term."
Village of Madison, Chatham Township – 1834 to 1889, Madison Historical Society. Accessed July 20, 2020. "1834 - At the instigation of public spirited and temperance minded citizens, the community changed its name from Bottle Hill to Madison, after President James Madison."
Board of County Commissioners, Morris County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2022. "Morris County is governed by a seven-member Board of County Commissioners, who serve three-year terms."
Tayfun Selen, Morris County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2022.
John Krickus, Morris County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2022.
Douglas R. Cabana, Morris County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2022.
"Student News", Daily Record, September 30, 1986. Accessed July 10, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Delbarton School students Richard Schoenweisner, Florham Park; Phillipp Ellison, Mendham; Deep Katdare, Chatham Township; and Brant Rose, Mendham, were members of the chemistry team that placed first in Morris County in the Jerome Bentley State Science Day Competition."
Fleming, Mrs. Paul. "Along the Way", The Chatham Press, April 9, 1970. Accessed January 27, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Anne Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Thompson of 16 Deer Run Circle, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship for physical chemistry at Princeton University. A senior at Swarthmore College, she is a graduate of Chatham Township High School."
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Raychaudhuri, Disha. "The wealthiest towns in N.J., ranked", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 7, 2019. Accessed November 4, 2019. "The median household income in N.J. is $76,475, recent Census data shows.... A note about the data: The data comes from 2013-2017 American Community Survey conducted by U.S. Census Bureau. Smaller towns with less than 10,000 residents were excluded from the list.... 3. Chatham, Morris County Median income: $176,364"
Kwoh, Leslie. "Rose-growing industry wilts in U.S. as South America's blossoms", The Star-Ledger, February 6, 2011. Accessed September 22, 2013. "Before he became a real estate agent, Heyl was New Jersey's last rose grower. Heyl, now 44, remembers spending 16-hour days in his family's Chatham Township greenhouse, the flower's delicate scent filling his nostrils as he worked to cut and wrap thousands of blossoms late into the night.... 'I miss it,' said Heyl, who eventually shuttered the business in 1999, seven decades after his great-grandfather opened it."
Ness, Tracy. "Chatham Twp. approves former Rolling Knolls landfill site as redevelopment zone", Independent Press, May 17, 2010. Accessed September 2, 2013. "The Rolling Knolls facility operated as a municipal landfill from the early 1930s through December of 1968. During that time, the landfill received solid waste, construction and demolition debris from eleven surrounding municipalities, residential septage wastes and pharmaceutical and industrial waste. It was designated as a Superfund site in 2003 and remedial site investigation work has been ongoing ever since."
Goldman, Jeff. "Which N.J. schools were named to national 'Blue Ribbon' list?", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 2, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "Eleven New Jersey schools have been named to the annual National Blue Ribbon list, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday."
Rybolt, Barbara. "Madame Bey's boxing training camp was home to 'The Cinderella Man'", Independent Press, August 13, 2009. Accessed July 15, 2016. "The 1914 lightweight boxing champion of the world, Freddie Welsh, started and ran a health farm in Chatham Township. Turkish born Heranoush Bey (known as Madame Bey) took over the reins when Mr. Walsh entered the army in World War I and eventually opened her own boxing camp on River Road."
Lockwood, Jim. "Kathleen Hagen, who killed parents in Chatham home, will be allowed to remain free", The Star-Ledger, July 8, 2010. Accessed July 24, 2018. "A Morris County judge ruled today that a Chatham Township woman who killed her elderly parents a decade ago has improved her mental health and will be allowed to remain free. Judge Thomas Manahan found in a routine review of her case today in Superior Court in Morristown that Kathleen Hagen is complying with orders to continue receiving psychiatric treatment and taking psychotropic medications."
Staff. "Peter H. Kuhn, accomplished race car driver", Hunterdon County Democrat, June 29, 2009. Accessed August 15, 2016. "Born in Summit, April 14, 1955, he was a son of Jean Henry and Elizabeth 'Lib' Dowd Kuhn. Mr. Kuhn had resided in Franklin Township since 1995, having formerly lived in Basking Ridge and Chatham Township."
Weis, Eleanor. Florham Park History, NJMorrisCountyOnline.com, November 3, 2005. Accessed July 17, 2011. "The growing settlement was always a legal part of a larger township; first Whippany; then Hanover Township (1718) which ran from the Passaic to the Delaware River; then Chatham Township (1806) until Florham Park was founded on March 20, 1899."
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Belluscio, Frank. "No Surprise: The State Wants Only K-12 Districts"Archived January 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, School Leader, New Jersey School Boards Association, January / February 2009. Accessed September 27, 2014. "Since 1982, only four locally initiated regionalization proposals have succeeded:... School District of the Chathams (1986)—combining of the K-12 Chatham borough school district with the K-12 Chatham Township district."
Yannis, Alex. "Canter's Dream Comes True", The New York Times, June 3, 1984. Accessed October 29, 2013. "The 22-year-old Canter, who was born in North Plainfield, N.J., and grew up in Chatham Township, about 30 minutes by car from Giants Stadium, is in his third year in the league and first with the Cosmos."
Joint Municipal Court, Borough of Madison. Accessed March 23, 2020. "The Joint Municipal Court serves 5 towns: Borough of Madison, Borough of Chatham, Township of Chatham, Township of Harding, and the Township of Morris."
Barmakian, Ed. "Don Herrmann is the Only Chatham High Graduate to Play Football in the NFL", TAP into Chatham, August 28, 2017. Accessed July 23, 2018. "Don Herrmann, the kid who grew up on Ramapo Trail in Chatham Township, is the first graduate of Chatham High to make a career in the National Football League."
Belluscio, Frank. "No Surprise: The State Wants Only K-12 Districts"Archived January 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, School Leader, New Jersey School Boards Association, January / February 2009. Accessed September 27, 2014. "Since 1982, only four locally initiated regionalization proposals have succeeded:... School District of the Chathams (1986)—combining of the K-12 Chatham borough school district with the K-12 Chatham Township district."
