Drew's Impact on Town, Coach's Funeral Top Local News

A funeral Mass for longtime Madison High School teacher and coach Robert Chandler was celebrated Tuesday morning at St. Rose of Lima Church in Short Hills. The service was attended by family, friends, teachers, coaches and students he taught in his 30 years at the school.

A recent report put together by Drew University puts numbers to just how big the university's impact on the local economy is, estimating it at $5 million a year.

Among the figures in the study: if every student living on campus spends $15 a week with Madison merchants, that's $675,000 going to Madison businesses.

Early disposition conferences that were scheduled for Tuesday for three borough men charged with aggravated assault in connection with an altercation that left three other borough men seriously injured ended with the cases being held for a grand jury.

A section of Park Avenue was closed for about two hours on Wednesday evening after a power line fell across the road near Punchbowl Road.

With highs approaching 100 on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Madison Electric Utility asked residents to consider conserving energy from 3 to 6 p.m. on those days to ease the strain on the electric grid and, in turn, the utility's budget.