Week in Review: Superintendent Leaving Borough

It was a packed week on Madison Patch, with the biggest news coming from the Madison Public Schools district. You read it here first that Superintendent Dr. Richard Noonan was resigning to take a job in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District in Pennsylvania.

On Monday, we brought you a gallery from the Music and Arts Festival at Giralda Farms, where Madison's own Colin Lee performed with his band, Moss Points North. We also brought you a report from the Madison Little League's Junior team. We told you about how there was a new play announced to end this year's season for Playwrights Theatre. Finally, we told you about how there were still tickets available for Eclipse, the latest in the Twilight Saga, at the Madison Clearview Cinema.

On Tuesday, we broke the news to you during the early morning hours about Dr. Richard Noonan leaving the borough to take the superintendent's job at the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District in Pennsylvania. We updated the story throughout the day, first giving you the details as quickly as possible, then with information from BOE President Lisa Ellis about the search for a replacement, and finally from Noonan himself on his decision to take the new position. We also brought you the statement Noonan posted on the district's Web site. We also brought to you photo gallery's from the Madison-Florham Park Relay For Life held at Madison High School, and the Downtown Concert Series outside of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts. Also, if you had missed it on Chatham Patch when it originally ran, we brought you the latest on the lighting ordinance in Chatham Twp. that effects Madison residents.

On Wednesday, we brought you a gallery from the midnight showing of the Twilight Saga's Eclipse at the Clearview Cinema. We also gave you a video highlighting the Madison Police Department's Open House that it hosted at the Public Safety Complex.

On Thursday, we brought you information from the Madison Little League's 9/10-year-old team and its victory over Rockaway American. We also told you about how there were two drug arrests in the borough in the police blotter. Finally, we told you about Madison's Kennedy family and its passion for helping troops overseas through Operation Paperback.

On Friday, we told you where the best fireworks displays and parades were from the immediate area and beyond in our Fourth of July weekend guide. We also told you about all of the happenings in the Rose City this weekend in our Rose Guide.