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Jump to full article: The Citizen Of Morris County (NJ), 2009-10-08
Author: AUDREY DAVIE, Editor
Intro: BOONTON - Students are standing in a pocket park next to John Hill School to get their nicotine fix before school, according to Mayor Cyril Wekilsky, who said he wants to do something about it.
Wekilsky said every morning he drives past a little patch of land next to the John Hill School that was dedicated to the town a few years ago so it could be maintained and he is upset to see anywhere from five to 10 or 15 young people he said look as if they are seventh and eighth graders standing on the property "smoking up a storm."
Like most school districts, the grades K-12 Boonton Schools prohibit smoking on school grounds.
"I think we need to address it," said the mayor, who acknowledged an attempt to do something about young people smoking around the high school a few years ago had not succeeded.
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