Week in Review: 2011 Budget Adopted, Police Officers Honored

This week's highlights include a video of Montville Township Police officers Carlo Marucci and Frank Cooney being honored for saving the life of Barbara Olsson, the adoption of the 2011 municipal budget and a story about Kera Pezzuti, who was honored as the scholar/athlete of the year from .

But there was plenty more that went on this week:

On Monday, Patch introduced a new editor as well as a new football coach, we gossiped about Style channel show "Jerseylicious," had a chat with local entrepreneur Ernie Bivona, and described John Marchionda's dominant performance in the first round of the state tournament for Mustangs baseball.

On Tuesday, we saw a review of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" and reactions from township residents, found out why sleeping in your car near a might not be the best way to avoid the police, heard about a state supreme court ruling that might affect Montville and saw the high school tennis team win a championship.

On Wednesday, we got schooled by the School of Rock, discussed homework in the school district, heard about a MTHS grad who is throwing some serious heat as closing pitcher at Rutgers, took a look at a plan for a water park in the Community Park, and caught up with what's going on at the library.

On Thursday, we saw the story of a Mine Hill Gold Star Mother, examined some recently released census data, interviewed Lazar principal Sharon Carr, received a report that charges have been filed with regard to the .

On Friday, we met Montville based rock band Valhalla, saw a discussion about the Council on Affordable Housing with the township's planning board, caught up with 's track team (but no one can catch up with Julia Rizio, apparently), saw Freedom Plaza as a New Jersey based artist sees it, met volunteer EMT Matthew Weron and heard the story of a man's friendship with a fallen soldier.

It's been a busy week. Stay tuned tomorrow to see what's coming up in the week ahead.