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MONDAY 07.07.14
VOLUME 135
NUMBER 161
SINCE 1879
ADVICE C4
BUSINESS A6
CLASSIFIED C6
COMICS C5
LOCAL A3
LOTTERIES A2
OBITUARIES A7
OPINION A9
SPORTS D1
WEATHER D8
JACKSON Among some longtime native residents
here, its common to complain about those newcomers
from Staten Island and their city ways. But the critics
have not met Vito Testagrossa.
I was born in the country, in Italy. I loved the animals; I
loved horses, Testagrossa says, while unloading hay
bales at his Double T Ranch, his face under a hat that
would not be out of place in Texas. All my life, I worked
with my hands. Six years ago I retired; I started doing this.
Its beautiful.
Tucked into the northwest corner of Jackson, Cassville
has seen its share of McMansions sprout since the 1990s.
But its still a haven for traditional country life, from blue-
collar equestrians with backyard corrals, to a Russian-
American community that took refuge here from wars
and revolution in the 20th century. On the last Sunday of
July, the descendants of those emigres gather in Cassville
for St Vladimirs Day, a celebration of Russian culture.
You leave the keys in the car, nobody touches it....
Theyve built a lot of malls and houses, but you can still
drive for miles and not see anyone, says Testagrossa, who
worked as a concrete supervisor in New York City and
kept horses in a rural corner of Staten Island before buy-
LI F E I N T HE PI NES:
CASSVI L L E
Vito Testagrossa, owner of the Double T Ranch in the Cassville section of Jackson. TOP: (from left) St. Vladimirs Church, a
rooster at Shenandoah Farm and Art and Kathys Kitchen. TOM SPADER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
You cant find this
in many places
anymore.
ART JOHNSON,
owner of Art and Kathys Kitchen
in Cassville
LIFE IN CASSVILLE
Scan the QR code for a video
about Cassville
By Kirk Moore @KirkMooreAPP
Old country ways persist in northwest corner of Jackson
See CASSVILLE, Page A5
TOMS RIVER Ocean County officials thought theyd
seen the worst in drug abuse when users moved in stag-
gering numbers from commonly prescribed painkill-
ers to the low-priced, taboo narcotic heroin.
Now those officials are finding they were mistaken.
Some drug dealers, ever enterprising and compet-
itive, have recently begun cutting their heroin supply
with Fentanyl, a highly powerful opiate that enhances
the high to even deadlier levels than heroin alone, ac-
cording to the Ocean County Prosecutors Office.
In response, all police departments will start carry-
ing double doses of the opiate antidote in order to match
the strength of a Fentanyl-related overdose, Prosecu-
tors Office spokesman Al Della Fave said. Some de-
partments have already been supplied with the new
kits, and any departments that place future orders will
DRUG ABUSE EPIDEMIC
Opiate added
to heroin has
police carrying
more antidote
Fentanyl complicates attempts
to revive unresponsive users
By Dustin Racioppi @dracioppi
Police are now carrying double-dose kits of an opiate
antidote. COURTESY OF OCEAN COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE
See OPIATE, Page A10
COMPETITION THWARTING EFFORTS TO KEEP ATLANTIC CITY ALIVE PAGE 1B
WASHINGTON After a series of explosive train
crashes, New Jersey officials are deciding whether to
publicly disclose information about where and how of-
ten trains carry crude oil across the state.
Although a spokeswoman from the states emergen-
cy management office initially said New Jersey would
not make any information public, state officials have
since said they have yet to make a decision.
New Jersey officials declined to comment on what
railroads carry oil in the state and if those companies
complied with the Department of Transportations May
emergency order requiring them to notify state emer-
gency responders before they ship more than a million
N.J. weighs revealing
train shipments of oil
By Ally Mutnick @allymutnick
See TRAINS, Page A10
Fun
is never far at Jersey Shore boardwalks In Get Out!
far at Jersey Shore boardwalk
THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM
FOCUSING ON THEIR ABILITIES
A dozen children with various physical,
developmental or emotional disabilities compete
in a horse show at the nonprofit Celtic Charms
Therapeutic Horsemanship center in Howell.
TODAY, A3
DJOKOVIC TOPS FEDERER FOR WIMBLEDON TITLE SPORTS, D1