By ELAINE D'AURIZIO, STAFF WRITER POMPTON LAKES -- New, more restrictive requirements for retirement health benefits for municipal workers are out, at least for now.

It is a story heard all across the country: corporations pollute a community's groundwater with harmful chemicals and then try to evade responsibility.

By ELAINE D'AURIZIO, STAFF WRITER POMPTON LAKES -- The Borough Council has set a special meeting Thursday night to cancel new, more restrictive guidelines for payment of retirement health benefits to municipal employees.

By ELAINE D'AURIZIO, STAFF WRITER POMPTON LAKES -- In a recent conversation with The Record, staff members of the state Department of Environmental Protection reported the following about the chemical contamination beneath a local neighborhood: * To date, vapor testing of homes above the plume has shown some evidence of the degreasing chemicals PCE and TCE, some above and some below the state's standard for screening.

By PAUL BRUBAKER, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD The United Way is giving an ear to residents' concerns with its Passaic County Voices program, which launched Tuesday night. "We don't have a particular special interest," said Yvonne Zuidema, president of the United Way of Passaic County.