An Update From Parsippany Patch

This evening and part of Saturday, Patch will be undergoing site maintenance that will increase the speed at which pages load and allow us to make future improvements to the site more rapidly. This is a first step toward reintroducing popular Patch features such as local calendars and discussion areas.

You can still read Patch while the maintenance is underway, but Patch editors won’t be able to post new stories until Saturday evening.

We will be posting vital breaking news in the meantime on the Parsippany Patch Facebook page. (To stay in the loop there, be sure to like the page so the latest updates show up in your news feed.)

Thanks for supporting Patch, and thanks for your patience. We’ll let you know when the site is updated. In the meantime, we’ve pulled together some of the top stories from the past week from Parsippany Patch.

• Prosecutor: Parsippany Man Tried Setting Lakefront Home On Fire
• Parsippany Man’s Hand May Be Gone After Alleged Drug Device Explodes in Pocket
• Former Cop, Parsippany Man Gets 8 Years for Bank Robbery
• Parsippany Eyes Westbrook Farms Land to Buy, Preserve As Open Space for $775K
• 4 Morris County Towns Named Safest in America - Is Yours on The List?
• NJ Health Chief OKs Sale of St. Clare’s, Hackettstown Hospitals
• Cops: 9 Arrested in Morris County Prostitution Ring
• Head-On Crash Kills Driver in Northern New Jersey, Cops Say