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Fun at the fair

North Jerseyeans are enjoying food, games and rides at the Meadowlands and there's still time to get out to the state fair, which is open through the weekend.

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Dec 02, 2008
Wood-Ridge details plans for funds in bond requests
WOOD-RIDGE – The completion of a streetscape project and roof repair of the borough's Civic Center will be the first of several municipal projects financed under an amended capital program, officials said.

Deer to be culled from Morris parks
Morris County this week will begin closing some of its largest parks so hunters can thin the herds of white-tailed deer that are upsetting the ecological balance.


Hillsdale administrator retiring
HILLSDALE — The borough is searching for a new administrator to replace Harold Karns, who is leaving at the end of this month.

Medical school is closer to reality
In a nondescript office building near the Holiday Inn on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights, a medical school of the future is taking shape, with facilities to simulate critical-care catastrophes and to enhance doctor-patient communication.

Regional news briefs
Car poolers can receive gas cards

Music club to lose license
POMPTON LAKES — It has been a bumpy ride for Mainstage, ever since the rock music club opened its doors in June 2007. But it faces closing those doors forever now that the Borough Council has revoked its entertainment license.

Playing safe on health
Dumpsters lined the field at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest on Monday as workers began to roll up and replace one of two artificial turf fields in the district found to have a presence of lead.

Search is on to replace retiring administrator
HILLSDALE — The borough is searching for a new administrator to replace Harold Karns, who is leaving at the end of this month.

Dec 01, 2008
Freezing, slipping, sliding motorists
A wintry mix of snow and ice sent cars slipping and sliding Sunday morning, leading to fender benders across North Jersey.

A place to bond
CLIFTON — Parishioners found comfort in each other, their faith, and their church Sunday as they packed into the sacred building where a gunman shot three of their loved ones a week ago.

Are we heading to a second Great Depression?
People are now looking back to the nation's history 80 years ago and wondering, could it happen again?

Synagogue memorializes rabbi and his wife
The best response to the terrorist attack in India that killed a young rabbi and his wife is to make sure "the love that existed in that little Chabad house in that corner of the world lives on," the leader of the Bris Avrohom synagogue in Fair Lawn said at a memorial service Sunday.

'We must fight darkness with light'
The best response to the terrorist attack in India that killed a young rabbi and his wife is to make sure "the love that existed in that little Chabad house in that corner of the world lives on," the leader of the Bris Avrohom synagogue in Fair Lawn said at a memorial service Sunday.


POLICE NEWS
Slain man was helping brother

Nickel and diming's their favorite hobby
Clifton Coin Club holds its annual show

Freezing, slipping, sliding
A wintry mix of snow and ice sent cars slipping and sliding Sunday morning, leading to fender benders across North Jersey.

Elliot McGuire, 66; lifesaving firefighter
PATERSON — One of the city's most highly decorated firefighters, Elliot McGuire, who is credited with saving scores of civilians and a number of men under his command, has died.

Lonegan announces gubernatorial bid
The former Bogota mayor says New Jersey needs a governor who understands Main Street business rather than a Wall Street financier.

Crash victim's classmates get extra attention today
Students and staff at Emerson Junior/Senior High School were met this morning by crisis counselors on their first day back to class following the death of Freshman Thomas Carlis.

Last player sentenced in taxpayer ripoff
A former housing honcho got 37 months in federal prison today, closing the book on a low-level bribery scandal that netted 13 other public employees.

BLOG: Dispatches from Iraq
Mike and Tyson are taking their coverage of the historic N.J. National Guard deployment into the war zone. Check back for posts from Baghdad to the Green Zone.

Police look beyond Burress in shooting
Authorities are examining what roles teammate Antonio Pierce and the hospital that treated Burress played. Plus, cick for VIDEO: Plax does the "perp" walk

$400K bail for shipping clerk accused of affair with minor
Because of the age difference, the 34-year-old married defendant faces severe charges.

Drunk-driving crash seriously injures woman, authorities say
A motorist (above) was drunk when his car broadsided another vehicle on Route 46 early yesterday, authorities said this afternoon.

12-year-old's body found in apartment
Investigators are trying to determine how she died.

GPS sent SUV into pole, accused DUI driver tells PD
A Paterson man told police he was fumbling with his GPS when he lost control of his sport utility vehicle and it slammed into a utility pole.

Nov 30, 2008

Icy mix sends cars sliding
Police in Bergen and Passaic counties reported several minor accidents between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.

Short circuit leads to smoky offices
Firefighters were quick to respond to the smoky fire at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting offices on Route 17.

Switch fire sends smoke into office building
The building is located near the intersection of Route 4 and Forest Avenue.

Nov 29, 2008
Salvation Army must do more with less
Those who run the thrift store in Paterson hope customers will start seeing it as a viable alternative to traditional retailers this holiday shopping season.


ALERT: Portion of Route 20 southbound closed
Workers are cleaning up oil that spilled in Paterson when a pickup truck careened off the road and struck a utility pole.

Nov 28, 2008
Student cars fair game
School officials have new authority to search student vehicles for drugs, weapons and other contraband.

Underaged drinkers busted at bar
The teens and young adults spent the early hours of Thanksgiving in police custody in Fair Lawn.

Shocked by Mumbai terror
There was concern for relatives first. Then, confusion, disgust and sadness.

Ways to make holidays safer
The flicker of Hanukah candles. Christmas trees laden with twinkling lights. Turkeys roasting in ovens or frying to crispy perfection in a pot.

Meadowlands Commissions offers guidance to build green
In another effort to promote green building, the state Meadowlands Commission has begun issuing guidelines to developers showing them how to construct more environmentally friendly developments in the 14-town district.

Calendar: Nov. 28
Local events in the area.

Channeling the environment
Watching TV and wasting energy might seem synonymous, but they don't have to be.

Budget crunch forces town to end plowing civil groups' parking lots
HANOVER TOWNSHIP — Churches and civil groups in Hanover Township will have to hire someone to plow snow from their parking lots because the town will no longer do it.

A net gain for the birds
Just as N.J. Turnpike rest stops provide respite for people during trips along the East Coast, dormant landfills in the Meadowlands play an equally crucial role for migrating birds, new research indicates.

Former Superfund site considered for school, housing
Wallington owns a 10-acre parcel that was once soaked with toxic chemicals left by a glue factory. It bought the Industrial Latex site from the federal government for $4.6 million earlier this year. The government had rights to the land during the cleanup.

Shooting victim mourned
Mourners came to say goodbye yesterday to Dennis John Malloosseril, a man killed in a church while trying to help a woman allegedly hunted down by her estranged, gun-wielding husband.

Parking at the malls is a lot less laborious
Bergen Town Center in Paramus probably won't be much fun on this Black Friday because of ongoing construction. But risk taking your car there anyway — if not now, then later in the Christmas shopping season.

Hiring of tax clerk on hold
BERGENFIELD — A political ally of the mayor will face council scrutiny before he can land a job as tax clerk.


Out of the mouths of babes comes idea for new business
HALEDON — It's not often that a 5 1/2-year-old is responsible for inspiring a new business, but it took Leila Haobsh only a single moment.