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Jersey City, NJ
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School Rallies For Beloved Jersey City Principal After 'Callous' Termination
The sudden termination of a longtime Jersey City principal has sparked outrage among parents, students and former colleagues. An email sent to staff and parents of the Ethical Community Charter School announced 11-year principal Marta Bergamini had been relieved of her duties -- with no further explanation. Chairperson of the school's board of trustees told NorthJersey.com that Bergamini's contract expired June 30 and was not renewed since the board and the former principal couldn't agree on new contract terms. Vice Principal Elisha Abdelaal, who started at the school in 2009 alongside Ber…
Jersey City, NJ
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HIM? Jersey City Package Thief Pried His Way Into 3 Hoboken Buildings, Police Say
Hoboken police have issued three warrants for the arrest of an accused Jersey City burglar. Luis Medina, 40, used a tool to force his way into the lobby of three residential buildings then, pried open the door a room where packages were kept, police said. Medina then opened several packages, removed their contents and put them into a bag he brought with him, authorities said. The incidents happened on: June 06, around 3:51 a.m., 12th and Clinton Street June 15, around 6:40 AM, 10th and Madison Street June 19, around 3 a.m., 6th and Adams Street Medina is wanted on charges of burglary…
North Hunterdon, NJ
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Strip-Search Groping, Sex Exchanged For Sanitary Pads: Female NJ Inmates Detail Abuse By Guards
Groped. Sexually assaulted. Ordered to perform sexual favors in exchange for basic needs. That's how guards at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Hunterdon County treated female inmates, six former inmates testified during a hearing Wednesday in Trenton. The hearing was the fourth held by the Workgroup on Harassment, Sexual Assault and Misogyny in New Jersey Politics, founded in January by Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen). The U.S. Justice Department found decades-long sexual abuse at the prison, according to a report released earlier this year. Despite th…
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Nuts For Henry: Maywood Mom Spends Quarantine Feeding Injured Neighborhood Squirrels
Susan Werbacher is the first to admit it: She's nuts for Henry. And she wouldn't have met him or his squirrel friends if it wasn't for the coronavirus quarantine she says. Before the shutdown, the mom of two woke up at 4 a.m., and spent two hours at the gym. But when the stay-at-home order was imposed, she spent that time taking walks around her apartment complex, and at-home workouts, instead. One day in late March, Susan was doing cardio outside when she saw a squirrel with half a tail scampering across her apartment complex's courtyard. "I wanted to get a closer look to see if I neede…
Paramus, NJ
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19: Famed Gay Bergen County Night Club Struggles To Survive
For 42 years, Feathers Night Club has served as a safe place for the LGBT community. But the River Edge establishment has been closed for four months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it's struggling to stay alive. In an effort to avoid closure, owner Paul Binnetti has launched a GoFundMe to help its survival, where more than $12,500 had been raised as of Thursday morning. Feathers, New Jersey's longest running gay club still in existence, opened on June 21, 1978. That was a time when being gay was not widely accepted," owner Paul Binnetti. Feathers was the first gay night club…
Newark, NJ
Your Community
Historic
: Newark Regains Control Of Public Schools 25 Years Later
Nearly 25 years to the day the state assumed control of operations in the Newark School District, state officials announced the local board will regain control. "This is a historic day for Newark, and a day for celebration," Gov. Phil Murphy said. "Today, full local control of the public schools has been restored to the people of Newark so that the local school board can address the unique needs of the school community." The Newark BOE had been struggling for years with management and academic issues when the New Jersey BOE revoked its authority over the district in 1995. A decade later, t…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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: Morris County Park Hanging Death Ruled Suicide
The hanging death of a person in a Morris County park over the weekend has been ruled a suicide, authorities announced Wednesday. The body was found by a Lewis Morris Park patron in the Sugarloaf section of the park around 2:45 p.m., Sunday, Morris County Park Police Lt. Chris List said. The park was briefly closed and has since reopened, List said. "The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office ordinarily does not issue public statements on active investigation," Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp said. "However, given the fact that unsubstantiated statements have circulated on social media, there…
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
Fire Breaks Out At Newark Funeral Home
Firefighters put out a blaze at a Newark funeral home Wednesday. Sixty members of the Newark Fire Division responded to the Churchman Funeral Home on 13th Avenue around 12:45 p.m., Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. The fire started on the building’s second floor and extended to its third floor, according to Amrbose, and was under control by 1:10 p.m. No injuries were reported and the cause remains under investigation.
Newark, NJ
Breaking News
'Permit Karen': Viral Video Of Fight Between NJ Black Couple, White Neighbor Sparks Protest
Footage of a white woman accused of harassing her black neighbors has gone viral and brought dozens of protestors to the North Jersey street where the alleged dispute over a backyard patio went down. The footage was posted to Facebook by Fareed Nassar Hayat of Montclair on Monday evening. Hayat said his neighbor Susan, who he refers to as "Permit Karen," called the police on him and his wife Norrinda Brown Hayat three times in 30 minutes to lodge a false assault complaint. Susan apparently had come onto the couple's property three times in 30 minutes, demanding to know if he and…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
'We'll See Them In Court': Prosecutor Slams Jersey City Bars For Overcrowding, No Masks
A Jersey City official has taken to Twitter to call out Jersey City bars for allowing overcrowding and failing to enforce the use of face masks. The Factory "regularly violated COVID restrictions throughout the pandemic," Jersey City Chief Prosecutor Jake Hudnut said in a tweet. Hudnut also tweeted a video of crowds gathered at Bistro. "This is 1 example of many pics/videos we’ve been sent about overcrowding at Bistro. Officers address it, but the moment they leave the Bistro lets more people in," Hudnut said. "If this continues tonight: summonses will be issued and I will reque…
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