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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Montvale Department, Firefighters Celebrate Milestones
MONTVALE, N.J. — The Montvale Volunteer Fire Department on Oct. 29 celebrated its 91st year of service in the borough. Firefighter Kevin Krazit Sr. has been with MFVD for 40 years. William Maher is a 20-year veteran and Keith Miller has been with the department for 15 years. "[Volunteer firefighters] do their endless hours of training, attend practice drills and maintain the equipment we provide them within A-1 condition," Montvale Mayor Roger Fyfe said. "They cook pancakes for Montvale's moms on Mother's Day, create great presentations during fire prevention week each ye…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn Church Celebrates 85 Years Of Service
FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Fair Lawn Bible Church is celebrating 85 years of service in the community with longtime Pastor Marc McGrath. Chartered in September 1930, the Hopper Avenue church’s ministries include GEMS Girls' Club, Fellowships, Men's Bible Study, Pastoral Counseling and Sunday School. The church also offers Vacation Bible Camp, Women's Bible Study, Breakaway Youth Group and Breakaway Kidz Group. Sunday's 11 a.m. sermons are simultaneously translated into Spanish for the Spanish speaking parishoners.
Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgewood Teacher Gets Taped To Wall By Students For Breast Cancer
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Students at Ridgewood's Benjamin Franklin Middle School duct-taped the schoolwide substitute teacher to the wall during lunch today while raising $500 for breast cancer research. Dan Cermac agreed to be taped to a column in the cafeteria if students paid $1 to purchase a pink piece of duct tape to secure him there. The lunchtime shenanigans capped off the school's 10-year anniversary of its month-long breast cancer awareness campaign for the Avon Foundation. "We tried to connect everything we did this month to breast cancer awareness," said BFMS Guidance Counsel…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Emerson Boy Scouts, Officials Attend Global Forum At The UN
EMERSON, N.J. — Emerson officials and Boy Scouts were spending Friday afternoon at the United Nations headquarters in New York City for the 10th Annual Global Forum on Human Settlements. Amond the more than 11,500 representatives attending the forums were Emerson Mayor Lou Lamatina; Environmental Commission member Michael Griggs, Esq.; Borough Administrator Bob Hoffmann; Commission member Karen Browne; Boy Scouts Troop leader Kevin Battell; and Boy Scouts Zachary Battell, Ethan Howell and Thomas Ross. The annual session of Global Forum on Human Settlements has been successfully held in Chin…
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park Organization Gets Thanksgiving Turkeys From Local Runners
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. — Rochelle Park's Center for Hope and Safety will be receiving 100 turkeys in time for Thanksgiving from a Bergen County-based women's running group. Center for Hope and Safety — formally known as Shelter Our Sisters — has helped thousands of woman across Bergen County break their cycle of domestic violence. Three months after founding Jersey Women Strong, LLC in 2011, Waldwick resident Dana White and her group of 65 new members voted on making CHS their first philanthropy. It was ironically the same year the organization's benefactor was unable to provide turkeys for Th…
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Children's Author Aims To Help Mahwah Students Find Writing Ideas
MAHWAH, N.J. — Free-writing assignments shouldn't be difficult for elementary school students, children's author Audrey Vernick says. She'll be at all three of Mahwah's elementary schools on Thursday., Nov. 19 for Author Day helping young writers find good places to start. "When you take a character and put them in unexpected place, a story always shows up," said Vernick of Ocean Township. "Think of an animal where you wouldn't normally find it and come up with reasons why it's there and something will come up." Vernick has published dozens of children's books and short…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Montvale Volleyball Team Plays For Cancer Victim
MONTVALE, N.J. — The Pascack Valley High School Girls Volleyball Team played its Thursday night match in honor of Daryl Palmer, a Montvale mother and pediatrician who lost her battle with cancer on Oct. 22. Palmer — whose three girls played on the team — every year helped organize the annual Dig Pink Rally that raised more than $34,000 for the Side-Out Foundation. This year she was too sick to spearhead the eighth annual event, so they played in her honor. "[Palmer]... saw Dig Pink as the perfect way to help others," Side-Out Foundation said in a blog post. "Unfortunately,…
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Young Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus Ball Players Eyeing Cooperstown
HO-HO-KUS, N.J. — A team of young Ho-Ho-Kus and Saddle River baseball players' longtime dream of heading to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown depends on whether they'll be able to raise a whopping $16,000 collectively. The 12 athletes on the Indians U12 travel team — some who've been friends since preschool — are tapping into both local businesses and family members across the country to help them collect the funds they'll need to compete in Cooperstown Dream Park's annual tournament. Working toward a goal isn't a new concept for The Indians, said Dana Koenig, whose son,…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Glen Rock Emergency Responders Reflect On Sandy
GLEN ROCK, N.J. — Glen Rock TV gathered the borough's emergency management team for a panel discussion on the third anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. CLICK HERE to watch the video Glen Rock Police Chief Fred Stahman, Fire Chief Tom Jennings, Ambulance Chief Ed Esposito, Head of OEM Joanne Perry and Mayor John Van Keuren discussed the fateful Oct. 29, 2012 day that changed New Jersey's landscape. Participants recalled what they saw and how they helped Glen Rock cope with the natural disaster before, during and after it happened. Communication Director Mary Jane Surrago moderated.
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Wildlife Ecologist: Bow Hunting Not Effective Method For Saddle River Deer
SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — Bow hunting will neither decrease Saddle River's deer population nor the frequency of Lyme disease, a wildlife ecologist from the Humane Society said during a forum Tuesday in Borough Hall, northjersey.com reported. Borough officials and residents have spent the last year discussing how to manage Saddle River's growing deer population, which the Board of Health deemed a public health risk, the article says. Council officials last week introduced an ordinance and a released a draft plan permitting limited bow hunting of deer on property with landowners' written and prior…
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