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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Woodcliff Lake Construction Firm Agrees To Pay US $1.87M For Violating RR Bridge Contract
A Woodcliff Lake-based contractor will pay $1.87 million to the U.S. government to resolve charges that it cut corners on a federally-funded contract to build a railroad bridge connecting Queens and Brooklyn. Kiewit Constructors Inc. signed a deal with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) for work on the mile-and-a-half Atlantic Avenue Viaduct in 2009, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Friday. Federal funds that were dedicated to “furnishing and installing new steel girders and spans, along with related steelwork,” required the LIRR to mandate that its contractors hire subcontractors certified…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Park Ridge PD: Fugitive Burglar Caught Sleeping In Resident’s Truck
A Park Ridge police officer tipped off by a homeowner found a South Jersey fugitive sleeping in a local resident’s truck early Thursday following a car burglary report hours earlier, authorities said. Their colleagues from Montvale and Woodcliff Lake helped borough police search for three men in hoodies who another resident said was trying to get into cars on Fourth Street just after 1:30 a.m., Capt. Joseph Rampolla said. During the search, borough police Sgt. James Babcock found an unoccupied vehicle reported stolen two days earlier of Lyndhurst on Mae Court, he said. Six hours later, pol…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Motorcyclist Struck By Sedan In Woodcliff Lake
A motorcyclist was hospitalized with what authorities said weren't life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car Monday morning in Woodcliff Lake. The driver in the 10:45 a.m. crash on County Road "looked to be in her late 70s or early 80s," a witness said. The motorcyclist "was pretty shaken up but should be OK," a responder at the scene said.
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Prosecutor: Woodcliff Lake Court-Appointed Guardian Pocketed $50,000 From Incapacitated Wade
A construction foreman from Woodcliff Lake serving as a court-appointed guardian pocketed $50,000 from his incapacitated ward and a second victim, said authorities who arrested him. Over the past 4½ years, Darren Pavesi “used his ward’s financial assets for his own benefit, misappropriating funds to make unauthorized payments to himself and to pay his own personal expenses,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. Pavesi, 55, of Prospect Avenue, was charged with two counts of theft following an investigation by Calo’s Financial Crimes Unit, the prosecutor said. He was rele…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Video
: Glen Rock Honors Police Vet, Welcomes New Chaplain, Special Officers
Glen Rock honored a 20-year veteran police lieutenant while welcoming a new department chaplain and two new special police officers. Raised in Glen Rock, Lt. Christopher McInerney began his law enforcement career with the NYPD in 1992 before eventually transferring to his hometown department. As a sergeant, McInerney was appointed in October 2016 as Interim Executive Officer – and played a key role in the reorganization of the department, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Mc Inerney was promoted to lieutenant last November and currently serves as a platoon commander and professional standa…
Hackensack, NJ
Weather
Aftermath
: Thunderous Storm KOs Power To Thousands In Bergen
A severe thunderstorm knocked out power Tuesday afternoon to nearly 5,000 customers throughout Bergen County, while igniting tree, utility pole and house fires, downing wires and darkening traffic lights. PSE&G reported those who lost power included: More than 2,100 customers in Hackensack; Nearly 1,000 customers each in Fair Lawn, Ho-Ho-Kus and Oradell; 900 or so customers in Westwood; Dozens of others scattered throughout northeast Bergen; Nearly 1,000 customers in Clifton and Paterson combined. Flash flooding plagued motorists on several roadways in both Bergen and Passaic counties.…
Paramus, NJ
Obituaries
Services Set For Bergen Catholic Alum Cyrus Ashtyani Killed In Crash
A funeral was held Thursday, June 21 for Cyrus John Ashtyani of Montvale, who died on June 15 in a Woodcliff Lake motorcycle accident. He was 21 years old. Interment was at George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus. Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Born and raised in Montvale, Cyrus attended the Montvale elementary schools. He attended Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey and graduated from Bergen Catholic High Schoo…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Kills Montvale Motorcyclist, 21
A 21-year-old Fort Lee native who lived in Montvale and worked in Emerson was killed in a motorcycle crash Friday night on the southbound Garden State Parkway in Woodcliff Lake, State Police confirmed. Cyrus Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. “It struck a guardrail, overturned and went into center median, ejecting him,” Goez said. Ashtyani was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where he was pronounced…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Feds Sue Woodcliff Lake Over Orthodox Worship Center Rejection
The government filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against the borough of Woodcliff Lake over its denial of an Orthodox Jewish congregation's attempts to build a new worship center in town. The borough and its zoning board violated the “Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act” when it denied Valley Chabad zoning approval to build a house of worship on its property at the corner of Werimus Road and Woodcliff Avenue, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Borough officials also “took steps to keep it from building a house of worship anywhere else in t…
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Alyssa's Law: Panic Alarms May Go In New Jersey Schools
A proposed bill to install panic alarms and red emergency lights in New Jersey schools honors former Woodcliff Lake teen Alyssa Alhadeff who died in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla. The bill (A-764) was passed Monday by the Assembly Education Committee in Trenton. "Alyssa's Law" requires all public elementary and secondary schools be equipped with a panic alarm for use in a school security emergencies including evacuations, lockdowns or active shooter situations. The alarm would be an addition to existing security systems. A gr…
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Ridgefield Park Woman Charged With Selling Coke To Restaurant Customers
A Rockland County restaurant worker from Ridgefield Park sold cocaine to customers, said authorities who busted her and eight other accused members of a drug-dealing ring. Paige Willock, 27, was the only out-of-Rockland resident among those that District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said catered to upwards of 150 customers in local bars and restaurants in Clarkstown, Nyack, Pearl River, Ramapo and Spring Valley. SEE: Nine Nabbed In Rockland Drug Ring, DA Says The ringleader, was 32-year-old Stanley Juin, of Nyack, who got the drugs from his cousin, Zugibe said. Juin then used Willock and others…
Hackensack, NJ
Your Community
Dance Scholarship Fund Honors Maywood Instructor Who Died In Labor
A scholarship fund has been established in memory of dance teacher Tana Quigley, who died March 14 in labor with her new baby who also passed away. The Tana Quigley Scholarship Fund will be awarded to a dancer at Maywood Dance Center this fall. The expecting mom was a licensed clinical social worker formerly practicing in Hackensack. She had been working at a counseling center in Monmouth County, specializing in trauma therapy. Quigley, a Woodcliff Lake native, was a professional dancer who competed for years and taught classes through her pregnancy at Maywood Dance Center. She was remem…
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