By SKYLYR VANDERVEER
May 11, 2022HACKENSACK, NJ - A Bergen County Jail innate is facing charges for threatening a Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office employee and their family, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced.
Michael Strzelczyk, 40, originally from Wayne but incarcerated at Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, has been charged with third-degree terroristic threats and fourth-degree stalking at the ...
HACKENSACK, NJ - Bergen County Executive James J. Tedesco, III, the Board of County Commissioners and the Department of Human Services Division of Veterans Services are teaming up to host the 2022 Military Appreciation Month Ceremony on May 13. The event will take place at the Bergen County Administration Building in Hackensack at 12:30 p.m.
According to Military.com, Military ...
GLEN ROCK, NJ - The black bear sighting noted by one of TAPinto's readers did not go unnoticed by police, although there is little they can do about it.
On May 1, police said just after 8:30 a.m., the Glen Rock Police Department received several reports of a bear wandering through town.
"The bear was monitored as it proceeded from the area of Grove Avenue by Prospect ...
By JACKIE LIEBERMAN
May 16, 2022HACKENSACK, NJ — Batten down the hatches.
Some stormy springtime weather is headed our way Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, which indicated a tornado isn't out of the question in Northeast New Jersey.
“Thunderstorms ahead of an approaching cold front on Monday have the potential to produce damaging winds,” the service warns. “Large ...
By NJSBDC AT RAMAPO COLLEGE
May 18, 2022Hackensack NJ - The New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Ramapo College’s Economic Recovery Task Force Initiative was recognized with the Bergen Volunteers All for One, One for All Award on April 29, 2022.
Bergen Volunteers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located in Hackensack, New Jersey. For 56 years, Bergen Volunteers has been turning caring into meaningful action by ...
By TAPINTO STAFF
May 20, 2022NEWARK, NJ —New Jersey's Acting Attorney General and the Division of Community Affairs (DCA) are warning customers and merchants statewide about price gouging and any fraud dealing with the sale of baby formula in New Jersey.
“The current baby formula shortage may have scammers and unscrupulous vendors coming out of the woodwork to take advantage of parents at a vulnerable ...
NEW JERSEY — Gas prices in New Jersey have reached another all-time high.
The average price of a gallon of unleaded reached $4.72 on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. That's up seven cents from the day before, 23 cents from last week and nearly 70 cents from last month. Those figures are according to AAA.
The Newark and Trenton areas are paying the most statewide, according ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The man who was sentenced to life in a New Brunswick courtroom for the 1973 murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster in one of the highest-profile trials in the city’s history will soon be released from prison.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered parole for Sundiata Acoli from a Maryland prison by a 3-2 vote, it announced May 10.
At issue was whether the ...
By LIZ KEILL
CHATHAM, NJ — This delightful play, set in Yorkshire, England, lends a risque air to the Women’s Institutes at a local church parish.
The play and film were based on a true story of middle-aged women who were seeking a fundraising idea for Leukemia Research.
They’re desperate to find a way to support their charities and somehow come up with the idea of ...
By JOHN CHRISTMANN
May 20th is World Metrology Day.
I am counting down the hours on an atomic clock which is accurate to 1 second in 10 million years.
Metrology is the scientific development of systems of measure. Unlike Meteorology, the study of weather, you don’t have to be chipper and TV good looking to study Metrology. You do have to have geekish tendencies and more degrees than a thermometer, ...
By JOAN HERRMANN
Last week I was on a call with a colleague who continually complained about so many aspects of her life. After listening to her ramble on relentlessly, I finally asked, “What are you willing to change?”
She stopped talking and with an indignant tone, said, “What do you mean … what am I willing to change?”
I explained to her that I am a firm believer that ...
By JOAN HERRMANN
How many times have you heard the best step you can take to grow as a person is to step outside your comfort zone and take risks?
This is the theme of just about every self-help book I have ever read, and it has been stated to me by just about every person I have interviewed. I take this advice to heart, and it governs most everything I do. But, even as a staunch practitioner, it’s ...
By BETH MORONEY
Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes with Robin Gaby Fisher. (Celadon, 2022)
Let’s start with this fact. I didn’t sleep for two nights while reading Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by retired detective Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher. Although the book is an autobiography about Holes’ life as an investigator ...