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By FAITH ARMONAITIS
June 16, 2024
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ - The Wood-Ridge Board of Education honored the May and June 2024 Students of the Month at its monthly meeting on Monday night in the high school auditorium. It was the final presentation of Students of the Month for the 2023-2024 school year. Each school administrator announced ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - Five Hasbrouck Heights High School seniors signed their commitment letters in late May to continue their athletics and academic careers in the fall. The student-athletes were introduced by Athletic Director Mike Scuilla, and joined by coaches, parents, teammates and ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ – The Hasbrouck Heights Council passed the following items as part of the Consent Agenda at their June 11, 2024 meeting in Council Chambers at the Municipal Hall. 111. Payroll 112. Authorizing Licenses for certain dealers for the sale of certain motor vehicles in the ...
PENNSAUKEN, NJ – Five members of the Hasbrouck Heights hoys and girls track teams competed in the NJSIAA State Meet of Champions on Wednesday at Pennsauken High School. Each qualified from their final positions in the NJSIAA Group championships held on June 7 and 8. Sophomore Brady Shine threw ...
PARAMUS, NJ - Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is the recipient of a $300,000 grant that is meant to "strengthen the healthcare safety net and improve health equity in New Jersey," according to hospital officials. "Our LGBTQ Health and Wellness Center, under the leadership of Doctor Awwad and ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - The Hasbrouck Heights Board of Education approved Dr. Jillian Torrento as the new Superintendent of Schools during the Thursday night meeting. She will replace Interim Superintendent Michael Polizzi, who was appointed in June 2023. The Board approved Torrento's three-year ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ – The average Hasbrouck Heights homeowner will see an increase in property taxes of $338, based on the average priced home of $518,000, said Hasbrouck Heights CFO David Sireci during the 2024 Budget Presentation at the June 11 meeting of the Hasbrouck Heights Mayor and Council ...
HACKENSACK, NJ – The County is hosting Juneteenth events in several public parks open to the public. The County’s Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs (DCHA) under the County’s Department of Parks will open County-owned historic site Gethsemane Cemetery in Little Ferry on Saturday, June ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - Families began arriving even before the event officially opened. The Hasbrouck Heights DPW held its inaugural Touch-a-Truck event in the Central Avenue parking lot in late May. It featured a variety of DPW equipment for children of all ages to explore, educational ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Known as the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’, 97-year-old activist Dr. Opal Lee spoke at the Piscataway Public Library’s Kennedy Branch on Sunday, spreading her message of freedom and what motivated her to walk to Washington, DC from her home in Ft. Worth, Texas in September 2016 in a ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - An alert off-duty Hasbrouck Heights Police Officer identified a Garfield man as the suspect in a shoplifting case at a drugstore in town in early May. On Saturday, June 8 2024, at approximately 9:13am, Detective Nicholas Brunetti was off duty and in the area of Raymond ...
SECAUCUS, NJ – Wood-Ridge, the NJIC Meadowlands Division champion, placed seven players on the All Meadowlands Team, and Head Coach Michael Carcich was named Coach of the Year, it was announced last week. The Blue Devils finished 16-11 on the season. Hasbrouck Heights, who finished 11-11-1, ...
PARAMUS, NJ - They gathered to raise the flag and celebrate all the progress made in a banner year providing LGBTQ care. Bergen County held its annual Pride Celebration & Flag Raising Ceremony on June 3 at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center. "It is fitting that this year's pride theme is ...
TETERBORO, NJ - The Walmart in Teterboro Landing was briefly evacuated Tuesday morning after a caller threatened to "blow up" the store. On Tuesday, June 11 at 11:28 AM, Teterboro Landing Walmart security contacted the Moonachie Police Department and reported a male individual called and ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ - Hasbrouck Heights fifth grade girls travel basketball team defeated top seeded Waldwick to capture the 2024 North West Bergen Passaic (NWBP) League Championship, in a rematch from earlier in the season. The core of this group came into the 2024 season with a mission to ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- On June 6, the country honored WWII veterans for the gift of freedom they gave the world on D-Day. Eighty years and one day later, Greg Ruffa, a 99-year-old Scotch Plains resident and a longtime advertising executive, proved that members of "The Greatest Generation" ...