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| | Heat, storm wallop area
06/18/2008
Temperatures that topped out at or near 100 degrees and a short, but violent storm, wreaked havoc on the boroughs of Bergenfield, Dumont and New Milford, as well as the entire region last week.
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| | Ex-Bergenfield officials subpoenaed
06/18/2008
Four former members of the Bergenfield governing body have received subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury as part of an ever-widening investigation into the dealings of former Borough Attorney Dennis Oury and Bergen County Democratic Party chai
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 | Educator Calvin Hart dead at 78
06/18/2008
Calvin Hart cared a lot about kids. More accurately, he cared about their future lives.
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| | Calvin Hart: An appreciation
06/18/2008
He never planned it, but in 1970 Calvin Hart helped change Bergenfield for the better.
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| | Bahamians press cop-shooting probe
06/18/2008
Three detectives from the Bahamas were in Bergenfield earlier this month to continue their investigation into the shooting of borough Police Officer John Casper — and to demonstrate support for a fellow officer.
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| | Family Fun Day is set for Sunday
06/18/2008
This Sunday’s Family Fun Day in Bergenfield promises to be an outing that the entire family will be able to enjoy.
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| | DHS team captains visit children
06/18/2008
For the 13th consecutive year, the captains of the fall, winter and spring sports teams at Dumont High School visited the Tomorrows Children Building at Hackensack University Hospital.
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| | Ascension Parish ready to mark 55th birthday
06/18/2008
On Sunday, June 29, Ascension Parish in New Milford will celebrate Summerfest 2008 on the occasion of its 55th anniversary.
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 | At the head of the Class of 2008
06/11/2008
All the "Pomp and Circumstance" of high school commencement ceremonies will soon be shared by graduating seniors, their families and friends.
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 | Work on school fields begins
06/11/2008
Renovation and construction work is under way at three Dumont school athletic fields as part a $3.5 million referendum approved by voters last September.
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| | Custodial plan draws early criticism
06/11/2008
The Dumont Board of Education is looking to privatize the custodial staff at the high school, a proposal that some members of the community plan to address at tomorrow night’s school board meeting.
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| | Dumont, N.M. candidates unopposed
06/11/2008
Democratic and Republican candidates for municipal office in Dumont and New Milford received their respective party’s nominations, running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary election.
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| | Organization Democrats prevail
06/11/2008
A team of Democratic challengers in Bergenfield was unsuccessful in upsetting the slate of candidates backed by the Bergen County Democratic Organization in last week’s primary election.
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 | Downtown cleanup: A worthy ‘venture’
06/11/2008
Members of Bergenfield’s Venture Crew 139 and the volunteer board members of the Bergenfield Special Improvement District joined forces to make the appearance and cleanliness of the Washington Avenue business district a top priority.
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| | Financial disclosure improved in 2007
06/11/2008
Bergenfield municipal records released last week indicate that more borough officials are complying with state ethics laws that require them to file financial disclosure forms.
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| | Wanted: Kids With Cameras
06/04/2008
The staff of the Twin-Boro News knows it’s interesting to see some of our world through the eyes of children.
Accordingly, we are again scheduling our "Kids With Cameras" program to do just that.
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 | Duffie fills N.M. Council vacancy
06/04/2008
With husband, John, by her side, Francis Randi Duffie was sworn in to the New Milford Council seat vacated by Joseph Murray.
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| | Petition investigation picks up
06/04/2008
Catherine Navarro-Steinel, Bergenfield borough administrator and clerk, and former Borough Attorney Steven Muller have been issued subpoenas by the state attorney general’s office.
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 | Ardizzone is Berrie Award finalist
06/04/2008
Can one person make a difference? History tells us that a single person can indeed change the course of history, for better or sometimes, unhappily, for worse.
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 | N.M. Girl Scouts show award-winning ways
06/04/2008
The mayor was there; all the council members were there; the police chief, a fire department captain, the high school principal and vice principal and many other dignitaries from the local, county and state levels all were there.
The occasion was a ce
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| | Gloria Dei Church celebrates 55th year
06/04/2008
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in New Milford recently celebrated 55 years of God’s grace with a pot luck supper for members and friends of the congregation.
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| | Subpoenas served in probe of Oury firm
06/04/2008
More than a half-dozen Bergen County municipalities and one quasi-governmental agency tied to former Bergenfield Borough Attorney Dennis Oury have been served with federal subpoenas.
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 | Bears From Bergenfield plans collection day
06/04/2008
Bears From Bergenfield is teaming up with the Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee and the Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Corp to collect more bears and other stuffed animals.
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 | Free surgery for Iraq-bound GIs
06/04/2008
In Iraq, summer temperatures can soar to 140 degrees, and desert sand can blow sharply into the eyes.
That’s not good news for soldiers who wear glasses or contact lenses and can even be a hazard in combat situations.
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| | Organization-backed Democrats win in Bergenfield
06/04/2008
A team of "Real Bergen Democratic" challengers in Bergenfield was unsuccessful in upsetting the slate of candidates backed by the Bergen County Democratic Organization in Tuesday?s primary election.
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| | Dumont, New Milford candidates unopposed
06/04/2008
Democratic and Republican candidates for municipal office in Dumont and New Milford received their respective party’s nominations, running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary election.
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 | Tragedies at the Tracks
06/04/2008
The railroad tracks in Bergenfield were the scene of two serious incidents over the Memorial Day weekend, renewing focus on the matter of freight traffic passing through the borough.
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| | Primary contest in Bergenfield heated; all’s quiet in Dumo
05/28/2008
Two rival slates of Democratic candidates will compete for votes in Bergenfield in Tuesday’s primary, while Democratic candidates in Dumont and New Milford will head into the election unopposed.
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 | One more 7-Eleven ‘windowed’
05/28/2008
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| | Wounded officer is in HUMC; suspects in custody
05/28/2008
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 | Film released: 30 years in the making
05/28/2008
Dumont comic, writer and director John DeBellis can breathe a little easier these days after the long awaited release of his first movie "Last Request," a project that took 30 years to complete.
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 | Park improvements start up in Bergenfield
05/28/2008
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| | B’field SID opens ‘Mall in a Mile’ campaign
05/21/2008
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 | Officer shot on vacation; colleagues await word
05/21/2008
The Bergenfield Police Department has its focus on the Bahamas, where one of its members, Officer John Casper, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.
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 | Housing, traffic plans are approved
05/21/2008
The Dumont Zoning Board has approved a plan that would bring affordable senior housing to the borough and also improve the flow of downtown traffic.
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| | New Milford slashes $115G from budget
05/21/2008
The New Milford governing body agreed last week to slash more than $115,000 from its $17 million 2008 municipal budget.
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| | Memorial Day observances are scheduled
05/20/2008
Americans across the nation will pay homage to fallen veterans on Monday with ceremonies and parades commemorating the sacrifices they made for this country.
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| | Bergenfield woman is Berrie Award finalist
05/21/2008
Marie Ardizzone of Bergenfield is a finalist for the 2008 Russ Berrie Award for Making a Difference in ceremonies today at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah.
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| | Murray steps down from New Milford Council
05/21/2008
New Milford Councilman Joseph Murray resigned from his council seat last week, a little more than seven months before his term was scheduled to end.
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| | Slim step toward a home for museum
05/14/2008
The Bergenfield Museum Society’s quest for a new home may have moved a small step closer to reality.
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 | Dancing their way to self-esteem
05/14/2008
"Hats on, hats off! Move forward, move back! Circle, circle!"
The kids follow enthusiastically as Mr. Rocco (Rocco Santorufo) leads them energetically through dances ranging from the two-step to salsa.
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| | Dumont business district targeted for study
05/14/2008
With an eye toward improving Dumont’s appearance, a study of the borough’s downtown business area is currently under way.
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 | ‘Jersey Girl’ brings a bit of Broadway home
05/14/2008
If it weren’t for a particular nun, Beth Fowler of New Milford might never have hit the Broadway stage.
But she did — and still does, big time.
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| | B’field bank robbery suspect arrested
05/14/2008
The arrest of a Jersey City man put an end to what police say was a five-month crime spree which netted the suspect about $39,000, including approximately $12,000 from a Bergenfield bank.
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| | ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign set to go
05/14/2008
From May 19 through June 1, law enforcement officers throughout New Jersey will be stepping up enforcement and education of the state’s primary seat belt law.
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| | Float Fest scheduled by BCCBF
05/14/2008
The Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee (BCCBF) invites individual residents and members of local organizations to join a Float Fest on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 at the Memorial Field pavilion
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| | New Milford residents cool to county plan for pathway
05/07/2008
Bergen County Department of Parks representatives received a cool reception from New Milford residents last week over plans to bringing the Hackensack River Walkway through the borough.
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 | That's a wrap for annual film fest
05/07/2008
It was billed as the fourth annual Bergenfield Film Festival.
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 | Dumont career educator scores again
05/07/2008
Closing in on her retirement as a school teacher has not kept Carol Banicki from showing true educational form.
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 | Dumont police give DWI simulation program to students
05/07/2008
The Dumont Police Department, in conjunction with Dumont Board of Education, held a DWI simulation program for all members of the high school’s senior class.
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| | Pops Concert set for Friday at BHS
05/07/2008
The Music Department of Bergenfield High School will present its annual Pops Concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May 9 in the Dr. Bernard T. Baggs Auditorium at the school.
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 | N.M. student to get county award
05/07/2008
A photographic project has earned a New Milford High School student and Girl Scout a 2008 Historic Preservation Commendation Award from the county.
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| | Logo design contest of BCCBF launched
05/07/2008
The Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee invites all Bergenfield students in grades six through 12 to enter the BCCBF Design-a-Logo contest
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 | The Holocaust: Stories of the survivors
05/07/2008
In 1940, the Nazis began to focus their attention on Poland’s three million Jews, forcing them into overcrowded ghettos.
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| | Bergenfield Council OKs new revaluation
04/29/2008
Bergenfield is now on tap for a new revaluation.
The borough?s governing body last week adopted an ordinance calling for a revaluation of all residential and commercial properties in the borough.
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| | N.M. eyes cuts in programs, staff
04/29/2008
Hard times may be ahead for the New Milford municipal government and, by extension, the borough’s residents, inasmuch as the mayor and council must come to grips with a $435,000 shortfall in the 2008 budget.
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 | Volunteering knows no age boundaries
04/29/2008
For Rose Ronda, life is good.
"I live every minute of every day," said the youthful octogenarian, who defies her age in every aspect.
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| | Selzer School PTO on mission to build new playground
04/29/2008
The Selzer School Parent Teacher Organization in Dumont is engaged in some child’s play — of a sort.
Its playground committee is on a mission to build a new playground at the school, and is engaged in active fund raising to make it a reality.
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 | Film festival ready to roll
04/29/2008
The creativity and talent of young filmmakers from Bergenfield High School will be featured at tomorrow evening’s fourth annual Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee’s Bergenfield Film Festival.
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| | Asian Pacific American parade, festival set for June 1
04/29/2008
Come June 1, area residents will be treated to a colorful and festive parade when New Jersey’s first Asian Pacific American Cultural Heritage Parade takes off along Washington Avenue in Bergenfield.
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| | Taste of Greece Festival slated
04/29/2008
The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly will hold its 38th annual Taste of Greece Festival Thursday-Sunday, May 29-June 1.
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| | Dumont Memorial Day observance taking shape
04/29/2008
Dumont is preparing for its annual Memorial Day Parade starting at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26.
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 | Dumont landscape architect tapped for mansion show
04/29/2008
Dumont landscape architect Christopher Karach has been selected to design a premier space at the Froh Heim — that’s "Happy House" in German — estate in Far Hills as part of the Mansion in May Designer Showhouse and Gardens tour.
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| | The voters say ‘Yes’
04/22/2008
Incumbent trustees, for the most part, were able to retain their seats in last week’s school elections, while the three Twin-Boro News area budgets passed.
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 | The papal visit: A special time for many
04/22/2008
For area priests and parishioners, the pope?s visit to New York City was a rare opportunity to see the patriarch of one of the world?s largest churches.
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 | Pilgrims pause at Conlon Hall
04/22/2008
Even though the people in Conlon Hall at St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church in Bergenfield just finished an extensive 19-hour day, nothing but smiles filled the room last Friday evening.
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 | Up in Flames
04/22/2008
Fire rips through a home at 248 Ridge St., New Milford, early Friday morning.
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| | Good Samaritan goes for rehabilitation
04/22/2008
The 53-year-old Good Samaritan who was injured while assisting a woman who was being mugged outside his Legion Drive home in Bergenfield was transferred early last week to a rehabilitation facility.
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 | Bergenfield Film Festival getting ready to roll
04/22/2008
"Lights! Camera! Action!"
That will be the call on Thursday evening, May 1, when the Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee rolls out the red carpet at Bergenfield’s Clearview Cinema 5 to celebrate the opening of the fourth annual Bergenf
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| | Council bids for primary are set
04/15/2008
Council candidates in the Twin-Boro News area filed last week to seek their respective party’s nomination in the June primary election.
All but one of the match-ups are uncontested.
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| | The mission: A museum
04/15/2008
While Bergenfield officials wait for a professional report on the landscape and structural status of the Cooper House, the historical collection of the Bergenfield Museum Society remains in storage, where it has been for half a decade
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| | Pair charged in Bergenfield robbery
04/15/2008
Bergenfield police arrested two men late last week in connection with a purse-snatching robbery that took place on Legion Drive during the afternoon hours of Friday, April 4.
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| | Lights! Camera! Action again!
04/15/2008
The Bergenfield Community Center Building Fund Committee will roll out the red carpet — literally — at Bergenfield’s Clearview Cinema 5 on Thursday, May 1 to celebrate the opening of the fourth annual Bergenfield Film Festival.
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| | Bergenfield Family Fun Day is on tap
04/15/2008
A Family Fun Day is being planned in Bergenfield — and the entire borough is invited.
The event, scheduled for Sunday, June 22, at Veterans Memorial Park, will be free of charge to borough residents.
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| | Elks plan Walkout on Drugs
04/15/2008
Bergenfield Elks Lodge 1477 will take part in the 10th annual New Jersey Walkout on Drugs on Sunday, May 4 at Bergenfield High School.
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| | Bergenfield SID boosts awning, sign program
04/15/2008
The Bergenfield Special Improvement District is hoping to entice more local businesses to take advantage of its sign and awning grant program as part of its effort to promote physical and economic revitalization of the business district.
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04/15/2008
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| | School budgets, trustees at stake
04/08/2008
Voters in the Twin-Boro News area, as well from around the state, go to the polls Tuesday to elect board of education trustees and decide on their respective budgets for the 2008-09 school year.
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| | Bergenfield due for new revaluation
04/08/2008
Bergenfield will undergo a new revaluation of all assessed properties in the borough, to the tune of $650,000.
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| | Dumont woman leads ‘Motley Crew’ vs. MS
04/08/2008
Dumont resident Nicole Eiszner will lead her "Motley Crew" team on the nationwide 20th-anniversary MS walk this Sunday.
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| Runaway car shatters window
04/08/2008
A car crashed into the window of the 7-Eleven on North Washington Avenue in Bergenfield last week, shattering the glass and sending shards flying over a 100-foot area.
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 | Dumont Ambulance Corps officers installed
04/08/2008
The Dumont Volunteer Ambulance Corps officers for 2008 were installed at their annual dinner at the Valley Brook Country Club in Rivervale.
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| | Beth Tikcah satellite services are expanded
04/08/2008
With the first satellite Erev Shabbat services at Tenafly’s Clinton Inn drawing an overflow crowd of nearly 90 worshippers, New Milford Beth Tikvah has scheduled a second in the series for April 18.
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| | N.M.F.D. adds new boat to its inventory
04/01/2008
The New Milford Fire Department just added a new rescue boat to its emergency response apparatus
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| | B'field pizza man robbed; three arrested
04/01/2008
Three Englewood were arrested at a home on West Street in Englewood on Saturday night, March 22, moments after a pizza deliveryman from Bergenfield told police he was robbed at gunpoint by the men outside an apartment less than a block away.
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| | More Bergenfield officials enter Hall of Fame
04/01/2008
Former Bergenfield council members James Lodato, Rose Henn, and Dolores Butler have each been honored for their more than 20 years of service to the borough.
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| | Dumont targets illegal students
04/01/2008
In an attempt to weed out illegally enrolled students attending Dumont schools, district officials announced a new policy that will demand greater proof of residency from borough families beginning in the fall.
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| | Move afoot for more control of battle site
04/01/2008
The Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission is actively seeking more freedom in managing the Revolutionary War battleground with acreage in New Milford, Teaneck, and River Edge.
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 | Dumont receives $104G sewer rebate
04/01/2008
The Bergen County Utilities Authority presented a total of $104,519 in rebate checks to representatives from 38 participating Bergen County municipalities who qualified for the authority’s Sewer Connection Fee Rebate Program.
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 | 'SASSY Ladies'
04/01/2008
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| | N.M. man facing prison in fake business scheme
04/01/2008
A criminal moneymaking scheme hidden under the guise of a cheese company has two men — one a New Milford resident and the other from Englewood Cliffs —facing more than a decade in federal prison.
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| | Local team walks to save babies
04/01/2008
When members of Team Madison walk in the March for Babies on April 27, they will honor Baby Madison, a girl who never had a chance to live.
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| | Bergenfield Spanish-American Assn. to mark 20th anniversary
04/01/2008
The Spanish-American Cultural Association of Bergenfield will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a dinner-dance on April 5 at the Glenpointe Marriott in Teaneck.
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 | Easter morn
03/25/2008
Worshippers gather at Cooper’s Pond in Bergenfield Sunday morning for an Easter sunrise service
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| | Bergenfield crossing duties may be pared
03/25/2008
The Bergenfield governing body is considering removing $27,000 from budget, that money set aside for crossing guards at the borough’s churches and synagogues on weekends.
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 | Riquelme takes Dumont Council oath
03/25/2008
Rafael Riquelme was sworn in by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez last week as a new member of the Dumont Council.
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 | Rabbit rescued from smoky home
03/25/2008
As New Milford firefighters attacked a smoky fire in a Boulevard home, those in front of the house witnessed a special rescue.
Former Fire Chief David Stormer emerged from the fire scene, cuddling a small rabbit he found on the second floor.
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| | Dumont presents budget of $18M
03/25/2008
A reduction in state aid, the rising cost of employee pensions and municipal services were among the factors driving the $18 million 2008 municipal budget for Dumont.
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 | Arts festival winners named
03/25/2008
Winners have been announced in the visual arts category at the recent sixth annual "A Taste of the Arts" festival at Bergenfield High School.
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 | Demonstrators mark fifth year of war
03/25/2008
Anti-war protestors have been conducting vigils at the northeast corner of the Teaneck Armory grounds every Wednesday afternoon for more than two years.
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 | N.M. preserves last of its farmland
03/25/2008
New Milford borough officials took a big step last week to ensure that its two remaining farms will be forever preserved as open space.
To that end, an open-space farmland easement was acquired on the almost four acres of land on River Road belonging t
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| | Forgery probe seen wrapping up
03/19/2008
A state investigation into alleged election forgeries was expected to be wrapped up last week, with possible indictments to be handed up by a state grand jury in Trenton.
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| | New Milford residents cool to walkway
03/19/2008
The possible extension of the Hackensack River Walkway into New Milford has received a cold reception by some residents.
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| | Bergenfield Council pair nix new terms
03/18/2008
Two Bergenfield Council members will not be seeking re-election in the fall and will relinquish their council seats when their terms end in December.
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| | New Milford airs $17M ’08 budget
03/19/2008
The cost of utilities. fuel and salaries among the major factor in the $17 million 2008 municipal budget proposed for New Milford.
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| | $107G county grant awarded to Dumont library
03/19/2008
The Dixon Homestead Library in Dumont has been awarded a $107,000 grant from the County of Bergen to come up with a preservation plan and replace its roof.
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 | Army historian recalls Camp Merritt
03/19/2008
Amid snow-covered strawberry fields, a 4-month-old baby lies in a sled behind his grandfather’s house. In the distance stands a 66-foot obelisk that marks the center of an old Army base.
The year was 1947.
Now, 61 years later, Howard Bartholf sti
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| | Court upholds dismissal of case vs. Dumont
03/19/2008
An appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against the Borough of Dumont and its police department by a Monmouth County man, who claimed he was injured during an arrest in 2003.
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| | State medals presented to area combat veterans
03/13/2008
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 | Dinner celebrates brotherhood
03/12/2008
When volunteers from the service organizations in Bergenfield gathered last to celebrate the 47th annual Brotherhood Dinner, it marked one of the longest-running local gatherings of its kind on record.
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 | NMHS to stage ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’
03/12/2008
New Milford High School will present its production "Thoroughly Modern Millie" as it annual spring musical on March 27, 28, 29, and 30 in the James Africano Auditorium of the high school.
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 | State medals presented to area combat veterans
03/12/2008
Dozens of combat veterans from Bergen county, including three from the Twin-Boro News area have been awarded the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of their military service.
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 | B’field singer’s first ‘gig’ fulfilling lifelong dream
03/12/2008
By day, Elena Rose of Bergenfield may be a research microbiologist, but by night she is pursuing her lifelong dream to be a pop star.
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 | ‘Miracle’ puppy holds court
03/12/2008
"Beagle Boy" — the puppy found badly burned and wandering the streets of Paterson in October — held court on his recent visited to Dumont.
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 | Crumbling bricks imperil borough hall
03/12/2008
The brickwork above the entrance to the police department at Dumont Borough Hall is threatening to collapse.
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 | Avenue is ready for the Irish
03/12/2008
It will be a green scene Sunday afternoon when the 27th annual St. Patrick Day’s Parade wends its way up Washington Avenue in Bergenfield.
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| | Coping with Corzine’s cuts
03/12/2008
Cuts in state municipal aid could affect the three boroughs in the Twin-Boro News area with fatter local tax bills as well as fewer services.
The rollbacks are part of Gov. Jon Corzine’s fiscal year 2009 spending plan — and every municipality in B
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| | Zoning board dismisses plan for apartments
03/13/2008
A developer’s application to construct a three-story apartment complex on Annex Place in Bergenfield was unanimously dismissed by the zoning board last week.
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| | N.M. police bust up underage drinkers
03/06/2008
New Milford police rounded up what they said was a group of underage drinkers at a home they found littered with beer cans, liquor bottles and vomit.
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| | N.M. police bust up underage drinkers
03/05/2008
New Milford police rounded up what they said was a group of underage drinkers at a home they found littered with beer cans, liquor bottles and vomit.
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