Demarest News

A wine proprietor by day and a ghost medium by night, Craig McManus has been balancing his passion for wine and ghosts for the past 15 year until now.

Five months after his nomination was first set to be considered, Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spiccuzo's was cleared by the Senate Judiciary Committee for a seat on the Sports and Exposition Authority.

Republican Ray Cywinski filed for a recount of the Nov. 3 election, where he lost his bid for a council seat by a slim margin of 13 votes.

New Jersey police officers can now use stun guns when confronting emotionally disturbed people who are armed - a tactic that law enforcement officials said could reduce the use of deadly force.

They've made the finals and are currently running in fifth place, but they're shooting for first.

The Municipal Court administrator for Dumont and Demarest who has been accused of pocketing $1,285 in court fines waived her first appearance in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack on Thursday.

After the school district parted ways with two superintendents in as many years, a popular cry arose: Are we doing something wrong? It was a question fueled by an even longer trend: In the last five years, the district also has been run by three interim superintendents in addition to the two "permanent" chiefs.

The municipal court administrator for Dumont and Demarest was charged with theft on Tuesday, accused of pocketing $1,285 in court fines that violators thought they were paying in full to Demarest, authorities said.

A family of four was displaced by a basement fire on Monday that sent smoke throughout a house on Seneca Trace, police said.

Teachers at Northern Valley Regional High School demonstrated outside the school in Old Tappan today, upset that education officials proposed extending the school day 15 minutes without enough compensation, a union representative said.

Alumni of schools, camps, military units and other institutions around New Jersey will be attending reunions aimed at bringing old friends and classmates back together.

The love of art, studies in illustration and watercolor, a career in advertising and travels around the world all come together in a beautiful solo show by artist Tom Parkes.

A Demarest man was sentenced to five yearsa TM probation Friday for writing a bad check and ordered to make $72,500 in restitution to a friend who had invested money with him.

Pamela DeBlasio, owner of the Closter-based women's clothing boutique Past & Present, was recognized recently by the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners as its 2009 Rose & Scroll award recipient, an honor given each year to a non-member that serves as a community leader, role model and advocate for women business owners.

With all the attention surrounding the H1N1's possible return, the seasonal flu and pneumonia have taken a backseat even as the weather turns cold.

Frank Sinatra, is to this day, is considered to be one of the greatest singers of all time.

Regional district education officials are once again considering random drug testing.

Officials are trying to determine what sparked a fire that damaged 10 school buses in northern New Jersey today.

When Edith Frank, 83, got an offer on her three-bedroom Florida house, there was a catch: The buyer wanted to close in two weeks.

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month will start with a bang in Bergen County, NJ, when Steps for Survival, an always delightful gathering for cancer patients, their families and their healthcare team, takes place at the beautiful Alpine Country Club in Demarest, NJ on October 1, 2009 from 6-9PM. For four years, Steps for Survival has made the ...