Fair Lawn News

It was a scorcher Monday for the borough's annual Memorial Day Parade. The day's activities began in front of the municipal building at 8 a.m. with represenatives of Fair Lawn veterans posts followed by a Fire Department ceremony.

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Fair Lawn was one of 17 area towns that provided mutual aid on a five-alarm structure fire in Elmwood Park Sunday that crews battled through the night and into the early morning.

Norma and Karl Stehle of West Milford weeding their area at the West Milford Community Garden off Union Valley Road.

Local women expressed anger overA what they felt were recent national and stateA legislative threats to women's rights and health care at a panel discussionA Thursday night.

Fair Lawn High School 's production of the musical " Nine "A has been nominated for 12 Metropolitan High School Theater Awards , including Outstanding Overall Production, Oustanding Leading Actor and Outstanding Direction.

Council introduced a $46.2 million municipal budget Tuesday that would increase taxes 4.5 percent, or $121.75, on the average assessed home.

He said he plans to transform it into a gastropub with an emphasis on pairing food with beer and wine, and with an even more expansive beer selection.

Anyone who's attended a Fair Lawn council meeting or watched one on television has probably seen Rich Seibel.

"Most people want their own police departments," said Elmwood Park Mayor Richard Mola, who served as a freeholder from 1978 to 2004.

Natalie Akselrod, the Fair Lawn mother who was charged with child endangerment Monday A after her unattended minivan carrying her two infant children rolled backwards out of its parking spot at the Radburn CVS and into parking lot traffic, plead not guilty Wednesday and had her case sent up to county court.

Natalie Akselrod, a mother of five from Fair Lawn, left her twins in a van that rolled into a moving car.

Fair Lawn High School A made Newsweek's annual list of " America's Best High Schools ," again this year, but it wasn't rated quite as highly this time around.

FAIR LAWN - Police charged a woman with child endangerment after she allegedly left her 6-month-old twins in a minivan that rolled out of its parking space outside a pharmacy Monday, authorities said.

Bergen County will host a Holocaust remembrance ceremony on Thursday, May 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Circle of Honor, the green at the Bergen County Courthouse.

John will miss at least the first week of the state tournament. Nugent, a junior outside hitter, is one of the top players in New Jersey and his absence will create major problems for the Cutters as they seek to defend their state title.

FAIR LAWN A woman was taken away by police Monday afternoon after a witness said a driverless minivan with two infants inside rolled out of a parking space at a CVS pharmacy on Fair Lawn Avenue, nearly hitting a passing car.

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Tysheam Morton, of Fair Lawn, will be one of 38 New Jersey high school students performing Thursday at the 8th Annual Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey's Shout Down Drugs competition .

"It will be a little crowded out there," the spandex-clad Woodcliff Lake resident admitted on his way to the race's cramped starting line on the George Washington Bridge.