Fair Lawn News

A CAR is not a roller coaster. Nor is it a motorcycle or an airplane. A car should never be airborne.

PALISADES PARK a ' Englewood Hospital has taken over emergency services in Palisades Park, disbanding a volunteer ambulance corps that has served the borough for 40 years.

Q. What do you think is the best way for a small-business owner a ' we're in a light-manufacturing business a ' to put aside money for retirement? We have a good business and good cash flow and we are looking for ways to invest in our future while maybe saving or deferring taxes.

BROADWAY BOUND Julia Knitel, 16, of Fair Lawn High School, a Paper Mill winner, has a role in a Broadway-bound production of 'Bye Bye Birdie.' THE little old ladies gave it everything they had, thumping their walkers and stomping their orthopedic shoes in unison on the stage of the Paper Mill Playhouse .

Giving blood has long been a biannual community service event at the Sri Guru Singh Sabha temple, but a large blood drive Sunday had special significance for the Sikh congregation.

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP Fair Lawn attorney Demetrios K. Stratis, who defended the municipality's sex offender law in appeals all the way up to the New Jersey Supreme Court, accepted plaques of appreciation Tuesday, June 23 from a grateful community.

HACKENSACK A developer who wants to build a controversial housing complex in Fair Lawn described the project in Superior Court Tuesday as the ideal complement to the town's iconic Radburn neighborhood.

A Fair Lawn man was run over by his own car Sunday when he failed to put it in park before getting out, police said.

" Legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Connie Wagner to help preserve open space has been approved by an Assembly panel.

The Paper Mill Playhouse will showcase the best of New Jersey's musical theater in their upcoming Rising Star awards.

Paper Mill Playhouse The Rising Star Awards are modeled after the Tony Awards and Paper Mill's program serves the entire state of New Jersey with 100 entered productions from high schools.

More than ever, North Jersey towns need their accounting firms, doctors' offices, retail stores and pizzerias for the property tax revenue they generate, and they're doing what they can to help them stay in business.

FAIR LAWN A steady drizzle falling from gray skies Sunday morning couldn't dampen the celebration for members of the newest Orthodox Jewish congregation in town as they opened their new synagogue.

NEWSTRACKER: FAIR LAWN MOVIE HOUSE'S TRANSFORMATION BEGINS WHAT'S NEW: Contractors have gutted the interior of the old Hyway Theater in Fair Lawn, the first step in a construction project that will replace the former landmark movie palace with a doctors' office complex.

Julia Knitel as Millie Dillmount, nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, who was just cast in Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway performs with students at Fair Lawn High School rehearsal of a number from their musical Thoroughly Modern Millie to prepare for the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards in Fair Lawn, NJ 6/8/09

No one was killed or wounded. No one even had to dodge enemy bullets or fire a gun.

PATERSON Residents displaced by a Sunday blaze that started in an abandoned duplex said the building had twice caught fire in the past 13 months, and neighbors complained repeatedly to city officials that is was unsafe.

A Fair Lawn police officer has been charged in the alleged beating of a 12-year-old Paterson boy following an incident involving a stolen bicycle in Fair Lawn.

WILDWOOD Though crowds showed steady numbers and pleasant disposition throughout the Wildwoods over the holiday weekend, several incidents marred the holiday atmosphere in this community.

A Fair Lawn police officer has been accused of beating a 12-year-old Paterson youth.