Haledon News

A married couple is legally challenging a Borough Council zoning change to accommodate planned expansion of the Holland Christian Home, a retirement community on Graham Avenue.

For residents of the Roe Street Field area, a hard rain falling on their roofs means a tide of sewage rising in their basements.

Posted By: Amy Kuperinsky Exactly a year after the band reunited at Maxwell's, its longtime Hoboken haunt, the Feelies took the stage at the small, narrow venue last night, once again sating the desires of diehard followers.

Along Lincoln Harbor and Boulevard East, residents from Bergen , Essex, and Hudson counties were setting up lawn and beach chairs and blankets to get the best view and beat the crowds.

Ever since Passaic County Sheriff's officer Alan Souto was arrested in March 2008 for stealing nearly 100 pounds of cocaine from the evidence vault, a big question has gone unanswered: Who got the drugs? The answer may have finally come to light on Monday, when one of Souto's accomplices in the dope theft, boxing manager Henry Cortes, appeared in ...

For now, it's a rock quarry. By 2013, it could be a gold mine - or a pit of troubles, depending on who's doing the predicting.

A former Port Authority police recruit has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.

Michael and Jon Galluccio thought it would be a simple process to adopt their foster child Adam, whom they had taken into their Maywood home as a 3-month-old HIV-positive baby.

William Paterson University has made major investments in facilities and new programs, and is poised to increase enrollment by as much as 20 percent, its president said.

Residents are advised to boil all drinking water until further notice as a result of a water main break that occurred Monday.

HALEDON a ' The Borough Council has been briefed on a worst-case-scenario 2009 municipal budget that contains a 17 percent municipal tax levy increase pending word of how much state aid will arrive.

Plans for repaving, curbing and sidewalk installation on two streets in North Haledon met with opposition from residents concerned about property values and drainage during a June 17 Borough Council meeting.

CLIFTON a ' The tissue box was passed around Friday afternoon as 13 men and women graduated from the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy High School.

As the Bernie Madoffs of the world grab headlines, erase fortunes and further damage an already ailing economy, a quieter culture of corporate greed continues eroding the bottom lines of suburban small businesses and non-profit charities.

HALEDON a ' A fire sprinkler project at Haledon Public School for which tax funding was reduced will proceed as planned with no financial difficulties, Board of Education finance chairman Jeffrey Fischer said.

HALEDON a ' Taxpayers are getting a small break as a result of the Borough Council's decision that the school district should cut $16,592 from its voter-defeated 2009-10 tax proposal.

The long and politically bloody battle for control of the Passaic County Republican Party ended tonight when Scott Rumana was overwhelmingly reelected as chairman.

The police chief of a northern New Jersey town was suspended after alleging at a public meeting that a town official was under investigation for illegal drug use.

Borough Police Chief Lou Mercuro was suspended with pay Friday afternoon pending the outcome of an internal investigation into whether he acted inappropriately in alleging before the Borough Council on Thursday that a council member was under investigation for using cocaine.

A Borough Council member is under investigation for using cocaine, a visibly infuriated Police Chief Lou Mercuro announced to a stunned council tonight.