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A PATH OF WOODCHIPS, A BRIDGE OVER AN EXCEPTIONALLY WET AREA AND AND ONE OF A NUMBER OF DESCRIPTIVE SIGNS ARE VISIBLE AT THE WALLISCH WETLANDS EDUCATION AREA.

A YEAR AGO, Dr. Alex Blanco held promise. Many believed he'd be a good mayor of the city of Passaic.

ROXBURY - Authorities recovered a submerged vehicle from Lake Hopatcong on Tuesday night that was reported stolen from a Passaic County movie theater earlier this week.

Government engineers recommend nine possible courses of action to ease devastating flash floods from the Peckman River but the leading option so far would cost too much, one local leader says.

Mayor Alex Blanco is hosting a dinner dance party for his city employees with a suggested ticket price of $125 made out to his political campaign, a report in NorthJersey.com said.

The defense and prosecution debated in closing arguments Tuesday the role a North Jersey man may have had in the apparent attempt on the life of a Red Bank lawyer whose former client is being tried on charges he conspired to kill the attorney.

CLIFTON Overall crime in Clifton schools is down, according to the latest New Jersey Department of Education annual report on violence, vandalism and drug use in state public schools.

Jersey City's assistant comptroller was suspended without pay Friday after being charged by Morris and Passaic County authorities with having sexual conversations in online chat rooms with undercover officers posing as young girls.

A state appeals court panel agreed Friday to hear arguments on whether a man convicted of kidnapping, robbing and pistol-whipping a Harding resident should go free because he was not tried in a timely way.

A Passaic police officer indicted in September on counts of aggravated assault and official misconduct in connection with a confrontation with a city resident was arraigned in state court in Paterson Monday.

Republican Christopher J. Christie, who won acclaim as a corruption buster during his seven years as the United States Attorney, was elected Governor of New Jersey, defeating incumbent Jon S. Corzine by more than 105,000 votes.

A 19-year old Passaic man was shot to death during a fight outside a party at a partially-abandoned Paterson factory building early Saturday morning, Paterson police said.

Two multi-family homes in the city acted as fronts for brothels utilizing women brought into the area from New York, according to prosecutors.

CLIFTON a ' What once was Bellin's Swim Club and Teddy's Restaurant and Catering will soon become two stories of senior citizen apartments atop a group of retail stores, said new land owner and developer Peter Evgenikos.

Regarding Diana Nash's "Grieving in the digital age" : I am a bereaved parent. My young son passed away 13 years ago suddenly.

New Jersey's candidates for governor are darting through the state Monday, in a final push for votes in a race that's too close to call.

Includes Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Garfield, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Rutherford, Wallington and Wood-Ridge in Bergen County and Passaic in Passaic County DEMOCRATS Frederick Scalera Age: 51 Hometown: Nutley Family: Married, one son Occupation: Legislator Education: Bachelor's degree in public administration, Fairleigh Dickinson ...

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The race to represent the varied interests of the 36th Legislative District in the state Assembly is a rematch between the incumbent Democrats and their Republican challengers from the last battle at the ballot box.

CLIFTON COMMUNITY FOR SERIES OF KASHRUT LECTURES Given the enormous success of the Harry H. Beren ASKOU OUTREACH program and its visits to yeshivot, kollelim and semicha programs, ASKOU OUTREACH is now expanding to major Jewish communities with its first post-Shabbat visits to the Passaic-Clifton community.