Pompton Lakes News

Police are looking for four suspects in a pellet gun shooting in which a teenager was injured on New Year's Day outside Casey O'Tooles restaurant.

Police charged a 28-year-old Haskell/Wanaque man was criminal trespass and theft after allegedly tying him to the theft of jewelry that was reported on Dec.

Residents of a northern New Jersey town - that was once home to a DuPont munitions plant - are taking on the chemical giant and making sure their voices are heard after a cancer cluster was uncovered.

Early on the morning of Dec. 23, a 30-year-old Wayne man was struck in the face with a metal bar stool at The Sidedoor bar on Colfax Avenue, causing his nose to bleed and landing him on the ground where he was kicked seven times, according to police.

Many people in the community joined together and pooled their resources so that more than 1,000 kids can have a wonderful holiday season.

Christmas was a busy time in Pompton Lakes. There was a lot of work to do in preparation for the holiday services.

In the belief that reading is the most important skill of all since it is the starting point for all the economic and social opportunities this world has to offer, members of the Rotary Club of Pompton Lakes once again visited all four local elementary schools, distributing dictionaries to each member of every third grade.

The Bitter End isn't such a bad place to begin. Bob Dylan started there. So did Randy Newman, Woody Allen, Phil Ochs, Barbra Streisand, Patti Smith, Sarah McLachlan and Frank Zappa.

NORTH JERSEY Here's a look at what was published in Suburban Trends around mid-December over the years.

NORTH JERSEY Here's a look at what was published in Suburban Trends around mid-December over the years.

A plume of toxic-laden groundwater has migrated from the site in Pompton Lakes. Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-Ledger Bob Williams, left, and Lou Ballini prepare a remote control boat for testing on the water at Hershfield Park in Pompton Lakes in this 2002 file photo.

The state will intensify its review of cancer in town, spurred on by resident claims that disease is rife beyond a polluted neighborhood afflicted with higher-than-normal rates of two cancers.

One by one, residents of a pollution-threatened neighborhood told state health officials about the cancers they were being treated for, or a relative was suffering from, or the tumor that killed their neighbor.

POMPTON LAKES Officials expect a standing-room-only crowd at the 7 p.m. meeting in town hall to discuss a state health report that kidney cancer rates in women and non-Hodgkins lymphoma rates in men are significantly elevated in a neighborhood that sits above chemically contaminated groundwater.

Tom Carroll says he didn't need a state health department study to confirm that his Pompton Lakes neighborhood is a cancer cluster.

The lawmakers are responding to a report that said higher rates of cancer occur in a Pomptom Lakes neighborhood polluted by runoff from an E.I. DuPont Co.

Lawmakers are asking federal environmental officials to review whether a pollution control project is adequately protecting people who live in a North Jersey neighborhood where a state health report found elevated cancer rates.

Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. would like to inform residents of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey of a new public health study concerning their community.

Kidney cancer rates in women and non-hodgkins lymphoma rates in men are significantly elevated in a Pompton Lakes neighborhood perched above contaminated groundwater, according to a new study issued Thursday by the state Health Department.

Residents who live near a plume of contaminated groundwater from the DuPont Pompton Lakes Works site should have vapor mitigation systems installed in their homes to remove gases that may contaminate their indoor air, according to two reports released today.