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Danger of fireworks

RIDGEFIELD PARK a ' The charge detonated, and watermelon pulp and seeds flew skyward and then splattered 50 feet from a blast site at a construction zone in Overpeck County Park.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Your town may be quiet this 4th

For many New Jersey residents, the Fourth of July will come and go without a bang.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Born on the Fourth of July, and proud of it

What does it mean to be born on the Fourth of July? Readers answered that question with an outpouring of patriotism.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Ahearn: When courses flunk, not just students

In a number of districts with sizable middle-class populations, 14 percent or more of the students are taking the SRA route to graduation.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Leader Free Press

Leader Newspapers- The end for volunteer EMTs?

Dictionary.com describes a volunteer as "a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking; a person who performs a service willingly and without pay." As the state budget eases closer to becoming reality, local emergency medical technicians may feel one of the harshest cuts from the financial scalpel.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

The Jersey Journal

Cut New Jersey school spending and quit complaining

Student at the blackboard at the Watchung School in Montclair. There's a certain mood in the country right now, and it's all about saving, not spending.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

WNBC

Fireworks Fizzle Around N.J.

It may be as American as apple pie, but many communities this July 4th are seeing their traditional fireworks turn into a bitter fruit.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Clergy urge boycott of census

If undocumented immigrants are valuable enough to be counted in the Census, then they ought to be legalized.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

CourierPostOnline

Camden schools chief gets pay hike

City schools Superintendent Bessie LeFra Young got a pay raise, and jumped three places to become the eighth-highest-paid superintendent in New Jersey.

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Sun May 31, 2009

Philly.com

Profile of Steve Lonegan

At a council meeting in Bogota, Steve Lonegan stood up to ask the mayor a question: What can the borough do about the noisy, low-flying planes over town? "They were so close, you could see the pilots in the windows," Lonegan said recently.

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Fri May 29, 2009

NorthJersey.com

newstracker: Overnight Bridge repair on Route 46 this weekend

WHAT'S NEW: The state Department of Transportation will resurface and waterproof the Route 46 bridge over the Hackensack River in Ridgefield Park and Little Ferry in Bergen County.

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Wed May 27, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Corrections for May 27, 2009

They were mistakenly omitted from the Classified section. * In a list of finalists for the Russ Berrie Awards for Making a Difference that ran Thursday on Page L-3, one of the qualifications for Mary Hirschman of Ridgefield Park was mischaracterized.

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Wed May 20, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Ridgefield Park shop has health food for all ages

The signs in the window tell the story: freshly squeezed juices. Cream sodas and smoothies.

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Tue May 19, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Police: Man used Internet to arrange sex with 10-year-old

A Middlesex County man was arrested Tuesday, accused of using the Internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a 10-year-old girl, authorities said.

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Tue May 12, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Law allows private contractors to oversee pollution cleanups

Private contractors will soon oversee the cleanup of the vast majority of New Jersey's contaminated sites, a sea change in the way the state has dealt with its long history of industrial and residential pollution.

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Sun May 10, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Parole outsources penalties

After five months in prison for dealing drugs, Nashon James was going straight. He cut hair at his mother's barbershop, tried making money on eBay and even joined a bowling league.

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Fri May 08, 2009

NorthJersey.com

Road Warrior: How falls and photos sometimes patch potholes

Readers love to write me about their least-favorite potholes, but few send photos, and none but Jeffrey Krieger is clever enough to include a ruler in the picture.

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Wed May 06, 2009

North Jersey Media Group

Village seeks to put suspended official back to work

RIDGEFIELD PARK a ' Village officials are seeking to reinstate suspended Court Administrator Susan Vargas now that she has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a 2006 incident with police.

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Mon May 04, 2009

The Paramus Post

Opportunities Exist in NJ's Industrial Market for Entrepreneurial...

"Despite weakening fundamentals, we still remain confident that stability will return to New Jersey's industrial market due to the strong buying power of private and public companies, particularly smaller foreign companies and entrepreneurial tenants that will be in a position to take advantage of the current market softness by locking in longer ...

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Sat May 02, 2009

NorthJersey.com

60-year-old promise fulfilled

A county park in Ridgefield Park: It's about time. IN 1949, the Bergen County Park Commission unveiled plans for the development of a grand park in the valley of the Overpeck Creek, then a free flowing stream emptying into the Hackensack River at the southern tip of the village of Ridgefield Park.

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