Teterboro News

Investigators say the pilot of a plane that slammed into a Rockbridge County field had asked an air traffic controller for directions shortly before the crash.

An executive of a charter jet company involved in a crash at a small New Jersey airport in 2005 has pleaded guilty to fraud.

A 2007 photo of jets on a runway at Teterboro Airport. The family of former Checkers Drive-In Restaurants CEO Daniel Dorsch said he and his wife Cyndie died in a Virginia plane crash Sunday that originated at Teterboro.

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed today in southwestern Virginia reported losing an exterior panel shortly before the aircraft hit the ground, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

That doesn't mean any schools will actually close: Those districts and 23 others do not operate any.

School officials in the tiny borough of Newfield knew that legislation would soon be coming to have their non-operating district and the 25 others in the state merge into existing ones.

The Teterboro and Rockleigh school boards are set to go the way of the dinosaur thanks to a law signed by Governor Corzine Tuesday that would eliminate so-called non-operating school districts.

The school districts in such New Jersey hamlets as Hi-Nella , Teterboro and Victory Gardens will be history by the time schools open in fall 2010 under a bill signed by the governor Tuesday.

New Jersey's smallest school districts are going the way of the dinosaur. Gov. Jon Corzine Tuesday plans to sign into law a bill that will clear the way to merge with larger districts 25 small school districts that do not operate schools.

New technology that monitors the condition of 12 old tide gates in the Meadowlands should give engineers a head start on fixing problems to prevent flooding, officials said.

On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, Dassault Falcon hosted the 23rd annual awards ceremony for the Teterboro Airport Community Benefit Fund.

TETERBORO a ' Graduation day marked a new beginning for 47 high school dropouts last week as they accepted their General Education Development high school certificates.

Some business owners are talking about doing more private air travel, but so far it's just talk, according to top managers at Teterboro's oldest charter service.

Pilot: Bird warnings don't help Safety board holds hearings into downed plane By JOAN LOWY The Associated Press Wed.

Editor's note: Like the fabled New Yorker who's never been to Grant's Tomb, there are New Jerseyans who have avoided the Great Falls or the sheer fun of a minor league baseball game.

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Buehler Endowment Fosters Partnership with Vaughn College to Provide Bergen Community College Students with a Pathway to Bachelor of Science Degrees in Aeronics, Avionics and Airport Management The Emil Buehler Trust has awarded the Bergen Community College Foundation a $2 million grant for the development of an aviation degree track.

TRENTON -- As a small-town mayor, Steve Lonegan won both admirers and enemies across the state by trying to have English declared his community's official language, announcing he wouldn't support civil unions for gay couples, fighting rate increases on toll roads and suing the state government over how much money it was borrowing.

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.

From the widening of the Garden State Parkway to the first construction project at Rumson Country Day School in 20 years, the bad economy is delivering an unexpected bonus: Contractors are seeking less money to do the work than officials estimated.