West Paterson News

Title: THREE ARRESTED AFTER CHILD WATCHES ANIMAL SACRIFICES Three people are accused of cutting a child and making her watch animal sacrifices as part of a religious ritual in northern New Jersey.

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.

There's a lot going on every day in the kitchen of Nicola's, Nick and Joann Mariella's 20-year-old North Jersey Italian institution.

After a school board trustee abstained from voting to reappoint the district's longtime legal counsel and a power struggle ensued, questions have risen regarding a different commissioner and his connections with the new Board attorney.

A power outage cut electricity to 9,788 homes in Paterson, West Paterson and Totowa for more than an hour late this morning, a PSE&G spokesman said.

On April 18, he got one step closer to that dream when he won the Costello Award for Best Independent Feature at the Passaic County Film Festival for his 9-minute movie, "A School Story." "It felt like the Oscars to me," admitted Simonetti, who is in his second year at PTHS.

A state judge has cleared Ridgefield Park's suspended municipal court administrator of a resisting-arrest conviction in connection with a 2006 auto accident involving her relatives.

Two firefighters injured, four alarms, five hours, six homes, eight-inch water main problems, twelve mutual aid towns, nearly thirty pieces of apparatus, fifty people homeless and scores of firefighters! That's what it was like at the scene of a general alarm fire which broke out just before 4:00pm on Friday, April 17, allegedly originating in the ...

WOODLAND PARK a ' A state examiner found the Board of Education violated state law when Schools Superintendent Scott Rixford retaliated against district employees whose union filed grievances against him and wouldn't agree to his plans to change employee negotiations and working conditions.

Brooklyn : To all the people who got our ship and Capt. Richard Phillips back alive: Job well done.

A A The PCRO slate features Kristin CorradoA running for county clerk, freeholder candidates Bruno Varano, A Robert Cruz, and Debra Andriani and as well as 35th District Assembly candidates Lynn Anne Shortway of Hawthorne andA George Sawey of North Haledon .

Showing they are serious about ousting Passaic County Republican Chairman Scott Rumana, the splinter group GOP Strong has filed 277 county committee candidates.

Starters is a first look at recently opened restaurants. It is meant to be a descriptive glimpse, not a critical review.

I DROVE WEST on I-80 to work last week. It was a familiar ride, having worked on Garret Mountain for six years.

" Municipal Democratic Chairman Michael Kazmark has announced that two incumbent Council Members and one Woodland Park Board of Education Member will round out the Democratic Council ticket this year.

WEST PATERSON, NJ - Maureen T. Kennedy, 63, of West Paterson, NJ, died Friday at home.

" Councilwoman Ruth Patterson announced today her retirement from the Woodland Park Borough Council at the end of this year.

An East Stroudsburg man wants area residents, especially teenagers and young adults, to learn to groom for success in both their personal lives and the world of professional careers and entrepreneurship.

The Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution that joins with other municipality in holding Cablevision's "feet to the fire" due to concerns over the company's business tactics.

GOP Strong Co-chairman Michael Mecca told the gathering that a oethis is the beginning of the return of the Republican Party to a position of power and responsibility in Passaic County.a A Mecca said the ...