Passaic County News

North American Partners in Anesthesia , a specialty anesthesia and perioperative management company has announced New Jersey Anesthesia Group has joined NAPA.

The Passaic Valley Water Commission on Wednesday adopted a modified version of a controversial plan to drain its open-air reservoirs on Garret Mountain and replace them with concrete tanks, beginning in 2015.

Police say a Tinton Falls man arrested Wednesday and charged with lewdness and child sex offenses believed he was holding chat sessions with a 12-year-old girl on the Internet, but the conversation actually involved undercover Passaic County sheriff's detectives.

PATERSON - Georgios Spyropoulos, the man accused in a plot to have the owner of the famed Tick Tock Diner tortured, robbed and killed last month, walked out of the Passaic County Jail this afternoon after posting bail, officials said.

If local motor-heads want to make a killing selling tires or fixing axles and suspension systems, they'd do well to set up shop near Starke Road in Carlstadt or West Railway Avenue in Paterson .

Members of Centenary College Social Responsibility Class Raises Funds for the Salvation Army.

CLIFTON - A Paterson woman was arrested Tuesday for selling knock-off designer handbags out of a fake Halal butcher shop, authorities said.

NEWTON - A Passaic County detective was legally drunk and had been drinking at a winery just before he unsuccessfully tried to navigate his vehicle down the steepest slope at the Mountain Creek ski resort, according to court papers.

The Wayne Valley Indians won their first Passaic County track and field title Wednesday by defeating Passaic Tech 116-94, NorthJersey.com reported .

Defeated Passaic mayoral candidate Jose Sandoval, wearing striped tie, was among a group testing voting machines Friday.

A Hillside police officer writes a ticket to a driver who wasn't wearing a seat belt in this Star-Ledger file photo.

CLIFTON - Good police work led to the arrest of a Passaic teen who has been charged with cooking up a plan to vandalize Councilwoman Mary Sadrakula's house with eggs in March.

West Milford junior Chris McCormack won today's Passaic County Championship by two strokes with 4-over 73 at the Preakness Valley GC West Course in Wayne.

The following release was sent by the Wyckoff YMCA : Wyckoff Family YMCA members and the community came out in numbers to celebrate the Wyckoff Fire Department at the Y's 31st Annual "Friends of the Y" Dinner held on Wednesday, April 24 at the Wyckoff Y. On behalf of the Y's Board of Directors, Lee Parker presented the award to Chief Lou Graglia.

Dominick Reda, 46, was charged with several counts of stalking and harassment charges after being arrested Thursday with his pants down, police said.

Mario Casabona, founder of TechLaunch, at its kickoff event Tuesday evening. Montclair State University is a co-sponsor of the training program for new businesses.

Three Bernards Township residents were among the more than 70 people who made reports to 30 police departments within the last year or so that they were the victims of identity theft, prompting a statewide investigation that led to the arrest of 11 people earlier this month, authorities said.

New Jersey's average property tax bill grew to $7,885 last year, another record high according to newly released state data, and one that appears to be growing slower than it has in past years.

As New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher visited the Sussex County Fairgrounds on Tuesday, he could see the excitement in the eyes of the kindergartners.

PATERSON - A city resident was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin after law enforcement authorities watched him make a drug sale, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said.