Friday, March 29, 2013
Cristina Cutrone and Joan Goldstein will run on the Fair Lawn Democratic ticket for borough council in 2013.
Cristina Cutrone and Joan Goldstein have earned the Democratic party's endorsement in the upcoming municipal election, the Fair Lawn Democratic Organization announced Friday. The two women join Republican nominees Dan Dunay and Amy Lefkowitz in the 2013 race for two open borough council seats. Only one of the women need prevail in November for the Democrats to wrest control of the council majority from the Republicans. Cutrone, who has lived in Fair Lawn with her husband for about three years, gave birth last month to the couple's first child. She said she knew from the time she set foot in the borough that it was where she wanted to raise her family. "From the first time I visited Fair Lawn I was amazed by the sense of community and …
Friday, February 22, 2013
Dan Dunay and Amy Lefkowitz will run on the Republican ticket for borough council in 2013.
The Fair Lawn Republican Club's hopes for retaining a council majority in 2014 officially rest on Dan Dunay and Amy Lefkowitz. The organization announced Thursday that its members had chosen the two young Republicans as their 2013 borough council nominees. Dunay and Lefkowitz will run in lieu of Deputy Mayors Jeanne Baratta and Ed Trawinski, who intend to retire from public office after their terms expire at the end of the year. Dunay, a third generation Fair Lawn resident and principal at New York financial services firm Centerview Partners, said he was honored to receive the group's endorsement. "It means so much to me that we work together to keep Fair Lawn strong," Dunay said in a statement. "I want to do whatever I can to help Fair …
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Baratta will be sworn in as the borough's 36th mayor at the Jan. 3 council re-organization meeting
As chief of staff for the county executive and soon-to-be mayor of Fair Lawn, Jeanne Baratta is no stranger to the spotlight. Her dual county and municipal positions have made her a lightning rod for criticism on the comment pages of the Fair Lawn Patch and NorthJersey.com. Even Democratic councilman-elect Kurt Peluso joined the fray recently, calling on Baratta to resign her council seat because of what he perceived to be a "conflict of interest." Baratta said she's stung by the comments, which she admits to reading, and has many times responded to. "I am very offended when people call me a double dipper..or that I’m padding my pension," she said. "Because it’s the farthest thing from the truth." Baratta said when she was first elected to…
Monday, December 19, 2011
In the video that accompanies this article, Wayne Robbins speaks with Steve Weinstein about his time in office.
When borough council re-organizes on Jan. 3, it’ll mark the end of an era. It’ll not only be the first time in over a decade that Democrats have surrendered control of council, it’ll be the first time in over a decade that Steve Weinstein, one of the Dems’ most well-liked and respected representatives, won’t have a seat at the dais. Weinstein, who’s sat on council since October 2001, including three years spent as Fair Lawn’s mayor, chose not to run for re-election this November. “All the nights out and the days, early morning meetings…after a while, it takes its toll on your family,” Weinstein said of serving on council. “It was time to take a little bit of a step back.” That said, walking away from politics wasn’t an easy decision for …
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Do you have any favorite memories of Joe or Steve? Leave them in the comments below.
Longtime Fair Lawn council members and current Deputy Mayors Joe Tedeschi and Steve Weinstein received a warm send-off from the town Tuesday at their final meeting as sitting councilmen. Neither Tedeschi nor Weinstein, both Democrats, sought re-election to council this November, deciding instead to retire from politics. After making an appearance at the borough's town hall holiday lighting and caroling ceremony, Tedeschi and Weinstein headed upstairs for their last night on the dais, where they were treated to some friendly roasting by colleagues and friends. Town crier Tim Yuskaitis, dressed in colonial garb and accompanied by his daughter Jenna, opened Tuesday's meeting with a proclamation thanking both councilmen on their service to the…
Sunday, November 20, 2011
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Monday, Nov. 14 DPW: Rogue Landscapers Contributing to Slow Storm Cleanup The Department of Public Works has been out daily in the two-plus weeks since the snowstorm to retrieve broken branches and tree limbs scattered across town, but progress has been slow. Conte said calls from residents requesting debris pick-up have been pouring in, but that it could take another three weeks to a month before everything in town is cleared. Remnants of debris left by the storm still adorn Fair Lawn's streets, in large part, DPW Supervisor Ron Conte said, because of rogue landscapers who have taken advantage of the situation and tossed their own yard waste into the streets rather than dispose of it properly. Radburn Players Perform 'Rabbit Hole' For …
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Both the Democratic and Republican council candidates raised about $25,000 in campaign contributions for this year's election, but who was doing the donating differed greatly.
Some scoffed at Republican council hopeful Pamela Coles when she assured voters at the candidate forum that the members of her ticket were not politicians, but simply concerned Fair Lawn residents who no longer could sit idly by as the town they loved changed before their eyes. At the time, Mayor Lisa Swain disagreed with Coles, saying, “My Republican opponents keep saying they're not politicians, but I think once you align yourself to a party, you are politically active.” What makes someone a politician is an issue that’s up for debate. What can’t be debated, however, is that the Fair Lawn Democrats were far better tied into the moneyed segments of their party than were the Fair Lawn Republicans. While both parties raised about $25,000 in…
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Lisa Swain, John Cosgrove and Kurt Peluso said they look forward to coming together as a bipartisan council and working through their differences
Patch approached each of the three candidates who won council seats for reactions Tuesday, shortly after the announcements of their victories were made. Here are excerpts of their responses. (Democratic Treasurer Joan Goldstein contributed a response in the interview with Lisa Swain): General reaction: Well we’re thrilled. Obviously, we would have preferred if all three of us were elected. But we’re pretty confident that in two years we’ll have the majority again. Were you confident that you'd win? I was pretty confident. I felt good...I did think that all three of us would get on because we are a predominantly Democratic community, and we ran as a team, and we ran a really good campaign. The reaction from all the residents we met from …
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Stabilizing taxes has been the key issue for many of the resident's Patch polled Tuesday
Voter turnout in Fair Lawn is up this year, according to poll worker projections taken Tuesday at just under half of the borough’s 12 polling stations. The Municipal Clerk's office confirmed that voters were coming out in great numbers, calling the turn out, "very heavy." All five of the polling stations that Patch visited Tuesday reported turnout at least on par with years past, if not significantly greater. One District 16 poll worker at Fair Lawn High School said just after 12:30 p.m. that he was on pace to process twice as many voters as the year before. Some 48 percent, or 9,565 registered Fair Lawn voters cast ballots in last year’s election. That’s about 30 percent of Fair Lawn’s population. Multiple poll workers attributed the …
Your guide to voting today in Fair Lawn
The election is finally here. The last few months of debates, fundraisers, advertisements and political rhetoric are coming to a close. This page will serve as your guide to voting in Fair Lawn. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Official results will be announced by the Municipal Clerk's Office around 10 p.m. Last year's election turnout was 9,565 votes out of 20,084 registered voters, or about 48 percent of registered voters and 30 percent of Fair Lawn's 32,457 residents [2010 Census] Polling Stations 19 JOHN A. FORREST SCHOOL; 10-00 HOPPER AVENUE FAIR LAWN HIGH SCHOOL; 14-10 BERDAN AVENUE FAIR LAWN RECREATION/COMMUNITY CENTER; 10-10 KIPP STREET MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL; 12-00 1st STREET THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL; 35-01 MORLOT …
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