Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The Fair Lawn police, rescue squad and police dispatchers teamed up with the U.S. Marine Corps this holiday season to collect Toys for Tots.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Fair Lawn police officers, dispatchers and rescue squad volunteers Tuesday loaded the heaps of toys they've amassed this holiday season into a van headed for the Closter Fire Department, which serves as Bergen County's Toys for Tots distribution center. The toys, collected through resident donations, will support a wide range of worthy groups and causes including local children's hospitals, homeless shelters, religious institutions and the children of deployed military service members. Trucks carrying toys will also make stops in Toms River for distribution to Hurricane Sandy victims, and in Newtown, Conn., for those affected by Friday's devastating school shooting. James Teehan, a Paramus police detective who made toy collection runs …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The discussion of maintaining in-house dispatchers Tuesday followed a press release distributed by Democratic council members in July that asked for Republican solidarity on the issue.
Prompted by Democrats Lisa Swain and Kurt Peluso, Republican council members said Tuesday that they have no intention of outsourcing the borough's police dispatchers at this time. "I don’t see any reason at this current time to think about sending our dispatch anywhere else," said Deputy Mayor John Cosgrove, a former fire chief well-versed in the issue of emergency response. "We’re a large town and I don’t see any alternative to that. I think it’s a dead issue, for now." Mayor Jeanne Baratta, who declined comment on the issue last month when Swain and Peluso released a press statement asking for Republican support to maintain in-house dispatch services, agreed that the issue was dead. "It’s not even on the table," she said. "We should say …
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fair Lawn Dispatcher Joe Cecere and Fair Lawn Policemen's Benevolent Association President David Boone share their thoughts on proposals to outsource Fair Lawn's dispatch center to the county
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Editor's note: On Feb. 20, the Record ran a story about the county's push to consolidate 911 dispatch services under one roof at the Public Safety Operation Center in Mahwah -- something Fair Lawn's council discussed doing last year. Compelled by the recent Record article, the president of Fair Lawn's International Association of Firefighters -- which represents the dispatchers -- and the president of Fair Lawn's Policemen's Benevolent Association have co-authored a response: In response to the recent article "County to bring 911 service under one roof", The Record, February 20, 2012, I felt compelled to address some reasons why consolidating dispatch services would not be beneficial in a borough the size of Fair Lawn, with a population of…
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12:00 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012
is there somewhere I can go to donate toys? or is it too late? more ›