Sunday, December 23, 2012
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An Elmwood Park man is behind bars Thursday after he allegedly threatened to "kill everybody" at a Fair Lawn sleep center Wednesday afternoon and resisted arrest. Fair Lawn's increase in index crimes over the past four years is due almost entirely to a jump in burglaries. All index crimes except for motor vehicle thefts dropped last year, according to the 2011 Uniform Crime Report. Fair Lawn will swear in its three newest police officers at a council meeting in January and expects them to be on the road in town by October 2013. Police officers made an effort to be seen at district public schools this week to allay parental fears following the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Fair Lawn experienced only four burglaries in October and …
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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A Fair Lawn man spoke out against McDonald's after his young daughter was treated to a helping of Fox News with her Happy Meal last weekend. Following a string of personal attacks on his parenting and political affiliation, Craig Lechner then penned an explanation for his decision to go public with his fast food fight. John Dohms, a Fair Lawn native who suffers from dementia, has been missing from his home in Newark, Del. for about a month and his family believes there's a small chance he could return to his hometown. A police car rear-ended a vehicle that stopped abruptly in front of it on Fair Lawn Avenue Tuesday. No one was injured in the minor crash that police are calling "weather-related." A Glen Rock man was charged with driving …
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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The state Department of Treasury is working to help residents whose mail never made it to government offices after all of the mail aboard a postal truck was destroyed in a deadly crash last month. A mail carrier from Fair Lawn suffered head trauma after the postal truck he was driving was struck by a passing vehicle in Mahwah, police said. Fair Lawn's Historic Preservation Commission sponsored a free program on the 100th anniversary of the Fair Lawn Fire Department. Deputy Mayor and Ex-Chief John Cosgrove provided a multimedia presentation. A Paterson man was arrested overnight Sunday shortly after police said he broke into a Maple Avenue dry cleaners and made off with the cash drawer. This fall, four-year college-going members of the …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
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Paul Dombrowski, 40, of Fair Lawn, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated arson and four other counts in connection with a suspicious fire that broke out overnight Monday at a Berdan Avenue home. Maryann Sahoury is suing the video production company who used her in an instructional breastfeeding video that was posted on the internet and later spliced into a pornographic video. The superintendent will respond to a series of resident-submitted questions submitted about the school budget and taxes at a public meeting in late September or early October. Fair Lawn School District has struck a verbal agreement with the borough for maintenance of its vehicles. Alfred Pedersen, 40, of Prospect Park, has pleaded guilty to three counts …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
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A female resident was struck by a Hoboken-bound train near the Broadway Station in Fair Lawn Tuesday morning. Speaking at a Democratic County Committee event in Fair Lawn Wednesday, Cory Booker said he's strongly considering seeking higher office in the future. The borough will mail out a four-page survey to all property owners on Sept. 1 asking residents what services they need and what services they can live without. Naomi Kutin, a 10-year-old women's powerlifting world record holder, stumped a team of panelists trying to guess her unique talent on the Nickelodeon game show "Figure it Out" last week. Fair Lawn's police dispatch unit has had two members jump ship for Ridgefield in the last month, making for increased overtime …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
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Following an internal affairs investigation, the borough has brought administrative charges against Capt. Joseph Cook, his attorney said. In November, the attorney for a police lieutenant who brought suit against Captain Joseph Cook had alleged that Cook and an administrative assistant were destroying documents related to the lawsuit. Cook has been cleared of any wrongdoing, his attorney confirmed. Council adopted a $46.4 million budget Tuesday that calls for a 4-percent tax increase on the average assessed home and includes no employee furloughs or layoffs. Before they spoke out against council's decision last year to deliver a zero percent tax increase and deplete the town's surplus, the mayor and deputy mayor supported it. The borough …
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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As a whole, the town's rateable base decreased 18.4 percent as a result of the reassessment. With questions, concerns and misinformation swirling about the town’s recent reassessment, Patch attempts to clear up some of the confusion by providing an explainer on the process. Many residents have incorrectly calculated their annual tax burden by multiplying their third quarter estimated tax bill by four. A group of Fair Lawn residents is hoping to make a push for elected officials to rethink the way they fund government and public education. Landmark's developer and the planning board's engineer have agreed to work in consultation to recalculate sight lines from a proposed pedestrian crosswalk on Ramsey Terrace at Plaza Road. Attorney Joel …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Hundreds of seniors beat the mid-90s heat Thursday to walk at their commencement. The admissions director of a Fair Lawn nursing home has been charged with theft, forgery and impersonation of another in connection with alleged looting of an 82-year-old man's bank account. Officer Juan Rodriguez will resign his position with the Fair Lawn Police Department effective June 29 and join the Paterson Police Department. The borough would like to have numbered spaces and commuter kiosks installed at the Radburn Train Station by 2014. The Fair Lawn Farmer's Market opened on Wednesday at the corner of Fair Lawn Avenue and Craig Road in the New Song Church parking lot. Students in the high school's Bridges II program will work once a week at the …
Sunday, June 17, 2012
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Monday, June 11 Over 120 vendors peddled goodies for hundreds of happy folks last Sunday at the Fair Lawn Street Fair. Radburn train station is one of four statewide that will be a target of increased enforcement for trespassing. Tuesday, June 12 Eric Keller, the Landmark's traffic engineer, said to reconstruct the traffic signal at Berdan Avenue and Plaza Road will cost between $180,000 and $200,000. There were eight recorded burglaries in Fair Lawn in May, down from the previous two months where burglaries numbered in the double digits, according to crime reports provided by the police department. Wednesday, June 13 The latest Bridges music video, "Who I Am," about the struggles we all face to articulate inner feelings and emotions, …
Sunday, June 10, 2012
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Monday, June 4 Not only are a growing number of Fair Lawn High School students taking the SAT, their average scores on the test are increasing, according to this year's annual state School Report Card. Fair Lawn police detective David Boone was installed Sunday as the new senior pastor at Van Riper Ellis Broadway Baptist Church. Tuesday, June 5 This year's annual state School Report Card finds that Fair Lawn School District has had fewer administrators per student than the New Jersey average for at least the past three years. High School faculty members ran through fire, swam through ice and wriggled under barbed wire to conquer grueling special forces obstacle course. Wednesday, June 6 The high school musical, "Nine," directed by John …
