'Mr. Fair Lawn' John Cosgrove Tabbed as Next Mayor

Lifelong borough volunteer John Cosgrove will be sworn in as Fair Lawn's next mayor at the Jan. 3 council re-organization meeting.

You need spend only a few brief minutes with John Cosgrove to understand why he's affectionately called "Mr. Fair Lawn." The tireless borough volunteer and community advocate whose family has called Fair Lawn home for over a century seems to know everyone and have a pulse on everything going on in town. When Cosgrove is sworn in as mayor next week, he'll become the official face of the community that always has been the center of his universe. "I cant say I aspired to it," said Cosgrove, who currently serves as deputy mayor, "but even when I was in high school people would always joke to me, 'You should be the mayor.' It’s finally coming to fruition." Jeanne Baratta, who back in January became Fair Lawn's first Republican mayor in over a …

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