Monday, February 18, 2013
"Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Follows," is a new weekly column where we'll take Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook readers' lingering or long sought questions about their communities and find an answer.
If you've got a burning question about Fair Lawn or Saddle Brook -- no matter how great or small -- we're here to find you an answer. It could be something peculiar you've always wondered about, a rumor you want to confirm or a follow-up to a story that we've covered here in the past. "Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Follows" is here to answer those fleeting questions you've been bottling up inside so you can have some peace of mind! If you have a question for Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Follows, email me at zak.koeske@patch.com or pose your question in the comments. I'll respond to one question per week. We'll begin this week with a follow-up to a story that made national headlines last year. Fair Lawn mother Natalie Akselrod was arrested and charged …
Friday, June 1, 2012
A rundown of this month's 10 most-read stories.
A Fair Lawn mother who was charged with child endangerment after her unattended minivan carrying her twin infants rolled into parking lot traffic outside of CVS pleaded not guilty in municipal court. A woman was charged with child endangerment after police said her unattended minivan carrying twin infants rolled out of its parking spot at the Radburn CVS and into parking lot traffic. Democratic council members Lisa Swain and Kurt Peluso called for the resignation of Mayor Jeanne Baratta and Deputy Mayor Ed Trawinski, saying they had let their county jobs interfere with borough politics after both Republicans voted to replace longtime borough auditor and Democratic campaign contributor Steve Wielkotz. A head-on car crash on Morlot Avenue …
Sunday, May 27, 2012
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Monday, May 21 Senior Zach Lipson won the Bergen County Tournament second singles tennis title the weekend before last. If they get the bats going, the softball team thinks it can hang with anyone in this year's state playoffs. Tuesday, May 22 A woman was charged Monday with child endangerment after police said her unattended minivan carrying twin infants rolled out of its parking spot at the Radburn CVS and into parking lot traffic. Newsweek's list, released Monday, ranks Fair Lawn 649th in the country and 52nd in the state, among public high schools. That's a dropoff from last year, when Newsweek ranked Fair Lawn 400th in the nation and 33rd in New Jersey. Mr. Mort's Cleaners, a Fair Lawn dry cleaning store, was broken into overnight …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Fair Lawn mother who was charged with child endangerment Monday after her unattended minivan carrying her twin infants rolled into parking lot traffic outside of CVS pleaded not guilty Wednesday in municipal court.
NORTHERN NJ -- Natalie Akselrod, a local mother who was charged with child endangerment Monday after her unattended minivan carrying her two infant children rolled backwards out of its parking spot at a CVS and into parking lot traffic, pleaded not guilty Wednesday and had her case sent up to county court. Akselrod was among dozens of accused individuals who filled the municipal court room Wednesday to appear before judge Steven Schechter. Her court appearance, which was heavily attended by television news crews, lasted only a few brief minutes. Akselrod pleaded not guility to the child endangerment charges -- which carry a maximum fine of $150,000 and five to 10 years imprisonment -- and her case was bumped up to the county prosecutor's …
FairLawn Resident
8:58 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
JENNE - I guess you weren't around NJ in the months of Sept - Oct 2012. Any idea of how many attempted child abductions were reported? And the majority of them were Middle School age. Maybe you should get your facts straight about what the State dept. of Education "believes" because I know the Fair Lawn school district and Police Department recommended NO Elementary students walk to or from … more ›