Week in Review

Fair Lawn Week in Review (Feb. 20 - Feb. 24)

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Monday, Feb. 20 NJDEP: State is Overseeing Toxic Site, PEER Report Was 'Misleading' A hazardous waste site in Fair Lawn thatappeared last week on an environmental group’s list of toxic sites left uncontrolled by the Environmental Protection Agency is in fact being overseen by the state, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said Friday. While groundwater contaminants still exist at the Borden Chemical site, located at 8-10 22ndSt., they are being monitored through quarterly progress reports, NJDEP spokesman Larry Hajna said. Most recently, the site opted in to the Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRP) Program, which oversees the remediation of contaminated sites on behalf of the NJDEP. Tuesday, Feb…

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About Time: Teacher's Unique Watch Design Comes to Life

Tokyoflash, a designer of unique limited edition watches, has turned one Fair Lawn teacher's creative concept into reality.

(Ed. Note: Before reading this article, see if you can make out the time displayed on the watch in the main picture. Don't feel bad if you can't) At first glance, Heather Sable's watch display reads like an incomprehensible cipher of line segments and dots.  "I don't get how you tell time with that watch," a friend flatly said to me when I showed him. Yet within seconds of revealing to him the proper, and in hindsight, ridiculously easy method for cracking the watch's code, his internal light bulb clicked on. "THAT IS AWESOME," he shouted at me through cyberspace. "How much are they???" The response is typical. Only Sable's brother, the first person whom she showed the design, was able to read it from the start. "He knew what time it was …

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