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| | NJMC to EnCap: You’re Fired
05/07/2008
After months of giving second chances, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission has resolved to take all actions necessary to collect the insurance and clean hundreds of acres of landfills in Rutherford, Lyndhurst and North Arlington itself, without the help
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| | Everybody in the car!
05/06/2008
John Gilman and Robert Heide might be two of New Jersey?s biggest fans. Last week they were at the Rutherford Public Library telling residents to get out of town.
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| | Gas prices to get higher
05/06/2008
Tractor-trailers line the Turnpike for a chance to get a painstaking yet much needed fill-up before stations are allowed their once per week price change. People are even cutting milk from their diets because the cost to transport it is so high.
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| | Resident pushes cancer cluster study
05/06/2008
Former Lyndhurst resident Lorraine Colabella is on a mission. She waits until a medical breakthrough can somehow cure her. She wants a day to come where she never has to hear the word cancer again.
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| | Big Day for the birds
05/06/2008
At the stroke of midnight on May 10, more than 100 teams from all over the country will commence New Jersey?s 25th annual World Series of Birding (WSB), a 24-hour mad-dash to spot as many bird species as possible throughout the state.
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| | High school could get tougher
05/06/2008
High School students statewide will face a tougher, more academically rigorous road to graduation if recommendations by a state task force are adopted.
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| | Celebrating our hometown heroes
04/29/2008
Editor?s note: Last week the nation celebrated National Volunteer Week. In honor of the volunteers who give countless hours of their time helping others, the South Bergenite met with some of our hometown heroes.
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| | The road to Xanadu
04/29/2008
As one set of builders puts the finishing touches on the 4.8 million square foot megalith that is Xanadu, another is busy laying the track and pavement that will get people there.
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| | Turning boro hall onto solar
04/29/2008
Last week, one day after celebrating Earth Day, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) voted to establish a pilot program that would assist the 14 district municipalities in the development of solar energy facilities.
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| | Official fights voter apathy
04/29/2008
Think how easy it would be: Head to the polls once a year and in one trip not only accomplish voting for your favorite governmental candidates, but school board members as well.
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| | Gov says EnCap fight too costly
04/29/2008
Donald Trump submitted a new budget and a list of prospective investors for EnCap, the troubled landfills-to-golf courses project in the Meadowlands, as the state requested on April 15 and 18.
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| | Your local school election results
04/22/2008
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| | Trump asks state to scratch EnCap plans
04/22/2008
Celebrity real estate mogul Donald Trump gave a message to the State of New Jersey: Ditch the current landfill redevelopment plan in the Meadowlands.
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| | Site remediation is outsourced by state
04/22/2008
New Jersey environmental officials want to outsource cleanup work on two-thirds of the state’s 20,000-plus contaminated sites, even as a new DEP task force starts work on other cuts.
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| | Artificial turf war hits home
04/22/2008
It’s become a local turf war. Artificial turf creators say it’s safe. Local mayors agree. But Rutherford, Lyndhurst and East Rutherford residents whose children will be playing on artificial grass this spring aren't so sure.
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| | Trump to front money, scale up landfill project
04/17/2008
Celebrity real estate mogul Donald Trump gave a message to the State of New Jersey: Ditch the current landfill redevelopment plan in the Meadowlands.
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| | School election results
04/16/2008
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| | Council hopefuls file for candidacy
04/15/2008
The following individuals have filed petitions to run in the June 3 primary elections for local government council seats. Those voted through will be on the ballot in the general election held in November. Each town has two three-year seats open.
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| | Riverkeeper boat looted
04/15/2008
Sometime during the course of the night of April 14, thieves made away with a 115-horsepower outboard boat engine that belonged to the Hackensack Riverkeeper vessel Edward Abbey.
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| | Xanadu is lacking the Green
04/15/2008
Besides getting grilled on its "schlocky" looking exterior aesthetics by an NJSEA board member, others asked if the builders of Xanadu were going Green.
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| | Better skies are overhead
04/15/2008
An industry working group that has pledged to improve five specific areas of concern at Teterboro Airport said it?s on the road to success
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| | SAT Scores are on the rise
04/15/2008
Area schools lag behind the state on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), but scores are improving.
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| | Loony laws languish in area law books
04/15/2008
Carlstadt, East Rutherford and North Arlington all forbid establishments with "mechanical amusement devices" such as jukeboxes, arcade games and pinball machines from being anywhere from 200 to 500 feet from a church....
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| | Mayors, NJMC meet with Gov
04/15/2008
Governor Jon Corzine visited the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission in Lyndhurst on April 9 to speak with local officials about the project. The Governor concluded that remediation would remain a top priority and not development.
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| | Will the band play on?
04/15/2008
The Becton Board of Education opened its April 9 meeting by recognizing senior Michael Molino as Student of the Month. Molino will head off to college come fall having already decided to major in French. But he could be Becton?s last Francophile.
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| | Weekly Poll Results 6.29
06/29/2007
Find out the results of last week's poll and follow the link to vote in this week's.
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