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04/08/2008
Five candidates are looking to fill three board of education seats Lyndhurst's school district as it undergoes something of a renaissance with new facilities and programs.
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| | Perks added with little tax rise
03/25/2008
New classes, staff and curriculum are on the way in the Lyndhurst school district, but those frills will mean only a minimal tax hike, according to the budget laid out by the board of education last week.
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| | Flights of fancy
04/08/2008
Birds are flocking to Julien Dawiskiba’s yard where upscale residences await.
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| | Can't wait to head to the shore?
04/01/2008
Lyndhurst author Kevin Woyce takes readers on a trip through history to explain why and how the Jersey shore became the unique place it continues to be in his book "Jersey Shore Facts & Photos."
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| | New tax bill could be in the mail
03/25/2008
The township could have the option to change how it does its budgets and ultimately, its tax bills.
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| | Ethanol turns etha-not in challenge
03/18/2008
Fourteen hours and a piece of $65,000 on the line. That's called crunch time with a lot riding on it and thus was the case on an early weekend day last week for a group of five Lyndhurst High School students.
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| | Making an Impression
03/18/2008
One of Chris Kappmeier tattoos, in bold ink sprawled across his neck, sums him up. It reads, "Art Life."
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| | Town to restrict 24 hour business
03/18/2008
The township is planning to further restrict nighttime hours of businesses that lie near or directly in residential zones. The ordinance is reminiscent of Rutherford's effort to restrict 24-hour business operation within its own town's borders.
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| | Chaotic future told through woodblock
03/11/2008
His work is of futuristic urban areas devoid of trees and life. It's almost bleak and chaotic, but upon closer look there’s movement, a collaboration of culture through architecture, depth and above all color.
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| | Hey, who ordered pizza?
03/11/2008
If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, Lyndhurst is a community rich in Italian lineage, culture and heritage. According to the 2000 census, 33.8-percent of the township residents were of Italian ancestry.
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| | Eateries not renewing licenses
03/04/2008
By the end of January, more than 40 percent of the 158 food establishments in the township of Lyndhurst were without a valid 2008 license as authorized by the health department.
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| | Residents want no-knock laws, but they may be unconstitutional
03/04/2008
An environmental group is suing Lyndhurst over its right to canvass door-to-door claiming it has been denied access.
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| | Rabies on the rise
02/26/2008
For the second time in two months, Lyndhurst health officials have issued a warning to residents after a rabies-infected raccoon was found dead on a Lake Avenue.
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| | Second rabid animal found in Lyndhurst
02/20/2008
For the second time in just over two months, Lyndhurst health officials have issued a warning to residents to be aware of stray and wild animals after a raccoon was found dead and inflicted with the deadly disease rabies on Lake Avenue.
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| | Lyndhurst, Trump agree on fields
02/20/2008
Officials from Lyndhurst met with Donald Trump and his staff today to discuss the fate of the town's unfinished recreation fields and other unfulfilled negotiations.
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| | Lyndhurst 96 take 1st in Klondike
02/19/2008
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| | Resident thwarts burglars
02/19/2008
A vigilant resident who wouldn’t succumb to a home invasion helped police catch two of four burglars that attempted to rob his home.
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| | Board approves projects
02/12/2008
In cooperation with the Board of Education, the Lyndhurst planning board has approved a $4.5 million swimming pool and a $2 million plan to house classrooms at a former Knights of Columbus building on New York Avenue.
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| | Eagle project makes students more tech savvy
02/12/2008
Lyndhurst resident Tyler Crowe needed to lead a significant community project to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. He found just the thing in a cluttered storage closet at Lyndhurst High.
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| | Police search for armed robber
02/06/2008
An armed robber attempted to knockoff a Lyndhurst liquor store on Monday afternoon and police are asking residents to be on the lookout for the criminal.
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| | Trump names his field of dreams
02/05/2008
The Trump Organization has authorized designs to complete the recreational ball fields in Lyndhurst despite an effort by township officials to deem its pact with EnCap null and void.
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| | Students go behind the scenes at NJMC
02/05/2008
The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission became an interactive classroom last week as Lyndhurst High School students "shadowed" NJMC staff as part of national Groundhog Job Shadow Day
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| | Town says no to Kearny bank expansion
01/28/2008
Kearny Federal Savings Bank went back before the board of adjustment Jan. 23 and was once again denied.
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| | Corzine plan gives big to Lyndhurst
01/21/2008
The Lyndhurst Board of Education outlined a plan that would add new staff, programs and reconfigure curriculum in the district with an additional $432,000 that is expected by way of state aid in the 2007-08 school year.
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| | Turning a town green starts at town hall
01/21/2008
Officials are in the initial phases of coordinating engineering, outreach and in-house programs to develop a plan that would bring the township in line with and designate itself as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Green Community.
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| | Drive to benefit MDS victim
01/17/2008
A community blood drive will be held this Saturday, Jan. 19 at the Sacred Heart School in Lyndhurst to aid a Lyndhurst resident who was diagnosed with Myleodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).
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| | Professor Osaurus digs dinos
01/14/2008
Lyndhurst native Dan Cashman knows a lot about dinosaurs, but there is one thing he cannot figure out.
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| | Environment expands into the arts
01/14/2008
When thinking about nature and the environment, dancing, painting and math may not be the first thing to come to mind.
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| | School aide's termination questioned
01/14/2008
A district teacher’s aide has come forward claiming that her recent termination from her position at the high school was biased for her having "too much concern for her students."
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| | Town to pay $550K in water settlement
01/07/2008
A grievance by the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority over unpaid bills from nearly four years ago has left the township with a $555,000 bill to pay.
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| | High pet returns hit shelters hard
01/07/2008
"Fido," "Spike" and "The Dancer" each thought they were getting a new home for the holidays. Fido, a sweet 10-week-old lab mix and The Dancer, a playful Domestic Long Hair kitten, were adopted from the Humane Society before Christmas.
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| | Lyndhurst settles with water company for $550K
01/03/2008
A grievance by the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority over unpaid bills from nearly four years ago has left the township with a $555,000 bill to pay.
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| | Bedroc's safety to town questioned
12/28/2007
The town has taken an issue with a business it claims poses public safety concerns and may also have detrimental environmental implications.
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| | Budget reveals a 15% tax hike
12/21/2007
The township introduced a 2008 municipal budget of $30.55 million last week, $650,000 over last 2007's $29.9 million municipal budget. The budget's tax levy is $22.65 million, a $1.65 million increase over the 2007 levy of $21 million.
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| | No recreation fields, no deal for EnCap
12/17/2007
It’s been months since EnCap Golf Holdings officially stopped work on the remediation of landfills in Rutherford and Lyndhurst amidst financial shortfalls, environmental shortcomings and investigations by the state attorney general’s office.
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| | Guilty plea in $800K tax fraud
12/17/2007
A township woman and her estranged boyfriend have been found guilty in what state authorities are calling one of the most elaborate tax fraud cases in New Jersey history.
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| | Lyndhurst High School to house drop-in center
12/17/2007
Lyndhurst High School has announced plans to open a year-round drop-in center for students and residents in need of mental, physical and educational enrichment.
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| | Lyndhurst ends EnCap agreement
12/12/2007
The mayor and board of commissioners declared all prior agreements with EnCap, and any that may be taken over by Donal Trump, null and void.
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| | Resident bitten by rabid cat
12/10/2007
Township health officials have issued a warning to residents to stay clear of stray animals after a woman was bitten last week by a cat infected with the fatal viral disease rabies.
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| | Town moves on pool
12/10/2007
Last year, a divided school board said a plan to bring a swimming pool to the high school just didn’t hold water. However, things have changed:the board of commissioners re-introduced the plan to construct a community pool.
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| | Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
12/03/2007
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? That’s the question the Lyndhurst school system posed to various parents last week as they took a token from the hit television show and put a show on themselves in the high school auditorium.
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| | Bank battle begins... again
12/03/2007
Kearny Federal Savings Bank has once again petitioned Lyndhurst’s zoning board to infiltrate a residential zone of Stuyvesant Avenue to expand the branch’s bank operations.
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| | Stuyvesant gas station to become housing, retail
11/26/2007
An old township gas station and repair shop that has been laying dormant and creating an eyesore for residents will get an unconventional facelift.
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| | Lyndhurst’s Horvath honored for bravery
11/26/2007
Driving through Newark in June on his way home from work, the last thing on Paul Horvath’s mind was probably fighting a fire.
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| | Bridge to get county study
11/26/2007
A feasibility study will be conducted on the Kingsland Avenue Bridge in Lyndhurst, which was given a rating of 24 by the state recently.
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| | Tenants battle parking fee
11/26/2007
A parking fee of $45 a month has left the township and some of its residents embattled with a new property owner in town.
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| | Town to buy KOC building
11/21/2007
A resolution was passed last week by the board of commissioners to execute an agreement with the Knights of Columbus to purchase the organization’s building near the Lyndhurst train station on New York Avenue.
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 | Knights sell their home
11/20/2007
Knights of Columbus announced last week the sale of its building. Members said it wasn’t their choice to sell the building the organization erected in the 1960s, they say they were forced to.
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| | Man dead after shooting
11/13/2007
A 17-year-old juvenile from Newark will be charged with murder after he allegedly shot another teen in the Second Avenue home of a Lyndhurst family.
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| | Oriental Garden told to clean up its act
11/06/2007
For the third time in the past year, a restaurant in Lyndhurst has been found to have unsanitary health conditions.
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 | A place of their own
11/06/2007
It’s been seen as a beacon of hope in Lyndhurst and last week, it got its trial run as to how successful it will be.
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| | Town is first to switch party
10/29/2007
All five of Lyndhurst's commissioners and 19 of the 29 members of the township’s Republican County Committee announced they were switching parties last week.
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| | Learning not to play with fire
10/23/2007
The Lyndhurst Fire Department kept up a 50-year tradition last week with a series of school presentations, open houses and fire drills in honor of National Fire Prevention Week.
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| | Police close massage parlor
10/16/2007
After shutting down a massage parlor where employees have been charged and convicted of prostitution several times over the past four years, police notified the property owner if the business continued, police would charge him with maintaining a nuisance.
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 | Lyndhurst massage parlor shut down
10/09/2007
Police have shut down a Lyndhurst massage parlor where employees have been charged and convicted of prostitution several times over the past four years. On Oct. 9, police entered the Ridge Road establishment, #752 Spa, and shut down the business for opera
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| | Internal charges link cop with massage parlor
10/08/2007
A Lyndhurst police officer with a long history of litigation against the township and its officials has agreed to drop his most current lawsuit as part of a settlement agreement after he faced administrative charges late last year.
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 | Another dirt pile discovered
10/08/2007
Two piles of dirt sitting at the Veterans Square shopping plaza in Lyndhurst, one of which was discovered only last week by the township, have caused concern enough for local and county officials to intervene.
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 | State gives bridge bad grade
10/08/2007
While four area bridges have been ranked as priority 2 in the state’s most recent report on structurally deficient bridges, one in Lyndhurst, with a 24 sufficiency rating far below three of those bridges, remains unranked and the responsibility of the c
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| | Shop Rite dirt piles to be removed
10/04/2007
Lyndhurst officials announced today action would be taken on two massive piles of soil that are sitting on property at Veterans Square in the Shop Rite parking lot. One pile has been sitting dormant for nearly three months since environmental excavation h
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| | Chase leads police to Jersey City
09/25/2007
A police investigation turned into a high-speed chase last week that began in the township and ended with the perpetrator finally under arrest in Jersey City.
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 | $5.5 million in Lyndhurst capital improvements are planned
09/25/2007
The township of Lyndhurst will see significant upgrades within the next year according to the board of commissioners. Last week the board introduced the litany of ordinances that will authorize the entire capital program for the 2008 fiscal year budget, s
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 | Time travellers welcome at new exhibit
09/25/2007
Residents can step back to a quieter time with "Our Town: As We Were, As We Are," which has opened to the public this week at the Little Red Schoolhouse Museum. The new exhibit, much of it the work of Lyndhurst historian and president of Lyndhurst Histori
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| | Town cracks down on illegal housing
09/17/2007
A new borough ordinance will give steeper fines to landlords who house illegal tenants. The ordinance, which passed on first reading at the Sept. 13 meeting of the mayor and council, would fine landlords up to $500 per day or subject them to 30 days in ja
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| | Town caught violating Sunshine Law
09/17/2007
Lyndhurst has been doing a lot more than what the board of commissioners has suggested to the public. A pending lawsuit by the New Jersey Libertarian Party (NJLB) has forced the board of commissioners to establish a policy to ensure proper procedures when
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| | Lyndhurst man charged for false impersonation
09/11/2007
While local authorities assisted a broken down gasoline tanker on Route 17, a Wood-Ridge police officer made an unconventional arrest of a civilian.
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 | Rain submerges areas of Lyndhurst
09/10/2007
A deluge of rain bombarded the region this morning for nearly two hours, causing severe flash flood events due to the relatively dry ground.
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 | Garage turns into final tribute for fallen officer
09/04/2007
Ever since Jersey City policeman Domenick Infantes lost his life, his brother Erik has done everything he could to keep his memory alive. Now at the age of 27, he carries Domenick’s badge number, gun and pieces of his uniform as a Jersey City officer hi
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 | Giant problems shuttled away
09/04/2007
Starting in early July when Giants Stadium hosted the enormous Live Earth concert to benefit global warming awareness to the recent preseason home games of the Gang Green and Big Blue, thousands have been filtering into the corporate center of town to par
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| | Vibe to hold onto license
08/20/2007
After a debate last month as to whether a controversial bar on Ridge Road should be denied a liquor license renewal, the board of commissioners decided to give the owners another chance.
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| | Town Hall Park to get fountain, ampitheater
08/20/2007
The township is planning a $1 million upgrade to Town Hall Park, complete with an amphitheater and lit fountain.
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| | Boro cracks down on illegal housing
08/20/2007
After reassessing every property in the township, officials have flagged residences for illegal multi-unit housing and the township is ready to take action to eliminate them.
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| | Few seniors at Riverside
08/07/2007
It’s been a long, arduous and controversial journey for 601 Riverside Ave, where Lyndhurst seniors were once promised affordable housing in their backyards.
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| | Mother delves into autism with 'Letter To My Son'
07/31/2007
When a doctor diagnosed her son with autistic spectrum disorder at age two, Chelsea Celentano became over-whelmed with emotions she could not explain. She questioned the reasons for her outburst following her son’s for-mal diagnosis. Celentano’s essay
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| | Becton, Lyndhurst to begin year with new administrators
07/23/2007
Two districts are transitioning a new school chief into the head office while another has realigned the second in charge.
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| | Commercial, housing planned for township
07/17/2007
Two new proposals would replace one vacant commercial eyesore and another aging business along Stuyvesant Avenue with a total of six new residences and two new commercial spaces.
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| | LPD celebrates 100 years on the beat
07/17/2007
Lyndhurst police are sporting a new emblem on their squad cars, celebrating 100 years of service. It has been a full century since two men began walking the streets to enforce the peace in Lyndhurst, predating even the town’s current name.
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| | Young poets get published
07/10/2007
For the young poets and writers at Lyndhurst’s Jefferson Elementary School, that hope was realized this school year as 20 students saw their work published in student poetry anthologies.
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| | Scammer sent to prison
07/10/2007
Two weeks ago, one Lyndhurst scammer who had contributed to the $12 billion per year industry of defrauding traveling consumers was sent to prison.
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| | Finding that spot may become easier
07/03/2007
If you do a little searching, 40 spots previously reserved for handicapped drivers are being taken off the reserved market. The move follows a reevaluation of a plethora of parking upgrades and revamps throughout the township.
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| | Dunkin' Donuts wipes clean eight health code violations
06/26/2007
Lyndhurst's Dunkin' Donuts recently passed its third inspection after two previous health inspections found multiple violations.
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| | New police policies set
06/19/2007
A new resolution and two new ordinances introduced by the board of commissioners June 13 add to the revamped promotion and hiring practices ordinance passed last year and add to the cap of law enforcement officials allowed to be employed on the force.
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| | Vibe gets 35 days of no liquor service
06/19/2007
The Vibe Lounge, a Ridge Road nightspot owned by Trent Charilas, was found guilty on only two out of the seven charges brought against it. Charilas' liquor license will only be suspended for 35 days.
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| | New employees slated for schools
06/19/2007
At the June 12 meeting, the Lyndhurst Board of Education announced two personnel decisions for the 2007-2008 school year.
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| | Condos could take Aldo's place
06/12/2007
Three years after a fire claimed Aldo's Hideaway, a dance club and rock venue that had thrived since 1977, the owner, Aldo Virginio, wants to fill the void with six new townhouses.
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| | Contaminates coming through ShopRite lot
06/04/2007
Veteran’s Square at 540 New York Ave. has transformed over the past few years into an economic shopping hub and stable tax ratable for Lyndhurst. However, the plaza’s environmentally unstable past is once again infiltrating the present.
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| | LBOE makes $250K cut
05/31/2007
Consulting committees from the board of education and board of commissioners reduced the LBOE's tax levy by $250,000 in response to the budget's overwhelming defeat in recent elections.
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| | Lounge gives police bad Vibes
05/31/2007
The Vibe Lounge's liquor license recently came up for review in response to multiple noise and crowd complaints, several of which resulted in police intervention.
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