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04/08/2008
Four candidates are seeking to fill two spots on the borough’s board of education at a time when a brand new school facility is in full operation, but the district is grappling with an ever-increasing enrollment hike.
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| | Former area cop caught with phony 9/11 story
04/08/2008
For years, former Lyndhurst resident Frederick Parisi has been raising money for the "9/11 Rescue Workers Foundation" and claims to be a rescue worker. But his web of lies caught up to him.
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| | Phony rescue worker arrested in Carlstadt
04/02/2008
Police arrested a man who raised money for charity claiming to be a 9/11 first responder on unrelated theft charges on Mar. 29 at the Waterfront Cafe in Carlstadt.
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| | School taxes rise 5.9%
04/01/2008
As was the case on the municipal side as introduced by the mayor and council last month, the board of education has laid a school budget that is asking for a more than desirable contribution from taxpayers to support it.
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| | Boro taxes increase 6.6%
03/25/2008
A perfect storm of state and local financial setbacks may hurt Carlstadt taxpayers' wallets.
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| | $20K will buy books for Peace
03/11/2008
Two libraries in the same town are joining forces in an unusual move. Carlstadt's public library has decided to give the public school's library a $20,000 grant that would cover the cost of approximately 1,200 to 1,300 new books.
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| | Becton board approves preliminary budget
03/06/2008
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| | OSHA investigating prior to fatality
01/21/2008
Two investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were quick to respond to the site of a catastrophic explosion at a Carlstadt metal casting manufacturer last week that left one worker dead and nine injured.
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| | Carlstadt wants Becton's cost per student lowered
01/14/2008
Carlstadt has hired an attorney to look into how much the borough contributes towards Becton Regional High School and whether the town isn't paying more than its fair share.
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| | Coloring the world blue
01/07/2008
Blue Iris. It’s a soft hue of the color blue. The color derives from a flower that invigorates the senses with its beauty and smell. This year, the color "blue iris" will hit the mainstream.
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| | Becton contracts go to mediation
12/10/2007
Negotiations between the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Board of Education and the Becton Regional Education Association will go to mediation, according to Becton business administrator Nick Annitti.
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| | School experiencing problems
11/06/2007
Last week was a momentous one for the new Carlstadt Public School. The building garnered what no other school building in Bergen County has been able to.
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| | River Park to open 2009
10/29/2007
A new multi-use park on the banks of the Hackensack River in Carlstadt is beginning to take shape.
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| | Using scare tactics to raise funds
10/23/2007
Halloween is inarguably their favorite time of the year. As youngsters they set up small horror scenes in the backyards attempting to scare the daylights out of the neighborhood kids.
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| | Air noise, taxes, small town feel top issues
10/23/2007
On Nov. 7, four candidates will vie for two open council, while three will move to head the borough as mayor.
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 | Pareti passes away at 85
10/08/2007
Former mayor, assemblyman, board of education president and lifelong resident of Carlstadt, Harold Pareti, passed away last week.
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| | Residents get 7 percent rise
09/25/2007
With a far less than expected award from the state in the form of extraordinary aid this summer, the mayor and council were forced to adopt an amended municipal budget last week constituting a seven percent increase on the average assessed homeowner’s m
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| | ABC arrests three at City Place Steakhouse
08/20/2007
One employee and two 19-year-olds were arrested by ABC undercover agents at City Place Steakhouse on Route 17 in Carlstadt Friday, Aug. 3.
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 | More mystery surrounds Outwater Cemetery
07/23/2007
Several mysterious signs are popping up throughout the roughly 2,800 square foot, recently refurbished cemetery that echoes the rich history of the Revolutionary War, and it has local townspeople boggled.
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| | Support offered to military families
07/17/2007
Liz Bucceri, a resident of East Rutherford, recently started the Military Family Support Group, an organization for the friends and family of soldiers. They meet each Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church of Carlstadt.
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 | In the shadow of development, the boating life soldiers on
07/17/2007
Carlstadt is not the first place a visitor might look when he thinks of recreational boating, but the stretch of riverbank at the end of Paterson Plank Road is the place to go in south Bergen County if you’re hankering to hit the Hackensack.
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| | Local tanks take on extra security
06/12/2007
Two massive white cylinders seen off of Paterson Plank Road in Carlstadt’s Meadowlands are tanks holding nearly two billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas at any given time. Recent events have shed new light on the need to keep such potential terro
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| | 9/11 memorial will light up boro hall entrance
06/04/2007
A stained glass memorial, as high as the windows that encase the entrance to borough hall, is underway to honor those Carlstadt lost to the 9/11 attack and those who continue to fight overseas.
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| | Library named after young peacemaker
06/04/2007
Officials at the Carlstadt Public School have named their new media center The Peace Library in honor of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, a young boy with muscular dystrophy whose writings on peace touched the nation. His writings have been incorporated into the sc
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| | Superfund program is in dire distress
05/31/2007
Carlstadt and East Rutherford are still home to two sites that are not only Superfund sites but are also on the National Priorities List.
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