Around the County: Students Protest Teacher Layoffs and More

Welcome to "Around The County," a weekly column that highlights stories in Bergen County Patch communities. This week, the state police chiefs association announced a Teaneck police officer who died in the line of duty will be honored at a statewide memorial service, a sexting incident in Wyckoff is being investigated by police, the Committee to Stop Mahwah Malls filed a lawsuit against the township, a Hasbrouck Heights woman is helping others while battling Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy and more. Check out our list of some of the top stories on Patch sites this week:

• Parents of Eisenhower Middle schoolers were greeted to an alarming e-mail blast from Principal Stephen Raimo Tuesday morning about a between several students that's now being investigated by the Wyckoff Police Department.
  
  
• Teaneck Police Officer in Monmouth County next week, the state’s police chiefs association announced Monday.
  
  
• The Paramus Council will vote on a 2011 budget next Tuesday that , fewer than the 16 layoffs initially proposed last month.
  
  
• The Committee to Stop Mahwah Malls’ decision to to the Crossroads Town Center development, said Michael Kates, the attorney representing the group of residents.
  
  
• The New Milford Planning Board voted unanimously to at Main Street and Madison Avenue. Watch video .
  
  
• A group of Fort Lee High School Academy of Performing Arts (APA) students turned up at the Fort Lee Board of Education Monday in the district.
  
  
• In a vote that split on party lines, the Fair Lawn council decided on Tuesday to that would have been sold to Fair Lawn for $10 by Brink's U.S.
  
  
• Anne Ciavaglia McMahon of Hasbrouck Heights works with her organization "Our New Journey" to herself.
  
  
• A new season of the Real Housewives of New Jersey started this week and the ladies of Franklin Lakes kicked it off with a . Read Patch's , see the and check out our picks for the from the episode.
  
  
• on Franklin Turnpike Sunday, according to Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli.