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Around the County: Teachers Demonstrate and More

Here you'll see some of the top stories from throughout Bergen County

Welcome to "Around The County," a weekly column that highlights stories in Bergen County Patch communities. This week, FBI agents arrested a man in a raid in Teaneck, Fair Lawn teachers demonstrated for the second time in eight days, a Wyckoff couple bound for Hawaii had a limo meant to take them to the airport slam into their garage, a Paramus gym will be the location for a web series, the YJCC in Washington Township celebrated Israel Independence Day and more. Check out our list of some of the top stories on Patch sites this week:

  • of a house on Red Road in Teaneck Monday night, authorities said.

  • Over 350 teachers gathered outside the Board of Education's Edison School headquarters in Fair Lawn Monday, for their .

  • A Fort Lee resident was arrested last week and at his West New York office, according to the state Attorney General’s Division of Consumer Affairs.

  • A Morris County man took part in the Tuesday night theft of a “Mahwah Marine Moms” Charity Donation basket from the Mahwah Bar and Grill, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli said Thursday. and charged with theft, a fourth degree crime, Batelli said. Austin Sykes, 22, of Madison, who took the donation bucket, is “still being sought by law enforcement authorities,” according to a Mahwah PD press release.

  • Ridgewood Police responded to a location on Van Emburgh Avenue on the morning of May 3 on a report of threats. The victim, police said, charged that his employer had threatened him with a machete after a dispute. .

  • New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro said officers stopped two men Wednesday afternoon who were on Madison Avenue. Bones, which were later determined to have come from an animal, were later discovered.

  • Thomas Gorga and Gina Delligatti of Wyckoff had plans to be on a plane headed toward a much needed Hawaiian vacation. Instead they'll be on the phone with their home insurance company explaining .

  • Dressed in their formal uniforms, the members of the Hasbrouck Heights Volunteer Fire and EMS Department stood proudly in front of fire trucks and ambulances on Hamilton Avenue facing a crowd made up of community members, borough officials and representatives from neighboring borough fire departments and the county as they .

  • A group of local filmmakers are setting their comedic Web series in a Paramus gym. Gym Shorts, .

  • All four Fair Lawn fire engines, along with one apiece from Saddle Brook and Elmwood Park, on Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured.

  • New Milford High School students, faculty and staff were extremely excited to attend the unveiling of the time capsule sunk into the front lawn of NMHS more than three decades prior. Buildings and grounds staff led by Ron Stokes found the location of the capsule, which had proved elusive in recent years, Wednesday morning.

  • Community members gathered at the Bergen County YJCC in Washington Township Tuesday to celebrate Israel Independence Day, called Yom Ha'atzmaut. The room was decorated for the occasion and a select choir from Israel performed. See the video and photos .


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