Attempted Murder, SVU, Referendum Forum Top Week's Local News

Turnout at the Tuesday evening for the ’s third and final community forum meeting was roughly the same as the previous two—one on Dec. 12 and another on Jan. 3. But as the board made its final public pitch for its school bond referendum, the message may have been the same, but the messenger was new.

Stephen Boswell, president and CEO of Boswell Engineering, offered his perspective on the $30.2 million referendum just a week before Fort Lee voters go to the polls to determine its fate. (Full Story)

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A Weehawken man was charged with attempted murder after allegedly hitting a man in the head and neck with a bottle—leaving the victim with a “severe laceration,” about eight inches long, two inches wide and an inch deep along his jugular vein and carotid artery—outside a Fort Lee nightclub early Saturday morning, police said. (Full Story)

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The Fort Lee Film Commission announced that Wednesday night’s new episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit includes footage shot on location at in Fort Lee last month.

The latest episode of the long-running series that once shot regularly in the borough aired on NBC (Channel 4) at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18. (Full Story/On-Location Images)

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Keith Sabatino officially took over as Fort Lee Fire Chief on Jan. 1, when Mark Sulcov became Deputy Fire Chief and former department chief William Chiappane became Battalion Chief of the . All three were officially sworn in and took the oaths of office Thursday—along with First and Second Lieutenants and Captains of the borough’s all-volunteer fire department—at a special ceremony at before the regular meeting of the Fort Lee Mayor and Council. (Full Story)

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And Fort Lee was hit with its first snowfall of 2012 Saturday; it was in fact the first snow the area's seen since a freak snowstorm in October wreaked havoc on the borough. Photographer John Ford captured these images Saturday.

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