High School Power Outage, Woman Rescued from GWB, Local Youth Talks Organ Donation

A Leonia woman told police Saturday she walked over the George Washington Bridge's lower roadway, Port Authority officials said.

School officials said a power surge—possibly the result of a lightning strike—caused the outage Monday. Students were dismissed at about 12:30 p.m., and the Fort Lee Board of Education’s regular business meeting was postponed.

Fort Lee's own Johnny Damato continues to struggle with Corrected Transposition of the Great Vessels, a congenital disease he was born with. But that's not stopping him from a crusade to increase the number of organ donors.

The mixture of chemicals in an optometrist's office at 1567 Lemoine Ave. on Tuesday afternoon resulted in a small fire that was quickly doused with a fire extinguisher.

Fort Lee Ladder Co. #3 is getting ready for a June "wetdown" of its new 2000-gallon pumper at Constitution Park, and everyone's invited.

The latest is a $172,000 state grant for masonry repairs at the 100-year-old Fort Lee School No. 4.

Fort Lee native Paul Mandala has been an avid hiker and long distance cyclist for years, but when a friend signed up for his first Ironman, Mandala could not resist the challenge.

Fort Lee High School students performed the Jerry Herman musical, “Mack & Mabel” last Friday and Saturday. The musical, , is about the founding of Keystone Studio in Fort Lee in 1912 and the relationship between the studio’s founder, Mack Sennett, and his star comedienne, Mabel Normand.

The Gran Fondo New York bike race, the largest bike event in New Jersey, took place in Fort Lee last Sunday. The annual event "brings Italian cycing culture to the world's greatest city," according to the Gran Fondo New York website.

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