Principal Shuffle, Burglary Arrests, GWB Traffic Top Local News

The Fort Lee Board of Education Monday approved a resolution calling for a “restructuring” of administrative staff. Several principals changed schools, but Priscilla Church, whom many people were concerned about, will stay at Fort Lee High School.

Three men wearing masks and carrying flashlights were caught Thursday night after police surrounded a residence on English Street and found a pillowcase full of jewelry, authorities said.

Fort Lee police Wednesday picked up an accused thief less than a half-mile from the a residence on Bridle Way, arresting and charging him with burglary and theft.

This summer could be remembered as a traffic hell by the millions of people who travel east over the George Washington Bridge thanks to the closure of a lane on the oft-congested Cross Bronx Expressway through at least Labor Day and likely into October.

A 52-year-old Fort Lee man was accused of hitting another driver with his van last Sunday evening when the man tried to stop him from fleeing the scene of a minor crash near Lemoine Avenue, police said.

Since Fort Lee police started using an e-ticketing system late last year, the number of summonses issued has increased by more than 50 percent, officials say. But pedestrian enforcement may also account for some of that increase.

The Fort Lee Regional Chamber of Commerce is taking on a leading role locally in the Ironman U.S. Championship on Aug. 11, the first-ever Ironman competition to take place in the NYC-NJ metro area. Volunteers and sponsors are still needed, the say.

School officials say eight out of a total 16 voter-approved “referendum projects” are slated for completion this summer. But the overall work will still take three summers finish.

A box truck overturned in the southbound express lanes of I-95 Tuesday morning in Fort Lee, shutting down two lanes of traffic for more than an hour, state police said.

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