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Week: Four-Alarm Blaze, Child Endangerment Charges, Redevelopment 5 Approval

The Week in Review, a weekly roundup of local news stories on Fort Lee Patch.

Nobody was injured, but it took about 100 firefighters to put out the blaze on West Street Thursday. The fire remained under investigation.

Police said a 22-year-old New Milford man allegedly engaged in inappropriate conduct with a minor at Fort Lee High School, including transmitting obscene images. A food service worker from an outside contractor was arrested Tuesday at and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and promoting obscene material, both third degree crimes.

The Fort Lee Planning Board unanimously approved FLRA’s site plan for Redevelopment Area 5 East parcel, including the two towers with 902 luxury residential units, a 1.7-acre public park, a restaurant and a small movie theater, among other amenities.

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Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich says the borough “took a monumental step” Monday, when the Planning Board approved FLRA’s site plan for the East parcel of Redevelopment Area 5.

At a meeting devoted largely to discussion of the new school budget, the Fort Lee BOE passed a walk-in resolution appointing former Fort Lee District Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction for ESL, Bilingual and World Languages Sharon Amato to the role through June pending county approval.

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The Fort Lee Board of Education held its annual public budget meeting Monday, detailing the , which would raise taxes about $200 for the average homeowner but eliminate the activity fee and result in no layoffs or program cuts due to funding.

A committee at is seeking donations to build a permanent memorial at the school in honor of longtime teacher and former president of the Fort Lee Education Association (FLEA) Maria Pulice who died last year.

The symposium was one of two led by the Fort Lee Film Commission at the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park over the weekend. It featured Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-37), a staunch advocate of a tax credit for film and TV production in New Jersey and .

Porter & Yee Insurance beat Silly Rabbits, the number one seed, in Tuesday’s final. More than 260 girls and more than 45 coaches participated in what league president Michael Klein called the “most successful season” for the Fort Lee Girls Recreation Basketball League.

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