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Week in Review: Inside School Programs, E-Tickets Approved & More

A weekly roundup of some of the top local stories on Fort Lee Patch.

A Fort Lee resident was arrested last week and charged Monday with unlicensed practice of medicine after allegedly offering to perform liposuction on an undercover investigator at his West New York office, according to the state Attorney General’s Division of Consumer Affairs.

Rosendo S. Icochea, 65, who is not licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey but holds a medical license in New York, allegedly asked for $6,000 to perform liposuction and other cosmetic surgery after undercover investigators went to his West New York office for a physical examination and assessment, authorities said. (read full article)

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Among the lengthy list of consent agenda items passed by the Borough Council Thursday at the Mayor and Council regular meeting was a resolution awarding an $8,700 contract to GTBM of East Rutherford for an electronic ticketing system for the Fort Lee Police Department.

The contract comes with a minimum annual commitment of 6,000 tickets at $1.45 per ticket.

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“It’s important. It’s going to increase productivity, and it’s going to save a lot of costs,” said Fort Lee Councilman Jan Goldberg, who championed the cause. (read full article)

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The Fort Lee Borough Council also awarded two separate bids to the same company for improvements to a section of Linwood Ave. and for general asphalt milling services. The borough is also preparing to take bids on a new roof for Borough Hall.

The Linwood Ave. roadway improvement project, which will be funded by a $150,000 grant the borough received from the Department of Transportation, will include milling down the road and repaving it, installing handicapped ramps and working on a sewer line along the stretch of Linwood Ave. between Myrtle and Fletcher Aves., according to borough administrator Peggy Thomas.

The low bidder for the Linwood Ave. project was DLS Contracting of Nutley, N.J., which presented a bid of $139,310.

Thomas characterized the Borough Hall roof project as a “complete rebuilding” of the roof.

“We’re going to put together the bid specs and see who comes in the lowest,” Thomas said Monday. “It’s been patched. It’s leaking. The infrastructure underneath the roof itself is rotting, because it’s wood, and so it just needs to be rebuilt.” (read full article)

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It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination for most people—even those who have never set foot in a South Korean classroom—to understand that the Korean education system differs from its American counterpart. But three English teachers from the greater Seoul area currently in residence in Fort Lee schools are getting a firsthand look at just how big that difference can be. They’re also honing their English and teaching skills and learning techniques they hope to apply in their own classrooms back home.

Soo-Ah Lee, Hye-Min Kim and Dae-Hoi Huh are the latest three Korean teachers of English to spend time—in their case, eight weeks—in Fort Lee classrooms being mentored by local teachers, observing, helping out when they can and even on occasion co-teaching as part of the Bloomfield College-sponsored Total Immersion Course for Korean English Teachers (TICKET) program. They are the first group in the three-year history of the school district’s participation in the program to work at Fort Lee’s middle and high schools. (read full article)

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Two classes of 9th and 10th grade students in Fort Lee High School’s Academy of Finance (AOF) met with their “clients”—local businesses participating in the “Design an Ad Program”—for the final time Friday, when representatives of those businesses made their final decision on which student-designed ads they plan to use.

It was the last step in a program aimed at giving students real-life, hands-on experience in media and marketing by teaming up with local businesses to see an advertising project through from concept to completion. (read full article)

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U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman (D-9), who represents Fort Lee in Congress, announced the dates for his upcoming “listening sessions” this week, and Fort Lee is one of four towns the Congressman from Fair Lawn will be visiting.

Rothman will be at the Fort Lee Recreation Center Thursday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. (read full article)

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Patrick Ambrosio has many responsibilities in his role as Fort Lee Athletic Director, but he says he wouldn’t trade it for the world.

This week, Fort Lee Patch sports reporter Chris Murray took a behind-the-scenes look at the man who runs the Fort Lee Athletic Department and is in charge of the Bridgemen and Lady Bridgemen teams. (read full article)

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Fort Lee Patch’s “Whiz Kid” of the week was Caitlin McKenna, a 9th grader at Fort Lee High School, who is having a freshman year that few have ever experienced before her.

“Sports, school and community service are just a few of the things this Fort Lee Whiz Kid does well,” wrote Murray this week. (read full article)

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And our blog post of the week came from Fort Lee resident and author of the blog Bridge Builder David Sarnoff, who wrote, “Another proposal in the Area 5 redevelopment project in Fort Lee may also include large scale residential construction.”

Sarnoff posed the question, "Where are the children, who would live in these complexes, going to school?" (read full blog post)

The week in review appears every Sunday on Fort Lee Patch.


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