Mary Pat Christie Joins Girl Scouts in Fort Lee, Students Take Anti-Cyberbullying Pledge

As many as 2,500 Girl Scouts crossed the George Washington Bridge last Sunday as part of an historic event sponsored by the Girl Scout Councils of New Jersey marking the 100th anniversary celebration of Girl Scouting.

New Jersey’s First Lady Mary Pat Christie met with some of the girls and spoke after the Girl Scouts’ ceremonial “bridging” event, during which thousands of girls, parents and others walked across the bridge’s southern walkway, starting and ending in Fort Lee. (Full Story)

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Students at Fort Lee’s participating in Cablevision’s Power to Learn program took a pledge Tuesday to “delete cyber-bullying,” and one talented eighth-grader at the school recently learned she had won first prize in Cablevision’s anti-cyber-bullying poster contest.

Students filed into the middle school library, table-by-table, during their lunch period Tuesday to take the online pledge with the help of School Library Media Specialist Cean Spahn. (Full Story)

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During the last week of October—Fort Lee School No. 4’s “Month of Respect”—students in each class were asked to vote for the “most respectful student” in their class. The 22 students who earned the recognition of their peers were honored at a breakfast reception Wednesday sponsored by the school PTA. (Full Story)

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Police said Wednesday that a 73-year-old Fort Lee man who died the previous week from a head injury sustained in what authorities were originally investigating as a hit-and-run was actually the victim of a bad fall. (Full Story)

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The Fort Lee Mayor and Council approved recently awarded a contract to GTBM Inc. of East Rutherford that essentially clears the way for a permanent electronic ticketing system for the . The decision comes after testing the program over the past several months, installing e-ticket readers, software and printers in four police cars, and borough, police and municipal court officials expect the e-ticketing system to make issuing tickets for traffic violations safer for police officers, faster for both officers and motorists and more efficient for the courts to process and violators to pay. (Full Story)

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Fort Lee's hosted its Fall 2011 “Forbidden Fruit” Fashion & Beauty show last Saturday in its loft space. The event doubled as a fundraiser for the Bergen County division of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program, a program that helps recruit and train volunteers to advocate for children who have been removed from their homes and placed in foster care due to abuse and/or neglect. (Full Story)

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Assemblywoman Joan Voss (D-38), who’s also now a Freeholder-elect after her general election win, visited in her hometown of Fort Lee Monday morning, speaking to a group of fifth-graders and a group of sixth-graders about the functions of government, the duties of elected officials and the importance of voting. (Full Story)

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A student from Northern Highlands Regional High School took home “Best of the Fest” honors at the Fort Lee Film Commission's 2011 Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow (JFOT) High School Student Film Festival held Nov. 12 at MediaMix Studios in Allendale. (Full Story)

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And last month, the city of Las Vegas saw firsthand how talented Fort Lee's Merissa Pico and the U.S. Jr. National Taekwondo Team really are.

Pico, who trains with Master Alvin Bernard at in Fort Lee, brought home the gold medal for the United States and will not soon forget the event. (Full Story)

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