Monday, April 15, 2013
Take a look at what's going on in Fort Lee this week.
The Fort Lee Board of Education will be meeting Monday in a Private Work Session from 6:30 pm to 8 pm at the Fort Lee High School Library/Media Center on the second floor. No action will be taken at the Private Work Session. The regular business meeting will begin at 8 pm in the High School Library/Media Center on the second floor. Official Action will be taken. On Wednesday, the Fort Lee Film Commission and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission is presenting a one-night film festival "Gangs in Fort Lee" at the Fort Lee Historic Park. This festival celebrates the origins of the gangster film genre that began in Fort Lee with D.W. Griffiths "Muskateers of Pig Alley." Fort Lee Film Commissioner, Tom Meyers, and Palisades Interstate Park …
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Take a look at Fort Lee's top stories for last week.
Mayor and Council unanimously approve 2013 Municipal Budget. In Fort Lee, 188 tax appeals were filed in 2012 and the town is facing $826,649.22 in rebates. As the district emerges from a period of instability, Acting Superintendant Dr. Sharon Amato sits down with Patch to talk about the district's goals. Police are seeking help from the public after Nycal Velasquez, 21, went missing. His abandoned car was found in Fort Lee. Page Aiello, 22, a student at The College of New Jersey, was last seen on Tuesday; her car was found a day later in a New Brunswick parking deck, authorities said. An agreement has been reached by Korean American groups on the language to be inscribed on Fort Lee's Comfort Women Memorial. Newly formed Atlantic City …
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Hudson Shakespeare Company, in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission will give a live performance of 'Inherit the Wind' in the courtroom of Fort Lee Borough Hall.
The Hudson Shakespeare Company, in association with the Fort Lee Film Commission, will be presenting a live production of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee on Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 at 7 p.m. A free screening of the film will also be presented at the courtroom on Friday, April 12th at 8pm. Inherit the Wind dramatizes scenes from the furor that arose in 1925, when John Scopes, a teacher in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was charged for teaching students evolution and not the creation story as told in Genesis, the first book of the bible. The presentation of Inherit the Wind is the first of HSC’s 22nd season of touring plays and the start of the 7th season of touring productions in Fort Lee, NJ. …
Friday, April 5, 2013
Saying that the letter "shocked my conscience," Sokolich reiterates governing body's support of memorial, but asks for consensus.
The Mayor and Council should revise the language on the Comfort Women memorial or else they can expect strong opposition at the polls this November. That's what a Korean American organization warned in a recent letter to officials about the proposed memorial that is scheduled for dedication at Freedom Park on Abbott Boulevard on April 27. The memorial, proposed by the Fort Lee Korean American Vietnam War Veterans, honors 200,000 women forced into sexual service in military 'comfort stations' by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces. The Korean American Civic Empowerment organization (KACE) of Queens and Hackensack, wants to replace "vague and inappropriate expressions" such as "sexual service" with "sexual slavery." They are also seeking to …
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Monday, February 18, 2013
See what's going on this week in Fort Lee
All Fort Lee Public Schools will be closed Monday in observance of President's Day. The Mayor and Council will be holding their work session Thursday at 7 pm in the Executive Conference Room, #201, on the second floor of Borough Hall. On Saturday, the Fort Lee Historical Society in conjunction with NJ section of the Palisades Interstate Park, is presenting an illustrated lecture and book signing, "Bergen County Voices of the American Revolution" at 2 pm at the Fort Lee Historic Park. Authors Todd Braisted adn Don Hagist have made a specialty of uncovering the hidden history of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of the common soldier who lived and fought through that tumultuous time. The program is free and open to the public…
Friday, February 8, 2013
Mayor and Council discuss developer's request to chang name of Martha Washington Way to Park Avenue.
A discussion was held during the Mayor and Council's work session Thursday regarding the request by Fort Lee Redevlopement Associates to consider renaming Martha Washington Way to Park Avenue. According to Mayor Mark Sokolich, the biggest reason for requesting the name change is for marketing purposes. The roughly eight-acre “East parcel” is the land upon which SJP, in partnership with Prudential Real Estate Investors, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Bergen County attorney James Demetrakis and investment firm Palisades Financial, plans to build two 47-story glass towers with 900 luxury rental apartments called “The Modern,” along with a public park, water features, a 7,000-square-foot restaurant with indoor and open-air …
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Councilman Joseph Cervieri took the oath of office at Thursday’s reorganization meeting, while his running mate, Harvey Sohmer, had to be rushed to the hospital earlier in the day.
One of Fort Lee’s two incumbent Councilmen, who were re-elected in November, took the oath of office Thursday, but it was the conspicuous absence of his running mate that took many by surprise. Democrats Joseph Cervieri Jr. and Harvey Sohmer easily won reelection on Nov. 6, 2012, and both had been scheduled to be sworn in at the Mayor and Council’s annual reorganization meeting, but Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich said that he received what he called “a very troubling phone call” at about 2 p.m. Thursday that Sohmer had been rushed to the hospital. “He’s doing fine; he’s at the hospital for observation purposes, and his wife and family are with him and our prayers are with him,” Sokolich said. “Knowing Harvey, he’s going to come through this …
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
With Fort Lee Police Chief Thomas Ripoli set to retire Dec. 31, Capt. Keith Bendul and Capt. Timothy Ford will assume their duties as Chief and Deputy Chief, respectively, of the Fort Lee Police Department on Jan. 1.
Dozens of police officers and chiefs from Fort Lee and other towns, along with family and friends, packed Fort Lee's Borough Hall Thursday, as the Mayor and Council swore in a new police chief and deputy police chief. As expected, Capt. Keith Bendul was appointed Chief of the Fort Lee Police Department, and Capt. Timothy Ford was appointed Deputy Police Chief. Their appointments are effective Jan. 1, 2013, with current Fort Lee Police Chief Thomas Ripoli having reached the mandatory retirement age and therefore leaving the post he has served in since 2004 at the end of the year. The entire Mayor and Council presented Ripoli with a plaque “in recognition of his 41 years of service to people of Fort Lee,” words which Sokolich called “so …
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
The new Fort Lee Police Department chief and deputy chief will be sworn in on Dec. 20; the reorganization meeting will take place on Jan. 3. The Mayor and Council will also recognize local student filmmakers at the meeting on the 20th.
The Fort Lee Mayor and Council will swear in a new police chief and deputy police chief at the governing body’s next regular meeting on Thursday, Dec. 20, officials decided Thursday. With Police Chief Thomas O. Ripoli reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65, officials appointed Capt. Keith Bendul Police Chief and Capt. Timothy Ford Deputy Police Chief. Saying the process of selecting Ripoli’s successor was “a lot of hard work” and lauding Bendul for his “incredible attention to detail,” Sokolich told Patch in October that the chief-deputy chief structure is something the Fort Lee Police Department hasn’t had for quite some time. “In Fort Lee, for the first time in a long time, we’ll have a chief and a deputy chief,” Sokolich said at …
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Monday, December 3, 2012
The Week Ahead: a look at just some of what’s going on in Fort Lee this week.
By the end of the week, there will be no doubt, as you travel around Fort Lee that the holiday season is here. Fort Lee’s annual holiday tree lighting event at the Fort Lee Community Center will take place on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich has promised that this year’s festivities kicking off the holiday season locally will be “extra-special” for children in the borough who have had their last two Halloweens disrupted—or as was the case in 2012, outright cancelled—because of unexpectedly severe weather events like Sandy and a very early snowstorm. Then on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. the first night of Hanukkah, Congregation Gesher Shalom will host Fort Lee’s annual community Menorah lighting at the “triangle”—…
kevin ishida
4:45 am on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
>This may be a better link for the treaty. > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Agreement_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea_Concerning_the_Settlement_of_Problems_in_Regard_to_Property_and_Claims_and_Economic_Cooperation Point taken! thanks Pakku. more ›