Friday, March 29, 2013
Here are the top stories that caught readers' attention this month on Fort Lee Patch.
The Fort Lee Board of Education accepted the resignation of School Superintendent Steven Engravalle with the Board Attorney Dennis McKeever saying that the relationship between the Board and Mr. Engravalle has been irretrievably severed and broken. Clarkstown Police found 45-year-old Fort Lee Podiatrist Dr. Victoria Vovchik dead in her Quarry Drive home Thursday afternoon and her seven-year-old daughter was discovered with multiple lacerations. Clarkstown police said the 7-year old girl who survived a stabbing attack by her mother lay bleeding on the floor for several hours after her mother slashed her own throat with a kitchen knife. The Fort Lee Historical Society are petitioning the Mayor and Council and the Fort Lee Zoning Board of …
Monday, December 31, 2012
Fort Lee’s “Top 10,” a rundown of the most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of December, 2012.
Police charged a 52-year-old man with DWI after he allegedly crashed into a telephone pole on Lemoine Avenue late at night. Lemoine was closed between Main and Whiteman Streets until about 4 p.m. the next afternoon. The Fort Lee Mayor and Council passed a resolution settling a lawsuit and an ordinance financing the acquisition of land at 183 Main St., the current location of Woori Bank, for a park on the West parcel of Redevelopment Area 5. A month-long investigation has led to the arrest of two New York City men on drug distribution charges in Fort Lee, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s office. The Fort Lee Republican organization created an online petition opposing a decision by the Mayor and Council to appropriate more than $2…
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Fort Lee’s “Top 10,” a rundown of the most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of November.
A New York man allegedly assaulted a Fort Lee police officer at a gas station on Bergen Boulevard early, becoming "enraged" after learning the station might be out of gas by the time he made it to the front of the line. Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich met with the president of PSE&G—a meeting he said was arranged by State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-37), who will also be present—to give him a list of all the areas in Fort Lee that remain without power. The Fort Lee Board of Education approved a nearly two-month leave of absence for Superintendent Steven Engravalle for medical reasons and appointed Sharon Amato Interim Superintendent of Schools during his absence. The mayor of Fort Lee provided an update for residents on Friday, Nov. 2 on power …
Monday, October 1, 2012
The Top 10: a rundown of the most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of September.
Friends of Daniel Fernandez, a 16-year-old who was killed after sticking his head out of a roof hatch on a party bus and hitting an overpass as the vehicle drove on Interstate 95 in Fort Lee, created a Facebook group to share memories and messages about the teen. A 16-year-old boy from Sayreville riding on a bus full of teenagers heading to a Sweet 16 was killed after he stuck his head out of a roof hatch on the bus and hit an overpass as the vehicle drove on Interstate 95 southbound, near the George Washington Bridge, an official said. The wake and funeral for the 16-year-old boy killed in a tragic party bus accident on I-95 in Fort Lee was scheduled for Labor Day, according to a flier posted on the St. Francis Preparatory School website…
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Top 10: a rundown of the most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of August.
A competitor in the Ironman U.S. Championship in New York and New Jersey died on Aug. 11 after being pulled from the Hudson River in the morning after experiencing signs of distress. Early on the morning of Aug. 4, Edgewater Police were called to the Aventine Apartment Complex on Thompson Lane at 2:41am for a reported vehicle accident on Gorge Road. Samantha Engravalle, the wife of Fort Lee Superintendent of Schools Steven Engravalle, died. She was 40 years old. Carrie Wong, 30, of Fort Lee, was struck by a 2009 black Chevy SUV driven by 64-year-old Charles Hays of Edgewater Aug. 10, according to Fort Lee police. Police asked for the public's help in searching for a Fort Lee woman and her three young children who had not been seen since …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The top 10: a rundown of the 10 most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of July.
The Fort Lee Board of Education approved a resolution calling for a “restructuring” of administrative staff. Several principals changed schools, but Priscilla Church will stay at the high school. 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. The Borough of Fort Lee didn’t have any 4th of July events planned, but for those who did want to see fireworks on the 4th, it was certainly possible; it just wasn't be particularly easy. Police interrupted a burglary in progress, finding three men and a pillowcase filled with jewelry, authorities said. A man who tried to sexually assault a woman …
Saturday, June 30, 2012
A rundown of the 10 most-read stories on Fort Lee Patch for the month of June as of Friday.
Area rescue crews were called to Palisades Interstate Park late on the night of Friday, June 8. School officials confirmed the next day that the 16-year-old victim was "one of our kids." Police charged the ex-husband of an employee at Fort Lee School No. 3 with aggravated assault for allegedly punching the principal at the school in the head during Field Day activities, before following him inside the school and continuing the attack, police said. Students turned up in full force again on Monday, June 18 to urge the school board to overturn the interim superintendent’s decision not renew two of their teachers’ contracts. But the board took no action, putting an end to more than a month of lobbying efforts. With Interim Superintendent of …
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A rundown of the 10 most-read stories for the month of May.
A routine traffic stop on Interstate 95 in Fort Lee led state troopers to seize more than $783,000 and arrest two Bronx men on money laundering charges. It was a full house at Fort Lee High School on May 7, when people turned out in droves to urge the school board to reconsider a decision not to renew the contracts of two middle school teachers. Steven Engravalle said he was at a meeting in the Washington, D.C. area on May 7 that had been planned long in advance, but that he was proud of the Fort Lee students who spoke out at the school board meeting in support of their teachers. A 71-year-old Fort Lee man was charged in connection with yet another traffic accident involving pedestrians in the borough. The annual Madonna Carnival returned …
