Sunday, January 13, 2013
Fort Lee Patch’s “Week in Review,” a weekly roundup of top local news stories.
Fort Lee’s Superintendent of Schools, attending his first public school board meeting since finishing his two-month leave of absence, said Monday that school security should be a priority, especially in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. in December, and that if he had it his way, there would be a police officer in every public school building in the Fort Lee district. Fort Lee officials planned to meet with school and police officials Wednesday, and Mayor Mark Sokolich anticipated announcing soon after that two full-time school resource officers will be included in the next round of police hires. A Fort Lee High School graduate, formerly of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and now the president and founder of…
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Fort Lee Patch’s “Week in Review,” a weekly roundup of top local news stories.
A Fort Lee college freshman, who was among five minors left locked in a police transport van outside the Fort Lee Department in March 2011, has filed a civil suit against the borough, the police department and several police officers, according to a report. A Metuchen man was charged Wednesday with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact after he allegedly touched two different women “in a sexual manner” at a medical office in Fort Lee, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced. Fort Lee police arrested two men Wednesday in connection with an alleged marijuana sale in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, charging one of the men with being a fugitive from justice, authorities said. A Manhattan man was charged Thursday in …
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A look ahead at just a few of the many continuing local stories as we enter the new year.
Fort Lee Patch last week looked back on 2012, as we were nearing the end of the year, with the year in pictures, the year in review (January to June and July to December) and the most-read stories of the year. Today, as we embark on a new year, we take a look forward at some of the local stories that are likely to play out in 2013: Fort Lee Board of Education Challenges The Fort Lee Board of Education will get right down to business in 2013 with a reorganization meeting scheduled for New Year’s Day at 1 p.m. and a host of issues to deal with. Four new members of the board will be sworn in; Esther Han Silver, David Sarnoff and Holly Morell were elected to three-year terms in November and Candee Romba was elected to serve out the one-year, …
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…
Friday, December 28, 2012
A look back at the first half of the year that was in local news: Fort Lee 2012.
On Thursday, Patch reviewed the first half of 2012. Today we continue with the rest of the year. A man who tried to sexually assault a woman in Fort Lee died in a fiery wreck after he fled on the Palisades Interstate Parkway and crashed into a tree, authorities said. A Palisades Park woman who suffered minor injuries after getting hit by a car at Anderson Avenue and Main Street became the 36th pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Fort Lee this year alone, police said. Port Authority police rescued a dog from a catwalk on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge about 12 hours after it ran away from its home in Leonia, apparently spooked by 4th of July fireworks, authorities said. The Fort Lee Board of Education approved a resolution …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
A look back at the first half of the year that was in local news: Fort Lee 2012.
The Fort Lee Board of Education hosted its second of three community forum meetings in advance of the school bond referendum on Jan. 24. Turnout at the Fort Lee Community Center was slightly better than at the board’s first forum on Dec. 12, as school officials for the most part reiterated what they detailed at that meeting and directed voters to the district’s special “Bond Referendum 2012” website as people in attendance for the most part expressed their support. A pipe burst in the Fort Lee High School library, and what was thought to be a “smoke incident with a light” at Fort Lee School No. 1 earlier in the day turned out to be a heat pump in the ceiling. The Fort Lee Mayor and Council held its annual reorganization meeting at Borough …
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The 10 most-read stories of the past year.
A 16-year-old boy from Fort Lee died when he fell off a cliff in Fort Lee’s section of the Palisades Interstate Park, near the George Washington Bridge in June, police said. A 26-year-old Fort Lee man was charged with murder in connection with the hit-and-run death of his girlfriend in February outside the Fort Lee Community Center, where he allegedly struck her with his car and then drove over her multiple times, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. A 16-year-old boy from Sayreville riding on a bus full of teenagers heading to a Sweet 16 was killed in August 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…
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Fort Lee Patch’s “Week in Review,” a weekly roundup of top local news stories.
Four men were charged Wednesday after police found them in a Fort Lee hotel parking lot allegedly in possession of two stolen cars, a loaded handgun and more than $30,000 in cash, authorities said. Fort Lee police are investigated an incident that started with a stolen car in Englewood Cliffs late Friday night and ended with a chase all the way to Newark. Two police units were rammed and a loaded gun recovered in the process, authorities said. Dozens of Fort Lee residents joined local clergy and community leaders at Monument Park Monday for a candlelight vigil for the victims, family and community members of Newtown, Conn., where a school shooting Friday claimed the lives of 20 children—six- and seven-year-olds—and six adults at Sandy Hook…
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Week Ahead: a look at some of what’s going on in Fort Lee this week.
The Fort Lee Board of Education late last week cancelled its regular business meeting originally scheduled for Monday evening, but those who were planning to attend may want to consider heading over to Monument Park instead. There, organizers say, a candlelight vigil is planned for the victims, families and community members of Newtown, Conn., where the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history occurred Friday, resulting in the deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Fort Lee vigil is planned as a “gathering to give and receive comfort in light of the Newtown shooting,” providing residents of all faiths—or none, organizers emphasize—an opportunity to “share with neighbors,” pray or simply be silent…
Robyn Nadel
3:40 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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