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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Lakeland parents review special education pro
12/03/2008
Residents have praised Lakeland Regional High School’s (LRHS) education program for helping students grow and develop their real world skills, but also said that there’s room for improvement.
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| | WANAQUE - US Aluminum site has to switch pipes
12/02/2008
The borough plans to have Fourth Avenue businesses’ water lines taken off an old water main and put onto a redistribution pipe starting the week of Nov. 30.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro nets $211K state grant for roads
11/26/2008
The borough has been allocated a $211,000 state grant to put toward the road, curb and sidewalk reconstruction and installation of a new water main on First and Second streets, the state announced Nov. 14.
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| | WANAQUE - Board outsources custodians
11/26/2008
The Board of Education said it’s trying to save dollars by laying off most of its 10 in-district custodians, but many community members insist the cost of hiring an outside service could be bigger than expected.
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| | WANAQUE - Shirt fundraiser for troops
11/19/2008
The Wanaque Police Department Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is aiming to sell 1,000 T-shirts and sweatshirts to support troops deployed overseas and their families back home.
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| | WANAQUE - USS Indianapolis survivor recounts story
11/19/2008
North Jersey residents flocked to the Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) auditorium on Nov. 13 to listen to the colorful, heartbreaking and inspiring account of two World War II veterans' survival and heroism.
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| | WANAQUE - Plans solidifying for new Borough Hall site
11/11/2008
A Little Ferry-based architectural firm has presented what borough officials called "conceptual layout" of the new municipal hall complex that would consist of the Borough Hall, a maintenance building and the police station laid out in a campus setting.
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| | WANAQUE - Police allege man with knife made threats
11/11/2008
A 34-year-old Montclair man was accused of possessing a weapon for unlawful purposes and making terroristic threats after police allegedly observed a butcher knife in his white Jeep Cherokee on Saturday, Nov. 8.
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| | WANAQUE - Injured pedestrian in good condition
11/11/2008
The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and borough police are investigating a motor vehicle accident Sunday where a Chevy struck a 50-year-old local man on Ringwood Avenue causing injuries.
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| | WANAQUE - GOP wins, more than 71 percent turn out
11/04/2008
As longtime councilmen, the Republican incumbents are staying put in their council seats for the next three years.
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| | WANAQUE - Petter and Pasquariello win council race
11/04/2008
Early results from Passaic County show that Robert Pettet and Donald Pasquariello have won the council election.
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| | WANAQUE - Police increased at school
11/03/2008
Just because this year’s Election Day is an out-of-the-ordinary historical day, doesn’t mean it had to interrupt the typical school day.
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| | WANAQUE - Report of student gun scare unfounded
10/28/2008
Capt. Thomas Norton said that there would be no charges brought against a Lakeland Regional High School student whose comments Monday were "misconstrued" and wound up causing "panic."
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| | WANAQUE - Custodians may be privatized
10/26/2008
Facing hard economic times and a budgetary restriction on school district spending, school officials have decided to privatize most of district custodial services to save money.
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| | WANAQUE - Two challengers take on two incumbents
10/26/2008
Two Republican incumbents and two Democratic challengers will square off for two three-year seats on the Borough Council at the Nov. 4 polls.
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| | WANAQUE - Revelopment study advances
10/22/2008
The Planning Board approved a redevelopment study for five targeted areas in the borough so the document would be submitted to the Borough Council for its perusal.
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| | WANAQUE - Student-led cleanup is a success
10/21/2008
What do a tablecloth, a bicycle and a street sign all have in common? They are all items that were found around Meadowbrook stream next to Lakeland Regional High School during a student-led cleanup
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| | WANAQUE - Dad finds warm welcome after 7 months in Gulf
10/20/2008
Seven-month-old Adam James Davis is getting ready to crawl and now his father has a chance to see it. Army Staff Sgt. Adam Davis, almost 25, is back from Kuwait.
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| | WANAQUE - $100K sewer project to begin on Gorge Drive
10/20/2008
The Wanaque Borough Sewerage Authority awarded a contract to a Florham Park-based company to extend sewers on Gorge Drive. The project would eliminate a small sewage pumping station.
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| | WANAQUE - Valley View developer wants age restriction lifted
10/15/2008
The developer of a pending active adult housing complex is reworking its site plans and asking borough officials to approve them.
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| | WANAQUE- Redevelopment plans on agenda
10/14/2008
The Planning Board will address whether proposed areas throughout the borough would be suitable for redevelopment.
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| | WANAQUE - Time and cash short for Pre-K requirement
10/08/2008
The local school system faces the “good” yet “challenging” task of whipping up a state-ordered preschool program for underprivileged children.
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| | WANAQUE - Eighty SMART boards installed in classrooms
10/08/2008
The school district is thrilled about taking an extra step foward with technology by populating its classrooms with interactive whiteboards.
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| | WANAQUE - Bid awarded on firehouse addition
10/08/2008
The borough has settled on a Franklin Lakes-based company to tackle the project of building a firehouse addition that will shelter the Fire Department’s new truck.
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| | WANAQUE - Lakeland seeks security grant
10/02/2008
The Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education is gearing up to apply for state aid that would help pay for various facility maintenance projects.
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| | WANAQUE - High school may add more bars
10/02/2008
A spot on Lakeland Regional High School's (LRHS) grounds may be a suitable place to build a wireless antenna without posing health risks to the school community.
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| | WANAQUE - TV station makeover on hold
09/24/2008
Renovation projects for a television station and home economics classroom at LRHS are “on hold” because of a possible budgetary conflict with LRHS employee health benefits.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro native hosting bone marrow drive
09/24/2008
A borough native will host a bone marrow drive at her college in search for a bone marrow donor for her father, a man stricken with a disease that causes his bone marrow to shut down.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro responds to Highlands Master Plan
09/17/2008
The Highlands Council is helping the borough shape its own master plan in harmony with the Highlands model.
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| | WANAQUE - Recent football deaths prompt local concern
09/17/2008
Two deaths and one severe injury of North Jersey athletes within one week have stirred LRHS officials to take extra preventive measures to protect its athletes.
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| | WANAQUE - Lakeland sets 2008-09 goals
09/10/2008
The LRHS Board of Education is setting its goals to improve curriculum and test scores for the 2008-09 school year while also reviewing its own school board policies.
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| | WANAQUE - Haskell School tests turn up no serious health risks
09/10/2008
Test outcomes of air samples collected from the Haskell School display signs of harmless mold existing in the school�s tunnel and one classroom � nothing that would be deemed serious, district officials said.
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| | WANAQUE - Free ice cream for law-abiding children
09/03/2008
The Police Department expects kids to use their heads when it comes to protecting their heads from harm.
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| | WANAQUE - Addice Park fields deemed free of contaminants
09/03/2008
The soils at the under-renovation Wanaque School and Addice Park fields don’t need to be tested for contaminants.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro looking to trim costs on firehouse addition
09/03/2008
With help from an architectural company, borough officials are seeking ways to trim costs from a firehouse addition project so bids will be cheaper the second time around.
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| | WANAQUE - Sickened school workers prompt air tests
08/27/2008
The district’s environmental consultants are running tests on air samples taken after three construction workers showed evidence of sickness while at Haskell School.
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| | WANAQUE - Police break up party, arrest seven
08/27/2008
It wasn’t noise but a sheer coincidence, police say, that brought them to the open window of a Haskell home where 15 youths and adults were reportedly partying with alcohol without regard to the law.
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| | WANAQUE - Local beauty queen raises juvenile diabetes awareness
08/20/2008
Representing New Jersey, Ashli Fivehouse hoped to bring juvenile diabetes to center stage at this year�s Miss International Pageant.
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| | WANAQUE - Vandals target Doty Rd. home
08/20/2008
Police have stepped up patrols in the Doty Road area after three months of criminal mischief reports from the same home.
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| | WANAQUE - Alcohol blamed in Jewish center crash
08/13/2008
A Wayne man, allegedly driving drunk, caused "a lot of damage" when he crashed his SUV into the Lakeland Hills Jewish Center on Conklintown Road just after midnight Friday, Capt. Tom Norton said.
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| | WANAQUE - Man says he was sexually assaulted
08/13/2008
Police are investigating a report that a 26-year-old Vernon man was sexually assaulted by an unknown male while attending a party this weekend on Stafford Drive.
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| | WANAQUE - Lakeland BOE hires principal
08/06/2008
At the July 29 school board meeting, the Board of Education appointed LRHS Vice Principal Anthony Riscica as the high school’s new principal.
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| | WANAQUE - Addice Park renovations progress
08/06/2008
The makeover of fields at Wanaque School and Addice Park is "getting off to a tremendous start."
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| | WANAQUE - St. Francis Carnival turns 45
07/30/2008
The Saint Francis of Assisi Carnival, a summer-time tradition, returns July 29 through Aug. 3.
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| | WANAQUE - Council adopts wood furnace requirements
07/23/2008
The Borough Council adopted an outdoor wood furnace ordinance.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro hall plans change course
07/23/2008
Municipal officials could backtrack on where to develop the new borough hall.
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| | WANAQUE - District to use residents to boost school security
07/16/2008
The school district is beefing up safety at both elementary schools by creating security teams made up of various residents.
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| | WANAQUE - School construction is finishing
07/16/2008
The majority of the elementary schools' revamps should wrap up before school starts this September.
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| | WANAQUE - Thieves target gas tanks
07/08/2008
Patrol officers are on the lookout for potential gas thieves as rising fuel prices seem to have triggered tampering with five cars this past weekend on Carter Road in Haskell.
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| | WANAQUE - Family helps youths find Fresh Air fun
07/08/2008
More than eight years ago, Bernadette and Peter Orsita of Haskell answered a newspaper ad from the Fresh Air Fund that invited suburban and country residents to temporarily give inner city kids a sanctuary from the city life.
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| | WANAQUE - Boy on bike hit by car
07/01/2008
A 12-year-old Haskell boy was injured in a bicycle accident.
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| | WANAQUE - BOE approves autism program
07/01/2008
The Board of Education unanimously approved the establishment of an in-district preschool autism program, slated to launch this summer.
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| | WANAQUE - Bands raise funds for local girl with cancer
06/25/2008
Although it may have looked like a typical nightclub scene, with musicians rocking it out on stage, there was a twist to this scenario.
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| | WANAQUE - Don't sell short art and music, residents urge
06/25/2008
Residents have asked the Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education to consider the state's recommendation of counting arts and music courses toward students' class ranks.
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| | WANAQUE - Grants sought for Memorial Field light fixtures
06/18/2008
The Borough is in the middle of applying for county and state funding to replace Memorial Field’s light fixtures. It was announced at the June 9 Borough Council meeting that the municipality is applying for the...
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| | WANAQUE - Firm hired to determine Borough Hall needs
06/18/2008
The Borough Council awarded a contract to a Little Ferry company that will produce a needs assessment study for a new municipal hall. The needs assessment study is to determine what facilities should be...
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| | WANAQUE - Late historian depicted life in his beloved hamlet
06/10/2008
Although Midvale is a tiny hamlet situated alongside the Wanaque Reservoir in a much larger world, Midvale was the world to the late Donald Townsend.
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| | WANAQUE - Haskell School earns state kudos
06/04/2008
The state has recognized Haskell Elementary School as one of the 73 schools statewide to let student achievements shine through state proficiency test scores.
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| | WANAQUE - Bookmark contest leaves them wanting Moore
06/04/2008
Tyler Moore and Christa Moore have more in common than their last names.
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| | WANAQUE - Jewish center shows film that portrays modern genocide
05/29/2008
Although many echoed the vow never to allow the horrors of genocide to repeat themselves, genocide still reared their ugly heads in countries like Kosovo, Cambodia and East Timor throughout...
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| | WANAQUE - 50-year veteran project to be Memorial Day Centerpiece
05/29/2008
The long-awaited Midvale Cemetery Memorial has been over 50 years in the making.
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| | WANAQUE - News Briefs - 5/21/2008
05/21/2008
To bookend the years of hard work and dedication with the school system, four school district employees were guests of honor at an award dinner at the Grand Chalet in Wayne on May 9.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Lakeland may share school bd. secretary
05/21/2008
While Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) interviews for a permanent business administrator, it’s possible the candidate may be shared with the Wanaque School District.
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| | WANAQUE - Hagstrom surprised by honors
05/15/2008
The Hagstrom legacy is still prominent within the community. For two straight nights, the borough has honored Dolores Hagstrom both in her own right for her community contributions and as the widow of the late mayor Warren Hagstrom.
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| | WANAQUE - Parents kept 'AWARE'
05/15/2008
Community members honored citizens with awards for their stellar contribution to promoting positive lives.
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| | WANAQUE - Arnoldi, Spirko are top teachers in 2008
05/07/2008
Diane Arnoldi, representing Haskell Elementary School, and Janet Spirko, representing Wanaque Elementary School, received the Governor's Teacher Recognition Award for 2008.
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| | WANAQUE - LRHS principal is retiring
04/29/2008
Principal Joseph LoCascio is retiring at the end of this school year.
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| | WANAQUE - Voters back BOE's budget
04/22/2008
Newly elected Board of Education members say they�re happy that voters passed the $15.9 million school budget for the 2008-09 school year. Because the school budget has been green-lighted, the district could fund...
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| | WANAQUE - Upcoming events
04/23/2008
Yonkers Raceway trip, Midvale Methodist craft fair, bingo for Wanaque First Aid, LRHS car and bike show.
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| | WANAQUE - Boro to look for contamination
04/16/2008
The mayor and council have agreed to pay an environmental consulting firm $75,000 to research an abandoned industrial site for contamination.
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| | WANAQUE - Four seeking BOE seats
04/13/2008
Three candidates are running in the April 15 election for three, three-year terms on the school board, and one is running for a two-year term.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Lakeland BOE race uncontested
04/13/2008
Three incumbents are running unopposed for three seats on the Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education.
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| | WANAQUE - School adopts local sergeant/dad deployed in Iraq
04/09/2008
Many people here at home take for granted everyday items like snacks, antibacterial soap and gum. But two Wanaque School classes have confidence that everyday items like those, which they are sending to...
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| | WANAQUE - BOE addresses cellphones in schools
04/08/2008
The Board of Education addressed the issues of student cell phone use in schools, as well as the need to update its student database, at its meeting on March 25. The board also acknowledged the victory of the school district's eighth graders..
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| | WANAQUE - Windfall provides tax relief in 2008-09 budget
04/02/2008
The Board of Education unanimously adopted a $15.9 million budget for the 2008-09 school year that funds a new preschool autism program and lowers tax rates at least for the coming year.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Lakeland budget finalized
04/02/2008
The Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education adopted the $21.9 million school budget for the 2008-09 school year on Tuesday, March 25.
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| | WANAQUE - Crash on Ringwood Avenue
03/26/2008
A 25-year-old New York man suffered chest pains and a section of Ringwood Avenue closed for almost 24 hours after a red Honda Civic landed across the roadway in a crash on Sunday.
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| | WANAQUE - Borough budget up 21 percent
03/19/2008
The council introduced the 2008 municipal budget of $11,319,108 at its March 10 meeting. This budget reflects an increase of $681,581 over last year’s budget of $10,637,526.
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| | WANAQUE - Parents want high holy days respected
03/12/2008
Residents voiced their concerns to the Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education about not scheduling any school on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur for the 2008-09 school year.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - LRHS random drug tests yield a positive
03/12/2008
Lakeland Regional High School randomly tested 119 students for drugs since its testing program was implemented last September and found only one student who prompted concern.
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| | WANAQUE - Wood-fueled furnaces to be regulated
02/20/2008
The Borough Council adopted a new ordinance at its Feb. 11 meeting that mandates the property requirements any resident must meet in order to own an outdoor wood furnace.
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| | WANAQUE - Abandoned goat gives area a surprise
02/14/2008
The goat that mysteriously showed up in December on busy Hamburg Turnpike in Riverdale is full of surprises.
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| | WANAQUE - Tour shows Borough Hall to be outmoded
02/07/2008
Of the potential sites considered as locations of the new borough hall, the borough administrator said a Fourth Avenue site is the ideal place because it could provide enough room for the building, a civic center and any future uses.
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| | WANAQUE - Project identifies Midvale Cemetery veterans
01/31/2008
The Wanaque VFW, known as the James W. McCarthy Post - 6765, has for many years maintained the grounds of the Midvale Cemetery in Wanaque. The cemetery is located on Ringwood Avenue and is split by the Conklin-town Road intersection.
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| | WANAQUE - Search underway for new principal
01/30/2008
The Board of Education discussed the course of action for finding a new Wanaque School principal at its Jan. 22 meeting.
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| | WANAQUE - Property owner cries foul!
01/30/2008
Since last month's Planning Board meeting, Lawrence Montana has been inviting anyone, including borough officials and local media, to drop by his property and judge for themselves whether the borough redevelopment report contains misinformation...
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| | HASKELL - Prop. owners protest redevelopment plan report
01/30/2008
In what seemed like déjà vu of last month's Planning Board meeting, residents protested what they say is misinformation disclosed in a revised borough redevelopment report and demanded that the borough think twice...
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| | WANAQUE - Venezia: Volunteer firefighter since 1937
01/16/2008
When Samuel Venezia was initially asked to join the Wanaque Volunteer Fire Department as a volunteer firefighter, he turned down the request.
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| | WANAQUE - Cisco, O'Connell sworn to Borough Council
01/16/2008
With a new Borough Hall and taxes as issues to tackle in the new year, the Borough Council swore in a new councilwoman and an incumbent councilman to begin three-year terms at this year's reorganization meeting.
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| | WANAQUE - Council eyes site for new boro hall
01/09/2008
The mayor and Borough Council took no action on a proposal presented to them by the owners of a Fourth Avenue site that, if purchased, could be the location of the new borough hall.
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| | WANAQUE - Borough wants council meetings on TV, said survey
01/02/2008
Residents would like to see the Mayor and Council meetings televised - despite the small amount of residents that answered the survey asking if residents want the Council meetings on TV.
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| | WANAQUE - Guest workers key to landscape industry
01/02/2008
Bob Pedatella is asking Congress to save his landscaping business.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Lakeland LEAP students donate
12/12/2007
Just in time for the holidays, students at Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) want to give local communities two very important gifts: donations and messages about remaining substance free.
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| | WANAQUE/RINGWOOD - Teachers' contract settled
12/12/2007
The Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) faculty will get retroactive compensation with the Dec. 15 pay period, thanks to last month's contract settlement between the faculty and LRHS administrators.
The contract is retroactive from July 1, 2007 through
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