Bergenfield News

BERGENFIELD, N.J. - High school sweethearts Thomas and Susan Flannery of Oradell will be reunited with a ring that symbolized their budding romance 40 years ago.

Bamboo Grill is not for the faint of heart -- or taste buds. Milkfish, beneath a flawless, crisp crust, hides a zing that comes from at least a day marinating in vinegar.

It all started in 1998, when Carlos Cancio thought it would be fun to roast a whole pig in his Livingston home for some friends.

What does it mean to be born on the Fourth of July? Readers answered that question with an outpouring of patriotism.

A RECENT property tax ruling sheds light on an issue that most towns in North Jersey would like to avoid: housing for the mentally ill.

By KAREN ROUSE Staff Writer Lynn Blumenthal of Hawthorne had always followed her father's advice to carry full insurance on her cars.

A state tax judge ruled today that Advance Housing, Inc. does not deserve tax-exemptions on homes it leases to mentally ill clients in nine Bergen towns.

For as long as school bells have been ringing, students have tried to avoid the goosebump-inducing summon to the principal's office.

515 Cedar Lane, Teaneck; 201-357-8826. * 4 West Diner: The former Bennigan's restaurant has been gutted and transformed into a 24-hour diner by Terry Karounos, whose sons run the trendy Ultrabar in Teaneck.

A New Jersey man faces forgery charges after police said he tried to use two fraudulent credit cards at a Uniondale hotel.

BERGENFIELD A resident claims a borough health inspector struck him with his car this morning after a discussion about a rat problem turned heated.

Chancellor Michael Martin doesn't question the prestige the Louisiana State University Press brings to his school, with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction and poetry, tomes on Southern history and culture and other noted works to its credit.

School districts in New Jersey spend billions of public dollars each year. And after local property taxes rose to the nation's most expensive, legislators took aim at local boards of education and crafted a 200-page rulebook intended to cut costs.

HACKENSACK a ' The executive director of the city's special improvement district was fired from his post after being arrested as part of an organized-crime sports gambling bust.

Sixty-five years later, they still hear the bullets, see the bodies and feel the paralyzing fear they faced on the beaches and fields of far-off France.

The former clerk/administrator for the borough of Bergenfield was appointed as Hopatcong's new administrator on Wednesday and could begin work by the end of the month.

Of the seven bicycles in his garage - the carbon-fiber Trek Madone he uses on roads, the Cannondale F4 he uses on mountains - it is the little, yellow, 10-year-old Fuji that collects most of the mileage.

The Red Cross of Northern New Jersey honored ordinary residents who performed heroic acts during emergencies ranging from a downed jetliner in the Hudson to a flipped tanker truck in flames to a bomb scare at a local high school.

Impressing even some of the Democrats who opposed him was Mendy Fisch , a 20-year-old Princeton University sophomore who came within 63 votes of ... > Bob Torricelli Torricelli on making perfection the enemy of good It's called making perfection the enemy of the good and it's the first lesson of legislating.

Voters are trickling into the polls throughout North Jersey to cast ballots in hot local races for mayor and council.