Closter News

The most optimistic of retailers, whether upscale or value, are still cautious over the impending holiday shopping season.

M ore than 350 supporters of the Palisades Medical Center Foundation attended a black-tie masquerade ball at the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange, raising more than $270,000 to support the medical center and the Harborage nursing home and rehabilitation center in North Bergen.

As a resident of northern Bergen County, I was deeply disturbed by several signs that I saw scattered around Closter.

Here are three other upscale restaurants with lively bar scenes that have been reviewed: TENAFLY AXIA TAVERNA *** Chef Alex Gorant isn't re-creating his grandmother's Greek cooking at this hugely popular Tenafly restaurant, located in a wonderfully redesigned old home.

Human and animal solid waste has enough energy to displace all the natural gas currently generated from fossil fuels in the United States.

Rockleigh has lost a longtime councilman. Joseph Favaloro, who served on the council for the past 16 years, died Oct.

The gentlemen and ladies from St Mary's Catholic Church in Closter, New Jersey are busy tonight, piling plates high with home-cooked meatloaf, carrots, potatoes, macaroni cheese and two types of rice.

CLOSTER a ' No matter who wins the two Borough Council seats in Closter next week, there will be fresh faces on the governing body.

War what is it good for? Absolutely nothing or absolutely everything, depending on whether you're World War I Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop, subject of the one-man show "Billy Bishop Goes to War," or one of the 72 "kills" that made him the top gun of the British Empire much to the chagrin of the English.

A Freehold man who admitted using his two medical billing companies to defraud insurance companies has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison.

At Haworth Public School, eighth-grade students are getting out of the classroom to volunteer their services.

Ahmed Soliman's feel-good column about solar power does not consider bureaucratic delays and poorly coordinated installations.

Closter caterer and chef, Einat Mazor, was the first to notice disturbing symptoms in her eldest daughter.

Mark Charnet, founder of Wayne-based Diversified Financial Services Group and its franchise version, American Prosperity Group, doesn't give up easily.

Dennis Oury testified Wednesday that he kept former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero in the dark about the legal advice and work he performed as the borough attorney in Bergenfield on matters related to a grant writing company they secretly owned.

Futures in New York reached $US1049.70 an ounce, the highest ever. Gold priced in euros, yen and pounds also gained.

Pamela DeBlasio, owner of the Closter-based women's clothing boutique Past & Present, was recognized recently by the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners as its 2009 Rose & Scroll award recipient, an honor given each year to a non-member that serves as a community leader, role model and advocate for women business owners.

Northern Valley towns are on their way to meeting affordable housing mandates. The Council on Affordable Housing's latest report regarding the progress for the Third Round obligations found that eight of 11 Northern Valley communities' housing plans had no objections.

It's hard to say no to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' live show. You never know what vocalist Karen O. is going to do.

When Edith Frank, 83, got an offer on her three-bedroom Florida house, there was a catch: The buyer wanted to close in two weeks.