Oakland News

Dan and Jennifer McCarthy have been house-hunting for a year and a half, always keeping an eye on the guidelines for the temporary first-time home buyer tax credit offered by the federal government.

Marcy Pryor and her band of student gem dealers, the possibilities are as numerous as the colors and shapes of beads they use to make their jewelry.

Pignatelli and Christopher Visconti held off a challenge by Democrats Malcolm Blum and Henry Lesher, securing three more years on the Borough Council.

Creative people will now have a place close to home they can use to showcase and create great works of art.

At Mike's Dog House, steamed hot dogs are the obvious focus, but it's actually all about the red onion sauce.

Whata TMs new: The majority of the Mahwah Township Council favors opting into the Highlands Regional Master Plan, according to a non-binding straw poll.

Mahwah officials have a tough choice to make. They must decide before a December deadline whether to opt into or out of the Highlands Master Plan.

The Stevens Place gate has been closed since at least the 1970s, school officials say, until one-way traffic was finally permitted last Thursday morning.

While I am not a member of any political party, I support of Councilman Pasquale "Pat" Pignatellia TMs reelection bid to the Oakland Borough Council.

The Recorda s policy on accepting students for inclusion in the DEANa S LIST column has changed.

It was this month 20 years ago the bulldozers came, and Mountainside Park in Pequannock, indeed, much of the town, would never be the same.

Oakland Newcomers and Neighbors Club is hosting scrapbook nights at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 and Nov.

The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be brought up by the defense at his corruption trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Here are three other fine-dining Italian restaurants that have been reviewed: NEW MILFORD SANZARI'S NEW BRIDGE INN ** 1/2 The prominent owners of this polished Italian restaurant have combined its fine-dining roots with more casual items like pizza, paninis and burgers.

You don't have to be from Ringwood or Oakland to appreciate the horrors of Skyline Drive.

Don and Linda Broek of Oakland announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristin, to David Velazquez, son of Kathleen O'Hanlon of Bergenfield and the late Edwin Velazquez.

SAN FRANCISCO - Wah Cheong, a lifelong Republican and the soon-to-be divorced father of two teenage boys, sometimes surprises his co-workers and neighbors in a relatively conservative community outside San Francisco when he says he supports same-sex marriage.

All across America, hundreds of thousands of young children have begun kindergarten.

Ita s back to school, and back to school lunches. Although studentsa choices are limited by the vendors, ita s ultimately their preferences that determine the menus.

Oakland a ' Borough officials are exploring whether the community would benefit by participating in a program designed to better curb sprawl and control development.