Palisades Park News

It's easy to zip around sampling what Fort Lee has to offer; many of its best spots are casual eateries that are perfect for dropping in for a bite.

PALISADES PARK a ' Englewood Hospital has taken over emergency services in Palisades Park, disbanding a volunteer ambulance corps that has served the borough for 40 years.

FAIRVIEW a ' For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala.

Adelino Da Costa kicks butt -- literally. The star kickboxer has come a long way since the days he lived in a shack in West Africa's Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest countries.

Better-tasting water began making its way from the Oradell Reservoir to thousands of North Jersey homes and businesses Friday as United Water's new state-of-the-art treatment facility went online.

WE HAVE officially crossed into summer, when thoughts wander to leisurely meals consumed outdoors.

Keren Day says it feels pretty good to save a life. The 28-year-old Manhattan chiropractor should know - she resuscitated a worker whose heart stopped beating after he suffered a severe electric shock Tuesday morning in the northern New Jersey community of Hackensack.

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Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerA 2005 photo of Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The majority of New Jersey's local police departments routinely violate state law when handling civilian complaints about police misconduct, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report that will be released today.

PALISADES PARK A chartered school bus backed into a creek opposite the borough's high school this morning and remained there for several hours while crews labored to remove it, schools Superintendent Mark Hayes said.

May 29--Small-business lending is increasing at New Jersey's community banks, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, because of an increase in SBA loan guarantees of up to 90 percent of the amount of loans to small businesses from private lenders.

A trendy shoe store lent him 4-inch high heels for his models. And his friend, a nightclub promoter, obtained Webster Hall for him.

Richard and Cindy Blum of Huntingdon Valley, and Alexander and Sofya Grinshteyn of Palisades Park, N.J., announce the engagement of their children, Joshua Ross Blum and Allana Michelle Grinshteyn.

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Name: Cam Cavaliere Age: 83 Current Hometown: Parsippany, originally from Palisades Park and then Fort Lee Occupation: Retired secretary for Union Carbide Corp.

Student authors submit their creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry pieces to The Labyrinth's faculty advisers , who work with a student editorial board to select entries from hundreds of submissions for inclusion in the publication.

MOST anything that makes it easier to vote is good a ' the use of absentee ballots, for example.

A county park in Ridgefield Park: It's about time. IN 1949, the Bergen County Park Commission unveiled plans for the development of a grand park in the valley of the Overpeck Creek, then a free flowing stream emptying into the Hackensack River at the southern tip of the village of Ridgefield Park.

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