Scenes from the “listening tour”, part two
Wednesday night’s “listening tour” meeting on the issue of police consolidation again produced more interesting comments than I could fit into a deadline story. So here are some excerpts from that...
View ArticleWhere to vote in a Post-Sandy Bergen County
The Bergen County Board of Elections official Monday released this fourth and they say final list of all polling places in the county. This list includes changes made in the wake of lingering power...
View ArticleWhere can you vote in post-Sandy Bergen County?
The Bergen County Board of Elections official Monday released this fourth and final list of all polling places in the county. This list includes 120 polling places that were moved because of lingering...
View ArticleTanelli calls for panel to study flooding woes
Bergen County Freeholder Steve Tanelli.Bergen County Freeholder Steve Tanelli Friday called for a blue ribbon panel to study flooding issues in Bergen County and come up with “a 70-town strategy.”...
View ArticleWhere to vote in Bergen County tomorrow
Here, courtesy of the Bergen County Board of Elections, is a complete list of polling places in all 70 towns for Wednesday’s special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by the late Sen....
View ArticleCounty marks ‘Red Ribbon’ anti-drug week
Bergen County’s Department of Health Services is observing Red Ribbon week over the next few days, an event aimed at drawing awareness to the problems of substance abuse. This year’s event, which began...
View ArticleCounty seeks domestic violence volunteers
Bergen County is seeking volunteers to serve on a Domestic Violence Crisis Response team. Trained volunteers become part of regional teams that respond to local police stations to help victims of...
View ArticleBCC students awarded $180K in scholarships
Here is a list of 110 Bergen Community College students who received more than $180,000 in scholarship funds at a mid-year awards ceremony on Dec. 13 at the Meadowlands campus in Lyndhurst. The event...
View ArticleAnd then there were nine…
The number of school boards in Bergen County opting to hold their elections in the spring continues to dwindle. This year it is down to nine, according to Superintendent of Elections Patti DiCostanzo....
View Article‘My County’ poster winners announced
Bergen County Clerk John Hogan has announced the winners of the “My County Poster” contest. There were 300 entries submitted from fourth graders throughout the county. Twenty posters were chosen,...
View ArticleNine things to know in Bergen Co. this week
Statue outside the Bergen County Courthouse. Photo by John Ensslin Summer is drawing near, but there is still plenty of activity on the Bergen County beat, including a police body camera task force, a...
View ArticleHow to avoid rabies in wildlife
Norwood police searching for a coyote. (Record file photo.)Rabies, wildllife and how towns televise their meetings will be the topics covered on the next Record Talk Radio broadcast at 10:30 a.m....
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