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**Firefighters' union approves new contracts** Read Story l The Record
Death of an icon
Teaneck residents mourn the loss of legendary performer Read Story
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**Police catch car burglars**
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Council meeting
Budget passes with no FD layoffs
By Howard Prosnitz
Staff Writer | June 30, 2009
After almost two hours of public comment, the council approved a $62.2 million budget at the June 23 council meeting attended by more than 200 persons. The meeting had been scheduled weeks in advance for the high school auditorium.
The budget included layoffs of two police officers and the demotion of one captain to lieutenant. It also demoted the fire department’s only remaining deputy chief to captain. Earlier this month, five deputy fire chiefs chose to retire rather than face demotion as a result of budgetary constraints. Full Story
Law is result of tragedy
U.S. House passes Phylicia's Law bill
By Howard Prosnitz
Staff Writer | June 25, 2009
A bill sponsored by Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ) requiring school districts receiving federal aid to develop a safety policy for field trips passed the House of Representatives by a 319-60 vote on June 15.
The impetus for the bill was the death of 18-year-old
Teaneck
High School senior Phylicia Moore during a school sponsored trip to in 2007. Full Story
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Budget Cuts
Community Policing Bureau to close
Police
Man charged in shoplifting also wanted in Teaneck
Planning Board
Overlay zone proposed for former factory site
Classroom projects
Ponchick puts 'tea' in teacher
Garrison and Sussex
Councilman urges traffic remedy
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Taking the torch through Teaneck
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Officer Gregg Wright, Lt. Mike Falvey and Sgt. Paul Finkler run through the Cedar Lane Business District with the Special Olympics torch while being escorted by police cars. The Teaneck Police Department has been a participant and sponsor of this run for the last 26 years.
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Top scholar tells class to
'conquer the world'
By Jaime Cannici
Editor | June 30
While waiting on the procession line, a
Teaneck high school senior might have a moment to reflect on the past four years: “Did I try my hardest?” “Did I push myself enough?” “Did I accomplish everything I wanted to do?”
As the senior slowly takes steps closer to the crowd and sees the familiar faces of friends and family watching, reality sets in: “I am graduating high school tonight.”
Pledge of Allegiance is addressed, principal speaks and Allison Levin walks to the podium. She has something very important to say to her fellow classmates and to the audience. After watching and listening all around her for the past four years, in the halls of
Teaneck
High School and outside its doors, she wants to relay a message. Read Story
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| Calbi speaks about death of son |
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On April 15, Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill sponsored by Sen. Loretta Weinberg into a law that bars alimony to persons who have killed an offspring. The bill, which was co-sponsored by Senator Fred H. Madden (D-Camden and Gloucester), Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty (D-Gloucester) and Assemblywomen Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Englewood) and Sandra Love (D-Gloucester) was in response to the killing of 14-year-old Matthew Calbi by his mother, Linda Calbi, in Old Tappan in August 2003.
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