Demarest sign draws objections

By admin on August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 BY KAREN SUDOL – The Record – STAFF WRITER DEMAREST – Some residents are raising objections about the appearance and location of a new municipal electronic sign in town.

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Pay-to-play foes angry at freeholders’ ‘no’ vote

By admin on May 20, 2010

BY MICHAEL GARTLAND – THE RECORD About a dozen activists came out Wednesday night to protest the Bergen County freeholders’ vote last week against implementing stricter pay-to-play regulations.

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Stile: Freeholder may give up mayor’s job

By admin on February 28, 2010

By CHARLES STILE – The Record Bergen County Freeholder Jim Carroll has always been an unapologetic defender of dual-office holding

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Local towns paying heavily for Bergen County loan program meant to save time, money

By admin on December 29, 2009

BY STEPHANIE AKIN AND CHRISTOPHER SCHNAARS – The Record A Bergen County loan program touted as a quick and easy way for local governments to pay for big-ticket items has instead plunged some of them into long-term debt.

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Demarest council approves raise package

By admin on December 28, 2009

BY MICHELLE SARTOR - Northern Valley Suburbanite Demarest municipal employees have gotten raises for 2009.

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Demarest approves affordable housing plan

By admin on December 28, 2009

BY KAREN SUDOL - The Record DEMAREST — The Borough Council has approved an amended plan to build a 12-unit condominium-style building on town-owned property to meet affordable housing requirements.

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Towns look to work together

By admin on December 28, 2009

BY MARC LIGHTDALE - Northern Valley Suburbanite The Cresskill and Demarest governing bodies have passed resolutions to share services.

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Ousted Bergen Tech trustee learned of removal in newspaper

By admin on December 7, 2009

BY MICHAEL GARTLAND – The Record A former trustee with the Bergen County Technical School District said Friday she did not learn about her removal from the board this week until reading about it in The Record on Thursday.

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Demarest council candidate to contest election results

By admin on November 24, 2009

DEMAREST — Republican Ray Cywinski filed for a recount of the Nov. 3 election, where he lost his bid for a council seat by a slim margin of 13 votes.

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Court official charged with theft

By admin on November 19, 2009

BY ASHLEY KINDERGAN AND WILLIAM LAMB - The Record DUMONT — The Municipal Court administrator for Dumont and Demarest was charged with theft on Tuesday, accused of pocketing $1,285 in court fines that violators thought they were paying in full to Demarest, authorities said.

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Sidewalk plan has many upset in Borough

By admin on November 2, 2009

BY MICHELLE SARTOR – Northern Valley Suburbanite Residents came out to the Oct. 5 mayor and council meeting to oppose sidewalks that would be installed as part of the Safe Routes to School program, questioning the need for such walkways and criticizing the council’s lack of public involvement in the matter.

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Bergen County Freeholders Clueless!

By admin on October 26, 2009

Bergen County Freeholders are spending YOUR tax dollars without knowing where the money is going. If this is “Moving Bergen County Forward,” we think it is time to go in a new direction. John Driscoll and Rob Hermansen will be the voice of the taxpayers. Let your voice be heard on November 3rd! See the [...]

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Yudin: Carroll wrong guy to represent Corzine

By admin on October 23, 2009

By Editor of PolitickerNJ.com Bergen County GOP Chairman Robert Yudin says he can’t understand why Democrats would pick Bergen County Freeholder James Carroll to launch attacks on GOP gubernatorial candidate Christopher Christie. After Christie visited Bergen County yesterday to link Gov. Jon Corzine to recent unemployment numbers, the Democratic State Committee released a statement from [...]

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Carroll ‘at a loss for words’ over Ferriero verdict

By admin on October 22, 2009

By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter Former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joe Ferriero was just convicted on three of eight corruption counts against him, but Freeholder James Carroll still believes he’s innocent.

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GOP, Ferriero opponents laud conviction as victory

By admin on October 22, 2009

BY MICHAEL GARTLAND – The Record The conviction of former Bergen County Democratic chief Joseph Ferriero reverberated across the county’s political landscape Thursday as elected officials and operatives from both parties contemplated its implications.

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Power broker Ferriero falls

By admin on October 22, 2009

The man who ruled Bergen County’s Democratic machine for more than a decade was branded a felon by a federal jury Thursday, convicted of masterminding a scheme to secretly profit from a consulting business he marketed to towns where he exercised political pull.

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Former mayor: Ferriero asked me to nominate Oury

By admin on October 5, 2009

BY PETER J. SAMPSON – The Record Former Bergenfield Mayor Robert C. Rivas testified Monday that Bergen County Democratic leader Joseph Ferriero was “upset” after his “trusted lieutenant” Dennis Oury was not nominated for the post of borough attorney in 2001.

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Attorney Oury pleads guilty to federal corruption charges

By admin on September 29, 2009

BY PETER J. SAMPSON – The Record NEWARK — Former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero faces a federal corruption trial Thursday without his longtime political ally and codefendant after Dennis Oury pleaded guilty Tuesday and implicated Ferriero in a scheme to secretly profit from a grant-writing business.

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Keeping watch on local officials

By admin on September 16, 2009

There’s a new watchdog keeping an eye on municipal government: the video-camera wielding resident.

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Councilman Sues Over Land Purchase

Councilman Sues Over Land Purchase

By admin on June 28, 2009

“I think it’s a complete misuse of public funds,” said Raymond Cywinski, who filed the suit on May 21 in Superior Court in Hackensack.

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