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Ice rink is at the center of a divided Englewood

Ice rink is at the center of a divided Englewood

Bergen Record — From the day it opened more than 30 years ago in the heart of Englewood 's minority neighborhood, the Mackay Park ice rink held the promise of being a symbol of inclusion, a place where the wealthiest and poorest residents could come together and have fun. But over the years, the John T. Wright Arena has, instead, become a symbol of privilege and division, as well-off residents and out-of-town teams began claiming the rink as their own, making some residents, particularly those in the working-class 4th Ward, feel unwelcome.
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Checking the facts in ad war over LG high rise proposed for Englewood Cliffs

Checking the facts in ad war over LG high rise proposed for Englewood Cliffs

Bergen Record — For nearly a year, LG Electronics and area preservationists have been locked in a public relations war over the South Korean-based company's plans to build a 143-foot-high corporate headquarters along Sylvan Avenue in Englewood Cliffs above the Palisades. As the rhetoric has heated up, each side has sought to win over the public, alternating pledges to work together with broadsides depicting opponents as carpetbaggers with no regard for New Jerseyans, and LG as a philistine with no appreciation for a century of preservation. LG has stressed its importance to the economy of Bergen County and Englewood Cliffs taxpayers.
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3 arrested in drug, prostitution sting at Englewood senior citizen housing complex - NorthJersey....

3 arrested in drug, prostitution sting at Englewood senior citizen housing complex - NorthJersey....

Bergen Record — Some of the activities taking place at Englewood 's senior citizen housing complex were a long way from canasta, police said. A man, 75, and a woman, 66, suspected of using cocaine and running a prostitution ring out of their apartments at the Vincente K. Tibbs Senior Citizen Building have been arrested after residents complained about vagrants, drunks and addicts invading their building, authorities said. The suspects and an alleged accomplice are believed to be behind a recent rise in crime that had residents afraid to come out of their apartments, authorities said.
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Police: Federal crime-ring bust helps find suspects in Englewood cold-case murder - NorthJersey.c...

Police: Federal crime-ring bust helps find suspects in Englewood cold-case murder - NorthJersey.c...

Bergen Record — To the outside world, Wilfredo Molina was a hardworking barber who was supporting his wife and their five children in suburban Englewood, where the family lived quietly in a modest two-story brick home on the west side. But police now say the 29-year-old Molina, who was shot to death in his driveway in 2004, had ties to another family - one that authorities say dealt in drugs, guns, money laundering and murder. Molina, as Englewood police suspected all along, walked in the same ruthlessly violent world as his killers, according to federal authorities, who unsealed a 40-count indictment this week charging three men in Molina's killing.
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After 6 years, North Jersey cops still don't carry stun guns - NorthJersey.com

After 6 years, North Jersey cops still don't carry stun guns - NorthJersey.com

Bergen Record — Leonia and Palisades Park police weren't carrying stun guns in November when they shot and killed robbery suspect Rickey McFadden after pepper spray failed to subdue him and, authorities say, he threatened to kill an officer with a 12-inch knife. Paterson police didn't have them three months earlier when they shot Salvatore Rosario, who reportedly made a move toward them holding a hammer. And Garfield police didn't have them when they killed 19-year-old Malik Williams a year ago after he allegedly rushed officers with a claw hammer and handsaw.
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Police in Bergen County cheer the rollout of stun guns

Police in Bergen County cheer the rollout of stun guns

Bergen Record — After years of frustration, Tasers are in the hands of the first police officers in Bergen County, a move applauded by both law enforcement and civil rights groups as long overdue and a potential lifesaver. New Jersey has been behind the rest of the world in adopting stun guns as a law enforcement tool. It was the last state in the country to authorize the devices in 2006, and problems with early restrictions, high costs and unanswered questions about liability and training kept them from being issued to police officers in Bergen and Passaic counties.
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Cops defend use of red-light cameras - NorthJersey.com

Cops defend use of red-light cameras - NorthJersey.com

Bergen Record — Andrew Schwartz has no objection to paying a fine for running a red light. If, he says, he'd been caught by a police officer. But Schwartz said an automatic camera, not a traffic cop, caused him to get three tickets in the mail for allegedly failing to stop at a red light at Route 9W and Palisade Avenue before making a right-hand turn. "I'm afraid to open my mailbox," the Englewood resident said. "I could have five, six, seven more tickets. They're $85 each."
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Experiment in school diversity falls short, but Academies@Englewood an academic success - NorthJe...

Experiment in school diversity falls short, but Academies@Englewood an academic success - NorthJe...

Bergen Record — In the 10 years since the Academies@ Englewood was created to help diversify the district, the magnet school hasn't been a panacea for the racial imbalance in the city's school district, but it has given high-achieving students in Englewood and throughout North Jersey a place to excel academically. To some degree, the school is an oasis of integration in a still-segregated district. The 500 students, half of whom live in Englewood and half in more than two dozen other communities, are a near-equal mix of whites, Asians, blacks and Hispanics.
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Englewood hit bumps in school outsourcing - NorthJersey.com

Englewood hit bumps in school outsourcing - NorthJersey.com

Bergen Record — Outsourcing got off to a shaky start in Englewood 's schools with only a handful of teaching assistants in classrooms when the fall semester began and a host of complaints about high turnover, no-shows and unprofessional behavior, according to emails and other documents. But school officials say they aren't having second thoughts about the decision to bring in |an outside staffing firm, Delta-T Group, to replace more than |100 secretaries and professional assistants, saying problems caused by the transition have been addressed. The district "has followed the same national trend in outsourcing: transportation, food service, custodial services and, most recently, teacher aides and/or administrative assistants," Englewood Superintendent Donald Carlisle said in an email.
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Englewood schools' outsourcing plan has other districts watching - NorthJersey.com

Englewood schools' outsourcing plan has other districts watching - NorthJersey.com

Bergen Record — Englewood 's plan to save $2 million by outsourcing school secretaries and teaching assistants has reverberated throughout North Jersey, where education leaders are closely watching the district to see how it handles strong community and union opposition. The city schools, which first privatized custodians 20 years ago, are seen as a bellwether for a rising tide of privatization as administrators grapple with ever-increasing costs for health care, pensions and special education at the same time state and federal funding is falling. The outcome in Englewood, a 3,000-student district made up largely of black and Hispanic students, could signal the fate of hundreds of school employees throughout the region in coming years.
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Englewood Cliffs corporate tower plan under fire - NorthJersey.com

Englewood Cliffs corporate tower plan under fire - NorthJersey.com

Bergen Record — The New York Times credited The Record for breaking this story when it published a similar piece three days later: A two-pronged effort is being waged on both sides of the Hudson River to stop plans for a corporate office tower in Englewood Cliffs that opponents say would undermine a century of Palisades preservation - one of the most enduring legacies of the Rockefeller family and others
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