Archive for the ‘ENVIRONMENT’ Category
Meadowlands area enjoys/suffers the Blizzard of 2010
W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action AREA– To paraphrase the great Warren Wolf, If you had Rutherford, plus FIVE, you lost! Indeed, despite being hammered by just under two feet of snow, 23 inches, Rutherford was not nearly as dumped on by Mother Nature as was neighbor Lyndhurst during the day-after-Christmas storm, as [...]
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Cinema Snowfall
Photo by Bill Allen-NJ Sport/Action While most probably thought of the movie “A Perfect Storm” in conjunction with the Blizzard of 2010, Ian Wallace, a 20-year-old graduate of High Tech High in North Bergen, most likely felt that this week’s weather wonder was, at least in his case, more of “An Inconvenient Truth,” as he [...]
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Cherokee finally hands over NA land to NJMC
By Jennifer Vazquez / Reporter NORTH ARLINGTON (Nov. 15, 2010) — On Friday, Nov. 5, Cherokee Investment Partners, the parent company of the troubled EnCap project, turned over the 41.5-acre Bethlehem Steel property and the 30-acre Bergen County Utilities Authority site to the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. The transfer of the two North Arlington properties [...]
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The Leader’s Birding Photo Contest winner is…
(Oct. 22, 2010) — The winner of the first-ever “Birding Photo Contest” from The Leader is Paul Sullivan who submitted the above picture of three female mallards huddled together on a stump in Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus. Thank you to all the people who submitted entries. Sullivan will have this picture printed in an [...]
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E. Rutherford eyes tighter recycling enforcement
By Chris Neidenberg / Reporter EAST RUTHERFORD (Oct. 21, 2010) — Based on his own recent observations, Councilman Edward Ravettine is concerned many residents are not complying with the borough’s recycling ordinance, and thus, driving up solid waste disposal costs. At a recent borough council meeting, Ravettine warned more vigorous enforcement could be the next [...]
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Experts fear more people are releasing their pets into the wild
By John Soltes / Editor in Chief (Oct. 7, 2010) — Although birders can travel to the middle of Harrier Meadow in North Arlington and feel like they’ve left behind the headaches of civilization and entered an avian paradise, the truth of the matter is that they are still within eyeshot and earshot of the [...]
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Carlstadt’s River Barge Park ready for phase II
By Kyle Orlowicz / Reporter CARLSTADT (Sept. 23, 2010) — After a year of construction, all that remains of the old Barge Club in Carlstadt is a towering, steel sign, which reads, “BARGE.” The transformation of this site — located on the banks of the Hackensack River — from run-down restaurant to pristine public park [...]
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Ceberio, head of the NJMC, set to retire
By John Soltes / Editor in Chief LYNDHURST (Sept. 17, 2010) — Robert Ceberio, the executive director of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, will retire from public service Dec. 31. The decision was announced at the commission’s Wednesday, Sept. 15 meeting in Lyndhurst. “I am feeling like the Brett Favre of the Meadowlands,” Ceberio said [...]
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Route 3 project causes tree removal
By Susan C. Moeller / Senior Reporter RUTHERFORD (Sept. 16, 2010) — The landscape bordering the Borough of Trees has been stripped to the dirt as the New Jersey Department of Transportation prepares for the next step in its revamp of the Passaic River Bridge. Trees have been trimmed to the stump, and tangled vegetation [...]
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Rutherford receives $25,000 grant for community garden
By Jennifer Vazquez / Reporter RUTHERFORD (Sept. 16, 2010) — Apparently, money does grow on trees. In the case of Rutherford, a garden has produced an award totaling $25,000. The environmental grant, from Sustainable Jersey, which was presented at borough hall amid the praise of town and state officials Tuesday, Sept. 14, was awarded to [...]
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