Passaic New Jersey Mayor Samuel Rivera will plead guilty on Friday tomorrow ( 05/09/2008 ) to taking bribes last year.
The mayor will be resigning from his office tomorrow. He will plead guilty for a plea deal. As more will come we will update you.
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Above is a picture of a car that was smashed from falling ice. Please be considerate for your fellow freinds. Please take the extra fiew minutes to clear snow or ice off your car. Please use caution when driving leave extra time.
It was unseasonably warm last week, but it didn’t keep me from encountering people who sympathized — just barely — with this column’s call to ban the kind of road hazard that we call the Snow and Ice That Fall Twice.
That’s the kind of white junk that leaves the other guy’s car or truck, hits your windshield and makes your whole life flash in front of you. You know the kind:
* The Route 17 kind that killed Ridgewood’s Michael Eastman nearly 12 years ago.
* The Route 287 kind that caused Hawthorne’s Bob and Mary Mahon to chase after the car whose icy load smashed their windshield last year.
* The Route 80 kind that ran Kinnelon’s Tara Varner and her 2-year-old off the road last month.
Shouldn’t New Jersey fine drivers whose vehicles carry snow? Currently, statute 39:4-77.1 makes it illegal only when it causes damage or injury.
Cathy Eastman understands this because the vehicle whose icy load crushed her husband’s skull was long gone by the time police arrived. Tara, Bob, Mary and most of the 2,000 readers who sent me petitions early this year also get it.
But not some folks I’ve encountered. “There are thousands of SUVs, many driven by women,” said Pequannock’s E.L. Quigley. “They can’t clean ice off the tops of their vehicles.”
Ray R. also sympathizes, but:
“Do you have suggestions for clearing … snow from an SUV that’s been out overnight WITHOUT damaging the hood, roof rack or moon roof?” asked the Fair Lawn man. “Pushing snow off is easy, but after past storms, thick solid ice and packed snow didn’t budge after the car’s heater was on for 20 minutes.”
* Run a garden hose over the car with the heater running, but do this for short periods to avoid cracking the windshield.
* Put old cardboard, canvas or a rug over the vehicle before it snows, and yank it off after the storm.
* Run the engine for an hour, long enough to free frozen snow, or at least to help clear it.
Some consider all this unnecessary. One woman, 72, said: “If I can clean my SUV, so can anybody.” Cathy Eastman, who’s 5 feet 1, says she does it. NorthJersey.com And Passaic News.
cident. Hatzolah E.M.S. requested Paramedics as well as Fire Department for one aided in the back seat that was trapped in one of the cars. Hatzolah E.M.S transported four patients with paramedics aboard and Passaic E.M.S. transported one patient. All of the 5 patients were transported to Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson. One of the drivers of one of the cars was under 18. Passaic Police and Passaic County Sherrif also on scene. One resident who heard the crash said he heard the accident and he was amazed by the 15 Hatzolah Volunteer’s that responded so quickly. He said, “It’s truly amazing to have such a reliable organization”.PASSAIC — Police have arrested and charged two juveniles with attempted homicide for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old boy during an attempted robbery Monday afternoon.
Investigators believe one of the arrested youths, who are 15 and 17 years old, is responsible for stabbing the boy in the chest, piercing his lung, said Capt. Ross Capuana of the Passaic Police Department’s youth services division. The victim, whose injuries were described as “life-threatening” before he underwent surgery, remained in stable condition at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center Thursday, Capuana said.The alleged attackers were also charged with unlawful weapons possession and conspiracy to commit an unlawful act. They were held Thursday at the Passaic County Juvenile Detention Center.
Police anticipate additional arrests in the case, in which a group of bandana- and scarf-masked young men mobbed and assaulted the victim and another 17-year-old boy after they refused to hand over their North Face brand jackets. The other boy was not seriously injured.
Both the victims and their alleged attackers are students at Passaic High School, police said. NorthJersey.com
Tonight at 500 Broadway their was a report of fire at a Delta Gas station on the corner of Broadway and Brook. The call came over as a gas fire coming out of the ground from the gas lines. It turns out yes their was a fire on top of the snow multiple Police And Fire Trucks pulled up. The Chief who was first on scene after Police,went over to the fire and realize it was a Fire on top of the snow .The Fire Dept Quickly hosed it out and the fire was put out. After a small investigation they found out that the Gas attendant took Gasoline and poured it on the snow to melt the snow. Which is extremely dangerous. Well now the Gas Station has to deal with the arson Squad as well as several other agencies and fines.
The number of New Jersey house sales dropped 13.4 percent during the third quarter of 2007 from the same period in 2006, continuing a slide from the hyperactive sales pace of 2004 and 2005, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.
Home prices, however, have not followed. In the census area that includes Bergen and Passaic counties, prices were up 3.6 percent from the same period last year, to a median of $550,900 for an existing single-family home, the NAR said.
That may reflect high demand in New York City, which is in the same statistical area. The New Jersey Multiple Listing Service says that North Jersey prices have risen just about 1 percent over the last year, to a median of $520,000 in Bergen County and $389,000 in Passaic County. northjersey.com
Starting Wednesday, New Jersey State Police troopers will begin their days with shift briefings that include personal stories from representatives from Mothers Against Drunk Driving to inspire the troopers in their effort to combat drunken driving.
“Many of these Troopers have experienced the horror of DWI as part of their duties, but when the scene is cleared and the reports are written, the tragedy of the incident is truly just beginning for someone somewhere,” said Maj. Matthew Walker, Commander of Troop D on the New Jersey Turnpike. “These family members volunteering with MADD are the faces that our troopers never get to see — the victims that suffer the rest of their lives from a senseless loss.”
Targeted seatbelt enforcement is another very important job that troopers will perform on the state’s highways throughout the whole holiday season. According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, (NHTSA) 31,415 passenger vehicle occupants died in crashes across the nation in 2005, and more than half of them were not wearing seat belts.
During the 2005 and 2006 Thanksgiving holidays, there were an unbelievable 16 fatal crashes each year resulting in 41 total deaths. Previous years averaged less than half that amount. About 50 percent of those deaths resulted from accidents involving alcohol.
Throughout the state, extra troopers will strictly enforce hazardous violations, including the failure of vehicle occupants to wear seatbelts. Sober driving and regular seat belt use are two of the most effective ways to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. Research has shown that when lap/shoulder belts are used properly, the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger car occupants is reduced by 45 percent, and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury is reduced by 50 percent.
Teen drivers routinely ignore restrictions imposed on provisional licenses, tougher enforcement of existing laws would save many lives, members of the Governor’s Teen Driver Study Commission were told tonight.
About 200 people attended the commission’s hearing at Colts Neck High School in Monmouth County, the first of three to be held this fall.
Commission chairwoman Pam Fischer said the state was not seeking to raise the age at which it licenses teenaged drivers. “There’s been a lot of rumor out there that the commission is going to raise the age to 18,” she said. “It’s not on the table.”
Rather, the commission is studying ways to improve the state’s safety record, she said. That could mean changing current methods of driver education, mandating stricter enforcement of the existing graduated driver’s license program, or requiring new drivers to put stickers or placards on their cars.
Nearly seven years ago, New Jersey joined dozens of other states in adopting a “graduated driver’s license” law. The law grants driving privileges to teens in phases.
At 16, a teen with a permit can drive only if accompanied by an adult. At 17, a teen with a provisional license can drive without an adult but cannot drive late at night or with more than one passenger. Not until 18 can a teen get full driving privileges under the GDL.
Between 2001 and 2006, more than 400 New Jersey teenagers were killed in motor vehicle accidents, according to Fischer, who is also director of the state’s Highway Traffic Safety Division.
Israel – Observing Shabbat but have to call your grandmother? Have to have a cup of coffee when you come back from weekend services? The halachic institute for science and technology has just the thing for you.
A group of engineers at the halachic institute, which specializes in Halacha-friendly technological developments, has come up with several new technological breakthroughs designed to ease the religious public’s life, while keeping with all Shabbat-related mitzvahs.
The gadgets include, among others, a Shabbat air-conditioner, a Shabbat phone and a kosher, Shabbat espresso machine.
Many of the institute’s developments are already in production, both in Israel and abroad, and several have been introduced to the public at a special show arranged by the Manufacturers Association of Israel.
One of the show’s biggest hits was the Shabbat pen, which uses self-dissolving ink that disappears 24 hours after writing. “We’re not talking about life and death situations here, when one’s need to desecrate Shabbat to save a life goes without saying,” added Zioni, “but for all those little grey areas we all encounter in our day-to-day lives. [ynet]
Brooklyn, NY – Sam Habib and Cindy Gluck opened their first Dunkin’ Donuts in 2005. Mr. Habib, 47, is a Muslim immigrant from Egypt, and Ms. Gluck, 34, is a Orthodox Jew from Borough Park, Brooklyn. Both had sunk their entire savings into buying the franchise, on a busy stretch of Church Avenue at East 17th Street in Flatbush.
It was a terrifying gamble. The two had known each other only a few months when Mr. Habib, asked Ms. Gluck, a real estate broker he had met while looking for a location, to join him in business. He knew she was an Orthodox Jew but said he didn’t care.
Cindy Gluck (her real name is Hindy) grew up in Hasidic Williamsburg. At 20, she was married off to a man of her parents’ choosing; four children later, she went into real estate to try to make some money.
“I had never met a Muslim before,” Ms. Gluck said. Mr. Habib chimed in with a laugh: “All her friends told her that she should be careful that her crazy terrorist Arab partner doesn’t put bombs in her packages.”
Under their ground rules, Ms. Gluck takes off Saturdays to celebrate the Sabbath, and Mr. Habib worships at the mosque every Friday. The doughnuts come from a kosher bakery in Borough Park. On Jewish holidays, Mr. Habib technically owns the entire business because Ms. Gluck is not allowed to earn money on those days.
And there is one edict they both obey. “Neither of us is allowed to enjoy the profits of the pork,” Ms. Gluck said. Any money the business makes on the sale of bacon, sausage or ham, is split and given away, hers to her synagogue and to Israel, his to the workers as bonuses.
The pair’s hard work has paid off; last year they opened a second franchise, on Flatbush and Sixth Avenues in Park Slope.
Because of a contract dispute, Mr. Habib and Ms. Gluck are in the process of selling the stores back to Dunkin’ Donuts. And when their doughnut days are done, they plan to continue working together.
“She’s Jewish and I’m Muslim,” Mr. Habib said. “That doesn’t stop us from creating a business.” [NY Times] Vosizneias.com
Basking Ridge, NJ – The largest Hanukkah dreidel in the world stands 18-feet tall in front of the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, generating stares and smiles from passers-by.
The dreidel has become a local landmark during the holiday season, rising over the busy intersection of Valley Road and King George Road.
“Hanukkah celebrates the victory of a rag-tag band of Jewish freedom fighters in a struggle against their Syrian-Greek oppressors more than 2,000 ago”, explained Rabbi Mendy Herson, director of Chabad of Greater Somerset County. “The Hellenists tried to outlaw Jewish spirituality, to take the soul out of Judaism. Tradition tells us that Jewish children would study the Torah in hiding. When anti-Jewish forces would find them, they would take out little tops – dreidels in Yiddish – and pretend they were just playing a children’s game. Hence the worldwide practice of playing with dreidels on Hannukah.” [courieronline]Vosizneias.com
