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9/11 Memorial

Annapolis, MD
Politics
Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports
Trump Fires 6 National Security Council Members After Meeting With Conspiracy Theorist: Reports President Trump fired at least six staffers on the National Security Council following a meeting with a conspiracy theorist who claimed that they were "disloyal" to him, according to multiple reports. The firings on Thursday morning, April 3 came a day after the far-right activist, Laura Loomer, visited the Oval Office, and stated she was furious that the so-called "neocons," a term to describe so-called "war hawks," were hired in the first place, according to Axios. Other members of the NSC are expected to be fired as well, The New York Times reported, citing a US official with direct…

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by Joe Lombardi
North Hunterdon, NJ
Obituaries
9/11 First Responder, Marine Corps Veteran Scott Donnenberg Of Hunterdon County Dies, 49 9/11 First Responder, Marine Corps Veteran Scott Donnenberg Of Hunterdon County Dies, 49
9/11 First Responder, Marine Corps Veteran Scott Donnenberg Of Hunterdon County Dies, 49 9/11 first responder, proud Marine Corps veteran, and devoted father Scott Matthew Donnenberg died at his Hunterdon County home on Thursday, Jan. 19. He was 49. Born in Livingston, Scott grew up in Parsippany before moving to Glen Gardner and eventually settling in Clinton, his obituary says. Scott was a US Marine Corps Veteran and “loved being a Marine,” reads his memorial. While he spent most of his career as the owner of an Environmental Health & Safety business, he also volunteered as a firefighter and EMT in several towns across the state and was a 9/11 first responder. Above all…

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by Valerie Musson
Lyndhurst, NJ
News
Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument
Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument A police lieutenant caught a vandal damaging a new 9/11 memorial in Lyndhurst, authorities said. Alfredo Acevedo, 27, was throwing decorative river stone from the newly erected monument at its decorative wall, the replica stone twin towers and a steel beam from Ground Zero when Lt. James Goral and a patron at Town Hall Park spotted him, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Goral arrested Acevedo, whose last known address was in Clifton. He was charged with criminal mischief, desecration of a monument and disorderly conduct before being released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law. The va…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
News
Port Authority Chairman, Companions Praise Cedar Grove High School's 9/11 Remembrance Port Authority Chairman, Companions Praise Cedar Grove High School's 9/11 Remembrance
Port Authority Chairman, Companions Praise Cedar Grove High School's 9/11 Remembrance Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole made a special visit to his alma mater, Cedar Grove High School, to celebrate an annual tradition -- planting miniature American flags outside the school to remember and pay tribute to the victims of 9/11. “Having seen this extraordinary display, I said we needed to do something to honor the school and its students,” said O’Toole, Class of ’82. “This is about the kids and we thank them for this great project, for their wonderful civic-mindedness and their patriotism.” The sixth annual “Cedar Grove Waves” installation “is a source of pride, a sign of ho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Politics
Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm
Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm Mahwah Mayor John Roth announced Monday that he’d cancelled the township’s annual 9/11 ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic, igniting yet another firestorm. “Each of us can and should remember and honor, in our own way, those who lost their lives on 9/11 in 2001,” Roth suggested. “Presently we have had over 280 cases of Covid19 in the [t]ownship since tracking began last April,” the mayor wrote in an email to township council members that he posted to Facebook.  “This is a serious, highly infectious virus that spreads easily and quickly among all age groups," he added. "As suc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
White Plains, NY
Lifestyle
September 11 Memorial Services Planned Across Westchester September 11 Memorial Services Planned Across Westchester
September 11 Memorial Services Planned Across Westchester This story has been updated. A number of area ceremonies to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, its victims and first responders are planned in Westchester County on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The county sponsors a 3 p.m. ceremony at “The Rising,” a permanent memorial near the base of the Kensico Dam in Valhalla. Here are some other local 9/11 ceremonies across Westchester: The Town of North Castle will hold a 5:30 p.m. memorial service at Wampus Brook Park on Maple Avenue in Armonk.  The Mount Kisco Fire Department will host its annual ceremony at 6 p.m. on the north side lawn of th…

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by Jon Craig
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family
Port Authority Police At WTC Reunite Non-Verbal Missing Man With Family A missing Bronx man who couldn't speak and wasn't carrying identification seemed confused as he wandered around the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan before dawn Thursday. Port Authority officers assigned to the World Trade Center handed him a pen -- on which the man wrote an address that ended up reuniting him with his family. Loved ones and others distributed fliers and police had issued alerts in the search for 21-year-old Tanvir Hossain. Hossain, who's non-verbal and has schizophrenia, was last seen on Sunday. The officers who found him flashed his photo to the NYPD's 52nd Precinct. …

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by Jerry DeMarco