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Citizen Helps Police Nab West Orange Bank Robber Citizen Helps Police Nab West Orange Bank Robber
Citizen Helps Police Nab West Orange Bank Robber It didn't take long to catch a man who robbed a bank in West Orange Tuesday morning, authorities said. A local transportation company driver who'd dropped him off at a local hotel called police after seeing all the commotion at the TD Bank branch on Pleasant Valley Way shortly after 9 a.m., WOPD spokesman Joe Fagan said. The driver's description matched the one witnesses gave police: white, 5-foot-6 and carrying a backpack, Fagan said. Police seized the suspect at the Avenue Hotel on Northfield Avenue soon after. Several witnesses identified him as the robber, Fagan said, adding that he w…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Too Much To Bear? $16M Turtle Back Zoo Grant Causes Controversy Too Much To Bear? $16M Turtle Back Zoo Grant Causes Controversy
Too Much To Bear? $16M Turtle Back Zoo Grant Causes Controversy Thousands of people have signed a petition opposing a $16 million state grant to build a grizzly bear exhibit at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange as well as $5 million in funds to repair some ballfields in Glen Ridge. “I object to the New Jersey taxpayer-funded Green Acres program granting The Turtle Back Zoo Entertainment Complex $16 million for a Grizzly Bear Exhibit and $5 million to renovate baseball fields in Brookdale Park in Glen Ridge,” the petition, addressed to administrators with the Green Acres program and elected officials, states. Although the petitioners mention both projects,…

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by Paul Milo