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Teen Hockey Player Killed During Game Mourned On & Off The Ice Teen Hockey Player Killed During Game Mourned On & Off The Ice
Teen Hockey Player Killed During Game Mourned On & Off The Ice The death of a young athlete who died during a collision between two hockey players on the ice during a game earlier this week is being mourned in areas near and far from both inside and outside the hockey community. Fairfield County, CT resident Teddy Balkind was 16 years old and a 10th-grader at the St. Luke’s School in New Canaan. The incident that led to his death happened around 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 6, during a junior varsity game at the Brunswick Upper School in Greenwich. Balkind fell to the ice, and another player who was near him was unable to stop, and the two collided, said G…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
FOUND! Missing At-Risk Rutherford Man Wanders 45 Miles To Westchester FOUND! Missing At-Risk Rutherford Man Wanders 45 Miles To Westchester
Found! Missing At-Risk Rutherford Man Wanders 45 Miles To Westchester Authorities found a missing at-risk Rutherford man early Monday in Port Chester, 45 miles from home. John Willey, 60, apparently was intent on visiting a friend in White Plains when he walked off from his West Passaic Avenue home around 5:30 p.m. Saturday without his cellphone, police said. A New York Metropolitan Transit Authority worker found him near a bridge in the Westchester village at 7:45 a.m. Monday, roughly 38 hours later after he went missing, Rutherford Police Capt. Patrick Feliciano said. "The MTA worker called 911 because Willey was described as being disoriented and sta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad
Hawthorne FedEx Courier Killed In Storm Remembered As Loving Husband, Dad A GoFundMe has been established to aid the family of a 25-year-old Hawthorne man who died earlier this month driving in the damaging Nor'easter. Jonathan Rodriguez-Melendez, 25, of Hawthorne, was pronounced dead on the scene when a large tree fell on his car on the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County amid the storm. Francisco Berdecia, 33, of Paterson was a passenger in the vehicle and was transported to Greenwich Hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries, according to police. Rodriguez-Melendez was a courier for FedEx Express and leaves behind his mom, Lissie Melendez, his wife a…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Hawthorne Man Killed, Passenger From Paterson Hurt When Tree Falls On Car Hawthorne Man Killed, Passenger From Paterson Hurt When Tree Falls On Car
Hawthorne Man Killed, Passenger From Paterson Hurt When Tree Falls On Car A 25-year-old motorist from New Jersey was killed Friday afternoon when a large tree fell on his car on the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County amid the damaging Nor'easter. Jonathan Rodriguez-Melendez of Hawthorne was traveling southbound near the Stamford-Greenwich border south of Exit 33 at about 1:20 p.m. amid rain and severe crosswinds when the tree fell on his Mini Cooper, Connecticut State Police said. Rodriguez-Melendez was pronounced dead at the scene. Francisco Berdecia, 33, of Paterson, New Jersey, a passenger in the vehicle, was transported to Greenwich Hospital with minor, non-…

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by Joe Lombardi