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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
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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
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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
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