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'Bucket List Wish:' Rutgers Marching Band To Perform In Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 'Bucket List Wish:' Rutgers Marching Band To Perform In Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
'Bucket List Wish:' Rutgers Marching Band To Perform In Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade The Rutgers University Marching Band is getting ready to check off a longtime "bucket list wish:" Perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Led by drum major Amelia Ainbinder, of Middletown (Class of 2024), the marching band will be performing for more than 3 million live spectators, and even more watching from home on television. The more than 300-person band has been preparing for the parade since last November, when they found out they were among the 11 bands chosen to perform — the only one representing New Jersey. "To be invited to march in the 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parad…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Security Guard Charged With Setting Fire At Macy's Meadowlands Thankgiving Parade Studio Security Guard Charged With Setting Fire At Macy's Meadowlands Thankgiving Parade Studio
Security Guard Charged With Setting Fire At Macy's Meadowlands Thankgiving Parade Studio A security guard was charged with deliberately setting a fire at the building in the Meadowlands where the balloons and floats for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are designed, constructed and stored. Mathew Awojobi, 63, of Newark was arrested in connection with the brush fire set outside the Macy's Parade Studio in Moonachie, which broke out shortly before 7 p.m. Monday, April 18, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella . Moonachie firefighters doused the suspicious blaze on State Street off Moonachie Road. Detectives reviewed area security video as part of an investigation by Mus…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Weather
One Of Coldest Thanksgivings On Record Could Affect Macy's Parade One Of Coldest Thanksgivings On Record Could Affect Macy's Parade
One Of Coldest Thanksgivings On Record Could Affect Macy's Parade We could be in for the coldest Thanksgiving in 16 years and the second-coldest since Turkey Day temperatures hit the teens 88 years ago, meteorologist Joe Cioffi said. Not only that -- it'll be windy, making it feel even colder and possibly grounding some of the 92nd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade attractions, according to AccuWeather.com. In North Jersey, "low temperatures Thursday morning will be in the teens to near 20 on Thanksgiving Day,” Cioffi said. Even the highs will likely be below freezing, he added. Fortunately, snow or rain don’t seem an issue for the holiday or B…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
New Jersey Funeral Set For Paul Zito III Of Australia, 40 New Jersey Funeral Set For Paul Zito III Of Australia, 40
New Jersey Funeral Set For Paul Zito III Of Australia, 40 Funeral arrangements have been scheduled for Garfield native Paul "Paulie" F. Zito III, who died on June 23 in Queensland, Australia. He was 40 years old. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 17 at the  Patrick J. Conte Funeral Home, Inc. in Elmwood Park. A funeral service is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on July 18 at the funeral home, with a Funeral Mass to follow at St. Leo’s R.C. Church at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be at the George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.  More than $28,000 had been raised on a GoFundMe as of Tuesday morning to pay for ass…

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by Cecilia Levine