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Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house. Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of "danger of death or bodily injury" in Thursday night's Marion Drive fire, records show. Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "Multiple points of fire" also were found in the 5:30 p.m. blaze, responders told Daily Voice. The l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire MAHWAH, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house. Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of "danger of death or bodily injury" in Thursday night's Marion Drive fire, records show. Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "Multiple points of fire" also were found in the 5:30 p.m. blaze, responders told Daily Voic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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New Contractor Focuses On Ending Months-Long Mahwah Detour New Contractor Focuses On Ending Months-Long Mahwah Detour
New Contractor Focuses On Ending Months-Long Mahwah Detour MAHWAH, N.J. – An end may be in sight for frustrated motorists forced to deal with a roughly 5-mile detour in Mahwah since last summer. County Executive James Tedesco recently gave the go ahead to swap the low-bid contractor hired to replace a culvert along the Route 202 corridor with Sanzari Construction, Mahwah Mayor William Laforet said. “I am absolutely convinced that Sanzari is the best solution and that the county executive has done the right thing by making this decision,” he said. “The amount of work that has been done in just a couple of weeks is absolutely extraordinary.” Laforet…

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