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Playground Tire Mulch A Cancer Risk? Mahwah Parents Petition For Replacement Playground Tire Mulch A Cancer Risk? Mahwah Parents Petition For Replacement
Playground Tire Mulch A Cancer Risk? Mahwah Parents Petition For Replacement Recent findings do not indicate that the rubber used to make tire mulch on playgrounds and crumbs on artificial turfs poses a risk to public health.  But a group of Mahwah parents says there are still chemicals in the mulch and better alternatives available. More than 538 signatures had been garnered on a Change.org petition launched by the group as of Sunday afternoon. The parents hope local education officials will replace the shredded tire mulch cushioning the ground at the George Washington, Betsy Ross and Joyce Kilmer school playgrounds with wood fiber -- ASAP. Mercury, lea…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School
Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School MAHWAH, N.J. -- Amid unprecedented security prompted by a purported threat by a middle schooler, a frightened Mahwah youngster brought an airsoft gun to his elementary school in his backpack Friday morning. "He had no intention of causing harm," Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said Sunday night. It wasn't until Saturday that a Joyce Kilmer School parent told school officials that the boy showed fellow 4th- and 5th-grade students the weapon -- which shoots plastic pellets -- during the morning bus ride the day before, she said. Mahwah police were out in force at township schools on…

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by Jerry DeMarco