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'He Tried To Convert Violence Into Hope:' Youth Counselor, Devoted Passaic County Dad Dies, 39 'He Tried To Convert Violence Into Hope:' Youth Counselor, Devoted Passaic County Dad Dies, 39
'He Tried To Convert Violence Into Hope:' Youth Counselor, Devoted Passaic County Dad Dies, 39 Youth counselor and devoted Passaic County father Juan Diego Otalbaro died on Saturday, Nov. 26. He was 39. Born in Passaic, Juan grew up between Clifton and Passaic, his obituary says. Juan played basketball at Clifton High School before earning a combined bachelors and masters in Social Work from Ramapo College. Juan then finished clinical training throughout various stated and started working as a counselor with at-risk youth in the New York State Office of Child and Family Services in 2019, his memorial says. Juan also had an entrepreneurial spirit and had launched a number of di…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School
Female Students Struck By Paterson Driver Crossing Outside Clifton High School Two students were struck crossing the street outside Clifton High School early Friday, authorities said. The girls -- one 15, the other 17 -- were in the crosswalk on Colfax Avenue at Lindenwold Avenue when they were struck by a vehicle driven by a 50-year-old Paterson man shortly before 7 a.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Both were alert and conscious when they were taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson with what responders said weren't life-threatening injuries, Bracken said. The driver remained at the scene and received a summons for failing to yield…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers
Didn't Even Stop For Santa: Undercover Ridgefield Police Nail Dozens Of Non-Yielding Drivers With more and more pedestrians being killed and injured on North Jersey roads, Ridgefield police staged a holiday season undercover operation that had eye-popping results. Drivers didn't even stop for Santa -- and he was in the crosswalk. Some motorists openly questioned the officers' holiday spirit, but police said it's not a matter of being naughty or nice. Lives are too important for that. "We had several pedestrians struck recently," Ridgefield Police Chief Thomas Gallagher said. "We're just trying to keep people safe." Thursday's undercover detail outside the busy Ridgefield post of…

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by Jerry DeMarco