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Graduation Is First-Degree Achievement For Bergen Jail Inmates
Doing his part to fight recidivism, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton staged an unprecedented graduation ceremony, complete with caps and gowns, for inmates who earned a high school diploma while behind bars. Their families hooked in via Zoom to watch the first-of-its-kind commencement, made possible through a partnership between Cureton’s office and Bergen Community College’s Continuing Education Department. The sheriff has committed himself and his department to providing access to quality education for students of varying educational and socio-economic backgrounds as a way of hopefu…
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Son Of Bergen County Executive Charged With Impersonating Police Officer In Florida
The son of Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco was arrested on charges of impersonating a law enforcement officer on Route 95 in Florida, authorities said. James J. Tedesco IV, 43, of Nanuet had an NYPD jacket and DEA hat with him, as well as two AR-15 rifles, 1,139 rounds of ammo and a bag loaded with gas mask equipment and suits, when he was stopped on the southbound interstate in Vero Beach shortly after 4:30 p.m. Monday, the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said. He was arrested, processed and sent to the county jail about 2½ hours later, records show. Tedesco posted a $26,000 b…
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COVID Vaccinations By Appointment Begin For Paid, Volunteer Health Care Workers In Bergen
COVID-19 vaccines will be distributed by appointment only beginning this Monday, Dec. 28, to paid and volunteer Bergen County Category 1A health care workers, County Executive Jim Tedesco announced Saturday. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and all other Category 1A health care workers from Bergen County can get doses at the county's Alternative Care Facility, a field hospital wing constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers with help from FEMA earlier this year on the campus of Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, Tedesco said. The 1,000 doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine "will ser…
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Covid-
19 Outbreak Closes Bergen County Police Academy
The Bergen County Police Academy was shut down for at least two weeks after a number of recruits tested positive for COVID-19. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco confirmed the move Saturday morning. At least eight new police officers on the verge of completing their 22-week basic training at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute on Campgaw Road in Mahwah received positive results from mandatory testing, authorities said. As a result, operations at the academy were temporarily suspended and the recruits were advised to quarantine based on CDC guidelines, they said. The move …
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Hackensack Board Member Who Opposed LGBTQ Curriculum Resigns After Embarrassing Zoom Incident
A Hackensack School Board member who made national headlines by opposing a LGBTC curriculum has resigned after an embarrassing incident during a Zoom meeting. Frances Cogelja didn’t realize she’d left her laptop camera on when she took it with her while going to the bathroom during the public comments section of a board meeting Monday night. Nearly 150 participants, including students, apparently saw Cogelja relieve herself. No one immediately said anything when she returned from her trip to the toilet. A short time later, Vice President Scott James-Vickery reportedly told Cogelja: “You n…
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NJ County Hit Hardest By Coronavirus Reopening Parks, Golf Courses Saturday
Bergen County -- the New Jersey county hardest-hit by coronavirus -- will be reopening parks and golf courses Saturday morning, officials said. Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday gave county officials the green light to reopen their parks and golf courses if they so choose, as the state's parks and golf courses would reopen at sunrise Saturday. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco, who was among the first officials in the state to move toward a lockdown, is taking Murphy up on his offer. As of Thursday morning, there were 15,446 coronavirus cases including 1,057 deaths reported in Bergen County.…
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'We're Seeing Some Light:'
Covid-
19 Cases Take Seven Days Or More To Double In Bergen, Salem
New Jersey is beginning to see some light, literally. Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday showed a map of New Jersey that measures the amount of time it takes cases to double using shades of color. Red indicates the areas that doubled the quickest, then, orange, then yellow and then shades of nude. The lighter the color, the longer the doubling. "Friday was first day with two counties showing a new color," Murphy said. "[Coronavirus] is doubling in at least seven days or more." When the map was first showed, many counties were shades of pink and Bergen County was bright red, indicating cases …
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Exposure To Coronavirus-Positive Holy Name Hospital CEO Forces Tedesco To Self-Quarantine
Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco self-quarantined on Tuesday, nine days after hosting a news conference in Teaneck with, among others, Holy Name Medical Center CEO Michael Maron, who tested positive for COVID-19. That means a number of people who also attended the March 15 event -- among them, elected and appointed officials, their staff members and reporters -- may need to do so, too. A spokesman for Tedesco said the county health officer recommended that he self-quarantine after attending an undisclosed press conference with someone "identified as COVID-19 positive." Sources con…
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Coming
: First Responders, Health Care Workers Get Priority At New Bergen
Covid-
19 Test Site
Bergen officials will open a new coronavirus test site for Bergen County residents only with priority given to first responders and health care workers, County Executive Jim Tedesco announced Tuesday. The site will begin operating this weekend and will be controlled by the county, in an effort to satisfy the huge demand for tests, he said. A location hasn't been specified yet. “The FEMA test site at Bergen Community College has had great success in testing over 1,000 individuals since opening last Friday," said Tedesco said, who also announced Tuesday that he was self-quarantining. “Provi…
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CEO Of Major North Jersey Hospital Tests Positive For
Covid-
19
The president and chief executive officer of Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck has tested positive for the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed. Michael Maron was "self-quarantined at home, resting and feeling well," a source with direct knowledge of the his condition told Daily Voice early Friday evening. Maron sent an email to staff members earlier alerting them to the situation. Sources said he exhibited no symptoms around staff or with various officials from the township and county. Maron was among those at a news conference in Teaneck last Sunday with Holy Name Medical Cent…
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80 New Coronavirus Cases, One Death In Bergen, Tedesco Cites 'Moral' Responsibility For Orders
Bergen County had a whopping 80 new presumptive positive coronavirus cases as of late Thursday afternoon, Executive Jim Tedesco said. Exactly how many had been reported in Bergen County was somewhere between 194 and 205 -- including the death of a 52-year-old Bergenfield man, Tedesco said. And although it isn't precise, it's still represents at least 27% percent of the 720 reported in all of New Jersey as of Thursday afternoon -- by far the most in the state, he said. "We're experiencing it on a more severe level and quicker rate," he said during a news conference in Hackensack. Tedesco a…
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Tedesco Rescinds Executive Order At Murphy's Request
Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco's executive order declaring a state of emergency will not be implemented as requested by Gov. Phil Murphy, officials said Thursday. Tedesco on Monday announced the executive order calling for the shutdown of malls, non-essential retail and banned groups of four or more people from public gatherings by Tuesday at 11 p.m. Then, Tuesday morning, Tedesco announced he was postponing the order until Saturday. On Wednesday, Tedesco sent a revised order to Murphy for review. As of Thursday, New Jersey had a total of 794 cases -- 194 of those were in Be…
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Man Treated In Hackensack Is NJ's Third
Covid-
19 Fatality
A man in his 90s is New Jersey's third COVID-19 fatality, officials said. The man was being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center. It is not clear when he was admitted. "Our prayers are with his family during this difficult time," Murphy said in a tweet. The other two deaths were a Little Ferry man and a Freehold woman, whose cases were reportedly linked. The news came hours after the City of Hackensack announced its first case: A 49-year-old woman who was self-quarantining at home. Meanwhile, Bergen County was preparing for a shutdown as part of extreme regulations set …
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Covid-
19: NJ Deaths Linked, Mall Worker Tests Positive, Bergen County Cases Jump To 42
Both of New Jersey's coronavirus-related deaths have reportedly been linked. UPDATE: Murphy Announces Statewide Curfew Rita Fusco-Jackson, of Freehold, in her 50, was identified as the second fatality in New Jersey. She was being hospitalized at CentraState Medical Center. Fusco-Jackson's sibling was reportedly friends with the state's first fatality -- John Brennan, of Little Ferry -- and the virus spread through a family gathering, State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said. Several other people at the gathering also tested positive for coronavirus. The number of presu…
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City Of Passaic Goes On Coronavirus Lockdown, Reports 1st Positive Case
The City of Passaic reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus on Sunday and joined several other North Jersey municipalities in a virtual lockdown of public and private gathering places. Passaic Mayor Hector C. Lora said the city senior center and the Boys and Girls Club are closed and all Health Department programs and events cancelled. Passaic joined a growing list of municipalities, including Teaneck, Leonia and Hoboken, that went on virtual lockdown Sunday in response to the increase threat of COVID-19 exposure. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen …
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Teaneck Goes On Virtual Coronavirus Lockdown, All Of Bergen Could Soon Be Next, Tedesco Warns
UPDATE: County Executive Jim Tedesco warned that all of Bergen could soon go on virtual lockdown in response to the coronavirus the way Teaneck did on Sunday. Gov. Phil Murphy ordered all New Jersey schools closed by Wednesday. Teaneck’s township manager on Sunday ordered a host of businesses in town either closed or restricted to the number of people they can serve until further notice, as the township becomes what its mayor called “ground zero” for COVID-19 in New Jersey. Immediately afterward, Tedesco urged the 1 million or so residents throughout Bergen County to pay close attenti…
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Executive Order Closes Bergen County Theaters, Cancels Public Gatherings Amid
Covid-
19 Fears
Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco ordered the shutdown of public places amid fears around COVID-19 Friday effective immediately. Since Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency, the number of cases has risen to 50 -- with 17 in Bergen County alone. "It is necessary to use every means at our disposal to implement additional measures," said Tedesco in issuing Executive Order 2020-01A, "including but not limited to those directed at places of public gathering in order to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19." The following places will close: Movie theaters with fixed seating P…
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Covid-
19: All Bergen Schools Closed Indefinitely
Schools in all 75 Bergen County districts will shut down indefinitely at the close of Friday's school day in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, County Executive Jim Tedesco said Thursday night. Bergen schools will be closed after 3 p.m. Friday, giving staff the rest of the day and all weekend to prepare for online learning, he said. Although no students should be in the schools Monday, Tedesco said he expected some staffers would be, as preparations continue. Bergen County had 13 presumed cases of COVID-19 when the county executive made what he called "a paramount decision..…
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Officials: Bergen County's 2 Coronavirus Patients Went To Same Care Center, 3rd Being Tested
Both Bergen County residents with presumed cases of coronavirus visited the same commercial health care facility before they were admitted to the hospital for treatment and testing of coronavirus, county officials said Friday. Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco did not disclose the name of the Bergen County facility that the Englewood woman and Fort Lee man went to, but said the names of the other individuals at the facility at that time have been given to state health officials. A third elderly patient experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms has also been tested by an unnamed hospital in Ber…
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Fort Lee Man, 32, At
Humc
Is NJ's First Presumed Coronavirus Patient
New Jersey's first presumed coronavirus patient is being hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, authorities confirmed. The 32-year-old Fort Lee man has been hospitalized since Tuesday following what state officials said is a "presumptive positive result" of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The case was first confirmed to staffers in an email from Daniel W. Varga, chief physician executive of Hackensack Meridian Health, which operates HUMC (below). The email confirming the coronavirus case at HUMC.Hackensack Meridian Health The positive test result came from one conducted i…
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Bergen County Man Is NJ's First Presumed Case Of Coronavirus
New Jersey's first presumed coronavirus patient is being hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, authorities confirmed. The 32-year-old Fort Lee man has been hospitalized since Tuesday following what state officials said is a "presumptive positive result" of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. The case was first confirmed to staffers in an email from Daniel W. Varga, chief physician executive of Hackensack Meridian Health, which operates HUMC (below). The email confirming the coronavirus case at HUMC.Hackensack Meridian Health The positive test result came from one conducted in…
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