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Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion
Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion You can bring the Hamptons to New Jersey. A luxury Hamptons style estate, with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is on the market in Mahwah for $3.349 million.  The home is inside the Polo Club and sits atop 6.5 acres on the Ramapo Mountains, offering breathtaking views and privacy, according to the listing. "This is a very special property that doesn't come on the market often," the listing said. The home offers resort-style living and features a 2-story foyer, a chef's gourmet kitchen, "generously sized" bedrooms, a spa-like bathroom, two gyms, a theatre and recreation space, acco…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site
Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site UPDATE: A blaze that burned through much of the weekend in the Ramapo Mountains wasn't the usual run-of-the-mill forest fire. The fire, which continued to smolder late Saturday afternoon well into Sunday, was on a notorious 570-acre expanse of property in Pompton Lakes considered one of New Jersey's most polluted. Toxic substances that were dumped from what was a munitions plant on the DuPont site from 1902 to 1994 leached into the groundwater, creating an underground vapor of cancer-causing solvents. Saturday's blaze -- dubbed the "Cannonball 2" -- covered more than 100 acres of Ramapo M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight
Fire ON THE Mountain: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight UPDATE: Crews got 75% of a Ramapo Mountains wildfire doused before breaking again until morning. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service initially estimated that the wildfire covered 50 acres. They revised that figure to 40 acres late Thursday afternoon, April 21. It took several hours to contain roughly half the blaze after it broke out around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Mahwah off Bear Swamp Road in the Ramapo Valley County Reservation, north of Camp Glen Gray, and quickly spread. Another quarter was knocked down on Thursday as crews built and reinforced containment lines. No injuries were repor…

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by Jerry DeMarco