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Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm
Mahwah Mayor Cancels 9/11 Ceremony, Ignites (Another) Firestorm Mahwah Mayor John Roth announced Monday that he’d cancelled the township’s annual 9/11 ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic, igniting yet another firestorm. “Each of us can and should remember and honor, in our own way, those who lost their lives on 9/11 in 2001,” Roth suggested. “Presently we have had over 280 cases of Covid19 in the [t]ownship since tracking began last April,” the mayor wrote in an email to township council members that he posted to Facebook.  “This is a serious, highly infectious virus that spreads easily and quickly among all age groups," he added. "As suc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Mahwah Councilman Proposes County-Wide Eruv Mahwah Councilman Proposes County-Wide Eruv
Mahwah Councilman Proposes County-Wide Eruv MAHWAH, N.J. — Councilman David May was the first Mahwah council member to switch stances and propose a county-wide eruv to the Bergen County Freeholders. May suggested that utility companies and eruv associations “work towards a county-wide eruv” including all of Mahwah, which would enable Jewish adherents to carry objects and push strollers / wheelchairs on the Sabbath and Yom Kippur throughout Mahwah, Upper Saddle River and Montvale, as well as other locations in Bergen County. Last year, Mahwah's Council President wrote via Facebook that “the goal is to have everybody working together t…

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by Cecilia Levine