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Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery
Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery An emotionally troubled River Edge man ran naked and bleeding from Hackensack Cemetery on Tuesday after apparently trying to dig up a grave there, authorities said. Temperatures had barely topped freezing when a police officer working a traffic detail on Kinderkamack Road outside the Madison Arms apartment complex spotted the 31-year-old man as he emerged from behind the cemetery near the River Edge border and Route 4 shortly before 10:30 a.m., they said. He was bleeding, apparently from digging with his hands in the cold ground, responders said. The man was taken to New Bridge M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Funeral Services Set For Bergen County DPW Worker Who Died In Tree Accident Funeral Services Set For Bergen County DPW Worker Who Died In Tree Accident
Funeral Services Set For Bergen County DPW Worker Who Died In Tree Accident Funeral arrangements for Thomas "Tommy" Epper of Hackenasck have been set.  The 48-year-old Bergen County DPW worker died on Thursday, July 26 while removing a Saddle River tree. A funeral service will be Aug. 1 at 11:30 a.m., at the Gentile Funeral Home, followed by burial at Hackensack Cemetery. "Tommy was a great presence in our parks," his colleagues from the Ridgewood Duck Pond said. "To say he will be missed is a understatement." Epper worked as an assistant supervisor of heavy equipment operators for the Bergen County Department of Public Works. He w…

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by Cecilia Levine