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NOT SO FAST: Nor'easter Winds Aren't Gone, Meteorologists Warn NOT SO FAST: Nor'easter Winds Aren't Gone, Meteorologists Warn
NOT SO FAST: Nor'easter Winds Aren't Gone, Meteorologists Warn Although things seemed calm Thursday, forecasters said a powerful Nor'easter that slammed into North Jersey the night before, flooding streets and toppling trees, wasn't gone yet. Trees struck two houses in Hawthorne, as well as in: Glen Rock on Edgemont Road; Hackensack on Kansas Street; Franklin Lakes on Dakota Trail; Ho-Ho-Kus on Brookside Avenue. They also downed utility lines in various towns, including Emerson, knocking out power to several thousand area customers, and in Allendale (Darlington Avenue and Upland Road), where wires caught fire. Damage from downed trees and limbs wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEE ANYTHING? Masked Bandits Kick In Door, Ransack Emerson Home SEE ANYTHING? Masked Bandits Kick In Door, Ransack Emerson Home
SEE Anything? Masked Bandits Kick In Door, Ransack Emerson Home Emerson police Friday morning released a surveillance image of burglars who made off with jewelry and cash from a borough home the night before. The homeowner called police at 8:45 p.m. after finding the front door of the home in the western end of town just off Forest Avenue kicked in, Capt. Michael McDermott said. There masked, hooded bandits ripped a front-door camera from the property and ransacked the second-floor bedrooms, during Thursday night's rainstorm, McDermott said. One of the trio was noticeably muscular, he said. "We don't know how long they were in the house" because the c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Emerson PD Busts Reputed Brooklyn Counterfeiting Crew With Dozens Of Bogus Bills Emerson PD Busts Reputed Brooklyn Counterfeiting Crew With Dozens Of Bogus Bills
Emerson PD Busts Reputed Brooklyn Counterfeiting Crew With Dozens Of Bogus Bills Several accused members of a Brooklyn counterfeiting crew that's been operating in North Jersey were carrying dozens of bogus bills when Emerson police stopped them, authorities said Friday. An alert was issued after the crew passed a couple of fakes at a Fairview QuickChek on Monday. Emerson police spotted their four-door Toyota and pulled it over around 1 a.m. Thursday. The occupants reportedly claimed they’d been playing basketball in the area. After smelling burnt marijuana, officers reported finding more than two dozen counterfeit $100 bills and a fifty. Serial numbers apparentl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Unattended Pot Ignites Westwood Condo Fire Unattended Pot Ignites Westwood Condo Fire
Unattended Pot Ignites Westwood Condo Fire Firefighters from several Pascack Valley companies rallied to the aid of their Westwood colleagues during a Friday morning kitchen fire at a local condo. Rapid response helped firefighters contain the two-alarm blaze, which apparently was ignited just after 11 a.m. by an unattended pot on a stove in a first-floor unit at the Roxbury condominium complex on Fairview Avenue. An adjacent unit sustained smoke damage, responders said, adding that dozens of others had door locks damaged as firefighters went on unit-by-unit search to be sure the flames hadn’t spread. One firefighter sustained a ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28
Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Jacqueline Winter Thomas of Emerson died on April 18, having recently been accepted as an English fellow to Brandeis University’s PhD program. She was 28 years old. Jacqueline earned a Bachelors degree in literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, her obituary says. She was also a poetry reader at The Adroit Journal and a contributing editor at Eratio Poetry Journal. Jacqueline was remembered in her obituary as "a poet, a philosopher, a lover of trees, and delighted in snowfall, …

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by Cecilia Levine