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Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing
Chomping Grounds: Great Whites Lurking Off Jersey Shore, NYC, Long Island Are Social Distancing Looks like we won't need a bigger boat: Although reports have emerged of a half-dozen or so great white sharks lurking off the Jersey Shore, New York City and Long Island this summer, a real-life version of "Jaws" isn't coming to a beach near you. Among the maneaters out there is Caroline -- nearly 13 feet long and 1,348 pounds -- whom the OCEARCH shark tracker pinged between Seaside Heights and Barnegat Light on July 1. Add in Cabot (nine feet, 533 pounds) and Caper (eight feet, 348 pounds), both of whom were pinged off the Hamptons in early June. And don't forget 16-foot, 3,456-pound Mar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend
Silver Lining: Relentless Rain, Wind Give Way To Warmth This Weekend The rain and high winds that’ll lay on New Jersey through Thursday should give way to warmer weather on Friday, one of the area’s most prominent weather experts said. “Saturday should be no worse than partly sunny with highs reaching the 60s just about everywhere,” meteorologist Joe Cioffi said late Thursday morning. “Sunday could turn out to be warm with highs reaching into the 70s in many areas, provided we get enough sun,” he added. For now, flood watches and wind advisories remained in place for much of New Jersey as stormy weather inched its way northward. More flooding was expected …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Five Coronavirus Deaths, 22 Other Cases Reported At New Milford Nursing Home Five Coronavirus Deaths, 22 Other Cases Reported At New Milford Nursing Home
Five Coronavirus Deaths, 22 Other Cases Reported At New Milford Nursing Home Five residents at a nursing home in New Milford have died of coronavirus complications and 16 more tested positive, along with six staff members, its parent company confirmed. There may be more there, management at CareOne said in a release. CareOne at New Milford (Woodcrest) became the first long-term care facility in Bergen County struck with that many deaths, joining others in New Jersey. “We expect these numbers to rise,” the company managers said. “We are actively testing patients and awaiting results, and screening at higher levels than CDC guidelines.” Five residents deaths at the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: HUMC Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: HUMC Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER
Hospitals Increasingly Pressed For Space By Coronavirus: Humc Converts Cafeteria, Pediatric ER Although the worst of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t expected in the U.S. for another two weeks, hospitals are already scrambling to find space to treat those infected. Hackensack University Medical Center is converting its cafeteria into a unit for more than 70 patients, health care workers said Monday. Nearly a dozen other units in the hospital have been converted for treating coronavirus patients – as has the pediatric emergency room, they said. Pediatric emergency room patients were being moved to another building. Room for COVID-19 patients is plaguing hospitals throughout the countr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Donate Material To Waldwick Women Sewing Face Masks For Healthcare Workers Donate Material To Waldwick Women Sewing Face Masks For Healthcare Workers
Donate Material To Waldwick Women Sewing Face Masks For Healthcare Workers Three Waldwick women are combining forces in an effort to create and send masks to healthcare workers amid the COVID-19 crisis. Johanna Laliberte, Pat Laliberte and Tami Moses’ sewing skills have helped them make masks of all sizes to be delivered to Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and other local healthcare facilities. The trio started a production line and sent more than 30 masks as of Monday afternoon. “Thank you, God, for giving my mom the creative ability to sew and for filling her with the physical strength to make these masks,” Johanna wrote in a Facebook post Sunday. Meanwhile, two m…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
VIDEO: Port Authority PD Goes ‘Fast & Furious’ Against NYC Street Racers VIDEO: Port Authority PD Goes ‘Fast & Furious’ Against NYC Street Racers
Video: Port Authority PD Goes ‘Fast & Furious’ Against NYC Street Racers Some 70 street racers and their entourages had eluded authorities who tried to clear them from clogging a corner of JFK Airport before they began tearing up area highways. So Port Authority police went all Vin Diesel on ‘em. Uniformed officers in surge patrols had trouble corralling the 60 to 80 wannabe drift kings who’d gathered between 1 and 3 a.m. each weekend for the past two months at the Sunoco Plaza -- blocking gas pumps, handicap parking spots and entrances and exits -- before running illegal New York City races. Whenever marked units entered the plaza, however, they all scattered. …

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by Jerry DeMarco