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$18.5M Contract Approved For Replacement Of 107-Year Old Lyndhurst Train Station $18.5M Contract Approved For Replacement Of 107-Year Old Lyndhurst Train Station
$18.5M Contract Approved For Replacement Of 107-Year Old Lyndhurst Train Station A contract for $18.5 million was approved for the construction of a new Lyndhurst NJ Transit train station replacing the current 107-year-old facility. Located at the corner of Delafield and Court avenues, the station will be closer to the commuter parking lot and will be designed to replicate the historic style of the Lyndhurst neighborhood.  It will include ADA accessible platforms, new stairs, four elevators, new lighting, canopies, communications and a closed-circuit TV, NJ Transit officials said. The contract is going to Anselmi & Decicco, Inc. of Maplewood, after six fi…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Heroin, Cocaine, $34K Cash Seized In Essex County Drug Raid Heroin, Cocaine, $34K Cash Seized In Essex County Drug Raid
Heroin, Cocaine, $34K Cash Seized In Essex County Drug Raid Newark police arrested four men and seized various amounts of heroin, crack cocaine and fentanyl and more than $34,000 during a raid on two Essex County homes, authorities said. Tony Toney of Newark, Christopher Rodriguez of Newark, Timothy Finkley of Bloomfield and Harold Finkley of Maplewood were charged with numerous narcotics and firearm offenses after Wednesday’s raid at homes on Chadwick Avenue in Newark and Springfield Avenue in Maplewood, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said in a release. The raid resulted in the seizure of $34,383 in cash as well as the follow…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Maplewood Realtor, 29, Killed In Fiery Route 78 Tractor-Trailer Crash Maplewood Realtor, 29, Killed In Fiery Route 78 Tractor-Trailer Crash
Maplewood Realtor, 29, Killed In Fiery Route 78 Tractor-Trailer Crash A 29-year-old real estate agent from Maplewood died after he rear-ended a tractor-trailer on Route 78, State Police said. Kadeem R. Buckham was heading eastbound in a BMW when he slammed into a Volvo tractor-trailer near milepost 52.6 in Union around 3 a.m. Wednesday, State Trooper Charles Marchan said. Both vehicles went up in flames killing Buckham, whose passenger, Tamu I. Waluye 28, of Maplewood, sustained minor injuries, Marchan said. The tractor-trailer driver, Dorel Gherman, 57, of Citrus Heights, California, was uninjured, Marchan said. New Jersey State Police are investigati…

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by Valerie Musson
Lifestyle
Pick Your Protein Then Add Three Sides: Southern Comfort Food Spot Opens In Maplewood Pick Your Protein Then Add Three Sides: Southern Comfort Food Spot Opens In Maplewood
Pick Your Protein Then Add Three Sides: Southern Comfort Food Spot Opens In Maplewood Hungry for some doggone good classic Southern comfort? Culinary entrepreneur Todd Marvel is bringing just that to Maplewood with the recent launch of "Hazel's Country Kitchen." Located inside of salad eatery Sprout on Maplewood Avenue, Hazel's Country Kitchen is open for pick-up and delivery Tuesday through Saturdays, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The idea is simple: Meat + 3. Customers choose a protein, then add three sides. Protein options include fried chicken, the Nashville hot chicken sandwich, homestyle meatloaf, southwestern pulled chicken sandwich and the cauliflower steak with house-made chimi…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Two Critically Burned Victims Rescued After Porch Candle Ignites Maplewood House Blaze Two Critically Burned Victims Rescued After Porch Candle Ignites Maplewood House Blaze
Two Critically Burned Victims Rescued After Porch Candle Ignites Maplewood House Blaze UPDATE: Two men were clinging to life with critical burns after firefighters rescued them from an overnight blaze that engulfed a Maplewood home. The two-alarm fire broke out on a porch of the 2½-story wood-frame house on Essex Avenue, trapping three residents inside, around 3:20 a.m., responders said. A candle left burning on the front porch apparently was to blame, fire officials said. Police were first on the scene and got an elderly woman out, they said. Firefighters located one of the men on the first floor and rescued the other from the second floor with a ground ladder. Both were…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home
Morning Blaze Guts Orange Multi-Family Home A morning fire ravaged an Orange multi-family home Tuesday. Firefighters found heavy flames on all floors of the three-story Park Street home shortly after 6:30 a.m. The blaze went to three alarms less than an hour later and was knocked down about a half-hour after that. No serious injuries were immediately reported. ALL PHOTOS: Rob Munson The Park Street blaze in Orange went to three alarms less than an hour after it broke out.ALL PHOTOS: Rob Munson Among those assisting their Orange colleagues at the scene or in coverage were firefighters from Newark, Bloomfield, Montclair, West Or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Maplewood Makeup Artist Turns Passion Into Career Maplewood Makeup Artist Turns Passion Into Career
Maplewood Makeup Artist Turns Passion Into Career Erin Williams of Maplewood says clean beauty "wasn’t a thing" when she first started her professional makeup career as an artist for Urban Decay in 2000. More than a decade later, her dreams came to life when she launched her very own clean beauty supply company, Erin’s Faces, in 2011. Williams uses expertise from her professional makeup and beauty career while crafting her products; for example, “cutting petroleum from our gloss, then cutting chemical SPF from our sunscreens, then sulfates from our cleansers,” she explains on the brand’s website. From makeup and basic skincare products t…

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by Valerie Musson
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COVID-19: North Jersey Municipalities Report First Cases, Others Brace For Shutdowns COVID-19: North Jersey Municipalities Report First Cases, Others Brace For Shutdowns
Covid-19: North Jersey Municipalities Report First Cases, Others Brace For Shutdowns While some North Jersey municipalities and counties are bracing for a shutdown, others are reporting their very first coronavirus cases. BERGEN Teaneck was the first in the state to urge residents to self-quarantine Saturday night, after learning that cases more than doubled overnight from 8 to 18.  As of Sunday, Bergen County had 29 positive test results of the 98 in the entire state -- including two fatalities. All Bergen County schools were closed indefinitely, and county officials warned residents they might be self-quarantined the way Teaneck was. A 54-year-old woman was th…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students
Ex-Bergen, Passaic, Essex Teacher Admits Sex Trysts With Students Jury selection for her trial was under way when a former teacher in Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties admitted having sexual encounters with male students in Maplewood, authorities said. In exchange for her guilty plea to three counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, Nicole Dufault, 40, of Bloomfield, will be sentenced to five years in state prison, among other penalties. Authorities arrested the divorced mother of two in September 2014 on charges of aggravated sexual assault against several students at Columbia High School, where she’d been a language arts teacher for nine years. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen
NJ Scammers Who Paid Bills, Bought Fancy Cars With Homemade Money Orders Headed To Fed Pen Two New Jersey men are bound for federal prison for producing bogus money orders and cashier’s checks that they used to buy themselves luxury cars, pay off credit card bills and clear a mortgage. Germaine Howard King, 47, of Elizabeth was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark to 70 months. Daniel D. Dxrams (currently known as “Daniel Kusi”), 41, of Maplewood was sentenced to 57 months. Both must serve their entire terms because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. “King was convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud banks and other lenders using phony money order…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Dozens Have Been Charged In Carjacking, Car Theft Investigations Dozens Have Been Charged In Carjacking, Car Theft Investigations
Dozens Have Been Charged In Carjacking, Car Theft Investigations Authorities have placed dozens of people behind bars in disrupting a pipeline that delivered luxury vehicles from North and Central Jersey to customers in West Africa via ports in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island, the Attorney General's office said Monday .  Panel Dalce was sentenced Friday, becoming the last person put behind bars as a result of a pair of investigations, dubbed "Operation Jacked" and "Operation 17 Corridor" aimed at carjackers and car thieves operating in Somerset, Bergen, Essex and a number of other counties.  More than 50 people have been arrested and charge…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Multi-alarm Fire Breaks Out At Union Home Sunday, Woman Reportedly Hurt Multi-alarm Fire Breaks Out At Union Home Sunday, Woman Reportedly Hurt
Multi-alarm Fire Breaks Out At Union Home Sunday, Woman Reportedly Hurt Firefighters were in the 1900 block of Hillside Avenue in Union Sunday night where fire was ripping through a private home.  Fire broke out at the home around 6:30 p.m. and the blaze quickly went to multiple alarms.  A woman was rescued from a second-floor window of the home, according to a published report. She was hospitalized with burns at St. Barnabas Medical Center. Her condition was not immediately known.  Multiple departments provided mutual aid during the three-alarm fire, including Irvington, Roselle, Hillside and Maplewood.  The cause is still under investiga…

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by Paul Milo