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Midweek Downpours Expected To Bring 3 Inches Of Rain, Travel Delays To East Coast Midweek Downpours Expected To Bring 3 Inches Of Rain, Travel Delays To East Coast
Midweek Downpours Expected To Bring 3 Inches Of Rain, Travel Delays To East Coast A new storm system tracking along the East Coast is expected to drop several inches of rain on the region in the next two days, meteorologists say. Rainfall is expected to begin along the mid-Atlantic Tuesday night, Dec. 26, and make its way north through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the New York City area on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 27. Flooding and travel delays are to be expected from Virginia to New England, the Passaic, Ramapo and Raritan rivers in New Jersey most likely to experience flooding, according to AccuWeather. This is not good news for municipalities across Passaic County w…

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by Cecilia Levine
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LAWSUIT: Sussex County Woman Says Workplace Became Hostile After She Came Out As Transgender LAWSUIT: Sussex County Woman Says Workplace Became Hostile After She Came Out As Transgender
Lawsuit: Sussex County Woman Says Workplace Became Hostile After She Came Out As Transgender A transgender woman and water department supervisor from Sussex County is seeking a jury trial, compensatory and punitive damages in a lawsuit filed on claims that she was mistreated by her employer after announcing her intent to undergo gender reassignment surgery, a new report says. Tori-Anne Corrado, 59, a senior plant operator in Wayne Township’s Department of Water Pollution Control in Passaic County, says her coworkers continued to misgender her by calling her “sir” and that she “has been repeatedly met with disrespect and hostility by members of upper management as well as by the juni…

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by Valerie Musson
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Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out
Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out Rescuers had to cut off a roll cage to free a drunken trespasser who climbed into a sports car head first and couldn’t get out, authorities said. Jagdeep Singh, 30, apparently got into the Mazda Miata parked at the Delta gas station on southbound Route 23 to take a nap and got wedged upside-down in the roll cage, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Officers who responded detected an “overwhelming odor of alcohol” and summoned rescuers to get him out, Daly said. Members of the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad cut off the cage and freed the intruder, he said. The Miata's 60-year-old owner…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response
Not So Fast: NJ Police Chief Corrects School Board Member’s Claims About COVID Response A local Board of Education trustee got more than she bargained for when she blasted her township police department's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Dawn Kumar, saying that she was speaking as a private citizen, said during an online Wayne Township Council meeting earlier this month that she’d seen a police officer not wearing a face mask in Costco, as well as high school students ignoring social distancing by gathering on a local field. Kumar, 33, a self-described “teacher turned homemaker" who became a BOE member six months ago, said these were examples of Mayor Chris Vergano and t…

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by Jerry DeMarco