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Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers
Bergen Sheriff, NAACP, Others Bringing Prominent Speakers To Anti-Hate Talk For High Schoolers If you’re staging a critical conversation for high school students on the devastating impacts of hate and bigotry, you'd be hard-pressed to top the two civil rights activists enlisted by Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton in tandem with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Bergen County NAACP and the Urban League of Bergen County. Juniors and seniors from the Englewood Public School District and the Frisch School in Paramus are invited to Cureton’s office at Two Bergen County Plaza in Hackensack at 1 p.m. this Tuesday (March 26) to hear Dwania Kyles and TM Garret. Dwania Kyles was one of th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo
Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo The last thing Denise Hamilton was expecting to see hanging on the wall at Bergen Town Center was a photo of herself. The Hackensack native was on a routine errand run to Whole Foods Wednesday when she saw the black and white image hanging in the Marshall's corridor, her younger self standing tall in the middle.  "I looked at it and I was like, 'That's me!'" said Hamilton, 69, who has a newspaper clipping of the photo from when it ran in the Bergen Record. "I couldn't believe it. I'm a part of this mall." A mall that for decades has been Hamilton's stomping grounds. "When I first got ma…

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by Cecilia Levine