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Fink's BBQ In Rockland County To Close, Owner Hints At Comeback Fink's BBQ In Rockland County To Close, Owner Hints At Comeback
Fink's BBQ In Rockland County To Close, Owner Hints At Comeback Rockland County staple Fink's BBQ Roadhouse, a community favorite in Suffern, is closing after eight years in business.  Owner Dave "Fink" Finkelstein announced that the restaurant’s last full day of operation will be Monday, Dec. 2, citing ongoing challenges that have become insurmountable. Finkelstein tells Daily Voice: "The location is tough — half of the compass is trees, and trees don't eat BBQ. We're a destination spot, Saturdays are insane and Tuesdays it's a ghost town. It's hard to balance business." Fink’s BBQ opened its Suffern location in 2016 after running a successful sp…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Fierce Fire Ravages $3M Tenafly Home UPDATE: Fierce Fire Ravages $3M Tenafly Home
Update: Fierce Fire Ravages $3M Tenafly Home 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A fierce fire blew through a $3 million Tenafly home Friday night. Everyone got out OK and no injuries were reported after the fire ignited on the first floor near the back of the Hudson Avenue home off County Road shortly before 8:30 p.m. June 14. It quickly went to three alarms and then, later, a fourth for coverage. Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down within a half hour, then remained until 11 p.m. or so dousing hot spots. Although responders at the scene said an unattended candle appeared responsible, fire officials haven't yet posited a definitive cause. Mutu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Rockland Pizzeria Rivals Bar Pie At Popular Bergen Joint Grant's For Barstool's Portnoy Rockland Pizzeria Rivals Bar Pie At Popular Bergen Joint Grant's For Barstool's Portnoy
Rockland Pizzeria Rivals Bar Pie At Popular Bergen Joint Grant's For Barstool's Portnoy In the history of Barstool's One Bite pizza reviews, CEO Dave Portnoy has never had to make a decision as tough as this one, he said. The self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur said he's never had two consecutive bar pies he liked as much as the one from Grant Street Cafe in Dumont, NJ and Mountain House on Route 340 in Sparkill. So, he gave them both the same rating: 8.2. "People are going to say I'm soft," Portnoy said. "That I'm the kid from BYU, Zach Wilson. Because I'm giving this an 8.2. I can't decide. They're equal." Established in 1926, Mountain House has been drawing regulars for dec…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
IDs Released For 2 Killed In Wrong-Way, Head-On Crash In Hudson Valley IDs Released For 2 Killed In Wrong-Way, Head-On Crash In Hudson Valley
IDs Released For 2 Killed In Wrong-Way, Head-On Crash In Hudson Valley Police have identified two people killed in a wrong-way, head-on crash in the Hudson Valley overnight. It happened around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6 in Orange County on I-87 in the town of Tuxedo. A preliminary investigation by New York State Police has determined a passenger vehicle was driving northbound in the southbound lanes between Exit 16 (Harriman) and Exit 15A (Sloatsburg), when it struck another passenger vehicle head-on. The vehicles were occupied by drivers only, both of whom were pronounced dead on the scene and removed from the scene by the Orange County Medical Examiner’…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Red-Light Runner Nabbed For DWI, Driving With Revoked License In Rockland, Police Say Red-Light Runner Nabbed For DWI, Driving With Revoked License In Rockland, Police Say
Red-Light Runner Nabbed For DWI, Driving With Revoked License In Rockland, Police Say A 35-year-old man was nabbed for alleged DWI and driving without a license after he was spotted by police running a red light. Raymond Boccellari was arrested around 2:31 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 4, after an Orangetown Police officer spotted him running a "steady" red light on East Central Avenue in Pearl River, said the Orangetown Police. During the stop, officers determined that Boccellari, of Dumont, New Jersey, was driving in an intoxicated condition and his driver's license was revoked due to a previous DWI conviction in 2018, police said. Boccellari was charged with DWI with a BAC …

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by Kathy Reakes
Obituaries
Christina Guardino Of Dumont Remembered As Great Neighbor, Sweet Soul Christina Guardino Of Dumont Remembered As Great Neighbor, Sweet Soul
Christina Guardino Of Dumont Remembered As Great Neighbor, Sweet Soul Christina "Chrissy" Guardino of Dumont died at 44 years old. More than $8,900 had been raised in her memory on a GoFundMe as of Tuesday afternoon. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Jan. 1, at Barrett Funeral Home in Tenafly. A memorial service is scheduled for Jan. 2 at noon, at the Saint Therese of Liseux Church in Cresskill. Friends and loved ones remembered Chrissy as a fierce and caring friend. "Christina was so incredible," the Gallup family wrote. "She was a great neighbor and friend. She will be truly missed by all she knew." "I worked with Chrissy at Coach many years ago. Truly…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NYC College Tennis Player, 20, Dies In Fiery Cresskill Monument Crash NYC College Tennis Player, 20, Dies In Fiery Cresskill Monument Crash
NYC College Tennis Player, 20, Dies In Fiery Cresskill Monument Crash UPDATE: A 20-year-old college tennis player from Queens was killed when his speeding vehicle slammed into the Camp Merritt Memorial Monument in Cresskill and burst into flames before dawn Saturday, authorities told Daily Voice. Video from a gas station at the circle shows the crash and explosion, which tore off the front of the 2016 Infiniti Q50, split the rest in two and hurled Christian Gloria about 75 feet just before 4:30 a.m. Gloria played tennis in high school and was listed on the ASA College team in Manhattan. "Any factors such as impairment are all still under investigation,&…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Judge Orders Dumont Store Clerk Released After Child Porn Arrest Judge Orders Dumont Store Clerk Released After Child Porn Arrest
Judge Orders Dumont Store Clerk Released After Child Porn Arrest DUMONT, N.J. -- A judge ordered a supermarket clerk from Dumont charged with collecting child porn released pending further court action. Christian Winner, 49, was arrested Friday following a raid on his Larch Avenue home. He was taken to the Bergen County Jail before a judge released him, with conditions, under New Jersey's bail reform law following a detention hearing on Saturday. The name of the judge isn't listed in jail records. Winner, who posted a photo of himself on Facebook playing Santa Claus, “used the Internet to view and possess digital files depicting nude or sexually explic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Supermarket Clerk From Dumont Collected Child Porn, Authorities Charge Supermarket Clerk From Dumont Collected Child Porn, Authorities Charge
Supermarket Clerk From Dumont Collected Child Porn, Authorities Charge DUMONT, N.J. – A supermarket clerk from Dumont collected child porn, said authorities who arrested him Friday. Christian Winner, 49, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing on possession of child pornography charges following a raid on his Larch Avenue home. Winner -- who'd worked at the Stop & Shop in Emerson and the K-Mart in Westwood -- “used the Internet to view and possess digital files depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The prosecutor thanked Dumont police, as well…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School DUMONT, N.J. -- (UPDATE) While one family deals with the unthinkable, other parents of Dumont High School students were grateful that what had been a terrifying ordeal ended with their children returning safely to them. Authorities said they seized a rifle from the home of a sophomore who was taken into custody Monday after allegedly threatening a mass shooting. "It was a long gun, a rifle," a ranking law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "It was not his. "His mother was extremely cooperative," the official added. "[The gun] was at the house. He didn't br…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd
Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd This story has been updated. A 49-year-old man is in critical condition after being crushed in a construction accident in Tappan. The man, identified as Arian Hila of Dumont was working at a construction site at 120 Western Highway when he crushed around 1:45 p.m. Friday when a garbage chute collapsed and landed on top of him near a dumpster, said Orangetown Police Capt. Donald Butterworth. He was rushed to Nyack Hospital for treatment where he is listed in critical condition, Butterworth said. The man works for Atria Consulting who was performing work on the site. Efforts to reach the co…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd
Man In Critical Condition After Tappan Construction Accident ID'd This story has been updated. A 49-year-old man is in critical condition after being crushed in a construction accident in Tappan. The man, identified as Arian Hila of Dumont was working at a construction site at 120 Western Highway when he crushed around 1:45 p.m. Friday when a garbage chute collapsed and landed on top of him near a dumpster, said Orangetown Police Capt. Donald Butterworth. He was rushed to Nyack Hospital for treatment where he is listed in critical condition, Butterworth said. The man works for Atria Consulting who was performing work on the site. Efforts to reach the co…

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by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Meet The Roman Twins: Widowed Dumont Dad Hopes Girls Will Remember Mom Meet The Roman Twins: Widowed Dumont Dad Hopes Girls Will Remember Mom
Meet The Roman Twins: Widowed Dumont Dad Hopes Girls Will Remember Mom It's been nearly three months since Dumont's Julia Roman died giving birth to twin girls Grace and Isabella. Her widowed husband and the girls' dad, Victor Roman, says he has his ups and downs. But there's one thing that has yet to get easier. Unlike Julia's older children Dwayne and Valeria, and 5-year-old Victoria with whom she shares with Victor, the twins will never know their mom. "I'm still dealing with that one," he said, teary-eyed. "It's difficult." Victor has been out of work as an MTA employee in New York City since Julia's death Nov. 16 of last year. He's…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
UPDATE: Missing Dumont Stop & Shop Employee Found UPDATE: Missing Dumont Stop & Shop Employee Found
Update: Missing Dumont Stop & Shop Employee Found Dumont Stop & Shop employee Mark Demeo was found safely Monday night several hours after he went missing. Police confirmed Demeo was located Monday evening just after 9:30 p.m., but did not say where or how. Demeo was safe and in stable condition. Demeo -- in his mid-40s -- went missing around noon when he didn't show up to a shift at work, friends told Daily Voice.

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by Cecilia Levine
Neighbors
Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash
Support Surges For Beloved Dumont Bartender's Niece, Critical After Crash DUMONT, N.J. — The community is rallying around Joe Roberto, a beloved bartender at Dumont's Grant Street. On Tuesday morning, Roberto discovered that his niece -- Liz Smith -- had been in a horrible car accident in Antigua.  She was flown via medical transport Tuesday night from Antigua to Florida with two broken arms, a shattered pelvis, broken femur, broken ankle, broken sacrum and other injuries, Roberto said.  Since Wednesday morning, she’s had two -- six hour surgeries repairing her broken bones and is breathing on her own again. "The doctors are saying Liz’s survival is truly …

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by Cecilia Levine