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Historic Bergen County sites, and cash to save them, disappear
Friday, November 29, 2013    Last updated: Friday November 29, 2013, 12:58 AM
BY  ALLISON PRIES
STAFF WRITER
The Record

The late-19th-century Darlington Schoolhouse — perched at Darlington Avenue and Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah — sat vacant for roughly two decades.

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By the time it is renovated and repurposed, efforts to preserve the late-19th-century Darlington Schoolhouse in Mahwah will have spanned nearly a decade.

Its chestnut banisters were battered, windows broken by vandals and walls sagged out under the weight of the 120-year-old roof.

By the time it’s renovated and repurposed, the act of saving it will have spanned roughly a decade.

But that’s a success story for historic preservation.

Bergen County is dotted with architectural reminders of its past — the schoolhouse, commissioned by Theodore Havemeyer in the late 1890s for the children of field workers; the 1750s home of successful New York merchant John Fell in Allendale, preserved by a group of citizens; and early Dutch stone houses in Fair Lawn and other towns.

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Christie calls for October election to fill Lautenberg’s Senate seat
Tuesday, June 4, 2013    Last updated: Tuesday June 4, 2013, 11:47 PM
BY  HERB JACKSON AND MELISSA HAYES
STAFF WRITERS
The Record

Dismissing the $24 million expense even though he cited cost in two earlier decisions on voting legislation, Governor Christie on Tuesday ordered a special election for October to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg and told candidates to get going if they want to run.

Democrats said they would wait until after Lautenberg’s funeral today before making any formal announcements, even as some made back-channel overtures to party leaders. Republicans, however, appeared to be waiting to see whom Christie chooses as an interim appointee to serve until October. That appointee, if it is someone who is interested in running for the seat, would have an advantage over the rest of the field.

Candidates have until Monday to file petitions with 1,000 valid signatures at the Division of Elections.

Lautenberg, a Democrat, died Monday at age 89 after being elected a state-record five times to the Senate. Vice President Joseph Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are among the speakers at his funeral today in New York City, and there also will be a memorial service at the Secaucus train station named after him, and ceremonies in Washington on Thursday. His burial at Arlington National Cemetery will be Friday.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/state/Christie_to_discuss_Lautenberg_replacement_at_press_conference.html

History of Memorial Day

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women’s groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping” by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication “To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead” (Source: Duke University’s Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860′s tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.

In 1915, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields,” Moina Michael replied with her own poem:

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms.Michael and when she returned to France, made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children’s League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help. Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW became the first veterans’ organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their “Buddy” Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans. In 1948 the US Post Office honored Ms Michael for her role in founding the National Poppy movement by issuing a red 3 cent postage stamp with her likeness on it.

https://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

Feds arrest several from North Jersey in waste-hauling Mob sting
Wednesday January 16, 2013, 1:54 PM
BY  PETER SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER
The Record

Federal authorities fanned out across New York and New Jersey today and rounded up 30 reputed members and associates of several organized crime families on charges of racketeering and extortion relating to the waste-hauling industry.

Among those charged were Carmine Franco, 77, of Ramsey, once a major figure in the New Jersey trash hauling business; Anthony Cardinalle, 60, of Saddle River; Peter Leconte, 42, of Lodi; and Frank Oliver, 46, of North Haledon.

Also charged from New Jersey were Robert Zarzuela, 38, of North Bergen; Jonathan Greene, 47, of Teaneck; Thomas Giordano, 42, of North Arlington; Anthony Pucciarello, 77, Bloomfield, Joseph Bertolino, 46, Wantage; and Brian Petroll, 47, of Columbia.

In all, 32 people were charged in three indictments returned in Manhattan as part of a multi-year investigation spearheaded by the FBI.

“As alleged, organized crime still wraps its tentacles around industries it has fed off for decades, but law enforcement continues to pry loose its grip,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement announcing the charges.

“Here, as described in the indictments, organized crime insinuated itself into the waste disposal industry throughout a vast swath of counties in New York and New Jersey, and the tactics they used to exert and maintain their control come right out of the mafia playbook – extortion, intimidation, and threats of violence,” he said.

https://www.northjersey.com/bloomfield/Feds_arrest_several_from_North_Jersey_in_tra.html