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River Edge NJ, The Bergen County Historical Society (BCHS) has recently unveiled the final approved plans for a new 3,750-square-foot visitor center and museum at Historic New Bridge Landing. This milestone brings the project one step closer to reality, with groundbreaking slated for this fall.
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Saddle Brook NJ, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrest of THERESA A. GREMILLOT (DOB: 11/29/1965; married; unemployed) of 140 Evans Place, Saddle Brook, NJ on a charge of theft. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Jason Love.
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Washington DC, The House of Representatives today passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) requiring a comprehensive, independent investigation into the sufficiency of the environmental approval process for 3,400 offshore wind turbines along New Jersey’s coastline during its consideration of the Lower Energy Costs Act (HR 1).
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Road Warrior: Nearly 3,200 fewer teen crashes since N.J.’s Kyleigh’s Law, study says
Statistics provided by the Administrative Office of the Courts showed police in nearly all towns are now enforcing the law. A total of 2,370 tickets were issued in 2013, including 1,622 in Bergen County and 727 in Passaic County. Leading police departments in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex and Morris counties were Jefferson (91), Randolph (72), Ridgewood (52), Kinnelon (42), Paramus (37) and Pompton Lakes (31). justifying ticket writing or a real correlation to safety ?
NOVEMBER 3, 2014, 1:54 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014, 12:16 PM
BY JOHN CICHOWSKI
RECORD COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD
Four years ago, a debate raged over the efficacy of a tiny red decal that teen drivers would have to affix to their license plates under New Jersey’s revamped Graduated Driver License laws. Teens and their parents said they would invite crime. Petitions were signed by the thousands to have the provision repealed. One study suggested that teen drivers didn’t even use the decals.
Road Warrior: Little red stickers a matter of life or death for teen drivers
But on Monday, a 3½-year study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that, when other factors are taken into account, the New Jersey law requiring new drivers under 21 years old to use the red decals had reduced road crashes among this age group by 9.5 percent during its first two years on the books.
That represents nearly 3,200 fewer crashes than if the decal provision had never been enacted, said Allison Head Curry, lead researcher for a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia team that began studying the decal a year after it was mandated under a law that took effect in May 2010. New Jersey is the only state to include teen identifiers in its Graduated Driver License laws, although two other states — New York and Massachusetts — have bills pending.
“Decal provisions now have the support of science,” said Curry, a Bayonne native.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/road-warrior-nearly-3-200-fewer-teen-crashes-since-n-j-s-kyleigh-s-law-study-says-1.1125595
