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DOG PARK OPENS AT SWIM CLUB SITE BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS
Itʼs good to be a dog—as well as a dog owner in Tenafly—as the borough opens the gates on its first-ever dog park. At press time, a long-awaited Tenafly dog park was scheduled to open Saturday, Feb. 8 at the boroughʼs former swim club on Grove Street, about seven months after its approval by a 4-3 vote at a July Borough Council meeting. Officials said the park will be open from dawn to dusk and official park rules should be posted soon. “We are still working out the exact times because we want to make sure the area is opened and locked based on the schedule,” Councilman Jeff Grossman told Northern Valley Press. He said the council plans to invite the garden club to enhance the park grounds later this year. “Our hope is that this becomes a multi-purpose area and not simply a dog park. It is 2 acres
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BERGEN COUNTY
Professional musicians joined students on stage during a fabulous Carriage House Concert, held Feb. 2 at The Woman’s Club of Englewood’s historic clubhouse. BY HILLARY VIDERS SPECIAL TO NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS
On Feb. 2, the Womanʼs Club of Englewoodʼs clubhouse on Brinckerhoff Court resounded with the beautiful music of the Carriage House Concert. Under the leadership of world-renowned cellist Ani Kalayjian, the Womanʼs Club of Englewoodʼs Carriage House music series has brought PHOTO BY HILLARY VIDERS
LIFE-SAVING LESSON
As the nationʼs opioid addiction crisis rages, one local group hosted a training session on NARCAN—the overdose antidote.
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incredible performers to the Bergen County community. It also partners with local educational institutions to give young children a platform to experience great live music, and take artists directly into the community to play outreach for patients at the Englewood Hospital and the Bergen Family
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A new $3.3 million federal grant to Bergen County will enable residents to get rid of the major source of lead contamination—leaded indoor paint—said the Bergen County executive at a Jan. 31 forum with county leaders held at Stony Hill Inn in Hackensack. James Tedesco III, now serving year two of his second term as county executive, and a former Paramus mayor, told over 100 leaders at a Friday Forum sponsored by Bergen County Volunteers, that the county health department applied for a grant last year to abate lead and was recently awarded funding. “Iʼm happy to say that we are one of only a few counties throughout the nation that was selected,” said Tedesco. “This grant allows us to test for it, find it and remediate [lead paint] out of peopleʼs houses,” he said. Tedesco said people in older houses and tenants may not have the funds to remove and remediate the paint. The sale of lead paint was outlawed in 1978. Most health departments view lead paint as the leading
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Long before we were ordering Valentineʼs Day gifts over the internet, there was flowers by telegraph!
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