Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
A local football rivalry turned ugly Saturday when teens from opposing high schools got in a brawl shortly after a close game. Police say a large fight broke out in the parking lot of Chipotle in West Caldwell after the James Caldwell High School varsity home game against West Essex ended with the Caldwell Chiefs losing, 17-14, in the final seconds. The death of a 69-year-old man whose body was discovered outside his home in Caldwell Monday is being investigated by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. The man was found dead outside his house on Crane Street, a road that runs behind St. Aloysius Church on the northern end of town. A mother bear and her three cubs were foraging in an area of West Caldwell known as the Gardens Sunday …
Monday, September 24, 2012
Mother black bear and her three cubs spent Sunday foraging through residential West Caldwell neighborhood.
Four black bears spent most of Sunday foraging around a residential neighborhood of West Caldwell, according to police who warned residents to remain inside. A mother bear and her three cubs were kept under the watchful eye of the police for more than six hours until finally at about 6 p.m. they crossed a busy county road and headed toward nearby woods. Police stopped traffic so the black bears could get across Bloomfield Avenue safely. The bears then proceeded onto Henderson Drive and disappeared into a wooded area of Fairfield, Captain Gerard Paris said. “The bears, as far as we know, they are out in the woods,” Paris said Monday. West Caldwell resident Walter Amores said he stepped out on his deck Sunday morning and heard a humming …
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Four bears making their way through residential neighborhood Sunday morning.
A mother bear and her three cubs were foraging in an area of West Caldwell known as the Gardens Sunday morning. The four black bears were reported to be scouring through garbage cans in the neighborhood around 11 a.m., and a couple of hours later they were spotted on Richard Avenue behind a home just off of Bloomfield Avenue, a busy county road. West Caldwell Police were keeping watch on the bears' activity, according to Capt. Gerard Paris, who was on the scene. A children's soccer game scheduled at nearby Richard Park was moved as a precaution. The sightings have been reported to the N.J. Department of Fish and Wildlife, but officials from the environmental agency had yet to respond around 1 p.m. Giulio Marandola who lives on Richard …
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Vera Spino
7:18 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
Just One of the hidden Emmenites Caldwell has to offer... Wake Up people Caldwell is NOT what they say it is... Good Luck... more ›