Memorial Day Parades, Ceremonies and Events in Bergen County and North Jersey on Memorial Day Weekend 2013.

Memorial Day is a holiday that has evolved dramatically over the years. Memorial Day observances began after the Civil War to honor the Union soldiers who gave their lives in the conflict. More recently, the last Monday in May, and the weekend preceding it, has come to mark the unofficial beginning of summer for many. Along with parades doused in red, white and blue, cook-outs in the backyard and excursions to the local beach fill the long weekend.

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT A 73-year-old former mob associate who once served 25 years in prison for murder and rape goes to trial in Hackensack next week for a rape that prosecutors said occurred in Rochelle Park a dozen years ago but wasn’t reported until 2009. Jury selection began in the case, in which Angelo [...]

A MAGICAL WEEKEND Whirlwind isn’t the word for the weekend that police from Bergen County – particularly a Westwood patrolman and county sheriff’s officer — showed Nathan Norman, a 6-year-old cancer survivor from Virginia who won the world’s hearts with a simple Christmas wish. Try hanging at the Yankee Stadium batting cage with Mariano Rivera [...]

A MAGICAL WEEKEND Whirlwind isn’t the word for the weekend that police from Bergen County – particularly a Westwood patrolman and county sheriff’s officer — showed Nathan Norman, a 6-year-old cancer survivor from Virginia who won the world’s hearts with a simple Christmas wish. Try hanging at the Yankee Stadium batting cage with Mariano Rivera [...]

NJDOT officials today announced that Broad Avenue traffic will be shifted as construction advances on the replacement of the bridge over Route 46 in Palisades Park, Bergen County.

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced the arrest of WILSON CRESPO (DOB: 8/12/1975) of Cliffside Park, New Jersey on charges of Attempted Sexual Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit under the direction of Chief Steven CUCCINIELLO and the Cliffside Park Police Department under the direction of Chief Donald KEANE.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A member of a Palisades Park entertainment management company was arrested by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and charged with trying to have sex with a 12-year-old Cliffside Park High School student. Wilson Crespo, 37, was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, [...]

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office announced today a $25,000.00 reward offered by the family of Dolores Alliotts for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for her murder. Sunday, April 28, 2013, marked the three year anniversary of the murder of Palisades Park resident Dolores Alliotts and it remains under investigation.

REWARD OFFERED A $25,000 reward is being offered by the family of Dolores Alliotts of Palisades Park for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer or killers. Alliotts’s body was found in a 12th Street home on April 28, 2010 after she was stabbed and the building was torched, authorities said. “Detectives [...]

Bergen County has been selected by the NJ Department of Transportation to receive $500,000 in Transportation Enhancement Program Funding for the Overpeck County Park Area Four Paths.