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Opening Day 2012 1

Oakland’s Annual Opening Day parade for the baseball and softball season, with video of the parade and video of an outstanding rendition of The Star Spangled Banner…


SuperMoon May 5th!

Saturday night, May 5th, at 11:35pm, the full moon will be closer to Earth than at any other time this year – that’s a supermoon – and it’s free. Looking is free, but you cannot touch it – that’s a relatively expensive endeavor since even at its closet the moon […]


Stress, It Not Just For Adults

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week runs from May 6th through May 12th. A national poster contest for the theme “Youth Overcoming Trauma” resulted in the poster seen in the accompanying image. The mental health of children is often overlooked for a variety of reasons. Adults tend to rely on children […]


The USS Ramapo 1

The days of giving a ship a name with meaning may soon be a thing of the past. It seems only inevitable that the USS Microsoft, or the USS PizzaHut, will become the norm as naming rights help foot the bill for navy vessels in the same way Metlife and […]


Old Lady Robbed 2

The Bergen County woman described her robbers as apparently respectable members of society. “I would never have suspected them, not in a million years.”