Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids
Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids A drug user snatched a jar filled with donations for sick children from the counter of a Wallington deli before he was identified and arrested by detectives, authorities said. Adrian Siwek, 30, was wearing a gray hooded NASA sweatshirt and knit cap when he entered the Super Deli on Wallington Avenue on Monday and diverted the casher’s attention away from the plastic container, Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock identified the borough resident by reviewing the store surveillance video after the owner reported the theft on Thursday, Kudlacik said. Detective Brian Ros…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newark, NJ
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LOOK INSIDE: Buzz Aldrin's $1M Montclair Home May Have Pending Offer LOOK INSIDE: Buzz Aldrin's $1M Montclair Home May Have Pending Offer LOOK INSIDE: Buzz Aldrin's $1M Montclair Home May Have Pending Offer
Look Inside: Buzz Aldrin's $1M Montclair Home May Have Pending Offer The Montclair home where former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was born and raised is on the market for just more than $1 million. The home had a pending offer Wednesday morning, according to the Zillow listing. Daily Voice was not immediately able to reach listing agents. The Princeton Place home has seven bedrooms, four bathrooms and is 3,169 square feet. Built in 1907, the home boasts a large living room and fire place, and a formal dining room with 19-foot ceilings. Despite the apparent offer, another Montclair man is proposing the home be preserved as a non-profit namesake…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
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American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97
American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 He was born in an Appalachian hollow and went on to become a real-life American hero who was considered the country's greatest pilot. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter ace who displayed “the right stuff” when he became the first aviator to break the sound barrier nearly three quarters of a century ago, died Monday night in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 97. “My life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9 pm ET,” his widow, Victoria, tweeted. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest pilot & a legacy of strength, adventure” N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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Science Experiment By South Jersey College Student Grows Aboard NASA SpaceX Flight Science Experiment By South Jersey College Student Grows Aboard NASA SpaceX Flight Science Experiment By South Jersey College Student Grows Aboard NASA SpaceX Flight
Science Experiment By South Jersey College Student Grows Aboard NASA SpaceX Flight 10-9-87-6-5-4-3-2-1. New Jersey snow peas are blasting into international space. Saturday's fourth voyage of a Falcon 9 rocket will carry a science experiment designed by a college freshman from South Jersey. Sophia Bradach of Point Pleasant, who is a freshman at Stockton University in Atlantic County, created an experiment that is set for launch to the International Space Station. Bradach, an environmental science major from Ocean County, wants to determine whether snow peas are capable of self-fertilization through nitrogen fixation while subjected to microgravity, according to a news re…

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by Jon Craig
Massapequa, NY
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Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY
Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY Amazon hopes to dole out 33,000 corporate and tech careers, some to New York state residents, at an online career fair offering 20,000  free career coaching sessions from 1,000 Amazon recruiters.  The company's 2020 Career Day, which will be hosted virtually on Wednesday, Sept. 16., will give attendees the opportunity to learn about jobs available across the country in areas supporting Alexa, operations technology and Prime video.  The event, the company said, is designed for individuals at all levels of education and training, and jobseekers searching for work both within an…

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by Christina Coulter
Kingston, NY
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COVID-19: State Tells Businesses, Malls To Install Systems That Can Filter Out Virus COVID-19: State Tells Businesses, Malls To Install Systems That Can Filter Out Virus COVID-19: State Tells Businesses, Malls To Install Systems That Can Filter Out Virus
Covid-19: State Tells Businesses, Malls To Install Systems That Can Filter Out Virus Before reopening, malls in New York will be required to install new air filtration systems that can filter out novel coronavirus (COVID-19) particles. During a daily COVID-19 briefing on Monday, June 29 in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that new systems must be installed in malls that have a high Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) such as High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters. The measure has also been advised for businesses, when possible. Cuomo said that COVID-19 particles are approximately .125 micron in diameter, and HEPA filters are designed to filter …

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by Zak Failla
Bergenfield, NJ
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SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Bergen County Native SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Bergen County Native SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Bergen County Native
SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Bergen County Native A New Jersey native played an integral role in the recent launch of the NASA/SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sam DiMaggio, a 1985 graduate of Leonia High School, is principal dynamics engineer on the SpaceX project. The sophisticated rocket's May 30 flight from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., carried its first-ever crew to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. DiMaggio joined SpaceX in 2000 and was a designer on the initial Falcon 1 launch vehicle, the world's first privately-developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit in 2008. He received his bachelor…

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by Jon Craig
Torrington, CT
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Pink Moon: Here's When You Can See Brightest, Largest Supermoon Of Year Pink Moon: Here's When You Can See Brightest, Largest Supermoon Of Year Pink Moon: Here's When You Can See Brightest, Largest Supermoon Of Year
Pink Moon: Here's When You Can See Brightest, Largest Supermoon Of Year The biggest and brightest pink moon of 2020 is on the horizon. The supermoon is set to appear on Tuesday, April 7, according to NASA, which will be approximately .1 percent closer to the Earth than last month’s full moon, making the illusion that this will be the biggest and brightest moon this year. The moon has been dubbed a “pink moon” by the Old Farmer’s Almanac because it “heralded the appearance of the moss pink, or wild ground phlox—one of the first spring flowers.” This will be the third supermoon of the year, and will be the largest of four consecutive supermoons, providing area r…

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by Zak Failla
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
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Around Westchester Schools: Free Coding, NASA Planet Discovery, Art Trio On Exhibit Around Westchester Schools: Free Coding, NASA Planet Discovery, Art Trio On Exhibit Around Westchester Schools: Free Coding, NASA Planet Discovery, Art Trio On Exhibit
Around Westchester Schools: Free Coding, NASA Planet Discovery, Art Trio On Exhibit Whether your child grows up to be the next Bill Gates he/she should learn coding. The job skillset is in high demand. Coding also helps boost the learning of problem-solving, creativity and communication. And did you know it also helps kids learn cyber safe strategies? AT&T and The Digital Arts Experience have partnered with the  Westchester Library System to bring a first-of-its-kind of free computer coding educational program called AT&T’s Code Heroes, to all 38 Westchester County libraries. This unique program will reach more than 400 students between with a focus on engagin…

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by Donna Christopher
Stony Point, NY
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Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship
Area High School Senior Discovers Planet During NASA Internship Three days into a summer internship at NASA, 17-year-old Scarsdale High School senior Wolf Cukier discovered a brand-new planet 1,300 light-years away. Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, Cukier found a “circumbinary planet,” or a celestial object that orbits two stars. Cukier’s discovery came in June, but it was only brought to light this week by NASA at the 235th American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu. “I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a sy…

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by Zak Failla
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
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Greenburgh Supervisor Challenged In November For First Time Since 2007 Greenburgh Supervisor Challenged In November For First Time Since 2007 Greenburgh Supervisor Challenged In November For First Time Since 2007
Greenburgh Supervisor Challenged In November For First Time Since 2007 One of Westchester County's longest-serving town supervisors is facing a rare challenge at the polls this fall. For the first time in a dozen years, longtime Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner, a Democrat and former county legislator, will have an opponent on Nov. 5. Independent challenger Lucas Cioffi will be on the ballot this fall appearing on the Greenburgh Party line. Feiner has served the town as supervisor for the last 28 years. The last time he faced any opposition was in the 2013 Democratic primary election, which Feiner won. Cioffi, a 39-year-old software engineer and entrepreneur…

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by Jon Craig
Greenwich, CT
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Here's When To Keep An Eye On The Sky For Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Here's When To Keep An Eye On The Sky For Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Here's When To Keep An Eye On The Sky For Annual Perseid Meteor Shower
Here's When To Keep An Eye On The Sky For Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Keep an eye on the sky for some spectacular stargazing during a spectacular annual meteor shower. Considered the year's best meteor shower, the mid-August Perseids may be seen Sunday, Aug. 11, Monday, Aug. 12 and Tuesday, Aug. 13 with peak viewing from 10 p.m. Monday to the predawn hours Tuesday, according to EarthySky.org. The Perseids bring 50 to 100 meteors visible per hour and because they take place on warm summer nights they are easy for viewers to watch. The "fast and bright" meteors known as "fireballs" often leave lengthy wakes of light and color as they travel through the Earth's…

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by Donna Christopher