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Lyndhurst HS senior Casey Cirne is first female from township to head to Academy

By Kevin A. Canessa Jr. kc@theobserver.com

As hard as this is to fathom, Lyndhurst has never had a female head to the United States Military Academy at West Point since women were eligible for admission, dating back to 1976, when the late President Gerald R. Ford signed a law ending what was, until then, all men.

But in a few weeks, that reality will change when Casey Cirne, a Lyndhurst High School senior, five days after graduation, will head to upstate New York. If she graduates in four years, we’re told she’ll also be the first Lyndhurst resident ever to complete the academy (others have gone, but didn’t finish.)

For Cirne, who is the student-body president at Lynd-

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Casey Cirne, seen here with her West Point sweatshirt and bear in military uniform, will be the first female from Lyndhurst to head to the Military Academy. When she graduates, she’ll be the first Lyndhurst resident ever to complete the training.

hurst HS and a member of the cross-country and outdoor track teams, it’s the ultimate realization of a dream she first came to know when she was a freshman, though she didn’t tell her mother until her sophomore year.

“I knew my first year of high school but it’s been my mindset for four years of high school,” Cirne says. “I kept it quiet until my sophomore year and as soon as I said something to my mother, she was amazingly supportive.

She said, ‘OK, what do we need to do?’ She hired me a personal trainer and got a gym membership for me.”

Mom, Maria, tells us she also has the record for chinup in the township for girls.

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Feds arrest NA man in one of largest computer-net frauds ever

By Kevin A. Canessa Jr.

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North Arlington man was arrested Friday, May 20, on charges of participating in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to traffic counterfeit computer-networking devices, U.S. Attorney

Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Musa Karaman, 35, is charged by complaint with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

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Kearny High School’s De Los Santos to receive prestigious Governor’s Award

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here are plenty of superlatives that come to mind when the name Gabriel De Los Santos is mentioned, chiefly among them, talented singer, tremendous actor, future in the business. Now there’s one more thing to add to that ever-growing list — recipient of the prestigious New Jersey Governor’s Award for Arts Education.

And get this — it was the folks at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center — NJPAC — who nominated him for excellence in music. The state informed Kearny Superintendent of Schools Patricia Blood and Kearny High School Principal Jacki Richardson of his selection by email.

De Los Santos has been singing for years in Kearny — often at the town’s Christmas Tree lighting — and has had integral roles in musical productions at Kearny High School.

These are only a handful of his accomplishments, so it really comes as no surprise to anyone who knows this young man that he’s being honored statewide.

It surely wasn’t a surprise for his principal, Jacki Richardson.

“I … we … are so very proud of Gabriel. The whole school

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De Los Santos, with mic in hand, is seen here singing at a previous event.

The Kearny High School musician now has the distinction of being the recipient of one of the state’s highest arts award for teens.

community pulled together to vote for him to get in a top spot for a singing competition. His voice is angelic and I cannot wait to see his name in lights and on a song billboard somewhere.

He’s that talented and down to earth.

I’m looking forward to what the future brings to him and his family,” Richardson said.

Soon-to-retire Superintendent of Schools Patricia Blood echoed Richardson’s sentiments.

“The entire Kearny School community is extremely proud of

Gabriel’s recognition as a recipient of the 2022 Governor’s Award in Arts Education,” Blood said. “Gabriel has been an active member of Kearny High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, performing in lead roles in productions of “In the Heights” and “The Addams Family.” He received high honors in Teen Arts in both 2018 and 2019, and won Outstanding Achievement in the Virtual Setting in 2021. Gabriel’s hard work and commitment to the arts is noteworthy, and the entire faculty and

administration is thrilled to see him recognized for his efforts. I know his future will be very bright!”

Now, perhaps even more impressive, to boot, De Los Santos is one of only a handful of kids from Hudson County — and the only student in The Observer’s readership area — to be receiving an award of this nature.

So just what are these awards?

Well, according to the organizers, “the Governor’s Awards in Arts Education program was established in 1980 to celebrate artistic excellence and create visibility, awareness and appreciation for the impact the arts have on our lives and culture. These awards represent the highest honor given in New Jersey, honoring the outstanding creative achievements of students, the promotion and support of arts education by educators and arts organizations.”

It’s all coordinated by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Each year, there’s a special awards ceremony — but it’s been remote since 2020 thanks to the pandemic.

But this year, it is back to being inperson, and will take place Thursday, May 26, at the Patriot’s Theatre at the War Memorial in Trenton, and will be live streamed via YouTube, Facebook Live and at www.njgaae.org.

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Kearny, where parking is rarely easy, undertaking another study

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n 2019, the Town of Kearny commissioned Neglia Engineering, its Lyndhurst-based consulting engineers, to undertake a “parking permit implementation review” with the hope that the study would lead to solutions to satisfy residents’ demand for curbside parking.

Based on its findings that the town has about 38,200 vehicles for 13,500 occupied housing units — equating to just about one vehicle per

resident — and given the available curbside space, that leaves Kearny with a shortfall of 23,000 parking spaces.

That, in turn, led Neglia to conclude a parking permit system is a “key management tool” to deal with the crush.

Neglia recommended dividing the town into five parking permit zones and contracting with a vendor to implement and maintain a license plate reader system with one LPR vehicle and estimated an operating cost of about $100,000 for an See PARKING, Page 15

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We salute you, Brendan Thiele

MEMORIAL DAY PARADE Thursday, May 26, 2022 Belgrove Drive, Kearny On the solemn Memorial Day Weekend we remember the departed...and we honor those to whom honor meant all... with sorrow and pride, with respect and gratitude. To the valiant, who selflessly gave all, that our great nation might endure in strength and freedom, we pay heartfelt tribute.

May the memory of their gallant deeds ever inspire us.

Assembly on Locust Avenue at 6:30 p.m.

Parade begins at 7 p.m.

Proceed south from Locust Avenue to Bergen Avenue Parade reviewing stand will be on east side of Belgrove Drive between Afton and Bergen Grand Marshal

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In case of rain, services will take place at Post 99, American Legion

Photo courtesy of Steven Thiele

The Observer proudly congratulates and salutes Brendan Thiele, of Kearny, a 2018 graduate of St. Peter’s Prep, who graduated Friday, May 20, from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. (He is also a 2018 Observer Athlete of the Week.) Brendan’s family owns and operates the Thiele Family Funeral Home (parents Helen and Steven) on Belgrove Drive. On behalf of all of us at The Observer — and the entire Town of Kearny — we salute you, Brendan Thiele, on this fine accomplishment.

You have done as all very proud. (H/T John Koutsouris.)

Nutley Public Library joins statewide telehealth program

By Kevin A. Canessa Jr.

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he ongoing pandemic has put a spotlight on inequities in the healthcare system, especially among the most marginalized members of the community. Those who suffer most are new immigrants, the elderly and people from lower incomes who lack access to medical care, technology and health information that is necessary to make informed choices about their health.

They are confronted with barriers to health equity, such as the ability to find health information in a language or reading level they can understand in order to ask their medical provider the right questions.

Other barriers, such as the high cost of medical insurance or the need to work irregular shift hours, exclude some from seeing a doctor during normal office hours.

As such, the Nutley Public Library says it is playing a role in leveling the playing field through NJ Health Connect @ Your Library so everyone might have equal chances to live their healthiest life possible.

Set to launch this month, NJ Health Connect @ Your Library addresses health inequities by providing iPads preloaded with apps and links to telemedicine sites for doctor appointments, multilingual health information, low literacy health resources, places for mental health support for adults and teens, the latest COVID updates and crisis

hotlines in New Jersey.

While not free, telemedicine is a more affordable, portable and convenient lifeline for people with or without medical insurance to connect with a doctor. Telehealth is a skyrocketing trend that grew out of the pandemic and is here to stay with its proven patient satisfaction.

It allows patients, especially those most vulnerable, to obtain an earlystage diagnosis, prevent illness, seek early treatment intervention and obtain and renew medications so that health equity is within the grasp of everyone.

To reserve an iPad, visit the Nutley Public Library.

The New Jersey State Library, an affiliate of Thomas Edison State University, administers the program. The project is supported by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

“We are thankful for the availability of ARPA funds, which will allow us to support the state’s mission to help people get timely, high-quality health care services. The ongoing pandemic has emphasized a need for health literacy, especially among vulnerable populations, and we’re proud to have public libraries bridge the digital divide by offering telehealth resources to their communities,” Jen Nelson, New Jersey’s state librarian, said.

Additional information about this state program may be found at www. njstatelibr.org/njhealthconnect.

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Troop 305 Bear Scouts collect books for U.S. troops serving overseas

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he Bear Den of Unit 305 “did their best” when they coordinated a book drive recently that exceeded expectations.

The brainchild of Bear Den Leader Diane Rodrigues, she along with her Scouts spearheaded the collection of 500 new and gently used books for this year’s community service project. It was designed as part of the Fellowship and Duty to God Adventure requirement to put into practice what the Bears learned about their faith.

Scouts strive to be reverent and do this by helping others.

The Bears worked together to create collection boxes of books donated by fellow scouting families and others in the community through a request on the Unit 305 Facebook page. Leaders, scouts and parents sorted the books by age and reading

level and donated them to five organizations, all with different literary missions.

Operation Paperback provides the “opportunity to escape into a good book” by sending reading material to American men and women serving

in the armed forces, veterans and military families at home and overseas. The adult paperback and hardcover books provide new reading material for the soldiers for mental escape and relaxation. The soldiers were also gifted children’s books to

read to their sons and daughters virtually during deployment.

The pre-k and kindergarten books enable Precious Angels Daycare in Kearny to expand their library collection for their growing program.

Books for children and adults were given to Intermountain Therapy Animals to support their Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) program to boost confidence in literacy skills during non-judgmental team sessions. The child or adult reads aloud to a registered therapy dog under the supervision of a literacy mentor.

Books in a variety of subjects were placed in the book nooks sponsored by the Kearny Elks 1050 near every school throughout Kearny.

The Oasis in Paterson, a safe house for battered women and children, also received a number of donations.

In photo, Den leader Diane Rodrigues with some of the Scouts who collected books for troops.

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Opinion & Viewpoints EDITORIAL Locally, Scarpelli and Tucci set an example for nation to follow

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Tucci served through last week and Scarpelli will serve the next two years.

Remember, in Nutley, the top vote getter among the commissioners is traditionally selected by the entire Board of Commissioners to serve in the mostly ceremonial position of mayor and not chosen by the voters.

And in the very same year when the results of the election for President of the United States were called into question by many, Scarpelli and Tucci came to an immediate agreement — and they absolutely, though not shockingly, followed through on it.

It’s not that we thought the agreement wouldn’t be honored, but that it happened so simply is a reminder of what could be in this country.

We live in a region where a local instance should and could very well set a fine example of how to operate politically everywhere.

In his time as mayor, Tucci guided the township through two of the most difficult we might see in our lifetimes — the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the vaccines, to today. It couldn’t have been an easy task, but Tucci rose to the occasion as well as anyone could have dreamed.

And now, with Scarpelli back in the seat as of a week ago, we are confident that momentum will continue. We base this on the last two years and 2016-2020, when Scarpelli previously and successfully served in the mayor’s office.

We can only hope the example of Nutley, a tiny township in Essex County, sets the tone for the county, the region and the entire country. If more in government acted this way, we’d all be so much better off.

Janet Rose: Voters should remember hideous bag ban next election To the Editor: A daily newspaper recently published a rather long article about the problems the writer had shopping after bags were banned. She concluded it is something we are going to have to live with, and there lies the problem.

Every time our elected representatives pass a law that makes our lives more difficult, or expensive, we have become programmed to say that is something we have to live with. If the voters would wake from

LETTER TO THE EDITOR their stupors, and let their representatives know they were elected to make our lives better. If they do not, the shouldn’t expect our votes next time they run.

I have read a lot about the banning of plastic bags, but not one reason as to why paper bags were included in the law. Paper bags should once again be made

legal, and with handles, the type bag that some stores have previously packed our purchases.

Oh, paper bags with handles would be more expensive than regular bags. Well the supermarkets can make up the price difference in the savings they enjoy by not giving out plastic bags, and the profits the make from the sales of reusable bags.

Voters, wake up!

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Armand Rose: a possible death penalty might have deterred Buffalo slayer To the Editor: The anger and frustration of many black Buffalo residents is understandable when they say if Payton Gendron were Black, the police would not have taken him into custody alive.

They will be joined by white agitators and some in the media who will voice the same opinion.

It’s understandable, because when he is convicted, he will get to live

LETTER TO THE EDITOR out the rest of his life at the taxpayers’ expense.

He will be fed, clothed and probably receive better medical care then those he murdered.

He will be furnished with books to read and cable TV. A solution that would go a long way to stop these premeditated murders

In Memoriam Mary A. Tortoreti 1942-2016

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would be to bring back the death penalty, but those complaining Gendron was taken alive would not support it.

Evidence that in many cases the death penalty would be a deterrent is when Payton Gendron was faced with the decision of whether he wanted to live or die — he choice life.

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Kearny HS Fed Challenge Podcast among the best in Tri-State area

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T That’s Peregrina Balboa, of Kearny, (at the cake) who last weekend celebrated her 96th birthday with her family and friends in her backyard. She came to America from Spain decades ago and continues to live an active life in Kearny. If you’ve never met her before, you’ve likely met her daughter — Lupe Oliveira — a longtime pharmacy tech at Arlington (two rows behind mom).

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he Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced the results of this year's High School Fed Challenge, an academic paper competition in which student teams researched and analyzed an economic theme, then wrote podcast scripts reflecting their research — and Kearny High School is among the top schools in the competition.

The selected podcast scripts will be published in this year's issue of the Journal of Future Economists, which will publish this summer.

The Kearny High School cast was called “Money Talks Podcast.” The other honorees were from all over Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

“The mixture of rigorous scholarship and creativity we saw in this year’s submissions deeply impressed the educators and professional economists who reviewed the entries,” Heather Daly, director of economic education at the New York Fed, said. “The selected teams all demonstrated an ability to ask important questions, research those questions collaboratively and present their findings in a lively and engaging manner.”

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Challenge aims to encourage students in 9th to 12th grade to learn more about economics and promote economics as a subject for study and a career possibility. Students are not required to have studied economics to participate.

From 1995 to 2020, the High School Fed Challenge was conducted as a competition in which teams played the role of monetary policymakers by analyzing economic conditions and making a policy recommendation.

Teams traveled to the New York Fed in lower Manhattan for three rounds of elimination competition, each of which was judged by New York Fed employees.

The New York Fed changed the challenge to an academic paper competition in 2021 to encourage broader participation. The theme for each year’s competition is announced in September.

“We want students to know that economics is open to them as both a field of study and a possible career,”. Daly said. “We see this competition and our other resources as a way to swing open the doors to this important field that impacts their own lives and communities every day.”

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Nutley softball team loses heartbreaker to Mount St. Dominic Academy

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NEWARK — The disappointment on their faces was understandable as they walked off the field at Ivy Hill Park Saturday night.

But as members of the Nutley softball team made their way back to the bus, they knew there was more work to be done and another goal at hand.

Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Mount St. Dominic in the Essex County Tournament final was a setback, but with two wins already in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3

tournament, the Raiders focus is now solely on bringing that championship back home.

“We got plans. This (winning Essex County) was part of them, but this is done, this is done and over,” Nutley head coach Luann Zullo said. “This is done and over with. Now we have to look toward states and we have an opportunity in front of us.

We have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and look forward to Tuesday.”

What awaits Tuesday for Nutley, the second seed in N2G3 is a semifinal matchup against third-seeded South Plainfield. With a win, the

Raiders would be in the sectional final for third season in a row against either West Morris or a Cranford team, which it beat 1-0 in April after losing a heartbreaker to the Union County school in last year’s final.

Star pitcher Fallyn Stoeckel, who was brilliant in that regular season matchup with Cranford, was once again up to task on Saturday night against Mount St. Dominic, matching zeroes for the first five innings with the non-public power.

Stoeckel struck out the first three batters she faced and See SOFTBALL, Page 10

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Bloomfield run in Greater Newark tournament comes to an end Beginning with those two strikeouts, Cerwinski retired the final 11 batters Bloomfield’s dream run he faced, five of them by to the Greater Newark strikeout. Seton Hall Prep Tournament final may responded with six more have had a nightmarish runs in the bottom of the ending. But as the dust second, putting the game settled on the Bengals’ out of reach.

15-0, five-inning defeat to “I felt like even after the Seton Hall Prep Saturday first inning our kids were at Yogi Berra Stadium, it up on the fence and into marked a time to focus the game,” said Policastro. more on what Bloomfield “(In the second) after we had accomplished — most didn’t score with the bases notably making the GNT loaded and then Seton Hall final for the first time scored four or five more, since 1997 — and what I think our kids were just more it hopes to achieve down. in the upcoming state “I told them after the tournament. game the result isn’t what “They came out and you wanted, but I’m proud hit the ball, hats off to of the run that we made. them, they took it to us,” The bottom line is that we Bloomfield head coach made a run to the GNT Mike Policastro said. “I’m final for the first time in not going to cry about 25 years. We’re the runner it and dwell over it. Our up in the GNT and that’s a kids earned the right to pretty big accomplishment be there. Obviously losing when Seton Hall is in your 15-0 is not how you want to county. We still have four go out.” games to prepare for the Seton Hall Prep jumped state tournament.” out to an early 4-0 lead Bloomfield looks to in the bottom of the first bounce back, starting inning, but in the top of Monday at Garfield, the second, Bloomfield followed by a doubleloaded the bases with one header on Tuesday when out and seemed poised to it hosts Wayne Valley at 4 cut into the deficit. Seton p.m. and then Rutherford Hall Prep’s John Cerwinski at 7. The Bengals close the struck out the next two regular season on Friday at batters to get out of the inning unscathed.

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after an Olivia Bibbo sacrifice bunt and Sophia Kiseloski hit, Martinez scored on Sydney Continued from Page 9 Rosenkranz’s sacrifice fly to deep right field. allowed just three hits and A bobble in the infield a walk over those first five scored Kiseloski for the innings. For the game, she second run. struck out seven, allowing “The kid is a flat out one earned run on five hits and a walk. It marked the 14th ball player, she loves to play,” Mount St. Dominic consecutive game Stoeckel coach Rob Stern said about has allowed one earned run Martinez, who went 2-foror less, a stretch where the 3 and is hitting .395 on the Raiders have gone 12-2. year after sitting out the The Rider-bound senior first three weeks due to the now has an eye-popping 275 state’s transfer rules. “She’d strikeouts for the season. probably rather go out and “I think she’s been great play two more games, rather her entire career, but this than go eat. She loves the year she’s taken it to a whole other level,” Zullo said. “She’s competition. I couldn’t be prouder of her.” a competitor through and In the top of the seventh, through. I will put her on the Nikki Cicchetti reached on an mound against anybody.” infield single and stole second But in the bottom of the with one out. But with the sixth, Mount St. Dominic tying run at bat, Mount St. broke through. Naya Martinez, a Lyndhurst native Dominic pitcher Grace Perez recorded her 14th strikeout and transfer from Lyndhurst High School, led off with her for out number two, then second hit of the night. Then induced a popup to Martinez

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Nutley reached the N2G3 semifinals with a 4-0 first round victory over Mendham last Tuesday, followed by a 7-0 victory against Summit in the quarterfinals on Friday. nnn Locally, Lyndhurst’s state tournament hopes are still alive after an 18-0 first round victory against Newark Tech in the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 2 tournament last Tuesday. The Golden Bears were set to play at Madison in the quarterfinals Monday. This weekend also saw Lyndhurst senior Ella Tozduman record her 100th career hit as part of a 12-0 regular season win over Harrison. The ace hurler also struck out 12.

Kearny, North Arlington and Bloomfield, meanwhile, saw their state tournament runs end in last Tuesday’s first round. The Vikings fell, 7-2, at Belvidere in the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 tournament.

In the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 tournament, the Kardinals dropped a 9-3 decision to Columbia while the Bengals lost a 14-8 slugfest at Union City.

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he believes his team is well prepared.

“I just think when you Continued from Page 9 play a schedule like we do when you’re playing in the Roxbury.

SEC American Division The NJSIAA state baseball where you’re always seeing tournament will be officially good pitching and then seeded on Wednesday (May you’re playing teams like 24) based on a power point system that takes into account GL, Roxbury, Old Tappan (it prepares you),” Policastro said. games played up until this “We’ve seen our share of guys past Saturday (May 21). that throw hard and are very Based on those power points, Bloomfield is projected good pitchers. There’s no easy wins on our schedule. I think to be the 11th seed in North it sets us up well for a possible Jersey, Section 1, Group run because when you play 4 and is set to face sixthgood teams day in and day out, seeded Columbia. Policastro and there’s no easy games and knows that Columbia is a your kids are battling all the tough draw and on paper, the time, to me, that makes them Bengals’ 9-15 record might not look impressive. But with battle tested.” nnn the schedule they play and While unofficial, it appears their recent tournament,

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Marcella Blancato switches to distance running & you’d never know she was a novice because of COVID. Then, in my sophomore season, I started running the 400 (during outdoor). Then this year, they brought up the 800 and I was like ‘woah, we keep upping the distance!’ It just seemed crazy to me.”

Now the only thing that seems crazy about it are the times Blancato is already putting up in the event.

During Friday’s Essex County Championships in Montclair, Blancato set a school record in the 800 with a time of 2:23.77. The time, more than three seconds faster than her previous personal best, was good for second place to only Millburn’s Miriam Wolk.

For her performance, Blancato, who only started

believes in the process and I’m looking forward to seeing her run in the state sectional race.”

When Nutley track coaches “About two or three weeks Gerald Ryan and Ed Annett ago, I started feeling a little first presented Marcella more comfortable,” Blancato Blancato with the idea of said. “It’s just a little bit running the 800 meters near difficult to get used to the the conclusion of the indoor strategy and techniques of how track season, the idea was met to run the 800 because it’s not with disbelief. just an all-out sprint. You have Most of the runners in the to plan out the way you want to 800 specialize in distance run it. It takes a little while to running, so for a sprinter like get used to.”

Blancato, the idea of being Blancato and Ryan took a moved to the 800 seemed, as different approach to Friday’s she put it, “crazy.” championship. Rather than “I was really confused focus on specific times after because it just seemed like a each quarter, Ryan told her to really long distance for me,” “worry about where you are in Blancato said. “When I was the race.” a freshman, I ran the 55 and Photo by Jason Bernstein “(I told her) you’re running Marcella Blancato the 200 in my winter season in the seeded race so you’re before losing the spring training for the 800 on the something closer to that. Three going to be with all of the first day of practice for the seconds faster than that is just fastest kids in the county,” Ryan outdoor season in March, has crazy in just the span of a week said. “Stay with the lead group been selected as The Observer or two. I was just shocked that and you and Miriam (Wolk) Athlete of the Week.

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Obituaries Carl J. Sudol Carl J. Sudol, of Burlington, died peacefully at home Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

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WCA hosts successful baby shower for Salvation Army The Woman’s Club of Arlington hosted its annual “Baby Shower” benefiting the Salvation Army at its monthly meeting in April.

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But we digress.

Why, then, would a girl in her teens want to go into the military? For Cirne, there wasn’t a second of hesitation in her answer when we asked.

“I always liked structure and there is a lot of structure in the military,” Cirne says. “And, in four years, I would graduate with a degree as a second lieutenant with 100% job placement with the ability to serve my country. Little else made sense.”

Cirne says though she’ll be fully trained, it’s unlikely she’d ever seen active combat. She plans to major in engineering, and she hopes to go to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where, currently, 37,000 people — civilian and commissioned — work in 130 countries worldwide, with responsibilities for keeping America’s infrastructure sound and for building “military facilities where our servicemembers train, work and live.”

To be admitted to the academy, she underwent a rigorous evaluation process, which includes a physical component. That part was certainly aided by her time spent as a runner

at Lyndhurst HS. Oh, and did we mention she also spent the last few years playing the Lyndhurst Golden Bear, the mascot that attends football and basketball games, in addition to numerous town-wide events like parades, concerts and the like?

Can you say well-rounded?

Still, this is a huge sacrifice for the soon-to-be LHS alum, who is, in essence, giving up the summer after her senior year of high school.

“I’ve always been one to want to try everything,” Cirne says.

And while it will be an adjustment, it won’t be the first time she’s been away from home.

Cirne and a group of peers traveled, without adults, to Thailand — so being far from Lyndhurst without her family isn’t quite foreign.

Bottom line, nonetheless, is that she’s realizing her dream and is going to make the best of it.

“My mom has been so supportive.

As has my grandfather,” she says.

Speaking of grandpa, Lyndhurst’s Joseph Sferruzza, Cirne has the greatest cheerleader in him.

“We’re supposed to say if she graduates from the academy she’ll be the first from Lyndhurst,” Sferruzza says. “But I say when she graduates from the academy, because I know she can do this.”

And it all begins just five days after her high school graduation, the last week in June.

FRAUD

Continued from Page 1 Although Karaman and his conspirators advertised the Cisco products they offered for sale as new and genuine, the products were in fact counterfeit Cisco devices the conspirators procured from various illicit suppliers in China.

In May 2021, federal agents executed a search warrant at a Woodland Park warehouse Karaman and his conspirators used as their business headquarters and discovered thousands of counterfeit Cisco devices, including 7,260 counterfeit Cisco transceivers with a total manufacturer’s suggested retail price of approximately $13.77 million.

Cisco informed law enforcement officials this is one of the largest volumes of counterfeit Cisco transceivers ever seized in the United States, and the total value of the seized counterfeit Cisco transceivers was unprecedented.

From September 2017 to May 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized approximately $3.8 million worth of counterfeit Cisco products contained in over 20 shipments sent by illicit China-based suppliers to various locations under the control of Karaman and his conspirators, including their warehouse and home addresses, often under bogus names.

Demir was charged by criminal complaint May 26, 2021, in this matter.

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Continued from Page 3 initial “pilot” program limited to 5,000 permitted vehicles supported by an estimated $75,000 in revenues based on an annual permit fee of $15 per vehicle.

A series of public meetings ensued and residents came up with detailed questions touching on all facets of parking conundrums involving length of curb cuts, use of driveways, commercial vehicles parking overnight, etc.

And then the pandemic hit, relegating the issue of parking to the back burner.

But now, with COVID-19 showing signs of abating, and parking still a pesky problem, it’s back on the table.

Recently, the town governing body hired Advanced Parking Planning Systems LLC, of North Bergen, to do a “phase 1 parking study” at a cost up to $25,000.

The contract will run through Dec. 31, 2022.

Mayor Alberto G. Santos said the company’s owner, Robert Baselice, has run the North Bergen Parking Authority for many years and is a parking consultant for other municipalities in the region.

“He has brought order and fairness to parking in other towns,” the mayor said.

APPS will be expected to host “a community forum on parking, develop a survey of concise parking needs, mail a survey asking for input on those parking needs, tabulate survey results to assess the needs of the Kearny residents and community and prepare a report on recommendations to be presented to the mayor and council for residents for initial ordinances to improve parking.”

As part of a resume attached to the resolution awarding the contract, Baselice — who has served the North Bergen Parking Authority for 17 years — takes credit for creating a website to get parking updates out to residents, expanding North Bergen’s residential parking program townwide and enhancing the commercial vehicle parking ordinance.

Baselice says he worked with township officials to increase resident rentable parking lots from five with 87 spaces to 22 lots with more than 450 spaces and he introduced angle parking in business districts, creating an additional 150 spaces for residents.

Additionally, Baselice says the NBPA partnered with a software developer to implement a system for over-the-counter, online and onstreet pay station permitting. He says the NBPA also added pay stations

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Picking up a theme previously voiced by Neglia, Baselice says, “Permitting has advanced to being virtual where a vehicle’s license plate is now the permit and parking enforcement is now performed by license plate recognition technology.

“To build a project, you need a blueprint,” he said. “Everyone contributes and works on that blueprint. Then and only then, when the project is finally built, people will own it.”

In another roadway-related move, the Kearny mayor and council voted last week to contract with Boswell Engineering, of South Hackensack, to provide traffic engineering services for a traffic study along Passaic Avenue, from Bergen to Johnston avenues, at a cost of $29,700.

Given there have been several new residential complexes and commercial revitalization along that stretch of Passaic Avenue, with the prospect of yet another residential development at the old American Strip Steel site, 55 Passaic Ave., Santos said the town anticipates an additional load of vehicular traffic.

In a work proposal, Boswell representative Joseph A. Pomante notes that, “…traffic congestion (along Passaic Avenue) has the potential to further worsen. The constricted right-of-way and cost of property acquisition eliminates traditional mitigation such as roadway widening.

In addition, the vacant K-Mart site will be occupied in the near future by Target, a significant traffic generator.”

Moreover, Pomante notes, the “multiple driveways serving the retail and commercial properties” contribute to the slowing of traffic along that roadway.

To further assess traffic operations along the avenue, Pomante says Boswell will undertake a field inventory of traffic signal hardware and equipment, conduct turning movement counts during weekday peak periods and Saturdays along Passaic at Bergen Avenue, the K-Mart driveway, Marshall’s/BJ’s driveway, Belgrove Drive and Johnston Avenue, obtain crash data between 2015 and 2020, perform analyses of peak periods and present findings to the town.

“If so directed, Boswell will reprogram the on-street controllers and install time-based coordination features (such as GPS clocks provided by others), if desired,” Pomante said, but if the town wants to include that final task, Boswell’s overall price would rise to $38,700.

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Even a quick look at Google Maps/Street View demonstrates just how poor parking is in Kearny. Here, several cars are double parked, a scene all-toocommon in the town.

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Stk#22-1199, VIN#NZ235077, Auto, 4x4, 4-Cyl, Remote Start, T/Gls, Keyless Entry, P/S/ABS, Spray On Bedliner, Backup Cam, 20” Aluminum Whls, Trailering Package. MSRP: $44,355. Lease price includes $1,500 Lease Loyalty or Conquest if qual. Total due at inception incl. $695 Bank Fee, $0 Sec Deposit, & $299 1st Mo Payment. Total due $5,989 w/ $4,995 down w/total lease payment of $11,661 + taxes. Lease includes 10k mi/yr; $.25 thereafter. Buy for price includes $500 Factory Rebate, $500 Military and $1,790 Dealer Discount if qual. Price(s) include(s) all costs to be paid by consumer, except for licensing costs, registration fees, and taxes. Offers end 5/31/22.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

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