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Toys for Tots

Stafford
Lifestyle
Stafford Family's Dazzling Christmas Display Pays Homage To Shuttered Season Staple (PHOTOS) Stafford Family's Dazzling Christmas Display Pays Homage To Shuttered Season Staple (PHOTOS)
Stafford Family's Dazzling Christmas Display Pays Homage To Shuttered Season Staple (Photos) No Christmas season from the 1980s through the 2000s was ever complete for the Silvrants family without a trip to Ho Ho Ho Land in Fredericksburg. The Cranes Corner Road homeowner, an auto mechanic, hung thousands of Christmas lights, played music, and made dozens of his own moving, wooden cutouts (see video here). And each year, people would turn out in droves to see the display. "It was phenomenal, it was amazing," said Jackie Silvrants, of Stafford. "Those of us who grew up here love and remember it with great fondness." In 2006, the Silvrants started a Christmas display of their …

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by Cecilia Levine
Calvert
Lifestyle
Calvert County Sheriff Drops Razors To Raise Money For Girl Critically Injured In Maryland Calvert County Sheriff Drops Razors To Raise Money For Girl Critically Injured In Maryland
Calvert County Sheriff Drops Razors To Raise Money For Girl Critically Injured In Maryland With the calendar turning from October to November, members of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office will be ditching their razors for a good cause. Each year, the sheriff's office participates in “No Shave November,” when Sheriff Mike Evans waives the agency's standard facial hair grooming policies to support a good cause. Deputies are dropping their razors and donating a $50 “fine” for the opportunity to grow a beard in support of 12-year-old McKenna Cox and her family after she was critically injured when she was struck by a vehicle in September in the Oakland Hall community. Evans stress…

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by Zak Failla
Warren Hunterdon
Business
‘He Fought Until The End:’ Beloved Dad, NJ Hotdog Shop Owner Vin Russo Dies After COVID Battle ‘He Fought Until The End:’ Beloved Dad, NJ Hotdog Shop Owner Vin Russo Dies After COVID Battle
‘He Fought Until The End:’ Beloved Dad, NJ Hotdog Shop Owner Vin Russo Dies After COVID Battle Beloved father and NJ hotdog shop owner Vin Russo died Friday, Feb. 4 following a courageous and valiant battle with COVID-19. Russo, who owns Joe’s Alpha Dogs at the Port Colden Mall in Washington with his wife, Frances, was admitted to the hospital with virus complications on Sunday, Jan. 9, according to a GoFundMe launched for the family. By the following day, Russo, 59, was in the ICU preparing to be put on a ventilator while dealing with separate kidney issues. Update: Just talked to Dr. He's holding. He urinated a lot. So they are holding off on procedure with the radiologist...…

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by Valerie Musson
South Passaic
Police & Fire
Keen-Eyed Dispatcher Nabs Woman Stealing From Wayne PD Toys For Tots Donation Bin: Authorities Keen-Eyed Dispatcher Nabs Woman Stealing From Wayne PD Toys For Tots Donation Bin: Authorities
Keen-Eyed Dispatcher Nabs Woman Stealing From Wayne PD Toys For Tots Donation Bin: Authorities A Paterson woman waiting to meet someone in the lobby of the Wayne police station was busted by a keen-eyed dispatcher stealing more than $155 worth of toys from the "Toys for Tots" donation bin. Rasha Elsayed was captured on security cameras exiting the lobby to the corridor of the Town Hall and remove 10 different toys from the bins on Friday, Dec. 3 around 5 p.m., Police Chief Jack McNiff said. Toys for Tots is an annual holiday toy drive that collects gifts for less fortunate children. Elsayed was arrested and charged with theft, then released on a summons in accordance with bail refor…

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by Cecilia Levine
Worcester
News
Flags To Fly At Half-Staff In Honor Of On-Duty Soldier's Death Flags To Fly At Half-Staff In Honor Of On-Duty Soldier's Death
Flags To Fly At Half-Staff In Honor Of On-Duty Soldier's Death The American flag will be flying at half-staff in Massachusetts today, Monday, Jan. 25, to honor the recent death of a soldier who had been deployed overseas. On Jan. 5, in South Korea, Staff Sergeant James Lynch Wento of the U.S. Army died, the Governor’s office said. Wento was from Lynn and was 34 years old at the time of his death. He was on his second South Korean tour. The United States of America flag and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts flag will be lowered to half-staff from sunrise until sunset on Monday. They will fly at half-staff at administrative buildings, any public or sta…

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by Kristin Palpini
Yonkers
Police & Fire
NY State Police Donate Over 1,300 Toys To Area Children For Christmas NY State Police Donate Over 1,300 Toys To Area Children For Christmas
NY State Police Donate Over 1,300 Toys To Area Children For Christmas New York State Police in Troop K, with the help of local businesses and the United States Marine Corps, has amassed 1,329 toys for donation to the Dutchess County Toys for Tots chapter.  Between Wednesday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Dec. 18, members of the community dropped off new, unwrapped toys at Troop K headquarters in Salt Point for donation. Then, area members of the Marine Corps picked up the donated presents for distribution to children in the area.  All 18 police stations in Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and Columbia counties participated in the Toys for Tots program. 

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by Christina Coulter
Essex NJ
Lifestyle
Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost
Coronavirus Concerns Postpone Bergen's Roches, Hoboken's Bongos At Montclair's Outpost Two native North Jersey musical legends had their upcoming back-to-back shows at the popular Outpost in the Burbs in Montclair postponed because of coronavirus concerns. Park Ridge’s Suzzy Roche and her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche are having their March 19 show rescheduled. So are the Bongos, the most popular band to come out of Hoboken’s thriving alternative scene. Outpost organizers said they’re working with the Bongos to reschedule their March 20 and the Roches to move theirs (the same goes for Alex Cuba, a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter who’d been booked for April 4). “While this…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mount Pleasant
Lifestyle
Giving Tuesday Kicks Off Local Toys For Tots Campaign Giving Tuesday Kicks Off Local Toys For Tots Campaign
Giving Tuesday Kicks Off Local Toys For Tots Campaign The ERA Real Estate franchise organization is teaming with the U.S. Marine Corps to support their annual Toys for Tots campaign. ERA is using #GivingTuesday, a universal day of giving back to community, to kick off a nationwide campaign of Toys for Tots toy drives in hundreds of their office locations during this holiday season. Similar to how ERA Real Estate is an international real estate franchise with locally-owned offices and a local focus, Toys for Tots is a national program with a local touch – they have programs in all 50 states and distribute an annual average of 18 million toys to…

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Fairfield
Obituaries
Joel Barlow HS Grad, 30, ID'd As Man Killed In Fire Joel Barlow HS Grad, 30, ID'd As Man Killed In Fire
Joel Barlow HS Grad, 30, ID'd As Man Killed In Fire A 30-year-old Joel Barlow High School grad has been identified as the person killed in a condominium fire on Saturday, Dec. 22.Sean Ryan Lindsley, 30, of Seymour, died at Griffin Hospital following complications received during a residential fire at the Balance Rock condominiums in Seymour. Born in Bridgeport on June 22, 1988, Lindsley was raised in Seymour and Easton, graduating from Joel Barlow High School in 2006.  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2008 attaining the rank of Corporal and served his duty assigned to security forces until the time of his honorable discharge…

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by Kathy Reakes
Putnam
Lifestyle
Lifelong Southeast Resident Helps Make Putnam Sheriff's Toy Drive A Smashing Success Lifelong Southeast Resident Helps Make Putnam Sheriff's Toy Drive A Smashing Success
Lifelong Southeast Resident Helps Make Putnam Sheriff's Toy Drive A Smashing Success A lifelong Southeast resident is known to many as a secret Santa for her tireless work all year to help make the Putnam County's Sheriff's Office to Toys For Tots drive a smashing success. Marie Brady, 90  has been a resident of Tilly Foster, Southeast, for her entire life. She is an energetic nonagenarian who donates her time and money to helping children, the department said.  Each year Brady goes around town and, through word of mouth, gets many people to donate toys for the “Toys For Tots” program, they said. She purchases many toys herself and this year, …

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by Kathy Reakes
Bridgeport
Police & Fire
Person Of Interest ID'd In Theft At Toys For Tots Christmas Drive For Underprivileged Kids Person Of Interest ID'd In Theft At Toys For Tots Christmas Drive For Underprivileged Kids
Person Of Interest ID'd In Theft At Toys For Tots Christmas Drive For Underprivileged Kids Bridgeport Police are asking the public for help in tracking down a man who is a person of interest in the theft of toys meant for the Toys for Tots program that provides Christmas gifts for underprivileged children. A large number of toys were stolen on Saturday, Dec. 1, from storage containers at the Greater Christian Fellowship Center at 180 Boston Ave., said Bridgeport Police spokesman Terron Jones. An investigation by Bridgeport detectives led to Infinite Seven, who is considered a person of interest in the theft of the toys, Jones said.  Anyone with information on…

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by Kathy Reakes
South Passaic
Police & Fire
You Can Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters You Can Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters
You Can Help Wayne Police, Marines Make Christmas Special For Needy Youngsters Wayne police hope to again make dreams come true for less fortunate children with their 9th annual "Toys for Tots" collection drive. PBA Local #136, department U.S. Marine veterans and their colleagues hope to boost the momentum they've built over the years, Capt. Laurence W. Martin said. The drive begins this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and continues through Dec. 13. New, unwrapped toys are being sought for children of any age -- but there is a special need for boys and girls ages 3 through 8. Collection boxes will be found at either Wayne police headquarters or the township pub…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck
Obituaries
Former Teaneck Mayor Francis E. Hall Dies, 94 Former Teaneck Mayor Francis E. Hall Dies, 94
Former Teaneck Mayor Francis E. Hall Dies, 94 Former Teaneck mayor and councilman Francis "Frank" E. Hall died April 16. He was 94 years old. Although he will not make it to the birthday party he had planned for this coming Saturday, he wisely threw himself a 95th birthday party two years ago when he turned 93 to hedge his bets.  Hall was born in Englewood to the late Francis E. Hall and Adele (nee Colwell), and grew up in Ridgefield Park. After graduating from Ridgefield Park High School, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. He saw combat in Guadalcanal, Bougainvill…

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by Cecilia Levine