Few were happy to learn Punxsutawney Phil Sowerby, the famed Pennsylvania groundhog who bases weather forecasts on whether or not he sees his shadow, predicted six more weeks of winter earlier this month.

EDGEWATER €” After deliberating over two potential demographers, the district has settled on its long-time partner, Whitehall Associates Inc., to project school enrollment rates for the next five years.

Jorge Valencia is a serious flight risk who already fled to Boston after the Nov. 26 armed robbery until he was arrested and brought back to Bergen County, Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi said at a hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack.

Dentistry is in Dr. Lena Andriescu's DNA

EDGEWATER €” A plan to reduce contamination at Veterans Field to the strictest residential standard will be drafted this week and presented to the governing body soon after, according to the borough's engineering consultant.

EDGEWATER - A massive, multi-year effort to clean up the Quanta Superfund site is on track to begin in late 2015 after a successful trial run late last year confirmed the best plan of remediation, a spokesperson for Honeywell International Inc., one of the companies responsible for the site, said this week.

The view is the star at one of Bergen's highest profile new restaurants.

EDGEWATER €” The Edgewater Board of Education said good-bye to seven-year member Patricia Dalton and welcomed in Barbara Bartolomeo to her seat during its reorganization meeting Jan. 9.

A two-month search for the fourth and final suspect involved in a home invasion robbery at the St. Moritz apartment high-rise ended in Massachusetts on Jan. 10 with the arrest of a former building employee and resident.