Latest Palisades Park New Jersey (NJ) News
In New Jersey, Memorial for 'Comfort Women' Deepens Old Animosity - New York Times |
New York Times
Two delegations of Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, NJ, this month with a request that took local administrators by surprise: The Japanese wanted a small monument removed from a public park. The monument, a brass plaque on a block of stone, --
Washington Post
Huffington Post
Daily Mail
| NJ town's monument upsetting Japanese officials - Boston.com |
Boston.com
PALISADES PARK, NJ—Japanese officials are asking a small northern New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
| Portion of Palisades hiking trails closed by rock fall - NorthJersey.com |
NorthJersey.com
BY EVONNE COUTROS ALPINE – Two miles of riverside hiking trails in the New Jersey section of Palisades Interstate Park will remain closed this holiday weekend because of boulders and debris from plunging rocks earlier this month.
| Events in New Jersey - New York Times |
New York Times
JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue. jccotp.org; (201) 569-7900. Outdoors LAKEWOOD FirstEnergy Park “Jersey Shore Wine Festival,” featuring samples from more than 100 varieties of New Jersey wines, vendors and musical performances.
| Memorial Day weekend events: Sussex, Warren, Bergen and Passaic counties - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com |
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Memorial Day weekend is upon us again and the Garden State is full to Uncle Sam's brim with parades and festivals throughout New Jersey commemorating America's fallen soldiers and the welcoming warm weather. If you are looking for something to do for --
| Japanese Officials Ask NJ Town to Remove Memorial to Korean Sex Slaves - Christian Post |
Christian Post
The officials visited the New Jersey town of Palisades Park, home to some 20000 residents of Korean decent, earlier this month to ask the city to remove its public memorial paying tribute to women abused by Japanese forces during WWII as "comfort women --
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
| North Jersey, Section 2, Groups 1, 4 and Non-Public A North -- Live results -- - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) |
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
By Rich Bevensee/For The Star-Ledger Welcome back to NJ.com and its coverage of New Jersey high school track and field. We're at Ridge HS in Basking Ridge for sectional championship weekend. This is the North Jersey, Section 2, Groups 1, --
| Japan struggles against US statue to comfort women - The Hankyoreh |
The Hankyoreh
Tokyo is hard at work trying to get a New Jersey monument to comfort women taken down. Hiroki Shigeyuki, Japan's general consul in New York, met with Palisades Park mayor James Rotundo on May 1 to offer gifts in exchange for having a monument to --
Mainichi Daily News
| Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend - MarketWatch (press release) |
MarketWatch (press release)
Bank of New Jersey, headquartered at 1365 Palisade Avenue, Fort Lee, New Jersey, offers convenient hours and a high level of service for traditional consumer and commercial products and services. The Bank, currently, has 8 branch offices located in --
| Fort Lee's Yellow Brick Road: The Thousand Steps of the Palisades - Patch.com |
Patch.com
This trip is worthy of any story you can read in Weird NJ magazine. Forget the GPS; this location is hidden even from modern day mapping technology. The trip to the Thousand Steps starts on Hudson Terrace in Fort Lee – proceed north to the Palisades --
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