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Jean Parker "Shep" Shepherd Jr. (July 26, [1] 1921 – October 16, 1999) [2] was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor.With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted on the basis of his own semi-autobiographical stories.
Oratam (or Oritani/Oratamin) [1] was sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century. Documentation shows that he lived an unusually long life (almost 90 years) and was quite influential among indigenous and immigrant populations.
In the midday and afternoon hours of Wednesday, March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in United States history and second-deadliest worldwide moved through Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027 more in what is sometimes known as the Great Tri-State Tornado.
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Rising tensions between Hackensack's police and the leadership of the city and the department boiled over at a City Council meeting Tuesday night.
The Sears building on Main Street at the corner of Anderson Street in Hackensack, N.J. on Thursday Feb. 3, 2022.
SOUTH HACKENSACK − Over 50 protesters gathered outside an event space Monday evening to denounce a real estate event centered around the selling of properties in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
New Bridge was a prosperous mill hamlet, centered upon a bridge strategically placed at the narrows of the Hackensack River.In the American Revolution, New Bridge Landing was the site of a strategic bridge crossing the Hackensack River, where General George Washington led his troops in retreat from British forces November 20, 1776.