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1. Remembering the Bergen County Mall as a real town center
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY The wreckers have been busily at work in Paramus finishing off many of the last remnants of the original Bergen Mall. A new Loews has ...

2. New Jersey’s turnpike travel landmark: A ‘ship’ in a cornfield
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Some folks think driving in New Jersey can be monotonous. Those unfamiliar with the state cite a drive along the turnpike. We have never ...

3. The place on 9W where Frank Sinatra was ‘discovered’
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Today’s there’s an Exxon station along Route 9W that occasionally draws the curious on a pilgrimage of sorts. It’s not for anything ...

4. Exploring New Jersey's original 17th century turnpike
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY The reaction of folks is often not one of surprise when they hear that New Jersey is home of perhaps the oldest continuously used road ...

5. President's Day in New Jersey: Remembering the Roosevelts
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY February has morphed into Presidents' Month. First there were Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday. Then came President's Day, ...

6. Black history month in New Jersey: Local favorites of distinction
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY As Black History Month is observed, we are rightly reading much about events and persons of distinction. Looking to a local perspective ...

7. Groundhog Day 2011
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New Jersey's very own prognosticators BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY There was a time when Groundhog Day (Feb. 2) focused on one groundhog in a small town in Pennsylvania. ...

8. In search of New Jersey cowboy poets
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Elko, Nevada is again turning into a unique center of the universe this week. The small Nevada community is hosting The National Cowboy ...

9. Craigmeur: New Jersey's first ski area
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY A winter's Friday is the time for a weekly mass exodus as folks can seen heading out of the area to ski slopes in the Catskills, Poconos, ...

10. Recalling New Year's Eves past in Cedar Grove
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY On Dec. 31 folks will again head out to revel in a new year – hard to believe that 2011 beckons. Some will go to Times Square, others ...

11. NORAD once again to track Santa's Christmas Eve trek through New Jersey
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY On Christmas Eve children all around the world will again expectantly await the arrival of Santa Claus. For generations, kids have ...

12. Christmas shopping in N.J. — before big box stores & the Internet
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Well, seasonal craziness seems to have started. Just when you thought things were already hectic enough, here come the holidays. So much ...

13. Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade lives in N.J.
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Thanksgiving would not be Thanksgiving without the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — a N.Y.C. tradition since 1924. The parade, ...

14. World War I at the Cresskill Circle
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Today it is known by many simply as "The Cresskill Circle." The intersection where Knickerbocker Road, Madison Ave. and Grant Ave. converge ...

15. Animal legends interred in New Jersey soil
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY New Jersey has its obvious legends: The Jersey Devil, Thomas Edison, the Turnpike, the Shore, the Boss. Some are living legends. Some ...

16. New Jersey has long been a transportation innovator
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Most don't think much of our roads here in New Jersey. They're too crowded. Many from elsewhere associate our state with the less scenic ...

17. New Jersey's celebration of its own cranberries
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Notwithstanding the congestion and sprawl, New Jersey remains the Garden State. Jersey tomatoes and our sweet corn are as tasty as any. ...

18. New Jersey's long legacy of canals
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY In our history books considerable attention is given to the Erie Canal for how it changed America by establishing new markets and a new ...

19. Trenton was not always the capital city of New Jersey
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY We take Trenton as our capital as a given. But it was not always that way. As in our nation's history, Philadelphia and New York were ...

20. A journey into Jersey City's Journal Square
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BY ERIC MODEL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM JOURNEYS INTO NEW JERSEY Today it's a stop on the PATH line. In another time it was a town center — crossroads — perhaps not "Crossroads of the World" like Times ...