Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park Special Education Teacher Charged With Abusing Children Elmwood Park Special Education Teacher Charged With Abusing Children Elmwood Park Special Education Teacher Charged With Abusing Children
Elmwood Park Special Education Teacher Charged With Abusing Children ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A special education teacher in Elmwood Park was arrested on low-degree child abuse charges involving a male and female youngster, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli confirmed Monday afternoon. Ashley L. Frabizzio, 30, of Butler, was taken into custody on Saturday after a school administrator of the Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School called police, who immediately notified Molinelli's Special Victims Unit and the New Jersey Division of Child Protection & Permanency Institutional Abuse Unit. Frabizzio later posted $2,500 bail and was released pending arraignm…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Westwood Church Welcomes All To 'Circle Of Friends' Meal Westwood Church Welcomes All To 'Circle Of Friends' Meal Westwood Church Welcomes All To 'Circle Of Friends' Meal
Westwood Church Welcomes All To 'Circle Of Friends' Meal WESTWOOD, N.J -- No reservations are needed for a special dinner being served this Thursday by a Westwood church. Everyone is welcome at the monthly “Circle of Friends” dinner at Parkside Community Church, beginning at 6 p.m. You could be in financial straits -- or simply need a break from cooking for one night. Maybe you're tired of eating alone. The menu includes a hot entrée served with vegetables, bread, salad and assorted desserts. "It has been a terrific outreach to many who are struggling, but not enough people know about it despite some of our various efforts to get the word…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside Park Adds 10 Police Officers, Deputy Chief, Captain, Sergeants Cliffside Park Adds 10 Police Officers, Deputy Chief, Captain, Sergeants Cliffside Park Adds 10 Police Officers, Deputy Chief, Captain, Sergeants
Cliffside Park Adds 10 Police Officers, Deputy Chief, Captain, Sergeants CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. -- Cliffside Park appointed 10 new police officers, made Timothy Kelly a deputy chief and Thomas Ingenito a captain and promoted four officers to sergeant. Sgts. Yakup Zoklu, Teddy Tarabokija, Paul Hroncich and Khako Khanukayev took their oaths during a Dec. 8 mayor and council meeting. The new police officers: Alex Amaya Jason Pinzone Michael Handschin Ryan Stanek Richard Gaito Jr. Jonathan Petermann Roy Kesenci Krikor Kiledjian Michael Russo Anthony Iafelice

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Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandated Teacher-Student Relationship Training NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandated Teacher-Student Relationship Training NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandated Teacher-Student Relationship Training
NJ Lawmaker Wants Mandated Teacher-Student Relationship Training A state Senate committee in Trenton on Monday advanced a proposal that would require professional development training on appropriate relationships with students for all public school teachers in Jersey. “It is a troubling reality that in schools across our state, social media, email and texting have blurred the lines of appropriate student-teacher communication,” Sen. Diane Allen (R-Burlington) said after the Senate Education Committee sent the bill on. “We must take professional development into the 21st century and ensure that every public school teacher in New Jersey has the knowledge a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway Sign To Be Unveiled In Waldwick Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway Sign To Be Unveiled In Waldwick Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway Sign To Be Unveiled In Waldwick
Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway Sign To Be Unveiled In Waldwick WALDWICK, N.J. -- The official dedication of a stretch of Route 17 in Waldwick the Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway will take place Wednesday in honor of the fallen hero. “It is a very fitting and touching tribute to a great officer,” Lt. Douglas Moore told Daily Voice. A ceremonial unveiling of the sign designating the stretch of highway is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in front of the municipal public safety building -- also named for Goodell -- on East Prospect Street. Goodell was working a radar detail in his unmarked cruiser, parked on the shoulder of southbound Route 17, when…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Peace Light Makes Its Way From Bethlehem Grotto To Hasbrouck Heights Church Peace Light Makes Its Way From Bethlehem Grotto To Hasbrouck Heights Church Peace Light Makes Its Way From Bethlehem Grotto To Hasbrouck Heights Church
Peace Light Makes Its Way From Bethlehem Grotto To Hasbrouck Heights Church HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- A flame ignited by an oil lamp in Bethlehem will make its way to a Hasbrouck Heights church for a special Christmastime service this Friday night. "It's such a lovely and moving ceremony," Julie Lopez of Corpus Christi Church told Daily Voice. "It helps spread the mission of peace, joy and goodwill." For more than 1,000 years, oil lamps have continuously burned in a grotto beneath the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the site where Jesus Christ was born. Over nearly three decades, a child from Austria is selected each year to fetch the …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Maywood Man Shot In Rochelle Park By Police Had BB Gun, Prosecutor Says Maywood Man Shot In Rochelle Park By Police Had BB Gun, Prosecutor Says Maywood Man Shot In Rochelle Park By Police Had BB Gun, Prosecutor Says
Maywood Man Shot In Rochelle Park By Police Had BB Gun, Prosecutor Says ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A 46-year-old Maywood man shot by police overnight in Rochelle Park had a BB gun with its orange tip painted over, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli confirmed Monday morning. Matthew Chaseman had crashed his car moments earlier and remained inside when security at the Bergen County Social Services building on northbound Route 17 called police just before 3:30 a.m., the prosecutor said. Two responding officers struck him with shots "in the lower extremities," Molinelli said. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, the prosecutor said. …

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Sinatra Centennial, Eyes Future Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Sinatra Centennial, Eyes Future Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Sinatra Centennial, Eyes Future
Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Sinatra Centennial, Eyes Future FORT LEE, N.J. -- The Fort Lee Film Commission celebrated the 100th birthday of Frank Sinatra, along with its own proud heritage, with a sold-out awards dinner Saturday night at In Napoli. Some of Sinatra's favorite dishes, including veal marsala, were prepared by chef Sam Gnasso at the Main Street restaurant, within walking distance of what once as Bill Miller's Riviera nighclub -- where Sinatra in 1953 launched a legendary comeback with a two-week engagement. Mayor Mark Sokolich presented former Tenafly actor Paul Sorvino ("The Godfather" "Goodfellas") the Billy Bitzer…

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Bergen PBA Toy Drive For Ill, Needy Children Promises Greatest Run Ever Bergen PBA Toy Drive For Ill, Needy Children Promises Greatest Run Ever Bergen PBA Toy Drive For Ill, Needy Children Promises Greatest Run Ever
Bergen PBA Toy Drive For Ill, Needy Children Promises Greatest Run Ever CLOSTER, N.J. -- Hard as it might be for some to believe, veteran police officer Don Nicoletti considered resigning a few months ago from the annual Bergen County PBA Toy Drive that he helped launch 27 years ago. That changed amid a rising tide of negative media portrayals of law enforcement -- and an equal increase in the enthusiasm of local police officers to help ill and needy children. "It kills me when I put on the news and I see how people treat the cops," he told Daily Voice. "In lieu of everything that's happening out there, something like this deserves everyone's att…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Garfield Firefighters Train With 'Batrope'-Styled Evacuation Device Garfield Firefighters Train With 'Batrope'-Styled Evacuation Device Garfield Firefighters Train With 'Batrope'-Styled Evacuation Device
Garfield Firefighters Train With 'Batrope'-Styled Evacuation Device GARFIELD, N.J. -- Garfield firefighters trained Saturday with a unique "Batrope"-like system that allows them to escape a dangerous upper-floor situation in seconds. They bought the $80,000 Petzle EXO Bailout System with money from a $114,000 FEMA assistance to firefighters grant awarded last year. Using a cut- and heat-resistant rope, the system allows firefighters to get down from heights quickly when exits are blocked. Tens of thousands of fire departments around the world use it.

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