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Feel Like Shakin' It? Bogota Boogies Down
BOGOTA, N.J. -- Warm up for your New Year's Eve celebration at a pre-New Year's Eve dance party Friday, Dec. 30 in Bogota.
This Just Dance 2016 event is a fundraiser to benefit the borough's beautification projects.
The event, with DJ and dancing, hors d'oeuvres and drinks, will be at the VFW hall in Bogota.
Proceeds will help Bogota Beautiful, a community organization with a vision to mobilize people, businesses, and local groups to work together on improvement and beautification projects.
Upcoming projects include, Earth Day Clean Up, the Community Garden, Beautification Projects, Walk …
Try Cookies, Hot Cider At Pound Ridge Church's Holiday Gathering
POUND RIDGE, N.Y. -- No time bake holiday cookies? No problem.The women of Pound Ridge Community Church have it covered.
An array of homemade cookies, sold by the pound, will be available Saturday, Dec. 3 at the church Cookie Walk. In addition, there will be pies, cheesecakes, breads and foods-to-go. Live wreaths will also be for sale.
Visitors will be offered hot cider to enjoy browsing and a homemade quilt will be raffled off.
The event is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the church, 3 Pound Ridge Rd., at the intersection of Routes 137/132 in Pound Ridge.
Happy Birthday To Alpine's Britney Spears
ALPINE, N.J. -- Happy Birthday to Alpine's Britney Spears!
Spears, who formerly leased a home in Alpine, turns 34 Friday.
The singer, dancer and actress, was born Britney Jean Spears, Dec. 2, 1981 in McComb, Miss., and was raised in Kentwood, La.
She performed acting roles in stage productions and television shows as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997.
Spears's first and second studio albums, "...Baby One More Time" (1999) and "Oops!... I Did It Again" (2000), became international successes, with the former becoming the best-selling album by a teenage so…
Bridgeport Man Found Guilty Of Killing, Robbing Drug Dealer In 2013
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A Bridgeport resident found guilty by a jury Wednesday of a 2013 robbery and murder of a drug dealer could be imprisoned for 85 years, according to the Connecticut Post.
Dovante "Ritz" Gray-Brown, 25, was convicted of felony murder, first-degree robbery and carrying a pistol without a permit, the Connecticut Post reported.
The victim, 23-year-old Dwayne Gardner of Bridgeport, was discovered shot and killed Dec. 16, 2013 in his vehicle, according to the Connecticut Post.
Click here for the Connecticut Post article.
