A Washington Township-based bank will recoup the funds it had been seeking from Assemblyman Robert Schroeder after a Bergen County investment fund purchased millions of dollars in outstanding debt.

Hackensack's City Council and school board separately settled contracts for teachers, firefighters and fire supervisors.

Former Bergen County Freeholder Chairman Jim Carroll on Thursday kicked off his early-bird campaign for county executive in 2014.

HACKENSACK €” Hackensack will join Bergenfield, Bogota, Englewood, and Teaneck to fund a study that will provide a comparative analysis on municipal costs. The municipalities comprise the Northern New Jersey Community Collaborative €” an entity of the Northern New Jersey Collaborative Foundation.

HACKENSACK €” In an effort to bring more technology-based seminars to residents, the Johnson Free Public Library hosted a group of entrepreneurs and writers, who, with the help of “crowd funding” websites reached their project goals.