New Cuban Restaurant, Memorial Day Parade Top Last Week's News

Fuddruckers stood on Route 4 for more than two decades, providing many diners with a convenient place to have a meal before seeing a movie at the Cineplex Odeon theater next door. The theater closed in 2007, and now the owners of the building on Route 4 plan to offer something completely different: the biggest Cuban restaurant in Bergen County.

Paramus celebrated Memorial Day Monday with a parade that went up Forest Avenue before coming down Midland Avenue and culminating in a ceremony at . 

Frank A. Scibetta Jr., a substitute teacher for the Paramus Board of Education for nearly 20 years, died Wednesday. The Paramus resident was 71.

It seems like an easy rule to follow: Separate recyclables from trash. But the recycling rate has dropped over the last decade in Bergen County, a noticeable trend in Paramus as well, Public Works Superintendent Guy Picone said.

Two of the programs the Bergen County Special Services School District runs at its Rockleigh campus could be coming to the site of the Bergen County juvenile detention center in Paramus, officials say. The district and the county are in talks to move the New Bridges program for high school students with autism and a rehabilitation program for adults to East Ridgewood Avenue.