Top 10 May Stories: Big School Changes, Area Coach Charged with Sexual Assault

Parents filed into the high school auditorium to fight to keep Principal Lesa Brinker at the helm of Lincoln School and challenged the new position of assistant superintendent slated for Peter O'Hare, principal of Euclid School.

Wood-Ridge High School girls' softball coach Jillian Clementi engaged in improper sexual relations with a male student from the school, authorities charged on May 2.

Kathy Wakile, star of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, came to Heights Beer & Wine Emporium to sign copies of her new Red Velvet Cosmo on Saturday.

Daina Firestone, a 22-year old from Garfield, was charged with sexual assault May 2 when Paramus Police found him engaged in sexual activity with a 15-year-old Wood-Ridge girl in a parked vehicle at Garden State Plaza mall, authorities said.

Investigators have identified the body of a man pulled from the Hackensack River  on May 13 and found no signs of foul play in the death, police said Monday.

Patch's photo gallery and video recap of the Hasbrouck Heights fourth annual street fair held on May 20. The event drew more than 20,000 people, officials have said.

High school freshman Anthony Stefanelli was named the 2012 'Mr. Heights' pageant winner.

Patch sat down with the five members of Last Resort, the Heights-based teen metal band which continues to rock the local stages. 

A driver who made a wrong turn onto the train tracks paralleling Route 17 shut down New Jersey Transit traffic on the line, according to Hasbrouck Heights police.

The Board of Education has named Joseph Mastropietro the new middle school principal and Catherine Cassidy as assistant principal to the middle school and high school.