In top county news this week:

Ramapo College will hold a remembrance ceremony next Monday for a student, Jacob Halle, who passed away Wednesday after sustaining critical injuries from a car accident two days earlier on Route 202 near the college in Mahwah.

Prosecutors said Anthony Graziano, the 19-year old Lodi man accused of arson at synagogues in Rutherford and Paramus confessed to the crimes, however his attorney says his client’s admission should not be taken seriously, citing his mental health.

Friends and family of a murdered Teaneck resident Robert Cantor rallied outside the Bergen County courthouse in Hackensack this week calling for a special prosecutor to take over the nearly year-old unsolved case.

An elderly Ridgewood resident escaped safely after a fire broke out in the basement of her home Thursday morning.

Two Glen Rock High School students were arrested Monday and charged with inappropriately touching three middle school students at a wrestling practice last week, officials said Monday.

A developer looking to build a 144-unit affordable housing complex on an area of land off Soldier Hill Road in Paramus was dealt another blow when the Department of Environmental Protection commissioner rejected the proposal to build within 300 feet of a protected waterway that drains into the Oradell Reservoir.

Fort Lee borough officials are considering taking back an acre-and-a-half of land taken by the Port Authority through eminent domain that was to be used for a George Washington Bridge project that never came through.   

After 19-months, the Fair Lawn Board of Education and district teachers finally reached a contract agreement this week.

River Edge school district officials say two teaching positions may need to be eliminated due to budget constraints caused by decreased aid and revenue and increasing expenditures.  

Wyckoff residents learned this week they will have to wait even longer to be able to speak out regarding Inserra Supermarket’s proposal to build a 62,042-square foot supermarket in town.

The Hasbrouck Heights Police Department said goodbye to one of its lieutenants who retired after 27 years of service.

Bergen County veterans were honored by county officials during a ceremony held at the Oradell Veterans/Senior Citizens Center.

An Immaculate Heart student raised funds to help fix up a room at the Bergen County YJCC in Washington Township that is used for a recreational after-school program for children on the autistic spectrum.