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Whats new: The trash hauling company Crown Carting has once again proposed a waste transfer station for Church Street in Ridgefield. The Bergen County Utilities Authority has scheduled a public hearing on the application at its Little Ferry office fo

Google Adds Way to Easily Merge Duplicate Contacts in Gmail (WebProNews)
Google has added a feature to Gmail, which allows users to merge all of their duplicate contacts into one. Until now, users have had to go through contacts one-by-one in order to clean up their list. "Managing a big address book can be a challen

Medina gives software firm OSI preliminary OK to build (South Crow River News)
The Medina City Council, Tuesday, March 2, got its first look at site plans for a building proposed by Open Systems International, a software development firm that wants to bring 250 employees to Medina.

Iraqi refugees coping with new land, eye disease (San Antonio Express-News)
The children in the Abdullah-Karem household have retinitis pigmentosa, which causes slow deterioration of the retina.

A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing (New York Times)
Dozens of companies, both well known and unknown, brought slender touch-screen tablets and electronic reading devices to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.