Thursday, July 21, 2011
In North Caldwell, a bear goes for a dip in a backyard pool.
In North Caldwell, it seems this week’s heat wave was just too much for a black bear to bear so he took a dip in a backyard pool. Dana Strus said she did a double take when she looked out her window. “Nobody’s going to believe me." So she grabbed her camera and went outside to take photos and a few short videos before calling police. The bear, estimated to weigh about 100 pounds, hopped back over the fence before the police arrived. “There’s not really much we could do about it. It’s not doing anything dangerous,” said North Caldwell Police Chief Mark Deuer. There have been more than 808 bear sightings reported so far in 2011, according to the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Those include the bear spotted at Berliss Bearing in Livingston …
Monday, May 16, 2011
NJ Wildlife officials tranquilize and remove bear from neighborhood.
A wandering black bear was tracked down on Monday by Millburn Police and Animal Control officers in the Windemere Terrace and West Road neighborhood of Short Hills. Residents began calling police around 6:30 a.m. with reports of a black bear walking though their backyards, police said. “I came downstairs around 7:30 or so, and saw him walking across my deck,” said Cynthia Tratnyek, who lives on West Road. “It scared the hell out of me. I jumped and yelled to my husband, ‘There’s a bear in the yard.’ "Then I called my friend who’s a police dispatcher, and he started laughing and asked me what my address was because police were all over the neighborhood looking for the bear,” she said. The bear then started wandering to a neighbor’s backyard…
Friday, May 13, 2011
Police advise residents to play it safe and ask schools to keep kids inside after bear is sighted.
Livingston’s little bear was seen three times on Friday morning, roaming close enough to the Mt. Pleasant School complex to force recess inside as a precaution, police said. Police believe this is the same bear chased back into woods after it was spotted at Berliss Bearings on Route 10 on Thursday. On Friday morning, the bear was sighted on the other side of the highway, this time behind homes on Hazel Avenue and near Broadlawn Drive, and by Firestone Tire and Ritz Diner on Mount Pleasant Avenue, said Det. Sgt. Ron Barbella. It was close enough to Mt. Pleasant, Collins and Harrison schools to bring children inside for physical education and recess, according to an email sent to families by Livingston Public Schools. “As a precautionary …
