The controversial plan to close four Paterson elementary schools and reconfigure grade levels for four others is facing a growing community backlash.

PATERSON — An 18-year-old man was fatally shot in Paterson’s crime-plagued 4th Ward on the evening of March 11, minutes after gunfire erupted on a different street less than a mile away, according to ...

Paterson council members failed to increase sewer fees, which the state wanted in exchange for budget bailout money. Now even schools are hurting.

State officials attributed the Paterson group losing out on $500,000 to a cut in federal funding for victim assistance programs.

Paterson library director Corey Fleming said specific details about the service reductions would be announced by March 13.

The money is designed for schools to help provide social, health, nutrition, and mental health services in low-income areas.