ORADELL — The borough faces more than $200,000 in fines from the state's workplace safety agency after failing to fix multiple violations in the municipal building.

The state Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health Program issued a notice to the borough this week that it owes $232,400 in fines for 18 serious outstanding violations and one lesser violation as of Aug. 31.

Fines will continue to accrue at the rate of $150 a day for serious violations and $100 a day for the non-serious violation, the letter said.

The borough has asked to have until Sept. 30 to fix the violations, according to a letter dated Sept. 1 from Councilman Michael Harte, the chairman of the buildings and grounds committee.

Harte's letter said that the borough missed the first deadline to ask for an extension in June because a letter sent to the agency went out accidentally without an address and was returned unopened to the borough two weeks later.

ORADELL — A group of residents has banded together to fight the construction of a Walgreens store on Kinderkamack Road.

The 80-member group, Citizen Action to Preserve Oradell, has hired a lawyer and plans to appeal the zoning board's December vote, which granted 10 variances to allow the project.

Some of the residents are unhappy about a large chain store in a downtown filled with mom-and-pop operations, while others say the proposed store is too big and will create too much traffic.

A state appellate court has shot down Oradell's bid to withdraw from the River Dell regional school system, a move that would have effectively dissolved the two-borough district.

In a unanimous decision last week, three judges from the Appellate Division of the state Superior Court affirmed the state Board of Review's 2007 denial of Oradell's request to call a referendum on a split.