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Via the New York Times, the hullaballoo caused by a bear sighting in suburban New Jersey: The warning sent by school officials on Tuesday morning seemed more suited for the Alaskan wild than the sedate suburb of Montclair, N.J.: All outdoor activities were suspended because a black bear was lurking about. Throughout Monday and into Tuesday, reports about the bear’s activities were posted online and reported to the police. The bear was in a backyard, looking bored. It was up a tree, looking reflective. It was in the street, looking sad. The animal even made it near a Whole Foods market, where he was spotted looking confused. State officials were called in to help, and when the bear was seen near an elementary school on Monday afternoon, the word went out to keep those children inside. The warning was later expanded to include children from the entire district. “The Montclair Police Department has notified us that there have been bear citings in Montclair: yesterday near the Montclair Art Museum and this morning, near Edgemont School,” Penny MacCormack, the school superintendent, said in a note sent out Tuesday morning, which included the misused “citings.”  “As a precaution, we are suspending all outside activities at all of our elementary and middle schools.” After each reported sighting, police and wildlife officials rushed to the scene to blare air horns and make other loud noises in an attempt to drive the bear in the direction of the Mills Reservation on the northern edge of town. “He was never in a confrontational mode,” said Lt. Angel Roman Jr. of the Montclair Police Department. (Photo: Selma Advicevic / baristanet.com via The Times)
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Via the New York Times, the hullaballoo caused by a bear sighting in suburban New Jersey:

The warning sent by school officials on Tuesday morning seemed more suited for the Alaskan wild than the sedate suburb of Montclair, N.J.: All outdoor activities were suspended because a black bear was lurking about.

Throughout Monday and into Tuesday, reports about the bear’s activities were posted online and reported to the police. The bear was in a backyard, looking bored. It was up a tree, looking reflective. It was in the street, looking sad. The animal even made it near a Whole Foods market, where he was spotted looking confused.

State officials were called in to help, and when the bear was seen near an elementary school on Monday afternoon, the word went out to keep those children inside.

The warning was later expanded to include children from the entire district. “The Montclair Police Department has notified us that there have been bear citings in Montclair: yesterday near the Montclair Art Museum and this morning, near Edgemont School,” Penny MacCormack, the school superintendent, said in a note sent out Tuesday morning, which included the misused “citings.”  “As a precaution, we are suspending all outside activities at all of our elementary and middle schools.”

After each reported sighting, police and wildlife officials rushed to the scene to blare air horns and make other loud noises in an attempt to drive the bear in the direction of the Mills Reservation on the northern edge of town.

“He was never in a confrontational mode,” said Lt. Angel Roman Jr. of the Montclair Police Department.

(Photo: Selma Advicevic / baristanet.com via The Times)

(Source: The New York Times)

Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)
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Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)
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Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)

THIS McBITES  Meet the northern snakehead fish, an invasive species that can breathe air up to four days and use its fins to crawl on land.  They can be found in the waters off Florida, in the Potomac, and — watch out, urbanites! — this weekend officials will check to see if the snakehead is floating about one of Central Park’s lakes.  Note to joggers: that thing biting your ankle may not be Fifi the poodle.  (File photo: Ed Wray / AP via The Los Angeles Times; caption via the LA Times)
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THIS McBITES  Meet the northern snakehead fish, an invasive species that can breathe air up to four days and use its fins to crawl on land.  They can be found in the waters off Florida, in the Potomac, and — watch out, urbanites! — this weekend officials will check to see if the snakehead is floating about one of Central Park’s lakes.  Note to joggers: that thing biting your ankle may not be Fifi the poodle.  (File photo: Ed Wray / AP via The Los Angeles Times; caption via the LA Times)

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