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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 PASSAIC MORRIS EDITION $1.50 REESE BRINGS THE HEAT Giants GM calls out Odell Beckham after loss to Packers. IS She Hecoro. PART OF THE USA TODAY NETJi Booker taking historic stand Will testify against fellow Sen. Sessions' nomination HERB JACKSON WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, HERBNJDC Breaking with tradition, Sen. Cory Booker will testify on Wednesday against fellow Sen.

Jeff Sessions' nomination to be attorney general. Booker, New Jersey's first African-American senator, will be joined by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and Cedric Richmond, executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, his office said. The Senate historian could find no previous case where a sitting senator testified against the confirmation of a colleague for a Cabinet post, Booker's office said. Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, was once denied confirmation for a federal judgeship partly because of his record as a federal prosecutor, which included bringing voter fraud charges in 1985 against civil rights activists who were trying to help elderly voters, some illiterate, cast bal- See BOOKER, Page 7A CHRIS PEDOTANORTHJ ERSEY.COM Bergen County Fire Marshal clears falling snow from a plaque dedicated to Tessie McNamara, the heroine of the Kingsland fire that happened 100 years ago when a fire started by German saboteurs destroyed the munitions factory where she worked on the switchboard.

ANNIVERSARY OF SABOTAGE Historic Kingsland explosion recalled 100 years later war made Nt Jersey iiuiniliimr. CaL-lnries hum. ullm p.m. si) huk-Ii poniU-r lu-on jainmci! Imo mh.1i small n-ai'isi. Wn I 'J I tit'put laliiivtt cvplodi'ri at Jersey Hl spreiidina U'rrnr ilimiiiih.nji V.rrh later, mi January 11.

1417 a hugi: shrapnel and laetun Lmllnii Mo with Ike liink of war. Th- two lilasts oiused nearly Sr.0 million Julian, in iljmast. Mystery ends for adoptees LINDY WASHBURN STAFF WRITER, LINDYWA For two New Jersey adoptees, decades of mystery ended on Monday, when state Sen. Joseph Vitale handed them each an envelope containing a copy of their original birth certificate. The two are among the first to obtain those most personal of documents as the result of a new law that took effect on Jan.

1. The New Jersey Adoptees' Birthright Act gave birth parents until Dec. 31 to request that their names be redacted from the birth certificates of the children they gave up for adoption. See ADOPTEES, Page 7A CHRISTOPHER MA AG STAFF WRITER, CHRISMAAG Tessie McNamara's office was on fire when the first artillery shell crashed through the wall. The shell passed five feet from her head, but McNamara did not move.

Instead she stayed seated at her telephone switchboard and called every building inside the big ammunition factory in the Meadowlands, urging everyone to flee. "Get out or go up!" McNamara screamed into the receiver, as the world around her began to explode. A century later, McNamara is remembered as the hero of the Kingsland explosion, one of the largest acts of foreign sabotage ever committed on American soil. The attack was orchestrated by German spies on Jan. 11, 1917.

It flattened a massive ammunition depot, ignited fires across the town of Kingsland later renamed Lyndhurst and sent See SABOTAGE, Page 6A CHRIS PEDOTANORTHJ ERSEY.COM A photo of a munitions factory. Lyndhurst historian Scott Ackerson believes it to be the Lyndhurst fire but the photo caption does not specify. Takers for luxury North Jersey homes? Hi 1 i i Demand dips for most expensive residences KATHLEEN LYNN STAFF WRITER, KATHLEENLYNN3 Bergen County's priciest home sale in 2016 was an Alpine estate that sold for $6.4 million a lot of money, certainly, but much less than the $11.8 million the property fetched in 2008, just before the financial crisis. The sale last year was also much lower than the most expensive property See HOMES, Page 10A STATE OF THE STATE PREVIEW: Will we see a combative or compassionate Christie? 3A VIOREL FLORESCUNORTHJ ERSEY.COM A home at 34 Timberline Drive in Alpine sold for $6.4 million. 03210 TODAY 3935 A little icy mix in the afternoon TOMORROW 5139 Mostly cloudy and not as cool Advice 4BL Bridge 7BL Business 8L Comics 5BL Crosswords 7BL Editorials 8A People 2A Horoscope 6BL Public notices 8BL Marketplace 9S Television 7BL Movies 4BL Weather 2A Obituaries 4L Visit NorthJersey.com I iiiiii 1 iiiiii 1 1 i 52823 "00001.