For the love of the job: Married couple retires after a combined 77 years of service to the City of Newark

It’s a Newark love story that began in the cab of the city’s leaf-vacuuming truck.

John and Deb Bello, both employees of the city’s public works department, were paired up as work partners in the late 1980s. They quickly hit it off and began dating.

Ten years later, on a rare day they weren’t working together, John tracked down Deb’s truck in a neighborhood and proposed on the side of the road…

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