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 | Another jeep for the boro’s fleet
06/24/2008
When it was time for Tracey Dickinson to replace her Jeep Cherokee a few years ago, she could have traded it in on her new one. Instead, she decided to donate it to the Park Ridge Police Department.
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 | Peter Mauro promoted to sergeant
06/11/2008
Peter Mauro always wanted to be a police officer - but only in his hometown of Park Ridge. Now, the nine-year veteran of the force has moved up the ranks and is a sergeant.
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| | Captain on leave pending prosecutor's review of case
06/11/2008
Captain Craig Coughlin, of the Park Ridge Police Department, is on administrative leave as the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office reviews allegations lodged against him by his girlfriend.
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 | Six selected for summer program
05/20/2008
The American Legion Auxiliary of the Jedh C. Barker Post 153 will sponsor six Girls State delegates, all juniors at Park Ridge High School and members of Girl Scout Troop 205.
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| | Taxes up $50 per household for municipal budget
04/29/2008
As anticipated and previously reported, the owner of a home assessed at the borough average of $505,000 will pay an additional $50 per year for the municipal portion of their property taxes. The total municipal tax bill will be approximately $2,216.
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| | Wanted: Bikers wearing helmets
04/29/2008
The Park Ridge Police Department is on the lookout for young bicyclists. Those wearing their safety helmets properly strapped under their chins will get a coupon for a free Burger King meal.
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 | Wortendyke Barn re-opens
04/29/2008
Every day, hundreds of people drive by the Wortendyke Barn on Pascack Road.
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 | Saving lives 7,000 miles away
04/23/2008
When Park Ridge native Dr. Mark Bisanzo, 32, first visited Nyakibale during his final year of residency at Massachusetts General Hospital three years ago, he was looking for a way to use the skills he learned in medical school to give back and help people
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 | Teens: 'Drive safely and save your life'
04/23/2008
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, with drivers more likely to be involved in a crash during their first 12 to 24 months behind the wheel.
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| | Chief provides update on activities
04/15/2008
At the April 8 council meeting, Chief Thomas Derienzo, representing the borough’s volunteer fire department, provided an update on a number of items.
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| | 2008-09 budget approved unanimously
04/09/2008
The Park Ridge Board of Education unanimously approved its budget on March 26.
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| | Five candidates to face-off in election
04/05/2008
Five candidates are seeking three, three-year terms on the Park Ridge Board of Education.
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 | 'Don't Drive Stupid'
04/02/2008
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, with drivers more likely to be involved in a crash during their first 12 to 24 months behind the wheel. And the Park Ridge Police Department will be leading off a state-wide educational initiative
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| | Five candidates vie for three terms
04/02/2008
Five candidates are seeking three, three-year terms on the Park Ridge Board of Education: incumbents Frank Church and Barbara von Bradsky, both of whom are seeking their third consecutive terms, and challengers Robert Sileo, Sue Tudisco and Lisa Verducci.
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 | Buckman, Richmond honored
04/02/2008
The Park Ridge High School boys basketball team was among teams and individuals honored at a recent awards ceremony held at the school.
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 | Teachers earn state honor
03/24/2008
Three teachers, one from each of the district’s three schools, were honored at the March 17 board of education meeting: Thomas Bauer, Lisa McKenna and Celeste Mille.
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| | Extradited suspect faces multiple charges
03/24/2008
A Mahwah man was taken into custody by Park Ridge Police on March 11 as he was being released on probation in Norwich, Conn.
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| | New Basic Skills protocols recommended
03/19/2008
A reorganization of the district’s Basic Skills program, discussed at the March 17 Park Ridge Board of Education meeting, hinges, in part, on the Separate Proposal the board hopes will be approved when residents vote on April 15.
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| | Parking restrictions near high school
03/19/2008
Soon, parking during school hours will be restricted to one hour on Frederick Court, Johnsvale Lane, and West Park Avenue.
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| | $850,000 bond ordinance approved
03/19/2008
Several initiatives are being funded through a multi-purpose bond ordinance totaling $850,000, approved on second reading at the council’s March 11 meeting.
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| | Increase is $48, down from $76
03/19/2008
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| | Council approves $275,000 bond ordinance for road paving
03/19/2008
Park Ridge is among the eight towns who have are joined together to bid on road resurfacing projects totaling about $2 million.
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| | Council approves $1,125,000 in bonds for capital projects
03/13/2008
A new police car, improvements to the municipal complex and the downtown business district, and further repairs at the Mill Pond dam were among the expenditures approved when the council passed Ordinance 2008-08 at the Tuesday, March 11 meeting.
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| | Allocations shift; bottom line the same
03/12/2008
At its Monday, March 17, meeting, the Park Ridge Board of Education will finalize the proposed 2008-2009 school budget in preparation for the March 24 public hearing.
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| | 'Small' towns would take the biggest hit in aid cuts
03/12/2008
Last Thursday, the New Jersey League of Municipalities held a briefing for officials from municipalities with fewer than 10,000 residents regarding cuts in state aid proposed in Governor Jon Corzine’s budget.
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| | State aid cuts may cause $56 increase
03/12/2008
Even though the tax levy in the preliminary Park Ridge municipal budget for 2008 is well under the state-mandated cap of four percent, the council is intent on reducing it further.
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| | Current budget calls for $268 increase
03/05/2008
It’s number-crunching time for the Park Ridge Board of Education. The budget was defeated last year, for the first time in more than a decade.
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| | Basic skills program is focus of Thursday, Feb. 28 meeting
02/27/2008
At the Feb. 25 board of education meeting, a parent asked the board about a rumor she’d heard that the basic skills program in the district was being eliminated.
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| | 2008-2009 budget is sole topic of Monday, March 3 meeting
02/27/2008
The Park Ridge Board of Education will hold a public meeting on Monday, March 3 dedicated solely to the 2008-2009 budget.
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| | Five candidates will vie for two terms
02/27/2008
Two incumbents and three challengers will vie for two, three-year terms on the Park Ridge Board of Education in April.
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| | USPS to build new facility
02/27/2008
The post office on Park Avenue will have a new landlord – the borough. At the Feb. 12 meeting, the council approved Ordinance 2008-01 on second and final reading, authorizing the purchase of the property and building.
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 | Recruit training starts soon
02/20/2008
For more than 50 years, the members of the Park Ridge Police Reserves have volunteered thousands of hours to the community.
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| | Commuter parking lot discussed
02/20/2008
All but six spaces in the new Perryland Street parking lot will be designated for commuter parking.
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 | Park Ridge teams honored by board of ed.
02/12/2008
There were accolades and awards for the Park Ridge High School Cross County and Girls’ Soccer teams at a recent board of education meeting.
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| | Preliminary budget approved
02/12/2008
At its Monday, Feb. 11 meeting, the Park Ridge Board of Education approved a preliminary budget for the 2008-2009 school year. The budget totals $23,461,447; the tax levy, $21,554,863.
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| | Preliminary budget expected Feb. 11
02/06/2008
The board of education moved several steps closer to finalizing a preliminary budget at its Feb. 4 meeting.
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| | High school principal to leave district when contract expires
02/06/2008
Richard Martinez, principal of Park Ridge High School, will leave the district at the end of his current contract that expires on June 30. He is completing his third year as principal.
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| | Post office acquisition nearly complete
02/06/2008
The last step in the approval process for the borough’s acquisition of the post office building and property on Park Avenue will be the public hearing and final vote on Ordinance 2008-01 at the council’s Tuesday Feb. 12 meeting.
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 | Friends fete Eleanor Bowen, 99
02/06/2008
The small room at Our Lady of Mercy Church was filled to overflowing. More than 40 friends and family had gathered there to celebrate the 99th birthday of Eleanor Bowen.
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| | Special Meetings on 2008-09 budget are Feb. 4, 11 and 25
01/30/2008
Little progress was made by the Park Ridge Board of Education at its special budget meeting on Monday Jan. 28 because of errors in the New Jersey State Department of Education’s software.
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| | Perryland lot discussed
01/30/2008
The borough is trying to decide how the spots in the Perryland parking lot will be used.
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| | Borough sends improvement proposal to New Jersey Transit
01/30/2008
The borough has proposed amendments to its lease agreement with New Jersey Transit.
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| | Workforce study considered
01/30/2008
The council has taken preliminary steps toward conducting a comprehensive study of the work done by each borough employee.
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| | Rec. chair exploring shared-services
01/30/2008
Steve Hopper, the new chair of the borough’s Recreation Committee, told the council at the Jan. 22 meeting that he is working with his counterpart in Montvale, Jim Freeman, on ways to save money by sharing some services.
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| | West Ridge student hospitalized with MRSA infection
01/23/2008
A West Ridge Elementary School student was hospitalized this week after contracting Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA.
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| | Is that me crying or my baby?
01/16/2008
I can’t say she didn’t warn us. She said the crying would be bad, the worst thing we had ever heard.
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| | Board to keep district intact
01/16/2008
By a vote of 5 to 2, the Park Ridge Board of Education has decided to keep the district’s high school students at Park Ridge High.
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| | Future of high school discussed, debated
01/09/2008
Architect Joseph DiCara has provided the board of education with estimates on what it will cost to build and keep the high school students in the district.
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| | Borough will no longer clear snow from school area sidewalks
01/02/2008
Residents will soon receive a letter from the borough advising them of a change in policy regarding snow removal from sidewalks that are pedestrian routes for children going to school.
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| | Park Ridge D.A.R.E. Bike-a-thon a success
12/26/2007
On a beautiful autumn day, the Park Ridge Police Department’s D.A.R.E. unit held its sixth annual bike-a-thon.
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| | Schools feasibility study released
12/19/2007
Invest in your schools. This was the message delivered on Monday, Dec. 17 by the committee hired to conduct a feasibility study by the Park Ridge Board of Education over the summer.
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 | Joseph Madden sworn-in as chief
12/01/2007
Joseph Madden was recently sworn-in as the new chief of police. Craig Coughlin was promoted to captain, and Joseph Rampolla to lieutenant.
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| | No action taken on proposal
11/28/2007
The Park Ridge Board of Education declined to act on a proposal to bring the sixth grades to the high school and institute full-day kindergarten by September of 2008.
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| | Will borough become a "Quiet Zone"?
11/21/2007
While many Pascack Valley residents welcomed the increased rail service on the Pascack Valley Line that began late last month, the additional 120+ trains per week have elicited a variety of responses from municipalities along the line.
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| | Borough’s electric rates to rise sharply
11/21/2007
Park Ridge residents will see a 61 percent increase in their electric bills come Dec. 1.
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| | New chief of police, captain and lieutenant to be sworn in
11/21/2007
Captain Joseph Madden will be sworn in as the borough’s new chief of police at the mayor and council meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
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| | Assessing the downtown parking crunch
11/14/2007
The borough is in the midst of assessing the downtown parking crunch and is looking for ways to meet the needs of commuters, business owners and shoppers.
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| | Borough to buy post office property, building
11/14/2007
At its Nov. 7 meeting, the council announced that the borough has reached an agreement to purchase the post office building and the property on which stands for $1,220,000.
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| | Grade realignments and costs discussed
11/07/2007
The BOE Facilities Committee is exploring various options using the district’s existing facilities to house the students in the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade system.
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| | Mayoralty, three council seats contested
10/31/2007
In the Nov. 6 election, two candidates will vie for a four-year term as mayor. Three terms on the council are also being contested: two, three-year terms. and one, one-year term.
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 | Volunteers recognized for public service
10/24/2007
The Park Ridge mayor and council recently recognized a number of community members for their volunteer work in a wide variety of endeavors.
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| | Three council terms; mayoralty at stake
10/24/2007
Six candidates are vying for three seats on the council in the Nov. 6 election.
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| | Park Ridge Marine made ultimate sacrifice
09/18/2007
Lance Corporal Jedh Colby Barker, United States Marine Corps, was serving in Vietnam. On Sept. 21, 1967, he threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines.
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| | Forty years later
09/18/2007
Josephine Bigham, a Gold Star Mother, talks about the loss of her son Charlie on the 40th anniversary of his death in Vietnam.
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| | Single-, two-family dwellings regulated
09/17/2007
The rental of single- and two-family dwellings has become far more regulated following the adoption of an ordinance requiring their registration and licensure.
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| | Team Sony rides for MS
09/12/2007
The first time that Kevin George rode in the MS 100 Bike Tour in 2003, he admits it had little to do with raising money for Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system.
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| | Jedh C. Barker 1945-1967
09/12/2007
Forty years ago this month, Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jedh C. Barker was killed in action in Vietnam. He died to save fellow Marines. He was 22.
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| | ‘Backyard’ archeologists dig into history
09/05/2007
Local students participate in Pascack Historical Society's "Stones & Bones" event.
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| | Development goes from eight lots to seven
09/05/2007
In knocking off one of its proposed houses, a developer hopes to ameliorate Park Ridge Planning Board qualms and move forward with its (now) seven-lot subdivision.
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| | Serving those in need
08/30/2007
For 25 years, the Pascack Food Center has been providing much needed support for local families in need. It has done so with the help and support of the community it serves.
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| | Council passes zoning ordinances
08/30/2007
A zoning ordinance to better define rear and front lots of residential homes was passed on second reading on Aug. 14 by the Park Ridge Mayor and Council.
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| | Ordinance limits parking at firehouse
08/30/2007
Parking around the Park Ridge Firehouse has been limited to volunteer firefighting personnel only with the passing of an ordinance at the Tuesday, Aug. 14 council meeting.
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