When I Grow Up
By: Leonid Gore
A great book to share between father and sons, this book utilizes bright colors and cutouts. The book depicts a tiny drop becoming a rushing river and a small sprout becoming an immense tree till finally we see what the small boy wants to grow up to be…his father. [...]
Sandcastles Have Lots of Substance, Or Do They?
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
Summer is here and sandcastles are on my mind. It seems natural to want to make something out of the immense stretches of sand down south. It’s like a huge sandbox! Put a pile of it in front of a baby and he/she [...]
The Annual Memorial Day Ceremonies and Parade are scheduled for Monday, May 31. Ceremonies will begin at 9:00 a.m. at Firehouse No. 1, directly behind Town Hall, where everyone is invited to attend the Firefighter’s Memorial Service. This service honors all deceased Wyckoff firefighters.
A Veteran’s Memorial Service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on the [...]
Courtesy Wyckoff Police Department
On May 22, Wyckoff Police officers participated in a DWI roadside checkpoint in conjunction with the Ridgewood Police, Bergen County Police, and the Bergen County Prosecutors Office.
The checkpoint was conducted on Goffle Road, and was paid for with funds established by the Bergen County Prosecutors Office. During the 4 hour detail, officers [...]
Jeff Bier, a member of Wyckoff’s Chamber of Commerce and owner of a Cartridge World store, can actually walk to one of his new suppliers of ink.
The new partnership between Media Sciences in Oakland, NJ and Cartridge World offer some insight into developments in the color printing world that make thinking green both frugal and [...]
“It is not enough that children should be law-abiding; they must also be lawmakers in school, just as in adult life, as voting citizens or as officeholders, they will engage in lawmaking.” John Dewey
Student government elections at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, NJ resulted in Journal columnist Ryan Robinson (Ryan’s nom de plume) becoming [...]
Residents of small towns throughout New Jersey, like Wyckoff, NJ and the rest of America, can now crash the parties of their elected leaders.
Members of the United States Congress and of the United States Senate do pretty well raising money at parties down in Washington D.C, but most local residents are never invited or even [...]
SavATree, with a regional head office in Wyckoff, NJ, took part in a community service project this May at the Bergen County Zoo. Read about their volunteer service, and check out a Youtube video on the zoo and its denizens…
Dear Neighbor,
Did you know?
1. The Friends of Wyckoff has given out 1,500 trees at the town Memorial Day parade since 2006. This year the total jumps to 2,400.
2. The Friends of Wyckoff sponsored an Idle-Free Zone Campaign slogan contest at Washington School in April 2009. The winning slogan was “pull the key to be pollution [...]
Wyckoff PD reports on some of the latest police activity in town, and provides an additional word of warning to residents on door-to-door solicitations.
