Old Time Wyckoff
See Wyckoff circa 1910 on a video tour through a collection of vintage postcards…
February 26, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
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Remembering Our Heroes
“Remembering Our Heroes”: SkillsUSA Patriotism Project
As those who are safe back home, protected by citizens we have stationed in countries all over the world, many rarely think about the people who keep us safe — our troops. Through their SkillsUSA chapter and school, the Bergen County Academies, the American Spirit Team of Wyckoff’s own, Mackenzie [...]
February 23, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Your Morning Vice – A Colada if You’re in Ecuador
Your Morning Vice – A Colada if You’re in Ecuador
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
It is the thick of winter now, warm days are distant memory, and one of the most comforting things is a hot beverage cradled in your hands. Here in Jersey, coffee is pretty much a morning religion. You can make it [...]
Will all of FLOW have a CERT?
Will all of FLOW have a CERT?
by Ryan “Robinson” Schwertfeger
Recently, several local high school students graduated from a training course which is catching fire across the country. In this program called CERT, or Community Emergency Response Team, members are trained and educated about what to do to help their community after a major disaster. [...]
Was Yuri Wright Wronged?
Yuri Wright, senior at Don Bosco High School, was recently expelled from the Catholic academy in response to sexist and racist comments posted to his Twitter account. Thomas Aquinas addressed the question…Is stupidity a sin…
January 24, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Bully, Brains, Bureaucracy
Six months into it’s implementation, NJ’s new bullying law is facing opposition which they says the law has critical flaws…
January 20, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Rev. Rod Gorter Joins CHCC Board
Rev. Rod Gorter Joins Christian Health Care Center Board
Rev. Rod Gorter, MDiv, ThM, pastor of Midland Park Christian Reformed Church, recently joined Christian Health Care Center’s Board of Trustees. He is replacing Rev. Norman Brown, pastor of the Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church in Wyckoff, who is retiring and leaving the area.
“The board of trustees [...]
January 14, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Friends 2011 Recap & More
Dear Neighbor:
Thank you for your support throughout 2011. It sure was a busy year!
Following our successful membership drive in June, we were able to bring the renewal of the Open Space Trust Fund to the forefront, not only to Wyckoff residents, but to our Township Committee. On April 26, 2011, the township attorney prepared an [...]
January 3, 2012 | Posted in Features | Read More »
Is Smaller Better?
Is Smaller Better?
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
The last miniature quiche was passed under our noses at a wedding and everyone lunged at the tempting hors d’oeuvre. Then came the tiny kebobs with a Thai peanut sauce. Each tray brought smaller more scrumptious bites of food that normally come in larger sizes.
Which made me think, [...]
A Legal Tender
“It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful, but it is more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which we morally can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest [...]
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