Co-Chairs Prepare for West Bergen’s Annual Brunch
Honoring Laurie and Russ Kamp on April 3rd
RIDGEWOOD: West Bergen Mental Healthcare’s Annual Brunch Co-Chairs met recently to plan for the 34th Annual event, which will be held on Sunday, April 3rd at the Park Ridge Marriott, Park Ridge. Pictured (l-r) are: Co-Chairs Lorraine Kallman, Ridgewood and [...]
RISING COSTS OF COLLEGE TUITION OFFSET BY TALENTED FLOW RESIDENTS
25th Anniversary FLOW Follies Presents Largest Scholarship Fundraiser For The Ramapo-Indian Hills Community
by Deb Breslow
Since 1985, parents of students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff (FLOW) have put aside their business attire to sing, dance, act, write, design, and build to raise scholarship [...]
How Many Names Do You Know for Groundhogs?
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
Groundhogs have been in the spotlight lately, thanks to Punxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck. What these furry creatures are called actually depends on what part of the country you are from. I have informally analyzed them below (please note that I not [...]
We all travel into the future, but we never arrive. The path into the future itself is all we experience and, without a time machine, that is destined to remain our reality.
But the path into the future, the road we travel to a place we never arrive, has changed drastically in one generation; and, to [...]
By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
On January 17 we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., which was really on January 15, 1929. We’ve all heard a lot about King over the years, his “I have a dream” speech, and the details of his death. He was a non-violent voice for human equality [...]
By LAUREN MENNEN
OAKLAND - “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
This quote hangs on the walls of Indian Hills High School, and is just what Step Up aims to do. This quote from Maya Angelou is the [...]
Letter to the Editor:
As a member of the Legislative Gaming Summit, it is troubling for me that legislators representing Bergen County would abstain or flat out vote against an amendment to the New Jersey Constitution that would allow for sports betting to take place at New Jersey racetracks and Atlantic City casinos. Placing bets [...]
Maria Stefania Paradiso, a third-year nursing student studying with the faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Palermo in Italy, chose to do a research study at Christian Health Care Center (CHCC) in Wyckoff, on how nurses view and experience the safety culture within the facility. The research study was part of her [...]
Remembering Pearl Harbor for the lives lost and the lessons that can be learned from America’s response.
Seven-year-old Kyra Manfredi of Wyckoff and ten-year-old sister Alyssa were winners of the “Awesome Attitude Award” at the annual Holiday Piano Recital of Phred PIano Expression, a piano instruction group serving all of Bergen County. Other Wyckoff award winners were: Ten-year-old Marissa Keary with seven-year-old brother Christopher also winning the “Awesome Attitude Award”; ten-year-old Carly [...]
