photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook pages
May 1,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, For the second day in a row, a black bear first spotted in Paramus ,then today in Ridgewood wandered around a neighborhood in New Jersey and has been tranquilized by animal control crews.
The black bear reported to be 148-pound male , was the same seen Monday in Paramus, who eluded the Paramus Police .
The wandering black bear was captured in the rear of 15 Circle Avenue, Ridgewood on Tuesday afternoon, 05/01. The male bear is believed to be the same one that was spotted in nearby Paramus on Monday, 04/30. Ridgewood Police, Fire Department, and Emergency Services personnel assisted representatives from Tyco Animal Control Services and the NJDEP Fish & Wildlife Division during the incident.
No injuries were reported to the bear, or any humans who assisted in his capture. Traffic on East Ridgewood Avenue and Circle Avenue was detoured while emergency responders worked. A K9 unit from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office also provided assistance at the scene.
Like Monday the bear climbed up into a tree, where he was tranquilized by Tyco Animal Control Services. It jumped onto a garage roof and then ran up another tree and was tranquilized a second time. Mayor Knudsen was on the scene filling in live on Facebook as events unfolded. The Mayor thanked Carol, Dawn Jowett Cetrulo, Chief Luthcke, the amazing Ridgewood Police Department, Fire Department, Tyco Animal Control, and everyone else who helped bring this little bear to safety! Special thanks to Alexa Topolski for hosting!
(this photo courtesy of Mayor Susan Knudsen)
The bear will eventually be taken to a wildlife management area in Passaic County.
Police are urging everyone to use caution and say that if you see the bear, you should not approach it. Instead, call 911.
In a Facebook post, Paramus police said they expect to be seeing more bears.
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Great story, great outcome, so glad the bear will safely be moved to the woods. A pleasant relief from all the crap lately
Another good reason to re-elect Mayor Knudsen (lol). That photo with the bear is great. One for the (digital?) scrapbook, for sure. This will probably attract further NYC news coverage, maybe national just for the fun of it all.
Was it’s name Alex?
ABC-New York and NBC-New York just covered the bear news. Looks like a teenage bear that just got kicked out of the house for good by mom!
Why didn’t they call Keith Killion?
It’s amazing how the mayor comes out with such bullshit, so unimportant. Worry about the county coming into town and repairing the county roads that’s your job. It’s amazing that Ridgewood has such a shitty Report with the county. You look at county roads In other towns they’re in great shape. But in Ridgewood it’s a mess, I’ve been living in town for 45 years and the county does shit for us.
They didn’t call Keith because
8:25 – get a life. Bears are unfortunately a reality in Bergen County. This particular incident was handled perfectly.
I do have a life. 903, no one is saying that it wasn’t perfectly. Pull your head out of your ass and wake up. You need to get a life.
8:25 – the bear was, literally, in Susan Knudsen’s front yard. She didn’t “come out for such bullshit”. Literally, it was running all over her street and was captured there. So, like any of us would do, she went outside to check it out. I thought it was really nice to see her having a light moment amongst all of the mud slinging she’s been subjected too.
I guess people like 8:25 always have to have something to complain about – even when things work out for the best.
11:29 I guess too that Susan like many of us ..just could not “Bear” the copter noise as Yogi snooozed
Who cares
The comment at 8:25 is precisely the kind of thing I wish would go away. It contributes nothing, drains the room of energy, and wastes eyeball usage.
It’s called freedom of speech. If people don’t like it oh well. Why has some other truth bothering someone. Huh, Are we having a sore spot. Mayors and Counselor don’t need to worry about a bear. That’s just jibber jabber. That’s emergency services and Are we having a sore spot. Mayors and Counselor don’t need to worry about a bear. That’s just jibber jabber. That’s emergency services and Animal controls problem. Start worrying about important things like my gradin pool.
So true
7:31…Ridgewood schools at work via sentence structure, spelling and just complete blather. Take a deep breath 731 and an English lesson and get back to us because, you know, freedom of speech.
Let’s just work on the speech part shall we?