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Posted on March 6, 2016 January 20, 2019

Free Day of Family Fun at YWCA March 12 Summer Camp Open House

Camp Open House Activities Include Bouncy House, Cotton Candy, Crafts & Games

Ridgewood NJ, YWCA Bergen County invites families to their first Summer Camp Open House to find out more about YWCA’s great camp options! This event will be held from 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm on Saturday, March 12th at YWCA’s Camp Ma-Kee-Ya, located in Darlington County Park at 600 Darlington Avenue, Mahwah, NJ. Parents and kids enjoy free outdoor activities including a bounce house, cotton candy, arts & crafts, carnival games, sports, goodie bags and more! Meet camp staff, ask questions, and take a tour of Camp Ma-Kee-Ya’s beautiful lakeside location. Professionally trained TGA Golf and TGA Tennis instructors will also be on site to provide demonstrations.
The YWCA runs fun and affordable day camps for children ages 5 to 12: Camp Orinda in Dumont and Camp Ma-Kee-Ya in Mahwah. YW camps offer American Red Cross Swim lessons, sports, arts and crafts, nature activities, and more. CIT programs for boys and girls ages 13 to 16 are also available. For more information call 201-444-5600, ext. 352 or visitwww.ywcabergencounty.org.

Posted on October 4, 2015 June 27, 2021

Bookkeeper from Dumont nine-year sentence for embezzling $500K but Ex-Ridgewood inspector gets Probation?

Bookkeeper from Dumont draws nine-year sentence for embezzling $500K from Ramsey company

OCTOBER 2, 2015, 5:56 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015, 5:58 PM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

A bookkeeper who authorities said embezzled more than $500,000 from a Ramsey flooring company and lost most of it gambling at casinos was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison.

Monica P. Arencibia, 51, of Dumont told state Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti that she has been living “under the control of a dark secret” — a gambling addiction — and that she wished she could “undo” the harm she had caused.

She acknowledged that she had “violated the trust” of her employer, Gary Perazzo, the owner of Modern Floor Co., Inc., and said she had wanted to tell him what she was doing, but felt “too ashamed.”

https://www.northjersey.com/news/bookkeeper-from-dumont-draws-nine-year-sentence-for-embezzling-500k-from-ramsey-company-1.1424418

Ex-Ridgewood inspector apologizes for stealing nearly half a million dollars in quarters

JULY 9, 2014, 2:39 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014, 2:57 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

HACKENSACK — Ridgewood’s former public works inspector repeatedly apologized on Wednesday for stealing nearly half a million dollars in loose parking meter quarters from the village.

“I am sorry for what I have done,” Thomas Rica told Judge Patrick Roma moments before being sentenced to five years’ probation. “I am very sorry. I’m…I’m just sorry.”

Rica, who lives in Hawthorne, was employed by the village for 10 years before his arrest early last year.

As part of a plea deal accepted by Roma Wednesday, Rica plead to four counts of third-degree theft, and will pay back a little more than half of what he admits he stole from his former employers.

Rica admitted in March to taking the coins over more than two years from a storage room within Village Hall.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ex-ridgewood-inspector-apologizes-for-stealing-nearly-half-a-million-dollars-in-quarters-1.1048475#sthash.KjdspT3o.dpuf

Posted on May 2, 2015 January 21, 2019

Scott Garrett Announces 2015 United States Service Academy Nominees from NJ-05 at Bergen County Community College

Rep. Scott Garrett with the 2015 United States Service Academy nominees from New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District , including Christopher Lee , Ridgewood High School

(Please see list below for individual photos of nominees)

Apr 28, 2015

PARAMUS, NJ – Rep. Scott Garrett (NJ-05) is proud to announce the nomination of 36 Fifth District students to United States service academies, including the Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. This year’s nominees were honored by the Congressman at a reception at Bergen County Community College in Paramus on Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

“It’s an honor to nominate this group of talented, intelligent, and dedicated young men and women from New Jersey’s Fifth District to our country’s prestigious service academies,” said Garrett. “One of the United States’ oldest and proudest traditions, our service academies have been training future leaders for a life of service since the late 1700’s. I wish everyone all the best as they move through the final steps of the application process, and I’m proud of their achievements.”

Applications to the Military Academy, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and the Merchant Marine Academy require a nomination by a Congressman or a Senator, however, the Congressional nomination does not guarantee acceptance. To assist with the nomination process, Congressman Garrett established an esteemed committee of military and civic leaders that interviewed potential nominees, reviewed their applications and made recommendations to the Congressman. Click here for more information about Congressman Garrett’s nomination process.

Below is a complete list of the nominees by academy and links to individual photos of the nominees with Rep. Garrett. Names without a corresponding link were unable to attend the April 8th reception.

**Please note: some candidates were nominated to more than one academy.

United States Military Academy at West Point

Olivia Beattie – River Vale, Pascack Valley High School

Shayne Harrell – Hamburg, Bergen Catholic High School

Christopher Lee – Ridgewood, Ridgewood High School

John Lorenz – Glen Rock, Glen Rock High School

Michael McPherson – Dumont, Bergen Catholic High School

Brady Miller – Glen Rock, Glen Rock High School

Danielle Peck – West Milford, West Milford High School

Haley Ann Steele – West Milford, West Milford High School

Edward Yoon – River Edge, River Dell Regional High School

Gregory Zabrodskiy – Ramsey, Green Meadow Waldorf School

United States Naval Academy at Annapolis

Cody Clinebell – Belvidere, Dunkin Educational Services

Gavin Gross – Blairstown, North Warren Regional High School

Thomas Hart – Allendale, Northern Highlands Regional High School

Ian Heinz – Mahwah, Mahwah High School

Catherine Livi – Fair Lawn, Mary Help of Christians Academy

Elizabeth Livi – Fair Lawn, Mary Help of Christians Academy

Patrick Ryan – Old Tappan, Bergen Catholic High School

Nicole Sarao – Sandyston, Pope John XXIII Regional High School

Michael Sobelman – Paramus, Paramus High School

Thilan Waharaka – Allendale, Northern Highlands Regional High School

United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs

Raina Cerniglia – Great Meadows, Hackettstown High School

Marshal Fabian – Ringwood, Lakeland Regional High School

Justin Metz – Vernon, Vernon Township High School

Christine Moulton – Harrington Park, Northern Valley Regional High School

Anthony Peri – Mahwah, Mahwah High School

Jordan Rainaldi – Ramsey, Ramsey High School

Matthew Roberts – Mahwah, Mahwah High School

Justin Tsai – Paramus, Paramus High School

Peter Washer – Belvidere, Belvidere High School

United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point

Hunter Curreri – Montague, Port Jervis High School

Luke Gleba – Washington, Warren Hills Regional High School

Garrett Irizary – Blairstown, Pius X High School

John Kerrison – Stockholm, Pope John XXIII Regional High School

Catherine Livi – Fair Lawn, Mary Help of Christians Academy

Elizabeth Livi – Fair Lawn, Mary Help of Christians Academy

Brendan Miccio – Franklin Lakes, Indian Hills High School

Nicholas Van Ness – Waldwick, Waldwick High School

Brian Vogel – Upper Saddle River, Northern Highlands Regional High School

Posted on April 2, 2015 January 20, 2019

Defrocked priest finds strength in new followers

MARCH 30, 2015, 10:35 PM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015, 10:36 PM
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

The Archdiocese of Newark is on the defensive in a dispute with a small but growing sect of Catholics over the defrocking of a former Bergen County priest who the church says “abandoned” the ministry, a term his defenders say was used to sow doubt about his conduct.

Anthony Lipari worked as a Roman Catholic priest for years in Bergenfield and Ridgewood parishes, and as a deacon in Dumont, becoming a popular youth minister with a loyal following. But in 2003, while he was an assistant priest in Nutley, he and a high-ranking archdiocese official agreed he should leave the church as his differences in theology became clear, Lipari said.

Lipari, 54, has just launched a ministry at the Jersey Shore, affiliated with a new, liberal sect of Catholics, and he, like some church experts, is questioning the announcement this month by Newark church leaders stripping him of the priesthood.

The defrocking has created new critics of Archbishop John J. Myers, who in recent years has faced a firestorm of publicity over his treatment of a sexually abusive Bergen County priest, and pushback from parents amid continuing school closings and an archdiocese takeover of education finances. Last year church donors mounted protests over revelations that Myers expanded a lavish countryside home for his retirement.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/defrocked-priest-finds-strength-in-new-followers-1.1299258

Posted on March 10, 2015 January 20, 2019

YWCA Summer Camp Open House March 14

YWCA Summer Camp Open House March 14

Learn More about Summer Camp YWCA Bergen County is hosting a series of Open Houses for families interested in finding out “Y the W Makes a Difference” in summer camps. The YWCA’s Camp Ma-Kee-Ya, located at Darlington County Park in Mahwah, NJ, will host a series of onsite Open Houses on Saturday March 14, Saturday April 11 and Saturday May 16, from 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Parents and kids can enjoy refreshments and activities, meet camp staff and get answers to all of their questions. The camp is located in the Upper Lake Area of the park at 600 Darlington Avenue.

The YWCA runs four fun and affordable day camps for children ages 5 to 12: Camp Orinda in Dumont; Camp Y-Oak-A in Saddle River; and Camp Ma-Kee-Ya. All YW camps offer American Red Cross Swim lessons, sports, arts and crafts, nature activities, and more. CIT programs for boys and girls ages 13 to 16 are also available. For more information call 201-444-5600, ext. 352 or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org.

Posted on March 8, 2015 April 9, 2020

Boy Dies After Leaping From 2nd-Floor Window of New Jersey Elementary School in Apparent Suicide: Source

photo NBC 4 New York

Boy Dies After Leaping From 2nd-Floor Window of New Jersey Elementary School in Apparent Suicide: Source

By Brian Thompson

Updated at 10:38 PM EST on Friday, Mar 6, 2015

A student at a New Jersey elementary school plunged to his death from a second-story window in what police are investigating as a suicide, a law enforcement source familiar with the case tells NBC 4 New York.

The boy, in fifth grade at Grant Elementary School in Dumont, was initially taken to a hospital in critical condition after the jump around noon Friday, authorities say. The source said he later died at Hackensack University Medical Center later in the afternoon.

A law enforcement source said the boy got into a dispute with a classmate during a game of chess. Afterward, the boy passed his classmate a note, then went to the window, opened it and jumped, the source said.

Schools superintendent Emmanuel Triggiano said there were other students in the classroom at the time.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Boy-Fifth-Grade-Window-Elementary-School-Grant-New-Jersey-Suicide-Attempt-Police-295380651.html

Posted on February 23, 2015 June 27, 2021

YWCA Summer Job Openings

YWCA Summer Job Openings

YWCA – 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood

Summer Job Openings Hoping to be Filled at YWCA Bergen County Job Fair Become Part of the YWCA Team as a Summer Camp Counselor or Lifeguard YWCA Bergen County will be holding a job fair in search of individuals who want to join our team as Summer Camp Counselors and Lifeguards. Positions available for three of our Summer Camps throughout Bergen County as well as Lifeguarding opportunities at our camps and Englewood swim programs. Job fair will be held from 6:00 – 8:00 pm on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood. There will be information regarding summer camps and Englewood swim programs, applications available, and on-site interviews with YWCA staff. Camp Counselors must be at least 18 years of age and available to work June 22 – August 21, 2015 at our Dumont location or June 29 – August 21, 2015 at Mahwah and Saddle River Locations. Lifeguards must be at least 15 years of age and able to work May 16 – September 7, 2015. For more information, please contact Kerry Jannicelli at 201-345-1906 or email ywjobopportunities@ywcabergencounty.org.

Posted on February 15, 2015 June 27, 2021

YWCA Summer Job Openings

YWCA Summer Job Openings

YWCA – 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood

Posted on January 3, 2015 June 27, 2021

YWCA Bergen County Job Fair

YWCA Bergen County Job Fair
Tue, January 06, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Summer Job Openings Hoping to be Filled

Become Part of the YWCA Team as a Summer Camp Counselor or Lifeguard

YWCA Bergen County will be holding a job fair in search of individuals who want to join our team as Summer Camp Counselors and Lifeguards.

Positions available for three of our Summer Camps throughout Bergen County as well as Lifeguarding opportunities at our camps and Englewood swim programs.

Job fair will be held from 6:00 – 8:00 pm on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood. There will be information regarding summer camps and Englewood swim programs, applications available, and on-site interviews with YWCA staff. For those interested in lifeguarding, there will be a FREE prerequisite water skills test held on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30am.
Camp Counselors must be at least 18 years of age and available to work June 22 – August 21, 2015 at our Dumont location or June 29 – August 21, 2015 at Mahwah and Saddle River Locations. Lifeguards must be at least 15 years of age and able to work May 16 – September 7, 2015.

For more information, please contact Kerry Jannicelli at 201-345-1906 or email ywjobopportunities@ywcabergencounty.org.

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Posted on August 22, 2014 January 20, 2019

New Jersey Children’s Museum in Paramus to close its doors

New Jersey Children’s Museum in Paramus to close its doors

August 22, 2014 Last updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 10:26 AM
By Jodi Weinberger
Staff Writer

The New Jersey Children’s Museum will close on Sept. 1.

Tears were spilled at the New Jersey Children’s Museum on a recent summer day. Not from a fight over sharing toys, or a youngster protesting the trip home, but from the parents and grandparents who brought them there.

After 23 years, the Paramus play space will permanently close on Sept. 1.

“You’re going to make me cry,” said Lisa Grassi, just moments before her eyes turned watery as she watched her grandson, Cody, operate a stationary backhoe on what would be their last “Grandma Day” at the museum.

The Dumont resident said she had looked forward to bringing Cody’s 1-year-old brother when he was old enough on his next birthday.

“If it’s raining or too hot … where are we going to bring them?” Grassi wondered. “And it’s a chance for him to play with other kids.”

Anne and Elliot Sumers, the museum’s founders, shared the news of the closing with their 22-member staff last week and then posted an announcement on their website and other social media where fans of the space could commiserate.

“It’s just the saddest thing in the world,” said Anne Sumers on a phone call Aug. 19.

Ridgewood-based Valley Health Systems, which purchased the building including the 15,000-square-foot museum at 599 Valley Health Plaza, offered the Sumers the option to terminate their lease “a couple weeks ago,” said Elliot Sumers, when it otherwise would have expired in October 2016.

“We couldn’t continue to operate the museum under the current circumstances,” Elliot Sumers said, adding that it would have needed “considerable improvements” to the bathrooms and other areas.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/children-s-museum-in-paramus-to-close-its-doors-1.1072133#sthash.v8PAp7lE.dpu

Posted on July 19, 2014 January 20, 2019

Ridgewood 12U Little Leaguers capture district baseball championship

Ridgewood 12U Little Leaguers capture district baseball championship

July 18, 2014 Last updated: Friday, July 18, 2014, 12:31 AM
By Matthew Birchenough
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

If it’s possible for a group of 11- and 12-year-olds to be a bunch of experienced, battle-hardened competitors, the Ridgewood American 12-and-under baseball team would certainly fit that description.

The squad will attempt to continue to live up to that reputation in the state sectional tournament after defeating Ramsey, 14-3, last Saturday at Dumont to take home the District 4 Little League championship, just a day after falling to the same team in the double-elimination tournament.

Ridgewood has grown accustomed to performing in the playoff spotlight and, in particular, the District 4 tournament after winning the 10U and 11U titles the previous two seasons.

“As 10-year-olds, we went to the state championship,” manager Matt Sullivan said Monday. “They know what the Little League tournament is all about, and they recognize the significance of it. You always have those peaks and valleys throughout the season, but come Little League [tournament] time, they’re always ready to play.”

Ridgewood certainly showed it was ready for tournament play this year, going 5-1 in the district bracket while outscoring its opponents, 57-11.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/second-chance-is-a-charm-for-12u-team-1.1053665#sthash.LeYlIgEV.dpuf

Posted on May 21, 2014 January 20, 2019

Clara Nibot Cuban-American anti Castro Republican Activist Dies

Clara Nibot Cuban-American anti Castro Republican Activist Dies
Tuesday, May 21, 2014

Clara Nibot, a Cuban-American Republican activist and a former president of the Bergen County Hispanic Republican Club, died yesterday. She was from Bergenfield.

“She was an activist and very much involved in Republican Party politics until she got sick but until she got sick you could always count on her to be there and she will be sorely missed,” said Bergen County GOP Chairman Bob Yudin.

Ms. Nibot challenged Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-37) in the 2007 general election.

Fernando Alonso, the current President of the Bergen County Hispanic Republican Club described Ms. Nibot as a Cuban anti-Castro dissident who helped many young Republicans. “Including me, many years ago,” Alonso said. “She was a good, kind, wise woman.”

In an interview which appeared in the Record in January of 2011, Clara was quoted as having arrived in the US in 1961 from Cuba as a tourist. She never returned to Cuba or saw her father, a doctor, who was not permitted to leave Cuba.

She was an outspoken advocate for her people and often pointed out the human rights violations so many continue to endure there. “… But there are still human rights violations and people are being put in jail and persecuted because they believe in free speech,” Nibot said in 2011. “No one is holding him [Castro] accountable.”

Clara was born in Havana, Cuba. She lived in Irvington before moving to Bergenfield 43 years ago. She was a Systems Analyst for Mason Tenders District Trust Fund, New York City for 30 years, prior to retiring in 2004.

Clara was the beloved wife of the late Jose Nibot who died in 2005, the devoted mother of Ismael (Caroline) Nibot and Sylvia Claffey, and loving sister of Alicia Burt. She will be sadly missed by her cherished granddaughters, Olivia and Megan Nibot.

The family will welcome friends Thursday, 6 to 9 p.m. onThursday, May 22nd at the French Funeral Home, 161 Washington Avenue in Dumont.

Funeral mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. at St. John’s R.C. Church, 29 North Washington Ave, Bergenfield.

Internment at George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.

Posted on April 7, 2014 January 20, 2019

North Jersey homeowners joining trend of raising chickens in the back yard

North Jersey homeowners joining trend of raising chickens in the back yard

April 6, 2014, 10:56 PM Last updated: Monday, April 7, 2014, 6:47 AM
By LINDA MOSS
Staff Writer
The Record

Victor Alfieri doesn’t mind ruffling a few feathers when it comes to chickens. For years he passionately battled with officials in Wayne to win the right to keep egg-laying hens in his back yard.

Alfieri, a 43-year-old Dumont native, said that he and his wife, Michele, 39, were early advocates of the sustainability and urban homesteading movement in North Jersey. They decided to start growing their own food in 2006 at their Wayne home, and later began to keep hens to produce eggs.

“We were kind of in on the beginning of it in this particular area,” Alfieri said. “We kind of opened a lot of eyes.”

Health-conscious American consumers are increasingly crying foul about the antibiotics, growth hormones, pesticides, herbicides, genetic engineering and the age of the fare they are eating. For people like Alfieri, who is known as The Chicken Man, the solution is to seize control and produce your own fruits and vegetables, and raise your own hens for all-natural, organic eggs.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/north-jersey-homeowners-joining-trend-of-raising-chickens-in-the-back-yard-1.842748#sthash.1yn5kwJJ.dpuf

Posted on January 16, 2014 April 9, 2020

YWCA Vacation Day Program – January 20, 2014

YWCA Vacation Day Program – January 20, 2014

January 20 – Martin Luther King Holiday

YWCA Bergen County January Vacation Day Program Includes Trip to FunPlex in East Hanover, NJ Ridgewood, NJ—December 11, 2013 – YWCA Bergen County is offering its Vacation Day program for children in grades K-6 on January 20, 2014. Trip includes transportation, unlimited foam frenzy & bumper cars, 20 game tokens, pizza and soda. The YWCA Vacation Day program provides full day care from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on designated school holidays. Based at the YWCA’s 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood facility, the program is supervised by the YWCA’s trained child care staff. The fee is $55 per child per day for families that are currently participating in YWCA Before or After School programs, and $75 for non-participating families. Advance registration is required. To register call 201-444-5600, ext. 352 or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org for details and registration forms. YWCA Before and After School Programs are offered at schools in seven Bergen County districts: Allendale, Cresskill, Dumont, Old Tappan, Oradell, Ridgewood, and Westwood. An after kindergarten program is available in Oradell. All programs are licensed by the State of New Jersey, Department of Children & Families.

Posted on October 7, 2013 April 9, 2020

YWCA School Vacation Program – October 14 Children K to 6 Grade

YWCA School Vacation Program – October 14 Children K to 6 Grade

YWCA’s October Vacation Day Program Includes Trip to Lentini Farm The YWCA Bergen County is offering its Vacation Day program for children in grades K-6 on October 14, 2013. Kids will enjoy a trip to Lentini’s Farm in Newton, NJ. Day’s events will include a corn maze, hay maze, hay ride, apple cider, pumpkins, tire crawl and petting zoo, supervised by YWCA’s trained child care staff. Event is open to families already enrolled in YWCA Before & After School Programs as well as to those who are not.

The YWCA Vacation Day program provides full day care from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on designated school holidays. Based at the YWCA’s 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood facility, the program is supervised by the YWCA’s trained child care staff. The fee is $55 per child per day for families that are currently participating in YWCA Before or After School programs, and $75 for non-participating families. Advance registration is required. To register call 201-444-5600, ext. 352 or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org for details and registration forms. YWCA Before and After School Programs are offered at schools in seven Bergen County districts: Allendale, Cresskill, Dumont, Old Tappan, Oradell, Ridgewood, and Westwood. An after kindergarten program is available in Oradell. All programs are licensed by the State of New Jersey, Department of Children & Families.