Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PD personnel quickly apprehended an adult male resident of Waldwick who allegedly shoplifted several items from the Stop & Shop Supermarket located at 175 Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood on Friday afternoon, 02/17. The suspect was captured in the rear of 30 Cottage Place, Ridgewood following a short foot chase that began at the Stop & Shop. He was handcuffed and transported to Ridgewood PD headquarters for processing. All items reportedly taken from the store were recovered.
Allendale NJ, At this time, emergency repair on the gas main is still ongoing. Schools are closed and detours are still in place. Please continue to avoid the area.
Last night Allendale Fire Department and Allendale Police are on scene at a natural gas leak on West Crescent near West Maple. W. Crescent Avenue is closed by Crestwood. Keep away from area. Because of numerous road closures residents were asked to please try and avoid this area of Allendale if possible. Still an unknown timeframe as to when emergency work will be completed.
USRVAC 926 is operating on scene of a natural gas leak in Allendale in the area of W. Crescent and Hillside. USRVAC is supporting AllendaleOffice of Emergency Management, AVAC, AFD and fire units from Ramsey, Waldwick, Wyckoff and Saddle River. Additionally Upper Saddle PD is on scene for support to APD. ,AVAC 208 is operating on scene of a natural gas leak in the area of W. Crescent and Hillside. AVAC is supporting Allendale Office of Emergency Management, AFD and fire units from Ramsey, Waldwick, Wyckoff and Saddle River. Additionally Upper Saddle River EMS is on scene along with THV EMS. Also on scene is PSE&G.
Franklin Lakes Volunteer Fire Department Crews were standing by at Allendale Fire HQ to assist their town on a major gas leak
Due to gas leak and road repairs, Allendale schools will be closed today February 17th. Archer Cooperative Nursery School is also closed today due to a gas leak in Allendale.
Residents ,as the process of repairing the gas leak is completed there may be residual gas odor in areas around town. Please be patient as may roads have been closed off in an abundance of caution.
The gas leak emergency repair is still ongoing, but good news, if you were evacuated as a result of this, you MAY return to your residence at this time!
PSE&G repair is still going on. W Crescent Avenue from Borough Hall to W Allendale Ave and Hillside from W Crescent to Forest Rd will remain closed until the repairs are completed.
Allendale Borough Hall and The Lee Memorial Library will be opened today. Please access these building via Brookside Avenue.
Waldwick NJ, Waldwick PD, FD, and building department personnel responded to 11 Ridge Street, Waldwick on Saturday afternoon, 01/21, in response to an incident in which a 4-door Saab left the roadway, went down an embankment, and crashed into a single family home. No one in the vehicle, nor any occupant of the home, was injured in the mishap. The vehicle was removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck. Damage to the structure was moderate; the occupants are believed to still be occupying the premises post crash.
Threatening message puts Waldwick Middle School-High School on Lock Down
January 14,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Waldwick NJ, A threatening message found written on a bathroom wall at the Waldwick Middle School-High School triggered a response from several northwest Bergen County police departments on Thursday morning, 01/14. Personnel from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office also responded. The school was completely locked down while a search of the entire facility was conducted. No immediate threat was located. Anxious parents waited outside in the frigid weather for their children to be released from the building.
JANUARY 8, 2016, 5:39 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2016, 5:42 PM
BY STEVE JANOSKI
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Former Waldwick police officer John Robert Marion was sentenced Friday to 364 days in county jail for fraudulently collecting $321,000 in disability pension payments from the State of New Jersey while working full-time as an officer in Georgia, acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said Friday.
Marion, 44, was immediately taken into custody to begin serving the jail term in Mercer County, which is a condition of the four years’ probation also imposed on him by state Superior Court Judge Peter E. Warshaw in Mercer County.
Marion, a Valdosta, Ga., resident, pleaded guilty on Nov. 12 to a charge of third-degree theft by deception, Hoffman said. He must pay full restitution of $321,008, and is permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey. Marion turned over a $100,000 check to the court to count towards that restitution
DECEMBER 30, 2015 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015, 11:05 AM
BY RODRIGO TORREJON
STAFF WRITER |
WALDWICK SUBURBAN NEWS
Waldwick – The Planning Board is expected to hear a new application from the developer of a previously-rejected Solana assisted living facility starting Jan. 6.
Residents opposed the facility, focusing on its height variance claiming it would result in a building that loomed over their homes to the north. Residents eventually created “Preserve Our Waldwick,” which hired both an attorney and planning consultant to fortify opposition.
Ridgewood NJ, In just under 2 weeks, Patrolman John Ward Jr will be running the Honolulu Marathon in memory of Officer Chris Goodell of Waldwick Police and Officer Chris Birch of Midland Park Police. Thanks to dozens of generous donations, he is on track to reach and exceed his goal of raising $5,000 to be donated to the Christopher Goodell Scholarship Fund and Special Olympics New Jersey in Chris Birch’s name. If you haven’t already, please consider making a donation.
OCTOBER 28, 2015 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY STEVE JANOSKI
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
WALDWICK — A developer whose plans for an assisted-living facility were rejected by the borough’s Zoning Board of Adjustment in July has sued the board, claiming its decision was “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable,” and should be reversed.
The lawsuit filed in state Superior Court last month asks that the site plan for Formation-Shelbourne Senior Living Services’ proposed 79-unit, 94-bed facility at Wyckoff and Crescent avenues be approved because the board “did not follow the guidelines and mandates of pertinent case law” in regard to issuing variances on conditional-use requirements.
Also, it claims the decision was “contrary to the standards, criteria and requirements” of New Jersey municipal land use law, and “inconsistent” with the evidence presented during the application’s 16 hearings.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015, 4:18 PM
BY RODRIGO TORREJON
STAFF WRITER |
WALDWICK SUBURBAN NEWS
Waldwick – As the community this week awaits the final step in a three-year effort to rename its post office in honor of fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph D’Augustine, his father on Tuesday, Sept. 29, characterized it as “a mixed blessing.”
On Sept. 24, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to rename the post office at 1 Walter Hammond Place the “Staff Sergeant Joseph D’Augustine Post Office Building.” The bill had already been approved in the Senate in an effort spearheaded by Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th District) and co-sponsored by the entire New Jersey Congressional Delegation.
The bill now sits before the president, whose deadline to sign it into law is Monday, Oct. 5.
The post office would become the 16th in the sate to be dedicated to an individual, and the fourth in Bergen County.
The long wait has tempered excitement about the tribute, but has also engendered appreciation. D’Augustine’s father, Anthony, spoke to the bittersweet nature of the effort’s route to success.
“On the one hand, we still lost our son,” he said in an interview. “That’s a hole in your heart that can never be healed.”
But, he added, “It is nice to know that people recognize his sacrifice. He’ll be honored in that regard. That makes my family feel happy as far as it could be happy. We’re pleased that Joey is being recognized for his service and his sacrifice.”
D’Augustine, 29, was killed in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on his second tour of duty March 27, 2012. He had departed for boot camp at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the day after graduating from Waldwick High School. In addition to his father, D’Augustine is survived by his mother Patricia and sisters Nicole, Jennifer and Michelle.
Firefighters battle Smokey Blaze at Waldwick PSE&G substation
September 14,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Waldwick NJ, Firefighters from countless Bergen & Passaic County, NJ communities battled a stubborn cooling oil fed fire at a Public Service Electric and Gas electric sub/switching station on Hopper Avenue in Waldwick, NJ.
The fire began shortly after 10:30 AM on Sunday, 09/13. Heavy smoke and visible fire were still present as evening approached. EMS resources from several communities were also summoned to assist with decontamination of personnel.
The Record reported “Just under 2,000 people in northern and central Bergen County were without power after an explosion at a PSE&G substation in Waldwick on Sunday morning, according to the utility” https://www.northjersey.com/photo-galleries/photos-smoke-billows-from-fire-at-pse-g-substation-in-waldwick-1.1409176
file photo Boyd Loving
JULY 16, 2015, 7:41 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015, 11:00 PM
BY JOHN CICHOWSKI
RECORD COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD
While eyeballing cars from a shoulder on Route 17, police usually don’t get too excited by speeds that inch past the 55-mph limit. But when a jet-black Jeep shot by his cruiser at 79 mph this week, a Waldwick cop hit the gas pedal for a short chase that yielded a skittish speeder with a sense of humor.
“He told me it’s scary out here,” Sgt. Bob Woessner said moments later as he wrote a ticket. “He wondered how we do this each night.”
Sgt. Robert Woessner pulls over a speeding car on Route 17 south, close to the spot where Waldwick Officer Chris Goodell was killed after a tractor-trailer slammed into his police car one year ago.
The speeder might as well have been preaching to the choir. As he does most nights, Woessner was using radar to chase down speeders on a busy stretch of 17 where scariness reached a new threshold just one year ago today when a tractor-trailer slammed into a police cruiser carrying a colleague who was also pulling radar duty there. Patrolman Chris Goodell, 32, the sergeant’s close friend, was killed instantly.
JULY 9, 2015 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2015, 2:53 PM
BY MICHAEL OLOHAN
CORRESPONDENT |
WALDWICK SUBURBAN NEWS
Waldwick – Following more than two hours of testimony Wednesday, July 8, by residents who have been opposing construction of an assisted living facility on Wyckoff Avenue, the zoning board voted 5-2 to reject the application after 13 months of hearings.
The board will formalize its decision by resolution at its Aug. 12 meeting, said board attorney John D’Anton. He said the developer, Formation-Shelbourne Senior Living Services, would then have 45 days to file an appeal in state Superior Court.
Formation-Shelbourne had originally proposed an 85-unit, 100-bed facility, to be known as Solana of Waldwick, on 3.5 acres that is now occupied by four single-family homes at 237, 239, 241, and 247 Wyckoff Ave. Formation-Shelbourne attorney Robert Podvey said the applicant had submitted a final revised site plan on July 7 that reduced the number of units from 85 to 79 and the bed count from 100 to 94. He said the facility was moved back on the property approximately 16 feet from Cambra Road neighbors by removing six residential units on three floors.
The applicant’s engineer, Joseph Miele of Dresdner Robin, Fairfield, said it had also slightly reduced the building’s floor area ratio and impervious coverage, though both still required variances. The facility required a total of four variances, including ones for side parking and its height of three stories. It also required a minor subdivision.
Board members Eugene Sullivan, George Tencza, Ken Gurian, Jesus Mones and Stan Wekarski opposed the application, while member George Pedersen and chair J. Patrick Hunter favored it.
APRIL 2, 2015 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY MARINA VILLENEUVE
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
WALDWICK — When Anthony Celeste was elected councilman three years ago, he had a starry-eyed view of local politics as free of the dysfunction in Washington, D.C. But just two years in a ground-level office has made him reverse that outlook.
Celeste, a 25-year-old devotee of libertarian Ron Paul and Waldwick’s youngest-ever councilman, this week announced he’s leaving politics “for good” and won’t seek reelection.
“Unfortunately, our political dysfunction from D.C. via Congress has spread like a disease to our NJ Assembly, county, and local municipalities,” Celeste wrote on Twitter late Monday.
Celeste, a Republican, won his first three-year term in November 2012. It will now be one of two council seats up for grabs in November, with Republicans Joseph Oravetz and incumbent Charles Farricker likely vying against Democrats John Danubio and Joseph Giovannoli. Republican Mayor Thomas Giordano, now in his first term, will run against Democrat James Schultz.
In an interview, Celeste said he remains optimistic about politics, but that state lawmakers are failing future generations by not addressing sky-high property taxes and a huge pension crisis.
“The country’s in dangerous territory,” Celeste said. “I don’t want to sugarcoat anything.”
Workers from Downes Tree Service place Ridgewood’s Christmas tree at the intersection of East Ridgewood Avenue and South Broad Street.
Ridgewood Christmas tree honors fallen Waldwick police officer
DECEMBER 4, 2014 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014, 2:09 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Ridgewood’s Christmas tree will be lit this Friday at 8 p.m., as tradition dictates.
Adding to the tradition this year is a particularly special, and seasonally appropriate, gesture.
The tree was taken from the Midland Park home of the uncle and aunt of Waldwick Police Officer Christopher Goodell, who was 32 years old and engaged to be married when he lost his life this past summer in a tragic car accident while he was on the job.
The tree is meant to honor the beloved police officer, ringing in the true meaning of the season.
In the same spirit, the Goodell family has been invited by the village to help light the tree on Friday night.
Proceeds from Waldwick lemonade stand benefit Christopher Goodell Fund August 24, 2014
Boyd A. LovingAlexandra (Alex) Stojcevski, 36, and her two (2) children, Stefan, 8, and Angela, 10, (all of Waldwick) have been operating a lemonade stand at the busy corner of Sheridan Avenue and Maple Court in Waldwick for several weeks this summer.
All proceeds from the stand will be given to the Police Officer Christopher Goodell Fund, in honor of the Waldwick Police Department Patrol Officer who was killed in on-duty traffic accident on Route 17 in Waldwick last month.
Alex’s husband is a police officer in Ridgewood.
Alex advises that weekends are slower than weekdays; she estimates that a vehicle stops for lemonade every 10 minutes. Price is $1.00 per glass.
Stop by, say hello, and buy a glass for a worthy cause!
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