Category: Waldwick

Waldwick police issue warning after attempted luring of jogger
Monday November 4, 2013, 7:02 PM
BY  EVONNE COUTROS
STAFF WRITER
The Record

WALDWICK – Police are warning residents to travel in pairs after two men reportedly tried to get an adult female jogging on Douglas Street on Sunday morning to get into their car.

The 40-year-old woman was running about 10 a.m. when a black Nissan pulled up beside her with two male occupants who tried to coax her into the car, said Waldwick Det. Sgt Douglas J. Moore.

“She declined and continued on her run, yelling to another woman on the street to call police,” Moore said.

The woman told police the men were white, in their 20s, and one had long dark hair, Moore said. The car had darkened windows, he said.

“They made no effort to exit the car,” Moore said. “They left the area once she declined.”

The luring follows two reported attempts on Oct. 25 and last Friday in Ridgewood near George Washington Middle School.

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Slain Waldwick woman’s baby faces uncertain future
Friday, October 25, 2013    Last updated: Saturday October 26, 2013, 12:19 AM
BY  CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
The Record

The boy is 9 months old and will never know his mother. His father, if convicted of her murder, faces life in prison.

Now a judge must decide who will raise baby Mark, the son of Mary Greff and Mark Spatucci, a young Waldwick couple whose passionate relationship was strained by parenthood and ended in tragedy.

The infant was living with his mother at the Waldwick home of the now-retired couple who had adopted Mary Greff. The baby was asleep, apparently, in a bassinet in the same bedroom, when Spatucci allegedly climbed through a second-floor window late on Tuesday.

Prosecutors say that Spatucci and Greff, 23, argued before he strangled her and fled out the same window.

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Young love gone bad? Suspect in Waldwick killing said to struggle being a dad
Thursday, October 24, 2013    Last updated: Friday October 25, 2013, 12:14 AM
BY  CHRISTOPHER MAAG, ABBOTT KOLOFF AND EVONNE COUTROS
STAFF WRITERS
The Record

They met two years ago, introduced by mutual friends, and quickly fell in love. But friends said Mary Greff and Mark Spatucci’s passionate relationship became complicated after their baby was born in February and ultimately unraveled amid arguments over child support and custody of the infant.

Now Spatucci, 22, is in custody, charged with murder in the strangling of Greff, a 23-year-old former beauty pageant contestant. She was slain in a bedroom at her parents’ home on Mary Lane in Waldwick as the couple’s 9-month-old baby slept nearby in a bassinet, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement on Thursday.

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Young mom slain in her Waldwick home with baby nearby
Wednesday, October 23, 2013    Last updated: Thursday October 24, 2013, 12:35 AM
BY  ABBOTT KOLOFF, ZACH PATBERG AND EVONNE COUTROS
STAFF WRITERS
The Record

A 23-year-old single mother and former beauty pageant contestant was found dead on Wednesday afternoon after apparently being strangled at her parents’ home in Waldwick, with her baby lying unharmed in a bassinet nearby, authorities said.

Mary Greff, who gave birth to a baby boy in February, was found by her father at 1 p.m. in a second-floor bedroom of the house on Mary Lane, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the scene. Her infant son appears to have been alone for hours because police said they believe she died sometime in the early morning hours on Wednesday.

“An autopsy is yet to be performed, but the death has been ruled a homicide due to evidence of strangulation/asphyxiation,” Molinelli said in a statement on Wednesday night

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Family Practitioner Katy Belov, M.D., joins Valley Medical Group Practice in Waldwick

January 17, 2013 — Valley Medical Group is pleased to welcome family practitioner Katy Belov, M.D. Located at 61 Crescent Avenue, the practice was acquired last year by Valley Health System, which also includes The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and Valley Home Care.

Valley Medical Group (VMG) comprises physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties at Valley locations and in community-based practices. A new entity of Valley Health System, VMG brings together Valley-employed physicians based at the hospital, the Luckow
Pavilion in Paramus, other outpatient facilities, seven Valley Health Medical Group sites, and medical practices throughout the community.

Dr. Belov joins Beverly Dunn, M.D., in the practice of primary care and internal medicine for adults and families.  Dr. Belov is board-certified in family practice, and she speaks Russian, Georgian, and medical Spanish.

Dr. Belov graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University, Republic of Georgia, with a combined college degree and doctor of medicine degree.  In 1994, she received an award from the university for “Outstanding Thesis in Human Physiology.”  From 1997 to 1999, she conducted a research fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a W.F. Keck Fellowship grant from the Office of Naval Research at Vanderbilt in 1998 for the study of the wound healing process.  From 1999 to 2000, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons conducting research in neurosomatic disorders and imaging studies.

In 2003, Dr. Belov completed her family practice residency at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City. She was chosen to deliver the graduation speech to her fellow family practice residents. Prior to joining Valley Health System, Dr. Belov cared for patients in primary care and urgent care practices in Hudson and Passaic counties.  She trained and supervised student nurse practitioners in an outpatient setting and has extensive experience in using electronic medical records.

The Valley Medical Group practice in Waldwick is one of a number of primary-care and specialty-care physician practices acquired by Valley within the past two years to ensure that patients residing in communities served by the health system have access to quality medical care now and in the future.  Patients of Valley Medical Group practices enjoy seamless access to all of Valley’s programs and services.

To make an appointment with Dr. Belov, call 201-445-0033.

Photo by Boyd Loving

Officials identify Waldwick man struck by NJ Transit train in Ridgewood
Published: Friday, April 20, 2012, 4:35 PM Updated: Friday, April 20, 2012, 5:15 PM

BERGEN COUNTY — Officials said that a Waldwick man was struck and killed while walking on the tracks near the the Ridgewood train station Thursday evening.

NJ Transit spokesman John R. Durso, Jr. said Friday that the victim had been identified as Mark E. Magolia.

https://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2012/04/officials_identify_waldwick_man_struck_by_nj_transit_train_in_ridgewood.html

>Fallen Marine Joseph D’Augustine from Waldwick to return home Tuesday, April 3

Joseph D’Augustine had a talent for making those around him smile. His own earnest grin, friends and family members said last week in the wake of his death, will be etched in their memories forever.

D’Augustine The 29-year-old staff sergeant was killed March 27 while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Thursday, March 29… 

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