Glen Rock NJ, Investigators from multiple agencies working at the scene of unoccupied passenger vehicle fire in the parking lot of Superfresh, located at 937 Lincoln Avenue, Glen Rock on the afternoon of Wednesday, 08/03. An engine compartment fire, deemed as “suspicious” by Glen Rock PD, heavily damaged the 4-door sedan, which was later removed from the parking lot by a flatbed tow truck. Personnel from Glen Rock PD & FD, Hawthorne PD & FD, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office were all observed operating at the incident.
BY MATTHEW SCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
RIDGEWOOD – The Rotary Club of Ridgewood, Ho-Ho-Kus and Glen Rock recently announced that former president Jerry Kallman is returning to the top job for 2016-2017.
At his first meeting as president this time around, Kallman outlined his plans for his term, including living by the principal “service above self,” the Rotary’s motto.
Glen Rock NJ, the Ridgewood Revolution is spreading . A group of Glen Rock residents has had enough and is petitioning Mayor Bruce Packer and the Borough Council not to approve an ordinance that would rezone Prospect Street.
Sound familiar , the ordinance would permit a developer to build 53 rentals unit housing complex on the street ie high density housing .
Prospect Neighbors started the online petition. The group claims the ordinance is “poor urban planning,” and sets a negative precedent for “high-density, multi-family rental development in all other residential areas of Glen Rock.”
People who commented on the petition homepage made statements we are all well to familiar with in Ridgewood starting with “its a small town and should stay that way we don’t need high density housing ” , others claim the project would increase traffic , ruin the single family charm and otherwise negatively impact the town.
Does this all sound familiar; “This type of housing doesn’t belong in this town. If Glen Rock has tough building regulations for homeowners wanting to expand their homes. Building this kind of apartments is hypocritical”
“This is just the thing that I expected to occur when Amy Martin was elected to council, followed by the election of Bruce Packer and democrat friends. The emphasis here should be on the rehabilitation of the Rock Road business district, not more rental housing down the street from the new Bottle King!”
Ridgewood NJ, A Volkswagen Jetta was just one casualty of a fast moving rain/wind storm that swept through Northwest Bergen County at approximately 7 PM on Sunday, 05/15. Electric service to a home at 428 George Street in Ridgewood was severed when this large tree limb fell. Fallen tree limbs were also reported in neighboring Glen Rock and Hawthorne.
Ridgewood NJ, from the “take back Ridgewood ” Facebook group ,Glen Rock is removing ‘non resident parking’ from the train station and moving non residents a block away. In Ridgewood, our Mayor and his team want to add more non resident commuter parking near the train station for political gains. We need to be informed and vote against his team on May 10th. We can’t afford 4 more years of this.
Glen Rock’s Borough Hall station parking lot to be designated for local commuters beginning May 1
BY RICHARD DE SANTA
STAFF WRITER |
GLEN ROCK GAZETTE
County of Bergen Health Services HazMat team Called to a Home in Glen Rock
April 8,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Glen Rock NJ, A County of Bergen Health Services HazMat team was called to a home in Glen Rock late Thursday evening, 04/07 after a male resident opened a “mysterious” package in the home’s basement and was exposed to an unknown white powder. The initial 911 telephone call requesting help was answered by Glen Rock PD shortly before 10 PM. The resident refused medical aid. A HazMat team was still working on scene as of Thursday at midnight. Glen Rock PD units also responded to the location, which was at 459 Prospect Street.
UPDATE: Shortly after 12 midnight, it was determined that the although the substance found was not hazardous, it was not the substance identified on the package’s label.
Fri, April 01, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Porch Light Theater, 555 Broad Street Glen Rock, NJ
Cost: $18 per person
Glen Rock NJ, Porch Light Theater Present “Jerusalem is Beautiful .The play revolves around two young peace activistsa Jewish-American male (Dylan), and a Palestinian-American female (Amal) who unexpectedly cross paths. He is leaving his job at the Coalition for Peace to start a new life in Jerusalem and she has been hired to take over his position and his Brooklyn apartment. The two had arranged a meeting for the following day, but Amal arrives unannounced at the apartment in the middle of the night. During the visit, they debate politics, reveal personal tragedies and come to a surprising and romantic mutual understanding. Jerusalem is Beautiful is a charming and timely play with just the right amount of humor and pathos.
For more information, please visit: njplaywrightscontest.org
This production is presented through special partnership with the New Jersey Playwright’s Contest. Staged readings of the finalists for the 13th Annual NJPC will be held at Porch Light on Sunday, April 17.
Ridgewood Water Info Session 2/23/16 from Glen Rock TV on Vimeo.
GLEN ROCK, NJ , Glen residents questioned , Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn, and Ridgewood Water officials during special public meeting recently.
The meeting was the second such meeting giving the new Ridgewood water management team a chance to explain the complexities of managing a decentralized water system as opposed to a single source system.
The Village of Ridgewood owns the embattled utility company, which services Wyckoff, Midland Park, and Glen Rock.
A major lawsuit by officials from those municipalities alleges that the utility artificially inflated its costs by commingling Village of Ridgewood expenses with that of the water utility. In a recent press release Wyckoff officials claim the, “massive” 37 percent rate increases approved since 2010 are “unlawful” and “excessive,”
Bergen County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad Unit called in to remove a suspicious item found lying in the gutter of Lincoln Avenue in Glen Rock
February 12,2016
the staff of the Ridgewoiod blog
Glen Rock NJ, Glen Rock PD summoned the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad Unit to remove a suspicious item found lying in the gutter of Lincoln Avenue near Kenmore Place on Friday morning shortly after 10 AM. Several homes in the area were evacuated by Hawthorne and Glen Rock PD personnel as a precaution.
The Bomb Squad Unit safely removed the item from the scene for disposal at a later date. Glen Rock FD and EMS personnel were placed on standby during the incident. No injuries were reported, nor was there any word on what the item was nor its origin. Police closed Lincoln Avenue in both directions between Van Winkle and Hillside Avenues for just over one (1) hour
Lincoln Avenue was closed in both directions but has since been reopened .
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood failed to send elected representatives to a mediation session Wednesday January 8th that was an effort to settle the long running class-action lawsuit against Ridgewood Water .Ridgewood Water is a public water utility owned by the village of Ridgewood , which services Ridgewood ,Wyckoff, Midland Park, and Glen Rock.
The class action lawsuit was filed against Ridgewood Water in Superior Court by Wyckoff officials in 2010, with the municipalities of Glen Rock and Midland Park joining the action as plaintiffs a year later.
The municipalities claim that Ridgewood Water artificially inflated its costs by commingling funds with the village budget and the utility raised its rates in 2010 by 21 percent and another 5 percent in 2011 and 2012. In total in the past 7 years rates have increased 37% which the plaintiffs called , “unlawful” and “excessive”.
The suit also contends the rate hikes were approved in an ordinance adopted by the village council, and characterizing these increases as “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable and, accordingly, should be declared invalid and unenforceable.”
The suit also suggests Ridgewood officials conceived of the fee increases as a way to offset the village’s annual municipal budget using the utility to offset non related expenses .
In a more recent press release the plaintiffs called the rate increase a Village of Ridgewood scheme and that the Village transferred wholly unrelated operating costs to Ridgewood Water and used the rate increase to in-effect subsidize Ridgewood Tax payers with Wyckoff, Midland Park, and Glen Rock rate payers.
This action seeks millions in refunds for customers in all three towns. Refunds paid for by Ridgewood tax payers. While in the past the Mayor seemed to suggest confidence in the resolution of this law suit . The Ridgewood blog has continued to warn over and over that the Village faced significant liabilities due to Ridgewood Water in both billing actions ,infrastructure and water quality.
A long term plan for either disposal of the utility or a financing major strategic upgrade is long over due .
JANUARY 26, 2016, 11:51 AM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016, 4:08 PM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
A Glen Rock man who is awaiting sentencing for bilking upwards of $3 million from more than a dozen investors is at it again, federal authorities allege, using a phony alias to scam new victims.
The new allegations against Paul Mancuso, 49, were leveled in a letter that a federal prosecutor sent last week to U.S. District Judge William J. Martini in Newark requesting that his $250,000 bail be revoked and that he be detained pending sentencing.
“Despite having pled guilty [in September] to defrauding numerous victims over a three-year period of more than $3 million, Mancuso is continuing to hold himself out as a real estate entrepreneur — using a phony alias — in a brazen attempt to lure additional victims into fraudulent real estate transactions,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony J. Mahajan wrote in his letter to the judge.
JANUARY 24, 2016 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2016, 1:21 AM
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Dying may be easy — from a theatrical standpoint — but playing dead can be oh-so-hard.
Just ask Glen Rock’s Charlie Sara, who portrayed murder victim Paul Duncsak in an Investigation Discovery show’s re-creation of one of Bergen County’s most notorious homicide cases. In 2006, Duncsak was ambushed inside his Ramsey home, a crime for which his former father-in-law was convicted.
“He murdered [him] in very close quarters in the entry foyer of his home, and it was close-range gunshots, six of them, one to the groin,” Sara recalls of one gruesome scene he shot, for a 2015 episode of the ID series “I’d Kill for You,” at a mansion in Sparta. “And then the hardest part was laying on a cold marble floor for about four hours as they shot camera angles of the dead body.”
Sara, a professionally trained actor who owns and operates an ambulatory-care facility in Paramus, has since played a prosecutor and a murderer in two different ID shows. He is a part of two intertwining television trends — the huge popularity of the true-crime genre and the rise of Sparta Township, a Sussex County community with one of New Jersey’s lowest crime rates, as a filming locale.
“It’s one of the safest communities, but it’s the set for the re-creations of some very heinous crimes from all over the
country,” says Sparta police Lt. John-Paul Beebe, who, along with local Realtor Duffy Brennan, is credited with igniting the filming boom a few years ago, as a way to pump up the local economy.
JANUARY 23, 2016, 9:55 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016, 9:58 PM
BY JEAN RIMBACH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Gurbir Grewal had an impressive position in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark when he agreed to take on what could very well be a temporary job as Bergen County’s prosecutor, the high-profile, high-stakes seat at the top of the county’s law-enforcement pyramid.
He says he was motivated in large part by the opportunity to make a difference in the community where he resides. “You actually see what you’re working on sort of manifest itself in the community,” said the 42-year-old Glen Rock resident, during an interview three weeks after his appointment as acting prosecutor. “You’re able to make a difference more immediately.”
But the married father of three — who put battling the heroin epidemic and quality-of-life crimes as top priorities — said there was also another, more personal motive: He hopes to make a difference in the lives of people, like himself, who are members of the Sikh religion.
“The other part of why I wanted to do this — and one of the reasons why I wanted to do public service in the first place — is that I come from a background where people are always taught to be good doctors and good engineers and good professionals and not ever steered toward public service,” he said last week. “And I think because of that there are misunderstandings of who Sikhs are and people who look like me, where they come from, and what they might believe because they’re never sort of seen in those front-line public service jobs.”
Grewal, who speaks Punjabi and Hindi, is the first South Asian and the first Sikh to occupy the office. But that’s just one piece of the picture emerging of the county’s first new prosecutor in 14 years, replacing John Molinelli.
JANUARY 21, 2016 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016, 12:32 AM
BY LYNN BRUGGEMANN
CORRESPONDENT |
MIDLAND PARK SUBURBAN NEWS
MIDLAND PARK — The Board of Health is encouraging residents to attend a presentation on “Understanding Lead Poisoning” being sponsored by the Ridgewood Environmental Advisory Committee in Ridgewood on Jan. 25.
A representative of Ridgewood Water will reportedly be present.
Ridgewood Water issued a notice to customers on Jan. 5 saying its water does not have lead in it, but that some homes in its service territory have pipes from which lead leaches into water in excess of the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL).
Ridgewood Water serves residents in the borough, Wyckoff and Glen Rock as well as the village.
“At each of our last three meetings, the topic of Ridgewood Water has been discussed,” said Laurie DiCorcia, president of the Board of Health. “This forum offers residents an opportunity to become informed and ask questions.”
Council President Nancy Cronk Peet said she was “concerned” about the safety of the water supply and plans to attend the Jan. 25 program.
“The water coming to the borough homes and businesses must be properly monitored by the water company to assure the residents that the leaching of the lead in the older residents’ plumbing is not contaminating the drinking water,” said Peet, a member of the health board “I hope that the community will come out and ask questions about the water quality and services.”
Ridgewood Water business manager Dave Scheibner assured the Ridgewood Village Council on Wednesday, Jan. 13, that its water is safe.
DECEMBER 23, 2015, 7:24 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2015, 7:53 AM
BY MARY DIDUCH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
GLEN ROCK — The borough’s police chief will leave his post early next month, an official confirmed Wednesday, clearing the way for new leadership in a department that has weathered a tumultuous year, including the suspension of two officers and the arrest of a third.
The borough learned of Chief Fred Stahman’s retirement on Wednesday, Borough Administrator Lenora Benjamin said. It is effective March 1, but because Stahman is using his accumulated time off, his last day on the job will be Jan. 6, Benjamin said.
“We had communications with the chief,” Benjamin said.
Stahman was appointed to the department’s top post in 2009, and his salary is $159,934, she said.
Stahman did not return a message seeking comment.
The department’s leaders drew criticism following the suspension of two officers and the arrest of a senior detective on charges that he sent sexually explicit text messages to underage girls whom he was supervising in his role as the department’s juvenile officer. The controversies eventually turned into a campaign issue this November.
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