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Paramus NJ, get ready to embrace the magic of the season as Bergen County’s Winter Wonderland has returned to Van Saun County Park ! Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco and the Bergen County Board of Commissioners are thrilled to bring back Northern New Jersey’s premier destination for holiday family fun.
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Paramus NJ, County Executive Jim Tedesco announced in a Facebook post ,
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Paramus NJ, Zoo Boo tickets are now live! Get yours before they sell out! Check out the Friend’s website for the Eventbrite link and for more details: www.friendsofbergencountyzoo.org/zooboo. Tickets are ONLINE ONLY and must be purchased in advance on Eventbrite.
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Ridgewood NJ, as the average price of a gallon of gasoline nears $5, most Americans say the high cost has altered their summer vacation plans.
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Hackensack NJ, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco announces that the Bergen County Zoo, located in Van Saun County Park, has officially reopened to the general public just in time for Labor Day.
Visitors must purchase tickets online at www.BergenCountyZoo.com
July 20,2018
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Paramus NJ, The Bergen County Zoo will open a new, interactive seasonal exhibit featuring Budgerigars, often called “budgies,” which are small docile birds that can be easily trained and feed on small seeds. The exhibit features 350 budgies in a 2,400 square feet screened enclosure. Guests can enter the enclosure with a feeding stick and budgies will flock to the sticks and allow for close interaction between the guests and the birds. Admission to this exhibit is $2 per person and is separate from the zoo’s general admission fee.
Where: The Bergen County Zoo at Van Saun County Park, Paramus
When: July 20, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Who: County Executive Jim Tedesco and other county officials
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015, 8:04 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015, 8:13 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
The Bergen County Freeholders on Wednesday approved a $1-million contract for an overflow parking lot that would enable the county to build an outdoor skating rink this winter in Van Saun County Park in Paramus.
But hold the Zamboni: There’s a rut in that plan. None of the six firms that had expressed an interest in building and operating the seasonal rink submitted a bid, county officials said.
County Parks Director Jim Koth said that as a result, the county plans to re-advertise the bidding for the rink contract after talking with the various firms to see what was it about the specifications that kept them from making bids.
Koth said he suspects some of it may have to do with the timing and the short duration of the rink-operator contract.
Under the terms of the parking lot contract awarded to Applied Landscape Technologies Inc. of Montville, the firm will have 100 days to build the lot. With a bid of $1,030,000, the firm was the lowest of seven bidders seeking to build the approximately 110-space lot on what is now a dirt lot south of the park’s carousel. The outdoor temporary ice rink would be built within the footprint of the overflow lot, Koth said. The lot also will provide additional parking for the nearby Bergen County Zoo.