Patch features the pets of the week from the Bergen County Animal Shelter in Teterboro
The Bergen County Animal Shelter, located in Teterboro, always has many animals who are looking for a great home. Each week Patch highlights the featured pets of the week. Click through the photo gallery to learn more about each one. The Bergen County Animal Shelter is located at 100 United Lane in Teterboro. Call the shelter at 201-229-4600 or visit them on the web.
Each week Patch features some of the top headlines from around Bergen County
In top county news this week: A Mahwah couple was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, among other charges, after a near six-hour standoff with police and SWAT Team negotiators Wednesday that ended after police used force and tear gas to remove the couple from their Ramapo Brae condo, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli said. About a hundred Teaneck residents have claimed fraudulent charges on their credit cards since Wednesday, leading township police to urge residents to officially report the alleged activity. A group of community members, family and friends are banding together to help a Fort Lee family, whose 15-year-old son is in need of a heart transplant, through some difficult times, and in the process, to raise …
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Three-day event offers arts and crafts, food and music as well.
Patch is offering 50-percent off gate ticket prices to this weekend's 30th annual Festival of Ballooning. But you'll need to act quickly. The discounts are only available through this Sunday, May 20. The festival, held Friday-Sunday, July 27-29, at Solberg Airport in Readington, offers much, much more than ballooning. There are rides, an arts and crafts festival, yoga and Zumba demonstrations, and food—lots of it. Every evening, there will be a music concert and twice each day on Saturday and Sunday and once on Friday, more than 100 balloons will rise majestically into the sky. And Patch will offer all attendees a chance to leave all your troubles behind and take a free tethered balloon ride. Just find our table at the festival and sign up…
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The River Vale Farmers Market received the most votes in this week's Readers' Choice poll.
The votes are in and the readers have chosen the River Vale Farmers Market as its top choice for favorite farmers market in North Jersey. The River Vale Farmer’s Market runs on Thursdays from late June through October at the River Vale Town Hall Complex parking lot next to the tennis courts. Some of its main features include two fresh fruit and vegetable stands, a handmade wine stand with tastings. Other offerings include handmade sodas and coffees; fresh handmade pasta sauces and pizzas; fresh Italian ice stand; a pickles stand, and an Amish stand with all the amazing homemade pies, pastries and jams and a fresh mozzarella and bread stand. The topic of food will also be the subject of next week’s poll when we ask readers to pick their …
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5:28 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
As I said, remember to support the few local working farms that remain in Bergen County, like Demarest Farm in Hillsdale, Stokes in Old Tappan, and Abma's Farm in Wyckoff. If we don't they'll end up being supermarkets, banks, or condo's - Yuk! Von Thun's (picutured) is great, but from Middlesex County. more ›
Dov Rand, who practices in West Orange, accepted cash payments for patient referrals
A doctor from Franklin Lakes admitted in federal court Friday that he took cash payments in exchange for patient referrals, the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey said in a release. Dov Rand, 47, who practices in West Orange, pleaded guilty to one county of violating the federal healthcare anti-kickback statute, US Attorney Paul Fishman said. Rand and 12 other New Jersey doctors were arrested in December and charged with accepting envelopes of cash from Orange Community MRI, a diagnostic facility in Orange, according to the release. Orange Community MRI's executive director, Chirag Patel, 36, of Warren, was also charged in connection with the scheme. Each month, the company calculated kickbacks to Rand based on the number of Medicare and …
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4:26 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Shame on Mr. Fishman! You waste our hard earned tax dollars paying your salary! You should be ashamed of yourself, hope you sleep well at night! more ›
Officials: Woman died after vehicle was left running for 20 hours in attached garage
A Wyckoff woman died from what is believed to be carbon monoxide poisoning in her Covington Place home Friday after a vehicle was inadvertently left running in an attached garage, family and officials said Friday afternoon. Mary Ringley was 82 years old and lived alone with her dog, according to her son Steven Ringley, who had discovered her body earlier that afternoon. Steven, visibly distraught outside his mother's home Friday, said he grew concerned after numerous phone calls to his mother went unanswered earlier in the day. The Wanaque resident said he often spoke to his mother on the phone, so when she didn't pick up Friday morning he drove from Wanaque to Wyckoff to check up on her. He arrived at the Covington Place home around …
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Send your letters to joseph.gerace@patch.com
To The Editor, Too often, we, the hardworking taxpayers of Bergen County, have witnessed the abuses of government — double-dipping of public pensions, inflated salaries prior to retirements to boost pensions, cost over runs on projects, costly lawsuits on differences that should simply be settled by negotiations, unlimited overtime… The list goes on and on… We have all read the headlines and news stories of these abuses of the public trust. Day after day we watch with disgust as our tax dollars are wasted as we look to our elected officials to properly act on our behalf. Last year as a candidate for Bergen County Clerk, I raised one such issue of wasted tax dollars — the inflated cost of election printing by the Bergen County Clerk’s …
Museums in Oakland, Mahwah, Ridgewood, Allendale and beyond on 8-stop tour
The Zabriskie House is one of the participants in the Northwest Bergen County History Tour on May 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This tour is sponsored by the Coalition of Northwest Bergen Historical Organizations. Tickets cost $10 per person — children under 12 free — and are good at eight historical homes and museums in the area. In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Schoolhouse Museum has an exhibit showcasing the unique local history during the turbulent times. "At Zabriskie we have a listing of the 25 Civil War Veterans confirmed buried in Wyckoff and another 10 who are probable, but not yet confirmed," said Jean Hildebrandt, a Zabriskie House trustee. "These men fought at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, marched …
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For two nights only, the Bergen County Players will present Moises Kaufman's dramatic story "The Laramie Project"
On the heels of the U.S. Justice Department issuing its first indictment under the hate crimes protection law afforded by the Matthew Shepard Act, the Bergen County Players is proud to present a limited engagement of The Laramie Project, written by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project. The Laramie Project is a thought provoking, critically acclaimed and emotionally riveting drama about an incomprehensible crime that thrusts a small town into the national spotlight. A portion of the proceeds for this limited run will benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation in Ridgewood. Under the direction of Alyson Cohn, The Laramie Project will be performed only twice at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell on Saturday, May 19 at …
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9:16 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION not to be missed! Perfect time to see this show (everyone everywhere should see it at least once in their life) - and it's right in your own backyard! more ›
Toni M.
2:12 am on Saturday, May 19, 2012
That is so insane!!! I want to try it!!!! more ›