Wednesday, January 2, 2013
"I love this town... I'm humbled that you have chosen me as your chairman and as such, your mayor for 2013."
Wyckoff welcomed a familiar face to lead its governing body at the township's annual reorganization meeting on Tuesday. The annual New Year's Day event is the public's first face-to-face look at the new make up of the committee, as well as the governing body's opportunity to appoint board members and select a new mayor and deputy mayor. Rudy Boonstra was selected as the township's leader, and Doug Christie was selected as deputy mayor. "It is my distinct honor to have Mr. Boonstra serve as the mayor for 2013," said Committeeman Kevin Rooney, before Boonstra was given unanimous approval by the committee. "I love this town," Boonstra said following his selection. "I'm humbled that you have chosen me as your chairman and as such, your mayor …
At the close of his 3-year term on the township's governing body, the former mayor catalogs the achievements of the committee in 2012.
Chris DePhillips, who served as Wyckoff's mayor during his final year on the committee, gave his farewell address before Wyckoff's 2013 reorganization meeting Tuesday. Calling 2012 "another eventful year," DePhillips said the committee faced "multiple challenges" but focused instead on what the township's governing body was able to accomplish by "working well together in a collaborative manner focused, as always, on achieving consensus. "At the end of each calendar year, the national, state and local media have a habit of printing their favorite top 10 stories, well I'm going to publish what I believe to be the top 10 achievements of the committee this year." The committee, he said, strove to serve the best interest of the community as a …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
While some parents are calling for stricter procedures to protect their children and others say current measures are sufficient, officials are say they are exercising prudence.
Wyckoff Public School officials and board members, parents, and township officials gathered at a public meeting Monday night to discuss school safety, just three days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Superintendent Richard Kuder reviewed the schools' safety protocol, including twice monthly emergency drills at every school and the implementation of a buzzer system that screens those looking to make entry into school buildings. Kuder didn't rule out future changes to security here, but suggested administrators would look for ways to improve. “We will continue to look for ways to upgrade the system if that’s possible," he said to the assembled crowd at Eisenhower Middle School. "There are things the principals and I have …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Officials and residents at a state hearing on Orange and Rockland's response to Hurricane Sandy complained of a lack of communication and information in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
Most of the few dozen local officials and residents who attended a state hearing on Orange & Rockland’s response to Hurricane Sandy Wednesday afternoon in Ramsey wanted answers to the same questions: Why wasn’t the utility able to tell customers when power would be restored? Why did the restoration effort seem so haphazard? Does O&R give priority to customers in New York over those in New Jersey? Franklin Lakes Mayor Frank Bivona went so far as to call O&R’s response to the storm “deplorable.” He told representatives he was treated disrespectfully by O&R employees when trying to get information from them during the storm, and never received the answers he was looking for. “O&R works for us, and if I took a poll in Franklin Lakes right now…
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The program offers inpatient hospice care for end-of-life patients when home-based hospice care is not an option.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday afternoon to commemorate a venture between The Christian Health Care Center in Wyckoff and Valley Hospice, a division of Valley Home Care. The Valley Hospice program offers a specialized inpatient hospice unit for end-of-life patients for whom home-based hospice care is not an option, according to CHCC Marketing Director Melanie Anthony. A designated nursing unit at CHCC offers patients compassionate round-the-clock care by a team of Valley Hospice and CHCC caregivers, she said. The ceremony was held at the entrance of the unit and was attended by local dignitaries, including Congressman Scott Garrett and Wyckoff Mayor Christopher DePhillips and CHCC President and CEO Doug Struyk. “I want to thank …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Additional, brief, outages were reported on Wednesday afternoon in a large section of Wyckoff east of Route 208.
Lights have gone back on for nearly 90 percent of Wyckoff, but an approaching stormfront could spell trouble for township residents just reacclimatizing to life in the 21st century. As of Monday morning, approximately 85 to 90 percent of residents have power again after Hurricane Sandy, Wyckoff Mayor Chris DePhillips said in a message to residents Wednesday. "I continue to press PSE&G and Orange & Rockland, and the presidents of those companies, to get the job done and get power restored to all 17,000 of our residents," DePhillips said. "I have urged the utilities in the strongest possible terms to keep crews coming into Wyckoff to move us from 85 percent to 90 percent restoration to 100 percent restoration." But a winter weather …
Friday, November 2, 2012
None of the township's schools are ready to accommodate the return of students just yet, but Superintendent Rich Kuder is hopeful that utility crews and Wyckoff's DPW can get children back to class by next week.
Wyckoff Public School officials are planning to have children return to school next week after 5 days of missed classes following Hurricane Sandy. Plans are tentative, however, and depend on when power returns to the township's five schools. Superintendent Rich Kuder said Friday that if the schools get electricity back over the weekend, children could return to classes as early as Monday. "We want to get the kids back to a sense of normalcy, [but] each school is in a different place," Kuder said. Washington Elementary School was hit the hardest by Hurricane Sandy, Kuder said, with wires pulled down and some of the power infrastructure ripped from the building. "We're waiting to hear from [Orange & Rockland as to when it would be] back …
Christian Health Care Center is back online after Hurricane Sandy tore through the Township on Monday
The first glimmering sign of hope for many Wyckoff residents came late Thursday when a number of blocks in the Sicomac area of Wyckoff, as well as the Christian Health Care Center, regained electrical power. The half a dozen or so streets that came online Thursday, according to Wyckoff Mayor Chris DePhillips and a number of residents who live there, include: Merrywood Avenue, Hickory Hill Road, Briarwood Drive, and parts of Sicomac Avenue. DePhillips said that in calls with Orange & Rockland on Thursday, he stressed the importance of restoring power to Wyckoff — especially to the Christian Health Care Center. "I told them, 'If you could do one thing today, make it that,'" DePhillips reportedly told the utility company. With that added …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Following a conference call with Gov. Chris Christie, Wyckoff Mayor Chris DePhillips expects 35 to 50 mph winds will shear branches and cause power outages, but the township is prepared for the worst case scenario.
Hurricane Sandy is likely to bring down trees and branches, knocking out power around Wyckoff, but the township is more prepared than it was before severe storms last year, Mayor Chris DePhillips said late Sunday night following a conference call with Gov. Chris Christie and his cabinet. The hurricane is expected to make landfall late Monday evening, DePhillips and other local mayors were told during the state briefing Sunday evening. "Atlantic City is expected to be the bull's eye [for the storm to make landfall] around midnight [Monday] night," the mayor said. Throughout Monday, however, sustained winds of 35 to 50 mph will be felt around the entire state, including the north, DePhillips was told, but once the storm comes inland the …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Wyckoff Public Library is expected to return $776,141 to be paid out in four installments between September 2012 and June 2013, according to library and township officials.
Township residents are likely to get some tax relief over the next two years thanks to recent efforts by the Wyckoff Township Committee and the Wyckoff Public Library to send unused funds from the library coffers back to the township. The library is expected to return $776,141, which is expected to be paid out in four installments between September 2012 and June 2013, according to library and township officials. "This is a great resolution to this issue and very good news for the taxpayers in Wyckoff," said Mayor Chris DePhillips. Library Director Mary Witherell said the process is underway to hand over the nearly $800,000. "Our intent and goal is to carefully follow the law and do whatever we can to ease the tax burden on the people of …
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John A. Unglert
9:51 am on Saturday, January 5, 2013
Wow, this one has really become a tinderbox. Hi Linda C & Ed ! Well, at the risk of getting my head chopped off - Mr. Boonstra and I grew up together. With that said and with the knowledge I am pleased that Rudy is once again Mayor. He has a historical view of Wyckoff that I believe is important to Town governance. He has been instrumental in "buying up" as much vacant property as possible, for … more ›