The decision followed a tense conversation about Extel Communications, Councilman Thomas Riche’s North Haledon company, which received $32,000 last year for repair work to the communication systems in village hall, the fire department and at Ridgewood Water.

While educators throughout the state strain to interpret New Jersey’s strict anti-bullying law, a judge has found that an eighth-grade Ridgewood boy violated the rules by calling a fellow student a “horse” and “fat.”

While educators throughout the state strain to interpret New Jersey’s strict anti-bullying law, a judge has found that an eighth-grade Ridgewood boy violated the rules by calling a fellow student a “horse” and “fat.”

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST A snapped power line in Ridgewood burned through pavement and a gas pipe, igniting a small fire. The gas-fed fire broke out around 3 o’clock this afternoon on Goffle Road. No injuries were reported. Goffle Road was closed between Ravine Avenue and Lake Street while PSE&G crews worked to extinguish [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Motorists caught not yielding to pedestrians have been receiving warnings from Hillsdale police working undercover — but not anymore, warns Police Chief Eric Stalter. “For now, this program has had an educational focus,” Stalter said this morning. “However, within the near future we will shift the focus of the program [...]

Ridgewood school administrators receive financial update from business administrator.

Ridgewood Avenue School did a seed paper project for Earth Day - and the finished products were sent as gifts to Newtown, Conn.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A 35-year-old Wyckoff man sent a borough police sergeant to the hospital following a domestic incident. Christopher C. Frawley was drunk and combative when Sgt. Dale Winters and Patrolman Kevin Kasak and two officers from Midland Park were summoned by his 67-year-old mother Friday night, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said [...]

Ridgewood bans smoking in all parks, playgrounds and sports fields.

Ridgewood to embark on various beautification and improvement projects using state grants.

Recent police activity in the Village of Ridgewood.

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST The driver of a pickup was seriously injured this morning after losing control of her vehicle, which spun into oncoming traffic, was broadsided by a Mini-Cooper and landed on its side. The 1045 crash occurred as the grey pickup was headed east on Washington Avenue between Pascack Road and Meisten [...]

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST A 52-year-old motorist from Rutherford sustained a serious leg injury Sunday when a pickup truck headed in the opposite direction spun out of control into oncoming traffic and her Mini-Cooper slammed into it, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. The 1045 crash occurred as the grey pickup, driven by a [...]

A change in how the Ridgewood school district manages and administers its home programs for special needs students ?” a cost-cutting measure ?” has several parents in the village outraged.

Certain Ridgewood employees will receive salary increases

The Rotary Club of Ridgewood, Ho-Ho-Kus and Glen Rock hosted a Beefsteak fundraiser at The Brownstone in Paterson

To no surprise Tea Party Darling and Republican New Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett (Bergen, Sussex, Warren) voted for the 37th time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Ridgewood Police Department cracks down on motorists who don't stop for pedestrians in crosswalks.

Ridgewood Council will review overall traffic plan for Ridge School.

Four developers have requested amending the village's master plan.

The Bergen County Police Chief’s Association’s second Annual Law Enforcement Blue Mass honoring New Jersey fallen officers is scheduled for 9 a.m. next Wednesday at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Ridgewood. “In this post 9/11 era, it is important for the public to be reminded that there are officers who are sacrificing themselves [...]

SHOUT OUT Ridgewood emergency service and public works employees treated youngsters today to hands-on adventure, sitting them in vehicles that touch their lives and giving them a taste of what it’s like to be behind the wheel. An added bonus was a Big Wheel Rodeo for children of all ages through Memorial Park at Van [...]

Ridgewood Police general Incidents and Arrests 5/13/2013

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A notorious bank robber who once taunted authorities while holding up nearly two dozen banks across the country before they put him in prison for 25 years is going before a federal judge in Newrk this afternoon in connection with a $4,658 Oakland bank robbery last month. John Edward Stevens, [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A federal judge this afternoon ordered that notorious bank robber — who once taunted authorities while holding up nearly two dozen banks across the country before they put him in prison for 25 years — be held without bail in connection with a $4,658 Oakland bank robbery last month. John [...]