Ringwood News

On Sunday, December 6, 2009 Wanaque Cheer hosted a North Jersey cheerleading competition at the Lakeland Regional High School known as "Battle of the Best Cheerfest 2009." The towns that participated were Ringwood, Bloomingdale, Wanaque, Little Falls Lincoln Park, Butler and West Paterson.

Theodore "Teddy" Taukus is expected to be sworn in as mayor on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. during the annual reorganization of municipal government.

A bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to renew funding for the National Housing Trust Fund is up for a final vote.

A West Milford man was accused of driving under influence after his vehicle went off the road and into an embankment, landing on its side in the area of Tetzold Drive early on the morning of Dec.

The first of the Board family to come to the Pompton area was Cornelius Board. In 1730, "Lord" Stirling engaged Cornelius Board, a miner from Wales, to come to the New World to search for copper.

Authorities arrested 14 people, including a Ringwood man accused of heading a drug trafficking ring in Ringwood, West Milford and Northvale, the Passaic County Prosecutor's office said Thursday.

Eat Local is seeking community members to serve on our volunteer non-profit Board of Directors.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

The Association for Special Children and Families recently received another round of funding from the federal Department of Education that will maintain the group's Highlands Parent Center at the Hillcrest Community Center, located on Macopin Road, for at least three more years.

RINGWOOD a ' The Borough Council has voted to allow Saddle Mountain LP to continue mining below the quarry's controversial 370-foot level and to extend its temporary license another 60 days to Feb.

Within days of Chris Christie's election, the Highlands Council received so many inquires about how to get on the council that they had to post on their Web-site a letter from Chairman John Weingart explaining the process and directing all questions to Governor Jon Corzine's office or Governor-elect Christie's office.

The Borough Council and a local quarry's representatives on Dec. 1 will hash out a license renewal application, amid resident complaints about the rock operation.

The state Superior Court in Bergen County gave non-settlement plaintiffs another chance to file complaints in the Upper Ringwood lawsuit that was brought against companies allegedly responsible for the environmental contamination and varying health problems in the community.

Regarding "It pays to be green" : I think that it is great that towns are going to green energy and purchasing hybrid vehicles to reduce fuel costs.

Holly Kopczynski always prided herself on raising her kids the right way, teaching them etiquette basics such as saying "please" and "thank you." Then it happened.

The Wanaque and Ringwood Health Departments will hold H1N1 flu vaccine clinics Friday and Tuesday at Lakeland Regional High School.

The Holiday Open House at Skylands Manor moves to this weekend rather than the first one in December, breaking 20 years of tradition as a result of a scheduling conflict with a caterer.

The Highlands Council approved an exemption for a gas pipeline Thursday afternoon.

The Highlands Council approved a 16-mile underground gas pipeline Thursday that cuts through West Milford and under the Monksville Reservoir - the second time in six months that it okayed a major energy project through the environmentally-sensitive region.

NORTH JERSEY a ' Ringwood resident Tracy Rynkowski remembers her grandmother, "Mimi," with a smile.