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Education
The district says it revised or created 69 courses for this school year. The change that alters a schedule: twenty electives that used to run a full year now run a semester. Not all of them run in both buildings.
Public Safety
S1421 would require municipalities to formally budget for emergency medical services, potentially forcing the replacement of volunteer ambulance corps with paid staff.
A state bill requiring municipalities to budget for EMS could effectively end volunteer ambulance corps like Wyckoff's, where volunteers provide all emergency medical services at no cost to taxpayers.
Community
Three neighbors appeared in support as the board unanimously approved a second-story addition on a substandard corner lot — a project driven by the need to create an accessible first-floor bedroom suite for the homeowners' parents.
The owners of a substandard corner lot on Princeton Avenue won unanimous approval to add a second story, with the project designed to create first-floor accessible accommodations for the homeowners' aging parents and three neighbors appearing to support the application.
State & Local
New Jersey's affordable housing law cycles every ten years, and Wyckoff has been navigating its requirements since the 1980s. Here is the full picture of what the fourth round means for residents.
Wyckoff's affordable housing obligation cycles every ten years under a state Supreme Court mandate. The fourth round's overlay zones target commercial corridors and two financially strained church properties — and the fifth round begins in 2035.
Community
After four months of hearings that reshaped the project, the Planning Board unanimously approved a new retail building at the Cedar Hill Shopping Center — with conditions.
The Wyckoff Planning Board unanimously approved a new retail building at the Cedar Hill Shopping Center after a four-month review, with conditions addressing landscaping, driveway safety, and snow removal.
State & Local
The legal tool at the heart of New Jersey's affordable housing debate can override local zoning entirely. Here's how it works and what's at stake for Wyckoff.
Builder's remedy lets developers override local zoning in towns that haven't met their affordable housing obligations. Wyckoff is racing to meet a March 15th deadline to protect itself from this threat.
State & Local
An undersized lot on Auburn Street presented a clear hardship, the board found, as the owners received unanimous approval to add a second floor and covered front porch to a ranch-style home.
The owners of a Dutch Colonial ranch home on Auburn Street won unanimous approval to add a second story, with the board citing a clear hardship from the property's undersized lot.
Community
Three signature events and a full calendar of programming will mark Wyckoff's 100 years as an incorporated township.
Three signature public events — a formal gala in March, a Main Street street fair and fireworks in June, and a historic cemetery tour in October — anchor Wyckoff's year-long centennial celebration.
Community
The township holds a morning ceremony at Community Park, where a 9/11 memorial carries the names of eleven people; the fire department's evening service is at its Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
Wyckoff holds two Sept. 11 remembrance services this year, marking 25 years since the 2001 attacks: a township ceremony at 8:45 a.m. Friday at Community Park, and the Wyckoff Fire Department's annual memorial service at 6 p.m. at Fire Company No. 1, behind Memorial Town Hall, followed by a repast, which the fire department's report to the Township Committee said all residents are welcome to attend. Mayor Roger Lane announced both at the Aug. 18 Township Committee meeting. The department's Fallen Firefighters Memorial honors all those lost on 9/11, including Dana Hannon, a captain in the Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department and a career New York City firefighter who was 29 when he was lost at the World Trade Center, and the ten other Wyckoff residents lost that day. The township's memorial in Community Park on Wyckoff Avenue, the Remembrance Memorial and Freedom Garden, carries eleven names inscribed on granite beneath the date September 11, 2001; a plaque on the wall marks a rededication on the 20th anniversary in 2021.
Public Safety
Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department posted its own video of the response — smoke and flame visible at a second-story window as firefighters moved in. All three of the department's companies and mutual aid from around northwest Bergen County responded to the Saturday night fire; no injuries were reported.
Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department's own video shows smoke and flame at a second-story window during a Monroe Avenue house fire. All three of the department's companies and mutual aid from around northwest Bergen County responded, per the department's own post; News 12 New Jersey separately named Waldwick and confirmed no injuries. Three Township Committee members, including Mayor Roger J. Lane, were at the scene.
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