The Franklin Lakes Journal
Published: April 21, 2012
Calendar Photo Competition |
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Borough 2013 Calendar Photo Competition
One of the primary features of the Borough’s new annual calendar is to exhibit photographs which capture the essence of our Franklin Lakes community. This year’s calendar featured photographs of Franklin Lakes scenes taken by local photographers. For the 2013 calendar, we are holding a competition for the best photographs of [...]
Published: April 19, 2012
Blue and Gold Touchdown Club Wine Tasting |
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Blue and Gold Touchdown Club Evening of Wine Tasting
Friday, May 4 at Endless Vine in Franklin Lakes
Join the Blue and Gold Touchdown Club at the Endless Vine in Franklin Lakes from 7:30 to 10 pm. The night will include a sampling of five wines from different wine producing regions of the world. Red, [...]
Published: April 19, 2012
Art Auction 4/21 |
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Highlights include but not limited to extremely valuable collection of art by world renowned artist such as Pissarro, Miro, Degas, Renoir, Peter Max, Chagall….
Published: April 18, 2012
Bergen Report on Report |
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The sport known as “extreme fighting” is being explored as a new avenue for revenue for the Bergen County government, and officials are hoping it may lead to a budget surplus.
Dramatized in the accompanying photo, plans for Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan to meet Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino in a caged fight are in [...]
Published: April 17, 2012
IronMatt Scholarship |
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The Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District
is Now Accepting IronMatt Scholarship Applications
for the 2012 Graduation Class!
The Matthew Larson Foundation for Pediatric Brain Tumors is now accepting scholarship applications. This separately funded and distinct Scholarship Fund will award two five hundred dollar scholarships.
The scholarships will be awarded to one Indian Hills High School senior [...]
Published: April 16, 2012
Birding in Bergen |
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Birding is an eclectic term for an eclectic group of people. Birders who go birding, were in the past known as birdwatchers.
Today, birdwatchers are those people who enjoy birds from their front porch or in their own backyard….Real birders get out a bit more.
Whether birding or simple bird watching, the arrival of spring makes it [...]
Published: April 16, 2012
Photo by TKL Marketing, Ho-Ho-Kus |
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PLANS UNDERWAY FOR JUNE 6th GRAND SLAM FOR WEST BERGEN’S KIDS
Members of the Committee met recently to plan the first annual Grand Slam for West Bergen’s Kids set for Wednesday, June 6th at the Indian Trail Club in Franklin Lakes, N.J. In photo below Committee members include (l-r): Carol Cohen, West Bergen Director of Development; [...]
Published: April 6, 2012
Robertson Davies: Man of Myth |
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Judith Skelton Grant. Robertson Davies: Man of Myth.
New York: Viking, 1994.
As reviewed by Ted Odenwald
As the hundredth anniversary of his birth approaches, it seems appropriate to revisit the life and accomplishments of Canadian novelist, journalist, educator, dramatist, and performing artist, Robertson Davies. Judith Skelton Grant’s detailed, analytical, and incisive biography pays tribute to her fellow [...]
Published: April 6, 2012
Project 195 Spring Cleaning Drive |
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Drop off locations: Oakland - Lakeside Ftiness, Franklin Lakes - V&S Dry Cleaners (next to the Hardware Store), Wyckoff - The Wyckoff Y
Published: April 4, 2012
April 2012 Reviews |
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Reviews by Andrea Elson of the Oakland Public Library
Just as Good : How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game
By: Chris Crowe
Expanding on the story of baseball’s racial integration, a family follows the play of the second African-American to play major league baseball, Larry Doby. The story does an excellent job of presenting the historical context [...]
Published: April 3, 2012
Comedy with A Cause |
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On Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m., Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, NJ, will transform into a New York City-style comedy club to present “Comedy with A Cause: A Fundraiser Featuring Top Talent in a Comedy Club Atmosphere.”
Tickets to the event ($118 each) include three nationally-known comedy acts, gourmet food and drink, an “after hours” [...]
Published: April 1, 2012
Is Duct Tape a Bunch of Quackery? |
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By Veronica MacDonald Ditko
An Accidental Anthropologist
My son thinks a piece of tape will solve anything. This includes broken plastic toys, beloved pictures his younger brother has snipped to smithereens, and holes in his clothing. I tell him tape doesn’t fix everything as I half-heartedly try to stick a radiator back on a truck. Then I [...]
Published: April 1, 2012
Teen Book Reviews April 2012 |
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Newes from the Dead
Mary Hooper
Anne Green is dead. All of Oxford was there to see her hanged for the crime of infanticide. Even Anne Green knows that she’s dead.
Told in alternating perspectives – that of Anne Green as well as that of the doctors examining her body following her public hanging – this [...]
Published: March 30, 2012
A Recount On Corruption |
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It’s a shocker, possibly funny, and has the potential to give the impression that New Jersey might be too clean. It might mean that we need a recount on how much NJ ranks…
Published: March 30, 2012
Devon Fine Jewelry supports Julia’s Butterfly Foundation |
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Devon Fine Jewelry of Wyckoff, NJ announces support of Julia’s Butterfly Foundation with April Sale on Nina Nguyen Designs.
For the entire month of April, Devon Fine Jewelry will donate 10% of their total sales on Nina Nguyen designs to Julia’s Butterfly Foundation, a Wyckoff based 501 (c) non-profit that helps terminally and chronically ill children [...]
Published: March 29, 2012
Medco Scheduling Movers |
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The Franklin Lakes based pharmacy benefits manager will be merging with the St. Louis based Express Scripts, and most likely moving out of Franklin Lakes.
Published: March 29, 2012
Drama, Fights, Laughs |
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Tense drama, huge fights, and big laughs is the tagline for Season 4 of The NJ Housewives…it’s also the tagline for the drama of Bergen County government
Published: March 28, 2012
Christian Brothers File Bankruptcy |
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Mostly known for their excellence in education and their ability to excel in sports, two NJ Catholic high schools are entangled in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Christian Brothers.
Originally known as the Irish Christian Brothers, the religious order has established numerous educational facilities in New York and New Jersey, around the nation, and the globe.
In [...]
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