Monthly Archives: March 2011


VMS Wins National Honor

The middle school students of today, in ten short years, will be the engineers, designers, and architects for America’s future. Students at Valley Middle School proved once again that America can guarantee a better future through cooperation, creativity, and hard work Each year The Future City Competition promotes the skills […]


Homerule: Use It or Lose It

The newly launched website, TownStats.org, is providing residents of New Jersey with a new tool for comparing budget items of different towns, side by side, line by line. On the surface, this might appear to be a beauty contest between budget numbers, but in practice it should lead to innovation […]


The Red Garden

Alice Hoffman. The Red Garden. New York: Crown Publishers, 2011 as reviewed by Ted Odenwald Through a collection of interwoven stories about the citizenry of rustic Blackwell, Massachusetts, Alice Hoffman has earned a place of honor on the bookshelf near Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and Joyce’s Dubliners. […]


March 2011 Reviews

Broken Soup Jenny Valentine Part mystery, part love story, Broken Soup is not the average “my brother died and now my family is falling apart” novel.  Sure, Jack died unexpectedly, and now Rowan is left as the primary caregiver to younger sister Stroma because their mom just lies in bed […]


Detective Mark Piercy Cancer Fund 1

Ramapo Valley Animal Hospital is proud to provide assistance to the Detective Mark Piercy Cancer Fund We are accepting donations (Tax ID 35-2402862) Many people know Detective Piercy as an avid animal lover, member of Indian Hills Class of 1992, and as the local DARE Officer. Mark and his wife, […]


On the Job – March 2

On February 26, 2011 at approximately 9:50 a.m. Ptl. Docwra conducted a motor vehicle stop on a vehicle that was being operated with dark tinted windows and without a rear-mounted license plate.  Upon the officer’s approach to the vehicle, he immediately detected the strong odor of burnt marijuana emanating from […]