Township Announces Road Closures for Baseball/Softball Parade

Upcoming road closures, Arbor Day festivities and a mobile paper shredding vehicle top the news you can use from the Wyckoff Township Administrator's office:

• The Annual Wyckoff Baseball/Softball Parade which starts at the Memorial Field on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m., will result in the temporary closing of the following roads: 
  1. Woodland Avenue from the Recreation Office to Monroe Avenue.
  2. Voorhis Avenue from Woodland Avenue to Van Houten Avenue.
  3. Van Houten  Avenue between Monroe Avenue and Sunset Blvd.
  4. Demarest Avenue between Van Houten Avenue and the railroad tracks.
  The parade will end at Memorial Field and all roadways should be open by 11:30 a.m.

• Wyckoff has scheduled a mobile paper shredding vehicle available on Saturday, April 30, 2011 in the parking lot of Memorial Town Hall, 340 Franklin Avenue for residents who wish to drop off their paper documents and paper correspondence for shredding at no charge. Residents should bring their paper documents and correspondence in cardboard boxes; the cardboard box will also be recycled by the Township. At 12:30 pm the vehicle will transport the shredded paper to the recycling market where it will enter the recycling stream. The shredding vehicle is being provided free of charge to the Township of Wyckoff by Greenstar Recycling Company.
  
  Residents may bring only paper; no paper with metal tabs, no plastic bags, no x-rays and no single or double layer cardboard will be accepted. (Exception: the cardboard box used to carry the paper documents and correspondence to Town Hall to be shredded).

• The Wyckoff Shade Tree Commission and the Wyckoff Environmental Commission is inviting the community to its’ Annual Arbor Day Ceremony on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Zabriskie Pond Park on Franklin Avenue for the second consecutive year. The Shade Tree Commission began a program to replant or re-forest the Zabriskie Pond Park to achieve the previous canopy of willow trees that ringed the pond.