Week in Review: School Budget Passes; Eisenhower Hosts Dinner for Seniors

Here's a look at some of the stories that made news in Wyckoff this past week.

• The senior residents of Wyckoff were the guests of honor at the .  One hundred twenty Eisenhower Middle School students volunteered to participate in this community event. 
  
  
• Powerhouse Christian Church  has been in the community for over five years and this past Easter Sunday Weekend, over 4,000 pounds of food was distributed to families in need, both in and outside of the church. Thanks to the generosity of the members and attendees, and 17 families of senior citizens in the community. 
  
  
• A modest tax hike didn't stop Wyckoff residents from on Wednesday. Voters also approved the Ramapo-Indian Hills Board of Education 2011-12 budget. Additionally voters elected Lisa Martone (950 votes) and Robert Francin (708 votes) to fill  two, three-year terms on the board. Raymond Hovey ran uncontested for a single, one-year term. Three seats on the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional Board of Education were up for election, one in Wyckoff and two in Oakland. For the Wyckoff seat voters selected Isabelle Lanini.  
  
  
• Mom Columnist Lynn Bruggemann was one of millions that watched live Friday morning.

• Traffic testimony took center stage at Monday night’s where two engineers testified to the traffic impact of the Christian Care Health Center's proposed 258-unit expansion on approximately 20 acres of woodlands that straddle the Wyckoff/Hawthorne border.

• The Ramapo Indian Hills Board of Education at the two high schools. 

• If you were at Pulis Field on Tuesday evening you got to witness a ...times five. Five games were played in Franklin Lakes yesterday in which the hometown War Eagles met the Raiders in what Wyckoff eighth grade Coach Jim Hogan called, “a friendly rivalry.”