Week in Review: Use of Open Space Tax Funds Debated, Shoprite Application, Family Hosts Israeli Vet

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

• If your talented child wants to sing, but is too young to try out for “American Idol,” have no fear: wants to give all kids equal opportunity to achieve their dreams. Beginning on June 8, the youngest of the Jonas brothers invites children ages 8 to 14 to upload an audition on ChewyStar.com (with parents’ permission) as part of the Quaker Chewy Superstar Search to find the next young megastar.
  
  
• Members of the Wyckoff Township Committee traveled to Hackensack to to the Bergen County Open Space Advisory Board. The application is for grant fundsto acquire the privately owned, 26.5-acre lake property Maple Lake, located on Maple Drive in Wyckoff.
  
  
• , Wyckoff township committee member Brian Scanlan won the Democratic ticket easily with a total of 153 votes. Township committee member Thomas Madigan was the leading vote getter on the Republican ballot with 443 votes, followed by Douglas Christie with 434. Just 5 percent of Wyckoff's registered voters turned out at the polls.
  
  
• ? The two organizations found themselves at odds during Monday's Township Committee meeting over a Friends of Wyckoff petition requesting a tweaking of the wording of Ordinance #1656, which would put a Public Question on the November ballot giving voters the opportunity to extend the existing annual tax levy to fund the Municipal Open Space Trust Fund for an additional five years.
  
   
• Compassion may not be able to eradicate mental syndromes like post-traumatic stress disorder, but it certainly changes the lives of those who receive it – and those who show it – for the better. . Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Curtin begged her parents, Meryl and Irwin, for years to host a veteran as part of Bergen County’s Zahal Shalom program – a branch of a larger group founded in 1993 to create a stronger bond between Israel and the American Jewish community by providing two-week spring respites to disabled Israeli veterans.
  
  
• Buffer width, parking lot lights and sidewalks were among the discussion topics as attorney Gail Price, who represents the Stop & Shop in Boulder Run, cross-examined engineer Andrew Missey at .