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This Mansion Is The Priciest Home Sold This Year In This Bergen County Town This Mansion Is The Priciest Home Sold This Year In This Bergen County Town
This Mansion Is The Priciest Home Sold This Year In This Bergen County Town The recent sale of a more than 4-acre compound is breaking records in one New Jersey town. The 14,500 square-foot colonial manor estate designed by renowned architect Bob Zampolin at 10 Farmstead Road in Mahwah sold for $6.1 million, making it the most expensive home sold this year in Mahwah. Grace Ziarko of Christie’s International Real Estate Group represented the buyer. "The transaction now stands as the highest-priced sale in Mahwah YTD, as per NJMLS, marking a milestone for Christie’s, as well as the larger New Jersey real estate market," Christie's said in a news release. The e…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Sprawling $2M Bergen County Home Features Multiple Levels, Pool Access From Master Bedroom Sprawling $2M Bergen County Home Features Multiple Levels, Pool Access From Master Bedroom
Sprawling $2M Bergen County Home Features Multiple Levels, Pool Access From Master Bedroom An 8,000-square-foot custom-built Bergen County home featuring a pool, sauna, and sweeping views of the Ramapo Mountains is on the market for just under $2 million. The multi-level home at 10 E Saddle River Road in Saddle River has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and is located on a private road, according to listing agent Sheryl Epstein-Romano, of Christie's International Real Estate Group. The main level features an art gallery along with double ovens in the kitchen complete with an oversized island and a walk-in pantry. The main level also boasts a great room with a wet bar and b…

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by Cecilia Levine
Real Estate
Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion
Fitness Studio, Outdoor Oasis: See Inside $3.3M Bergen County Resort-Style Mansion You can bring the Hamptons to New Jersey. A luxury Hamptons style estate, with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is on the market in Mahwah for $3.349 million.  The home is inside the Polo Club and sits atop 6.5 acres on the Ramapo Mountains, offering breathtaking views and privacy, according to the listing. "This is a very special property that doesn't come on the market often," the listing said. The home offers resort-style living and features a 2-story foyer, a chef's gourmet kitchen, "generously sized" bedrooms, a spa-like bathroom, two gyms, a theatre and recreation space, acco…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation HEROES: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation
Heroes: Mahwah Police Resuscitate Rockland Teen At Ramapo Reservation A drowning teen from Rockland was resuscitated by Mahwah police after his friends pulled him from a lake in the Ramapo mountains, authorities said. The 17-year-old Spring Valley boy was surrounded by his friends when Mahwah Police Officers Nicholas Williams, Ryan Moore, Connor Gilgen, Luke Rice and Liam Kantanas reached the upper lake at the Ramapo Reservation around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. He was unresponsive from all the water he’d ingested but had a pulse, the captain said. The boy apparently had jumped into the lake, began to struggle and was underwate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site
Toxic Pollution Concerns Rekindled By 'Canonball 2' Wildfire On DuPont Site UPDATE: A blaze that burned through much of the weekend in the Ramapo Mountains wasn't the usual run-of-the-mill forest fire. The fire, which continued to smolder late Saturday afternoon well into Sunday, was on a notorious 570-acre expanse of property in Pompton Lakes considered one of New Jersey's most polluted. Toxic substances that were dumped from what was a munitions plant on the DuPont site from 1902 to 1994 leached into the groundwater, creating an underground vapor of cancer-causing solvents. Saturday's blaze -- dubbed the "Cannonball 2" -- covered more than 100 acres of Ramapo M…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight
Fire ON THE Mountain: 75% Of Blaze Contained, Operations Again Paused Overnight UPDATE: Crews got 75% of a Ramapo Mountains wildfire doused before breaking again until morning. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service initially estimated that the wildfire covered 50 acres. They revised that figure to 40 acres late Thursday afternoon, April 21. It took several hours to contain roughly half the blaze after it broke out around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Mahwah off Bear Swamp Road in the Ramapo Valley County Reservation, north of Camp Glen Gray, and quickly spread. Another quarter was knocked down on Thursday as crews built and reinforced containment lines. No injuries were repor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Justice Department: Ramapough Indians' Denial Of Religious Freedom Complaint Should Proceed Justice Department: Ramapough Indians' Denial Of Religious Freedom Complaint Should Proceed
Justice Department: Ramapough Indians' Denial Of Religious Freedom Complaint Should Proceed A denial of religious freedom complaint filed by the Ramapough Mountain Indians against the township of Mahwah is ready to be heard, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. Township officials claimed the Ramapoughs did not “exhaust the variance process at the local level" before filing a federal lawsuit against the township for preventing them from having religious services and educational instruction on 13.5 acres of ceremonial land off Halifax Road -- an area known as “Sweet Water.” The Justice Department disagreed, saying the tribe should be able to proceed with its complaint&…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Real Estate
Mahwah House Listed At $1.5M Is Private Getaway Right Here Mahwah House Listed At $1.5M Is Private Getaway Right Here
Mahwah House Listed At $1.5M Is Private Getaway Right Here A Mahwah house with breathtaking views of the Ramapo Mountains is listed at $1.579 million. The mountain top retreat sits on more than 2.8 acres on the quiet and private cul-de-sac Weathervane Court. Stone and mill-work are featured outside with the indoor grand foyer opening to the dining and great rooms (with fireplace).  The house also features a custom kitchen with gourmet appliances, a two-story breakfast room, dark hardwood floors and floor-to-ceiling windows. There are five bedrooms and six bathrooms. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE LISTING.

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
NY Times Spotlight Same-Sex Army Captains Celebrating Marriage In Ringwood NY Times Spotlight Same-Sex Army Captains Celebrating Marriage In Ringwood
NY Times Spotlight Same-Sex Army Captains Celebrating Marriage In Ringwood RINGWOOD, N.J. – A pair of U.S. Army Captains -- believed to be the first same-sex active-duty military couple to say ‘I do’ at West Point’s Cadet Chapel – recently celebrated their wedding reception in Ringwood, NYTimes.com reports. Capt. Daniel Hall, 30, and Capt. Vincent Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots, were married on January 13, in front of about 150 guests, many in Army uniforms, the story says. The reception was held at Skylands Manor, described in the story as an “elegant … 44-room Tudor revival mansion perched high in the heavily wooded Ramapo Mountains along a stretch…

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by Lauren Kidd Ferguson
Police & Fire
Mahwah Firefighters Move Indian Camp Propane Tanks To Protect Ramapo River Mahwah Firefighters Move Indian Camp Propane Tanks To Protect Ramapo River
Mahwah Firefighters Move Indian Camp Propane Tanks To Protect Ramapo River MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah firefighters secured several propane tanks Saturday amid concerns that they'd float into the Ramapo River, which supplies water for millions of people in New Jersey and New York. Firefighters moved the tanks after being called to the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp, west of Route 202 in the Ramapo Mountains, where the recent rain and melted snow raised fears of serious flooding. The area is the first along the Ramapo River in Mahwah that floods -- and, some fear, could someday be washed out completely. The Ramapough Lenape Nation camp, on what is considered a sacre…

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by Jerry DeMarco