Ho-Ho-Kus News

The Ho-Ho-Kus man involved in a seven-hour standoff with police on Friday is a homebody who is "embarrassed" by all the media attention his incident produced, a longtime friend said Saturday.

A man police said is suicidal barricaded himself in his borough home with two weapons , causing a lockdown at a nearby school this morning, a report on NorthJersey.com said.

Police in New Jersey used tear gas to end a long standoff with a man at a Ho-Ho-Kus home.

KUS A 50-year-old man who barricaded himself with a gun in his Hollywood Avenue home for seven hours on Friday, forcing the lockdown of a nearby elementary school, was taken into custody peacefully after authorities used tear gas to drive him from the house.

SWAT team members today outside the Ho-Ho-Kus home of a man who barricaded himself into his home.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 3:19 pm US/Eastern HO-HO-KUS, N.J. Police are speaking with an armed man in an effort to end a standoff that began several hours ago when the man barricaded himself inside his northern New Jersey home.

A suicidal man barricaded himself with two guns in a Hollywood Avenue home, and authorities have placed the nearby Ho-Ho-Kus School on lockdown this morning, police said.

One of the advantages of spending time in a third-world country like Uganda, Ho-Ho-Kus resident Scott Douglas learned last September, is that incidental occurrences like a worldwide financial collapse tend to go unnoticed by the locals.

On several summer family vacations to Cape Cod, we were mesmerized by the beautiful and lush hydrangeas.

The lines that divide ethical conduct from corruption in local government should, in theory, be starkly drawn in black and white.

In one afternoon, the developer of an East Rutherford condo complex sold 26 units in his 32-unit complex.

Struggling with traumatic brain injury, Michael Nepola of Ho-Ho-Kus sometimes has trouble finding the right words to describe his life.

Braving torrential rain and flooded roads, nearly 200 supporters of Children's Aid and Family Services attended the annual Wine and Food Tasting Evening on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at St.

A good port or Madeira. A special Sancerre or a ChA teauneuf-du-Pape. For the past 15 years, the customers of Wine Ventures in Tenafly have known to count on its proprietor, Craig McManus, for a friendly chat and some wine expertise.

The Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2009: A Mano The Ridgewood blog is proud to announce the winner of the 2009 best Pizza in Ridgewood Contest ; Coming in first place with with 37% of the vote A Mano followed by long time local favorite Renato's with 16% of the vote and Puzzo's the 2008 winner finished 3rd with 14% of the vote .Three tied for 4th La Bella ...

"Streetscape: Bad timing?" on a $500,000 grant for street work in Ho-Ho-Kus and "For towns, stakes are high in writing grants" on distribution of more than $500 billion in grant money nationally testify to the sometimes indiscriminate use and misuse of taxes.

Green shoots of retailing are taking root in North Jersey downtowns in the form of stores that offer merchandise that promises to be more earth-friendly, through the use of recycled, reused, organic and sustainable materials.

EDITORa S NOTE: The Glen Rock Gazette compiles "Police Blotter" from information provided by area police departments.

" Chairman Michael Kasparian as well as Freeholders Julie O'Brien and Vernon Walton expressed their excitement after this afternoon's announcement by the White House that President Barack Obama would be returning to New Jersey next week to campaign for Governor Jon Corzine and the Bergen County Democratic slate.

Township of Washington "Conversations with the Chef," a program sponsored by the Bergen County Y, a Jewish Community Center in the Township of Washington, will be held at Esty Street in Park Ridge on Tuesday, October 13 at 11:30 a.m. Program participants gather at area restaurants, have private conversations with the chefs, and enjoy lunches.