Tenafly’s 32nd Rubin Run To Take Place Sunday May12th At The Kaplan JCC

Tenafly Rubin Run

The 32nd annual Rubin Run will take place at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades on Sunday, May 12. Events will include  a 10K at 8:30 a.m., a 5K run/walk at 10 a.m., and a half marathon at 7:45 a.m. This Tenafly event has become a Bergen County Staple for many years offering families the opportunity [...]

Tenafly To Install Lightning Detection System

Tenafly To Install A Lightning Detection System

The governing body passed a resolution to award a contract to Earth Networks Inc. Officials voted unanimously on April 30 to award the contract and access the Open Space funds necessary for the project.   The Tenafly council and the Board of Education hope to begin the process in June. The equipment will cover nine outdoor [...]

Tenafly Nature Center – Public Hearing April 23

Tenafly Nature Center Proposed New Home

The Nature Center officials will hold a public hearing on the center’s proposed building and development on the green acres property.  The hearing is to take place at the Borough hall Tuesday April 23 at 7:30pm. The green acres representatives are calling for the mayor and council to support a Public referendum  thus allowing the voters the right to [...]

Four Tenafly High School Students Qualified For The 2012-13 National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finals

Tenafly High School Students Qualified For The 2012-13 National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finals

Four students in Tenafly High School ;William Y. Guo, David Kim, Dayalan A. Rajaratnam and Howard Yim were recognized  by the Tenafly Board of Education  for their academic achievement in becoming the 2012-2013 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists. In addition to excelling academically, the students were passionate about music, volunteering and were members of various groups in [...]

Tenafly Board of Education District-Wide Fundraiser to Support Tenafly Schools

Tenafly Board of Education is hosting an evening of dinner and dancing ito raise funds for our schools.

  The Tenafly Public School system is committed to bringing the finest education to its students, and maintaining a system that attracts residents to our community.   To preserve our excellent standards in the face of recent state budge cuts, the Tenafly Board of Education is pursuing a number of alternative revenue options, including the second annual [...]

Tenafly Democrats Barzelatto & LaMastra Secured Another Three Year Term on Tenafly Borough Council

Tenafly Democrats Barzelatto & LaMastra Reelected

Incumbent Tenafly council members Anthony Barzelatto and Nadia LaMastra beat out the republican challenger Sean Callahan. Barzelatto has been a member of the Tenafly Volunteer Fire Department for the past 33 years. He is also the Emergency Management Coordinator for the borough. Councilwoman LaMastra has worked with the Chamber of Commerce and Tenafly Business Improvement District in an effort to help re invigorate [...]

Three Public Bergen County Elementary Schools Are winners of The National Blue Ribbon Award

Bergen County Schools Win the Blue Ribbon Award

By Leslie Brody / The Record Seven Schools in New Jersey are this years winner of the coveted National Blue Ribbon Award….of these 3 are  in Bergen County localities of Ridgewood, Mahwah and Ramesey . In North Jersey, The Academy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tenafly, Visitation Academy Interparochial in Paramus and St. Philip the Apostle School in Clifton got [...]

2010-11 Average SAT Scores in Select Bergen County Towns

2010-11 Average SAT Scores in Select NJ Bergen County Towns

The most recent School Report Cards for the school year of 2010/11 were recently published by the  NJ Deaprtment of Education . The information in the report card is school-level data, except for the finance section which contains district-level information. This blog compiled a chart showing the Average  SAT scores in 13 towns in Eastern [...]

Education & Real Estate Values – Top Bergen County Schools 2012

Tenafly High School Ranks #3 IN New Jersey

  New Jersey Monthly Magazine just published it Bi-annual report onNew Jersey’s Top High Schools.  A number of high schools made significant moves up—or down—the list…The data for students going to four-year colleges was given extra weight, making it a potent driver of the results. New Jersey Monthly made  changes in compiling this year’s rankings: Because personal [...]

Gal Sharon a Tenafly High School Graduate Makes Dean’s List

Gal Sharon a Tenafly High School Graduate Makes Dean’s List

  Tenafly High School Graduate ,Gal Sharon  who is the son of Ran Sharon and Sigalit Sharon, of Tenafly, was named to the spring Dean’s List at Franklin & Marshall College. To qualify for the Dean’s list a student must earn a 3.25 or better grade point average on a 4.0 scale.