Ridgewood October 12, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 9 Five Ridgewood High School students -- Chongsu Chun, Jun Young Kim, Elizabeth Mattson, Helen Peng, and Lan Wang – have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists based on their performance on the 2010 PSAT/NMP tests. These five Ridgewood High School students are among 15,000 nationwide who qualified as semifinalists based on the 2010 tests, out of 1.5 million college-bound high school students who took the tests last October. Ridgewood High School also had 31 Commended Scholars. They include Laura Berry, Kristi Chau, Daniel Choe, National Merit Semifinalists named Catherine Cleary, Alexander Cobb, Michael Coniglio, Ashley Ellis, Samantha Fink, Mark French, Brody Garrity, Emily Geiger, Spencer Gellman, Rachel Goodgold, Laura Gould, Levi Jennings, Sara Johnson, Grace Kwon, Eunhae Lee, James Lee, Mary Iris Loncto, Jane Ou, Victoria Pan, Divya Persaud, Emily Riemer, Trey Shore, Nicole Soohoo, Carolyn Stichnoth, Derek Sung, Jason Wong, Hannah Yang, and Seung Yook. Commended Students numbered 34,000 among the 1.5 million high school students who took the test. J. KOSTER A Ridgewood woman recently told police that she had been swindled in a new variation of a confidence game. The woman said she responded to an e-mail inviting her to become a “secret shopper.” She received three checks for $930 each and was asked to spend a certain amount of each check and return the remainder of the money via New e-mail confidence game reported Money Gram. The checks turned out to be fraudulent and the money she returned in the form of change from the transactions could not be recovered. The Ridgewood Detective Bureau is investigating the (continued on page 23) Art smart Ridgewood High School art teacher Ms. Kelly Conforth is working with student Hannah Landis on Hannah’s painting.