Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • December 7, 2011 Alexia Ramirez of Mahwah receives national honor Mahwah resident Alexia Ramirez has been honored by the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program. The Academy of Holy Angels student has been selected from a pool of over 200,000 students from the United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Mariana Islands, and Marshall Islands, and U.S. citizens attending schools abroad. The National Hispanic Recognition Program was initiated in 1983 to identify outstanding Hispanic/Latino high school students and share their information with interested colleges and universities. Holy Angels students Katerina Rodriguez of North Bergen and Bryanna McGowan of Valley Cottage, New York were also recognized as part of this program. Jennifer Moran, Principal of AHA, Katerina Rodriguez, Bryanna McGowan, Alexia Ramirez, Sr. Virginia Bobrowski, SSND, President of AHA Crossroads on hold (continued from page 7) the reason for the videotaping, and Stein said that, while she did not object to the videotaping, she felt that not notifying the board chairman was a sign of disrespect. Donigian, who acknowledged that he had asked Wendrychowicz to videotape the meeting, disagreed, saying it is a public meeting and, since the township has a public access TV station, he did not understand why anyone would be offended. Ultimately, the board voted in favor of a motion by board member John Kelly to permit the filming of the meetings for the purpose of showing the hearing on Channel 78, the township’s public access channel, and, as suggested by Donigian, to be placed in the library for public access. The owners of the Crossroads property have been negotiating with the officials of the township for many years to rezone the property to permit retail use on the site. In March, the township council adopted ordinances to rezone the property to permit retail use, but in August and September, the council voted to permit a referendum on the rezoning of the property and repealed the rezoning ordinances. The developer, however, submitted plans for the site before the rezoning ordinances were repealed. Under state law, the planning board must consider the plans for the site based on the retail zoning of the property, unless one of several legal challenges to the rezoning is upheld in Superior Court.