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East Rutherford NJ, Ridgewood emerged victorious Friday night at MetLife Stadium over Union in a 41-37 stunner. In one of the most exciting games of the year, the Maroons outlasted five different lead changes in a wild finish scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter and rallied back from a 12-point deficit at the half.
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Ridgewood NJ, Saurabh Dani reported on the Facebook page “It takes a Ridgewood Village ,that at Monday’s Ridgewood Board of Education meeting ,even after questions were raised the Ridgewood School Board charged ahead with bath room renovations at Ben Franklin and George Washington Middle School . The main thrust seemed to be the small window of time available for construction. For some reason Dr. Fishbein insisted that the bath room project could not be tacked on to the referendum .
Continue reading Rush to Vote on School Bathroom Renovations Suggests to Some BOE lacks Confidence in Referendum
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Ridgewood NJ, Residents, our facility needs tours continue next week on Monday and Wednesday, November 11 and 13. Monday we’ll be touring Ridge School at 6 p.m. and Willard School at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday we’ll be at Travell School at 6 p.m. and Ben Franklin Middle School at 7:30 p.m. Please join us!
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Palisade Park NJ, School officials are planning to meet with the borough administration to work together after a huge $61 million proposal to address old and overcrowded schools was overwhelmingly rejected by voters Tuesday. Apparent Voters were not buying the “”Crazy Eddie ” schools spending.
Continue reading Palisade Park Residents Overwhelmingly say NO to Huge $61 Million School Referendum
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education is announcing school tours in October and November, The roadshow will be used to promote the proposed $70million referendum. The Ridgewood Board of Education is attempting to better educate the public on the needs under discussion for a possible 2020 bond referendum.
Caroline Villamoes, Lilian Riedel, Vicky Hoy, Eva Galbraith finish first
in the Womens HS JV 4x. Photo by Ed Hida
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew participated in a local event this past weekend at the 2019 Tail of the Passaic Regatta led by Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez and veteran coach Bob O’Connor. Launching from their familiar Passaic River Rowing Association docks in Lyndhurst, NJ. Teams from the Northern New Jersey area took to the water with Ridgewood Crew competing with 9 entries.
“In the next six months the Board majority needs to deliver on their promise (to special interest groups); commit to multi million dollar projects and move the election back to November so residents won’t be allowed to vote or change the school budget.
None of what they are planing will directly impact the children’s programs, education or stop the decline in school ranking. Residents pockets will be tuned inside out and we will all be financially crippled by debt.
The Board President and Vice President have lowered their taxes bracing for the hike. WAKE UP RIDGEWOOD! THE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR REFERENDUM IS COMING!
They appointed Muhammad banking on the fact that he’s only lived here a few seconds, is not registered to vote and doesn’t know enough to stop or expose their plan. “
” The adults , parents, are the cause of bullying and everything else that is ailing our children. It is the adults who can’t get enough “screen time;” at stop signs you see them looking at their phones behind the wheel before the lightchanges; adults are ALWAYS on the phone, even when they are walking their dogs. What do you expect from the kids.
65 years ago when I was a kid, you called another kid for example, “fatty fatty two by four couldn’t get through the bathroom door etc. The the fat kid did not commit suicide, did not quit school, went right on living his life. Soon the taunt was forgotten. The taunt,” fatty fatty etc. could not go viral because there was no internet, assholes, so it could be forgotten about by the perpetrators as well as the victims. YOU PARENTS are TO BLAME FOR YOUR CHILDREN’S SUICIDES AND DRUGS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. LOOK IN THE MIRROR. ( Kids take drugs to escape the pain from social media, from the internet, smart phone.) “
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Ridgewood NJ, resident Steve Kim recounts his recent OPRA experience with the Ridgewood Board of Education .
OPRA is used when the requestor wants to gain access to government records and wants to invoke the OPRA statute, which provides a statutory right of access to government records and holds a records custodian to a response deadline.
What does this mean? The requestor must choose to submit an OPRA request. Custodians do not decide when requestor must use OPRA and cannot force requestors to submit an OPRA request
Continue reading Ridgewood BOE Withholds Information on Facilities Meetings
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School is celebrating 100 years in the Ridgewood Avenue building! The party will take place at Homecoming on Saturday, October 19, with reunions, food, music and fun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Ridgewood NJ, As New Jersey high schools continue to rank top in the nation, legislators are hoping to encourage even better academic outcomes with more emphasis on student health. Given the connection between more sleep and improved academic performance, Assemblywomen Mila Jasey, Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Carol Murphy have sponsored legislation to assess how pushing back high school start times to 8.30am could be beneficial. The bill was given final legislative passage by a 72-0-3 vote in the full Assembly Thursday.
Continue reading Pilot Program to Assess Value of Later Start Times in NJ High Schools Receives Final Legislative Approval
Not on this subject, but if you’re planning to”follow the money” Lan company is an even bigger no bid–which is technically not correct because some company offered a contract thousands and thousands of dollars cheaper than Lan–because they bid only on true NEEDS– and were turned down. Lan was actually paid by the “Powers that Be” to look over the schools and see what we can possibly spend money on (actually stated as “determination of what is needed in our schools.”) So Lan wrote up every single thing they could possibly dream up and declared it all needed (for all we know they even added in old fashion pencil sharpeners and “Bouquet of chalk” so they could cover every thing imaginable to man). The first Honest Company was rejected because they fulfilled the demands of the bid while Lan was totally off the wall. “Money Makes the World Go Round” must have been written for Ridgewood. But try to trace it!
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Ridgewood NJ, last night as flood waters carried toxic crumb rubber particles off the RHS stadium field ,we noticed something very disturbing , once again the stadium lights were on when no athletic activity taking place .
This is not the first time or the second time , so as a gentle reminder,because some people in town grew up in a barn ,turn the lights off when the fields are not in use .
With a $111,000,000 school budget this open disdain and a slap in the face for taxpayers, as well as being both rude and obnoxious . It is also irresponsible and wasteful .
It is also monumentally hypocritical given the promotion of pseudo sciences like “global warming ” and other faux environmentalism.
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Ridgewood NJ, New legislation from Trenton sponsored by Rep. Louis Greenwald [D]would clarify the length of Terms for Schools Trustees when the annual school board election is moved from November to April to give taxpayers a chance to vote on School budgets .
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“whenever someone says “something should not be brought to the attention of authorities” it means just the opposite, that the issue should be brought to authorities, and firings are in order and policy changes are in order.
As American Citizens we the people have the right to bring anything to authorities any issue we are concerned about. And we should bring ANYTHING WE WANT to any authority.
ever hear of a WHISTLE BLOWER? I bet you hate those, right Joe. I bet you hate consumer advocacy Joe. I bet you hate all investigations that uncover fraud and corruption and hidden abuse and violence. “
