Month: September 2011

>The Valley Hospital “Renewal” meetings start next week

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Village Council public meetings on The Valley Hospital “Renewal” proposal are just around the corner, and villagers, as well as hospital officials, have begun to prepare.

The council has planned seven special public meetings to review testimonials by professionals and to hear from the public, the first of which is next Tuesday. The council is charged with deciding whether to give final approval on the village’s Hospital Zone ordinance as amended last year by the Planning Board, the final decision in a process that began five years ago.

The hospital proposes a $750 million expansion to 1.1 million square feet on its 15-acre property on North Van Dien Avenue. The expansion would allow the hospital to host single-room facilities.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/129509868_Special_meetings_get_started_next_week.html

>Village Council Special Public Meetings Concerning Proposed Valley Expansion

The Ridgewood Village Council will be holding Special Public Meetings concerning the proposed Valley Hospital expansion in the Ridgewood High School Campus Center, 627 East Ridgewood Avenue, on the following dates: September 13, September 19, October 13, October 24, November 3, November 22, and November 29, 2011.

The meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. The doors will open at 6:45 p.m. and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The meetings will also be televised on Cablevision Channel 77 and through computer video streaming (limited viewers due to bandwith limitations). Agendas for each meeting will be posted on the Village’s website prior to the meeting.

>Ridgewood schools taking a delicate approach to teaching 9/11

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

On most days, Ridgewood’s proximity to New York City would be considered one of its greatest merits and conveniences. That was not the case, however, on Sept. 11, 2001, as the catastrophe that claimed the lives of 12 Ridgewood residents could be viewed all too clearly from the peak of Crest Road or Route 17.

This proximity, both geographic and painfully personal, doubtlessly contributed to the ultimate impact of those attacks on the village’s consciousness moving forward, and it is with that proximity in mind that the Ridgewood Public Schools administration decided to take a more measured approach to educating students about the tragedy.

“Ridgewood is a community that suffered a lot of loss in 9/11 and we still have students in the schools, some who were just infants when it occurred,” Superintendent Daniel Fishbein said.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/129476688_Ridgewood_Schools_taking_a_delicate_approach_to_teaching_9_11.html

>Ridgewood’s flooding costs could top $500K

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

The costs for the cleanup and repairs across the village’s property in the wake of Hurricane Irene could be between $400,000 and $600,000. The village will seek compensation for those costs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Flooding at Village Hall in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene last week. The building took in about 3 feet of water.

The costs include about $200,000 worth of damage to Village Hall, where remediation is ongoing. About 4 feet of sheetrock was pulled from the walls last week, and a private firm was called in to work on mold abatement “so we would have a healthy building,” Village Manager Ken Gabbert said at Wednesday’s council meeting. There is also damage to tile and furniture.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/129478153_Ridgewood_s_flooding_costs_could_top__500K_.html

>Poll: Obama Five Times Worse Than Carter on Economy
September 8, 2011

Two new polls today find that just one third of the public feels President Obama deserves re-election while five times more Americans think Obama has done a worse job fixing the economy than Jimmy Carter, the modern era’s Herbert Hoover.

Washington Whispers contributor John Zogby tells us that his new polling is spirit-crushing for the depressed White House. “It was a very bad week for Barack Obama. Our polling shows his job approval at 39 percent and the percentage saying he deserves re-election at 33 percent, both the lowest of his term, while the percentage of voters saying the nation is on the wrong track reached a high since he took office at 75 percent,” he said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/08/poll-obama-five-times-worse-than-carter-on-economy?s_cid=rss:washington-

>FBI raids solar panel company hailed by Obama


Firm got $500 million in stimulus funds

FBI agents executed search warrants Thursday at the California headquarters of Solyndra LLC, which was awarded more than $500 million in federal stimulus loans in 2009 to make solar panels in what the Obama administration called part of an aggressive effort to put more Americans to work and end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

But the firm filed a bankruptcy petition Tuesday in Delaware, shedding more than 900 full-time employees, leaving just a “core group” of 113 employees, according to bankruptcy records.

FBI spokesman Peter D. Lee said multiple search warrants were served at the company’s Fremont, Calif., headquarters in what he called a joint investigation by the FBI and the Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General. But he said he could not provide any details about the ongoing probe.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/8/fbi-raids-solar-panel-company-hailed-by-obama/

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