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The Tobacco Shop of Ridgewood | 10 Chestnut Street | Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
Phone: 201-447-2204 | Email: info@tobaccoshop.com
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00AM – 5:30PM and Thursday Night 6:30PM – 8:30PM
>APPLICATIONS FOR VACANT BOE SEAT DUE FRIDAY
The Board is now accepting applications to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles Reilly last month. The Board will appoint a member to serve through May 7, 2012, at which time the winner of the seat in the April 17, 2012 Annual School Election will fill the remaining length of the term (one year). Anyone interested in submitting an application for the seat should fill out an application and submit it, along with a letter of interest and resume, to Board Secretary Angelo DeSimone, by Friday, October 21 at 4 p.m. All legally qualified candidates will be interviewed by the Board at its Regular Public Meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, October 24. (Please note that, due to a televising conflict, this meeting will not be broadcast live on Optimum channel 77. It will be available to watch live on FIos channel 33, or via the “Link in Live” tab on the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us.)
Click here for the Application for Board Member. https://tinyurl.com/4ywmzmc
Click here for the Board interview questions. https://tinyurl.com/3b7off4
>Valley, Englewood hospitals present last stand as Pascack Valley battle heads to hearing
By Beth Fitzgerald
On the eve of a Health Department hearing on Hackensack University Medical Center’s plan to reopen the former Pascack Valley Hospital, in Westwood, opponents on Tuesday released new studies they commissioned that support their argument that Bergen County has excess hospital beds and reopening the hospital will divert hundreds of patients and millions in revenue from Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
The hearing by the State Health Planning Board, expected to draw hundreds, will be 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Westwood Regional Junior/Senior High School, in Washington Township.
In today’s press briefing at Englewood Hospital, representatives of Valley and Englewood disputed statistics Hackensack UMC presented in its application for a certificate of need to open a 128-bed hospital at the Pascack Valley site, which Hackensack currently operates as a satellite emergency department.
>Ten things to fix in Ridgewood (in no particular order):
1. Eliminate cross-walks…drivers don’t pay attention anayway so let’s end the charade.
2. Turn Graydon into a clear water pool.
3. Put lights somewhere on the west side….preferably at Willard.
4. Eliminate the Shade Tree Comm-n….having to replace my sidewalks every 8 years for stupid Oak trees planted by the town is insulting.
5. Have the Council vote on what “authors” can actually have book signings at Bookends.
6. Make Ridgewood and Franklin Avenues 1-way thoroughfares (in the CBD).
7. Move the BoE election to November.
8. Pave Grove Street so it doesn’t look like a highway in Bangalore.
9. Open up a Van Dykes on Pleasant Ave.
10. Have Policeman or an aux cop direct pedestrians when they come out of the train station…..
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>5 reasons why income inequality is a myth — and Occupy Wall Street is wrong
By James Pethokoukis
October 18, 2011, 10:54 am
Sorry, the story just doesn’t hold together. According to left-wing think tanks, columnist and bloggers—and, of course, the Occupy Wall Street radicals—the top 1 percent have been exploiting the 99 percent for decades. The rich have been getting richer at the expense of the middle class and poor.
Really? Just think for a second: If inequality had really exploded during the past 30 to 40 years, why did American politics simultaneously move rightward toward a greater embrace of free-market capitalism? Shouldn’t just the opposite have happened as beleaguered workers united and demanded a vastly expanded social safety net and sharply higher taxes on the rich? What happened to presidents Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry? Even Barack Obama ran for president as a market friendly, third-way technocrat.
Nope, the story doesn’t hold together because the financial facts don’t support it. And here’s why:
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>Judge declares public employee pension and benefit contribution hikes do not apply to fellow judges
Gov. Chris Christie Monday night called “outrageous, self-serving” a judge’s decision earlier in the day that the state’s new pension and health benefits’ plan is unconstitutional as it applies to Superior Court judges and Supreme Court justices.
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Thieves preying on fellow protesters
By LARRY CELONA, LAURA ITALIANO REBECCA HARSHBARGER, FRANK ROSARIO and JAMIE SCHRAM
It’s a den of thieves!
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
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Peggy Post,Wedesday, October 19th @ 11:00am – Off-Site Luncheon
Peggy Post, Director of the Emily Post Institute will sign her new book: Emily Post’s Etiquette – 18th Editions: Manner for a New World Call for detail at 201-445-0726
Kevin Sorbo,Wednesday, October 19th @ 7:00 pm
Actor from Hercules & Xena, Kevin Sorbo, will sign his new book: True Strength Book available Oct 11th
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.Please call the store for details.
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726
>A Tale of Two Protests: Media Cheer Wall Street Occupiers But Jeered Tea PartiersStreet Occupiers But Jeered Tea Partiers
Study: ABC, CBS and NBC loaded their broadcasts with 33 full stories in just 11 days of coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
By: Geoffrey Dicken
The Occupy Wall Street protestors have received overwhelmingly positive coverage from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) news networks, as they used their airtime to publicize and promote the aggressively leftist movement. In just the first eleven days of October, ABC, CBS and NBC flooded their morning and evening newscasts with a whopping 33 full stories or interview segments on the protesters. This was a far cry from the greeting the Tea Party received from the Big Three as that conservative protest movement was initially ignored (only 13 total stories in all of 2009) and then reviled.
Where the Tea Party was met with skeptical claims of their motivations — with some reporters claiming they were merely corporate backed puppets and others implying they were spurred on by their racist opposition to the first black president – the Occupy Wall Street crowd was depicted as an almost genial “grassroots” movement.
https://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/realitycheck/2011/20111013100045.aspx
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Under Mike Doherty’s plan of Fair School Funding, Ridgewood Village will get back $42,050,037 more each year for school funding!
https://fairschoolfunding.com/
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Reader suggest and idea to help insure public safety
ADOPT THE FIRE HYDRANT NEAREST YOUR HOME!
PLEASE KEEP THE AREA AROUND THE HYDRANT NEAREST YOUR HOME FREE OF GRASS, WEEDS AND DEBRIS AND IN WINTER FREE FROM SNOW.
AND PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE NO PARKING!
LET’S MAKE IT EASIER FOR OUR DEDICATED FIRE FIGHTERS TO ASSIST YOU IN AN EMERGENCY.
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VOTE for the Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2011
(RIDGEWOOD -NJ ) The mystery pizza tasters are currently making their way through the Village tasting their favorite slice from all the contestants. The contest will run through the entire month of October and the Winner will be announced in early November .
As previously announced due to the hotly contested nature of the contest and technical problems with the voting in the past there is a limit of 1 vote per IP . This year we are adding 5 secret reviewers who will taste a slice of pizza from each participant .We will then compare their selection with the Votes and see if they come to the same conclusions. PJ will do a special taste test to break any ties should they occur .
Renato’s currently remains in the lead with Sicilian Sun and A Mano mounting strong challenges. We found this clip of Presidential contender Herman Cain singing “Imagine There’s No Pizza” at a Godfather Pizza event.
Past Winners include :
Pizza fusion (2010 Winner)
A Mano (2009 Winner)
Puzo’s (2008 Winner)
the POLL : https://micropoll.com/t/KEiOrZCVrV
