West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 S. Monroe St. Ridgewood, NJTickets: Adult $20; Senior Citizen $15; Student $7Information: 201/493-9030 or www.ridgewoodband.org7:30PM Prelude Performance – RCB All Star Jazz Band; Guest Conductor T. col Keene; Guest Solists Msg Matthew Wozniak. Program Highlights: american Salute; Concerto for Bass Brombone and concert Band; Festival Prelude on Star Spangled Banner; Marching Song of Democracy; the Greatest Generation; the Patriot.
>Garbage Pick Up – Suspended 11/1 & 3; Recycling Collection – Normal Schedule
GARBAGE PICK UP will be suspended Tuesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 3 – Normal garbage schedule resumes on Friday, November 4 and Monday, November 7.
RECYCLING collection will follow normal schedule.
— USE EXTREME CAUTION on all Village sidewalks and roads.
The Ridgewood Police Department is accepting applications for anyone interested in becoming a School Crossing Guard. Posts are a minimum of two (2) hours a day. Work may even be available during times when school is closed (winter/summer breaks). Please contact the Ridgewood Police Records Room at (201) 251-4531 for blank applications and questions. The Village of Ridgewood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Bullying has become a national issue. But what do you do if the school bully is your child’s teacher?
When Karen Eubank’s son first complained about his “mean” teacher, she took it with a grain of salt. “Usually ‘mean’ just means a teacher makes you study, is demanding, or wants you to answer questions,” says the Dallas, TX mom. “Not that [the teacher’s] being verbally abusive.”
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what it meant. Eubank had transferred her son from a private school to a new charter that a friend recommended. During the tour, Eubank fell in love with the school — there was a garden, they played music at lunch, the school was “just beautiful,” she says.
Reader says First priority is for areas where PSE&G employees live
First priority is for areas where employees live, generally the towns south of route 4. They don’t care about you ‘suits’ in Ridgewood.
I have yet to see one of PSEG’s tree contractors on the road in Ridgewood OR one of their bucket trucks. Prove me wrong. And where are the ‘out of state crews’?? Usually dont see them till a week later. All in all, typical SLOW response by PSEG.
I can’t prove you wrong about seeing trucks on streets in Ridgewood.I haven’t seen one although I’m told power went on in CBD and it certainly went on in a large northeast section of village, including my house. Frankly, I don’t need to see trucks, I need my power on.
Ridgewood has a low population density.
If you ran PSE&G and could assign a crew to work 8 hours to turn on power to an additional 10,000 customers or to an additional 50,000 people, where would you send your workers first? (those numbers are illustrative).
I’ll certainly take your word that there aren’t a lot of PSE&G linemen living on the westside of Ridgewood, and probably few or none on the eastside. But I don’t think that proves your point either.
I don’t know about any out of state crews, but I’ll assume if they aren’t here they might be in NY, Conn., and PA, there is plenty of outage to go around.
New Jersey’s residence-only law worries some schools
A new law has quietly gone into effect requiring all new public employees to live in New Jersey, and it is already spooking some in the state’s public schools who rely on out-of-state talent.
The full impact of the New Jersey First Act has yet to be felt, since the law enacted this past winter did not apply to those hired before September 1. Most schools got their new hires in the door in late August, with any hiring for next year not likely to start in earnest until spring. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)
Private battle over N.J. speaker Sheila Oliver’s future about to be thrust into public eye
The shadow war over who will be Assembly speaker has been waged by phone over the past week as Democratic power brokers dial their allies and party brethren to lock down support for their chosen candidates, party sources say.
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. has been lighting up the phone lines to secure Sheila Oliver’s second term as speaker, while Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) is seeking a coalition between Hudson and Bergen counties to back the largely unknown Assemblyman Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson), according to Democrats familiar with the political maneuvering. (Megerian and Renshaw, The Star-Ledger)
New Jersey is seeking federal approval for major changes to its $11 billion Medicaid program, hoping to rein in what state officials and some non-government stakeholders say is an unsustainable escalation of spending.
But saving money is only one of the goals of the 160-page Comprehensive Medicaid Waiver that New Jersey submitted to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September. It also aims to keep the aged and people with disabilities out of nursing homes, which is what most patients would prefer and would be cheaper for taxpayers. But the waiver has major ramifications for how the system is managed, what services become available under Medicaid, and how healthcare is delivered. (Fitzgerald, NJ Spotlight)
