>67th Annual Antiques Show & Sale
Fri, March 02, 2012 – Sat, March 03, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Christ Church Ridgewood, Franklin Avenue & Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
This Antiques show will present a minimum of 35 antique dealers from around the tri-state area.
Not to be missed! If you want to buy an ad for th 67th Annual Show Journal, call 201-788-4293
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FREE SEMINAR – focusing on Women’s Health & Wealth
Wed, February 29, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Ridgewood Chiropractic, 172 Franklin Avenue, Suite 4A
FREE SEMINAR -Join an interactive discussion on issues facing women today!
Three guest speakers will address a different challenge:
Way of Wellness – Dr. Guy Magolin
Expense Management – Dianne Nissen Friedman
Women and Retirement Planning – Miri Y. Upton
Two opportunities available:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:30-7:30pm
Ridgewood Chiropractic
172 Franklin Avenue, Suite 4A
Ridgewood NJ
RSVP – Diane Nissen Friedman – 201-447-1137
>B. Witching Bath Company – wins TOP HONORS & AWARDS
Congratulation to-
B. Witching Bath Company
In August 2011 & January 2012
won Best New Products Award –
NY Internationa Gift Fair Extracts
https://www.happi.com/articles/2011/08/online-exclusive-extracts-expands-organics-and-per
B. Witching is featured in:
Country Living Magazine – February 2012
Coastal Living Magazie March 2012 – NOW!
https://www.bwitchingbathco.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=32
Fall 2011 featured in
Woman’s Day, 201, Weight Watchers Mag.
Stop by B. Witching Bath Co. right here in Ridgewood –
103 E. Ridgewood Ave.
Check out why B. Witching Bath Co. is hitting the news!
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NOTICE: Separate Recycling from Garbage
NJ State law requires that recycling and sanitation be separated in the disposal process. This will reduce the amount of garbage for disposal which currently costs the Village over half a million dollars annually.
We ask your cooperation in following the law. If recycling is included in your garbage, then THE GARBAGE WILL NOT BE PICKED UP. A yellow sticker will be placed on the bags/container, with collection instructions.
If you have any questions, please call 201/670-5585.
>HALF of Americans don’t pay income tax despite crippling government debt
151.7m people – 49.5% of the U.S. population – paid no federal income tax in 2009, figures show
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Only half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures.
In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government – the lowest proportion in at least half a century.
And the number of people outside the tax system could have climbed even higher since as the economic downturn has continued to bite and unemployment has remained high.
>Ridgewood and Glen Rock committee to tackle bullying from a bystander’s perspective
Wednesday February 22, 2012, 2:43 PM
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Community Relations Advisory Board (CRAB) is moving ahead with plans to sponsor an awareness-raising campaign on the topic of bullying, focusing on educating and empowering bystanders and observers of bullying incidents to act on behalf of the victims.
Since the start of the new year, the committee – which consists of representatives from Ridgewood and Glen Rock – has turned its attention to the topic of harassment, intimidation and bullying (HIB), which returned to the national spotlight following the New Jersey Council on Local Mandate’s ruling in January that the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights was unconstitutional unless the state provide funding for programs and requirements included in the bill.
>Navigating minefield of STOCK ActBy Molly K. Hooper – 02/22/12 05:00 AM ET
Eric Cantor was playing with political dynamite when he spearheaded the House’s effort to ban insider trading for members of Congress. But despite the hopes of some Democrats, it didn’t blow up in the majority leader’s face.
Cantor’s (R-Va.) shepherding of the politically delicate legislation through the lower chamber revealed new wrinkles in his leadership style.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/211915-navigating-minefield-of-stock-act
>Do your Spring shopping at the Fifth Annual Mary Therese Rose Fund Vendor Fair
on Sat. March 3.
The Mary Therese Rose Fund allows children to “reclaim the joys of childhood.”
Easter, graduation, Mother’s Day will soon be upon us. Here’s a wonderful opportunity to shop for these great occasions and support a wonderful cause. On Saturday March 3 from 2pm to 5pm TheMary Therese Rose Fund will hold its fifth annual vendor day at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Thechurch is located at 155 Linwood Avenue in Ridgewood.
The Fair will feature Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Stampin’ Up, Designer Handbags, TastefullySimple, Scentsy, Premier Designs Jewelry, a Raffle and Baked Goods. All Vendors will bedonating a portion of their sales to the fund.
The Mary Therese Rose Fund allows children to “reclaim the joys of childhood.” Mary passed awayjust weeks before her fifth birthday from a rare syndrome called Joubert syndrome. It is with great joy that Mary can continue to spread such happiness through this fund. There are many children with disabilities that require certain things to be able to make life even more of a pleasure. The fund pays for such expenses that insurance does not cover. This includes, but is not limited to,hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs, braces, intensive therapies, and therapeutic activities such as therapeutic horseback riding. As each child is able to enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood and life because of the fund, Mary’s beautiful smile spreads from face to face. It is these smiles that will forever keep Mary’s life a celebration of love, joy, hope, simplicity and happiness.
Please visit https://www.marythereserose.org/ for more information.
>Nearly Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Income Taxes
Rob Bluey
February 19, 2012 at 9:32 am
This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance.
Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.
“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. “The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”
>Christie To Warren Buffett: “Just Write A Check And Shut Up”
“He should just write a check and shut up. Really. And just contribute. I’m tired of hearing about it. If he wants to give the government more money, he’s got the ability to write a check. Go ahead and write it,” Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said to CNN’s Piers Morgan.
>Obama’s Dividend Assault A plan to triple the tax rate would hurt all shareholders..
President Obama’s 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets.
Mr. Obama is proposing to raise the dividend tax rate to the higher personal income tax rate of 39.6% that will kick in next year. Add in the planned phase-out of deductions and exemptions, and the rate hits 41%. Then add the 3.8% investment tax surcharge in ObamaCare, and the new dividend tax rate in 2013 would be 44.8%—nearly three times today’s 15% rate.
Keep in mind that dividends are paid to shareholders only after the corporation pays taxes on its profits. So assuming a maximum 35% corporate tax rate and a 44.8% dividend tax, the total tax on corporate earnings passed through as dividends would be 64.1%.
>Gallup Finds Unemployment Climbing to Nine Percent in February
By Matt Cover
February 20, 2012
CNSNews.com) – Unemployment in the U.S. rose to nine percent in mid-February, up from 8.3 percent a month earlier, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said this suggests that it is “premature” to assume the economy will not feature prominently in the 2012 election season.
Gallup figures typically provide an indication of what the government will report at the end of the month.
“The U.S. unemployment rate, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is 9.0% in mid-February,” Gallup said in its mid-month unemployment survey, released on February 17. “The mid-month reading normally reflects what the U.S. government reports for the entire month, and is up from 8.3% in mid-January.”
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-finds-unemployment-climbing-nine-percent-february
>I would welcome the possibility of competing for great teachers
In order to get a mix of salaries you establish a mix of experience levels. It’s possible to have high performers across experience levels. It happens every day in all sorts of businesses.
I would welcome the possibility of competing for great teachers versus our system today where we are stuck with teachers that have no economic reason to improve or even stay current outside of the union pay scale for their degrees. Communities would get to choose what they paid for the level of teacher performance they wanted in their schools.
Sure there could be disagreements within communities but eventually that would be fixed, again by simple economics. That happens every time a family decides to move out of Ridgewood to a place with lower property taxes and another family chooses to move in for great education.
You’re trying to defend the economic benefit to the community of tenure but there is none to defend. The only beneficiary of tenure is the tenured.
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For Ridgewood residents who live in the Central Business District and are in need of overnight parking, can purchase an Overnight Parking Permit.
Click Here for the ordinance information.
Click Here for an application. You can bring the completed form to the Ridgewood Finance Department, 3rd Level, Village Hall, 131 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, to make payment and obtain the permit.
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The 24th annual Super Science Saturday
The 24th annual Super Science Saturday will be on Saturday (naturally) March 10, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Ridgewood High School. There will be hundreds of interactive exhibits suitable for all age groups.
The event is free, thanks to Valley Hospital and the Ridgewood Education Foundation’s sponsorship. Bagelicious and Whole Foods assist by providing food for the Cafe.
The event is organized by an all-volunteer group of parents, a current RHS student and RHS graduates, two of whom have gone on to become science teachers.
Highlights of the day include the Franklin Institute Show, an exhibition of stealth model airplanes and the model rocket launch.
