FRIENDS READING MARATHON KICKOFF
at the RIDGEWOOD LIBRARY
Robert the Guitar Guy
Join us for music, singing and dancing in this special concert to
kick off the Annual Friends Reading Marathon Fundraiser!
Friday, February 1 at 4:00 pm
Ridgewood children of all ages.
Register now:
www.ridgewoodlibrary.org
Children’s Center of the
Ridgewood Library
125 N. Maple Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
(201) 670-5600, ext. 110
www.ridgewoodlibrary.org
PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE/AGENDA
Monday, January 7, 2013
Village Hall Court Room – 7:30 P.M.
(all timeframes and the order of agenda items below are approximate and subject to change)
1. 7:30 p.m.- Call to Order, Statement of Compliance, Flag Salute, Roll Call – In accordance with the provisions of Section 10:4-8d of the Open Public Meetings Act, the date, location, and time of the commencement of this meeting is reflected in a meeting notice, a copy of which schedule has been filed with the Village Manager and the Village Clerk, The Ridgewood News and The Record newspapers, and posted on the bulletin board in the entry lobby of the Village municipal offices at 131 North Maple Avenue, and on the Village website, all in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act.
Roll call: Aronsohn, Bigos, Pucciarelli, Nalbantian, Hurley, Reilly, Suriano, Joel, Grant, Shinozuka, Dockray
2. 7:35 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. – Public Comments on Non Agenda Topics
3. 7:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Committee/Commission/Professional Updates for Non Agenda Topics
4. 8:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Multifamily Housing in or near CBD
a. 8:00 – 8:15 – Introduction
b. 8:15 – 8:45 – Dinallo Construction Corp. presentation – 9-17 Franklin Ave., 25-27 Franklin Ave., 80 Chestnut St., 76 Chestnut St., Block 2005, Lots 11-15
c. 8:45 – 9:15 – 257 Ridgewood Avenue LLC presentation – 253-257 E. Ridgewood Ave., Block 3703, Lots 4, 6, 8.01
d. 9:15 – 10:15 – Discussion re: Draft Ordinance regarding development standards for multifamily housing in CBD area.
5. 10:15 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. – Approval of Minutes – November 20, 2012
6. 10:20 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Executive session if needed
7. Adjournment
In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, all meetings of the Ridgewood Planning Board (i.e., official public meetings, work sessions, pre-meeting assemblies and special meetings) are public meetings, which are always open to members of the general public.
Members: Mayor Paul Aronsohn, Nancy Bigos, Councilman Pucciarelli, Charles Nalbantian, Morgan Hurley, Kevin Reilly, Costantino Suriano, Richard Joel, Cyril Grant, Jane Shinozuka, Wendy Dockray
Professional Staff: Blais L. Brancheau, Planner; Gail L. Price, Esq., Board Attorney; Christopher J. Rutishauser, Village Engineer; Jane Wondergem, Board Secretary
Urbanization: Has any one on the VC done ANY analysis of the economic impact of such projects?
Jamuary 6,2013
If it involves building in the CBD there will be no discussion as long as Mayor Ahronson and Mr. Puccarelli are in the leadership it will be build, build, build with no thought to how this is going to destroy our village. There are currently 3 housing projects, plus the additional one to be discussed tomorrow night (Ken Smith) as well as the parking garage before the planning board and council. If all of these are built it will be the end to Ridgewood as we know it. Wake up everyone…….. You are going to pay for this overbuilding one way or another.
Has any one on the VC done ANY analysis of the economic impact of such projects? Supporters of this or any similar project should at least come up with one spreadsheet or slide showing the costs and benefits to the village and the assumptions they’ve made as part of their analysis. This council advances its plans in vague “political speak” and really has not shown much in the way of detail to support the projects that they’re putting forward. Do the math please.
Urbanization : Whats the cost to the quality of life in the Village?
January 6.2013
No one has articulated a purpose for this overbuilding or its cost in terms of traffic, changing the quality of life, burdens on village services, etc. Who is going to pay the extra taxes that the extra costs entail? Who is going to make up for the devaluation of our property values as we become more like Patterson and Hackensack? Mr. Mayor? Mr. Vice Mayor? Any of the others?
Where is the historical preservation committee on these building projects. My understanding is that these building projects are completely in opposition to everything that they (HP) stands for. The CBD has height restrictions and all of these 3 current building projects greatly exceed these limits. They also blow away the FAR restrictions in the master plan. Again, the repercussions of the Pfund days and the allowing of spot changes to the master plan by individuals is coming back to haunt the village residents.
Obama supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases
Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command.
With President Obama back in office and his life-saving “fiscal cliff” bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters.
“What happened that my Social Security withholding’s in my paycheck just went up?” a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. “My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don’t feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna’ hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?”
Shocker. Democrats who supported the president’s re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy “1 percenters,” you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever.
Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/#ixzz2HHdRs2Y2
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The giant, gaping hole in Sandy Hook reporting : psychiatric medications
David Kupelian says 1 piece of crucial information has yet to be disclosed
Since last month’s horrifying and heartbreaking school massacre in Newtown, Conn., politicians and the press have, as everyone knows, been totally obsessed with firearms.
Indeed, President Obama has vowed to impose strong new gun-control measures on the nation – very soon, with or without Congress.
Other possible factors – from violent video games to the “failure of our mental-health system” to the unintended consequences of making schools “gun-free zones” – have taken a back seat to guns. Within hours of the gruesome mega-crime, the media had provided extensive, round-the-clock coverage of precisely which firearms, manufacturers and calibers the perpetrator had used, how he had obtained them from his mother, where they were originally purchased, and so on.
But where, I’d like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator – who had been under treatment for mental-health problems – may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/#IvtHhesVoaoLT1he.99
Israel Teitelbaum will speak on Pending School Choice Bill
and
Victoria A Jakelsky A Plan to Protect our Freedoms
7 pm, Tuesday, January 8 At the Larkin House at 380 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff (1/4 mile North of Stop & Shop on the Right)
More information: 201 891-5918 Conservative_caucus@verizon.net
www./westbergenteaparty.com
Global warming, the tool of the West.
By Stanislav Mishin
https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/04-01-2013/123380-global_warming-0/
For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations. Knowing full well that their produce in China and sell in the West model and its consiquent spiral downward in wages and thus standards of living, was unsustainable, the elites moved to use this new “science” to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands
What better way to staunch protests at worsening economic and life conditions than to make it feel like an honourable job/duty of the people to save “Gia”. At the same time, they used this “science” as a new pagan religion to further push out the Christianity they hate and despise and most of all, fear? Gia worship, the earth “mother”, has been pushed in popular culture oozing out of the West for a better part of the past 1.5 decades. This is a religion replete with an army of priests, called Government Grant Scientists.
Various groups have fought back. This is including Russian hackers, who published a huge database of UK government, scientific and university emails depicting the fixing of data to sell Global Warming, er Climate Change (as if it never changed on its own). And while taking hit after hit, the beast, like Al Quida, will not die. As a matter of fact, the beast is on a steady come back, as it is quite useful during the down times recession. The US alone spends $7 billion each year on warming “studies”, which is, in truth, nothing but a huge money laundering operation, as no real science is conducted and vapid alarmist reports the only product generated.
Amongst the newest claims of pending disasters, is a cry that icepacks are now melting at three times the rate of the 1990s, even though there has not been any significant warming in the past 20 years. Greenland’s icepack melt off, has been linked to volcanic activity under the ice, heating it. Must be the magmamen and their SUVs. These facts, however, do not faze the Gia crowd and their Elite/Governmental backers. The fact that a super storm hit the NE US is also being played as evidence of GW. Thank God that before GW no such things ever happened. How are they to explain that Russia and Eastern Europe are projected to have the coldest winter in 20 years? Oh, but I doubt my Western readers are even aware of that.
Now, with their economies in a spiral of debt laden, non-manufacturing recession (if not out and out depression), the Elites, who sense they are loosing their grip or toe hold on key economic regions outside their home regions, are once again calling out their inquisitors of Global Warming and sending them towards the developing world.
The first salvo has been fired by a British Warming dandy named Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, who as an academic at Whitehall, has made a career and quite a bit of money off of this scam. Lord Stern, a former World Bank chief economist and author of the landmark Stern review of the economics of climate change, was a close associate of Gordon Brown and the Leftists, who with the Tory counterparts and in parallel to the American Democrats/Republicans set up the grand and self destructive economic schemes that have plunged their own nations and many many others into the abyss of poverty.
The good Lord Stern, in commentary on why countries such as Russia, China, India and Brazil, in other words, the BRICs, have to pony up cash and depress their own growth, made this statement for the Guardian paper: “It’s a brutal arithmetic – the changing structure of the world’s economy has been dramatic. That is something developing countries will have to face up to,”
His premiss is that even if you take out the deindustrialized West, run away Global Warming will not stop due to the industrialized world. Its now all the fault of those raising themselves up for the destruction of the world, from the phantom joke of GW. Lord Stern tried to assure that the opening salvo was not a salvo, by stating: “I am not pointing the finger at the developing world, just looking at what is necessary. I am not accusing or proposing, just calculating what is needed [to meet scientific estimates of the emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous levels of climate change]”. More like a calculated accusation. After all, this is not some light weight of the GIA cult, but the movement’s chief economist who enjoyed the ear of the UK government: a perfect tool of the Western Elites.
Expect the cries to get louder and more shrill in the months to follow.
https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/04-01-2013/123380-global_warming-0/
How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 06:50 EST, 6 January 2013
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people’s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.
Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257715/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special–read-write-barely-study.html#ixzz2HENYYhZa
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Generators become part of North Jersey town budget discussions
Sunday, January 6, 2013 Last updated: Sunday January 6, 2013, 9:21 AM
BY MONSY ALVARADO
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The extensive power outages superstorm Sandy left in its wake has forced emergency responders in North Jersey to evaluate their inventory of portable and standby generators and recommend the purchase of more this year.
Municipal officials will be crafting their budgets in coming weeks, and generators will surely be part of the discussion in several towns including Lyndhurst, Ridgefield Park, Ridgefield and Edgewater.
The generators would be used in a number of ways, town officials said, including powering traffic lights, pumping stations, and warming and cooling centers during power failure emergencies.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/185778242_LOCAL_ISSUE__Preparing_for_next_storm_Generators_become_necessity.html
Mobile app industry growing in North Jersey
Sunday, January 6, 2013 Last updated: Sunday January 6, 2013, 10:44 AM
BY MARY DIDUCH
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Ken Landau of Oradell and Clinton Logan of River Vale launched a mobile applications company about six years ago, making software for Palm Pilots.
“Everyone thought the Palm Pilot was here to stay,” Landau said.
Then came the iPhone, soon followed by Android-powered devices, and the apps world changed forever.
The duo switched to developing apps strictly for iPhones, “right there in the beginning, when the door opened,” Landau said.
They were there at the creation, but they were not alone for long. A million-and-a-half applications later, the apps industry is robust and growing, notably in New Jersey.
Landau and Logan now have six apps for iOS software — their most recent puzzle-like game, Gluey, launched more than a month ago — and they run their business, mobileAge Inc., completely off the sales of their apps, which range from 99 cents to $3.99, Landau said.
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Take a Trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show with Ridgewood Recreation
Join Ridgewood Parks and Recreation’s trip to
The Philadelphia Flower Show ~ “Brilliant”
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Ridgewood Parks and Recreation’s annual trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show is set for Tuesday, March 5, 2013.
This year’s exhibit, entitled “Brilliant” has the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society preparing for a British invasion to take center stage. The show will glow with the majestic beauty and creative genius of Great Britain, and is inspired by centuries of culture. Receive the royal treatment as you roam from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, to rolling English hillsides, to foggy streetscapes, and from sunny cottage gardens to the dark alleys of Jack the Ripper.
The cost is $60.00 per person which includes admission to the show and coach bus transportation. Lunch is on your own. The bus will depart Graydon Pool parking lot (corner of Linwood Avenue and Northern Parkway) at 8:00 a.m.; returning approximately 5:30 p.m.
You may make your reservation online at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Village Parks and Recreation) or you may locate and download the registration form on our website at www.ridgewoodnj.net/recreation. Register in person or by mail to The Stable, 259 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Gift certificates are available upon request; please contact the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560.
“Syrup for Sandy”
~Breakfast for Dinner~
Helping Victims from Hurricane Sandy: Proceeds go to American Red Cross
Thursday, January 10 from 5-8 p.m. in the RHS Cafeteria
Tickets $5 (pre-sale raffle incentive) are now on sale.
Donations from AM Rotary, Stop & Shop, Daily Treat
For more information contact Nancy Reilly or Lynne Feeney at RHS: nreilly@ridgewood.k12.nj.us, lfeeney@ridgewood.k12.nj.us
31st Annual Ridgewood/Glen Rock Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Program
The 31st annual Ridgewood/Glen Rock observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will be held on Monday, January 21, 2013, at the Ridgewood United Methodist Church, 100 Dayton St., Ridgewood, NJ. The event is free and open to the public, and this year’s theme is, “Forward in Unity.” Sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Ridgewood/Glen Rock, the celebration begins at 10:00 a.m. with an interfaith service featuring The Rev. Dr. Gareth Icenogle of the West Side Presbyterian Church. There will be readings by Ridgewood and Glen Rock students and musical performances by the Indian Hills Chamber Choir and Men of Umoja Chorus, followed by an outdoor rally in Van Neste Square.
Instead of the traditional community lunch following the march, a Fellowship Coffee Hour will be held at the church with a televised broadcast of the Presidential Inauguration for those who wish to stay. Rev. Dr. Icenogle has been West Side’s Senior Pastor since February, 2009. He holds degrees in ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, and music degrees from the University of California, Riverside, and California State University of Los Angeles. His master’s degrees are in music (voice and composition) and divinity, and his doctorate is in ministry, with a focus on spiritual formation and discipleship. He is the author of an internationally used textbook on the theology, purposes, and dynamics of faith formation through small groups. Rev. Dr. Icenogle served as Senior Pastor at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, from 2004 to 2008, and as Senior Pastor and Co-Senior Pastor for 14 years at the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, PA. He was also the Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller Seminary.
The annual Ridgewood/Glen Rock Martin Luther King Jr. celebration began in 1983 in an effort to unite area residents, regardless of faith or ethnic background, in worship and action as they work towards peace and justice for all. More than 20 religious groups, the Ridgewood and Glen Rock Boards of Education, local government, and civic organizations participate in and support the event each year. Financial support is generously provided by many organizations, individuals, agencies, and businesses throughout the area. For more information contact Alice Newton at 201-951-9903.
