Ridgewood to examine assisted-living development for downtown
Saturday, June 29, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — The village council this week directed its legal and planning experts to pore over a three-story, 88-room assisted living development proposed at the corner of Franklin Avenue and North Walnut Street.
At its meeting Wednesday, the council discussed the proposal — first presented earlier this month by representatives of the White Plains, N.Y.-based Kensington Senior Development.
A portion of the proposed site for The Kensington of Ridgewood sits on municipally owned land, now used for parking.
If approved, the development calls for 3,000 square feet of street-level retail space and a two-level parking garage, with 100 spaces for public use.
While Mayor Paul Aronsohn said the project would “check off a lot of boxes” for Ridgewood, a more detailed analysis of the development — including its impact on neighboring properties — is needed, he said.
Ridgewood selects seven citizens for financial panel
Saturday, June 29, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — The seven members of a citizens committee formed to provide financial advice to the Village Council were appointed by the governing body this week, in a 4-1 vote.
Councilman Tom Riche, long an opponent of the Financial Advisory Board, was the sole vote against the appointments during the council’s meeting on Wednesday.
The panel is composed of residents with backgrounds in business, as well as the village’s chief financial officer. It will meet monthly and provide its insights and recommendations throughout the year as issues arise or at the council’s behest.
“I don’t know. I’d have to look at it closely,” said Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. “I just haven’t read it that closely to know.”
68 Senators Vote to Create Incentive for Employers to Hire Amnestied Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens
9:49 AM, Jun 28, 2013 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
The immigration bill passed by the Senate Thursday afternoon would give some employers a financial incentive to employ “registered provisional immigrants” (illegal immigrants granted legal status) instead of U.S. citizens.
As the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein recently reported: “Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering them qualifying health insurance could be subject to fines of up to $3,000 per worker. But because newly legalized immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges until after they become citizens – at least 13 years under the Senate bill – businesses could avoid such fines by hiring the new immigrants instead.”
On Tuesday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked five U.S. senators about this problem, and none of them knew if it was a problem. “We’re trying to solve that right now. I don’t know if that’s been solved,” Senator Max Baucus of Montana (chief author of Obamacare) told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
MOVING SALE!!!!! (144 Madison Place Ridgewood NJ)
Great furniture in terrific condition (cabinets, tables, chairs), head boards and frames (Queen, full, single), chandeliers, lamps, bycicles, sports equipment, paint ball guns and lots more!!
ONE DAY ONLY Saturday June 29th 9am-4pm
Ridgewood, NJ-Yard Sale Saturday 6/29 (19 Hope Street)
19 Hope Street
9am-1pm NO EARLY BIRDS!! (rain date Sunday) crib w/ mattress and Pottery Barn linens, PB glider frame and ottoman, changing table, car seat, PacknPlay, Farm table, new desk, lamps, halogen lamps, tv w/ builtin VHS, Park Lane end table, suitcases, 3T Lands End winter coat, household items, Benjamin Moore qt. paints, women’s clothing, shoes.
Garage/Moving Sale – Ridgewood, NJ – 6/28 & 6/29
Garage/Moving Sale- Friday & Saturday, June 28-29, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
HH, Kit, Fireplace items, furniture, books, toys, etc
Address: 113 John Street, Ridgewood, NJ
Rain Date: Sunday, June 30, 9:00 AM – 4:00 P
Turf-marking for July Fourth parade is Ridgewood tradition
Friday, June 28, 2013
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — A warning to visitors: Those lawn and folding chairs lining the curb outside the library are not free for the taking.
CHRIS HARRIS/STAFF
Chairs are already lined up along Maple Avenue in front of the Ridgewood Public Library for the July 4th parade.
Nor are the empty chairs chained together and left along parts of Maple, Linwood and Ridgewood avenues.
That’s because in Ridgewood, the chairs mark the spot for the Fourth of July parade, when it rolls by next Thursday.
The placement of the chairs along the parade route has become an annual symbol of independence in the village.
“It has been a long tradition in Ridgewood,” Mayor Paul Aronsohn said this week. “Soon, chairs will be everywhere. They’ll keep popping up now around the parade route.”
RHS Graduation Speech June 2013 Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D.
Dr. Fishbein delivered the following speech at the Ridgewood High School commencement on June 26, 2013.
Thank you, Dr. Gorman. Good evening. I would like to extend my congratulations to the members of the Class of 2013, as well as to your parents, your families and friends, to the faculty members and administrators who have taught you and guided you, and the entire Ridgewood community who have been so important in your development and success.
We are he re tonight to publicly celebrate that success, to express our pride, and to award you the diplomas that officially certify you as graduates of one of the best public high schools in this nation. This moment signifies a most important achievement. You have proven yourselves accomplished and ready to move on to the next level, to accept new challenges toward becoming fully engaged adults and responsible citizens.
When you think back about your time at Ridgewood High School and your entire Ridgewood Public School experience, you will remember the good times, the teachers, your friends and all the accomplishments that make you who you are today.
One of ironies about the road to success is that challenges,historical events , and even failure are a key part of that journey. And while tonight we concentrate on remembering the good times, it is important to remember, too, that the difficult times, the events that challenged you and may even have ended in failure, have been just as important in shaping your growth as have the best grades you may have earned, the awards you may have won and the praise you have received for doing well.
Just as you faced challenges in school from your earliest years–when your first lessons focused on learning to tie your shoes, then progressed to the basics of reading and writing–I want you to understand that your educational experience with the Ridgewood Public Schools is a sum of successes and sometime disappointments that is truly greater than the whole.
Cramming for tests; struggling with difficult assignments; juggling a heavy work load; facing fierce athletic opponents; performing in front of a critical audience; and yes, even having to get to school on time…Learning the social, emotional and relationship skills to handle life’s pressures and demands are as equally important for the next chapter in your life as the strong academic foundation you worked so hard to secure.
You members of the Class of 2013 have together also faced some unusual trials, tribulations,and historical events during your time in the Ridgewood Public Schools. You have witnessed and lived through some extraordinary events that have shaped both our community and our country’s history. For example:
You were just starting first grade when our nation experienced the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the terrible tragedy of September 11th , 2001.You were in 5th grade when Hurricane Katrina hit our shores
You were in 8th grade and witnessed history when this nation elected the first black President of the United States.
You were freshmen when an earthquake occurred in Haiti.You were high school sophomores when Japan was struck by the largest earthquake in its history, triggering a tsunami that caused a nuclear plant disaster.
As juniors, you were challenged with a very personal loss, the passing of one of your own classmates, Nick Campenello.
And your senior year began with the one-two punch of Hurricane Sandy, followed by the heartbreaking shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
With each of these events, you have learned more and more about yourselves as individuals and what it means to be members of a community. By witnessing these highs and the lows of humanity and history– and yes, even the wrath of the weather –you have learned how to channel raw emotions into real efforts for relief. You have gotten a glimpse of the importance of seeking to understand and determining to do better. You have come to appreciate that obstacles can be overcome and to hold out hope for a better tomorrow.
In a few short moments you will become Ridgewood High School graduates, which means that no matter where your life takes you, you will forever share a common bond with a unique and distinguished group of people, that is, fellow RHS alumni.
Tonight, you will celebrate at the final party of the Class of 2013. Tomorrow, you will start looking ahead to a new chapter in your life. Looking forward may be scary, but I am confident when I say– You are ready for the challenges ahead.
I want to say thank you to the entire Ridgewood community for your support of the Ridgewood Public Schools. I offer my best wishes to you, the graduates, and your families in your continued success.
As Superintendent, I hereby certify to the community that the students before you have met the State of New Jersey and the rigorous Ridgewood requirements for graduation.
License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers
Jun 26, 2013
When the city of San Leandro, Calif., purchased a license-plate reader for its police department in 2008, computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe asked the city for a record of every time the scanners had photographed his car.
The results shocked him.
The paperback-size device, installed on the outside of police cars, can log thousands of license plates in an eight-hour patrol shift. Katz-Lacabe said it had photographed his two cars on 112 occasions, including one image from 2009 that shows him and his daughters stepping out of his Toyota Prius in their driveway.
That photograph, Katz-Lacabe said, made him “frightened and concerned about the magnitude of police surveillance and data collection.” The single patrol car in San Leandro equipped with a plate reader had logged his car once a week on average, photographing his license plate and documenting the time and location.
At a rapid pace, and mostly hidden from the public, police agencies throughout California have been collecting millions of records on drivers and feeding them to intelligence fusion centers operated by local, state and federal law enforcement.
Paula Deen Surges Past ‘Game of Thrones’ to Top Spot on Amazon
12:49 PM PDT 6/27/2013 by THR Staff
Not due on shelves until Oct. 15, the book from the embattled cooking star is one of two in the Top 10.
Paula Deen’s forthcoming cookbook, Paula Deen’s New Testament, has surged past best-sellers by the likes of Dan Brown, Stephen King and Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin to take the top spot on Amazon’s sales charts.
The book charted in the 1,500s on Monday and by Wednesday it was at No. 18.
How to curb obesity: Tax calories, study says
By Peter Whoriskey, Published: June 26 E-mail the writer
There may be an economic cure for the nation’s obesity: Hike the price of food.
Raising the price of a calorie for home consumption by 10 percent might lower the percentage of body fat in youths about 8 or 9 percent, according to new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
“An increase in the price of a calorie regardless of its source would improve obesity outcomes,” according to a working paper that three researchers prepared for the private, nonprofit bureau.
As the nation confronts an epidemic of flab, many experts have pointed a finger at low food prices as a cause, leading to proposals for taxes on sugary drinks, fast-food and junk food, as well as reductions in government farm subsidies.
Bear sightings in North Jersey increase in recent weeks
Thursday June 27, 2013, 3:00 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The number of black bear sightings in North Jersey has seemingly increased in recent weeks, as evidenced by the capture of two yearlings in Ridgewood last week.
Emergency responders from the village and Paramus as well as Tyco Animal Control officers spent a portion of last weekend tracking, trapping and safely relocating a small bear that crossed from one town to the next. That bear was trapped and tranquilized by state Division of Fish and Wildlife officers in the Community Gardens at Maple Park last Sunday.
Ridgewood High School graduates leave their mark
Thursday June 27, 2013, 3:09 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The strong bond among members of Ridgewood High School’s (RHS) Class of 2013 – formed amid collective triumph and tragedy, notably the untimely death of a beloved classmate last summer – was a common theme discussed in speeches at Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
Both Superintendent Daniel Fishbein and Principal Tom Gorman mentioned shared challenging experiences, like Superstorm Sandy and the Newtown tragedy, that taught students about obstacles and change.
Board of Education President Sheila Brogan reminded the
class to remember that this was “their support group.” The speeches of Student Congress President John Byon and Class President Matthew Giancristofaro followed.
Ridgewood NJ, According to the BOE on Wednesday, June 26, over 400 Ridgewood High School seniors received their diplomas in the 118th annual graduation ceremony.
This fall, 87.0 percent will attend a four-year college and 5.7 percent will go to a two-year college. Ten will attend Ivy League schools. One graduate will go into the armed forces, and 2.7 percent will take a gap year.
Housing plan has Ridgewood Council’s attention
Thursday June 27, 2013, 3:03 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood Council has given the go-ahead for village legal and planning officials to analyze and scrutinize a housing development idea that calls for an assisted living facility in the Central Business District.
At their Wednesday work session meeting, council members briefly rehashed and discussed the preliminary plan, which was laid out to them earlier this month by partners at Kensington Senior Development, prior to giving their thumbs-up to further studies.
CHRISTIE ADMINISTRATION OFFERS EXTRA SERVICE AND SAVINGS FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY
Money-saving Family Super Saver Fare in effect continuously from June 28 until July 8
June 27, 2013
NEWARK, NJ — NJ TRANSIT today announced a special extension of the Family Super Saver Fare, which allows up to two children 11 and younger to travel free with each fare-paying adult. Usually limited to weekends and holidays, the Family Super Saver Fare will be in effect continuously from 7 p.m. Friday, June 28 until 6 a.m. Monday, July 8, on all trains (except for travel to/from Metro-North stations), buses and light rail lines in honor of Independence Day.
In addition, NJ TRANSIT will offer extra service in advance of Independence Day and on the holiday itself to give customers more travel options, whether leaving work early to get a head start on festivities or attending fireworks displays on the Fourth of July.
On Friday, June 28, extra buses will operate from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the Hudson River Waterfront on more than a dozen bus routes starting around 2 p.m. Visit njtransit.com for details.
On Wednesday, July 3, extra outbound trains will operate on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Raritan Valley, Morris & Essex, Pascack Valley and Port Jervis lines starting at approximately 1 p.m. Extra buses will operate from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the Hudson River Waterfront on more than three dozen bus routes starting around noon. Visit njtransit.com for details.
On Independence Day, Thursday, July 4, trains will operate on a weekend/major holiday schedule on all lines. Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will operate on a weekend schedule. Newark Light Rail will operate on a Saturday schedule. River Line will operate on a Sunday schedule. Bus schedules vary by route—customers are advised to check their timetables or visit njtransit.com for schedule information.
Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Service
To accommodate spectators traveling to the New Jersey Waterfront to view the annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks display over the Hudson River, NJ TRANSIT will supplement existing weekend/holiday rail service with additional trains to and from Hoboken Terminal before and after the event. Certain trains will depart from Hoboken Terminal later than their scheduled times following the event.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will operate additional trips between Tonnelle Avenue and Hoboken starting after 4 p.m.
Also on July 4, extra trips will operate to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal on selected bus routes.
Detailed service information is available at njtransit.com/fireworks.
NJ TRANSIT is reminding customers that the Hudson County Office of Emergency Management has announced that due to security concerns in the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombing, those entering the public viewing areas for this year’s fireworks display will not be allowed to bring coolers or backpacks or other similar kinds of closed carry bags.
Summer Savings
With the summer season in full swing, now is a great time for customers to take advantage of NJ TRANSIT’s discounted travel packages to destinations including the Jersey Shore, Six Flags Great Adventure, Monmouth Park Racetrack and Mountain Creek Waterpark:
Beach Packages: Save up to $6.50 on admission to one of five beaches— Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach and Belmar—by purchasing round-trip train fare and a beach pass for one price at NJ TRANSIT ticket vending machines (choose “Special Promotions” and select “Beach Package”) or at ticket windows. Customers can purchase the package for $31.50 from New York Penn Station or any station on the Main, Bergen County or Pascack Valley lines (except from Metro-North stations), and for $23.50 from Hoboken Terminal or Newark Penn Station. Beach Packages are now on sale daily through Labor Day, Monday, September 2.
Shore EZride Jitney provides shuttle service to beaches, shopping and dining locations from Long Branch and Asbury Park stations.
NJ TRANSIT customers can ride the jitney for free with a coupon available on njtransit.com. For jitney info and shore activities, go to visitmonmouth.com.
Six Flags Great Adventure or Hurricane Harbor: Save up to $37 by purchasing round-trip bus transportation and park admission together.
NJ TRANSIT provides express bus service to Six Flags from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, Newark Penn Station, Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal, Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden, and from Freehold.
Monmouth Park: Board a train anywhere on NJ TRANSIT’s rail system and save up to $5.50 when you travel to Monmouth Park Racetrack. Simply purchase a round-trip package to Monmouth Park from NJ TRANSIT ticket vending machines (choose “Special Promotions” and select “Monmouth Park Racetrack”) or at ticket windows, and receive Grandstand Admission and an official track program for $1 plus round-trip train fare.
Mountain Creek Waterpark: Save up to $8 on the adult admission price when you ride Bus No. 304 from the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Weehawken, Union City, North Bergen or Wayne Transit Center on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, June 15 through September 2.
Field Station: Dinosaurs: Take the train to Secaucus Junction, less than a 10-minute walk from the outdoor Dinosaur park, and save $1 on the Explorer’s Pass.
Newark Bears Baseball: Buy two tickets for the price of one to see the Newark Bears at Riverfront Stadium when you present your NJ TRANSIT light rail, bus or rail ticket.
Camden Riversharks Baseball: Save $3 when you take NJ TRANSIT light rail, bus or rail service to see the Camden Riversharks at Campbell’s Field.
