>Village Council Meetings
09/07/11 7:30PM Village Council Work Session
09/13/11 7:30PM Board of Adjustment Public Meeting
09/13/11 7:00PM Village Council – Special Public Meeting – Valley Expansion
09/14/11 8:00PM Village Council Public Meeting N/A N/A
09/19/11 7:00PM Village Council Special Public Meeting – Valley Expansion
09/20/11 7:30PM Planning Board Public Meeting
>Flood Warning
FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY
438 AM EDT WED SEP 7 2011
…THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN NEW JERSEY…
PASSAIC RIVER AT MILLINGTON AFFECTING MORRIS AND SOMERSET COUNTIES
NORTH BRANCH RARITAN RIVER AT RARITAN AFFECTING SOMERSET COUNTY
RARITAN RIVER AT MANVILLE AFFECTING MIDDLESEX AND SOMERSET COUNTIES
RARITAN RIVER AT BOUND BROOK AFFECTING MIDDLESEX AND SOMERSET COUNTIES
ROCKAWAY RIVER AT BOONTON ABOVE THE RESERVOIR AFFECTING MORRIS COUNTY
…THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN NEW JERSEY…
MILLSTONE RIVER AT BLACKWELLS MILLS AFFECTING SOMERSET COUNTY
PASSAIC RIVER AT CHATHAM AFFECTING MORRIS AND SOMERSET COUNTIES
PASSAIC RIVER AT PINE BROOK AFFECTING ESSEX…MORRIS AND PASSAIC
COUNTIES
PASSAIC RIVER AT LITTLE FALLS AFFECTING ESSEX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES
PEQUANNOCK RIVER BELOW MACOPIN DAM AFFECTING MORRIS AND PASSAIC
COUNTIES
RAMAPO RIVER AT POMPTON LAKES AFFECTING BERGEN…MORRIS AND PASSAIC
COUNTIES
ROCKAWAY RIVER AT BOONTON BELOW THE RESERVOIR AFFECTING MORRIS COUNTY
WANAQUE RIVER AT WANAQUE DAM AFFECTING PASSAIC COUNTY
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
SAFETY MESSAGE…DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. THE
WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.
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September 12th, VOTE The Best Pizza in Ridgewood 2011 : submit your favorite pizza spot
the Ridgewood blog is looking for nominations for the 2011 best Pizza in Ridgewood, New Jersey.Please submit your favorite pizza spot to: [email protected]
put “Best Pizza in Ridgewood ” in the subject line or leave a comment on the “Best Pizza” post on the Ridgewood Blog
Pizza fusion (2010 Winner)
A Mano (2009 Winner)
Puzo’s (2008 Winner)
Due to the hotly contested nature of the contest and technical problems with the voting reviews will be published of all the participants over the next several months by our secret judging panel.Lets see if they come to the same conclusions as the voters.
2010 participants and Votes :
A Mano (2009 Winner) (22%) 24 Franklin Ave, in Ridgewood ,NJ 201.493.2000
Renato’s Pizza (8%) 36 S Maple Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 652-3554
Puzo’s (2008 Winner) (5%) 16 W Ridgewood Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 445-3332
Brooklyn Pizza (6%) 15 Oak St,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 493-7600
Sicilian Sun (by popular demand) (4%) 604 N Maple Ave,Ho Ho Kus, NJ (201) 444-3494
La Bella Pizza (4%) 102 N Maple Ave, Rdgewood, NJ (201) 652-0444
Roma Pizza (1%) 88 Godwin Ave, Ridgewood, NJ (201) 389-6810
Pizza Fusion (42%) 33 Godwin Ave,Ridgewood, NJ (201) 445-9010
Ridgewood Pizza (3%) 37 Godwin Ave, Ridgewood, NJ (201) 444-1055
>Gallup: Uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) – The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-uninsured-have-increased-under-ob
>Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce Presents the 18th Annual Car Show.
Memorial Park at Van Neste Square and E. Ridgewood Ave. on September 9th from 6-9:30pm for a fun filled night. Enjoy music by “Take 4”. Trophies will be awarded at 8:30pm. This event is free and open to the public.
photo by P Goodman
For more info contact: [email protected], 201-445-2600 or visit
Fri, September 09, 2011 Time: 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Location: Memorial Park at Van Neste Square/E. Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ
Event Description
This event is always fun for anyone who loves cars of all ages.
FREE to the public.
You can view more photos from last years show here:
https://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/2010show/ridgewoodsept10/
>THE RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION : the Stetson Ball
The favor of your reply is requested by September 16, 201
Tickets : https://www.ridgewoodlibrary.org/pdf/RSVP%20Gala83111.pdf
Information : https://www.ridgewoodlibrary.org/pdf/8-31Stetson%20Ball%20Website%20Invitation%205×7%203.pdf
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Ridgewood September 11th Remembrance Ceremony – 10th Anniversary
The Village of Ridgewood will hold a Ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial Rock in Memorial Park at Van Neste Square on Sunday, September 11th at 7:30PM. The Ceremony will be held to remember and honor the memory of the twelve residents who were lost in the World Trade Center tragedy in 2001.
During the month of September you are invited to visit the exhibit of “Portraits” of each resident lost. The display depicts the individuals, their family and events of 2001. The “Portrait” exhibit provides a place to reflect and will be on display in the Belcher Auditorium of the Ridgewood Public Library.
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>Under the Sea ,9th Annual Mary Therese Rose Fundraising Dinner
Sunday, October 23, 2011
4 pm to 8 pm
Sheraton Crossroads, Mahwah
It’s an undersea Calypso party at the 9th Annual Mary Therese Rose Fundraising Dinner. Ease into the evening with the sounds of the Caribbean during the hors d’oeuvre and cocktail hour. Then enjoy dinner and featured artists, The Tropical Beat Steel Drum Band. Cool down at the end of the evening with our delicious ice cream sundae dessert bar! Kids can make their own music video and learn what is really under the sea from our guest marine biologist at the touch tank in this year’s kids’ room, open from 4:00 to 5:30 PM. Wear your best beach cabana-wear and we’ll see you on October 23rd for some cool times Under the Sea!
This year’s entertainment is an authentic Steel Drum band, and has played for the Trinidad and Tobago Division of Tourism. Accompanying the band will be Limbo and Stilt dancers to entertain and dance with the crowd. This year’s event is Beach and Cabana wear mandatory. You may also dress up as a sea creature. Little Mermaid, Saving Nemo and Sponge Bob Square Pants characters will be in attendance.
The Mary Therese Rose Fund was established to provide therapeutic care and fun to the special needs population cared for at the Kireker Center for Child Development, an outpatient facility of the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ. In addition to assisting families with unreimbursed medical expenses, the fund also allows these children to enjoy the fun experienced by those in their age group. Therapeutic horseback riding, dancing, music, art, yoga are only a few of the activities offered through the fund to these children.
Each year The Mary Therese Rose Fund helps families pay for needed equipment like orthotics, braces, and standers. It also funds activities such as horseback riding that are therapeutic and brighten the lives of these special kids. It is the goal of The Mary Therese
Rose Fund to help these special children reclaim some of the simple joys of childhood denied them by their disabilities.
Your tax-deductible contribution will benefit local special needs kids through the Mary Therese Rose Fund. Reserve your tickets for this special event by calling Jack Crilly at
201-394-5940 or e-mailing [email protected], $160 per Adult $80 per Child, $1200 per Table Of 10
Contact Jack Crilly at [email protected] or at 201-394-5940 with any questions. For more information on the Mary Therese Rose Fund, go to www.marythereserose.org.
>California Employment at Record Low
By Christopher Palmeri – Sep 4, 2011 2:45 AM ET
The percentage of working-age Californians with jobs has fallen to a record low, and employment may not return to pre-recession levels until the second half of the decade, according to a research group.
Just 55.4 percent of working-age Californians, defined as those 16 or older, had a job in July, down from 56.2 percent a year earlier and the lowest level since 1976, the Sacramento- based California Budget Project said in a report released late yesterday.
California’s 12 percent unemployment rate in July, the nation’s second-highest after Nevada, compared with 9.1 percent nationwide. The most-populous state lost 1.4 million jobs during the recession that began three years ago, and has gained back only 226,800, or about 17 percent, according to the report.
>U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE IAN LINKER ISSUES LABOR DAY STATEMENT PRAISING THE AMERICAN WORKER AND RIGHT-TO-WORK STATES
(Ridgewood, NJ): On Labor Day, conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Ian Linker issued the following statement:
We should celebrate all American workers this Labor Day, like every Labor Day, and remember the millions of Americans that are out of work this year. We should also recognize and praise the 22 right-to-work states that exercised their right under the Taft-Hartley Act and preserve for their individual workers the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union and the freedom to decide whether or not to pay union dues – the essence of American freedom. These states preserve workplace freedoms for American workers that unions and their political allies would gladly deprive from their workers. As freedom loving Americans, we should celebrate freedom for all of our workers and our people and oppose any group that organizes in opposition to our founding principles.
>A Jobless Labor Day
the Heritage Foundation
For 14 million unemployed Americans and their families, this Labor Day will not be a happy one. Instead of enjoying a day off of work, they’re suffering a disturbing trend under the Obama economy: Jobs are not being created, the unemployment rate has not improved, and the economy is at a near standstill. Even worse, the labor market’s stall might be turning into a decline.
And today, in Detroit—which in July had the highest unemployment rate of any metropolitan area in the country—President Obama is due to stand with labor presidents including the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka, Teamsters’ James P. Hoffa, and the UAW’s Bob King to tout his bailout of the auto industry and his yet-to-be-disclosed plan to turn the economy around.
The Big Labor backdrop is ironic but not surprising. The union movement has helped lead to the staggering loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States, and the demands it has made on employers and governments help create the very conditions leading to the tragic unemployment in Detroit and across the country. But they are strong political allies of the President—having spent $1.1 billion on politics and lobbying in the last election cycle—and they continue to hold a prominent seat at the table.
It follows, then, that President Obama continues to put the institutional interests of unions ahead of America’s economic well-being. In a new paper, Heritage’s Rea Hederman and James Sherk explain that the latest example comes from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which issued several rulings recently undermining employer and employee rights: snap elections, restricting secret ballot elections, and a new rule that allows unions to cherry-pick which workers get to vote on unionizing. All these rules are designed to facilitate organizing companies whose workers are unenthusiastic about unions.
Private-sector workers have a right to unionize, of course. Management gets the union it deserves. But unionization has economic costs, as Sherk and Hederman write:
Unions make businesses less competitive and discourage investment. This reduces job growth. Studies show that jobs fall by 5–10 percent at newly organized firms. Going forward, employment grows by three to four percentage points more slowly at unionized businesses than at otherwise identical non-union companies.
The result can be felt in places like the Motor City as unionized manufacturing employment plummets. Since 2005, GM shed half of its unionized workforce. Nationwide, unionized manufacturing employment fell by 80 percent between 1977 and 2010, while non-union manufacturing employment decreased by 6 percent over that same time period. Unions are feeling the effects, with membership falling by over 600,000 workers in 2010 alone. If workers are happy without a union, the government should not foist one on them.
Sherk explains why unions are on the decline:
Union membership has fallen because traditional collective bargaining does not appeal to most workers. Polls show that only one in 10 non-union workers wants to organize. This makes sense: in the competitive private sector, unions can do little to raise their members’ pay. Additionally, most workers like their jobs and believe they are on the same side as their employers.
Fortunately, Big Labor doesn’t have to be the only game in town. Workers want a say in their workplace, but they’re becoming increasingly aware of unions’ limitations. Private-sector unions have little power to raise their members’ wages, while employers have learned that respecting their employees makes good business sense. That is why large majorities of workers say they are satisfied with their jobs and their bosses.
Unions, though, aren’t going to go down without a fight. That’s why they’re lobbying the Obama Administration to protect their interests. Unfortunately, the President is obliging, whether it’s by changing the rules of the game to make unionization easier, preventing private employers from locating in right-to-work states—as the NLRB is doing with Boeing case in South Carolina—or pushing for more government spending on infrastructure projects that employ primarily union members (while leaving the rest of the economy in the lurch).
Meanwhile, Americans are suffering from the President’s decision to satisfy unions before reducing unemployment, all while there are more signs of a declining labor market than there are of a recovery. There are things Congress and the President can and should do to improve the business climate, such as repealing Obamacare, opening the door to domestic energy production, preventing harmful regulations, passing pending free trade agreements, and reining in the NLRB. Labor Day 2012 can be brighter than today, but Congress and the President must choose the right path to help get us there.
https://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/05/morning-bell-a-jobless-labor-day/
