>Vote for Bob Hutton Friday, March 23, 2012 The Ridgewood News
Vote for Bob Hutton
To the Editor:
Bob Hutton has our vote!
Bob is running for reelection for a one-year term on the Ridgewood Board of Education. He has tirelessly served for nine years and is currently participating on the finance committee and in the continuing teacher contract negotiations. Bob Hutton is pursuing the one-year term to see these negotiations successfully through….
>Experience among BOE members is invaluable Friday, March 23, 2012 The Ridgewood News
Experience among BOE members is invaluable
To the editor:
I believe BOE candidate Jim Morgan’s recent letter in The Ridgewood News (“Morgan running for BOE seat”; March 2) was misleading and disingenuous. The 2 percent tax increase isn’t “there for the taking” – it’s already taken by contracted salaries, healthcare and special ed tuitions that are all out of the BOE’s hands. Trenton wants you to believe the budget cap serves taxpayers and doesn’t harm our schools, but the truth is, Ridgewood’s BOE has made cuts and eliminated important programs every year to live within the cap….
>Candidates should ‘engage in an honest discussion’ Friday, March 23, 2012 The Ridgewood News
Candidates should ‘engage in an honest discussion’
To the editor:
Any candidate for the Ridgewood Board of Education must be willing to engage in an honest discussion of the issues. BOE candidate Jim Morgan appears incapable of such willingness.
Mr. Morgan wrote: “Charlie [Reilly’s] reference to 15-to 20 year old initiatives…[is] not [an] example of the kind of fresh thinking we need on today’s BOE.” (The Ridgewood News; March 16; page A8). What is dishonest about Mr. Morgan’s statement is that it was he, not I, who held out as an exemplar of efficiency initiatives a neighboring school district took 15 to 20 years after the Ridgewood BOE took those initiatives. Furthermore, Mr. Morgan failed out of ignorance or for purposes of political posturing to state that the neighboring district took these initiatives 15 to 20 years after Ridgewood did…
>Volunteers help to scoop up funds for special needs students in Ridgewood THURSDAY MARCH 22, 2012, 4:07 PM BY DARIUS AMOS STAFF WRITER THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
They deal with an assortment of people during their everyday jobs, but Paul Aronsohn, Frank Mauriello and Jean Schoenlank were faced with a new breed on Sunday afternoon. For just a few hours, the trio ditched their respective responsibilities as municipal councilman, school social worker and Ridge School principal, and took on the challenge of scooping and serving ice cream for customers – all in the name of charity.
> Students At N.J. Middle School Say Principal Announced Ban On Hugging March 22, 2012 8:16 PM
MATAWAN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) –There is a lot of confusion at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School, where students say the principal made an unusual announcement last week.
“First, I heard over the loudspeaker ‘We are a no hugging school’ and we are…’This is our new policy,’” student John Carelli told CBS 2′s Cindy Hsu on Thursday.
> Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion By JOSH MITCHELL and MAYA JACKSON-RANDALL
The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created in the wake of the financial crisis. That would be roughly 16% higher than an estimate earlier this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
>Friends of Ridge fund no longer pay the cost of busing for field trips at Ridge.
March 22, 2012
Dear Ridge Families,
At the March 27 HSA meeting, the HSA Executive Board will recommend that the Friends of Ridge fund no longer pay the cost of busing for field trips at Ridge. This is a significant change from the Way the funds have been used in the past.
Each year the HSA raises money designated to pay the cost of busing for field trips and for enrichment programs and activities through the Friends of Ridge Campaign. The Executive Board’s proposal would eliminate the need to raise funds for busing only. Busing costs for each field trip would then be paid by the parents ofthe children attending the trips.
We will discuss and vote on the proposal at the HSA meeting on Tuesday March 27 at 1:15 pm in the F acuity Lounge. We understand that not everyone may be able to attend this meeting, so I will make myself available to discuss any questions or comments you have before the meeting.Email me at [email protected] and we will set up a mutually convenient time to speak. Also, if you have a comment or point that you would like to be shared at the meeting, e-mail me and I will read it at the meeting verbatim.
The decision on this issue affects all of us. The Executive Board is interested in what you have to say. We encourage you to attend and for contact us to make sure your voice is heard.
>RFP – Concession Refreshment Services at Graydon Pool – Bids Open April 3
Click Here for complete RFP: https://mods.ridgewoodnj.net/pdf/manager/2012ConcessionRefreshSvs.pdf
Request for Proposals
Request for proposals will be received by the Village of Ridgewood’s Department of Parks and Recreation, up to 2:00 p.m. prevailing time on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at The Stable, 259 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, for the following:
CONCESSION REFRESHMENT SERVICES – THE WATER’S EDGE CAFÉ, GRAYDON POOL
Proposal instructions may be obtained from the Department of Parks and Recreation, 259 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m., telephone 201-670-5560. Prospective professional responders requesting proposal documents be mailed to them shall be responsible for providing their own postage/delivery service remuneration. No Specifications and/or Proposal forms shall be given out after 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 30, 2012.
Prices quoted must be net and exclusive of all Federal, State and Local Sales and Excise Taxes. Proposals may be submitted prior to the due date in person or by mail, addressed to the Department of Parks and Recreation. The Village assumes no responsibility for loss or non-delivery of any proposal sent to it prior to the proposal opening.
Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the name of the responder thereon and endorsed, “Concession Refreshment Services – The Water’s Edge Café, Graydon Pool”.
All professional service responders are required to comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 52:32-44 (Business Registration of Public Contractors), N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 17:27 et seq. (Contract Compliance and Equal Employment Opportunities in Public Contracts).
The Village of Ridgewood reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, to waive any informalities or to accept a proposal which, in its judgment best serves the interest of the Village. No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of sixty-days (60) after the date and time set for the opening of bids.
“Professional Responders are required to comply with the requirements of P.L.1975, C. 127. (NJAC 17:27) regarding Affirmative Action, and Executive Order No. 11246 regarding equal employment opportunity, as amended”.
>Ridgewood Mayor Keith Killion joined other local mayors to deliver meals to seniors to raise awareness about Community Meals
Thursday March 22, 2012, 3:34 PM
BY RICHARD DE SANTA
NORTH JERSEY MEDIA GROUP
The Ridgewood News
The mayors of Ridgewood and Glen Rock and officials from three neighboring towns hit the road on Wednesday morning, delivering prepared meals to senior residents in Community Meals Inc.’s (CMI) “Mayors for Meals Day 2012.”
>Ridgewood Village Council trying to decrease increase in tax rate
THURSDAY MARCH 22, 2012, 3:28 PM BY JOSEPH CRAMER STAFF WRITER THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The Village Council has started considering means to trim a preliminary 7.5 percent increase in the municipal tax rate for 2012, with one councilman suggesting a different approach to the yearly budgeting process altogether.
Faced with a combination of a drop in revenues and an increase in pre-determined appropriations, officials are looking at areas where cuts can be made to mitigate the financial burden on residents while avoiding personnel cuts and keeping village services intact.
“I don’t know what number to arrive at yet,” said Mayor Keith Killion. “We haven’t even gotten through every department budget. We haven’t had the chance to ask these departments, ‘Well, why do you need this?’… All we have in our mind, and I can speak for every council person here, is we want to get the lowest tax rate possible for our residents without affecting services.”
>…it seems the Glen Rock Patch has spearheaded a drive to revitalize the downtown garage project .The council or most of the council except Paul would only say that a private/ public partnership to save the tax payers from funding the whole amount would be the only way to go .Given the said garage was built on Village property, the Village would consider a deferment of the property taxes for say 10 years. Oh of coarse you didn’t read all that in the Patch it was all about Paul and his buzz words which are also being spread by several other candidates and proxy Dom in the current Patch-Paul-Valley-talking points memo that should be all the rage at Village cocktail parties this weekend .
But the fly has seen’em come and seen’em go and one mans garage is a taxpayers Xanadu and as we know these things always seems to go back to the same old taxpayer funded socialize the risk and save the profit for your politically connected friends which is as DOA as the “Action park” redo of Graydon pool.
>Germany Cuts Subsidies to Floundering Solar Industry Written by James Heiser
Germany — once a global leader in the race for reliance on “alternative” forms of energy — has discovered that no amount of environmentalist ideology can alter the fundamental laws of economics. Although wind and solar “farms” have been the recipients of lavish government subsidies throughout the European Union, the German government is now being forced to concede it cannot continue supporting solar power at the levels that had quickly become customary, and is dramatically reducing its solar energy subsidy.
>Policy change in New Jersey is resulting in fewer welfare recipients
The number of general-assistance welfare recipients in New Jersey has plummeted, with thousands of applicants being denied enrollment, in part because of a controversial new policy of the Christie administration.
The July 1 change, which already has saved the state money, established a prerequisite to qualify for aid: attend job training or offer proof of an active employment search, for four consecutive weeks. (Katz, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
>SHERIFF JOE: ‘TONS’ MORE SHOCKING OBAMA INFO Rips ‘biggest censorship blackout in the history of the United States’
“America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidential birth certificate and Selective Service Card “probably the biggest censorship blackout in the history of the United States.”
“I’m not going after the president to keep him off a ballot or anything else, but that could happen,” Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. “I’m going at it strictly as a law-enforcement guy investigating a possible forgery and fraud. I’m sticking with that, but I’ll tell you one thing. We got tons of other information that could be very shocking, too, but I’m sticking now with just the [forgery] investigation and possible criminal violations.”
The Ridgewood Concert Band is holding the “Winds of March” program on Friday, March 30 at 8:00 PM. Conducted by Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, featuring guest soloist Elaine Douvas on Principal Oboe. There will also be a prelude performace at 7:30 PM by the Hackensack High School Concert Band.
Tickets available at the door, Adults: $20.00, Seniors ($15.00) and Students $7.00. Children 13 and under free with paying adult or senior.
Winds of March- Ridgewood Concert Band,Fri, March 30, 2012,Time: 8:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ.
