Friday, May 12th
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey
7:30pm
Prelude Performance
West Milford High School Wind Ensemble
8:00pm
Ridgewood Concert Band
Featuring:
Youth Soloist Competition Winner Saxophonist Christopher Mantell
and “Side By Side” High School Musicians
Program Highlights:
Angels in the Architecture – Frank Ticheli
Pineapple Poll – Sir Arthur Sullivan
Sun Dance – Frank Ticheli
Rhosymedre – Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Ridgewood Nj, residents who recieved their absentee ballots for June’s primary noticed former Mayor Paul Aronsohn’s name on the ballot as one of five out of five candidates running for Bergen County Democratic Committee. Some people will never lean ?
COLLEEN O’DEA | MAY 5, 2017
A new report from the NRDC reveals that nearly 4.5 million residents are served by systems with at least one violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
New Jersey had the fourth-largest number of people getting water from systems in violation of federal standards in 2015, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The report, titled “Threats on Tap,” released on Tuesday found nearly 4.5 million residents, or just over half the total population, are served by systems out of compliance with at least one of the Safe Drinking Water Act’s standards for community water systems. That’s roughly double the national average of about 25 percent.
Follow this link to search a database of New Jersey water systems with at least one violation.
See here information about lead pipe water main replacement in New Jersey.
May 5,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Spring is the season of renewal. Plants and trees start to rebound from the harsh winter that claimed most of their leaves and vegetation. Birds return from their Southern vacations, serenade us with their morning songs and rebuild their nests in preparation for new arrivals.
Unfortunately, there is another renewal that many people don’t look forward to in the spring: the return of hay fever season along with symptoms such as sneezing and sniffling that can give you sleepless nights.
In an allergy survey conducted by HayMax (www.haymax.us), 92 percent of respondents said their hay fever symptoms affect their work, school or daily routine, which includes sleep patterns.
“The trick to sleeping well when you suffer from hay fever is to reduce the amount of pollen getting into your body at night,” says Max Wiseberg, creator of HayMax Allergen Barrier Balm.
People can tolerate a certain amount of pollen without reaction, he says, but once this amount is exceeded – called the trigger level – hay fever symptoms start to occur. Stay below this level at night, you won’t get the symptoms and your sleep won’t be affected. Go above it and that’s when the trouble starts.
Wiseberg offers a few tips on how to avoid reaching that trigger level, allowing you to rest easy at night.
“Loss of sleep because of hay fever is very significant, as it can impact how a person functions the next day at school or at work,” Wiseberg says. “The effect of sleep deprivation on productivity and health loses costs companies billions of dollars each year.”
About Max Wiseberg
Max Wiseberg is the creator of HayMax™ (www.haymax.us), a natural, organic balm that traps allergens when applied to the nostrils. As a lifelong hay fever sufferer, he was inspired to develop the balm when other allergy remedies didn’t work for him. Wiseberg, born and raised in Manchester, UK, regularly writes for newspapers, magazines and blogs on the subject of allergies and airborne allergens, and has appeared on TV and radio.
courtesy of Boyd Lovings Facebook
May 5,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Two (2) adult males were taken into custody by Ridgewood PD Patrol Officers at the TD Bank, 133 Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood shortly after officers responded to a Thursday afternoon, 05/04, 911 telephone call from a bank employee who indicated that an individual was allegedly attempting to cash a fraudulent check. Both individuals were transported to Ridgewood PD headquarters for processing.
May 5,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, reader says its been pointed out so many times before ,cottage place lot and other muni lots are like an artillery range of deep potholes…if Parkers fall an break bones and sue town for outright neglect..completely mill and repave and
repaint stall lines for all of those lots.people don’t see those lots as safe and useable.Impossible to shovel and plow those surfaces to any degree of safety..they are ice fields and broken unsafe utilities…shackle and spit
Fill never worked and was a waste of towns money.
Courtesy of Boyd Lovings Facebook page
May 5,2017
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Paramus NJ, A bomb threat forced the evacuation and temporary closure of Bergen Community College’s Paramus campus on the morning of Thursday, 05/04. Paramus PD, EMS, FD, and Rescue Squad responded along with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division. The campus was closed from just before 11 AM until 2 PM.
According to the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, email threats were received against three Bergen County sites , the courthouse, the County administration building and Lyndhurst and Paramus campuses of Bergen Community College .
NorthJersey8:02 p.m. ET May 4, 2017
RIDGEWOOD — Public hearings are winding down on two more applications for multifamily housing projects proposed for the village’s downtown. If approved, the developments could bring great change to the bustling business district.
A 43-unit apartment complex with affordable housing units mixed in has already been approved on Chestnut Street at the site of an old MVC inspection station. Two more — a mixed-use 66-unit project at the former Ken Smith Motors site on Franklin Avenue; and The Dayton, a 93-unit residential building slated for the Brogan Cadillac property on South Broad Street — are nearing their conclusion.
NorthJerseyPublished 11:01 a.m. ET May 4, 2017 | Updated 19 hours ago
The Ridgewood Board of Education unanimously passed its annual budget this week.
The $105 million spending plan is funded primarily through a $91 million tax levy, an increase of .97 percent over the previous year. School taxes on a home assessed at the village average of $696,063 will be $11,401, up from $11,325 this year, an increase of $76.
The budget has a tax rate of $1.638 per $100 of assessed value, up from $1.627 last year, for a 0.67 percent increase.
By Alyana Alfaro • 05/03/17 5:12pm
Kelly Langschultz, a Republican candidate for the state Senate in Bergen County, is calling on NJ Transit to slash its fares during the coming season of repairs and service outages at New York Penn Station.
“NJ Transit needs to reduce the cost of their ticket prices and start accommodating riders for the decline in service,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “We have plenty of people here who have already spent hundreds of dollars on monthly passes, and now we’re learning that there will be even further interruptions in service.”
Amtrak is conducting urgent track repairs this summer, planned for July 7 to July 25 and Aug. 4 to Aug. 28, according to a draft plan. At least five of Penn Station’s 21 tracks would be affected by the August repairs and NJ Transit riders are expected to face long delays and service outages. Amtrak, which owns and operates Penn Station, says it has no choice but to fix the tracks after two recent derailments at the station.
https://observer.com/2017/05/kelly-langschultz-calls-for-fare-reduction-nj-transit/
By CURTIS LEEDS
May 3, 2017 at 11:29 AM
FLEMINGTON, NJ – The state’s property taxes are the highest in the nation, and they were also the target of the gubernatorial candidates who gathered here last week in a forum to discuss the issues facing Garden State voters.
The forum sponsored by Progressive Hunterdon Democrats featured three Democratic gubernatorial candidates and spokespersons for two others.
Debbie Wisniewski spoke on behalf of her husband Assemblyman John Wisniewski.
“There are nearly 1,400 different forms off government all with the authority to tax,” she said. “If we truly serious about property tax reform, then we need to get serious about … consolidation.”
JOHN MOONEY | MAY 4, 2017
Yesterday’s dismissal of the Newark ‘LIFO’ case and recent decisions continue to show how the court is a force in education in Garden State
Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson.
For all the attention on the State House in driving education policy, New Jersey’s courts yesterday continued to show their long and storied influence on some of the hottest public school issues.
In the more prominent case, state Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson abruptly dismissed a closely watched lawsuit contesting the state’s infamous teacher seniority rules.
In a clear win for the teachers unions and a blow to the school-reform movement and the Christie administration, Jacobson spoke from the bench, saying the plaintiffs — a half-dozen Newark families, with the help of a national advocacy group — had not proven the “last in, first out” policy had harmed their children.
“I am not disputing the importance of teacher effectiveness in the classroom, but the complaint is completely devoid of facts,” Jacobson said in a lengthy and sternly worded opinion.
file photo by Boyd Loving
By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 03, 2017 at 1:54 PM, updated May 03, 2017 at 4:09 PM
TRENTON — More than half of New Jersey voters are happy to have Cory Booker in the U.S. Senate — but nearly the same percentage doesn’t want to see him run for president.
That’s according to the findings of a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday that looks at the approval ratings of Booker; the state’s other Democratic U.S. senator, Robert Menendez; and President Donald Trump.
The survey shows 57 percent of Garden State voters approve of the job Booker has done as one of the state’s two members of the Senate.
But the poll found 54 percent of voters say he should not seek the White House in 2020, while 33 percent say he should.
Booker has been mentioned as a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
