I am really happy that the wooded area will stay but what is the legitimate historical significance of the house? Why not level it and let nature take its course (with some additional native plantings to help mother nature along)…1030 obviously hasn’t seen eagles scavenging on the property (not nesting as some people have claimed) or the turkey vultures having their sunday afternoon carrion brunch… those were impressive sights in themselves…. Once again, preservation of the woodlands is wonderful but I think money can be better spent than on renovating that house.
Ridgewood NJ, just two more weeks for 10% discount on Graydon season passes (Ridgewood residents only)
Don’t miss your chance to take advantage of this generous option offered by the Parks & Recreation Department.
Until midnight on April 30, Ridgewood residents ordering season badges for adults and children will receive a 10% discount.
Americans are stuck. Locked into our jobs, rooted where we live, frozen at our income levels. More than at any previous point in our history, we’ve stopped moving — whether moving up the income ladder or packing up a truck and finding another home. We’ve grown ossified, rigid.
The flip side is that we’re stable. If we weren’t so content, we’d be more willing to gamble, to shake things up, to start a new firm or join one. Maybe we’re fine where we are. But maybe this period of stasis cannot last. Maybe it even portends a period of massive disruption.
New Jersey taxpayers will be filing their taxes this year in the midst of pitched primary fights to succeed Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Tax Day on Tuesday comes just as voters are expected to get a closer look at the personal financial information of the Democratic and Republican candidates who are vying to become one of the country’s most powerful chief executives, with the power to appoint prosecutors, judges, Cabinet officers and a host of other officials. New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states with governor’s races this year.
New Jersey election officials are scheduled to release the candidates’ personal financial information Monday.
Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article144813394.html#storylink=cpy
Editors note :lets see if begging people to stay works
April 16, 2017 at 3:00 AM
New Jersey has a reputation as a lousy place to retire. That’s unfortunate.
First of all, one of the things the state does best is manufacture well-heeled retirees (think former teachers, cops, firefighters and other public employees). It would be nice to see more of that public pension money stay in the state that gave it to these folks. Instead, New Jersey exports many of these retirees and their money to states like Florida and South Carolina, where the weather and fishing are better and the politicians not quite as rapacious.
And, of course, it would be nice to import more retired people from other states. Retirees can be a valuable economic resource (even if you’d rather not get stuck behind one on the Turnpike). The state could point out that Social Security is not taxed in New Jersey, that the fishing can be better than you’d expect and that there are lots of golf courses. A retiree could do worse. (Maybe that’s what the state’s slogan should be: “New Jersey: You could do worse.”)
In fact, according to the most recent ranking by Bankrate.com, 12 states — Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, California, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia and Alaska — are actually worse places to retire than New Jersey.
By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
All 12 U.S. House members from New Jersey have one thing in common: They raised more money than their opponents last year.
Eleven incumbents were re-elected in November. The 12th, Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) was outraised by his Democratic challenger, former White House speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, and lost his bid for an eighth term.
The lawmakers will tell the Federal Election Commission this weekend how much they’ve raised during the first three months of 2017 for their upcoming re-election campaigns. Here’s where they got their money from to run their last races. Data is from the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group, and covers the period Jan. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2016.
And how will the “low and moderate income” residents afford living in towns like Upper Saddle River, Ridgewood, Wilton, Chappaqua and other towns in the northeast? Will the courts order the local taxpayers to subsidize their living costs as well? I can’t afford to live in Ridgewood. Why should anyone who does not have the means be entitled?
This is not just a NJ issue but a national one. The courts have overstepped their power.
While the courts are at it let’s have them rule that “someone” build luxury housing in Camden to “equalize” things.
We’ve become a stupid, politically correct, entitled, crybaby, country.
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce presented “Easter in Ridgewood” on Saturday, April 15, from 11am-2pm at Memorial Park at Van Neste Square.
The weather held and there were lots of fun things to do around the park along with many stores that offered art & crafts, games, sales, surprises all through the business district. Fun for the entire family.
Marsha A. Stoltz , Staff Writer12:24 p.m. ET April 15, 2017
The EPA has ordered the utility to place backup generators at facilities in Wyckoff, Midland Park and Ridgewood.
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RIDGEWOOD — Ridgewood Water is seeking permission to install backup generators at 11 sites in three of its service towns as a result of directives from the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Ridgewood Water has been ordered to install the generators in two phases in Wyckoff, Midland Park and Ridgewood. Phase I installations must be complete and “fully operational” by July 15. Phase II installation contracts must be awarded by Dec. 1, and completed by July 15, 2018.
A Marine veteran from Virginia who was convicted in New Jersey of possessing a legally owned gun without a state permit will not go to prison after his sentence was commuted Friday by Gov. Chris Christie.
The Afghanistan war veteran is the 10th person whose weapons-related conviction or sentence has been pardoned or commuted by Christie. Like the other cases, Hisashi K.D. Pompey is an out-of-state resident who got entangled by New Jersey’s strict gun laws.
The 23-year-old suspect is also wanted for burglary by authorities in Orange County, Florida
A homeless man faces burglary and hate crime charges after he allegedly robbed four churches, one of which he stole from three times, in Queens, New York, because of his hatred of God, according to prosecutors.
Woznik allegedly told police at the time of his arrest he was “mad at God” and denounced religion, saying his break-ins were an attempt to retaliate.
Source: Homeless Man Allegedly Robbed Queens Churches to ‘Get Back at God,’ Prosecutors Say | NBC New York https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Several-Queens-Churches-Robbed-to-Get-Back-at-God-Burglar-Tells-Police-419399474.html#ixzz4eMbZTqOV
The social network says it had been “combating” the operation for six months.
Facebook famously boasts it has 1.86 billion users who visit the social network every month. It looks like that number shrank on Friday.
The company, which previously announced it’s cracking down on fake accounts, said it’s disrupted a major spam operation being run out of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and other countries.
“The apparent intent of the campaign was to deceptively gain new friend connections by liking and interacting primarily with popular publisher Pages on our platform, after which point they would send spam,” Shabnam Shaik, a Facebook technical program manager wrote in a blog post.
“We found that most of this activity was generated not through traditional mass account creation methods, but by more sophisticated means that try to mask the fact that the accounts are part of the same coordinated operation,” Shaik wrote. “By disrupting the campaign now, we expect that we will prevent this network of spammers from reaching its end goal of sending inauthentic material to large numbers of people.”
The number of authentic users matters for Facebook because the company charges marketers and advertisers to reach the most eyeballs. Facebook didn’t reveal the number of accounts affected by this crackdown.
Pandemonium erupted at Penn Station Friday after Amtrak police used a stun gun on an unruly man — sending scared riders scrambling for safety.
The transit hub was unusually crowded at rush hour thanks to an NJ Transit train that stalled in a tunnel earlier, causing massive delays to kick off the holiday weekend.
Cops confronted a man and subdued him with a stun gun around 6:30 p.m., sparking a stampede of frightened travelers who feared that a shooting had taken place.
By S.P. Sullivan | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 14, 2017 at 10:23 AM, updated April 14, 2017 at 4:51 PM
TRENTON — The New Jersey State Police does not have to reimburse state troopers for toll fares during their commute to and from work, an appeals court has ruled in a dispute between the state and the troopers’ union.
The two-judge panel found on Thursday that an arbitrator was mistaken in declaring the practice “an established term and condition of employment.”
For years, the operators of the state’s major toll roads, the New Jersey
Turnpike Authority and the South Jersey Transportation Authority, allowed troopers and other state employees to pass through their toll booths in personal vehicles free of charge.
But in 2010, Gov. Chris Christie called for an end to free rides for non-emergency vehicles. Soon after, a report from the state comptroller also flagged the practice in a report identifying $43 million in waste within the Turnpike Authority.
