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Posted on April 1, 2017April 1, 2017 by James — 2 Comments

RIDGEWOOD PARKING TICKET EMAIL SCAM ALERT

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nope not this guy!

April 1,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood police say scammers are sending out emails to motorists claiming they’ve received a bogus parking ticket.�Fraudsters are using this sample of an email below:

28-182 – Loading zones and handicapped parking Required to appear in court�Parking ticket number information: PDN7319091 Check parking fine
To pay your parking fine, download your fine and choose one of 2 convenient ways: 1. Online (Link)�Pay online by Visa or Mastercard, $2 processing fee.�2. By phone (automated system) Pay by Visa or Mastercard at (866)561-9742
Best regards,�Police Department.�Parking Citation Revenue The criterion appropriateness is $68. Some ($17.50 championing m abuses , and $12.50 championing unlisted violations) goes to agreement and county costs and the butt end ($45.50) goes to the city\’s accustomed function to recompense championing animated town aids, adding policemen and pom-pom. There are additional parceling elsewhere championing fix-it awards and incapacitated parking violations.Late costs typically artifact the charge of a parking ticket. To disposition alone abeyant disciplining, we committed to get your expenditure within 21 days of the day- after-day the appropriateness was issued, or 14 days from the day-after-day of the first overdue notice.

The Ridgewood Police Department would like to remind the public that at no time would we or the Parking Enforcement Unit issue a summons or make notifications through email.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Ridgewood Police Department to ensure you’re not becoming a victim of these scams. Call (201) 652-3900

Posted on April 1, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — Leave a comment

The 7 areas with the worst noise pollution in N.J.

Updated March 30, 2017
Posted March 30, 2017

By Erin Petenko

The federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics tracked roads, airports and other transportation to arrive at an average noise metric for each area of the nation. These New Jersey regions were some of the worst. These maps were created by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics with Esri and Open Street Map.

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/the_places_in_new_jersey_with_the_worst_noise_pollution.html

Posted on April 1, 2017January 20, 2019 by James — Leave a comment

Midland Park firefighters battled a blaze in a single family home located at 97 Busteed Drive

photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook

April 1,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood

Midland NJ, Midland Park firefighters battled a blaze in a single family home located at 97 Busteed Drive, Midland Park on Friday morning, 03/31. Fire companies from Ho-Ho-Kus and Wyckoff provided mutual aid assistance at the scene. The fire appeared to have started on the home’s exterior and then traveled to the interior. No injuries were reported in the blaze.

Posted on April 1, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — Leave a comment

Manufacturers’ Optimism Hits 20-Year High in NAM Survey

As Manufacturers Meet President Trump to Talk Regulations, Taxes and Infrastructure, Industry Is More Confident in Improving Business Climate

by Jennifer Drogus
March 31, 2017

Washington, D.C., Fresh off the heels of the third straight month of manufacturing job growth, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) today released the first Manufacturers’ Outlook Survey since President Donald Trump took office. The survey shows a dramatic shift in sentiment, with more than 93 percent of manufacturers feeling positive about their economic outlook. This is the highest in the survey’s 20-year history, up from 56.6 percent one year ago and 77.8 percent in December.

The NAM’s release of the survey coincided with a meeting of small and medium-sized manufacturers at the White House today.

“Across America, manufacturers’ optimism is soaring, in no small part because of President Trump’s laser-like focus on pursuing bold action, particularly on rethinking red tape to address regulatory reform, to accelerate a jobs surge in America,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons.

“As the survey shows, manufacturers of all sizes are now less concerned about the business climate going forward because they are counting on President Trump to deliver results. Small manufacturers—more than 90 percent of our membership—are among the hardest hit by regulatory obstacles. Regulatory costs for small manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees total almost $35,000 per employee per year—money that could otherwise go to creating jobs. It’s encouraging to see an administration so focused on providing regulatory relief to spur manufacturing growth.

“We are grateful for the chance to meet with the president today as we continue to tell the White House directly which regulations are still the biggest obstacles to a manufacturing surge. There is much work to be done, and manufacturers have the solutions on regulatory reform as well as on infrastructure investment, workforce development, bold comprehensive tax reform and a host of other issues.”

The survey shows not only a positive outlook but also that concerns about the business environment have dropped. When manufacturers were asked to identify top challenges to their business, concerns about the business environment fell to third place. This had previously been respondents’ top concern since the question was added to the survey in 2011.

For the past 20 years, the NAM has surveyed its membership of more than 14,000 large and small manufacturers to gain insight into their economic outlook, hiring and investment decisions and business concerns. The NAM releases these results to the public each quarter.

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — 3 Comments

Latest WikiLeaks release shows how the CIA uses computer code to hide the origins of its hacking attacks and ‘disguise them as Russian or Chinese activity’

WikiLeaks published 676 source code files today which it claimed are from CIA
It says the CIA disguised its own hacking attacks to make it appear those responsible were Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean

By MAIL ONLINE REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 07:02 EDT, 31 March 2017 | UPDATED: 07:20 EDT, 31 March 2017

WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise its own hacking attacks and point the finger at Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

The 676 files released today are part of WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 tranche of files and they claim to give an insight into the CIA’s Marble software, which can forensically disguise viruses, trojans and hacking attacks.

WikiLeaks says the source code suggests Marble has test examples in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi (the Iranian language).

Posted on March 31, 2017January 21, 2019 by James — 4 Comments

Ridgewood Fire Department battled a 3-alarm house fire on Van Emburgh Avenue Thursday Evening

photos courtesy of Boyd Lovings Facebook

March 31,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood FD personnel battled a 3-alarm house fire on Van Emburgh Avenue early Thursday evening, 03/30. The fire reportedly started in wood burning stove’s vent pipe. No injuries were reported and damage to the home appeared to have been light to moderate. Firefighters from Glen Rock and Waldwick assisted Ridgewood FD at the scene. A portion of Van Emburgh Avenue remained closed for an extended period while emergency responders worked.

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — 1 Comment

It was the hardest year yet to get accepted into Princeton

By Adam Clark | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on March 30, 2017 at 5:26 PM

PRINCETON — Flooded with a record-high 30,056 applications, Princeton University accepted just 1,890 students in its Class of 2021, a record-low 6.1 percent admission rate, the university announced.

The decisions, available for students to track online beginning at 5 p.m., leave thousands of top students rejected. More than 12,000 applicants had a 4.0 GPA in high school, according to the university.

Princeton accepted 6.4 percent of applicants last year.

“The admitted students will bring extraordinary talents, achievements and motivation to the Princeton community,” Dean of Admission Janet Lavin Rapelye said. “Their diverse range of skills, ideas, backgrounds and beliefs were evident to the committee as we gave careful consideration to each application.”

https://www.nj.com/education/2017/03/princeton_incoming_freshman_class_is_most_selectiv.html#incart_river_home

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — Leave a comment

FINE PRINT: LONG-SOUGHT COMPROMISE WILL INCREASE NJ PROPERTY-TAX TRANSPARENCY

file photo by Boyd Loving

JOHN REITMEYER | MARCH 31, 2017

An investigation originally undertaken by NJ Spotlight pays off as new property tax data will be posted on state’s governmental services website

What is going on: High property taxes have long been a top complaint of New Jersey homeowners, and a new law enacted by Gov. Chris Christie earlier this month following a compromise with lawmakers aims to help residents gain a better understanding of how their bills come together — and how state property-tax relief programs may help to offset them.

Thanks to the compromise, information about the state’s most popular property-tax relief program, as well as others, will be added to the comparative property-tax figures that are published each year on the website of the state Division of Local Government Services.

How we got here: The origins of the bill that was signed into law by Christie following an initial conditional veto go back to 2014, when lawmakers grew upset that Christie’s administration decided to remove a column from the DLGS website that depicted “average net-property taxes” being paid by homeowners in every town in New Jersey. The change was made as Christie, a second-term Republican, was preparing to run for president, and as he faced criticism for not doing enough to combat the property-tax burden, especially for low-income homeowners and seniors and the disabled.

Lawmakers took action after NJ Spotlight first reported on the change. Earlier reporting also tracked increases in average net-property taxes that occurred during Christie’s tenure.

The issue with average net property taxes: The state for years had calculated average net-property taxes by subtracting the average property-tax rebate provided through the state’s popular Homestead benefit program from the average property-tax bill that was paid on an annual basis by homeowners in every town. The information was released for each year on the DLGS website along with reams of other data, including detailed tax rates and property valuations broken down by county and town.

But Christie’s administration argued that the average net-property tax category was based on faulty math, since not every homeowner in every community qualifies for the Homestead benefit, which was converted from a rebate into a direct credit on property taxes shortly after Christie took office in 2010. The net property-tax bill was also determined using the average property-tax bill for all homeowners in a given town, and not using an “apples-to-apples” comparison of just the average property taxes paid by recipients of the Homestead program.

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/17/03/30/fine-print-long-sought-compromise-will-increase-nj-property-tax-transparency/

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — Leave a comment

Judge Removes Order Blocking Newspaper From Reporting on Boy

A New Jersey judge has overturned an order preventing a newspaper from reporting on a child services complaint involving a kindergartener who brought drugs to school twice.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A judge has overturned an order preventing a newspaper from reporting on a child services complaint involving a kindergarten student who brought drugs to school twice.

Judge Lawrence De Bello ruled Monday that he found no evidence to support the state’s argument that a reporter for the Trentonian newspaper illegally obtained the complaint from the boy’s mother.

Government lawyers sought the injunction against the newspaper, saying child welfare complaints must be kept confidential under state law. The state had alleged that Trentonian reporter Isaac Avilucea stole the complaint from the mother, but he said she knew he was reporting on the story and gave it to him. She had met with him at his office earlier in the day.

The newspaper and open-government advocates argued that the previous order was a clear violation of the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the government cannot prevent the press from publishing information except in extreme circumstances involving a clear and present danger.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-jersey/articles/2017-03-30/judge-removes-order-blocking-newspaper-from-reporting

Posted on March 31, 2017March 30, 2017 by James — 1 Comment

Ridgewood Historical Society : 100 Years ago this Friday, the U.S. entered WWI and declared War on Germany

March 31,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Following a vote by Congress approving a declaration of war, the U.S. entered World War I, 100 years ago this Friday, on April 6, 1917. Though the war had started years earlier in Europe, the U.S. had managed to stay neutral up to this point, but events finally forced it to join the Allies, Russia, the U.K. and France, in fighting the Germans.

More than 4 million American men and women went to Europe during this conflict; soldiers, nurses and doctors. On the home front people bought Liberty Bonds and started Victory Gardens. More than 17 million soldiers died in this conflict, more than 117,000 of them Americans – including 14 from Ridgewood.

The Schoolhouse Museum’s new exhibit “From the American Revolution to the 1960’s Revolution”commemorates WWI with actual artifacts, weapons, equipment and uniforms from this period.

To see the WWI display as well as displays highlighting other significant events during this time, from wars, to the roaring twenties to the rocking 60’s; as well as histories of prominent Ridgewood residents, visit the Ridgewood Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum, on East Glen Avenue. The museum is open Thursdays and Saturday 1-3pm and Sundays 2-4pm. Please visit www.ridgewoodhistoricalsociety.org. for more information

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — 1 Comment

Ask Away: Why Are New Jersey Property Taxes So High?

3-30-17

By Michael Aron
Chief Political Correspondent

New Jersey is famous for saddling its homeowners with high tax bills. That prompted Paul Waters from Brigantine to ask, “Why are New Jersey property taxes some of the highest in the nation?”

There is not one answer.

Most obvious is that New Jersey has 565 municipalities, down from 567 — that’s 565 mayors, councils, town governments.

New Jersey also has more than 600 school districts, 586 of which are operational, each with its own superintendent and administrative structure.

Then there are the 21 county governments and their bureaucracies.

Public worker salaries and benefits are relatively high in New Jersey thanks to aggressive public sector unions.

Throw in the generally high cost of goods and services in the New York-Philadelphia region and you begin to see why our property taxes have been the highest in the nation for years.

https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/ask-away-new-jersey-property-taxes-high/

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — 22 Comments

Register Early and Save 2017 Graydon Pool membership begins on this Saturday, April 1

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March 31,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Early registration for 2017 Graydon Pool membership begins on this Saturday, April 1, with a discount offered to Ridgewood residents who register during April.

Placemats for children to color can be found now at The Daily Treat, The Country Pancake House, Renato’s, Baumgart’s, and elsewhere. They were designed by Councilman Ramon Hache!

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Purchase Graydon Pool memberships beginning April 1st.
SAVE – Residents can enjoy a 10% discount on adult and child badges through April 30th.

Click here to purchase your Graydon Pool membership on Community Pass.

Visa/MasterCard accepted.

CONTACTS
Pool Manager’s Office – 201-670-5500, ext 7002 (in season)
Badge Office – 201-670-5500, ext 7003 (in season only)
Recreation Office at The Stable- 201-670-5560
[email protected]

Graydon Pool Rules and Regulations – General Public
Graydon Pool Deep Water Test Requirements

Parks, open space, facilities, year round recreational activities to meet the needs of all residents. All Village parks and recreational facilities are now smoke free.GRAYDON MEMBERSHIP RATES – On sale beginning April 1st

RESIDENT GRAYDON POOL MEMBERSHIPS
Village priced memberships are available to Ridgewood residents, non-residents who pay local property taxes to the Village of Ridgewood, and employees of the Village of Ridgewood and Board of Education. Proof is required.
ADULT – $120.00 Purchase between April 1 and April 30 and save 10%
CHILD – (ages 2-15, under 2 free) $110.00 Purchase between April 1 and April 30 and save 10%
SENIOR – $30.00 (62 and older)
PERMANENT DISABLED – $30.00
LATE SEASON ADULT MEMBERSHIP – $60.00 (available August 1st)
LATE SEASON CHILD MEMBERSHIP – $55.00 (available August 1st)
DAILY PASS – $10.00
BADGE REPLACEMENT – $5.00

NON-RESIDENT GRAYDON POOL MEMBERSHIPS
The Village Council and the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation are pleased to invite all families in the surrounding area to join the Graydon Pool facility for the 2017 summer season.
ADULT (ages 16 and up) – $200.00
CHILD (ages 2-15) – $175.00
GUEST PASSES (must be accompanied by 2017 season member)- $10.00
BADGE REPLACEMENT – $5.00

TENNIS BADGES
RESIDENT ADULT – $35.00
RESIDENT CHILD – $30.00
NON-RESIDENT ADULT – $45.00
NON-RESIDENT CHILD – $40.00
DAILY PASS – $5.00
BADGE REPLACEMENT – $5.00

Tennis Rules/Regulations and Badge Memberships

Purchase all badges from the comfort of home via CommunityPass (Visa and Mastercard accepted). In person assistance is available daily at the Graydon Badge Office, on site at the pool facility. Hours vary by season dates.

GRAYDON POOL AMENITIES

Pool features include a shaded playground, water play fountains, shade kites, Adirondack chairs, a picnic area with charcoal grills, a sheltered pavilion, and the Water’s Edge Cafe. Additional amenities include volleyball, basketball, ping-pong, shuffleboard, four-squares, hop-scotch, backgammon, a lending library and for the little ones, “Storytime” under the Graydon pavilion.

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Applications are being sought for the many summer positions available with the Parks and Recreation Department including Day Camp Administrators, Day Camp Counselors, Graydon Pool Lifeguards, Security Attendants, and Badge Sale Attendants. Concession Attendant applications will be shared with the Water’s Edge vendor. NOTE: Day Camp staff attendance is mandatory for the full six week program, June 26 to August 4, 2017.
Applications will be considered for experience, interests, and accomplishments.

Mail completed applications to The Stable, 259 N. Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450.
2017 Seasonal Employment Application
2017 Waterfront Lifeguard Employment Application for Graydon Pool

WATERFRONT LIFEGUARD TRAINING – NEW AND RECERT

file photo by Boyd Loving

Waterfront lifeguard training for a sand-bottom facility will be offered at Graydon Pool – both new and bridge/recertification classes available. Registration form/details in the link below:

Waterfront Lifeguard Training – New and Recertification/Bridging 2017

Register online via CommunityPass (under Graydon Pool) or in person/by mail to the Stable, 259 N. Maple Avenue, Ridgewood NJ 07450 beginning April 1st.

Posted on March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 by James — 11 Comments

Ridgewood deals with aftermath of parking changes

Mark Krulish , Staff Writer, @Mark_Krulish6:45 p.m. ET March 30, 2017

RIDGEWOOD — After months of discussion and comments from the public regarding two ordinances that restricted parking on certain residential streets, the Village Council will have ordinances prepared at next month’s public meeting to ease some of those limitations.

One ordinance, adopted in June, banned parking on Pomander Walk from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. . Another disallowed parking from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Sept. 1 through June 30, on Bogert Avenue and Cambridge Road 500 feet from their intersections with East Glen Avenue. Those were passed in December and took effect in January. In both cases, safety concerns for pedestrians and residents in the area were the main driver of the changes.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/ridgewood/2017/03/30/ridgewood-deals-aftermath-parking-changes/99788794/

Posted on March 31, 2017March 30, 2017 by James — 1 Comment

911 Call Leads to Unconscious Male Found at South Maple in Ridgewood

photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook

March 31,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, A 911 telephone caller that reported observing an adult male laying unconscious behind a group of bushes on South Maple Avenue near Walton Street, Ridgewood resulted in an immediate response from Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS personnel on Thursday afternoon, 03/30. The first arriving Ridgewood PD officers determined that the individual was conscious and breathing, but highly intoxicated. He was transported by ambulance to Bergen Regional Medical Center for treatment as per requirements of the NJ State Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act.

Posted on March 31, 2017March 30, 2017 by James — 28 Comments

Ridgewood Train Station : Green Space ?

photo by Charles Bozian

March 31,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Charles Bozian asks ,”This is the “green” space everyone is getting hot and bothered about, the grass around the cement path….. really???”

funny how no one ever said a thing about the portopoty that was station at the train station for over 3 months ?

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