BY MATTHEW SCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
RIDGEWOOD – Village residents will have an opportunity to learn about reforestation later this month at an event explaining the practice on Monday, March 21 in the Senior Lounge at Village Hall.
“Reforestation and how it works in the Village” will be presented by the team of professionals responsible for this valuable planning and planting of young trees within our community.
Ridgewood NJ, Piccolo Bistro is located at 29 Chestnut Street , Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Piccolo is a BYOB place and offers contemporary Italian cuisine, Giancarlo Borletti is the executive chef .The atmosphere was cozy, rustic, Candle lit, warm, and comfortable for dinning.
A perfect place for an intimate dinner with friends or for a romantic night out. The outside has a garden area perfect for outdoor dining in the Spring and Summer months. There is also small bar inside and a more private dining area towards the back of the restaurant .
The food is unique while still Italian and the service is excellent . Several friends recommend the Piccolo burger , the tuna with baked polenta , lentil stew , mussels or the chorizo and several mentioned that the polenta being top notch.
Ridgewood Nj, Ridgewood Police report that on Friday March 11th at 4:00am a Colonial Road resident observed seeing a person described as an adult black male enter his vehicle that was parked in the driveway.
The resident chased the male who entered a dark colored SUV driven by a second person and the vehicle sped away. Patrol was unable to locate the vehicle.
Five additional residents on the east side of Ridgewood reported their vehicles were entered in the overnight hours. Video footage obtained by the police department at a secondary location shows the vehicle in question to be a newer model Range Rover with no front license plate.
Residents are reminded to lock their vehicles and remove valuables or store them out of sight. The Ridgewood Detective Bureau is investigating. If anyone has additional information please contact the Ridgewood Police 201-652-3900. In an emergency dial 911
Ridgewood NJ, The Historic Preservation Chairman, Vince Parillo, asked if any members of the HPC had any comments. When Councilwoman Susan Knudsen commented,Vince Parillo then asked, do any voting members have any comments?, thereby ignoring Councilwoman Knudsen’s comments. When it was time to vote, Councilwoman Knudsen explained her vote, the Mayor questioned the audience whether Councilwoman can vote, and the HPC Chairman Vince Parillo replied that her vote doesn’t count.
Basically Mayor Aronsohn and HPC Chairman Vince Parillo had teamed up to discredit Councilwoman Knudsen and make her presence irrelevant in the meeting.
Tony Damiano, a store owner and also President of The Ridgewood Guild, is a newly appointed HPC member. He sent a letter because he could not attend. In his letter he mentioned he is approving “Plan D” because this design fits the lot, which is not correct, as he well knows as he attends Village Council meetings at which this fact has been clearly discussed.
Jim Shimmel voted on the design while he should have recused himself because he owns a building next door to the proposed garage.
In the meeting it was also discovered that the resolution passed on January 27th for design D requires two lanes for traffic on Hudson Street but design D only provides one lane.
Lastly, a resident asked the architects why the archways of the garage, which are supposed to be 11.5 feet high, look smaller than the entrance door of The Village Green restaurant, which is probably six feet eight; the architects could not explain this apparent inaccuracy
Ridgewood Nj, the resolution passed by the Village council on Jan 27th, for the 5 principals of the “design D” for the Hudson Parking Garage .
The mayor mentions that there will be TWO traffic lanes, and one parking lane in the new design D/the resolution which he approved on Jan 27th.
At Historic Preservation Commission meeting the architects informed tthe commission that currently, there is 30 feet of asphalt – 9 feet each side is parking, and 12 feet is used for a one way traffic lane. From that 9 feet parking on the north side, 5 feet will now go to encroachment, so the ‘cart way’ (car lane ) will be widened from 12 feet to 16 feet. When asked if 16 feet is enough to drive two lanes if current single lane is for one car 12 feet, and his answer was “NO, Hudson Street will NOT have two lanes”.
The mayor and the village manager both tried to convince him that there are two lanes, at least where the traffic turns, and the architect re-confirmed that NO – Hudson Street will have ONE traffic lane.
SO bottom line is that the resolution that was passed for design principals for the garage on Jan 27th does not match with the current design D. Our mayor was probably reading that resolution when he called residents liars. Here is the video, where the mayor says 2 traffic lanes on Hudson St.
https://www.tubechop.com/watch/7778289 courtesy of Saurabh Dani .
1. https://www.tubechop.com/watch/7782575 – Here is where the architect corrected the mayor and the village manager.
Last night I videotaped the Historic Preservation Commission meeting and the full recording of everything I shot can be viewed here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCBptQJMcs
My camera angle had an obstructed point of view of the drawings presented, but they can be viewed here:
Last night was unfortunately yet another example of how our local government is conducting business. The misinformation regarding the presentation of this parking garage is in glaring view.
For such a massive project that is going to cost us millions of dollars, why can’t we get a proper view of how this proposed garage is really going to look? Why isn’t there a 3D rendering, both virtual as well as a physical model built of the garage as well as the other buildings, so that we can truly understand what is being proposed? Why is the proposed garage still not residing inside of the municipal lot footprint? Why does the “Plan D” proposal that the Village Council voted in favor of on January 27th now have only one lane of vehicular travel, when for that vote there were two driving lanes?
Lastly, the treatment of Councilwoman Knudsen by other members of our government as well as the architectural firm was beyond reproach. Her concerns were dismissed by Commissioner Parillo – as was her vote. This is not how we treat a Councilwoman or anyone for that matter.
Once again, we as residents are faced with difficult choices. Many of us want a garage, but this is not how to do it.
On March 23rd, the Village Council will be voting on this proposed garage as well as the high density housing issue. I strongly encourage you to mark your calendars for that evening and to share your concerns with our Village Council and members of the Historic Preservation Commission in the meantime.
There is so much that can be done with improving our wonderful village, but let’s do it right and with care.
The entertainment industry’s rare conservatives (and independents) are lining up behind Trump, the real estate mogul considered one of their own as a former TV star and producer.
At an undisclosed location somewhere in the Los Angeles area, about 200 members of Hollywood’s private group of conservative Republicans — known as “Friends of Abe” — gathered to watch Thursday’s GOP debatebetween Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich. It was an invite-only list that included everyone from recognized actors to rank-and-file studio workers.
They watched the candidates spar over radical Islamic terrorists, Social Security’s future and illegal immigration. But, it was a moment early in the debate that turned heads: Trump blasted the entertainment industry over Disney employees who allegedly lost their jobs due to abuse of the guest-worker program.
One industry worker clapped and looked around to see if others were equally enthusiastic. Some were, including one invitee sporting a hat emblazoned with “TRUMP.”
It was a snapshot of what could be the entertainment industry’s rare conservatives (and independents) lining up behind Trump, the real estate mogul considered one of their own as a former TV star and producer.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws.
Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, Obama said he could not comment on the legal case in which the FBI is trying to force Apple Inc. to allow access to an iPhone linked to San Bernardino, California, shooter Rizwan Farook.
But he made clear that, despite his commitment to Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, a balance was needed to allow some intrusion when needed.
“The question we now have to ask is: If technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there’s no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer, how do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?” he said.
“What mechanisms do we have available to even do simple things like tax enforcement because if in fact you can’t crack that at all, government can’t get in, then everybody is walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket.”
The Justice Department has sought to frame the Apple case as one not about undermining encryption. A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation court order issued to Apple targets a non-encryption barrier on one iPhone.
NEWARK – New Jersey Transit and rail union negotiators have reached a deal to avert a strike ahead of the Sunday deadline.
Hundreds of thousands of New Jersey riders would have been impacted by a strike, which was set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
After nearly nine hours of negotiation Friday, transit union spokesman Steve Burkert came out with other union leaders to announce the deal.
“We have reached a tentative agreement,” he said. “Thankfully for the commuters of NJ Transit the crisis has been averted. We thank our members for having faith in us in solidarity. We’re going home to our families.”
Burkert did not take any questions from the media following the announcement.
Gov. Chris Christie held a news conference soon after the announcement. He reiterated that a deal was reached, but said that it still needed to be ratified by the rail unions involved. He said that he would not discuss the financial details of the agreement until union leaders shared it with their members, but said that it would not require any immediate fare increases.
The major issues that were being negotiated were health care and wage increases. About 4,000 NJ Transit workers had been working without a contract for nearly five years.
BY MATTHEW SCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
RIDGEWOOD – While Ridgewood teachers continued their quest for a new contract at Monday’s Board of Education (BOE) meeting, Superintendent Daniel Fishbein switched gears to kindergarten, recommending a full-day program starting in 2017.
It should have been a prideful occasion. Dr. Adam Jarrett, who was in the very first class of residents at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical School in 1992 to train in a new program focusing on primary care, was recently invited back to his alma mater.
Republican insiders in Bergen County will decide at a convention later this month which presidential candidate gets the organization “line” on the ballot, party chairman Bob Yudin announced late Tuesday. Herb Jackson, The Record Read more
ENGLEWOOD—The bank robbery occurred at the Citibank branch in a quiet North Jersey suburb.There were no alarms, no guns, no menacing notes and no threats of violence. More than $52,000 was taken and the bank in Englewood didn’t even know it had been robbed until long after the cash went out the door.
That same day in December 2012, just a week before Christmas, the same guys hit another Citibank in Florham Park. And over the next three weeks they would target additional branches of the bank in New Jersey and New York—walking away with more than $1 million in cash taken from Citibank ATM machines through hundreds of counterfeit bankcards encoded with personal information stolen from unsuspecting customers.
Person reportedly stabbed during the altercation at Ridgewood Group Home
March 10,2016
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Ridgewood NJ , 03/10/2016: Ridgewood PD units responded in mass on Thursday evening, 03/10, to a reported fight at a group home for young girls. One (1) person was reportedly stabbed during the altercation. Glen Rock PD assisted at the scene. An ambulance transported an individual to Bergen Regional Medical Center.
The Nick Currey Fund has reached its initial fundraising goal of $1 million. The landmark number carries special significance for the timing, as it occurred just before what would have been Nick’s 30th birthday, on Jan. 30.
