photo courtesy of the Ridgewood PD
December 1,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, We would like to wish farewell to Ridgewood Detective Douglas Williams who finished up his last day of work today after 29 years. Doug joined the Ridgewood police Department in 1986, prior to working in Ridgewood Detective Williams worked for the New Jersey Department of Parole and the Union County Prosecutors Office. Good luck in your retirement Doug.
photo of The Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus courtesy of the Ridgewood Guild Facebook page
December 1,2015
Ridgewood NJ, On Saturday, November 28, 2015 The Ridgewood Guild sponsored its fifth annual Winterfest, to coincide with Small Business Saturday!
Memorial Park at Van Neste Square set the stage with special holiday performances by The Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus and Declan Power!
Despite the dreary weather the park was in a festive mood ,the horse drawn hayrides circled around town, cookies, candy canes, complimentary hot chocolate as well as a trackless train ride and more! To many the the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus singing on the hayride was a big hit.
Its was a great way to kick the holiday season in gear and support your local businesses!
photo courtesy of the Ridgewood Police
December 1,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police report that the Route 17 N. exit ramp to E. Saddle River Rd. and E. Glen Ave. will remain closed due to a cleanup from an overturned tractor-trailer. Route 17 southbound traffic delayed due to rubbernecking
Hudson Street Parking Deck – Message from the Village Manager
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Ridgewood NJ, According to Village Hall residents will have an opportunity to chime in on the parking garage design on December 2nd. The three designs presented included the original structure, as depicted on Villlage of Ridgewood (VOR) site, with 405 spaces (130,000sq ft), a modified version with 355 stalls (120,000sq ft) and the lowest profile version with 305 stalls (109,000 sq ft). The cost per stall decreases for each added level:
405 stalls @ $28,000 = 11.5 mil
355 stalls @ $29,300 = 10.4 mil
305 stalls @ $31,000 = 9.5 mil
You can see the higher you go the more efficient the project becomes IF, of course, those spaces are utilized.
As far as the design, it is exactly as shown at the informal meetings. The 355 version indicates a lower profile along Hudson St but retains the same height along Broad. The 305 version includes
the lower profile on both Broad and Hudson. For some reason I didn’t include the heights in my notes but will ask Roberta for those details. Each version includes cantilevering over the entire Hudson St sidewalk with an additional 20″ cantilever extending over the street. The cantilevers were depicted in the original design and, I believe cannot be eliminated due to the lot width.
Also Mayor Aronsohn sent an email (personal email) to residents regarding the three garage designs and process moving forward. His letter indicates surprise ,surprise higher cost for each version likely based on factoring in the original $500,000 bond.
Please share your thoughts and questions with us regarding the deck so that your feedback can be considered by the Council as they deliberate on this important issue at the December 2nd Council Meeting……please also consider coming to that meeting to share your opinions. You can email me at [email protected] or call 201-670-5500, ext. 203.
“We voiced concerns sensitive to the African American community. We’re all satisfied with the answers,” said pastor Dr. Darrell Scott about meeting with Donald J. Trump. “Nobody at this meeting came out with negative reaction in any kind of way. Everybody in the room likes Donald Trump.”
Trump insists ‘most’ black pastors endorsing him
Donald Trump is insisting that “most” of the 100 black pastors he met with on Monday are endorsing him for president.
“I thought it was an amazing meeting. I met some fantastic people,” Trump said following the private meeting at Trump Tower.
The GOP presidential front-runner had canceled a planned press conference on Sunday where he was to have highlighted the endorsements of 100 black religious leaders. He did so after several of the pastors denied they were endorsing Trump for president.
Darrell Scott, a pastor at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, stood by Trump’s side on Monday, saying that the meeting was “productive” and “constructive” and that the group of religious leaders are a “united front.”
“We voiced concerns sensitive to the African-American community,” Scott said. “We’re all satisfied with the answers.”
Scott said there were a number of pastors who endorsed Trump, but didn’t have an official number. He said the religious leaders who remain undecided are “praying about it.”
“Nobody at this meeting came out with negative reaction in any kind of way,” Scott said, adding that “Everybody in the room likes Donald Trump.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/261543-trump-insists-most-black-pastors-endorsing-him
The more seriously you take the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the angrier you should be.
By OREN CASS
Updated 11/30/15, 6:45 AM CET
Negotiators from around the world gather in Paris this week to finalize an international climate change agreement, capping a years-long process on which hopes have been riding for global action to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. When those demanding U.S. action speak of the need to show “leadership” and foster international progress, they speak of building momentum toward Paris.
“This year, in Paris, has to be the year that the world finally reaches an agreement to protect the one planet that we’ve got while we still can,” said U.S. President Barack Obama on his recent trip to Alaska. Miguel Cañete, the EU’s chief negotiator, has warned there is “no Plan B — nothing to follow. This is not just ongoing UN discussions. Paris is final.”
But the more seriously you take the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the angrier you should be about the plan for Paris. With so much political capital and so many legacies staked to achieving an “agreement” — any agreement — negotiators have opted to pursue one worth less than…well, certainly less than the cost of a two-week summit in a glamorous European capital.
https://www.politico.eu/article/paris-climate-deal-is-meaningless-cop21-emissions-china-obama/
British technology company to ‘transform’ air and space travel with pioneering new engine design
Reaction Engines says its invention will allow airliners to fly at five times the speed of sound
By Ken Mann
9:25PM GMT 29 Nov 2015
For a small technology company trying to revolutionise low-cost commercial space travel, the sale of a minority stake to aerospace giant BAE Systemscould turn out to be the defining moment in its quest.
Its Sabre engines for commercial air travel can go from zero to five times the speed of sound, and up to 25 times the speed of sound for space travel.
Experts believe hypersonic air travel could enable people to one day journey anywhere in the world within four hours. At Reaction Engines, based in Oxfordshire, they think this could be a reality within 10 to 15 years.
However, before last month’s deal, Reaction was a highly respected research business, but with limited funding had been effectively stuck as a start-up since its foundation in 1989.
Breakout the Burgers
India Sturgis
30 NOVEMBER 2015 • 8:00AM
Carrie Armstrong’s fixation with ‘clean’ eating began, as it so often does, with good intentions. Struck down by a virus eight years ago, she was bed-bound and unable to lift her head off the pillow let alone walk.
Doctors said there was little more medicine could do so, to speed up her natural recovery, she began researching alternative remedies and healthy, body-boosting diets online.
“My first thought was no wonder I had got so sick because I’d been eating badly for years,” says the 35 year-old sports presenter from London.
“But then I starting reading about the transformative affects of giving up meat and sugar, then carbohydrates and it went from there.’
Ridgewood police officer Robert Hirsch handles his last assignment, escorting the Christmas tree
Ridgewood NJ, After 30 years of serving the Village Of Ridgewood police officer Robert Hirsch handles his last assignment, escorting the Christmas tree from Dorchester Avenue to North Broad Street where it will be lit this Friday during the annual downtown for the holidays celebration. Officer Hirsch joined the Ridgewood Police Department in 1985 prior to that he worked for New Jersey Transit as a police officer. We wish Bobby the best in his retirement.
Paterson looks to hold emergency meeting to make Friday’s payroll
NOVEMBER 30, 2015, 10:16 AM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015, 10:16 AM
BY JOE MALINCONICO
PATERSON – Officials were scrambling Monday morning to schedule an emergency City Council meeting later in the day in an effort to issue Friday’s paychecks to Paterson’s 1,800 municipal workers.
The mayor has said the council must approve temporary budgets for December and January on November 30 in order for the employees’ next checks to be issued on time.
The employee checks were placed in jeopardy last week when the council objected to the administration’s lack of spending cuts and voted 4-4-1 to reject its proposed temporary budget.
The state on November 25 sent the city council a letter criticizing its action. “The City Council’s failure to act on a temporary budget jeopardizes the fiscal well-being of the City,” wrote Timothy Cunnnigham, director of the New Jersey Division of Local Government Services.
Cunningham said the council should “work with the administration to identify specific budget cuts” and approve the temporary budget in the meantime so that Paterson could meet its financial obligation to employees, vendors and bondholders.
It’s not clear whether the council would budge at an emergency meeting. Under laws government fiscal decisions, the administration needs six votes to get the temporary budget passed. That means at least two council members among the five who abstained or voted against it would have to change their minds.
We couldn’t agree with this more!
A letter from our Wesleyan Church College President, in Bartlesville Oklahoma.
In the face of college students far and wide complaining about emotional “triggers” they see and hear, annexing “safe spaces” where opposing views can’t hurt their feelings and even threatening free speech, Everett Piper is seemingly fed up with it all.
NOVEMBER 30, 2015 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015, 12:37 AM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST |
THE RECORD
The first six words of Robert Barchi’s open letter to the Rutgers University community were probably the only ones we really needed to hear Sunday, revealing action that has not simply been a long time coming, but a long time needed.
“Today is a day of change,” Barchi wrote, the preamble to a seven-paragraph explanation of his decision to fire both Athletic Director Julie Hermann and football coach Kyle Flood. The Rutgers president also announced Pat Hobbs as the immediate replacement for Hermann, moving the former Seton Hall law school dean and short-term Pirates athletic director from an interim solution to a permanent one in the same day.
Barchi’s swift action comes in the wake of a losing season on the football field and an embarrassing one off it, and represents the first important step toward fixing an athletic department that has floundered as the stubborn president continued to back the ineffective reign of Hermann. By finally owning up to the mistake his search committee made two years ago, Barchi has a new opportunity to fill the leadership profile the athletic arm of the school so desperately needs.
“It was appropriate to start fresh, wipe the slate clean and move Rutgers forward,” Barchi said in an evening conference call with a small group of reporters.
What happens from this point forward will go a long way in determining whether Barchi can change the public perception of his disdain for athletics in general, a story he hopes will begin to change under Hobbs’ direction. That Hobbs comes to the job directly from the office of Governor Christie, where he served as ombudsman, sure makes this feel like a move with a Trenton stamp of approval.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/sullivan-clean-slate-gives-rutgers-chance-at-redemption-1.1464505
Gov. Chris Christie won the endorsement from the New Hampshire Union Leader, the state’s biggest newspaper and an influential voice in presidential politics for the early-voting state. Matt Arco, NJ.com Read more
Notice of Closure due to Repairs – Nov 30 – 2 weeks
The Glenwood Road stairway from Upper Boulevard to the Ho-ho-kus Train Station will be closed to all pedestrians starting Monday, November 30, 2015. The closure will last approximately 10 to 14 days, depending on the weather.
The closure is necessary so that portions of the stairway can be repaired in response to several recent complaints. Pedestrians are advised to plan alternate routes during the closure.
Glenwood Road itself will also be closed to traffic.
In advance, thank you for your cooperation,
Department of Public Works
Village of Ridgewood
November 30,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridewood NJ, Reader posts , “Paul Aronsohn – the same Paul Aronsohn that contacted one of my clients and tried to convince him not to stop using my services. All because I do not support Mr. Aronsohn’s policies. I ask you, what gives Mr. Aronsohn the right to interfere with my business operations? The answer is, he has no right to do so but he thinks because he is the mayor of Ridgewood and I’m a resident of Ridgewood, he can get into my personal business. Time to contact an attorney about Mr. Aronsohn’s big mouth.”
We have heard this story all to often , most are familiar with the attempt to derail Mike Sendon’s campaign with a despicable and cowardly email to his employer . And most are keenly aware that this was a third rate low life attempt to disenfranchise Ridgewood voters .
Advertises on this blog have been attacked and subtly threatened , fake blogs have been set up by local failures to attack this blog the list goes on and on.Playing favorites may not be a crime but it is terrible governance. Bringing Hudson County politics into Ridgewood is lowering the entire standing of this town and its residents . The bad news for the purveyors of this garbage is that this isn’t Hudson County and its never going to be . Elections come and go but Ridgewood will always be Ridgewood .
