Emmanuel Baptist Church is delighted to invite you to an installation service for their new pastor, Rev. Dr. Kenneth Gill on Sunday June 7 at 3:30pm at the church. Refreshments will follow.
Emmanuel Baptist is located at 14 Hope St., Ridgewood, NJ. Please RSVP to the church office at 201-444-7300 or [email protected] by May 20, 2015.
14 Hope St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
(201) 444-1333
MAY 9, 2015, 11:30 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015, 11:41 PM
BY KATHLEEN LYNN AND DAVE SHEINGOLD
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
Andrea and Joe Buccino bought their first home, a Cape Cod in Wallington, for $385,000 in 2005. A decade later, they put it on the market for $299,000 — one of many examples of how home values in North Jersey, like much of the nation, have struggled to recover since being slashed in the Great Recession.
An analysis of 2014 property sales data by The Record found that prices across most of Bergen and Passaic counties saw virtually no change last year. Overall in Bergen County, the median price of $405,000 remains 14.7 percent below the 2006 median peak of $475,000; Passaic County’s median is still off 25 percent, at $285,000. (Nationally, prices are about 16 percent below their peaks.)
And the slow recovery is most dramatic in the region’s lower-income, lower-priced housing markets.
At the top end of the market, in towns where the median value was at least $700,000 in 2006, prices are about 11 percent below their peaks. Homes in the middle range of values are about 17 percent off their peaks.
But at the lower end — in towns like Hackensack, Wallington, Garfield and Paterson — values held down by a greater concentration of foreclosures and distressed sales have barely recovered. They continue to languish 30 percent below their peaks — 26 percent if you take out Paterson and Passaic, where housing distress has been especially acute.
In actual dollars and cents, the housing troubles translate into median prices that are down in Paterson from $340,000 in 2006, to $185,000 in 2014; from $330,000, to $205,000 in Hackensack; $410,000, to $281,000 in Garfield; $380,000, to $250,000 in the city of Passaic; $423,000, to $260,000 in Wallington; and $410,000, to $300,000 in Elmwood Park.
At the high end of the market, the numbers tell a much different story. The median price in Ridgewood, for example, has climbed back to $685,000, near the 2006 peak of $710,000. In Ho-Ho-Kus, the median price in 2014 was $725,000, compared with $750,000 in 2006. While in Englewood Cliffs, the 2014 median of $1.1 million surpassed the $1.09 million median in 2006. Saddle River’s 2014 median of $1.5 million is approaching 2006’s $1.71 million. And agents in those towns describe the market as hot.
The picture is similar statewide, though there’s less gap between the low and the high ends of the market.
Comparisons with the peak of the market can be tricky. Prices in the years before the crash shot up annually, often by double digits, fueled by loose lending standards that led many households to borrow more than they could afford, leading to foreclosures and short sales, in which lenders accept less than is owed on the mortgage. The collapse, according to some experts, merely brought prices back to more realistic levels.
While the relatively stagnant prices at the lower end are good news for some buyers, homeowners who bought at or near the peak and are looking to move up, face being stuck with a big loss, or just stuck.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/price-gap-hinders-housing-recovery-across-north-jersey-1.1330541
Firstly, I am generally pro-police. I think this is how the majority of the public feel. However, there’s a side to the police that irks many, and you have demonstrated this side. It’s the circling of the wagons mentality in your description of the events at this incident, which you have no more insight into that anyone else who was not there. I understand the whole band of brothers sense of camaraderie, but when it comes to incidents of police officers discharging a firearm, and that incident is still in the review stage, you have no business making public statements about what happened. It’s this very kind of public statement that gives the general public a very low opinion of how the police, police themselves. As for the previous incident, yes, this is noteworthy. It possibly indicates issues of the officer’s ability to self-manage his anxiety levels during moments of stress.
Also , I didn’t realize, Officer Elwood, that you witnessed the incident, because according to statement in which you say the police officer “really had no other choice”, it appears that you saw it all. I hope that you provide this important testimony to whoever is in charge of officially reviewing the incident.
Another poster chimed in , What I don’t understand is what people think the Police Officer should do. A German Shepherd as the 2nd most forceful bite of any dog – 235 lb per square inch. That’s enough to break bones in the leg, ankle or foot.
Soto replay this scenario, an 85 lb dog has your foot in his mouth. Being 4 -legged the dog can move, laterally, faster than an upright human – especially if he has the human’s foot in his mouth! SO exactly what is it that you think the Officer should have, or could have, done? Better yet, if this had been you, what would you have done?
Looks like the police union is out with its “facts and figures” to try and muddy the water to distract attention away from the real issues here: 1) This was an 85 lb German Shepherd with the 2nd most forceful bite of any dog – 235 lb per square inch. That’s enough to break bones in the leg, ankle or foot; and 2) having a window open to allow a dog to go in and out of a house into a fenced backyard poses a problem itself, especially in terms of liability for the homeowner. Guess the union hasn’t learned anything from the recent human deaths in Staten Island, Ferguson, Georgia, South Carolina or Baltimore.
It was a fenced in yard and the policeman was a stranger. He had a choice: run. Get the hell out of the yard. Or would that be too detrimental to the tough guy image?
Are you saying that people should not allow their dogs to roam their fenced in yards now? The dogs should be confined to the house? Is there a particular room inside the house where the dog should be sequestered?
Your fantasy about the cop saving a child from a fierce beast holds no water. If the kid was from the neighborhood, the dog would have known him. If there was a trespasser in the yard, then good.
I only hope, officer Elwood, that when you find a group of kids smoking a joint behind starbucks some night, and they all scatter, you realize that you do have a choice other than to shoot the slower ones.
Ridgewood Nj , Happy Mothers day to all the moms . before the all the flowers , chocolate and brunch ;Mother’s Day as it’s known today in the United States dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It started in 1868 to allow mothers of Union and Confederate soldiers to get together .
1. Mother’s Day probably started as a way for mourning women to honor fallen soldiers. “Mother’s Friendship Day” was organized in 1868 to allow mothers of Union and Confederate soldiers to get together.
2. The earliest iterations of Mother’s Day in the U.S. were organized for several reasons, but celebrating mothers wasn’t among them. U.S. women’s groups in the late 1800s came together in West Virginia to tackle everything from infant mortality to disease and milk contamination. In 1870, a composer by the name of Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” urging women to become politically active and to promote peace following the U.S. Civil War, according to National Geographic.
3. The official holiday’s founder Anna Jarvis boycotted the holiday. Jarvis, a native of West Virginia, organized the first Mother’s Day celebration at a church in Grafton, West Virginia, in 1908 in memory of her own mother, who died three years earlier. She successfully campaigned to have the day adopted nationally, but by the time of her death in 1948, Jarvis had spent most of her personal wealth fighting the holiday she helped conceive. She apparently found the commercialization of Mother’s Day deplorable and sued groups that used the name “Mother’s Day” name to promote consumerism. She even lobbied the government to remove it from the U.S.’ official calendar.
4. Jarvis never married and was childless. In many ways, Jarvis’ unwavering devotion to preserving what she thought was the true origin of the holiday was more about her ego than anything else. “Everything she signed was Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother’s Day. It was who she was,” historian Katharine Antolini, author of “Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s Day,” told National Geographic.
5. The carnation was the original Mother’s Day flower. Some groups sold carnations every year to fundraise for their causes, something Jarvis vehemently opposed.
BY LESLEY CLARK
McClatchy Washington BureauMay 9, 2015 Updated 15 minutes ago
LYNCHBURG, VA. — Looking to win over skeptical evangelical voters, Jeb Bush pushed back Saturday against what he said are modern intrusions on religion as he lauded graduates and their families at Liberty University, a Christian college popular on the path to the Republican presidential nomination.
“Fashionable ideas and opinions – which these days can be a religion all by itself – have got a problem with Christians and their right of conscience,” Bush told an audience of 34,000 in the school’s football stadium.
“That makes it our problem, and the proper response is a forthright defense of the first freedom in our Constitution.”
Some evangelicals view Bush warily, questioning whether the former Florida governor and likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination would provide a suitable bulwark against gay marriage, illegal immigration and other issues key to conservatives.
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/05/09/266130/bush-courts-evangelicals-defends.html#storylink=cpy
May 7, 2015 11:00 AM EDT
Republican donors are counting on the 21-year-old to energize voters.
Charlie Kirk was just about to leave the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa when he spotted the multimillionaire investor Foster Friess in a stairwell. Kirk, who was 18 and fresh out of high school, had spent weeks memorizing the names and faces of the top 25 Republican political donors in case he found himself in just such a situation. He grabbed Friess into a handshake, took a nervous breath, and began his elevator pitch. Instead of going to college, he wanted to start a grass-roots organization to rival liberal groups such as MoveOn.org, which offer Democratic candidates a standing army of volunteer activists. All he needed, Kirk told Friess, was cash. Friess, who’d just blown $2.1 million on a failed quest to help Rick Santorum win the GOP presidential nomination, handed over his business card. Three weeks later, Kirk had a five-figure check. “He impressed me with his capacity to lead, intelligence, and love for America,” Friess says. “I instantly knew I wanted to support him.”
In the three years since, Kirk—who still sleeps in his childhood bedroom in Wheeling, Ill.—has built his organization, Turning Point USA, into the go-to group for reaching young conservatives. It has a presence on 800 college campuses, where fieldworkers hand out posters and collect e-mail addresses. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February, the group hosted an event featuring Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who have each since announced they’re running for president. On May 8, Paul was scheduled to speak at a Turning Point rally at Arizona State University, and Carly Fiorina is on deck to speak in June at a Turning Point conference for women in Chicago. Kirk says he’s met candidate Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is considering a presidential run.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-07/conservative-boy-wonder
By Mario Trujillo – 05/05/15 03:43 PM EDT
The next U.S. president needs a fundamental understanding of technology and a vision to use it, GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said Tuesday.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO said the next inhabitant of the White House also needs to know when to take a hands-off approach.
“It’s important to have someone in the White House who has a fundamental understanding of technology, a fundamental vision for how technology can be used,” she said at Tech Crunch Disrupt in New York.
“One of the things I think government shouldn’t be doing is trying to regulate in some bureaucracy how innovation progresses in the technology industry,” she added.
Fiorina announced her bid for the White House on Monday with low poll numbers in what appears will be a crowded Republican field. She previously ran for the U.S. Senate in California but has never held elected office.
‘Freedom Summit’ speakers bring heavy anti-Clinton artillery to Greenville, South Carolina
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wondered aloud if Hillary would use ‘re-education camps’ to force Christians to change their views on abortion
Female GOP pollster: ‘The question isn’t whether you want “a” woman to be president. It’s whether you want “that” woman’ to be president’
Rick Santorum, a former senator, could only think of one nice thing to say to Hillary: ‘Happy Mothers Day!’
Donald Trump spent 15 seconds trying to think of something nice to say about her, but couldn’t
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN GREENVILLE, S.C.
PUBLISHED: 12:50 EST, 9 May 2015 | UPDATED: 13:06 EST, 9 May 2015
Democrats ‘don’t like “old, white and rich”,’ a red-meat conservative audience heard Saturday in the early hours of the South Carolina Freedom Summit.
‘And their answer to that is Hillary.’
Mrs. Clinton, the American liberal most likely to contend for the presidency in 2016, rivaled the ISIS terror army in taking punches from Republicans at the event, held in Greenville.
The demographic quip came from Kellyanne Conway, a pollster. But she wasn’t alone.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, four years ago the Iowa Caucus victor, complained that Clinton stood in the way of nuclear-related sanctions he once drafted when they were both senators.
Asked after his speech if he could think of a nice work or two for the former secretary of state, he stood puzzled and then shrugged: ‘Happy Mother’s Day?’
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074826/Hillary-Clinton-fire-South-Carolina-old-white-rich-Republican-presidential-hopefuls-pile-Democratic-runner.html#ixzz3ZfrRpXGa
Fri, May 15, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: The Woman’s Club, 215 W. Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ
Jazz in the Wood: An Evening of Latin Jazz
Featuring RHS Jazz Lab and Big Band
with special guest Michael Philip Mossman
trumpet, composer/arranger
Friday, May 15, 2015
Seatings at 6:00 pm and 8:30 pm
$35 – Teens & Adults (includes 3 course Cuban dinner catered by Rumba Cubano)
$15 – Children 12 & under (includes chicken fingers, hamburger sliders, French fries)
The Woman’s Club of Ridgewood
215 West Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, NJ
Parking at West Side Presbyterian Church
This event is made possible through the generous sponsorship of GOYA FOODS, INC.
Make checks payable to: RHS BAND ASSOCIATION, INC.
Mail to: JAZZ IN THE WOOD, c/o Irene Garcia, 333 Stillwell Place, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
OR purchase with a credit card / PayPal at: www.jazzinthewood.brownpapertickets.com
OLIVER WRIGHT WHITEHALL EDITOR
Saturday 09 May 2015
David Cameron will use the Conservative Party’s first majority in the House of Commons for nearly 20 years to “deliver” on a radical agenda to cut welfare, shrink the size of the state and re-define Britain’s relationship with Europe.
Conservative insiders said Mr Cameron would move to the right to consolidate support among his backbench MPs after five years of compromise with the Liberal Democrats.
Among Mr Cameron’s first legislative priorities will be to enshrine an EU referendum into law, bring in the so-called ‘snoopers charter’ to give police greater powers to monitor internet communications and give English MPs a veto over legislation only affecting England. The Tories also intend to publish plans to scrap the Human Rights Act within their first 100 days. All proposals had been previously blocked by the Lib Dems.
APRIL 29, 2015 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015, 1:21 AM
THE RECORD
Michael Pereira , Roots Steakhouse, Ridgewood NJ
Trinidad-born Michael Pereira settled in Hoboken with his family when he was 5 years old and, for the most part, hasn’t strayed too far since. While earning a science engineering degree at NJIT, Pereira worked as a line cook at the Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Weehawken. When he graduated and was offered a full-time job as a sous-chef, Pereira made the nerve-wracking decision to abandon a career in engineering before it could even begin and pursue what he was passionate about: cooking.
It’s something he grew up doing with his mother and grandmother, making traditional Trinidadian dishes, including stews, curry chicken and rice with peas.
For 21 years he worked for different Ruth’s Chris locations as a sous-chef, executive corporate chef for the northeast region and general manager. In 2011 he joined the Harvest Group (the company that owns Roots and a slew of other restaurants) as front-of-house manager, and soon after was offered the opportunity to return to the kitchen.
Today, Pereira, who lives in Cedar Knolls, is the 44-year-old married father of two. He is also the distinguished winner of a recent contest between the chefs at all three Roots locations (Summit, Morristown and Ridgewood); his recipe was selected to be Roots’ signature steak sauce.
Here, he shares his best tip for cooking steak at home, his proudest moment as a chef and whether or not a dry-aged steak is superior.
MAY 8, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY BETSY MURPHY
CORRESPONDENT |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Joan Ryan, who claims an ideal childhood in Ridgewood, will tell you she gives her father credit for her passion for baseball and sports. Her dad, Bob Ryan, coached Little League the years the family lived here.
Joan spent her impressionable years, from four to thirteen years old, with jaunts to the Duck Pond, summer and winter (“we would ice skate there”), or “going across the creek behind our house to skate in the parking lot.” She remembers having Mod parties with friends, Maureen Quinn and Diane Whitehead, wearing white mini-skirts and dancing; the basketball hoop on the garage; catching fireflies; the bus to Somerville. She remembers going to Lyon’s for candy, or milk for mom, and the trips to Tice’s Farm at Halloween. “It really was a perfect place to grow up!”
She adds, “There were no opportunities like that in Florida.”
Joan was the third of six children and her mother, tired of the cold, moved the family to Florida in 1972. “I didn’t like it at all,” says Joan.
Former MLB Catcher Bengie Molina will appear at Bookends Saturday, May 9th @1:00pm
Molina is a former MLB Catcher for Anaheim Angels, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the San Francisco Giants,
Bengie Molina, will sign his new book:
MOLINA: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
Bengie will Sign ONE piece of Memorabilia with purchase of book!
Books available May 9th
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.
Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.
First In Line Certificate use is the the discretion of Bookends. Blackout dates may apply.
Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.
While we try to ensure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726
MAY 7, 2015 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015, 4:22 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Some say the best educators shy away from individual accolades; they choose instead to spotlight the successes of their students.
Fortunately for the village, they couldn’t escape the attention Tuesday night.
Continuing the tradition that began in 1988, the 10 recipients of this year’s Ridgewood Teacher Recognition Awards were showered with bouquets of praise, seemingly endless lists of acknowledgements, compliments and tributes, during ceremonies inside the standing-room only Education Center.
“In reading through the nomination forms,” said Board of Education President Sheila Brogan, “I was struck by the adjectives that were used to describe them: approachable, kind-hearted, enthusiastic, motivated, knowledgeable, talented, energetic, change agent, professional.”
This year’s honorees are Paul Cronk, Hawes School; Ellen Wolff, Orchard; Nicole Blatt, Ridge; Samantha Stankiewicz, Somerville; Amanda Zampolino, Travell; Paul Wyka, Willard; Amber Nizza, Benjamin Franklin; Janelle King, George Washington; Nancy Reilly, Ridgewood High School; and Susan Fink, Educational Services.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/education/ridgewood-s-top-teachers-for-2015-recognized-1.1328924
MAY 8, 2015, 6:41 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015, 11:59 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF AND MARINA VILLENEUVE
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
A Cresskill man who is a founder of a New York-based investment firm and the president of the Alpine Country Club and his wife have been charged with stalking for allegedly sending anonymous emails in an attempt to force a Cresskill High School basketball coach from his job, according to court papers.
David and Nanci Kushner, both 49, allegedly sent harassing emails to the varsity basketball coach, Michael Doto, and his employers over the course of two years, Cresskill police said in a criminal complaint.
And on Friday, the Tenafly police issued a news release saying that the Kushners had been charged with harassment related to “anonymous email correspondence” sent late last year.
In an interview on Friday, Doto said he had been forwarded emails sent to Cresskill school administrators and had received another email sent to his home account in March. He said that four letters “similar to the emails” were sent to his Cresskill house in March.
“It has been a scary experience for my family and I,” Doto said, declining to comment further.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/cresskill-couple-charged-with-stalking-1.1330001
