Meet John, one of our Client Care Representatives at Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital
September 4,2013
Ridgewood NJ, Meet John, one of our Client Care Representatives at Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital. Last night, Bookends Bookstore invited Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital to attend Lil Bub’s signing of her new book called “Lil Bub’s Lil Book”.
Lil Bub is an Internet Celebrity cat. She is a “perma-kitten”, a dwarf and polydactyl cat. Her tongue always hangs out because of her short lower jaw and toothlessness, but her appetite is unaffected. She also suffers from a rare bone disorder called osteopetrosis, for which she takes medication.
Many came out for Lil Bub’s appearance and to get a signed copy of her new book. John was there to greet the attendees and hand out Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital notepads, chip clips, pet magazines as well as a flyer for our upcoming Adopt-A-Pet Day on September 29th from 11am-4pm. It was a great night! If you were unable to make it, Bookends still has signed copies of “Lil Bub’s Lil Book”.
Rep. Scott Garrett not convinced that it is in the United States’ best interest to intervene militarily in Syria
September 1, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), founder and Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus, issued the following statement after President Obama decided the United States should take military action against Syria.
“Though I am glad the President is going to seek congressional authorization, as outlined by the Constitution, he has not convinced the American public that it is in the United States’ best interest to intervene militarily in Syria. I side with the American public. Our interests are paramount, and I’m disappointed that the executive branch has shown so little clarity in its decision making regarding Syria and how military action furthers our nation’s interest.”
Grilling in House on need for Syria attack points to tougher debate ahead
Thursday, September 5, 2013 Last updated: Thursday September 5, 2013, 12:20 AM
BY JAMES ROSEN AND WILLIAM DOUGLAS
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
The Record
WASHINGTON — Even as Congress took a step Wednesday toward authorizing the use of force in Syria, a growing number of lawmakers spoke out strongly against a U.S. military strike and warned that it would draw the United States into an escalating conflict that could spread throughout the Middle East.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
An anti-war demonstrator leaves a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday during testimony by Secretary of State John Kerry.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution for a likely missile attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad in retaliation for his alleged use of chemical weapons two weeks ago, but it prohibited any involvement of U.S. troops.
But the Senate committee’s 10-7 vote indicated deep divisions within Congress that President Obama still must overcome in his quest to demonstrate to Syria, Iran and other nations that the use of chemical or nuclear arms is unacceptable. The measure is expected to reach the Senate floor next week, although the timing for a vote is uncertain.
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Photo is courtesy of Ridgewood Tax Assessor’s Offfice
Parking garage plan stalled – no proposals received to build on Glisenan/Gap property
September 5,2013
Boyd A. Loving
12:02 PM
Ridgewood NJ, Plans to finance construction of a parking garage using revenues from a proposed ground lease of the Village owned “Gilsenan/Gap” property appear to have come to a halt.
Although three (3) firms had “pre-registered,” no proposals to lease the “Gilsenan/Gap” property, and construct a retail building thereupon, were received during Thursday morning’s scheduled proposal opening.
Village Council members will likely discuss next steps, including a possible re-advertisement for proposals, during their upcoming September 11 Public Work Session.
Cupcakes by Carousel October Breast Cancer Fundraiser
During the month of October Cupcakes by Carousel is donating $1.00 from every dozen of pink ribbon cupcakes or 7” pink ribbon cake to a local organization to help aid in the fight against breast cancer. For more informatin contact
Cupcakes by Carousel
192 E Ridgewood Ave
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
201-389-3090
Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce : Be On The Lookout For Fake Money
Over the past few months the county has experienced an increase in cases involving counterfeit bills, specifically 100.00 dollar bills.
KNOW YOUR MONEY
If You Receive a Counterfeit
• Do not return it to the passer.
• Delay the passer if possible.
• Observe the passer’s description, as well as that of any companions, and the license plate numbers of any vehicles used.
• Contact your local police department or United States Secret Service field office. These numbers can be found on the inside front page of your local telephone directory.
• Write your initials and the date in the white border areas of the suspect note.
• Limit the handling of the note. Carefully place it in a protective covering, such as an envelope.
• Surrender the note or coin only to a properly identified police officer or a U.S. Secret Service special agent.
COME ALIVE OUTSIDE – Bike, Hike and Discover – September 28
“COME ALIVE OUTSIDE” – Bike, Hike and Discover A Village of Ridgewood Community Adventure
Saturday, September 28th, 3 p.m. (raindate 9/29)
Sponsored by Jacobsen Landscape Design and Construction, Ridgewood Parks and Recreation, Ridgewood Police Department, Ridgewood Wildscape Association and Ridgewood Cycle Shop, all Village families are invited to set out for this community afternoon adventure. Gather together, have bikes inspected, learn about bicycle safety, and then ride to discover and explore some of our local wildscape park areas. A live animal program and nature scavenger hunt are included as part of the festivities. No fee, but pre-registration is required, ending Sept 27th.
Saturday, Sept 28th (raindate 9/29)
Schedule of Events
Bike Route #1
Ben Franklin School, Twinney Pond, South Pleasant Park
Bike Route #2
Willard School,
Habernickel Park,
Citizen’s Park
3:00 p.m. Bike and meet at either Ben Franklin Middle School (335 N. Van Dien Ave) or Willard Elementary School (601 Morningside Rd).
• Bicycle Inspection
• Review of Bike Safety Rules – youth helmets required, adults encouraged
• Overview of Come Alive Outside and Program Details
3:30 p.m. Bike to either Twinney Pond Park or Habernickel Park following rules of the road and good bike safety.
3:45 p.m. Hike through parks to explore and discover nature. Light refreshments will be available.
4:15 p.m. Presentation – “NJ Native Wildlife” Certified naturalists will introduce animals native to northern NJ and explain their habitat behaviors.
4:45 p.m. Bike to either South Pleasant Park or Citizen’s Park and explore some, then work together to solve the clues and find items for the nature scavenger hunt.
We hope you will join us! Register online at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass or in person/by mail: The Stable, 259 N. Maple Avenue, weekdays, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Locate the registration flyer on the Recreation homepage at www.ridgewoodnj.net/recreation. Call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 if more information is needed.
Ridgewood Police Officers Assaulted
August 28, 2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, On August 28, 2013 at 9:57 PM Ptl Sean Amoruso and Shane Broglia responded to the train station on a report of a woman urinating on the platform.
The two officers located a woman who was in possession of an open container of alcohol. While attempting to investigate the woman assaulted both officers.
Martyna Golinska 30 of Ridgewood was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer. She was remanded to the Bergen County Jail unable to post bail.
All defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Ridgewood Police Chief John M. Ward warns of latest Phone Scam
September 4,2013
Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Police has experienced a number of “phone scam” reports from residents over the summer months. Below are two examples of phone scams that have been recently reported by several residents.
The “Grandparent Scam” often involves a person who calls posing as a family member in trouble. He or she places a call to an older person and when they pick up, the scammer will say something along the lines of: “Hi Grandma, do you know who this is?” When the unsuspecting grandparent guesses the name of the grandchild the scammer most sounds like, the scammer has established a fake identity without having done any background research. The fake grandchild will usually ask for money to solve some unexpected problem (arrested and need bail money, overdue rent, payment for car repairs, etc.), to be paid via Western Union or MoneyGram, which don’t always require identification to collect. At the same time, the scam artist will beg the grandparent “please don’t tell my parents, they would kill me.” The fake grandchild will generally say they are in another state and may even say they are in another country on “vacation”.
In another recent scam the scammer places a call and has even left a voice message stating that they are from a government law enforcement agency. The name of the agency is usually fake, for example: “National Bureau of Crime”. The scammer will advise the person that criminal complaints have been signed against them or a family member and unless they give money or personal identifying information, the charges will be “filed”. This scam is not aimed at the elderly and anyone can be a victim of this. Please understand that no legitimate law enforcement agency will ever contact you this way.
The Ridgewood Police asks that you spread the word about these scams to your friends and family (especially the elderly). We also ask that you report suspicious phone calls to us so that we can continue to investigate them.
Ridgewood School District readies for new year
Wednesday September 4, 2013, 2:48 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood school district will be adjusting to some big changes this year.
Some of these changes relate to circumstance (the retiring or resigning of employees), some to government mandates and others to district initiatives in the realm of technology or emotional well-being, as well as district goals to decrease spending on energy and out-of-district tuitions for special needs students. Many are a combination of several factors.
Technology at the forefront
The hiring of a technology manager is part of a push to ready RHS for a 1:1 technology initiative planned for the 2014-2015 school year; an attempt to supply each student with a personal electronic device for school use. The district is planning to supply each student with a Chromebook, Superintendent Daniel Fishbein said.
“If you go to the 1:1 initiative, you’re going to have that many more machines hitting your network,” he said. “You’ve got to be sure the [network] can handle it.”
Click below to view the webcast of the meeting. The Board meets again on Monday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m. The public is welcome to attend, or to watch from home on FiOS channel 33, Optimum channel 77, or via the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us.
Lonegan : Missile Strike Would Be Act of War
September 4, 2013
“The American people will not be dragged into another ill-advised war. A missile strike would increase the likelihood of both an al-Qaeda regime in Syria and the likelihood that the President would call for boots on the ground. The American people do not want another war. We cannot afford another war.”
METUCHEN, NJ – Mayor Steve Lonegan, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, responded to yesterday’s Senate hearing regarding missile strikes in Syria.
In response to the hearing, Lonegan said, “Whether Secretary Kerry admits it or not, a missile strike is an act of war.”
Lonegan continued, “The American people will not be dragged into another ill-advised war. A missile strike would increase the likelihood of both an al-Qaeda regime in Syria and the likelihood that the President would call for boots on the ground. The American people do not want another war. We cannot afford another war.”
“I will continue to stand for the interests of the American people in our foreign policy and for individual liberty at home. Cory Booker will not take a stand on this missile strike other than timidly deferring to President Obama’s whims.”
In the hearing, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “President Obama is not asking America to go to war,” while also admitting that an escalation of violence in Syria could require American troops on the ground, and General Martin Dempsey conceded that a proposed strike would weaken Syria’s overall military capability, including Assad’s ability to fend off al-Qaeda rebels.
Lonegan served as Bogota Mayor for twelve years, winning three times in a town that gave Barack Obama 67.5 percent of the vote in 2012. He served for seven years as state director of Americans for Prosperity New Jersey, where he helped defeat liberal attempts to expand big government. Steve Lonegan is the conservative Republican candidate in the New Jersey special election for the United States Senate. Lonegan stands firmly on the bedrock conservative values of small government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
Senate Breaks Own Rules Democrats Rush to Vote on Syria War
by Josh Rogin Sep 4, 2013 2:53 PM EDT
Senate Democratic leadership tossed aside the rules for moving legislation with regard to the resolution authorizing the use of military force against Syria, angering some Republicans and creating confusion on Capitol Hill in the run-up to the war vote.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly approved a modified war resolution Wednesday afternoon by vote of 10–7 with one member, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), voting present. The committee’s action allows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to bring the measure to the floor as early as Monday, following a break for the Jewish holidays. That would allow a vote by the full Senate as soon as Wednesday, giving the Senate a chance to pass a war resolution before the House has a chance to craft and pass a resolution of its own.
Media Sees Racist People Everywhere
By Ann Coulter | August 29, 2013 | 18:48
The media’s fixation on the Trayvon Martin case, while ignoring much more brutal crimes with clearer racial motivations, is a return to pre-O.J. America.
The thesis of my book, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama” — out in paperback this week! — is that after decades of liberals play-acting Racist America, wherein they cast themselves as civil rights champions, and other, random white people as Bull Connor (a Democrat), it all ended with the O.J. verdict.
That’s when white America said, That’s it. The white guilt bank is shut down. It was one of the best things that ever happened to America — especially for black people.
But then in 2007, Barack Obama brought it all back. In order to immunize the most left-wing presidential candidate the nation has ever seen, the Non-Fox Media went into overdrive reporting their fantasies of America as a nation full of racists, constantly terrorizing innocent blacks.
Of course, once Republicans got the Democrats to stop terrorizing black people, there was no one else doing it. Nonetheless, for decades, the media would highlight every apparent white-on-black crime, treating each such incident as the Crime of the Century.
White-on-black crimes were, and are, freakishly rare. But the media weren’t showcasing these one-off events as man-bites-dog stories, but rather as dog-bites-man stories in a universe brimming with packs of rabid dogs. According to liberals, whites attacking blacks was an epidemic — a nationwide “cancer,” in the words of erstwhile New York City Mayor Ed Koch.
In December 1986, a gang of white toughs were roaming around Howard Beach, Queens, brawling with anyone they met. They beat up an off-duty white fireman. They attacked a couple of Hispanics. But it was only when the young delinquents fought with three black men — Cedric Sandiford, Timothy Grimes and Michael Griffith — that they secured their place in history and became the literary event of the season!
Perfect Example by long time NJ Columnist Bob Ingle : Lonegan’s appeal to bigots not worthy of New Jersey
Sometimes it’s hard to determine if Republican Steve Lonegan is serious about wanting to replace the late Frank R. Lautenberg in the U.S. Senate or is auditioning for a reality show about an out-of-touch pol whose life’s ambition is to do mediocre stand-up.
Over the years, Lonegan and I have had conservations on a wide range of topics. Nobody sticks it to big government, needless bureaucracy or corrupt politicians better than he does. (Ingle/Gannett)
Its different this time : Sen. Bob Menendez’s performance to be judged on the world stage
Tuesday September 3, 2013, 10:58 PM
BY HERB JACKSON
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
The Record
Completing his evolution from the anti-war skeptic that New Jersey first elected to the Senate in 2006, Sen. Bob Menendez took a lead role Tuesday in the push to attack Syria and was working personally to write the resolution authorizing force.
The role is arguably the biggest Menendez has played in more than two decades in Congress and, if he succeeds in bringing a majority of skeptical senators to agreement, would permanently put an end to questions he faced about whether he was qualified to fill a crucial committee chairmanship.
Like many of his fellow Demo¬crats who had once railed against federal policy toward Iraq — including President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, Menendez’s predecessor as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee — Menendez takes pains to explain how Syria is different.
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