Photo: Christopher is pictured with a teacher in Kenya.
RHS sophomore Christopher Lee is a recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award
May 2,2013
Ridgewood NJ, RHS sophomore Christopher Lee is a recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The award was announced by the 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Program.
Each year the award is given to students who have volunteered significant time to serving their community and their country. A congratulatory letter from President Barrack Obama was included with the award.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving Ridgewood BOE Truck Wipes Out Utility Pole on Godwin Avenue
May 3,2013
Boyd A. Loving
1:38 PM
Ridgewood NJ, The driver of a small dump truck owned by the Ridgewood Board of Education crashed into a utility pole in front of 194 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood early Friday afternoon. The driver was uninjured in the crash, but the utility pole was destroyed. Ridgewood Police, Fire, and Emergency Services units responded to the incident.
Godwin Avenue between Doremus and Ackerman Avenues remains closed in both directions as crews work to replace the damaged pole. The dump truck was removed from the scene by a heavy duty wrecker. No power outages or loss of cable/telephone service was reported in the area. Ridgewood PD Patrol Officer Paul Dinice is investigating the accident.
Pascack Valley hospital is back, eyes Rockland docs, patients
WESTWOOD, N.J. — When Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley opens in a couple of weeks, it will look toward Rockland County just a few miles away as a source of growth.
The Bergen County hospital, right over the state line, will replace the one in the same location that declared bankruptcy and closed in 2007.
With an infusion of $148 million from a partnership involving Hackensack University Medical Center and a for-profit Texas investment group, the hospital is to open June 1.
Veni, vidi, vici : Six RHS Students had Perfect Scores on their National Latin Exam Papers
May 2, 2013
Ridgewood NJ , RHS students Charlotte Kahan, William Lucca, Kathryn Reis, Anthony Tokarz, Charlotte Samuels and Poyani Bavishi had perfect scores on their papers in the National Latin Exam. They are pictured above (l to r) with advisors Catherine Venturini and Stefanie Gigante.
RHS Chinese Club members won first place in the CIRU Chinese Language Competition
May 2,2013
Ridgewood NJ, In April, RHS Chinese Club members won first place in the CIRU Chinese Language Competition for New Jersey high school students. Each first place winner received a certificate and a $100 gift card.
The CIRU (Confucius Institute of Rutgers University) is the leading institute for Chinese language and culture education in NJ and PA, especially for high school students. Club members posing above are below (l to r): Youjin Park, Gabriela Bonfiglio, Hyejin Park and advisor Louise Cheng.
PRO: I actually know a cancer patient who uses MJ, and yes it improves his quality of life quite a bit with negligible bad side effects.
No different than any pain killer would. So it’s hardly a masquerade, or a joke. At least not to the people who need it.
NO WAY : Make it legal or don’t.
Just don’t masquerade as medicine.
if approached clinically (like any real medicinal drug), the side effects for marijuana would make it undesirable.
New variations of the drug would work to minimize and filter out the side effects.
More patient friendly forms of delivery of the drug would be developed and marketed.
Instead, side effects are emphasized and enhanced.
No alternate forms of delivery are pursued.
Also, tell me any other prescription drug where you go to a specialty store to purchase it and you decide which strength and variety of the “drug” that you want to buy.
Calling marijuana a medicine is a joke and a farce.You know it.I know it.Everyone knows it.
Those who want it legalized were unsuccessful so they pursued this masquerade. Everyone went along with a wink and a nod.
Soon it will become a non-prescription drug. Then it will become a legal substance.
Then miraculously, medicinal use of marijuana will no longer be needed and it will be dropped from any medical discussions…
Key claims of Plaintiff Kevin Reilly taken verbatim from Superior Court’s Opinion document.
In case you missed it, here’s what happened under the leadership, or lack thereof, of the former fire chief. These are the key claims of Plaintiff Kevin Reilly taken verbatim from Superior Court’s Opinion document.
Plaintiff was denied promotion to Lieutenant. Only after he made several inquiries to the Village Manager was he scheduled for an interview. This was long after other candidates were already scheduled for the final psychiatric exam.
Derogatory and unsigned evaluations were placed in Plaintiff’s personnel file.
A rat key chain was put in Plaintiff’s mailbox after he filed a civil suit.
Plaintiff received a disturbing anonymous mailing at his home which was later found to have been sent by former Chief Bombace.
Plaintiff was transferred to a post where he would be denied the opportunity to hold an acting Lieutenant position.
Plaintiff and those firefighters friendly to Plaintiff were verbally threatened by firefighters who were never disciplined for their actions.
Firefighters with less experience were promoted instead of Plaintiff.
Plaintiff testified that he was the only firefighter who was required during sick leave to call into House Watch (a total of 120 times) whenever he left or returned home.
Plaintiff was subjected to an internal investigation about an off duty argument he had with another firefighter. However the other firefighter involved testified that the incident was not used against him for his promotion.
Major heroin bust targets buyers from North Jersey suburbs
Friday, May 3, 2013 Last updated: Friday May 3, 2013, 12:57 AM
BY REBECCA D. O’BRIEN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Each day, they leave the leafy streets of Ridgewood, Dumont, Wayne and dozens of other suburbs, cutting across North Jersey on roads lined by schools and strip malls, and descend on Paterson, looking for a fix.
They do not search long — their dealer is waiting by a grocery store on the corner of 12th and 22nd, or the housing projects along Rosa Parks Boulevard. Ten minutes and $40 later, the young heroin addicts cross the Passaic River with a bundle of dope, 10 slender bags to sniff, or inject, in their cars or in their bedrooms back home.
The arrests of more than 100 people on an array of heroin charges, the fruits of a four-month investigation presented Thursday by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, painted a stark portrait of heroin supply and demand in North Jersey: a vulnerable population, a permeable city and the drug that binds them.
Ridgewood’s municipal taxes to stay flat under proposed budget
Thursday May 2, 2013, 11:57 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Barring any unforeseen changes or expenses, Ridgewood property owners will pay no more than same amount of municipal tax dollars this year as they did in 2012.
The Ridgewood governing body anticipates it will roll out and introduce the 2013 budget and a zero percent tax increase at the May 8 council meeting. A proposed public hearing, in which residents can comment on the spending plan, and subsequent adoption vote are planned for June 12.
Dollar amounts were still being fleshed out when council members gave a literal “thumbs up” to the zero-percent tax increase plan on Wednesday, but the total budget will amount to roughly $45.3 million and a tax levy on par with last year.
America’s Suicide Rate Skyrockets Among Middle-Aged
America’s suicide rate has increased markedly over the past decade for middle aged Americans. The biggest jump has occurred among white Americans, whose suicide rate per 100,000 population rose from 15.9 in 1999 to 22.3 in 2010.
About 57 percent of suicides in America occur between the ages of 35 and 64. The suicide rate jumped in 39 out of the 50 states, and it increased most in the Western United States.
Student test scores to carry just al ittle less weight for tenure decisions
John Mooney-NJ Spotlight
After an extraordinary amount of public comment and some high-level meetings, the Christie administration has hedged on its plans to use test scores to evaluate teachers — but not by much.
The Bolger Foundation engineers a do-over for Midland Park barn
Thursday, May 2, 2013
BY LYNN BRUGGEMANN
CORRESPONDENT
Midland Park Suburban News
MIDLAND PARK — The conversion of a 100-year-old barn on Godwin Avenue into an energy-efficient, state-of-art headquarters for the Midland Park Volunteer Ambulance Corps courtesy of the Bolger Foundation has begun.
Left and bottom left, the exterior of the 100-year-old barn; below right, a closeup of the interior roof supports.
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“We are excited that a building of that age can be renovated and made green,” said J.T. Bolger, a Bolger Foundation trustee and project manager and son of Ridgewood philanthropist David Bolger.
Dr. Alan Kooreman, a 32-year member of the corps who serves as its liaison to the project, said the new facility will provide a newer and larger space for the volunteer responders, who will move from their headquarters on residential Pierce Avenue.
“We respond to about 600 calls per year and this gift of a new facility means everything to us,” Kooreman said.
The Bolger Foundation purchased the barn and its 1.5 acres from Marlow Park LLC for $800,000. The foundation will spend an additional $1.5 million to renovate the building before donating it to the Ambulance Corps. The property was originally part of Marlow Park office and warehouse complex, so it was subdivided at the time of purchase and its address is listed as 471 Godwin Ave. https://www.northjersey.com/news/205715721_Philanthropist_engineers_a_do-over_for_Midland_Park_barn.html
Local Author Louisa Luis at Bookends May 5th
Sunday, May 5th @ 1:00pm
Local Author Louisa Luisi will be signing: Your Best Coaches
Ridgewood Street Fair Today as well!
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt. Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change. 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 insure 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
Fed Keeps Interest Rates Low, Continues Bond Buying Program
Published: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 | 2:21 PM ET
By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Senior Writer
The Federal Reserve held fast to its ultra-accommodative monetary policy Wednesday, solidified by what board members described as an economy weakened by fiscal policy.
Interest rates will remain at historically low levels while the U.S. central bank will not alter its $85 billion a month asset purchasing program, the Fed’s Open Markets Committee decided at this week’s meeting.
While recent meetings have been remarkable for signs of dissent over the long-standing Fed policy, the sentiment this month turned towards concerns about “downside risks” to growth, though the FOMC made no mention of the recent set of weak economic data.
Despite Public Pressure Bergen county Freeholders Amend county Pay-To-Play Laws
Amending County Pay-to_Play Law
John Ensslin – The Record
By a bipartisan 6-1 vote, the Bergen County Freeholders on Wednesday night increased the amount no-bid contractors can contribute to county political organizations: an additional $5,200, a compromise from the original limit of $20,000 introduced two weeks ago.
