Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital free Feline Heartworm Disease Seminar
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital will be hosting a *FREE SEMINAR** on Feline Heartworm Disease. Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM. Please call 201-447-6000 to reserve a space.
Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital is located at 320 East Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450
Ridgewood REORG ,by Boyd Loving
NJ Voters disapprove of Menendez performance, poll shows
Sen. Menendez, you have some explaining to do.
New Jersey voters disapprove 41 – 36 percent of the job U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is doing, a 15-point drop in less than a month, and say 44 – 28 percent that he is not honest and trustworthy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. (PolitickerNJ)
https://www.politickernj.com/63382/voters-disapprove-menendez-performance-poll-shows
Back by Popular Demand: La Bottega is Now serving a $9.95 Lunch Special menu!
Back by Popular Demand the La Bottega restaurant is now serving a $9.95+tax Lunch Special menu.
Enjoy one of the restaurants most delicious Lunch Specials Monday-Friday 11:00AM-3:00PM
La Bottega is located at 14 Oak Street Ridgewood, NJ 07450
See menu below, and for more menu information stop in or visit their website at www.labottegaridgewoodnj.com
RHS athletes celebrated their college acceptances
Ridgewood NJ, On February 11, top RHS athletes celebrated their college acceptances by posing for the camera. (Standing l to r) Cormac McCooe, Billy Maltz, Noah Pounds, Connor Kubikowski, Dan McKenna and Younghoe Koo, (seated l to r) Maura Feeney, Lauren Beausoleil and Maggie Carver.
Painting by William H Hayes
Valley Purchases State-of the-Art Surgical Imaging System with $1 Million Grant from The Bolger Foundation
February 20, 2013
Ridgewood NJ, The Valley Hospital is the first and only hospital in northern New Jersey to offer brain and spinal surgery with a state-of-the-art surgical imaging system, purchased through a generous $1 million grant from The Bolger Foundation.
The O-arm® Imaging System is a complete multi-dimensional surgical imaging system that provides detailed, multidimensional images and is optimized for use in spine, orthopaedic and trauma-related surgeries.
During back or spine surgery, precision is everything. O-arm® technology allows the surgeon to view clear, real-time images of the body during surgery. These images allow the surgeon to see precisely where to place instruments and to make the best decisions during the procedure. In addition, by integrating O-arm surgical imaging technology with Medtronic’s StealthStation® surgical navigation systems, surgeons are able to perform less invasive procedures and confirm the precision of advanced surgical procedures before the patient leaves the OR.
“I know that the purchase of this new system will greatly enhance the surgical department at The Valley Hospital by enabling the hospital to offer the most advance equipment to patients, which of course only adds to Valley’s end results – outstanding inpatient and outpatient care,” said David Bolger, President of The Bolger Foundation.
photo by Boyd Loving
Ridgewood Police Remind You about Child Safety
New Jersey’s Seat Belt Law: (NJS 39:3-76.2f)
Applies to all passenger vehicles including vans, pickup trucks and SUV’s, that are required to be equipped with seat belts.
Applies to all passengers, who are at least 8 years of age but less than 18 years of age, and each driver and front seat passenger of a passenger automobile, operated on a street or highway. All of these occupants are required to wear a properly adjusted and fastened seat belt system.
On January 18, 2010, legislation was signed into law requiring all occupants to buckle up, regardless of their seating position in a vehicle. A secondary offense, the new law allows police to issue summonses to unbuckled back seat occupants, 18 years of age and older, when the vehicle they are riding in is stopped for another violation. The law,
Makes the driver responsible for proper seat belt use by all occupants who are under the age of 18.
New Jersey’s Child Passenger Law:
Children up to age 8 or 80 pounds must ride in a safety or booster seat in the rear seat of the vehicle. If there is no rear seat, the child must sit in the front seat secured by a child safety seat or booster seat.
Children under age 8 who weigh more than 80 pounds must wear a seat belt anywhere in the vehicle.
Passengers age 8 to 18 (regardless of weight ) must wear a seat belt anywhere inside a vehicle.
Studies show seat belts do save lives and reduce injuries during crashes.
Seat belts work with air bags to protect occupants. Air bags alone are not enough to safeguard occupants.
More than 2,000 unbuckled drivers and front seat passengers died on New Jersey’s roadways in the past 10 years.
Approximately 700 unbuckled drivers and front seat passengers were thrown out of their vehicles during crashes and killed in the past 10 years.
Ridgewood hires contractor to repair damage from Sandy
Wednesday February 20, 2013, 6:52 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Ridgewood has retained one contractor to perform upcoming repair work at three separate locations in town.
Playground equipment at Habernickel Park in Ridgewood was damaged during Hurricane Sandy.
The Village Council last week awarded three different contracts for varying amounts to undo some of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy at the Kasschau Band Shell, Habernickel Park and the Salem Lane Pump House.
Elmwood Park-based J&J Handyman has been tapped to complete the three projects, which have a cumulative cost of more than $24,000.
More than half the total bill will fund repairs at the pump station, which contains pump controls for Ridgewood’s water utility and its water pollution control operation. A tree felled by Sandy’s winds caused what Ridgewood deemed “significant roof damage.”
Urbanization: There is no way any of these proposed developments are going to improve the quality of life for anyone who lives in the Village
Mr. Bolger has been a friend to Ridgewood in many ways over the years. At times, some have challenge the intentions of his gifts, myself included. I recall his initial plans were to build a storage center on the Chestnut St. property; now it’s an apartment complex.
What I just don’t understand is why the developers insist on changes to the zoning laws and master plans so they can profit. They had access to the information before they purchased the properties.
There is no way any of these proposed developments are going to improve the quality of life for anyone who lives in the Village. And, as to your comments about the newbies soaking everyone for the school budgets, I believe you are quite wrong as well as your assumption that I drive a gas guzzling SUV and let it idle when I’m dropping off or picking up my kids from school.
ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION – CANDIDACY INFORMATION
The Ridgewood Board of Education will have two vacancies in the Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Annual School Election. A full term on the school board runs for three years.
Candidates must file a nominating petition with the local school board in order to get their name on the ballot for the Annual School Election. The current deadline to submit the nominating petition is 4 p.m., Verizon cell phone time, on Monday, February 25, 2013.
Prospective school board candidates can obtain a “School Board Candidate Kit” at the Education Center, located at 49 Cottage Place or online a www.njsba.org/candidacy.
Any Ridgewood resident who is a registered voter may cast a ballot in the Annual School Election on April 16. The deadline to register to vote is Tuesday, March 26.
Any registered voter may cast a mail-in ballot. Ballot requests must be received by the County Clerk by Tuesday, March 19. Mail-in ballots must be completed and returned to the County Clerk by the close of polls on Tuesday, April 16.
Click here for complete voter information from the Bergen County Board of Elections web page : https://www.co.bergen.nj.us/paboe/VoteReg.htm
Linemen working in Ridgewood by Boyd Loving
PSE&G Unveils $3.9 billion, 10-Year Proposal to Make NJ “Energy Strong”
Proposal will create 5,800 jobs and reduce the impact of future outages
Customer bills will remain stable – and will be lower than in 2008
When Sandy wreaked its devastation on New Jersey last October and left millions without power, PSE&G was repeatedly asked what it was going to do to prevent outages in the face of increasingly extreme weather.
While we can’t prevent storms, we can prepare for them. We put together a plan, called Energy Strong, that makes our system more resilient. We can make long-lasting improvements that will put people to work strengthening infrastructure without asking our customers to pay more.
We can continue to make incremental improvements and repairs to our electric and gas systems as we have always done. Or, we can be truly forward-looking and make more substantial investments that will help our state be better prepared for the next Irene, Sandy or other catastrophic event.
The cost of inaction is just too high for New Jersey businesses and families to bear. The costs of outages during Sandy caused hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue that will never be recovered. Investments like those PSE&G are proposing could be an economic differentiator for NJ, making the state more economically competitive and better positioned for growth. And, they’re the responsible thing to do.
Cost of a College Education Spirals Out of Control — Student Loan Bubble Buried by Distractions
by cscadm
February 15, 2013
Our friends over at Frugal Dad (a website that has a very nice catchy tagline, if we do say so ourselves) have created a wonderful infographic that really drives home a major problem that is facing the United States right now. No, not gun control. Not health care. It’s the cost of a good college education. This is great information about a problem that most of us are vaguely aware of, but maybe we don’t really sit down and look at the facts (until it’s time to put the little ones through college, at least). Not only is the inflation of higher education completely out of line with the inflation of anything else in the universe, but many people are forced into deciding between the options of simply skipping out on college altogether or going into some serious, monstrous debt to do so. A lot of students are graduating and striking out into the world for the first time on their own two feet with what equates to a mortgage already hanging around their necks. And with so much competition in our world today, many are finding work that just isn’t what they hoped for. They are settling for jobs making lower incomes while they have to begin paying back mountains of debt. And who is making out like a bandit on the deal? Oh, you guessed it. The federal government.
Ridgewood Firedepartment file photo Boyd Loving
Readers says Ridgewood Fire Department should charge a fee for showing up
PJ I just herd this on channel 12 News,in Missouri, one fire dept. is charging a fee to respond to traffic accidents. They’re charging from $500 to $2,000. It’s to help the budget.
Maybe this is something the Ridgewood Fire Department should look into , at lest for out of town responses. I think it would be awful; but people would be a lot more careful.
Ambulances charge so why not the Fire department?
Reader Takes on the Fly ….
I am only going to reply to this implication by “The Fly” this one time, because I don’t want to be sucked into this, indeed given that “The Fly” (an anonymous pen name?) has really not read my comment accurately. The quote you have made (italics below) appeared in a series of numbered bullets, in which I said that the developments, if built, should not be approved by a blanket Master Plan Amendment, which could have permanent, potentially damaging effects on the town in many ways. The series of bullets (if you read the previous wording accurately) were all points that do not seem credible to me, and vitally need to be tested before a Master Plan were to be approved. The word prior to these bullets is “If” appears above them, and I had expected my sincere skepticism was the whole point of my post to the Patch.
In other words, taken in context, my bullet was:
“IF there are improvements to stoplights, signage, sidewalks and curbs that can actually improve traffic, it would seem obvious that our village should pursue them — starting with those promising the most significant impact (the oft-mentioned one being traffic lights), but one intersection at a time — not via a master plan amendment and overall village policy to concurrently allow four large housing/retail complexes and 330 new apartments in our downtown.
“I encourage the Village to re-direct its approach to allow one of these developments first, via a variance to current zoning, with same type of public-private partnership now offered by the developers, to see if: IF:….
….5) the odd-sounding predictions by their developments and village traffic consultants are accurate — that the four unprecedented apartment complexes would improve traffic (not in fact clog traffic or hurt our town).
The bullets 1-4 had also enumerated other great concerns many of us have about possible affects of the developments — that must be critically vetted in reality before a Master Plan Amendment were made to allow these developments to all happen, carte blanche, and included the affects of the developments on schools, and their visual impact on town — and to see if in fact a development would bring about vibrancy of downtown and tax ratables that are touted as reasons to approve them all.
I take umbrage that The Fly would focus on family relationships when in fact they have had nothing to do with my views on the hospital (which continue to be voiced in various forums and are unchanged, as you wil likely see in my statements in the press as a new proposal may proceed from the hospital,). ….Also because I believe my views have hopefully always been carefully worded and balanced. Above all, despite any potential varying views anyone may have on public policy, dialogue is is important, and family friendship and relationships and love in the village are something to be supported and safeguarded no matter what.
Note, my comment in the Patch regarding the developments,, goes on to say,” We should not rush to make such a permanent and massive change to the character of Ridgewood, but improve the intersections and approve the developments one at a time. I was quick to make this comment to the Patch the day the related article came out because I think this is very important”. As I have suggested to our Planning Board and Village Planner in public comment at Planning Board meetings (which I have encouraged other residents to participate in — have you?) — I feel that IF there are traffic improvements to be made, by all means they should be made, and if private/public partnerships are touted as they only way to fund them, then this should be pursued prudently, and not across the board.
Aside from being quoted out of context, and with an accusatory tone, It also bothers me that “The Fly” would see fit to make such allegations (on private matters of family friendship) cloaked in a veil of anonymity. Despite was I hope would be appreciated as potential discomfort stating my persona views, I have never posted anonymously, because I feel that every person should feel comfortable stated their views on important topics without being anonymous.
We all care about our town, and should be candid in engaging in discussions, even when it may be uncomfortable. It has been my hope to consistently reflected that spirit. I believe deeply that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and is to congratulated if they offer to run for an office, including my sister, who works hard in her volunteer position.
Again, this is the last time I will respond to this thread, dear Anonymous Fly, even if you lay out more accusations, because I think your divisive message and tone is detrimental to the tow and any good faith effort toward constructive dialogue.
I apologize for this lengthy post, but I only respond to set the record straight and implore that no one try to cause division, in our town or our families. We all care about each other, and hopefully try to build good public policy via positive and constructive engagement.
Signing off on this thread, which I hope will be read carefully — if at all.
Pete Wentz , Bassist Fall Out Boy, at Bookends
Wednesday, February 20th @ 6:00pm
Bassist and Primary Lyricist for the band Fall Out Boy, will sign his new book: Gray Books available Feb 19th
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
2013 VILLAGE BUDGET– January 30, 2013 Status
The information in this section is a working document of Village Finance and Village Manager’s Office.
The Village Council approves the 2013 budget, after a thorough process of which these documents are the current discussion following department requests and CFO/Manager negotiations with the department.
Included in this folder are:
1.) 2012 Budget Newsletter (for reference) – Click Here
2.) 2012 Adopted Budget – Click Here
3.) 2013 edited budget discussion presented at 1-30-13 Council workshop
Pages 1 -14
General, budget options: base, zero increase, zero tax increase
Timeline (page 1-2)
Amount to be raised by taxation (page 3)
Budget Revenue (pages 4-6)
Budget Appropriations (pages 7-12)
Discussion of potential revenue increase (pages 13-14)
Please understand, this is not a final document. It will not be voted on by the Council in this form. There will be opportunities for you, if interested, to appear before the Council and comment or question the proposed 2013 Budget prior to final adoption by the Council. In addition to Council meetings the meeting times of department discussions with the Council will be posted on the Village’s website – www.ridgewoodnj.net
For the Report https://mods.ridgewoodnj.net/pdf/manager/2013VillageBudgetStatus.pdf
