Aronsohn’s Election Win is looking more and more Disingenuous
mom with a POV
Aronsohn played both sides of every issue in the election. He promised CRR he’d stop the Valley expansion so they supported him. Then he “aligned himself” with pro-development, pro Valley hospital expansion candidates. He got votes from both sides of the issue!
He promised more money for the library, more money for special needs, and better snow/garbage and leaf removal. Who would say that the library is not important? No one. Bam! Got their votes. Who would speak out against people with special needs? Bam! There’s another sympathetic group to back him.
Who doesn’t want lower taxes and better leaf/snow removal in this village? Bam! Got them too. It also doesn’t hurt to get some backing from the Democratic party – an unprecedented move to partisan politics in Ridgewood. His win was disingenuous.
Thieves Target GPS devices in Parked Vehicles
January 8,2013
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Thieves Target GPS in parked vehicles in Ridgewood , Ridgewood police report that on January 4, 2013 a Ramsey resident reported that while he was at The Valley Hospital he valet parked his vehicle. When he was on his way home he found that his Garmin GPS had been stolen. The matter is under investigation by the Ridgewood Detective Bureau.
And on January 5, 2013 a Shelbourne Terrace resident reported that during the night her vehicle was entered and cash and a GPS were stolen. The matter is under investigation by the Ridgewood Detective Bureau.
Make sure car doors are locked and keep valuables and removable electronic devices out of sight when parking anywhere .
Developer envisions Ridgewood’s version of St. Mark’s Square
Tuesday January 8, 2013, 7:15 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
A local developer presented conceptual plans Monday night for a sprawling luxury apartment and retail campus to be built atop the former Ken Smith Motors dealership in Ridgewood.
The preliminary design of the Ridgewood Station proposal, developed by the Wood-Ridge-based Dinallo Construction Corp., includes the construction of 114 luxury units and roughly 7,250 square feet of retail space at the northwest corner of Franklin Avenue and Chestnut Street. The development, bordered on the west by NJ Transit’s commuter railway, also boasts 166 “hidden” parking spaces, 22 of which are designated for retail patrons.
The proposed development is the fourth downtown housing plan to officially come into public light. Long rumored to be the location for development even before the auto dealership closed last fall, the Ridgewood Station now joins the Enclave, the Dayton and Chestnut Village as proposals that, if constructed, will forge a dramatic change to the face of the Central Business District (CBD).
The Dayton, which would be located at South Broad Street on the former Brogan Cadillac property, comes with 106 units, while the Enclave and Chestnut Village have approximately half the number of apartments.
Attorneys and architects pitched Ridgewood Station to the Planning Board this week and requested the creation of a transit village district, a form of overlay zone. In general, an overlay zone gives flexibilities to a municipality, allowing a town to protect certain areas while encouraging and discouraging specific types of development.
It has taken some 80 years, but a dream of Thomas Edison’s—to harness the power of the sun—is coming to greater fruition in New Jersey.
Public Service Electric & Gas Co., the state’s largest power supplier, is nearing completion of a program to mount 175,000 solar panels on utility poles along highways and residential streets. Those involved with the $200 million project say it’s the largest installation of its type in the world.
The last of the 3-by-5-foot solar panels—which weigh about 25 pounds and are mounted on angles part-way up the poles to maximize exposure to the sun—is scheduled to be installed in early April. The panels were going up at a rate of 300 a day until Sandy interrupted the process. Some 120 solar poles were damaged by the storm, according to utility spokesman Michael Jennings.
The combined energy generated by the panels, 40 megawatts, would be able to power more than 6,000 homes, according to the utility.
“The beauty of the panels is that there are no capital costs—we already own the poles,” said Ralph LaRossa, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G, a unit of Public Service Enterprise Group.
The company also is building solar farms on the sites of abandoned factories, brown fields and closed landfills.
Aurora theater shooting: Cops took pill bottles from Holmes’ apartment
Posted: 01/07/2013 12:01:00 AM MST
Updated: 01/07/2013 10:20:09 AM MST
By John Ingold
The Denver Post
CENTENNIAL — Aurora police seized four prescription bottles and immunization records when they searched theater-shooting suspect James Holmes’ apartment in July, according to newly obtained filings in the murder case against Holmes.
The disclosures come in a back-and-forth between prosecutors and defense attorneys over whether those items should be subject to doctor-patient confidentiality. The judge ultimately ruled in October that prosecutors could keep the items.
Holmes is charged with 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other offenses in the July 20 shooting rampage at an Aurora movie theater that left 12 dead and at least 58 injured.
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Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration
by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm
An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.
The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers.
The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood “subsidiary.” It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the “file of Islamic states” in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood.
Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administration’s counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim.
According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi.
He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza.
January to-do list for taxes How to get organized for tax year 2013. Plus, five tax resolutions
By Eva Rosenberg, MarketWatch
We start the year off with tax legislation that finally makes it possible to do some definitive tax planning. Some of the measures affect your 2012 taxes; the rest cover 2013-17, with permanent changes.
The single most helpful tool for keeping your tax resolutions is a checklist. Every successful self-improvement course, study program — and even job — benefits from one. Have you ever noticed how many checklists you use on a daily basis?
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Consider consolidating them, so you can see your daily, weekly and monthly responsibilities at a glance. Let’s build your tax checklist for January 2013:
Set up your 2013 tax file. Pull out your labelmaker and put new labels on file folders, expanding files, or drawers, so you have a place to drop your 2013 records and receipts. Now you can consistently file all relevant documents for the year in one place. Instead of a set of file folders, consider using an expandable file. While you’re at it, do the same for last year — and get a head start on locating and organizing your 2012 papers.
Catmoji: Cool cats now have their own online social network
Published on Monday January 07, 2013
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Staff Reporter
Social networking for cats has arrived.
Two tech geeks with a fondness for felines and an eye for niche marketing have created Catmoji,( https://catmoji.com/ ) a Pinterest-like website that is wall-to-wall cat pictures, cat videos and cat chats.
Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo don’t actually own cats themselves, they told the Toronto Star by email on Monday.
They had previously created the social network Flvrd, a website where users could share any visual content they liked.
“We found out that most of our users share cat pictures and videos,” they said.
COZY RPS BLANKET SUPPORTS THE RHS SPEECH AND DEBATE CLUB
Ridgewood Speech and Debate Fundraiser
This 100% cotton blanket in maroon and cream is 50” x 70”. The cost is $45.00 for the blanket.
Please direct all questions and orders to : [email protected]
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RHS Speech and Debate Coach
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News Anchor, Dari Alexander at Bookends
Saturday, January 12th @ 1:00pm
FOX 5 NY News Anchor, Dari Alexander, will sign her new book: Quick & Clean
Books available Jan 1st. 4th Phone Order if you can’t Make the Event!
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
Weight Reduction Through Mindful Eating: Program Begins Jan. 8
Are you dissatisfied with the results you’ve had with dieting and how diets make you feel? Would you like to learn about a simple, practical, effective way to change your eating habits and your weight? Well-documented studies support the application of mindfulness education and training in the management of eating behavior.
The planned dates/topics for Valley’s Mindful Eating program are:
Tuesday, January 8 – What is Mindfulness? Why and How to Apply it to Eating
Tuesday, January 15 – Hunger: What is it? Physical and Emotional Hunger
Wednesday, January 23 – Identifying Conditioned Patterns Around Eating
Wednesday, February 13 – Emotions and Body Awareness
Tuesday, February 19 – Fullness and Satiety, Food and Mood
Tuesday, February 26 – Working with Heart Hunger, Endings and Beginnings
The classes will be held at The Valley Hospital Conference Center from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The fee for the program is $85, which includes all six sessions and accompanying written materials, including “Mindful Eating” by Jan Chozen Bays, M.D.
Please contact Nina Rubin at [email protected] to register. Please send a check for $85 made payable to The Valley Hospital to Nina Rubin, Valley Dining, The Valley Hospital, 223 North Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ, 07450.
NJ Touts Educational Reforms But Earns ‘D’ on One Nationwide Report Card StudentsFirst rankings raise eyebrows for judgment of Christie’s record — and who’s doing judging
By John Mooney, January 8, 2013 in Education |2 Comments
Two years ago, school-reform crusader Michelle Rhee was sitting in the first row during Gov. Chris Christie’s State of the State address, in which he laid out much of his education agenda.
As Christie prepares to make his State of the State for 2013 today, education is expected to figure less prominently, but his administration still got a reminder yesterday that the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor-turned-national education advocate isn’t letting up.
In the first state-by-state report card issued by Rhee’s new organization, StudentsFirst, New Jersey earned a D for its progress – or lack of progress– in meeting Rhee’s core reform principles, which center on teacher quality, school choice and what she deems to be effective spending and oversight.
“Parents and teachers are working hard every day to make sure every child in New Jersey gets a great education, and while recent tenure reform represents meaningful progress, more reforms are necessary for our students to achieve the results we want for them,” said Craig Wallace, StudentsFirst’s state director for New Jersey.
Budget deferment keeps rates stable in Ridgewood
Monday January 7, 2013, 1:00 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Ridgewood increased the amount of money that it owes the Board of Education, a legal accounting method that many New Jersey towns adopt in an attempt to keep their municipal tax rates stable.
Known in local government and budget lingo as the deferred school tax, the village’s financial obligation to the school district was upped to $43,075,160 by the end of 2012. The amount represents an approximate $861,000 spike over the 2011 total, an increase that the Village Council approved during a December meeting.
“In general, it’s a computation that takes into effect the growing school district budget. If the school district budget grows, then there’s more of the deferred tax that we can bring into our budget computations,” Village Manager Ken Gabbert said.
Each municipality is responsible for collecting taxes from its residents, including those who are charged by the county and school district. All taxes imposed for any calendar year must be collected in full by Dec. 31 of the same year.
New Jersey State Legislature states that, as a result of the different operating calendars, municipalities are not legally obligated to hand over all school taxes at the time they are collected. Because schools run on a fiscal calendar, which typically begins in July, state statute allows municipal governing bodies to use local school taxes that have been collected but not yet submitted to their respective board of education.
Gas Main Rupture Closes West Glen Avenue In Ridgewood For Over 12 Hours
January 8,2013
Boyd A. Loving
9:21 AM
Ridgewood NJ, A gas main break at the intersection of West Glen Avenue and S Hill Road in Ridgewood has closed West Glen Avenue between Hillcrest Road and North Monroe Street for over 12 hours.
Photos by Boyd Loving
Crews from PSE&G have been on the scene of the rupture since late on Monday evening. Ridgewood Fire Department personnel have responded to numerous reports of strong natural gas odors throughout the west side of Ridgewood since the break was first detected on Monday night.
Photos By Boyd Loving
Currently, there is no estimate as to when the break will be repaired and/or when the road will be reopened. Ridgewood PD units are on the scene detouring traffic around the incident.
