Ridgewood NJ, In preparation for winter weather conditions, Governor Phil Murphy has declared a State of Emergency throughout New Jersey starting at 3:00 PM today so that state resources can be deployed as needed.
Today’s weather will turn cloudy, with rain expected by early this evening, which will quickly turn to snow. The heaviest snowfall is expected from 9:00 p.m. Sunday to 4:00 a.m. Monday, with possible accumulations of five to eight inches. Please stay off of the roads to allow our crews to do their snowplowing work.
Overnight parking on the street will not be allowed tonight, Sunday, March 3, 2019.
” To stuff so many apartments in a suburban area that’s already dense is terrible. The impact will be tremendous. I see all 3 sites (including what’s being built next to YMCA) along the tracks as I ride the train every morning. They will choke the whole look and feel of Ridgewood. Current residents who appreciated CBD will try to avoid it at any cost. What’s most concerning is who will occupy these apartments. Multi children families, section 8 recipients (if they can’t fill them up fast enough)? Will there be speculation? What other games are being considered to mess up RW? It is so sad to see same faces who openly supported Aronsohn & Co show their happiness that things are moving along. Are they plain idiots or simply mean spirited? Their own quality of life is about to take a hit as well.”
Take the low road or the high road … but don’t miss Council 1736’s St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance
Join us as the Knights of Columbus continues the tradition that the People of Ireland started over a thousand years ago. Help drive the snakes from the Village of Ridgewood. Gather with friends and family to celebrate the life of Saint Patrick and enjoy a fine meal and entertainment.
When: Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Where: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Auditorium Dinner: Full-Course Corned Beef & Cabbage Buffet Dinner, Beer, Wine, Soft Drinks Entertainment:Celtic Cross BandIrish Step DancersBagpipersGrand Prize Raffle Drawing for a trip to Ireland
Ridgewood NJ, while many Ridgewood residents love all the outdoor dining experiences in town ,some residents with mobility issues have voiced concerns of overcrowded sidewalks and the inability to move around town.
The mayor was asked via email :
“The statement that places that have no public parking can extend further towards the street. I know I’m not as swift as I used to be but, does that mean that the safe walking areas of certain places can extend further to the street? For instance, the Greek place has no parking because their wall prohibits anyone from getting out of the car and because of that issue, they were granted a yellow stripe in front of their store. A few other places on Broad Street, especially, have also made it impossible to park and open a door. Not that I walk in town much anymore, but lots of other people do. Will all of those places have to remove the barriers to the street so that there can be parking in front as well as the ability to walk through their open dining places? The ability to walk with a stroller, walker, or wheelchair? That is almost impossible without walking in the street now in many places. My balance problems are so severe that I can’t walk safely in any of the areas in town that I might want to visit. So I am not questioning for myself but for all the young mothers and older people who can still enjoy the many delightful places in town.”
Ridgewood NJ, The Family Promise Super 50/50 Raffle is Here!
Here is an easy way to support Family Promise – and have a chance to win up to $25,000!
Tickets are $100 each. Grand prize is 25% of proceeds up to $25,000, with 16 additional opportunities to win a cash prize! Only 1,000 tickets will be sold.
Proceeds benefit Family Promise’s programs that provide shelter and support to homeless working families with children. Every ticket sold will help make a difference for a family in need. Please buy a ticket today!
To purchase tickets… Please call 201-833-8009 or download this form and mail your payment to: Family Promise of Bergen County 100 Dayton Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Cherry Hill NJ, New Jersey Main Street Alliance released the following statement today in response to a state Comptroller audit finding that $11 billion in tax breaks given to mostly large corporations between 2005 and 2017 by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority have generated no known economic benefits for main street New Jersey and state taxpayers. The EDA’s corporate tax incentive program was meant to spur economic growth, attract new business and create thousands of new jobs. But the audit found the EDA has been grossly mismanaged, resulting in improperly awarded incentives, inflated and misleading job counts, and corporate tax incentive recipients taking advantage of the agency’s lack of oversight, accountability and internal controls.
“While small business owners like me struggled for years to obtain loans and secure capital, an incompetently managed state EDA gave away billions of dollars in tax breaks to enrich CEOs and corporate shareholders,” said NJMSA Steering Committee Member Kelly Conklin, owner of Foley Waite LLC in Kenilworth. “Instead of giving tax breaks to large corporations, the EDA could have invested in main street and small businesses, who would have re-invested their profits in their communities. Small business owners create more jobs and create more GDP for the economy than a company that wants tax payers to subsidize them. We call on a full investigation of the state EDA and echo Governor Murphy’s call to overhaul the agency. Our businesses and communities deserve nothing less.”
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Historical Society is asking for your support. “Friends, Ridgewoodites (is that what we’re called? Ridgewoodians? Villagers? Ridgewood peeps?), and fellow history lovers: The Schoolhouse Museum invites you, your family or your business (or ALL of the above!) to become a sponsor of our upcoming exhibit “HERE COMES THE BRIDE; CHRONICLING TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF WEDDING CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS” We can only mount our exhibits with YOUR help! If you have ever walked through our doors and been impressed with what you’ve experienced, please help us continue to offer that experience to others! If you’ve walked through our doors and NOT been impressed, help us make our exhibits even better!! Your family name or business logo will be prominently displayed on all of our print and digital media and publicity. We are accepting sponsorships at any level, but if you would truly like to be a HERO and underwrite the whole thing, well……!”
RIDGEWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY &
SCHOOLHOUSE MUSEUM
650 E. Glen Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
PH 201-447-3242 [email protected]
Ridgewood NJ, Uniformed Ridgewood Police Patrol Officers and plainclothes detectives investigated at least two (2) additional forced entry burglaries to United States Postal Services drop boxes that were reported on Monday morning, 12/31. Two (2) of the burglaries were located on the same street; one (1) at the corner of East Ridgewood Avenue and Cottage Place, the other on Cottage Place in front of the Ridgewood Board of Education headquarters building. Mail left behind in both boxes was secured and removed for processing by a management representative of the Ridgewood Post Office. .
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood police have reported that on December 23rd, Ptl. Jack Knudsen responded to South Irving and Spring Avenue on a report of a burglary into a postal mailbox. Upon arrival postal mail was discovered outside of the mailbox and it was determined to have been forced open. The Ridgewood Post Office and the Postal Police were notified. A second mailbox was also discovered to have been forced open on North Walnut Street.
Ridgewood NJ, Holiday Hours – All Village offices will be closed on December 24th, December 25th, and January 1st, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
I wouldn’t put anything past the politicians. This is not about grandstanding douche bags, this is about dirty politics I don’t give two shits what that paper says. If Valley Hospital decide to sell that property they can and no one can stop them up selling that land that they own all you people that’s stupid. Yes they are plans for the next few years is to run that has a few different medical items that’s in that article. Don’t tell me 10 years down the road if they decide to sell that land to a developer hello wake up stupid.
Ridgewood’s Engineer Chris Rutishauser explained the pros and cons associated with automated parking structures
MARCH 27, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Village officials continue weighing potential solutions to the downtown’s parking paucity, and could end up turning to robots for help.
Ridgewood’s Engineer Chris Rutishauser explained the pros and cons associated with automated parking structures to the village council this week.
Village officials, who have met with representatives from the county in recent months to discuss a possible partnership on a parking garage facility, are considering an automated parking garage system at its worn lot on Hudson Street, Rutishauser said.
“It is something worth exploring, but we’re not ready to unequivocally recommend it,” Rutishauser said. “We’re enamored with the idea but we’re not ready to say this is the best thing for the village.”
In automated parking garages, cars are driven into a loading bay. When the car’s occupants leave the bay, a button is pressed, closing a glass door.
The vehicle is then scanned before a robotic pulley system carts it off to a space. For the forgetful, the scanning system can even detect pets or children.
Vehicle owners pay for parking time when they return, as the computerized, robotic mechanism retrieves the vehicle.
A conventional parking garage at the same site on Hudson Street could net the village 170 to 230 additional spaces, spread out over four parking decks and a roof. An automated garage, Rutishauser said, could hold up to 475 cars.
All of those spots would also comply with Americans with Disabilities Act standards, the village engineer said.
Audrey Meyers, of The Valley Hospital the Highest Paid Non-Profit hospital CEO in New Jersey?
From the article ; Medical millionaires: The compensation packages of hospital heads are drawing attention by Beth Fitzgerald , Among other notable 2012 paychecks for New Jersey hospital system CEOs:
Such salary figures are not limited to the heads of giant health care systems. All these CEO’s came out as salary winners, تنزيل BetWinner . NJBIZ found the leaders of other well-known hospitals around the state earned similar salaries in 2012.
Audrey Meyers, the CEO of The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, earned $2.18 million.
Michael Maron, the CEO of Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, was paid $1.83 million.
Barry S. Rabner, the CEO of Princeton Healthcare System, received $1.35 million.
John T. Gribbin, the CEO of CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, earned $1.2 million.
Gary S. Horan, the CEO of Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, was paid $1.19 million
Douglas Duchak, the former CEO of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, made $999,023.
The compensation comes at a time when the Affordable Care Act has the health care industry searching for ways to cut the ever-expanding cost of care.
Industry insiders will point to this idea as a reason for such salaries, saying these leaders are driving the search for such savings — and doing it at a time when some hospitals in the state are on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger of closing.
The salaries of the hospital heads are not unusual for CEOs in New Jersey. In fact, they are far below what others are earning.
The NJBIZ list of the highest-paid CEOs of public companies lists 25 making more than $7 million annually — and 45 making more than $3 million.
The difference, Berger said, is that these salaries were earned at public for-profit companies.
“I have no problem with people becoming millionaires if they’re not working for a tax-subsidized nonprofit,” he said.
Medical millionaires: The compensation packages of hospital heads are drawing attention
NYT: Woman Says Bridgegate Closings Didn’t Cause Her Mother’s Death
January 10, 2014 – 8:43 am
FORT LEE, N.J. — The daughter of a 91-year-old woman from Fort Lee, N.J., who died on the day of a major traffic jam precipitated by top aides to Gov. Chris Christie said on Thursday that she did not believe the inability of an ambulance to reach her mother’s house was a factor in her death.
“I honestly believe it was just her time,” said Vilma Oleri, whose mother, Florence Genova, died on the morning of Sept. 9, the first day that the closing of local lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge set off the snarls.
A Fort Lee emergency official has said that the traffic jam prevented an ambulance from Englewood Hospital from reaching Ms. Genova’s home.
Christie’s critics have seized on Genova’s death, even calling the traffic jam scandal “Bridgeghazi” in an accidental acknowledgement that Benghazi is a legitimate scandal — now that it can somehow be aimed at a Republican. Some have even suggested that manslaughter charges should be on the table. In the bridge scandal, not Benghazi, of course.
DWI legislation would replace drunken driving suspensions with ignition locks
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1, 2014, 10:49 PM
BY KIBRET MARKOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
Most convicted drunken drivers in New Jersey could avoid mandatory license suspensions under a new bill making its way through the Legislature — a proposal that constitutes a major shift in how the state deals with the offense.
The bill would require all drivers convicted of DWI to install an ignition interlock device on their cars that would prevent them from starting the engine unless they are sober. More than 35,000 drivers are convicted of DWI in New Jersey every year, including more than 3,200 in Bergen County and more than 1,500 in Passaic County, according to state court figures.
But the proposal to eliminate license suspensions — a sanction which has long been a fixture in the state’s drunken-driving laws — has provoked debate among lawmakers, anti-drunken driving advocates and defense attorneys. Among the bill’s staunch supporters is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, which said the bill is its top legislative priority in New Jersey.
“Taking away the license of a driver is not the best approach,” said Frank Harris, state legislative affairs director for MADD. “This is about a change in behavior and saving lives. It’s more of an effective approach to stopping drunk driving.”
