Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PBA Local 20 annual toy drive event is organized to benefit Tomorrow’s Children Fund through HUMC, The Hackensack University Medical Center – Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Valley Hospital Pediatric Center, the 508th Military Police and military families, as well as countless others. “It is truly the holiday spirit selflessly donating toys to needy families this time of year and we are honored to be a part of it. “
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police report Ridgewood residents hit by multiply check and bank fraud.
A Chester, N.Y. resident responded to Ridgewood Police headquarters on December 14th to report a theft and a fraud occurred in the Village of Ridgewood in the past. The victim reported three fraudulent withdrawals were made at two Ridgewood bank locations. The victim reported after discovering the fraudulent withdrawals he then reported the incident to Chase Bank and closed the account. Chase Bank advised the victim two incidents occurred in the Village of Ridgewood on 12/8/18 and a third withdrawal was made in Somerville, N.J. Chase Bank is reportedly investigating the incidents.
A Grandview Circle resident responded to Ridgewood Police headquarters to report a theft of impersonation. The victim reported discovering three fraudulent charges were made on the victim’s TD Bank account in April 2018. The fraudulent activity was reported to TD Bank and determined to have been made to a paypal account in Bejing in the amount of $297.
A Norgate Drive resident responded to Ridgewood Police headquarters on December 18th to report a fraud. The victim reported an unknown actor withdrew money from his checking account without authorization on three separate occasions between 12/8/18 and 12/17/18. The incident was reported to the victim’s bank fraud department.
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police Report Multiple burglaries:
On December 13th, a residential burglary on Spring Avenue was reported to have occurred between 12/12/18 and 12/13/18. The homeowner reported discovering a broken window from an unknown person forcing entry to gain access. The Ridgewood Detective Bureau and Bergen County Sheriff’s Department responded to investigate.
On December 14th, a Doremus Avenue resident reported a theft from the rear yard of the residence occurred in the past. The victim reported a Honda ATV was stolen by an unknown actor between 12/8/18 and 12/9/18. The ATV was valued at approximately $3000.
On December 16th a Maxwell Place residence was discovered to have been burglarized in the past. A family member of the resident reported the burglary and theft occurred within the previous week after discovering the interior ransacked. The Ridgewood Detective Bureau and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department responded to the scene to investigate.
The Ridgewood Police Department is asking residents to be extra vigilant and report any activity they believe is suspicious. As a reminder make sure your residential doors and windows are locked as well as your vehicle’s doors. If you have any information that can assist with the investigation please contact the Ridgewood Police Detective Bureau at 201-251-4536.
All actors are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police officers took four (4) individuals into custody during a motor vehicle traffic stop made in connection with an alleged attempted shoplifting at the Stop & Shop, 175 Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood on Wednesday afternoon, 12/19. The traffic stop was affected by Glen Rock PD officers at the intersection of Glen Avenue and South Maple Avenue in Glen Rock. Police at the scene did not reveal the exact nature of criminal charges, if any, pending, or to be made, against the four (4) adults who were being detained.
Ridgewood NJ, Fill your holidays with hot food, hot Latin jazz and Broadway performance at Truly Sichuan! I’d like to invite you, your family and friends to Join Us for Dining & Live Entertainment. • Friday 12/28/18 – Hot Latin Jazz Band with professional musicians from Broadway • Thursday 1/3/19 & Friday 2/1 – Actor/Broadway Singer Anthony Claus (Frank Sinatra style). 2/1 is the Friday of Chinese New Year, reservation is required for this dinner show. We will have live music performed by Chinese musician during Chinese New Year Weekend (2/1-2/5/19). Holiday Dinner Menu is also coming out soon. Stay tuned…
Happy holidays and best regards
Truly Sichuan – The Authentic Sichuan/Szechen Cuisine Address: 31 Chestnut St. Ridgewood, NJ 07450 Business Phone: (201)857-3810 Web Address: www.trulysichuan.com FaceBook: TrulySichuanRidgewood
Ridgewood NJ, Why wait on long lines to meet Santa?? Come to the Ben and Jerry’s in Ridgewood to get a photo with Santa, enjoy one of our euphoric hot fudge sundaes, and our heart-warming hot chocolate bar!!! Cost: $10 before 12/15 which includes a digital copy of your picture with Santa, a sundae and hot chocolate, $13 at the door.
We will be collecting monetary gifts for Ridgecrest Senior Housing Go Green Project. Please bring a donation to receive 10% off of your future purchases at Ben and Jerry’s.
SUNDAES WITH SANTA Date: Sunday December 16th, 2018 Time: 12pm- 3pm
I agree with the last comment. We also left several years ago, forced out by a job loss and increase in taxes. Lived through the Valley Expansion debacle and glad it was defeated. With all this development and that travesty of the parking garage Ridgewood will become another Montclair. It was hard to leave but with all that has happened in the past few years since our departure, I’m certain it was the right thing to do. And yes, that Town Garage has been an eyesore and issue of controversy for years. Make the speculators who bought it pay for clean up. It is not the responsibility of the tax payers but sadly it will probably end up as such
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PD Patrol Officer Raymond Tarino assists a motorist whose cell phone dropped through a slotted protective grate and fell into a storm drain near 205 East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood late Friday afternoon, 12/14. The device was successfully recovered by Officer Tarino and immediately returned to its owner.
Ridgewood NJ, Valley Medical Group has been recognized for performance data transparency with the Press Ganey Seal of Integrity.
The Seal of Integrity validates the reliability of Valley’s data transparency program for having met scientifically rigorous standards for collecting and publicly reporting physician performance ratings and patient experience data.
“Valley Medical Group is proud to have earned the Press Ganey Seal of Integrity,” said Marc Goldstein, President, Valley Medical Group. “This recognition further validates Valley Medical Group’s commitment to collecting and openly sharing feedback from patients.”
To receive the Seal of Integrity, Valley was verified by Press Ganey to have met data standards in regards to validation of patient responses, assurance of survey returns per provider, complete reporting of survey responses and posting of patient comments and feedback related to the physician or patient experience during a visit.
“Valley Medical Group has demonstrated its commitment to delivering an accurate representation of provider performance to help patients make informed decisions about their care,” said Patrick T. Ryan, CEO, Press Ganey. “As more consumers turn to online physician reviews when selecting a care provider, healthcare organizations are implementing strategies to ensure the ratings they post are objective, standardized evaluations of their patients’ experiences.”
First, the parking garage; next, the Jehovah’s witnesses loitering the parameters. Here is my conspiracy: we are entering what is most comparable to what was seen on Handmaids tale… we are all under surveillance, and as a woman, I have fear for what’s to come for our humble village. Will there be any saving grace for our town. What is this tower? Why are there four cameras and tinted windows? Why hasn’t anyone told us what it is for? Why do we need a parking garage when we also have the Mount Carmel parking? Why are Jehovah’s witnesses than ever? Is our country under attack without our knowledge… tbd.
Ridgewood NJ, All parking lots in the Central Business District, including the train station lot, will have free parkingon the following Saturdays: December 15th, and 22nd. This does not include the parking area by the Christmas tree (on thecorner of East Ridgewood Ave. and Broad Street) or the parking area to the right of the train station parking lot (in the area across from the storesand restaurants on Godwin Avenue). Street meters will still be in effect. Come shop, dine, and enjoy FREE parking in the Village duringthe holiday season.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PD Patrol Officers Anthony Mormino and John Ward, Jr. ensured the safety of participants and distributed goody bags with glow sticks at the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Haunted Harvest,” held in Van Neste Memorial Park, on Saturday, 10/29.
The Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce’ s Haunted Harvest, Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, was Saturday, October 29 from 1 – 4pm.
Guests could walk through the haunted grave yard, hide in the hay maze, jump through the pumpkin patch. There was also a Halloween parade and contest , for adults, children and pets.
By Eric Olsen, special to cleveland.com
on February 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM, updated February 13, 2016 at 5:31 PM
You just finish putting away all the Christmas and winter decorations and Valentine’s Day rolls around, a time for the showy expression of love, especially romantic love, in the form of mushy cards, a box of chocolate, flowers, a romantic meal, maybe jewelry – you know what you have to do.
But Valentine’s Day, formally St. Valentine’s Day, has weird ancient roots stained in blood and rites of spring.
Lupercalia
Like many major Western holidays — Christmas, Easter, Halloween — Valentine’s Day has pre-Christian pagan roots, specifically in the ancient Roman celebration of Lupercalia, which was observed February 13-15 for over 1,000 years before being abolished at the end of the 5th century. Lupercalia was an odd blend of spring purification ritual, fertility rite, and tribute to Lupa, the she-wolf who suckled the infant orphans Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
The festivities began solemnly enough near Lupa’s cave on Palatine Hill, where Rome was traditionally founded, and were directed by the Luperci, the “brothers of the wolf,” who were priests of Faunus, the Roman equivalent of Pan. The festival got down to business with the sacrifice of two male goats for fertility and a dog for purity by the Luperci, who were each dressed only in a goatskin.
Courtesy, Eric Olsen
Next, two young aristocratic Luperci were led to the altar and anointed with the sacrificial blood on their foreheads, which was wiped off the bloody knife with wool soaked in milk. A feast followed and then thongs were cut from the skin of the sacrificed animals and the Luperci, who were by then feeling quite festive, frolicked about the Palatine district.
In the 1st century, Greek historian Plutarch portrayed the scene. “Many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs,” he wrote. “And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.” Maybe a few of the lads took it upon themselves to help out with the latter, but one can only speculate.
By the 5th century, the festival had been abandoned to the “rabble” in what was by then Christian Rome, and was finally banned altogether at the end of the decade as an unseemly and licentious display. Not a lot of hearts and flowers per se, but the festival, at least originally, was a playful and flirty ode to fertility.
file photo courtesy of Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
November 1,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
RIDGEWOOD, NJ, The Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company will present the comic opera Ruddigorefor their Fall 2015 production. Performances will take place at the Fair Lawn Community Center on Sunday, November 29 at 2 pm; and at the Ridgewood United Methodist Church on Saturday, December 12 at 7:30 pm; and Sunday, December 13 at 2 pm.
The opera is directed by Nell White (Teaneck, NJ), Ruddigore is a comic opera with several humorous characters, from crazy professional bridesmaids to ancestral ghosts. Although it contains some Halloween-like elements,Ruddigore is more of a romantic farce than anything else. Music Director Paul Geidel (Yonkers, NY) leads an ensemble of teens and adults from the surrounding metropolitan area in singing a very beautiful and challenging operatic score.
The cast features Abigail Stokes (Kearny, NJ) as Rose Maybud, Dennis Oliveira (Kearny, NJ) as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd/Robin Oakapple, Paul White (Teaneck) and Josh Miller (Bronx, NY) as Sir Despard, Eileen Mager (Haworth, NJ) as Mad Margaret, Eileen Karlson-White (Teaneck) and Francesca Stokes (Kearny, NJ) as Dame Hannah, Richard Damaso (New Milford, CT) as Richard Dauntless, John Holmboe (Pearl River, NY) as Sir Roderic, Joe Rothstein (Elizabeth, NJ) as Old Adam Goodheart, and Joy Forlenza (Franklin Lakes) and Hannah Haas (Allendale) as Zorah.
Tickets are avalable at ridgewoodgands.com. Tickets are $20 online and at the door. Children 12 and under are admitted free. The Fair Lawn Community Center is located at 10-10 20th St., Fair Lawn, NJ. The Ridgewood United Methodist Church is located at 100 Dayton Street in Ridgewood, NJ. For further information, call 973-423-0300.
The Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, a nonprofit performing ensemble, has presented full productions of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan on a regular schedule since its founding in 1937.
Halloween Reading : Reviving Witchcraft
By Kate Carlson | Published 10/29/15 7:32am
When people hear “Witch” most will associate it with an evil woman with a big nose, pointed black hat and a broomstick.
Most are unaware there is a community within Central Michigan University that identifies as Witches year-round.
The end of October is a sacred time for many religions, specifically those who practice Witchcraft and other contemporary Pagans. Their holy day, Samhain, the traditional Celtic holiday focused on the end of the harvest and preparations for winter, falls on Halloween.
Practicing Witchcraft as either a Witch or Wiccan usually falls under the umbrella of Paganism, explained religion professor Dr. Laurel Zwissler. Paganism is usually classified as the practice of reviving ancient religions in conjunction with a spiritual appreciation for the earth.
“There are so many misunderstandings about what Witchcraft as a religion is, it makes sense to me that a lot of people would choose to be a little more private about their beliefs,” Zwissler said. “I do know there is a Pagan presence on campus.”
The population of people who practice Witchcraft is difficult to track, mostly because of the stigma attached to the minority religion, and lack of brick and mortar places of worship, Zwissler said. In popular culture Witches are typically portrayed as cartoon characters and are demonized. The fictitious myth of a Witch that exists in the media does not reflect people who actually practice the religion, but is still associated with them. That does not stop some, however, from practicing their religion despite negative backlash and lack of religious diversity on campus.
Roze Bentley has identified as a Witch for 20 years. The Mount Pleasant student is studying religion and said she instantly found a community within a registered student organization formed for religious diversity, Open Grove Society, upon arriving at CMU.
“A lot of people have a very negative, visceral reaction to the word ‘Witch,’” Bentley said. “There’s a stereotype of a harmful person, and really the religion is completely the opposite of that.”
Witchcraft practices have deep roots in feminism, and have self-care as a central message to the faith.
