Category: Village of Ridgewood

>A Mano Heats Things Up This Spring With Appetizing Events

Ridgewood NJ – This Spring, Ridgewood New Jersey’s authentic Neapolitan trattoria A Mano, will hold a series of exciting, informative, and down-right delicious events celebrating Italian cuisine.

“Pass the Pizza”, an all-you-can-eat pizza extravaganza, will be held every Wednesday evening, beginning April 13th. With a combination of four pizzas to choose from, servers will o!er sizzling slices of fresh-out-of-the-wood-fired-oven pizzas, until guests’ taste buds are content. Each week, A Mano’s signature Margherita pizza will be featured, along with a rotation of
unique, authentic Neapolitan pies boasting di!erent premium toppings, including creative combinations of seasonal ingredients. Guests can indulge for $15.00 per person, $7.50 for children under ten (unlimited soda included, tax and gratuity additional). Regular dinner
service will also be offered.

At the second event, “The Italian Tour”, patrons will take a culinary journey through Italy, as Guest Chef Greg Stott prepares a special dinner paying homage to the delicious cuisine from Italy’s 20 diverse regions. Every other Thursday evening at 7:00PM, beginning April 14th, Chef Stott will highlight the fare from a di!erent area of the country. Guests will enjoy a delectable four-course meal including an appetizer, pasta, entree and dessert, celebrating the bold, rustic flavors customary to the region’s cuisine. The Chef will be on-hand to explain the featured dishes, ingredients and techniques specific to the land. $30 per person (tax and gratuity not included). Limited engagement, reservations required (regular dinner service will also be o!ered).Stott, a graduate of the esteemed French Culinary Institute, has worked at some of New York City’s most prestigious restaurants.

Pass the Pizza ,Unlimited Neapolitan pizza & soda, $15 per person, $7.50 children under 10 (tax and gratuity additional) Every Wednesday evening, beginning April 13th, 2011.W A Mano – 24 Franklin Avenue (at Chestnut St.) Ridgewood, NJ 07450 ,Tel. 201.493.200

>North Jersey housing vacancy rates rising
Sunday, April 3, 2011
LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2011, 11:25 AM
BY KATHLEEN LYNNAND DAVE SHEINGOLD
THE RECORD
STAFF WRITERS

A growing number of houses and apartments sit empty in North Jersey, a result of the four-year-old housing bust.

From affluent to middle-class to poor neighborhoods, the percentage of vacant homes was higher in 2010 than in 2000, according an analysis of U.S. census data by The Record.

The vacant homes include a Saddle River Victorian that an investor hoped to flip; newly constructed Waldwick town homes, and boarded-up, bank-owned houses in Paterson. And then there are the rentals that, in more prosperous times, would have been filled with new college graduates starting their careers.

https://www.northjersey.com/realestate/119137059_Housing_vacancy_rates_rising.html

>March Madness: U.S. Gov’t Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue
Monday, April 04, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Treasury has released a final statement for the month of March that demonstrates that financial madness has gripped the federal government.

During the month, according to the Treasury, the federal government grossed $194 billion in tax revenue and paid out $65.898 billion in tax refunds (including $62.011 to individuals and $3.887 to businesses) thus netting $128.179 billion in tax revenue for March.

At the same, the Treasury paid out a total of $1.1187 trillion. When the $65.898 billion in tax refunds is deducted from that, the Treasury paid a net of $1.0528 trillion in federal expenses for March.That $1.0528 trillion in spending for March equaled 8.2 times the $128.179 in net federal tax revenue for the month.

https://cnsnews.com/news/article/march-madness-feds-spent-more-eight-time

>Scott Garrett Challenges FAA Reauthorization Act of 2011

In 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a change in flight patterns according to the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Metropolitan Redesign Record of Decision, which affects flight patterns of airplanes traveling through LaGuardia, JFK, Newark and Philadelphia airports.

Last Friday, I offered an amendment to H.R. 658, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2011, requiring the FAA to examine alternative proposals for upcoming flight pattern changes of over the New York metropolitan area. Scheduled to be implemented by October 2011, these new flight patterns would cause a great deal of air traffic to be rerouted over many Bergen county and North Jersey towns.

Proponents of the airspace redesign have long maintained that it is necessary to redesign the airspace because a significant portion of the delays in our national airspace derive from the tri-state area. I couldn’t disagree more. The redesign of the airspace would have very little effect on delays but would adversely affect the lives of thousands of people.

My amendment would have prohibited the FAA from continuing with its implementation of the airspace redesign until it had conducted a study on alternatives to reduce delays at the four airports considered in the redesign, including studying whether reducing over scheduling and the use of smaller aircraft by air carriers would have a greater effect on reducing delays than the redesign.

New flight patterns over Northern New Jersey should not be implemented until a thorough study of alternatives is presented to Congress. My amendment would have ensured that every aspect of these new flight patterns was properly examined to protect 5th District towns from hasty decisions by the FAA.

Although my amendment did not pass the House, I will continue the good fight. It’s imperative that the FAA take seriously the concerns of those people on the ground that would be affected by their actions.
Sincerely,

Scott Garrett

>For charter schools, applications outpace legislation

Charter schools continue to go through a growth spurt in New Jersey, as dozens more applications enter the pipeline, but the pace is far slower for the legislation that would call for new rules and better oversight of all these new schools. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0403/2208/

>Redistricting map preserves the incumbent advantage


Redistricting tie-breaker Alan Rosenthal’s decision to support a legislative redistricting map drawn up by Democratic commission members can be summed up in two words: status quo. (Magyar, NJ Spotlight)

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/11/0404/0207/

>Not once has the BOE stopped to really listen to the parents about anything.

The administration is not accountable because the BOE is not accountable. The BOE is a rubber stamp for whatever nonsense Cottage Place concocts, plowing the road of all opposition before them. Not once has the BOE stopped to really listen to the parents about anything, unless of course it comes to sports.

Oh, they have their select little forum and focus groups, but those are just for show because they are set up by the Cottage Place and are stacked with their people. It’s like the fox guarding the chicken coup.

There is no intellectual curiosity on this BOE. It is solely the administration’s BOE.

>Inligua Language Center is looking for home stay hosts

Inligua Language Center provides company sponsored full-day English courses for business professionals who are either about to start an assignment in the US or who will be working with American clients when they return to their home.

As part of their language training we offer the professionals a home stay with a local family, so that they can be in an English-speaking environment even when they are not at class.

They are looking for families to provide home-stays, as some of the families from past years have either moved away or are unable to host this year. The home-stay families will be compensated for room and board by the sending company.

The host families must either be in Ridgewood or within 3 minute walk to public transportation to Ridgewood.

Hosts will be asked provide: A room, some meals, & English conversation.

Students take class from 9a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 5 days a week. The average stay is 4 weeks.

>N.J. Democrats retain advantage in upcoming legislative elections
By Matt Friedman/Statehouse Bureau

TRENTON — Alan Rosenthal, whose vote Sunday decided what the state’s 40 legislative districts will look like for the next decade, said siding with Democrats was the hardest decision he can remember making.

“I tried to get the commissioners of the two parties together on one map. That didn’t work. So I strove to make each of the various improvements in their own maps,” said Rosenthal, 78, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University. “I wanted it to be a tough decision. It was.”

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/nj_lawmakers_vow_to_fight_new.html

>Dumb Dumb Math : “gobbledygook and PC nonsense”

Science has not proven anything when it comes to the creation of the universe or beyond. It is a theory, not fact. When people like yourselves ridicule those that believe in a divine power as the creator, you show yourselves as intolerant of others’ views.

Only Liberals or atheists make fun of those who believe in a divine creator.

As far as our math program goes, it is a proven fact that it sucks. Look up the report by the department of education and what the current secretary’s office has said about CMP and spiraling. That is fact.

Go ahead, tell me you’re not a Liberal, Progressive, Democrat or an atheist. Because anyone else with an once of knowledge, when it comes to teaching math, knows that what we have is politically motivated. Read the curriculum and you’ll discover it is filled with gobbledygook and PC nonsense. That is fact.

>Fund will help finance Fayette trail
By JANELL BRADLEY, [email protected]

FAYETTE, Iowa — The city will loan $100,000 from its Bolger fund to help pay for a proposed trail from Fayette to the Volga River Recreation Area.

According to Doug McReynolds, chairman of the city’s finance committee, the connection will benefit downtown. Mayor Bill Dohrmann and committee member Braulic Caballero also noted the trail would be an attraction and economic engine, like a nearby golf course.

The money will be repaid with local option sales tax receipts dedicated to parks and recreation.
Upper Iowa University also will contribute to the project, and the city is seeking grants. The estimated cost for the trail is $650,000.

Beyond the immediate issue, officials outlined future uses of the Bolger fund.
David Bolger, a businessman from New Jersey, helped the city get back on its feet financially decades ago. In the 1990s he also donated properties to the community. Those have since been sold.

https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_d151e794-5a10-11e0-8d3a-001cc4c002e0.html

>GOP budget plan to cut more than $4 trillion

By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY

The House Republican who’s writing a proposed 2012 federal budget said Sunday the plan would cut more than $4 trillion in Washington spending over the next 10 years.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., head of the House Budget Committee, previewed general details of the plan set to be officially unveiled Tuesday even as Republicans and Democrats continued negotiations over a spending deal for the next six months that’s needed to avoid a government shutdown on Friday.

In a Fox News Sundayappearance, Ryan said the GOP 2012 budget blueprint would exceed the $4 trillion in spending cuts previously recommended by a presidential debt commission “by cutting spending, reforming entitlements and growing our economy.”

https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-04-04-Budget04_ST_N.htm

>The problem with Ridgewood Schools is that administration is not accountable.

There are one or two teachers in every school who should be teaching somewhere else. That is not the biggest problem facing the Ridgewood Schools.

The problem in this town is that administration is not accountable. They come up with programs and ideas that don’t always work. It takes them years to respond to their mistakes. Remember “writing to read”? Connected math will eventally be replaced with a better program, but it will be too late for many of the kids to catch up to where they should be. It is educational malpractice.

There was an article in the Ridgewood News about BF placing a suggested time limit on homework. That is not the solution. The problem is that kids leave class not understanding the work. In a normal math program they would have a text book to refer back to. Connected math does not have a text book and kids are left to Google their homework questions. The program is confusing and there is no book. That is the problem. Stressed out kids spending a lot of time trying to figure out the homework is just a symptom. I know of 6 kids in my daughter’s class who have gotten tutors this year(What would the number be if all of the parents had been asked about this?). This is an outrage! It is time to face up to the real problems in our math program. How many years does it take for the school to reevaluate and make the necessary changes??

>Burglary Spree Leaves Residents On Edge In Northern N.J.

MAHWAH, N.J. (CBS 2) — Residents were on edge in upscale areas of northern New Jersey and southern New York, as cunning burglars ransacked ritzy homes in an elaborate crime spree.
Police said the thieves were cutting phone lines, bypassing security systems and breaking down doors, even sneaking into bedrooms to get their hands on very pricy possessions, reports CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey.

Houman Firoozi was the latest victim. His bureau still had fingerprint dust on it after his home was ransacked Tuesday night. The thieves even went through his closet.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/01/burglary-spree-leaves-residents-on-edge-in-northern-nj/

>Opportunities for the Public to Hear about the 2011-2012 Budget

Tuesday, April 12: Coffee with the Superintendent
Ed Center, 49 Cottage Place, at 9 a.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Benjamin Franklin Middle School Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Please Remember to Vote on Wednesday, April 27

Have a question about the 2011-2012 proposed budget?

E-mail [email protected]. Your questions will be answered promptly!

Click here to read the March 29 Budget Update: https://tinyurl.com/3ua7vhq