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Honestly I almost hate driving these days.
People are either too aggressive or very distracted.
And the roads in Bergen Cty are abominable. Franklin Tpk in HHK by the car wash should be closed until repairs have been completed.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ben & Jerry’s of Ridgewood Scoops Out Fun and Free Flavors
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
12:00-8:00pm
104-106 Franklin Ave, Ridgewood
Continue reading Ben&Jerry’s Free Cone Day Tuesday April 9th from 12-8pm in partner with Ridgecrest Senior Housing
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache joined Assemblywomen
Holly Schepisi ,leading the discussion on the hard end of life decisions at Bergen County’s Conversation of Your Life (COYL) signing event at Berkeley College .
Since 2014, the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute has been working to change the culture around end-of-life care in New Jersey. COYL was created to promote community-based conversations around advance care planning. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the number of residents who have documented and communicated their end-of-life wishes.
Continue reading Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache joins Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi at Bergen County’s Conversation of Your Life Event at Berkeley College
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Ridgewood NJ, Early Bird Registration for Graydon Pool is now open, and will run through April 30th, with a 10% discount on resident membership for adults and children. Please go to the Village website, www.ridgewoodnj.net, and click on the picture of Graydon Pool, for additional information.
” Hated Paul’s giant garage, don’t think at this point we need the smaller version but most of all I hate taking trees and green space no matter how small for more for extra spaces at the Train Station which will not make a difference in the end and will cost commuters an arm and a leg. Also agree with the post about over regulation in the CBD. If anything is going to hurt the downtown businesses it will be this. I almost feel like first come first served would be a better plan and open up the streets with free parking. It has been done on other town “
“Well after almost 30 years in town and countless hours of debate we have reluctantly decided to give up on RW. We raised our children here, made some good friends, and enjoy many aspects of the area. But the village has just sucked every bit of tolerance from us. Property taxes north of $40,000 that will never go down, parking rates that are just ridiculous, can’t water the lawn, rampant nepotism and weak selfish leaders, an awful expensive commute to NYC, and a $111,000,000 school budget have combined to drive us out. All of this with NJ state seeming to do everything it can to also drive people out.
Anyone looking for a nice house on the west side let us know. Wish all well”
” I’ve observed a series of these Ridgewood-trashing posts on this blog. Poorly written, without any details aside from occasional reference to “gargantuan garage” or “getting overwhelmed with affordable housing.”
I’m the afore-mentioned transplant from NYC, although I consider myself a conservative by today’s standards. What’s your message to me exactly? To vote down village exco? To sell my house and move to greener pastures… in Dallas? What exactly are you offering? Where is the link to community events where the Reader gets off his ass and shares with newcomers how to make Ridgewood great again? Where I come from we take leadership and leave complaining to ex wives. Common, Reader, you could do better than that! “
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Summer Day Camp is for children entering Grades 1 through 6 in September. It will be held weekdays for six weeks, 9 am to 1:30 pm, Tuesday, June 25 through Friday, August 2, 2019.
The camp will be held at the Stable, Maple Park East, Graydon Pool, Leuning Park, Veteran’s Field and the Community Center at Village Hall.
Activities include organized games, arts and crafts, swimming at Graydon Pool, optional trips and fun special events. Children are to bring a bag lunch and beverages.
Continue reading RIDGEWOOD SUMMER DAY CAMP 2019
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Ridgewood NJ, Seasonal Part Time Parking Enforcement Officer for Ridgewood Police Department.
Part time position, up to 20 hours per week starting at $17.98/hr., will need to work Saturdays. Applications are available at the Police Dept. and on the Police Dept. website. Send resume, cover letter and application to Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke, Ridgewood Police Dept., 131 N. Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 by April 28th 2019. The Village of Ridgewood is an EOE and civil service community. All hiring is provisional and subject to Civil Service and residency requirements.
“To the anonymous who asks “who would want to move in Ridgewood today” the answer is tons of people from NYC. They are shallow and go by hype. Ask any new family moving into town and they say schools, there you go. They also post in local FB pages and guess what, they ask what’s the best way to get to the city?! Now who moves into a town, buys a house and doesn’t check about their commute beforehand and then start complaining about commute issues from parking to train delays?! They also happen to be liberals/leftists. I bet election over election RW goes blue by at least 10% more.
The town is on a quick decline because of its bad seed of local politicians but most importantly because voter base is totally clueless about what makes a village/town great and better than the place they moved from. “
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Ridgewood NJ, The Woman’s Club of Ridgewood Presents it’s First Annual Music Festival, Friday, April 5th, 2019
featuring local bands and singers……
Food Trucks, Cigar rolling, Psychic readings, Beer and Wine and Bourbon tastings….
Join us at 215 West Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood
$25 via Evenbrite
$30 at the door….
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Ridgewood NJ, The Women Gardeners Of Ridgewood will celebrate Gardeners Day on Wednesday, April 10th, 2019. The event features guest speaker, Tovah Martin Wed, April 10, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: The Old Paramus Reformed Church, 660 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
The Women Gardeners of Ridgewood is proud to present Gardeners Day.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at The Old Paramus Reformed Church, 660 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ
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Ridgwood NJ, Even The New York Times knows plastic bag bans only make people feel good, they don’t help anything. The Brits ran a real study and found:
“The study found that an avid shopper would have to reuse his or her cotton bag 131 timesbefore it had a smaller global warming impact than a lightweight plastic bag used only once. And, depending on the make, more durable plastic bags would have to be used at least 4 to 11 times before they made up for their heftier upfront climate costs.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/climate/plastic-paper-shopping-bags.html
And yet Village Councilman Mike Sedon spoke enthusiastically from the dais about the ban and then a new tax on bags. The facts don’t match the rhetoric or emotions behind the “ban bags” push. New taxes on Ridgewood’s’ already overtaxed residents make no sense either!
Stop the madness at Village Hall, more taxes and more bans on this and that aren’t doing anything. Leave us alone.
” I am certain that there would be fewer accidents if drivers paid attention to the road and not their electronic devices when driving. Also , when I walk in the CBD I wait for cars to stop and let me cross and they often do not especially on Broad Street in front of the Super Cellars area and Union St. in back of Talbots. Why? because there are no police there. Cars stop in front of Van Neste Square because there are police cars there watching.
Cars are vehicles controlled by people. Many of the people driving cars hate other people and would just as soon run over someone and kill them. Have you noticed in the news how many hit and run driving incidents there are. The question is why are so many people so hateful. Is it because the area is expensive and crowded; is it some kind of me first attitude, and you can go to hell. Of course those things all contribute. Does anyone know other reasons , or the reason? “
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Ridgewood NJ, On Wednesday, March 27, Jersey Mike’s Subs expects to generate more than $6 million in sales — and give it all to charity. It’s the sub company’s 9th Annual Day of Giving when more than 1,500 Jersey Mike’s Subs restaurants nationwide will donate their resources and 100 percent of sales to help local organizations. (View/download b-roll)
Day of Giving is the culmination of Jersey Mike’s Month of Giving fundraising campaign in March, supporting more than 200 local charities across the nation. Partners include hospitals, youth organizations, food banks and more. For a list of participating restaurants and charity partners, please visit https://ww.jerseymikes.com/mog/charities.
Continue reading On Wednesday, March 27: Jersey Mike’s Donates 100% of Sales to Local Charities
