North Jersey Duo looks to Crowdfunding for their third short film together
September 04,2015
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Ridgewood NJ, Writer/Director Joseph Robert Redl and Executive Producer Nicholas Juzdan have started crowdfunding for their third short film together. They have produced short films like Daniel In The Lion’s Den (2014) and X’s On Trees (2015).
Both are local North Jersey residents Nicholas Juzdan of Woodland Park and Joseph Robert Redl of Ridgewood have teamed up again, producing their third short film, entitled “Kingwood.” The duo’s first short film, “Xs on Trees,” was screened earlier this year to rave revues.
Synopsis:
When Nick and Jeff’s father pass away, the vices they inherited fuel a story of greed, betrayal, and what it truly means to be on your own.
The film takes place on location at Joseph Robert Redl’s childhood farm house. Joseph likes to incorporate something personal from his life in all his work; and so the farm house was something he wanted to share.
This script is a draw in from the first line to the last and we can’t wait to bring it to the screen.
Hawthorne NJ, At approximately 2:45 PM on Monday, 08/31, Hawthorne PD received a 911 telephone call reporting that a 1-year old had fallen into a swimming pool located in the rear of 225 Washington Avenue.
The caller further reported that the infant was not breathing. The infant’s mother began CPR and first arriving Hawthorne PD officers deployed a defibrillator. The child was transported by a Hawthorne EMS ambulance to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with assistance from a paramedic unit based at the Medical Center. The ambulance was escorted to the hospital by a marked Hawthorne PD unit.
An investigation into the nature of the incident is now underway. The victim’s current condition is unknow
Elderly Male Critically Injured in alleged Suicide Attempt
August 31,2015
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Hawthorne NJ, Officers from the Hawthorne Police Department, along with a deputy from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, responded to a single family home located at 44 Kaywin Avenue, Hawthorne shortly after 7:30 PM on Sunday, 08/30 after receiving reports that the male homeowner was armed and threatening to kill himself.
A SWAT team was quickly summoned to the address. However, prior to their arrival, a Hawthorne police officer made entry to the home and found an elderly male victim in a bedroom, suffering from a single gun shot wound to the head. The critically injured victim was transported to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson by an ambulance from Hawthorne EMS. An investigation into the circumstances of the shooting is now underway.
U.S. Representative Scott Garrett
Ernest Scott Garrett is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey’s 5th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes much of the northern-most and western-most portions of the state.
Born: July 9, 1959 (age 56), Englewood, NJ
Office: Representative (R-NJ 5th District) since 2003
Spouse: Mary Garrett
Residence: Wantage Township, NJ
Children: Brittany Garrett, Jennifer Garrett
Education: Rutgers School of Law–Camden (1984), Montclair State University (1981)
WBTP Meeting 7 pm, Tuesday, August 25 at the Larkin House 380 Godwin Ave in Wyckoff NJ all are welcome
AUGUST 19, 2015, 11:57 AM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015, 11:57 AM
BY JOE MALINCONICO
PATERSON PRESS
PATERSON — The city is running about a month late in issuing the first property tax bills under the new assessments set in the recent revaluation, officials said.
The bills will be far from routine because they will provide Paterson property owners their first tangible information on what their individual taxes will be under the revaluation, officials said. The city has issued notices on what the individual properties’ new values will be, but it has not yet disclosed what the new tax rate or tax bills will be, official said.
City Council Finance Committee Chairman Kenneth Morris said many homeowners whose properties received lower assessments under the revaluation will be expecting to pay lower taxes. “Some of them are going to find out that it’s going to have a different outcome than they expected,” he warned.
The revaluation was a lot-by-lot revision of the assessed values of all Paterson properties. It lowered Paterson’s tax base from $8.2 billion to $5.8 billion, according to data released by the city earlier this year. The numbers showed that the values on residential properties generally went down far more than they did on commercial land.
To offset the drop in ratables, the city’s tax rate will rise, officials said. The amount of the increase in the rate will determine whether property owners will pay more or less taxes as a result of the revaluation, officials said.
Normally, the city issues tax bills for the first quarter of the new fiscal year, which starts on July 1, at the end of the July and the taxes are due at the end of August, officials said. But the administration has not yet asked the City Council for the approvals needed to issue the bills.
Morris said administration officials have told him they will ask for those approvals next week, which would allow the bills to go out at the end of August and be due at the end of September.
Morris said no one has explained to him why the city is late in issuing the bills. Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres on Monday referred questions about the timing of the tax bills to his business administrator, Nellie Pou, and acting finance director, James Ten Hoeve. Neither Pou nor Ten Hoeve has responded to phone messages left for them this week.
Irvington loses bid to reverse ruling on mayor’s recall A Superior Court judge has rejected Irvington’s bid to overturn her previous ruling directing municipal officials to approve a document that would allow a group of four township residents to begin the process of recalling Mayor Tony Vauss. (Bill Wichert, NJ.com) Read more
Never Laughed so Hard in My Life : Bob “the Tourch” Torricelli talks comeback
Ever doubt NJ Media all work for the Democratic Party ?
First the McGreevy Comeback , now this ?
After more than a decade out of politics working as a real estate developer, consultant to foreign governments and court-appointed overseer of a Jersey City environmental cleanup, Robert G. Torricelli — a onetime Englewood Democrat who abandoned his bid for a second term in the U.S. Senate 13 years ago under an ethical cloud — is talking comeback. (Herb Jackson, The Record)https://www.northjersey.com/news/jackson-ex-n-j-sen-robert-torricelli-talks-comeback-1.1393186
I admit that I share in the sense of revulsion that has gripped many of my fellow Americans, not all vegetarians, who cried out after news broke that dweeby 55-year-old Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer last month traveled to the African nation of Zimbabwe and murdered Cecil, a famous and beloved lion, in an illegal hunt.
“Is it that difficult for you to get an erection that you need to kill things?’’ late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel asked on air, tearing up theatrically — and playing the upsetting slaying of a 13-year-old lion for laughs. Actress Mia Farrow led the Internet equivalent of a pitchfork-and-torch charge by tweeting out (then deleting) the tooth man’s business address.
Palmer has soared to the top of the most-reviled humans list, a slot that, one would think, should be occupied by a human-child-killer rather than a lion-killer. But the king of the jungle benefits roaringly from a superior public-relations strategy. Now Palmer is the hunted, living in hiding, his practice closed. He’s forced to hire ex-cops to protect his Florida vacation house
from vandals who’ve spray-painted the words “LION Killer!’’ on the garage door and dumped pickled pigs’ feet in the driveway.
Do the severe punishments — probable financial ruin, effective exile from society, and Zimbabwean officials’ attempts to extradite him for criminal prosecution — fit the offense?
Sure — if you believe that all living beings, from furry critters to the despicable dentist — have the absolute right to live long and comfortable lives.
But how many of us eat meat, despite the well-documented animal-suffering in slaughterhouses? How many of us wear leather shoes, jackets and belts? How many of us have hunted deer? (Well, not me, but . . . )
AUGUST 6, 2015, 6:51 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2015, 6:57 PM
BY ALLISON PRIES
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
PARAMUS – An alert resident may have put an end Thursday to a series of overnight break-ins throughout North Jersey that included incidents in Ridgewood and Allendale.
James M. Rainsford, 47, is also being looked at in connection with similar crimes in North Haledon, Little Falls and elsewhere.
A River Edge resident called Paramus police at 8:41 a.m. to say he saw a person who he believed he recognized from media releases that was wanted for burglaries.
Related: Little Falls police seek man accused of burglarizing township houses
Rainsford was arrested a short time later while walking by a wooded area near Howland Avenue and Spring Valley Road in Paramus by Paramus Police Officers Mark Pinajian, Justin Sicari and Jack Cacamis on active burglary warrants from Allendale and Paterson.
Rainsford was found to be carrying a crack pipe and two small flashlights when he was arrested, according to a press release from Paramus Police.
He was interviewed by detectives from several local agencies and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office at Paramus Police Headquarters.
Allendale Police have charged Rainsford for a July 17 incident in which he allegedly was caught on video opening an unlocked door at a Franklin Turnpike home, while residents slept. A home alarm system woke them and they dialed 911. Rainsford allegedly fled when the alarm sounded, Allendale Police Det. Michael Dillon said.
Allendale Police compared notes with Norwood and Closter Police who, Dillon said, were familiar with Rainsford because he used to live in the Northern Valley. And they also got help from police in Little Falls, North Haledon and Ridgewood who are investigating their own incidents that may involve Rainsford, Dillon said.
AUGUST 5, 2015, 7:42 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015, 7:47 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
our North Jersey filmmakers banded together this summer to shoot a documentary they are hoping will address the stigma associated with heroin addiction.
Called “Epidemic H,” the 30-minute film will cast light on the devastation that heroin has wrought across suburban neighborhoods statewide and the crippling effects that the low-cost drug has had on its users, their families, friends, communities, local health organizations and law enforcement agencies.
“This is a drug that doesn’t discriminate and at this point, everyone knows someone who has been affected by heroin,” said Ken Spooner of River Vale. “We want people struggling with addiction to be able to relate to this film, which we hope will even the playing field. We want people to know what addiction is, and that it’s an illness that can be treated if you go about it the right way.”
Spooner and Mike O’Brien of Westwood, two of the executive producers, previously produced and directed “To Be Strong,” a 2014 movie about amateur pugilist Anthony Daniels and the Ridgewood native’s determined battle against blood cancer.
The other executive producers are Mike Mee, a filmmaker from Pompton Plains, and Dorothy Fucito, a movie producer from Ridgewood.
AUGUST 5, 2015, 11:25 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015, 11:34 PM
BY KARA YORIO AND STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
Classified ad websites, such as Craigslist, can be an easy and convenient way to buy and sell goods. Once a purchase is agreed upon, however, the parties typically have to meet to finish the transaction. That is where the deals can get tricky or even dangerous.
When Park Ridge resident Jodie Delehanty put an ad on Craigslist recently to sell her car, she received a response right away.
“The guy was very interested,” Delehanty said. “I thought it was weird that it was so quick, but it ended up being legit.”
Just in case, though, Delehanty and her husband completed the transaction in an online shopping “safe zone” in the parking lot of the Hillsdale Police Department.
The Hillsdale SafeTrade Station — in the department’s lobby and back parking lot — is one of many safe zones being created by police departments and communities around the country so people can complete transactions with strangers after buying or selling something online. People do not need to be a resident of the town.
Fallen Tree Closes Goffle Road for Several Hours on Tuesday
August 4,2015
th staff of the Ridgewood blog
Hawthorne NJ, A large tree fell in front of 400 Goffle Road, Hawthorne near, Diamond Bridge Avenue, at approximately 1:00 PM on Tuesday, 08/04. The falling tree hit an electric transformer and downed several primary electric lines, which in turn ignited a major brush fire.
Goffle Road was closed for several hours in both directions between Diamond Bridge Avenue and Macfarlan Avenue in Hawthorne. PSE&G reported numerous power outages in the area; it was unknown whether Verizon & Cablevision outages existed. Response by Hawthorne PD, EMS, and FD. One (1) person was removed from the scene by ambulance; it is unknown whether his/her condition was related to the incident.
The New Jersey State Police and Rutherford Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance with locating a missing “at risk” person:
Alfred “Fred” Fiume, 53, white male, 5’10”, 260 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes was last seen on July 26, 2015 at 9:30 p.m. Mr. Fiume did not show up for work today in Jamesburg, N.J.
Mr. Fiume’s cellphone was pinged in the area of Gravel Hill Road, Monroe Township this morning at 7:57 a.m. He may be operating a blue, 2007 Toyota Corolla with N.J. license plate C37ATM.
If you have information that can assist in helping safely locate Alfred “Fred” Fiume, please call 911 or contact the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit at 609-882-2000 ext. 2554 or Rutherford Police Department at 201-939-6000.
Ridgewood NJ, A homeless man dubbed by police as the “bicycle bandit” is wanted in connection with a series of overnight break-ins in several New Jersey communities, including Ridgewood, Allendale, Closter, Norwood, and Ramsey.
On Monday July 20, 2015, a Ridgewood resident reported that sometime between 2:00 am and 6:00 am that date an unidentified actor entered his/her home removing cash from the kitchen counter and consuming some leftover food from the refrigerator. The matter is under investigation by the detective bureau. Ridgewood Police now believe the the actor as the “Bicycle Bandit”. The Police have identified the man, James Rainsford, 47, a homeless man authorities say lives in or near Paterson.
In Allendale home surveillance video from one of the burglaries captured the suspect, 47-year-old James Rainsford, calmly walking up to an Allendale home and trying one door after another. He bolts when an alarm sounds and runs across the lawn, and soon after, his bike reflectors are seen spinning away as he rides off.
Little Falls Police are also looking for Rainsford who they say is responsible for burglarizing multiple homes and taking food with him from the scenes.
Anyone with information or who may have seen Rainsford should either call 9-1-1 or the Ridgewood Police Department at 201-652-3900.
