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Fort Lee NJ, in a letter Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton told New York and New Jersey congressional representatives that the agency needed nearly $2 billion in aid following sharp revenue declines in March across its various transportation assets. Cotton said vehicle traffic on the bi-state agency’s crossings is down 22% compared to a year ago while ridership on the PATH rail transit has dropped 75%.
Everybody is looking for a get-rich-quick scheme in this day and age. It isn’t really because people are greedy or anything like that, but rather because the financial systems around the world have become quite exhausting. Many people work for long hours every day, and they often have nothing to show for it, barely making ends meet. This is why some try investing in the different markets so they can make a profit with little investment and minimal effort. Unfortunately, reality can be disappointing, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can lose money. One of the better options that you can explore is binary options trading.
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Ridgewood NJ, Coronavirus has claimed the life of Alan Finder of Ridgewood , a former New York Times reporter who once worked for The (Bergen) Record. He was 72. Finder had covered Ridgewood and Elmwood Park for The Record before quickly becoming one of the newspapers rising stars. He left to join Newsday, the Long Island-based daily newspaper, before beginning a 28-year stint with the New York Times.
March 25, 2020
Dear Ridgewood School Community,
This is a very dynamic and ever-changing situation, and as expected, the number of reported cases of COVID-19 continues to rise. While I have not received any “official notice,” I am comfortable saying that we will be closed the week of March 30-April 3. Spring break is the following week, and, as in the past, it will be homework free. This will allow families time to regroup, organize home schedules, and get recharged for the resumption of probable home instruction on April 13th. Based on the trajectory of reported cases, and most unfortunately, deaths, I presume our closure will continue for a while.
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Ridgewood NJ, a 25-year-old former Ridgewood athlete has been hospitalized for more than a week after contracting COVID-19. Currently he is fighting for his life after a lab lost a test that showed he was positive for the coronavirus delaying his treatment.
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David Alland, director of the Public Health Institute at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, led the research team that assessed a late test prototype.
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New Brunswick NJ, A Rutgers research team has completed the first evaluation of a new rapid COVID-19 test given emergency approval by the FDA. The test, developed by CEPHEID, a U.S. molecular diagnostics company, is fast and easy to perform without the need for a centralized laboratory. The company said the test would be available next week.
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photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page
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Paramus NJ, Route 17 was closed in both direction on Wednesday after a tractor trailer caught fire in front of Pier 1 across from the Fireplace at the Ridgewood Avenue exit. There may have been interruption in telephone, cable and electrical service. Wires were down causing heavy delays . It appears the truck careened off the highway hitting a utility pole.
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Ridgewood NJ, The Red Cross is alerting everyone to blood and platelet shortage. Please donate if you can. https://www.redcrossblood.org/
The American Red Cross now faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations during this coronavirus outbreak. Healthy individuals are needed to donate now to help patients counting on lifesaving blood.
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Ridgewood NJ, As per the NJ Department of Agriculture Goffle Brook Farm & Garden Center is considered an essential business and will remain open Monday thru Sunday 8:30-5:00. The only change in those hours would be a day that rains all day. We would then close to avoid too many people in the store.
Thank you for your continued support. As we have mentioned we offer:
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Ridgewood NJ, The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) — an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco today urged Governor Murphy to sign legislation extending the New Jersey tax filing deadline to June 30.
“The coronavirus has disrupted normal life. Workers who had stable jobs suddenly find themselves unable to make a living due to necessary restrictions ordered by the governor to slow the spread of the disease,” said Bucco (R-25). “Businesses have shut down, and people are worried. The current deadline is April 15, just three weeks away. The extension is warranted and necessary, especially for taxpayers who may end up owing a tax payment to the state.”
US has conducted more COVID 19 tests in 8 days than South Korea did in 8 weeks.
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Ridgewood NJ, Following Gov. Phil Murphy’s weekend executive order that mandated people stay home and shuttered all non-essential businesses, Assemblyman Kevin J. Rooney announced he was issuing a resolution to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ramp up testing for COVID-19 so that people could return to work.
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Ridgewood NJ, at Mondays Ridgewood Board of Education meeting, Ms. Poelstra provided an update on the Home Instruction Plan. Information about the plans for K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 are posted on the homepage of the district website for easy access. These Google sites contain valuable resources for students and parents to help them through the process. For K-5, the Google site has sections by grade level where parents can access the daily lessons. Initially, daily lessons were posted in the morning, but after receiving feedback from parents, the district began to post them the evening before, which gives working parents time to review and prepare for the next day of home instruction. Teachers are online every day from 8:00-12:30 to answer questions. The middle school and high school websites are designed specifically for the students to give them easy access to information about the schedule, attendance, resources, technology issues, and more. Additionally, our Technology Innovation Specialists are evaluating tools that be used for face-to-face instruction, particularly with the elementary students.
