The RHS Girls Tennis team won the North I Group IV state sectional title
November 24,2014Ridgewood NJ, The RHS Girls Tennis team won the North I Group IV state sectional title, beating Bergen Tech in the finals and Livingston High School in the semis.
The squad also tied for second in the Big School County Tournament this season, and Sara Canilang and Liz O’Keefewon the doubles championship. Medha Kirtane is the coach.
This year girls RHS Tennis was ranked number 2 in The Record’s Top 15 Tennis rankings.
Other team members with media permission granted to be named are Monica Vitting, Kelly Rekucki, Kat Bonfiglion, Brianna Patek, Kolby Erskine, Swathi Raguian, Alex Absey and Julia Yoon.
RHS Latin Team takes First Place n a test of Latin, Roman life, history and mythology
November 24,2014
Ridgewood NJ, For the third consecutive year the RHS Advanced Latin Academic Team took first place in a test of Latin, Roman life, history and mythology with 13 New Jersey schools. The team members arePoyani Bavishi, Ben Bechtold, Charlotte Kahan, Sophie Simpson, Peter Psathas andAnthony Tokarz.
On November 8 all RHS teams spent the day at Yale University for a national competition. The Advanced team made it to the semi-final rounds but was defeated by the country’s top-ranked team, AMSA. TheIntermediate Team made a promising start in its first tournament. The Intermediate players were Sophie Simpson, Matthew Zachem, Audrey Gao and Vanita Sharma. The Advanced players were Henry Seifert, Elizabeth O’Keefe, James Psathas, Poyani Bavishi, Ben Bechtold, Charlotte Kahan, Sophie Simpson, Peter Psathas and Anthony Tokarz.
Residents fighting plan to place antenna on top of Ridgewood church
NOVEMBER 24, 2014 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014, 12:18 AM
BY JODI WEINBERGER
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
About a dozen residents who live near the West Side Presbyterian Church are opposing a plan by Verizon Wireless to put a 3-foot cell antenna on the top of the cross, saying at a zoning board meeting Nov. 11 that it would change the character of the neighborhood.
The telecommunications company is asking for a use and height variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment to build what they’re calling a “micro site” antenna at the location, 6 S. Monroe St., to help alleviate a significant gap in coverage.
The antenna, which is not permitted in a residential zone, would bring the total building height to 68.5 feet where 30 feet is permitted by law. Currently the building stands at 65.5 feet when measured to the top of the cross.
Initial plans from Verizon showed the building height with the antenna at 83 feet, which Verizon attorney Warren Stilwell said was caused by an error in measuring that has been fixed.
Because of the new, lower building height, radio frequency engineer Glenn Pierson said about 10 fewer houses would receive coverage from the previous estimate of a 700-home coverage area north of West Ridgewood Avenue on North Monroe Street, Beachwood Road, Monte Vista Avenue, Sheridan Terrace and other roadways. The coverage would not reach West Glen Avenue.
North Jersey commercial sales pacing to hit $5 billion
NOVEMBER 25, 2014 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
* Bergen leads North Jersey in dollar volume of property transactions as investor interest in office market heats up
It’s shaping up to be a banner year for commercial real estate in North Jersey, with the dollar volume on deals expected to top $5 billion, the highest annual total since 2007, according to Massey Knakal Realty Services.
“It is the best year since 2007, since the last proper real estate boom we had,” said Mark Holz, the real estate firm’s research manager.
In its third-quarter update, Massey Knakal estimated that sales are poised to reach $5.2 billion from 1,327 transactions this year, in part buoyed by investor interest in the office market, which has struggled post-recession.
The real estate company also reported that through the first three quarters, there have been $3.9 billion in sales and 995 transactions in North Jersey, both up 40 percent from the same year-ago period. Massey Knakal, which has offices in Rutherford, defines the region as Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex, Middlesex and Union counties.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned Monday, becoming the first casualty of the Obama administration since Democrats suffered significant losses in this month’s midterm elections.
Hagel, the only Republican in Obama’s cabinet, was brought to the Pentagon to reduce budgets and wind down the war in Afghanistan.
His departure comes as the White House faces criticism over its handling of a new terrorist threat — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and questions had been raised about whether Hagel was the right man for that job.
Obama announced Hagel’s departure in a White House ceremony were he was flanked by Hagel and Vice President Biden. He hailed Hagel as an “exemplary defense secretary” who had put the military “on a firmer footing.”
“I’ve known him admired him and trusted him for nearly a decade,” said Obama, who then added that Hagel had decided “it was an appropriate time for him to conclude his service.”
A senior administration official said the two had been discussing the possible transition since October. The president plans to nominate a successor shortly, but Hagel said he would remain in the post until that person is confirmed by the Senate.
Hagel, clearly emotional, said the “greatest privilege” of his career was leading the men and women of the Pentagon.
Different IP sample ,more of the same ,sad ,lonely and pathetic ….
The Mayor will host a meeting on civility in our public discourse Monday, November 24 at 7:30pm in Village Hall, why cant we all just get along?
The Mayor Paul Aronsohn will host a meeting on civility in our public discourse on Monday, November 24, 7:30pm at Village Hall, and the Ridgewood blog asks, “why cant we all just get along?” all day Monday join the conversation !
Specifically, the Mayor would like to begin a community-wide conversation about ways in which we can elevate public discourse and improve the way in which people publicly treat each other … whether it be at a Council meeting … on a ball field … in an online discussion … or anywhere else.
the entire day will be sponsored by MrBeer
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Submitted on 2014/11/18 at 7:55 pm
Yes # 10 but there are also some home grown one here also.
Yea like the guy who runs this blog
SCOTT SELDERS OF RIDGEWOOD CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
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Submitted on 2014/11/18 at 1:43 pm
Come on foytlin just admit it you are a 1st class ASSHOLE, just admit it.
IMPORTANT NOTICE CONCERNING VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD LEAF REMOVAL – REVISED SCHEDULE
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Submitted on 2014/11/18 at 1:39 pm
Come on foytlin just admit it you are a 1st class ASSHOLE, just admit it.
Reader says Mr. Aronsohn’s, Mr. Pucciarelli’s and Mrs. Hauck’s continue to behave as though “rules are for others”.
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Submitted on 2014/11/18 at 9:32 am
Hey jimmy boy how are you doing? Still being a big ASSHOLE I see. But then what else would we expect from you.
Reader says Mr. Aronsohn’s, Mr. Pucciarelli’s and Mrs. Hauck’s continue to behave as though “rules are for others”.
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Submitted on 2014/11/17 at 5:17 pm
Hey jimmy boy how are you doing? Still being a big ASSHOLE I see. But then what else would we expect from you.
Crisis helped to improve Port Authority bus terminal
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Submitted on 2014/11/17 at 4:30 pm
Hey jimmy boy how are you doing? Still being a big ASSHOLE I see. But then what else would we expect from you.
Planning Board Amendment to Meeting Schedule – November 17th
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Submitted on 2014/11/14 at 7:36 am
Good morning ASSHOLE foytlin, how the fuck are you today?
Ridgewood Police Department : Resident Vehicle Identification stickers
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Submitted on 2014/11/12 at 10:08 pm
Hey Jimmy boy foytlin….why do you still refuse to admit you are the Village ASSHOLE?
Drug sweep at Ridgewood High School
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Submitted on 2014/11/11 at 9:46 pm
The only Moron here is jimmy boy foytlin. AKA as the Village ASSHOLE.
The 70’s Generation the Generation that never made it….
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Ridgewood Resident Hit by “Green Dot Money Card.” Scam
Ridgewood Police report on Nov. 14: A Goffle Road resident reported that he had received a call from an unknown person identifying themselves as an agent from the U.S. Treasury department. According to police, the caller claimed that the victim owed back taxes and that the authorities would arrest him if he did not pay using “Green Dot Money Cards.” The case is currently under investigation. Police said this is a scam that has been occurring in numerous and different forms. Police advise that government agencies will not request any payment using Green Dot, and no payments should ever be paid without receiving written bills and verification of the debt owed. (Ridgeood Police Blotter)
Scammers now using Green Dot MoneyPak cards
Posted: Feb 20, 2013 7:25 PM EST Updated: Apr 09, 2014 2:21 PM EDT
By Dave Cherry
Connect
PHOENIX (CBS5) -Scams of all kinds have historically involved the victim wiring cash to a stranger, but now that many consumers have gotten wise to this fact, scammers have found a new way for them to pay them.
They’re called Green Dot MoneyPak cards. They’re reloadable debit cards, available everywhere, and you can use them to pay your phone, cable, or credit card bill. They’re typically for people who don’t have, or want, bank accounts.
Scammers like them because they’re more convenient than a money wire, but just as untraceable.
“My fear was that I was going to lose my job, and my home, and my car,” Dean DeVirgilio said.
Even with his autism, DeVirgilio still tends to all his own affairs. Recently, he got a call from a debt collector who claimed DeVirgilio owed $1,300 on an old payday loan. The caller said, “pay it, or else.”
“Threatened to send the sheriff to my workplace, send a warrant for my arrest, and have me in jail for three years for fraud,” DeVirgilio said.
Federal law prohibits debt collectors from using intimidation, threats and harassment, and no one can be jailed over a debt. DeVirgilio should have realized then he was dealing with a scam artist and the debt wasn’t real. Instead, he sent the scammer the money.
Youth-football ranks take a hit as North Jersey parents rethink safety
November 23, 2014, 10:48 PM Last updated: Monday, November 24, 2014, 8:22 AM
By JEFF ROBERTS
The father does not want to say no.
Anthony LoSauro’s two young sons love football. He loves football.
He played at Bergen Catholic and then at Division III Middlebury. But the Ridgewood dad understands the risks. LoSauro sometimes wonders if the four concussions he suffered in his career have slightly slowed his memory recall.
So even with two years remaining before his older son is eligible to play tackle football, LoSauro and his wife, Marybeth, already agonize over the question: Should they let him?
“I’m definitely conflicted about it,” said LoSauro, the father of A.J., 6, and Will, 4. “It’s a hard decision. The subject goes back and forth with us.
“It’s a back-and-forth in a lot of parents’ minds right now.”
As another youth football season draws to a close and the high school state playoffs are in full swing, the LoSauros’ dilemma illustrates the difficult decision facing parents: Does the game’s intrinsic value outweigh its inherent injury risk?
Legislator calls for criminal investigation into Kean University’s $219K conference table
November 24, 2014, 10:13 AM Last updated: Monday, November 24, 2014, 10:22 AM
By PATRICIA ALEX
Staff Writer |
The Record
A state legislator on Monday asked for a criminal investigation into Kean University’s failure to get competitive bids for the purchase of a $219,000 conference table made in China.
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, D-Union said he is drafting a letter to ask the Attorney General’s office to review Kean’s process in waiving the bidding for the table, which cost as much as ten times more than similar furniture purchased by other schools.
The Record reported today that Kean’s leaders had agreed to spend up to $270,000 for the 22-foot circular table that was installed in the rooftop conference space of the new Green Lane building at the taxpayer-supported school in Union Township.
Chris Harris Puff Piece : Ridgewood to hold public discussion on civility in society
NOVEMBER 24, 2014 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Mayor Paul Aronsohn will lead a public discussion tonight on the overall need for more civility in society.
“I’ve been in municipal government for more than six years and most of the time there’s a good exchange that happens — whether people agree or disagree,” Aronsohn said. “But there’s this certain level of hostility that sometimes takes the conversation in a bad place.”
Tonight’s event also will feature Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck, the Rev. Jan Philips of the Religious Society of Friends and Rabbi David Fine of Temple Israel.
Aronsohn said that during his years in municipal government, he’s seen coarseness be a distraction and watched as people berate experts testifying at public meetings. He has fielded complaints from parents, who sometimes deal with incivility on athletic fields, and he’s seen the issue pop up in online comments on articles reporting on village news.
“It’s good and fine to disagree, but we should be able to disagree without being disagreeable,” Aronsohn said. “I don’t want to sound Pollyanna-ish, but there has to be a better way to do this.”
Reader says If the Mayor and his Amigos invited everyone that they have be uncivil to they would have to rent out MetLife Stadium
Did the mayor personally invite Tom Riche, Bernie Walsh, Ken Gabbert, and John Ward to this feel good session?
The meeting sounds like it could be a good one. I would like to see former Council members return to commenters microphone and share their views on today’s happenings.
“And how about Tony Merlino, Steve Sanzari, Marcia Ringel…..surely he invited them since he has always been so civil toward them.”
If the Mayor and his Amigos invited everyone that they have be uncivil to they would have to rent out MetLife Stadium
Reader says the Council is uncivil and obnoxious as ever
Great photo! That is at the Jul 1 reorg meeting.m Lorraine Reynolds is at the podium asking them in very strong terms to make Susan Knudsen the Deputy Mayor, per a long standing tradition that the highest vote getter have this position. Nope, no way. They did not even respond to Lorraine, and of course the Deputy Ego went on to maintain his title with a scratchy unintelligible vote skyped in from a safari with the duke. The people had spoken loudly, they wanted Sedon and Knudsen. And our elected morons ignored us swiftly.
The choice of photo is ironic, it is the Council being as uncivil and obnoxious as ever.
Reader says Forget it Mr. Mayor. You have set the tone with your horrible group of three, you guys are nasty and vindictive, way WAY worse than anyone who speaks up at meetings.
This thing stinks on so many levels.
1. The mayor has absolutely no right to tell us how to speak, unless of course threats are made or profanity is used. Other than that, we as US citizens can say what we want at public meetings. 2. We are not in kindergarten. We do not need to be told how to behave. This is so embarrassing for him, actually for all of us, to have our government “leader” telling us to go play nice in the sandbox. 3. He himself does not behave in a civil manner at all times, and even though he winds up being apologetic he will do it again and again and again. Some of the many examples of his uncivil behavior are listed in earlier posts on this thread. 4. The Deputy Mayor is a million times worse than the Mayor. He absolutely cannot keep his hot temper in check and he makes snide comments on a regular basis. He is everything that a leader, a public figure, should NOT be. He really is so much lower than the Mayor. 5. Councilwoman Hauck is, likewise, quite capable of spitting venom and sarcasm from the dais and she does it often.
All in all, this meeting is a ridiculous folly. Paul must want to posture as a great peacemaker, a world diplomat. Forget it Mr. Mayor. You have set the tone with your horrible group of three, you guys are nasty and vindictive, way WAY worse than anyone who speaks up at meetings.
Councilman Pucciarelli attacks Marcia Ringel for merely exercising her civil right to speak November 21,2014 Marcia Ringel
On July 21, 2014, after Councilman Pucciarelli had raked me over the coals (and before he did more of it) for my comments on the way the election of mayor and deputy mayor had been arranged with the help of Skype, the mayor took over. In one of his comments he used phrasing identical to what is in his email message posted here.
I was startled, considering that I hadn’t used profanity, approached the dais, even raised my voice–merely exercised my civil right to speak. Haul in the clergy to teach us how to behave? It sounded canned. Five months later, we see that it was.
Next Monday night’s meeting has clearly been in the works since at least early summer. Those words were on the tip of his tongue in July.
Is the intention to use the clergy’s comments as an excuse for rewriting ordinances on public deportment at meetings? Is it appropriate in the first place to introduce clergy to discussions of public issues in such a setting? No.
Should this not be a real public meeting with appropriate public notice–not a private meeting in which the names of attendees are checked in advance? What is happening here? These sort-of-private, sort-of-public meetings on important topics that legally squeak through because fewer than three council members are present are an insult to residents and to the rules of governance. All council members SHOULD be present to hear such things if they are heard at all.
At a council meeting on July 21, 2013, after the Village had refused to buy a Mobi-Chair for Graydon after years of empty talk about making Graydon handicap accessible, I suggested from the podium that the mayor resign, with an apology, from Access for All. I said I could see an invisible “H” on the wall behind the dais, and it stood for Hypocrisy.
