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Ridgewood dad Dave Slomin is an indie rocker

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Ridgewood dad Dave Slomin is an indie rocker

November 14, 2014    Last updated: Friday, November 14, 2014, 12:31 AM
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Ridgewood dad Dave Slomin is an indie rocker

To a cub scout in Pack 44 at Ridge School, Dave Slomin is the leader who introduced him to the pleasure and potential of rocks, as in climbing and hiking; as in adventure. To members of the audience in a New York City club, like Mercury Lounge for instance, Dave Slomin is the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for the indie rock band, Waiting for Henry, who introduced them to Americana/Rock. Same guy. Difference is night and day.

https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/ridgewood-dad-dave-slomin-is-an-indie-rocker-1.1133472

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Union City lights await Ridgewood Football in state playoffs

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Union City lights await Ridgewood Football  in state playoffs

November 14, 2014    Last updated: Friday, November 14, 2014, 12:31 AM
By Jim McConville
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RIDGEWOOD — The second season begins tonight for the Ridgewood High School football team.

The question is, will it be a one-act show, or have the Maroons learned enough throughout the fall to be able to make a serious run in the North 1, Group 5 state tournament? Ridgewood (5-4) enters the postseason as the No. 7 seed and will visit No. 2 Union City (7-2) tonight at 7.

While a 40-13 loss in the final game of the regular season may not sound like a good springboard into the playoffs, the Maroons’ effort against Bergen Catholic last Friday night actually was encouraging.

BC did hold out some of its walking wounded in a game that had absolutely no meaning to either team as far as playoff positioning was concerned, but the Crusaders’ offensive line was intact, and their quarterback and running backs did play.

The Ridgewood defense did a good job of keeping Bergen Catholic in check, and it was a 13-6 game late in the second quarter. Senior Mitch Campbell’s interception in the final minute of the period seemingly had RHS in solid shape, but a fumble on the ensuing play from scrimmage turned the ball over at the Maroon 1-yard line.

https://www.northjersey.com/sports/high-school-sports/football/union-city-lights-await-maroons-1.1133427

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NJ Transit to test WiFi in Port Authority bus terminal

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NJ Transit to test WiFi in Port Authority bus terminal
By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on November 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM, updated November 13, 2014 at 7:58 AM

NJ Transit officials want to bring some of the communications of the future to the aging Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Commuters will be asked to test drive part of it, a WiFi system designed to help them get travel information faster in a bus terminal with less than optimal cellphone reception now.

To make that happen, NJ Transit and the Port Authority have formed a Customer Information and Technology group,  said Dennis Martin, NJ Transit general manger of bus operations.

A WiFi network inside the terminal would allow commuters to access NJ Transit’s “My Tix” app, which allows riders to buy tickets using their smart phone. My Tix is being tested on Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia NJ Transit bus routes, Martin said. Riders have complained about waiting in line to use ticket vending machines in the terminal.

“The next thing is the Wi-FI and we’re talking about launching a beta site and encouraging customers to test it,” said Veronique Hakim, NJ Transit executive director. “We’ll notify them when begins.”

That WiFi network is different than the existing WiFi service offered through the Optimum network in select NJ Transit stations and terminals, said Nancy Snyder, an NJ Transit spokeswoman.

https://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2014/11/nj_transits_to_add_this_centurys_communications_in.html

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Proposed Bergen County bus rapid transit routes narrowed to three

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Proposed Bergen County bus rapid transit routes narrowed to three

By Myles Ma | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on November 14, 2014 at 6:00 AM, updated November 14, 2014 at 6:20 AM

HACKENSACK — A study on bringing bus rapid transit to Bergen County has culled a list of potential routes down to three.

They are:

• Montvale Park and Ride to Secaucus Junction, with stops at Paramus Park Mall, Bergen Community College, Garden State Plaza, a future Summit Avenue bus stop in Hackensack, the Meadowlands and Harmon Meadow.

• Paramus Park to Secaucus Junction, with stops at Bergen Town Center, downtown Hackensack, the Meadowlands and the Bergen Community College Lyndhurst campus. The downtown Hackensack stops include Hackensack University Medical Center, the Essex Street train station, the Bergen County Courthouse and the Hackensack bus terminal.

• Paterson’s Broadway Bus Terminal to Englewood Hospital, with stops at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Garden State Plaza, downtown Hackensack and Overpeck County Park.

Bergen County, NJ Transit and a team of consultants presented the routes Thursday night at the Bergen Community College Hackensack campus. Their aim, said Joseph Barr, a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff, is to bring faster, more reliable and easier to use bus service to the county.

The team estimates the three routes will carry about 9,000 riders a day.

https://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2014/11/proposed_bergen_county_bus_rapid_transit_routes_narrowed_to_three.html

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Obama veers left after red wave

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By Justin Sink – 11/13/14 06:00 AM EST

President Obama has taken significant steps to the left since his party’s devastating losses in the midterm elections.

In a surprise, he announced a major deal on climate change with China during a trip to Beijing Tuesday. That followed another unanticipated move — a Monday statement pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new net neutrality rules for the Internet.

The moves are helping to rally a dispirited Democratic base while re-establishing Obama’s political leadership after he was sidelined during the midterms.

“He’s at his best when his back is against the wall,” said Democratic strategist Bob Shrum. “Jeremiah Wright in 2008, Scott Brown’s election in 2009, after the first debate in 2012 — he comes back and tends to fight pretty hard.”

“He’s a fourth-quarter player, and he’s in the fourth quarter of his presidency,” Shrum added.

The moves are also prompting questions about whether Obama is shifting to the left in his final two years in office, or if the moves are meant to cushion the blow when he moves to the center to negotiate with a Republican-controlled Congress.

The question is weighing heavily on members of both parties, particularly ahead of Obama’s decision on whether to take expansive executive actions on immigration.

https://thehill.com/news/administration/223977-obama-veers-left-after-red-wave

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RIDGEWOOD BOE MEETS ON NOVEMBER 17

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RIDGEWOOD BOE MEETS ON NOVEMBER 17

The next Regular Public Meeting of the Ridgewood Board of Education will be held on Monday, November 17, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. 
 
The public is invited to attend the meeting at the Ed Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3. The meeting will be aired live on FiOS channel 33 and Optimum channel 77. Or it may be viewed live via the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us using the “Link in Live” tab.

Click here to view the agenda and addendum for the October 20, 2014 Regular Public Meeting.

Click here to view the webcast of the October 20, 2014 Regular Public Meeting.

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Ridgewood pharmacy’s closing a bittersweet pill

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Ridgewood pharmacy’s closing a bittersweet pill

NOVEMBER 13, 2014    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014, 5:02 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

It hit people fast, and hard, coming with tears in some cases.

The news was that Harding Pharmacy and Liquors would be closing, possibly this Sunday — and taking with it the friendliness and cute seasonal window displays that customers and residents driving by have come to take for granted.

That, plus decades of Ridgewood history that it built solidly on the corner of East Ridgewood and North Maple avenues.

“I saw [the owner] Myron’s sign that said the store was closing, I just got a little welled up,” said resident Anne Marie Kleiman, who has been going to Harding since 1999. “I gave him a hug.”

That hug has a history: Kleiman recalled pharmacist and 32-year owner Myron Lesh’s congratulatory hug after she became pregnant, and his insistence that she call him and his wife at home any time, night or day, if she needed anything – prescriptions, diapers, whatever. Later, Harding’s clerk became Kleiman’s first babysitter.

“The grandparent of our friend, who is in her 90s now, was a friend of one of Myron’s wife’s aunts,” Kleiman said with a laugh. “They came referred to us from that generation. They came and welcomed us as if we were members of that generation, as well.”

Another sad resident was Kathleen McCormack, whose family has lived in the village since the 1960s.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/ridgewood-pharmacy-s-closing-a-bittersweet-pill-1.1133124

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Ridgewood adds new ambulance to its EMS fleet

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Ridgewood adds new ambulance to its EMS fleet

NOVEMBER 14, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014, 1:21 AM
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RIDGEWOOD — The village’s Emergency Medical Services division has acquired a new ambulance, officials said.

The ambulance is a 2015 Ford F-450 4WD chassis, and will cost the village $184,266, officials said.

Ridgewood owns three ambulances, including its newest rig.

The village traded in an older ambulance — a 2000 Ford E-450 chassis — as part of its latest purchase.

“Extensive research was performed by our Emergency Services Department to decide upon the type of ambulance that would best suit our needs,” said Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-adds-new-ambulance-to-its-ems-fleet-1.1133597

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Different views offered on Ridgewood planner’s housing estimate

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Different views offered on Ridgewood planner’s housing estimate

NOVEMBER 14, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
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One figure quoted briefly at last week’s Planning Board hearing has attendees talking.

That figure is the “500-700 units” that, as the village planner noted in response to a resident’s question last Monday, could be built in Ridgewood if the currently proposed amendment to allow high-density multifamily housing in the Central Business District is approved and fully “built out” – i.e. a possible snapshot of how the amendment under consideration might affect the village in a “worst-case” scenario.

Village Planner Blais Brancheau noted that this number would require buildings comprising at least an acre of land to be torn down, and he believed the figure was unlikely. Members of Citizens for a Better Ridgewood (CBR), however, had serious concerns about that figure, which they believe is low.

The citizens action group has long been asking the village to reassess a density increase that is currently being deliberated – from 12 units per acre to 40-50 units per acre – and, through study and master plan reexamination, find a lower maximum density for new proposed apartments that might better suit Ridgewood.

On Tuesday, CBR trustee Amy Bourque said that the organization considers Brancheau’s cited estimate a “conservative number.”

https://www.northjersey.com/news/differing-views-on-estimate-offered-1.1133512

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Ridgewood Police Department : Resident Vehicle Identification stickers

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Ridgewood Police Department : Resident Vehicle Identification stickers 

Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Police Department would like to thank Ridgewood PBA Local 20 for their continued support of our crime prevention efforts. Once again PBA Local 20 has supplied and will be distributing Resident Vehicle Identification stickers in their annual mailing. These stickers assist in identification of resident and non-resident vehicles during proactive/directed patrols and in response to emergent incidents.


Additional stickers will be available at the police desk with proof of residence.

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Mark Cuban on Net Neutrality: “The Government Will Fuck the Internet Up”

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Mark Cuban on Net Neutrality: “The Government Will Fuck the Internet Up”

Nick Gillespie|Nov. 13, 2014 11:35 am

Entrepreneur, NBA team owner, and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has this to say about Net Neutrality and the push to regulate the Internet under Title II of the Telecommunications Act:

“The government will fuck the the Internet up.”

He also writes in an email exchange with Business Insider (all typos in originals):

“Since when have incumbent companies been the mainstays for multiple generations?”

[Cuban] believes that startups blow up older companies despite an unregulated internet that allows internet providers to prioritize certain traffic streams.

Overall, he thinks the current debate is too narrow and short sighted.

“There will be so much competition from all the enhancements to wireless that incumbent ISPs will have to spent their time fighting cord cutting,” he said.

https://reason.com/blog/2014/11/13/markcuban-on-net-neutrality-the-governme

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Ted Cruz: Regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom

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Ted Cruz: Regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom

By Ted Cruz November 13 at 8:31 AM

Ted Cruz, a Republican, represents Texas in the Senate.

Never before has it been so easy to turn an idea into a business. With a simple Internet connection, some ingenuity and a lot of hard work, anyone today can create a new service or app or start selling products nationwide.

In the past, such a person would have to know the right people and raise substantial start-up capital to get a brick-and-mortar store running. Not anymore. The Internet is the great equalizer when it comes to jobs and opportunity. We should make a commitment, right now, to keep it that way.

The next generation of Internet-connected devices, apps and services will generate trillions of dollars of global economic growth in the years ahead. And Americans are perfectly poised to take maximum advantage — if the government doesn’t take those opportunities away in the form of crushing taxes, rules and regulations.

Yet the threats from Washington to stifle freedom, entrepreneurship and creativity online have never been greater. Washington politicians want the money, and they want more and more control over our speech.

Four basic principles should guide policymakers, in a bipartisan manner, to preserve America’s leadership role in developing the future of the Internet.

First, we must abandon the idea of further taxing Internet access and sales. At this very moment, online retailers face an enormous threat because Washington may pass a massive, new Internet sales tax during the next two months, in the lame-duck session of Congress. As the hashtag puts it,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-regulating-the-internet-threatens-entrepreneurial-freedom/2014/11/13/a0a852e6-6aaf-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html

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Ridgewood Officers Run in the NYC Marathon and raise money for charity.

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Ridgewood Officers Run in the NYC Marathon and raise money for charity.

Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood PBA local 20 was proud to support Officer John Ward Jr and Sergeant Brian Pullman who ran the NYC Marathon on Sunday November 2nd 2014 raising money for the charity Racing to Register, an organization that’s main goal is to increase the number of potential donor’s available to patients of all races, ethnicities and ages, who are in need of a lifesaving bone marrow or stem cell transplants. 

Officer ward competed the race in 4:24:44 and Sergeant Pullman in 5:2646. congratulations! 

For more information on racing to register see the link below

https://www.racingtoregister.com/

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RHS Senior Earns Bergen County Award

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Photo: RHS principal Dr. Thomas Gorman, teachers Nancy Reilly and Lynne Feeney, and Ridgewood Paul Aronsohn, congratulate Matt Mandeli at the Bergen County Salute to Champions Breakfast.

RHS Senior Earns Bergen County Award
 
Ridgewood NJ, RHS senior Matt Mandeli was honored in October at the Bergen County Salute to Champions Breakfast, for his work over the years with disabled students and adults. Matt has run events such as the annual Club LOU, a night of dancing and fun for the disabled members of the community. He is also a co-president of Project Interact at RHS, a club dedicated to helping the less fortunate. Mandeli was nominated for the award by Ridgewood’s mayor, Paul Aronsohn.

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High School Female Athlete of the Week: Sam Halvorsen of Ridgewood

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High School Female Athlete of the Week: Sam Halvorsen of Ridgewood

NOVEMBER 11, 2014    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHUCK O’DONNELL
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

Sam Halvorsen’s transformation from middle school soccer player to high school cross-country standout has sometimes been as bumpy and winding as the North Jersey courses she traverses.

On the days when the path seems fraught with obstacles, the Ridgewood junior knows she can turn to Carleen Jeffers, her teammate, friend, neighbor, training partner and carpool-to-school buddy.

“It definitely helps because I know if I’m not having a great day, she’s always there to help pull me along,” said Halvorsen, The Record Female Athlete of the Week. “She always pushes me to be a better runner.

“When I first started running, I wasn’t that good at pacing. So she was always helping me figure out where I should peak during the race.”

Jeffers was the one who suggested they surge to the front at the one-mile mark of the North 1, Group 4 championships Saturday. Halvorsen said they passed a pack of three or four runners and never looked back. Halvorsen finished first in 18:52. Jeffers was second, just four seconds behind. “For this race,” Halvorsen said, “I felt really confident because I knew she had my back. I knew she would have my back if I tripped or something. It’s always reassuring to have her there.”

Halvorsen played soccer for years while growing up, but decided to give running a try when she got to high school. She said she was inspired by her cousin, Rodolfo Crispin, who went on to compete at the University of New Hampshire after an accomplished career at Ridgewood.

Powerful strides notwithstanding, it seems competitiveness runs in the family. When the Halvorsens go skiing on weekends for what is supposed to be a relaxing winter retreat, Sam just can’t take it slow.

https://www.northjersey.com/sports/high-school-sports/athlete-of-the-week/h-s-female-athlete-of-the-week-sam-halvorsen-of-ridgewood-1.1130697