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Congressman Scott Garrett Issues a Congratulations thru the Ridgewood Blog to Charlotte Samuels completion of the open water triple crown

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Congressman Scott Garrett Issues a Congratulations thru the Ridgewood Blog to Charlotte Samuels completion of the open water triple crown
September 13,2014
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Ridgewood NJ, Charlotte Samuels, 16, who became the youngest person to complete the Triple Crown of open-water swimming last week by crossing the English Channel.

Charlotte attained the Triple Crown of open-water swimming by circumnavigating Manhattan, and crossing California’s Catalina Channel and the English Channel, all during this summer.

Rep Scott Garrett ,took time out of his schedule to give us a call to congratulate  Charlotte Samuels on her fantastic accomplishment . The congressman  spoke eloquently congratulating Charlotte for all the hard work and perseverance and also congratulated Charlotte’s parents, Suzanne and Steven for all their hard work and support  without which this could never happen .

Garret remarked it was an awe inspiring accomplishment for this young lady and that her efforts were setting and example for a whole generation .

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Shop Ridgewood : Open Forum No. 3 – CBD Retailing in Ridgewood – Monday, September 22nd 7:30PM

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Shop Ridgewood : Open Forum No. 3 – CBD Retailing in Ridgewood – Monday, September 22nd 7:30PM

730 – 800 PM Open Mike

800 – 900 PM Panel – “Retailing in Ridgewood: Opportunities and Obstacles”

Panel: Walter Boyer, Owner, Bookends

Tom Hillmann, Owner, Hillmann Electric

Jackie Nellis, Owner, Leapin’ Lizzards

Andy Silverstein, General Manager, Roots Steakhouse (Host)

Place and Time: Roots Steakhouse, 730 PM, Monday, September 22.

 

Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at https://www.ilsr.org/why-support-locally-owned-businesses/

1.  Local Character and Prosperity

In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage.

2.  Community Well-Being

Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.

3. Local Decision-Making

Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4.  Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy

Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.

5.  Job and Wages

Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

6.  Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7.  Public Benefits and Costs

Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.

8.  Environmental Sustainability

Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

9.  Competition

A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

10.  Product Diversity

A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices

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Gratitude to ‘Graydon Storytime’ readers

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Gratitude to ‘Graydon Storytime’ readers

September 12, 2014    Last updated: Friday, September 12, 2014, 9:27 AM
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Gratitude to ‘Graydon Storytime’ readers
Nancy A. Bigos
to the Editor:

For several years now, an annual tradition taking place at the Graydon Pool each summer has been the children’s “Graydon Storytime.” This special program held weekly on Thursday afternoons for nine consecutive weeks delights pre-school children, their siblings and parents.

At each session, a fun and interesting story is read to those in attendance, afterwards an exciting activity, song, game, or arts and crafts project accompanies the theme of the reading. There are usually 30 or more children participating in this very special time each week.

It is with heartfelt gratitude that I share my appreciation to the Ridgewood volunteers who give of themselves to make this offering possible. Throughout this 2014 summer season, the residents that volunteered at each weekly program were Suzanne Kelly, Lisa Conklin, Joan Powers, Stacy Bouffard, Dolores Carpenter, Sally Brandes, Betsy Murphy, Toney Jackson, Carol Coughlin, Morgan Kelly and the Graydon Pool lifeguard staff.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-gratitude-to-graydon-storytime-readers-1.1086862#sthash.9b6LvFAv.dpuf

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Ridgewood smimmer Charlotte Samuels gets warm homecoming after Triple Crown triumph

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Ridgewood smimmer Charlotte Samuels gets warm homecoming after Triple Crown triumph

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014, 12:42 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

Of course the world record is important. Of course a person who attains the highest achievement in her sport should be congratulated.

But when Camille Stern greeted her granddaughter Charlotte Samuels at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday for the first time since Charlotte became the youngest person ever to complete three of the most grueling events in open-water swimming, she had something more important to say.

“I missed you, honey,” Stern said to Charlotte, as they pressed their foreheads together and smiled into each others’ eyes.

“I missed you, too, Grandma,” said Charlotte, the Ridgewood girl who at age 16 has attained the Triple Crown of open-water swimming by circumnavigating Manhattan, and crossing California’s Catalina Channel and the English Channel — all this summer.

After three weeks in England, Charlotte returned home to New Jersey on Saturday. Like the rest of her trip across the ocean, her homecoming was humble and spontaneous, cradled by the arms of her family.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-smimmer-charlotte-samuels-gets-warm-homecoming-after-triple-crown-triumph-1.1087567#sthash.tfCvNxXL.dpuf

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A true advocate for Ridgewood

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A true advocate for Ridgewood
Linda McNamara

To the Editor:

I was unable to attend the reception at Village Hall in honor of Roger Wiegand, but wanted to add something from my own personal experiences with Roger.

I started attending council meetings years ago whenever there was an issue that seemed important to me. For a few years, I would notice Roger and Boyd Loving in the audience before ever actually speaking to them. They didn’t know this, but I was always so grateful to see them there as I felt they were the voices of reason in a sometimes diverse airing of opinions.

Soon I was chatting with Roger when I would see him riding his bike through the neighborhood. When I could corner him, I’d pick his brain on whatever the latest issue was.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-a-true-advocate-for-ridgewood-1.1086865#sthash.hjWk59k5.dpuf

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Ridgewood Police Issues a Car Burglary Alert

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A Reminder from the Ridgewood Police :: Car Burglary Alert

Remember to lock your cars especially at night. There were several thefts from vehicles reported Friday evening 9/12 on the west side of town along the Glen Rock border. All vehicle that were entered were left unlocked. The Glen Rock Police reported numerous vehicles entered over the past several nights. Please report any suspicious activity to the Ridgewood Police Department. 201-652-3900

On September 5, 2014 five separate individuals reported entries to their unlocked vehicles. The vehicles were all located on the east side of town. Numerous items were reported missing. The matter is under investigation. (Police Blotter)

Please share this information with your neighbors..

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“crumbling infrastructure” : Reader asks what will be the ultimate cost to the Village taxpayers

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“crumbling infrastructure” : Reader asks  what will be the ultimate cost to the Village taxpayers

What is perhaps most interesting about this article is the fact that when he has testified about the effect of adding 500 new families to downtown with the apartment projects, Ruitshauser has not been concerned about the effect on infra structure. For instance, at one hearing he noted that new sewer pipes would need to be dug under the streets downtown to accept the flow of sewage from the projects, and these would feed into the old pipes. But, then he suggested there would be no effect on the existing decades old pipes that flow to the sewage treatment plants.

Its clear as the apartment projects move forward and as we hear remarks about “crumbling infrastructure” that we really don’t know what the ultimate cost to the Village taxpayers will be. The projects are going to be an eyesore as well as a pocketbook sore in years to come.

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Support for downtown housing

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Support for downtown housing

September 12, 2014    Last updated: Friday, September 12, 2014, 9:28 AM
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Support for housing proposal
Arthur Wrubel

To the Editor:

The higher density housing proposed for downtown Ridgewood is in accordance with its historical development. The downtown has changed, adapting to the needs of its growing population.

The area used to be a pedestrian-oriented destination which could supply its population with food and services. Shop owners once lived above their stores. The proximity to the surrounding residential area encouraged walking to shop and take the train to jobs.

The proposed changes to the master plan permit these ideas to flourish again. Further, there is a national trend to living in higher-density urban areas to satisfy people who want to be close to shops, work and services.

The Planning Board and others have studied the various impacts of the development, such as traffic generation, school children, water supply, fire and safety, etc. The studies indicate little or no impact. The traffic in particular is reduced compared to commercial development.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-support-for-downtown-housing-1.1086864#sthash.EGFdodJb.dpuf

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Korea Ups Its Robots Game

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Korea Ups Its Robots Game

By Brian Bremner and Rose Kim September 11, 2014

In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids’ imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination. The film’s appeal endures—as does the cultural fascination with automated machines. South Korean President Park Geun Hye’s industrial planners have global ambitions of their own: to blow by Europe, Japan, and the U.S. in the race to hold sway over advanced robotics.

South Korea is embracing robotics with the same intensity that made it a force in high-speed broadband, widescreen televisions, and smartphones. Robot Land, a state-subsidized 758 billion won ($735 million) theme park featuring futuristic rides as well as research and development labs, is set to open in 2016. The government is also investing 1.1 trillion won to support the nation’s robotics industry.

https://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-11/south-koreas-robotics-ambitions-beware-japan

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U.S. intelligence agencies remain uncertain about danger posed by Islamic State

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U.S. intelligence agencies remain uncertain about danger posed by Islamic State
By Greg Miller and Juliet Eilperin September 13 at 9:57 PM

Hours before President Obama announced a new U.S. military offensiveagainst the Islamic State, one of his top counter­terrorism officials testified to Congress that the al-Qaeda offshoot had an estimated 10,000 fighters.

The next day a new assessment arrived from the CIA: The terrorist organization’s ranks had more than doubled in recent months, surging to somewhere between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria.

The enormous discrepancy reflects, in part, significant uncertainty among U.S. intelligence agencies over the dimensions of and danger posed by America’s latest Islamist adversary.

But the trajectory of those numbers — and the anxiety that they have induced among U.S. counter­terrorism and military officials — also helps to explain Obama’s decision to go to war against an Islamist group that has yet to be linked to any plot against the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-intelligence-agencies-remain-uncertain-about-danger-posed-by-islamic-state/2014/09/13/23245e84-3aa6-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html

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RHS MARCHING BAND INVITES SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS

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RHS MARCHING BAND INVITES SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS

The Ridgewood High School Marching Band is holding RHS Marching Band Day on Thursday, October 2 for all interested seventh and eighth grade students. The event is designed to give middle school students an introduction to RHS Marching Band. They will practice with the band starting at 4:30 p.m. and play with the band at the night game at 7 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 1 to RHS Marching Band Director John Luckenbill at 201-670-2800, ext. 20744 or [email protected].

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Ridgewood set to roll out vast cast of gymnasts

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Ridgewood set to roll out vast cast of gymnasts

September 12, 2014    Last updated: Friday, September 12, 2014, 12:31 AM
By Greg Tartaglia
SPORTS EDITOR

RIDGEWOOD — Karen Mendez begins every new gymnastics season with a goal completely unrelated to the numbers on judges’ score sheets.

“I always do my best to get as many of my girls into our meets as possible,” the Ridgewood High School head coach said earlier this week.

That’s why her main concern for 2014 is the number on the Maroons’ roster: 34. This will be the largest team of her seven-year tenure and quite possibly the most talented, too.

“We have a large group of dedicated gymnasts of varying ability levels,” Mendez said, “but they work extremely well together.”

The girls’ priority, meanwhile, has been getting to know all the newcomers. Nine freshmen have joined a squad that brings back 11 seniors, including quad-captains Libby DeVita, Kate Eanelli, Christina Gieselmann and Yurina Harada.

“There are so many girls on the team, it’s hard to keep track,” Gieselmann said at practice Wednesday. “We didn’t even know about the talent we had coming in.”

Plenty is known about the top upperclassmen, on the other hand. Harada is a USAG Level 10 competitor and returning state gold medalist — the last RHS gymnast with such distinctions was Chelsea Steinberg in 2006.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/sports/high-school-sports/girls-gymnastics/ridgewood-rolls-out-vast-cast-of-gymnasts-1.1086521#sthash.hgrScsxi.dpuf

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Rebuilt Ridgewood puts on a show

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Rebuilt Ridgewood puts on a show

September 13, 2014    Last updated: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 1:21 AM
By JIM McCONVILLE
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
The Record

RIDGEWOOD – There was no way to know what to expect as Ridgewood opened the football season Friday night. The Maroons were green as the grass coming in, but after four quarters they were feeling good.

With a completely rebuilt offensive line providing plenty of openings, Ridgewood rushed for 404 yards on the way to a 53-6 victory over Passaic. The victory marked the 200th win at Ridgewood for head coach Chuck Johnson, who is 235-119-2 overall in his career (including five seasons at Bogota).

The game started auspiciously for the Maroons, who lost a fumble on the second play from scrimmage, but they scored on each of their next eight possessions. Cooper Telesco got the first two scores on runs of 65 and 2 yards on the way to 140 rushing yards on six first-half carries.

“It was a great job by the offensive line,” Telesco said of the quintet, each making their first varsity start. “They’ve been working so hard all preseason and they really were getting off the ball.’

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/sports/football/rebuilt-maroons-put-on-a-big-show-1.1087296#sthash.2lhGcw5g.dpuf

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Bergen County Executive Kathe Donovan , Bob Avery and Bernie Walsh kick off the fall Campaign Season

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Bergen County Executive Kathe Donovan , Bob Avery and Bernie Walsh kick off the fall Campaign Season
September 13th 2014

Kathe Donovan , Bob Avery and Ridgewood’s  Bernadette Walsh kicked of there fall campaign and opened the District 36 headquarters in Carlstadt .

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Bergen County Executive Kathe Donovan was joined by Freeholder  Maura McMahon DeNicola and in the back ground Bob Yudin .

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Doubling Down on Pot: Buffett Sells Upper Deck, Room to Grow

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Doubling Down on Pot: Buffett Sells Upper Deck, Room to Grow

By Dakin Campbell and Noah Buhayar Sep 12, 2014 12:17 PM ET

Ice cream, candy and soft drinks helped make Warren Buffett a billionaire. Now a subsidiary of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking to profit from pot.

Cubic Designs Inc., a unit of Berkshire’s MiTek business that makes platforms for maximizing usable floor space in warehouses, sent about 1,000 fliers to weed dispensaries in recent weeks, offering to help growers expand the number of plants they cultivate.

“Double your growing space,” the flier reads in capital letters, above an image of an indoor facility with rows of plants. Another page says, “Grow your profits.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-12/buffett-s-berkshire-has-unit-that-helps-marijuana-growers.html