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New Jersey Choral Society Auditions

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New Jersey Choral Society Auditions
July 31st 2014
New Jersey Choral Society

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Bergen County – The New Jersey Choral Society (NJCS), known for presenting outstanding and unique programs, is seeking experienced singers to audition for the 2014-2015 season. Auditions are scheduled for Tuesday, August 26 from 7:00-9:00 pm at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, 169 Fairmount Road, Ridgewood. Audition requirements include performing one classical solo (oratorio aria or art-song preferred), pitch memory drills, scales, intervals, and sight-reading. To schedule an audition, please call 201-379-7719 and leave a message for the audition coordinator.

NJCS is an ensemble of singers who are joined by their commitment to performing choral music of the highest artistic quality and to foster greater appreciation and enjoyment of choral music. All singers volunteer their services and are selected by audition. Requisites for auditioning include previous choral experience, music reading ability, and availability to meet the NJCS rehearsal and performance schedule. NJCS is a community of musicians who constantly strive for excellence. Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 -10:00 pm at the Temple Israel, 475 Grove St., Ridgewood with additional rehearsals during performance weeks.

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Midland Park driver injured after slamming into parked car

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Midland Park driver injured after slamming into parked car
August 25,2014
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Ridgewood NJ, An elderly Midland Park resident was transported to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after driving her vehicle directly into a parked Ford Escape on West Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood on Monday afternoon, 08/25.

The crash impact resulted in the Ford Escape mounting an adjacent sidewalk.  Ridgewood PD, EMS, and FD all responded to the scene.  The woman’s injuries appeared to be non-life threatening.

The crash occurred near the intersection of West Ridgewood and Maltbie Avenues.  The driver was heading eastbound on West Ridgewood Avenue at the time of the accident. Both vehicles were removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck.

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A new playbook for hospitals: How investors pursue a financial turnaround

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A new playbook for hospitals: How investors pursue a financial turnaround

AUGUST 24, 2014, 10:34 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014, 11:21 PM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

A century ago, a nun often stood outside a factory in the city of Passaic on paydays, holding a tin cup as she begged for donations to care for the poor at St. Mary’s Hospital. It was an era before health insurance, before Medicare and Medicaid, and before health care became the fastest growing sector of the American economy.

Sister Agnes believed in St. Mary’s mission, just as the two nuns still serving at the hospital do today. But to save their hospital, the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth just sold it to a company for which medicine is a business, not a ministry.

As California-based Prime Healthcare Services takes over St. Mary’s and awaits approval to buy three other New Jersey hospitals, it is joining a fast-changing industry that now pumps more than $20 billion a year into the state economy. Prime and other companies look at hospitals like St. Mary’s — hospitals in such grave financial condition that their survival is in doubt — and see the potential for very healthy profits.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/a-new-playbook-for-hospitals-how-investors-pursue-a-financial-turnaround-1.1072991#sthash.yfZn5r0m.dpuf

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Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

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Wyckoff’s Hoffmann finishes 9th at The Barclays, but feels like a winner

AUGUST 24, 2014, 10:32 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014, 11:38 PM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
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Hour after hour, day after day, little Morgan Hoffmann would make the round trip from the back yard of his family’s Wyckoff home to the front, chipping golf balls over the roof, retrieving them and hitting them again. The long, flat front lawn stretched out in front of him, a playground for his dreams.

“I used to wonder why he’d hit it over the house, but now I understand: He has to hit it over the trees,” Hoffmann’s mom, Lorraine, said Sunday, not far from the foliage surrounding Ridgewood Country Club’s 18th fairway in Paramus.

Across a fourth day of The Barclays golf tournament and throughout another 18 holes, Morgan Hoffmann had the galleries nearly climbing the trees to get a look at him, using exposed roots as footstools to get a glimpse of their local hero. From the very first tee, when the crowd wouldn’t allow the announcer to get past the words, “Next on the tee, from Wyckoff, New Jersey …” before breaking into thunderous applause, Hoffmann was carried across the course by a wave of support like nothing he’d ever felt before.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/sullivan-wyckoff-s-hoffmann-finishes-9th-at-the-barclays-but-feels-like-a-winner-1.1073791#sthash.51p4gC8R.dpuf

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Ridgewood Knights of Columbus Annual Golf Outing

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Ridgewood Knights of Columbus Annual Golf Outing

Ridgewood-NJ-August 25, 2014: The Ridgewood Knights of Columbus will hold held their 
eighth annual golf tournament at the Blue Hill Golf Course in Pearl River on Thursday, September 25, 2014. Cost is $150 per person, or $125 if registered as a foursome. All golfers are welcome. 

Contests such as longest drive, closest to the pin, and closest to the line will be on the course that day. Tee time is 1:00 p.m. There will be a dinner afterward with raffle prizes. 

For more information, contact event organizer Sean Noble at: [email protected] or 917-596-6815. Money raised from the event will be used to support local charities.

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BOE MEETS TONIGHT MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2014

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BOE MEETS TONIGHT MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2014

The next Regular Public Meeting of the Ridgewood Board of Education will be held on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 5 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 for the August 25, 2014 Regular Public Meeting.

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No one to blame but ourselves

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No one to blame but ourselves

AUGUST 24, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2014, 12:16 AM
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Lee Hamilton, director of Indiana University’s Center on Congress, recently sent us a missive about why government fails all too often.

“There’s ample cause for concern,” Hamilton notes. “The VA appointments scandal; the botched launch of the Affordable Care Act; the 28 years of missed inspections that led to the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas; scandals at the General Services Administration and the Secret Service … There’s a long and dispiriting list of occasions when the federal government has fallen short.”

The bad news is there are no quick fixes. It begins but doesn’t end at the ballot box. We also have to let our political leaders know what we are thinking, and that’s not just those elected to high office but our local leaders. Look around at local politics and you might be surprised about who has influence. Perhaps not surprisingly those who have more of say in what gets done are the very same people who are out in the community volunteering both civically and politically. As important is that they are involved and they stay informed.

People bad mouth the Tea Party and while we disagree with their positions on many issues, it should be noted that they show up, push their agenda and have been effective in pushing the political scrum in the direction they favor.

Contrast this with a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC Poll, which found that a majority of Americans are feeling gloomy. The poll found that 71 percent say the U.S. is “on the wrong track,” and 60 percent say it’s in a “state of decline.” Only 2 percent are “very satisfied” with the political system, while 79 percent are “very” or “somewhat” dissatisfied. Only 3 percent are “very satisfied” with the economy, while 64 percent are “somewhat” or “very” dissatisfied.

We have to wonder how many of the gloomy bothered to vote in the recent primary elections or how many will even vote in November’s elections. If you want the people who are pulling the strings, setting tax policies, funding key programs, and passing out pork to tackle the myriad of problems facing this nation, this state or your community, you have to vote and you have to participate.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/politics/no-one-to-blame-but-ourselves-1.1075226#sthash.Yy8Qy2EQ.dpuf

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Ridgewood tells owners to fix up homes

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Ridgewood tells owners to fix up homes

AUGUST 25, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
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RIDGEWOOD — Officials have notified the owners of six residential properties, deemed to be abandoned, that they need to make improvements to them soon or the village will take action.

Some of the properties have been on the village’s radar for more than a decade.

One of the homes, on Daniel Court, has become the residence of raccoons and other wildlife, officials said.

Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck read through the list after saying that village officials have twice notified the properties’ owners with “the reasons why they have met the abandoned property criteria.”

The village has requested these owners “work with [officials] on a rehabilitation plan,” Hauck said.

The properties on the village’s abandoned homes list include the modern town house on Daniel Court, whose door is covered with shut-off notices from Ridgewood Water; a shuttered and neglected ranch on Fairway Road; and a dingy but otherwise prim two-story home on North Monroe Street.

The properties do not appear to be occupied. Knocks on doors were not answered, and calls to the last known owners were unreturned.

The Village Council in June adopted the state’s “Abandoned Property and Rehabilitation Act” as part of Ridgewood’s own village code.

According to the state, an “abandoned” property is most often defined as “any property that has not been legally occupied for a period of six months.”

Such homes must also either be in need of rehabilitation or determined by a public officer to be a “public nuisance.”

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-tells-owners-to-fix-up-properties-1.1075294#sthash.ruAV90ek.dpuf

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TRAFFIC ALERT – Garber Square Project Resumes Today Monday August 25th

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TRAFFIC ALERT – Garber Square Project Resumes Today Monday August 25th

The Garber Square paving project is scheduled to resume on Monday, August 25th. The work will take place 7:30am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. During construction, vehicles will be able to use alternating lanes (one lane will be closed), supervised by Police Officers. It is recommended that the public use alternate routes during construction to avoid potential traffic congestion. Thank you for your patience.
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Support for Common Core plummets, especially among teachers

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Support for Common Core plummets, especially among teachers

August 20, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Support for the national Common Core education standards is falling like a rock, dropping 30 percentage points among teachers and about 12 percentage points among the public since last year.

Results from a poll released by Education Next, a scholarly education journal, show public support for Common Core slipped from 65 percent in 2013 to 53 percent this year, while the decrease among teachers was even more dramatic. Educators in support of Common Core fell from 76 percent last year to a mere 46 percent in 2014, the survey shows.

It was the same story with opposition to Common Core, which doubled among the public over the last year, going from 13 percent to 26 percent this year. The percent of teachers who oppose, meanwhile, more than tripled, skyrocketing from 12 percent to 40 percent in 2014, according to the poll.

“Especially intriguing is the flip in the opinion gap between teachers and the public as a whole. In 2013, teachers were more positive in their views of the Common Core than the public (76% compared to 65%), but today teachers are less positive (46% compared to 53%),” the Education Next report notes.

“A year ago, only 12% of the teaching force expressed opposition—virtually the same as the public. Today, teacher opposition is nearly twice as high as opposition among the public (40% compared to just 26%).”

That’s likely because more teachers now understand the many pitfalls and restraints imposed by the national learning standards as states have implemented more aspects of Common Core over the last year.

Educators, of course, are more engaged in education policy and see the detrimental effects first hand, and many are obviously realizing the “rigorous” new standards aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

https://eagnews.org/support-for-common-core-plummets-especially-among-teachers/

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Why it’s hell to be a doctor in America today

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Why it’s hell to be a doctor in America today

By Susannah Cahalan

August 23, 2014 | 3:00pm

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is mad as hell.

American health care is in upheaval. On one side, overhead and malpractice insurance costs keep increasing, while salaries stagnate. On the other, patients believe that expensive drugs are better, more people are on government-run insurance that pays less, while private insurance fights every claim.

Now doctors spend most of their time trying to game the system, requiring endless paperwork, protracted bureaucratic battles and “treadmill medicine,” seeing as many patients as possible in as little time. This problem will only intensify as millions join the ranks of the insured under the Affordable Care Act.

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In this self-perpetuating cycle, doctors spend most of their time as businessmen — and care suffers.

It’s no wonder then that doctors no longer enjoy their jobs, explains Jauhar, director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and author of “Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), out now.

“This book is meant to be like the scene in ‘Network’ when [Howard Beale] opens the window and yells, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore,’ ” Jauhar says in an interview with The Post.

https://nypost.com/2014/08/23/why-its-hell-to-be-a-doctor-in-america-today/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

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Rep Scott Garrett Says with immigration reform his first priority is to his constituents

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Rep Scott Garrett Says with immigration reform his first priority is to his constituents

“Our immigration process is broken and overly complex. I agree that we need to fix it. As an elected official, my first priority is to my constituents. I am first going to look out for their interests by enforcing our laws. I am first going to make certain that they are safe by advocating for policies that prioritize our national security interests. And I am first going to lay the groundwork for robust economic and education systems for them. 

Unfortunately, the administration’s actions—refusing to enforce our current laws—are putting our citizens last, not first. The House has taken steps to change this by addressing the crisis at the border. This bill would better secure the border, assist our border patrol agents in their law enforcement duties, and expedite the judicial processing and deportation of illegal migrants. As this immigration debate continues, we must follow today’s actions with a broader, step-by-step approach to our immigration problems, where securing our borders, fixing our legal immigration system, and putting the American people first are the chief priorities.”

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Assemblyman Robert Auth offers and answer to open space issues in New Jersey

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Assemblyman Robert Auth offers and answer to open space issues in New Jersey

Assemblyman Robert Auth offers and answer to open space issues in New Jersey. New Jersey needs to reinvigorate its horse breeding industry in combination with a robust investment vis-a-vis tax credits to vineyards and New Jersey’s grape growers who currently make award winning Chardonnay. Additionally, our Garden State Farmers are capable of growing hops to expand our beer brewing industry. This is the perfect answer to open space, land preserved, jobs created, revenues produced…private dollars for public solutions.

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Proceeds from Waldwick lemonade stand benefit Christopher Goodell Fund

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Proceeds from Waldwick lemonade stand benefit Christopher Goodell Fund
August 24, 2014

Boyd A. LovingAlexandra (Alex) Stojcevski, 36, and her two (2) children, Stefan, 8, and Angela, 10, (all of Waldwick) have been operating a lemonade stand at the busy corner of Sheridan Avenue and Maple Court in Waldwick for several weeks this summer.DSCF9849

All proceeds from the stand will be given to the Police Officer Christopher Goodell Fund, in honor of the Waldwick Police Department Patrol Officer who was killed in on-duty traffic accident on Route 17 in Waldwick last month.

Alex’s husband is a police officer in Ridgewood.

Alex advises that weekends are slower than weekdays; she estimates that a vehicle stops for lemonade every 10 minutes.  Price is $1.00 per glass.

Stop by, say hello, and buy a glass for a worthy cause!

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