Join us for the popular Easter in Ridgewood Celebration! This annual event includes family fun with the Easter Bunny in the park, a trolley ride through town, and much more!
Chamber members are invited to sign-up and be a Trolley stop from 11AM – 2PM. The Ridgewood News will be sponsoring the trolley, which will travel from the east to west side of Ridgewood.
https://www.ridgewoodchamber.com/
Networking in Ridgewood
Special Guest: Rep. Scott Garrett
Tue, April 14, 2009
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Columbia Bank, 40 S. Broad St, Ridgewood, NJ
Event Description
Rep. Scott Garrett will be speaking to New Jersey business owners about issues that directly affect their communities. As the top Republican on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets for the House Financial Services Committee, and an active member of the House Budget Committee, Garrett is intimately familiar with the economic issues facing many of these business owners. He has been one of the most active proponents of small business in Congress, authoring multiple pieces of legislation aimed at protecting and preserving American jobs. Garrett often says that history has shown the most effective way to reinvigorate the economy and spur economic growth is to ensure that job creators face a lower tax and regulatory burden, and he has worked to make this goal a reality.
This Networking in Ridgewood will be FREE to everyone who attends. Reservations are required. Limited space available. Light refreshments & beverages will be served.
Please RSVP to the Chamber Office by April 10. Call (201) 445-2600 or email [email protected].
Just wanted to drop you a quick reminder that the Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers whose refund checks were returned by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. These checks include both regular tax refunds and economic stimulus payments.
All a taxpayer has to do is update his or her address. The IRS will then send out all checks due.
Taxpayers who did not receive their anticipated refund can use Where’s My Refund? on www.irs.gov to check on the status of the missing refund, initiate refund tracers and update their addresses online, 24/7. Taxpayers without internet access can call 1-800-829-1040 to check on a missing refund.
Taxpayers who did not receive their anticipated economic stimulus payment can use Where’s My Stimulus Payment? on www.irs.gov to check on the status of the missing stimulus payment and update their addresses if necessary. Economic stimulus claimants without internet access can call 1-866-234-2942 to check on a missing payment.
Taxpayers with undeliverable stimulus payments must update their addresses by November 28, 2008 to ensure the IRS can reissue the stimulus checks by the statutory deadline of December 31, 2008.
> Polls will be open from 6:00AM to 8:00PM on Tuesday, November 4th.
Voters may also vote in person by absentee by going to the Bergen County Clerk’s Office, One Bergen County Plaza, Room 130, Hackensack, NJ up until 3:00 p.m. on November 3, 2008.
Regardless of what you might read on the BOE’s website, or in their latest eNewsletter, Demarest Street is NOT being renamed “Barbara Schineller Way.” Village Council members agreed to dedicate Demarest Street to the former Orchard School teacher, who retired last year, but the street will still officially be known as Demarest Street.
A brown & white “Barbara Schineller Way” sign will be erected above the existing Demarest Street sign to commemorate the honor granted to Ms. Schineller. However, to avoid Demarest Street residents from being burdened by expenses associated with changing numerous legal documents, Village Council members wisely chose to retain the street’s existing name.
The Varian Fry Way/North Monroe Street dedication was handled in the exact same fashion.
This is the BOE’s press release:
Village Street to be Named For Retired Teacher
Come Wednesday, September 17, one of Ridgewood’s streets will have a new name. Demarest Street, outside Orchard School, will be renamed “Barbara Schineller Way” in honor of the beloved teacher who taught at Orchard School for over 40 years. Ms. Schineller retired at the end of the past school year. The sign’s public unveiling will be held on Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. The public is invited, and former Orchard School family members are particularly encouraged to attend.
RIDGEWOOD — Security has been upgraded at Benjamin Franklin Middle School after an early-morning incident last week in which a man entered the building and was subsequently charged by police with making terroristic threats. A full-time security guard has been hired to stand at the front entrance of the school, beginning today. monday
The security measures were detailed in a letter to parents from Principal Anthony Orsini.
Police said the intruder – who is known to police – resisted arrest at about 8:30 a.m. last Monday after they were called by school staff who noticed he did not belong in the building on North Van Dien Avenue. In addition to the terroristic threat charge, the man was charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose. He was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center for evaluation. Orsini’s letter said the security measures, which include restricted entry into the building, are immediate. to the community,” the letter said. “We are also working with police to ensure that the individual will not be able to come near the building in the future.”
The security guard will wear a polo shirt with the word “security” on it and will be posted inside the school’s front entrance from 7:30 a.m. to 8:05 a.m., with a line of sight to the exterior of the building, the letter said. The guard will patrol the grounds from 2:45 p.m. until the end of his shift and will be on the premises during recess and some physical education periods. Key staff also will have “the ability to have radio communications at all times so that people can be diligent in all parts of the building,” the letter said. Visitors should enter the building through entrances equipped with buzz-in capabilities, the letter said, and immediately report to the main office, or security will be called.
>The Ridgewood Board of Education will hold a special public meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 15, for a Board retreat in the third floor Board Room at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place.
>American medicine is tightly controlled by the American government. American pharma testing is generally stricter than any European or International medical boards. I’m sure if there was an international study out there the rallying cry would be “we need an American study, strict American standards”
This language the “internationally controlled safety study” sounds so reasonable, but it is intentionally misleading. They ask for international studies because they know each vaccine is rigorously studied in the US before being added to the vaccine regime. And they ask for a controlled study, knowing that a full controlled study on the specific vaccine (where it is tested singly for safety) would never happen, because it is medically irresponsible to keep vaccines (that have already been proven safe) from children.
Right now parents who keep their children unvaccinated are freeloading off the vaccinations of other children. The unvaccinated face a much lower risk of getting LIFE THREATENING DISEASES (lest we forget that measles mumps and rubella are not just the common cold or chicken pox) because vaccination rates remain high enough. But as vaccination rates drop the penumbra of protection fades, this year has already seen more measles cases in the US than anytime in the past decade. Parents talk about not risking their child’s safety by getting them vaccinated, but even if for argument’s sake we posit that there may be some connection between vaccines and the very serious neurological disorders on the Autism spectrum, getting life-threatening measles is still a much more probable result of being unvaccinated than developing a Autism spectrum disorder.
And before you attack me (and anyone else who disagrees with you) as a tool of the pharma industry or someone bent on suppressing the “real” information because of this issue. You should remember that the lead doctor in the initial study that made the GI-MMR-Autism link (a study that was of the same size and scope of the test in this article, not the international controlled study you claim to want to disprove it) is currently facing an inquiry for serious ethical and medical misconduct charges and the results of the study have been retracted. When he did his research he had accepted a large sum of his funding from a group suing the British government over the MMR vaccine, and some of the children in the study were recruited from these (biased) parties. (Additionally he took a number of medical risks with some of these children, risks that caused damage and required additional medical care to fix.)The medical journal in which the study was printed and 10 of the 12 co-authors of the paper issued a retraction of the findings of the study saying:
“We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between (the) vaccine and autism, as the data were insufficient. However the possibility of such a link was raised, and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper, according to precedent”
Look Autism spectrum disorders are a serious issue, we need to stop chasing ghosts and bad science and start coming together to provide much needed funding for services that help the children (and the growing population of adults) affected.
>At the direction of Deputy Mayor Keith D. Killion, Village Manager James Ten Hoeve and Village CFO Dorothy Stikna recently performed a cost analysis related to the proposed construction of a new athletic field complex on West Saddle River Road.
During last night’s Village Council meeting, Ten Hoeve revealed that property taxes on an “average” home in Ridgewood would increase $56 per year in connection with the planned initiative. This assumes a property purchase price of approximately $4 million, with $2 million in grant money coming from Bergen County. Construction costs are now estimated in the $2 – $2.5 million range.
>The Fly has learned that a BF Middle School staff member called School Resource Officer Chris McDowell’s cell phone to report Monday’s intruder instead of dialing 911.
Police dispatchers and other police officers learned of the call only when McDowell entered his patrol vehicle and announced via 2-way radio that he was responding to BF for a report of an “emotionally disturbed person” in the building.
The Fly wonders what person decided to bypass 911, and what would have happened if McDowell was unable to answer his cell phone.
