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Ridgewood Fire Called in to Clean Up Fluid Spill

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Fire Department was dispatched to mitigate an accident related fluid spill near 129 Prospect Street on Thursday evening, 02/20. No injuries were reported in the crash. Ridgewood Police also responded.

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Modern Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

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“Our house is burning.”  These words ring through and powerful as Greta Thurnberg speaks with heavy intent on the effects humans on the environment and dangers our planet faces.  

The advocacy starts at the top, with many major companies and corporations needing to step up and fight global warming and constant climate change.  But the sole responsibility is not on just them, but everyone. We can all do our part, and we will have to as the days run dangerously close to the point of no return. In the modern day, it is easy to forget to do our part, or we think we are doing enough so we forget to keep a mindful account of our actions and what can be done better or improved. 

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Victim Transported to Valley Hospital with Non life Threatening Injuries after East Glen Crash

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Fire Department, Ridgewood EMS, a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital, and Ridgewood Police operated at a rollover motor vehicle accident with entrapment in the 600 block of East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood on Wednesday afternoon, 02/19. One (1) driver, an adult female, was transported to The Valley Hospital with non life threatening injuries. Another injured individual refused medical attention at the scene. Two (2) vehicles were totaled in the crash and removed from the scene by separate tow trucks.

 

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State of Play: The Old School Guide to New School Baseball author Bill Ripken at Bookends February 26th

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Ridgewood NJ, State of Play: The Old School Guide to New School Baseball author Bill Ripken at Bookends February 26th .

Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case.

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Reader says ,”Don’t get me started on them. Aronsohn did so many questionable unethical things”

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“Don’t get me started on them. Aronsohn did so many questionable unethical things. Like trying to derail Mike Sedon’s original run for office by contacting his employer in Staten Island on a fake conflict-of-interest concern. He actually got the Ridgewood News to pull a letter to the editor that a citizen had written because he did not like the letter (yes, he was in the newspaper office constantly monitoring their articles and incoming letters). He tried to get an employer to fire a local citizen who had crossed paths with Aronsohn. He publicly went after Bernie Walsh (along with Gwenn and Albert) attacking her for ‘fixing” a parking ticket which she absolutely did not do. The three of them, led by Aronsohn of course, went after Tom Richie for a conflict with his company doing work for the Village, which was not a secret, nothing under the table, although they tried to imply that it was. They all went after Susan Knudsen for questioning residency requirements for civilian jobs, by bringing a labor attorney to the council meeting to attack her (this was met with a huge groundswell of anger against the three of them). Then of course you had Aronsohn and Hauck, who were both married, having a love affair while they were serving together. And Aronsohn tried to get the civil service list changed so that Keith Killion’s son would be bounced off. The list goes on and on. He is despicable by any standards. And Roberta? Oh my word. Remember when she wrote a letter to the paper attacking a citizen who had spoken up about Schedler??? What the hell kind of rogue Village Manager starts publicly attacking citizens? And she used to interrupt council deliberations incessantly with her opinions, clearly forgetting that she was not an elected official. Every time there was any kind of swearing-in or proclamation, she would come down from the dais with the elected officials and stand there for her photo ops. And no one can forget how she tried to physically block a citizen from getting signatures in Van Neste, the signatures were for the referendum to stop the garage – yes, there are photos of that incident, where she stepped in claiming she was trying to present the facts. When a citizen was assaulted during a council meeting they carried on like nothing had happened and refused to admonish the person who hit the other person. What a crew they were. Just horrible.”

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Sedan Barrels in to Bank Brand in Ridgewood

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Ridgewood NJ,No injuries were reported following the crash of a 4-door Infiniti sedan into the side of a Chase Bank branch located at 65 Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood on Monday afternoon, 02/17. Ridgewood Police and Ridgewood Fire Department responded to the incident. Damage to the structure was significant. The Village of Ridgewood’s building sub-code official was requested at the scene to determine whether occupants would be allowed to return on Tuesday (bank was closed at the time of the crash due to a Federal holiday). The vehicle, which was driven by an adult female accompanied by an adult male passenger, appeared to have sustained very minor damage. No word as to whether any summonses were issued to the driver.

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Reader calls Fair Share Housing , “just another liberal “land grab” with redistribution of wealth”

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“This is just another liberal “land grab” with redistribution of wealth. The constitution doesn’t grant anyone anything ,but liberals like rewarding underachieving and punishing those hardworking people. All this will do is create micro ghettos with shit all over the state”

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Former Mayor Paul Aronsohn and Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld are back in the news and still GUILTY of Misusing Public Funds

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Ridgewood NJ, So Paul Aronsohn and Roberta Sonenfeld are back in the news.  It seems that their GUILTY charge of misusing public funds still stands.  Do you remember back in 2016 when Aronsohn was pushing for the MONSTER garage?  He and Roberta made a video using public funds to promote a YES vote for their parking garage.  The video was billed with an invoice on which Gwenn Hauck’s name appears).  The video included Aronsohn imploring everyone to vote for this massive bond because he felt it was desperately needed.  Some village officials were interviewed on the video (while working, that is, their salaries were being paid to make this promotional video).  And it was posted on the Village website which is paid for by all the taxpayers.

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Village Council to developers: Do as we say, not as we do

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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Village Council recently refused to approve a request for the placement of advertising/informational banners on construction fencing that was made by developers of several new high density housing projects.

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1 Injured as Car Hits Tree on Prospect Street in Ridgewood

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Ridgewood NJ, One (1) person was injured when a Honda CRV crashed head on into a tree in the 300 block of Prospect Street, Ridgewood on Saturday evening, 02/15. Ridgewood Police, Ridgewood EMS, and a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital responded to aid the victim. A flatbed tow truck removed the wreckage.

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Reader says, “I encourage you all to look at the signage at the top and bottom of Glenwood. You’ll see they’re all about as clear as a NYC parking sign”

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“If the logic for closing the road or making it one-way is to reduce the risk of accidents from over-sized vehicles, then how about actually first making clear to drivers that this is a road for passenger vehicles only? I encourage you all to look at the signage at the top and bottom of Glenwood. You’ll see they’re all about as clear as a NYC parking sign. Moronic wording that nobody would read or decipher when turning onto the road. Who actually came up with these signs? Clowns?

Proper and clear signage – no words, pictures only – will dramatically cut down on any confused drivers from out of town. This should be the first step in addressing whatever concerns actually drive this issue.

The only other factor possibly behind the drive to make this a one-way road is the very clear anxiety among some of our collective neighbors about how to navigate their Yukon XLs down the twisty road with oncoming traffic. Wouldn’t it be easier for those drivers to simply take another route than to force this change on the rest of us?”

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Unintended Consequences of Increasing the Minimum Wage is an expected Decrease in the Employment of High School Students

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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Business & Industry Association is supporting legislation heard in the Senate Labor Committee today that would provide tax credits to employers who hire workers under 18 years old.

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