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Ridgewood NJ, The Village Council approved the funding and the proposal from Epic Management, Inc., to move forward with the Hudson Street parking garage. This will provide additional parking in the Central Business District for shoppers, diners, commuters, and employees.
Continue reading HUDSON STREET PARKING GARAGE SCHEDULED TO START JUNE 2019
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Ridgewood Nj, Effective September 4, 2018, the following changes will be in effect for all parking meters in the Central Business District, both on the streets and in the parking lots:
Continue reading RIDGEWOOD NEW PARKING METER TIMES, RATES, AND PARKING KIOSK – EFFECTIVE 9/4/2018
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Ridgewood NJ, There will be many events in September in the Village of Ridgewood, including the Car Show, Music Fest, the Fall Arts, Crafts, and Food Street Fair, Good Life Ridgewood, and Gold Star Mother’s Day. Please consult your Village calendar for dates and times of these annual events.
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Ridgewood NJ, All Village offices will be closed on September 3, 2018, in observance of Labor Day. There will be no garbage or recycling pickup and the Recycling Center will also be closed. The Police Department, on the second floor of Village Hall, will be open on this holiday. All offices will open again on September 4, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.
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Ridgewood NJ, Car Show Street Closings, Friday, Sept. 7th 4-9pm
2018 Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce Annual Car Show-Below is the Car Show street closing schedule:
Continue reading Ridgewood Car Show Street Closings, Friday, Sept. 7th 4-9pm
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Ridgewood NJ, YMCA invites you to celebrate their new transformation- sept. 4th, 2018 at 6:30pm- rsvp required , on Tuesday, September 04, 2018 at Time: 6:30 PM ,
Ridgewood YMCA, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
rainbow flag at Ridgewood High School
Constitutional Law 101. Municipalities are certifiably insane if they imagine that it could be in any way appropriate to dance this particular two-step: 1) Evaluate in a legislative body the substance of a third-party message proposed for public display on public property; and 2) Approve such public display on municipal property because said legislative body loves that message and darn well wants to signal its approval of same.
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Why did our well-paid village attorney not put the Kibosh on this? Regardless of what one thinks of the particular message that received approval and (by now) two month’s free advertisement from our elected village legislative body, how (constitutionally speaking) can that body now legitimately say “no” to a similar-situated month-long display containing, say, an opposite message, or even any other message for that matter!?! Why did the Village’s legal counsel not lay out this easily-predicted problem in stark enough terms to persuade our illusurious council members of the utter folly of their planned course of action?
by Jim O’Connor
Two problems:
1. Business owners do not understand the law.
2. People exploit the loopholes.
Continue reading Reader Comments on Service Dogs Denied Access in Ridgewood
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Ridgewood NJ, Glen Rock, Wyckoff and Midland Park have been stepping up their calls for a multi-town water commission to set water rates.
file photo by Boyd Loving
Friday, September 7, 2018
Memorial Park
at Van Neste Square and
along E. Ridgewood Ave.
6:00-9:00pm
last year we had over 400 cars,
ran out of room, need to sign up and show up early!
weather permitting
Continue reading 2018 Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce Annual Car Show
RIDGEWOOD PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Village Hall Court Room – 7:30 P.M.
Continue reading RIDGEWOOD PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
photo courtesy of the Ridgewood Police Department
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police have issued a Traffic Alert East Ridgewood Ave Paving 8/30/18 -8/31/18.
East Ridgewood Ave will be closed between North Maple Ave and Van Dien Ave. Thursday 8/31 and between Van Dien and Paramus Road Friday 8/31 for paving.
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Westwood NJ, a Westwood man wants to fly anti-abortion flag at Borough Hall. The borough resident and anti-abortion activist is requesting the display, citing the rainbow flag flown at Borough Hall for LGBT Gay Pride flag.
In April 2017 , Jan Phillips attempted to strong arm the Ridgewood council in the name of civility by pushing them to hang a Gay Pride flag over Village Hall ,at the time it was rejected for various reasons and many readers suggested ,if the council flew the pride flag over Village Hall , that would open the door to flying all kinds of other flags .
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog has received reports of CBD customers being denied access with their service dog several times in several different restaurants in the village.
Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.
Continue reading Reports of Customers With Service Dogs Denied Access in Ridgewood
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Trenton NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today released new guidance addressing the scope and appropriate use of prosecutorial discretion in municipal court prosecutions of marijuana-related offenses. The guidance reaffirms that municipal prosecutors are not permitted to adopt their own policies to decriminalize marijuana. Instead, prosecutors handling marijuana cases may appropriately exercise prosecutorial iscretion on a case-by-case basis, as they would when prosecuting any other type of criminal offense.
Continue reading AG Grewal Releases New Guidance on Municipal Court Prosecutions of Marijuana Offenses
