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Gold Star Mother’s Day Commemoration

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August 17th 2015

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, On Sunday, September 27, 2015 our Nation honors our Gold Star Mothers and families. The Presidential Proclamation in 2011 commemorating this day pronounces, “As members of a grateful Nation, we owe a debt we can never repay, but hold this sacred obligation forever in
our hearts, minds, and actions. We honor their sacrifice, and stand with our servicemembers, military families, and Gold Star families as they have stood for us.”

The American Legion Post 53 and Ridgewood NJ’s Blue Star Families are committed to bringing awareness to our community and to commemorate the sacrifices these mothers and their families have made for our Country.In the aftermath of World War I, Washington D.C. resident Grace Darling Seibold formed an organization called Gold Star Mothers to support the moms who had lost sons and daughters to the war. Grace’s son, First Lieutenant George Vaughn Seibold, was an aviator killed in combat over France in 1918. In 1928, the small D.C.-based group decided to nationalize its efforts. In 1936, a joint congressional resolution established the last Sunday in September as

Gold Star Mother’s Day. The Gold Star Mothers grew from a support group of 60 women to today’s extensive nationwide network with tens of thousands of members and hundreds of local chapters.

In Ridgewood, NJ the Gold Star Mother’s Day Committee will sponsor our fourth annualevent commemorating Gold Star Mother’s Day on Sunday, September 27
There will be a short ceremony starting promptly at 7:00 p.m. and hundreds of luminaries will be lit to honor Gold Star Mothers and their families. But in addition, our goal is to see thousands of other luminaries lit throughout Ridgewood and other towns on September 27th to honor the Gold Star Mothers and families!

Luminaries will be available for a donation before the ceremony at the following

location:

Residence of Bob Paoli, Commander American Legion Post #53,at 368 N. Pleasant Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. 07450

Call 201-445-1738 to arrange time to pickup

Everyone also can stand with us in honoring the Gold Star Mothers and families by

helping to raise awareness through:

 talking to your family, friends, and neighbors about the event;

 joining us at Van Neste Park; and,

 supporting this event with a donation (please make checks payable to the American

Legion Post #53, write “Gold Star event” on the memo line, and send it to the American Legion Post #53, P.O. Box 1525, Ridgewood, NJ 07450).

Thank you for your support and cooperation,/s/ Ridgewood, NJ Gold Star Mother’s Day Committee.

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Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce presents Annual Fall Car Show!!

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Ridgewood Chamber Annual Car Show
Fri, September 11, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Memorial Park at Van Neste Park, Ridgewood NJ

Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce presents
Annual Fall Car Show!!

This years car show is dedicated to the Memory of those who died on 9/11.

A special “Memorial Award” will be given out by Duxiana of Ridgewood.

This is the best EVENING car show in the Fall!

For more details, please call us at 201-445-2600
to receive a registration form or email info@ridgewoodchamber.com www.experienceridgewood.com

Ridgewood Chamber Car Show information

Car Owners please place your certificate on the windshield of your car as you enter the show – you will be able to drive right through and park your car quickly.

Some Information for Car Owners:

Entrance location: Please enter off of Franklin Avenue onto North Walnut Street
(North Walnut St., 07450 is between Stop & Shop and TD Bank)

Drive up to the corner of E. Ridgewood Ave., check in will be near
Hillmann Lighting store – 133 E. Ridgewood Ave for your GPS.

Parking: Parking will be on a first-come first serve basis. You will be able to park around Memorial Park and on East Ridgewood Ave.

Police reminders: The Ridgewood Police Department wishes to remind all
participants there is no consumption of alcohol allowed at this
event. Summons will be issued to violators. Ridgewood has
some wonderful restaurants and pubs. Enjoy!

Due to pedestrian safety, cars will not be allowed to leave the
Event until the police open up the road – unless you have received special permission and parking location.

We welcome you to Ridgewood! Music will keep the evening lively and there will be trophies for many categories at 8:30pm near the music.

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Reminder: Ridgewood Water Stage II limits the use of water for irrigation to two days per week

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Ridgewood Water – Stage II Restrictions

Dear Ridgewood Water Customers:

The hot weather and limited rainfall has led to a big increase in water use for irrigating. At the same time, the rainfall and groundwater status as monitored by NJDEP has recently been downgraded from “near normal” to “moderately dry.” Stage I restrictions have not moderated the water demand enough to maintain reserves for firefighting and other emergencies, so Ridgewood Water is implementing Stage II restrictions. Stage II limits the use of water for irrigation to two days per week. If your street address is an odd number, you may irrigate on Tuesdays and Saturdays only. If your street address is an even number, you may irrigate on Wednesdays and Sundays only. A hand held hose may be used at any time. No irrigation is allowed on Mondays, Thursdays, or Fridays except for a hand held hose.

We appreciate your cooperation in conserving this vital, shared resource.

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PSE&G Tips for Staying Cool and Safe in Hot and Humid Weather

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all photos by Boyd Loving 

PSE&G offers tips to stay cool and safe as heat and humidity rise

PSE&G offers simple ways you can stay cool and safe as temperatures and humidity rise during the season’s third official heat wave.

We are also monitoring weather conditions and have additional personnel on hand to handle any power interruptions. Our call centers also have extra personnel on duty to speak with customers and our appliance service technicians stand ready to quickly respond to an influx of air conditioning repair calls.

Here are some easy steps you can take to stay cool, safe and save energy:

• Use a programmable thermostat to set air conditioners to daily and weekend schedules. Consider setting air conditioners to 78 degrees.

• Close blinds and shades facing the sun to keep the sun’s heat out and helpfans and air conditioners cool more efficiently.

• Use ceiling fans set in the counter-clockwise position to feel cooler when in a room.

• Close doors leading to uncooled areas. With central air, close off vents to unused rooms.

• Turn off everything you’re not using: lights, computers, etc. Use dimmers, timers and motion detectors on indoor and outdoor lighting.

• If you should lose power, NEVER use a portable generator inside your home or in close proximity to a home, business or enclosed space. Proper ventilation is required. Improperly used generators can produce deadly carbon monoxide (CO), an odorless, tasteless gas that can cause headache, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms.

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PJM, the regional grid operator, expects to have sufficient power supplies available to meet the increased demand for electricity. PSE&G expects today’s electric demand to reach 8,905 megawatts, with demand increasing tomorrow as temperatures are expected to rise into the mid-90s.

If you experience a power outage, please call PSE&G’s Business Solutions Center at 1-855-249-7734 (1-855-BIZ-PSEG). If you are registered for My Account, you can also report power outages online. To do so, log in now or register. To report power outages via text message, and receive outage updates by text and email, sign up for MyAlerts.

During this extreme weather, you can also follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/psegdelivers.

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Readers ask about illegal dumping , How hard can this investigation be?

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How hard can this investigation be. The gate is locked during none operating hour. There is no way for large trucks to get in because of the berms and trees. Here is a start.

1 Inspect the concrete for any indication of where it came from such cut off street sign post, concrete stamps, paint
2 Interview all people that have the keys to the gate
3 interview all contractors doing concrete work in the Village
4 interview resident on Lakeview Drive to see if they saw anything ( name on trucks)
5 Apply Definition of OCCAM’S RAZOR
: a scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities

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Big Data Collection comes to Ridgewood thru Park Mobile

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Big Brother is Watching ?

Readers  says “More social engineering (using the “nudging method”) This will basically force people to either use Park Mobile or buy a hang tag.

Anything to get us on the “let us collect all personal usage data so we can provide you with a better experience”

Park Mobile system so we can catalog and monetize you and more easily edge up parking fees without causing any uproar or additional internal costs.

They want us all to get hacked. I use my credit/debit card as little as is humanly possible. For big time train or plane travel only.

Apps are very vulnerable to hacking according to PBS TV segment.”

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Readers says Mayor Aronsohn will pay at the Next Election

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file photo by Boyd Loving

The terrible three campaigned heavily for Mr. (RBSA) Albano and he was defeated heavily, squished under the shoes of the sane voters of Ridgewood. Councilwoman Hauck was seen and heard in the hallway outside the Annie Zusy room talking into her cell phone while the vote counts were being revealed, and she was referring to the Ridgewood voters as idiots. They wanted Albano something fierce. Remember, we all just get one vote, so you are wrong, they will not get reelected. No way.

And it isn’t over yet. in the council’s attempt to put the kabash on the Friends of Sciedler’s resolution ,they voted in a resolution that allows for interested parties to come forth with a use for the house and funding options. They accomplished that. While people are disillusioned, the wheels are still turning. Perhaps an ordinance, ” Preserve the Status Quo” which would prevent any destruction of the house and trees before a formalized plan for the property is adopted could be passed or at least argued for. We may have a new council in May which is better in tune with the people. Regarding our former mayor, we would be lucky go have him back and/or Bernie. I can only hope.

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Local’ residents deserve a say on Schedler property

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Freehold John Mitchell with residents several years ago

Local’ residents deserve a say on Schedler property

To the Editor:

“Go West, young man,” a phrase made famous by Horace Greeley, could have certainly been directed at families moving to the Village of Ridgewood. This young man decided to go east in this beautiful community and raise a family. He has stayed for over 30 years, and now after all this time is wondering whether west would have been the smarter and wiser choice for his family’s future.

My wife, Michele, and I have spent most of our adult lives bringing up two children, supporting the excellent school system, participating in community events, and the excellent sports programs. Living on the east side of Ridgewood came with some issues that we have accepted and lived with over these 30-plus years: No local grammar school for our children to attend, no local park for our children to play in, and being treated at times by this town as the forgotten community but always being told by the Village Council that this was not true but a figment of our imagination.

Finally, we are given the chance to have something that could prove very positive for this east side community, the purchase of the Schedler property. My wife and I were very active early in getting the local community and Village of Ridgewood interested in securing this property. We expected and were led to believe by the Village Council that we, the local residents, would have a major and important say on how this property was developed, similar to the way the Habernickel property on the west side was developed.

Now, we were told at the Aug. 5 meeting of the Mayor and Council that they are submitting a recommendation to approve the Open Space Committee October 2012 recommendations, which includes the most controversial issue, a 90-foot baseball field on the Schedler site. The same 90-foot baseball field other Ridgewood communities did not want. It was considered for Pleasant Park but that idea appears to have been killed, and it was not built on the larger, 10-acre Habernickel property on the west side of Ridgewood because the local community preferred a smaller Little League field.

Because of this lack of concern by members of the Village Council toward the east side, this is where they have decided to definitely build this 90-foot field. It appears the plan all along was to destroy the historic Schedler house to make room for this field.

This comes, even after our east side community secured $45,000 (50 percent) of the funds necessary to save this historic house. We have always been willing to compromise except for the issue of destroying the Schedler house and building a 90-foot field. Everything else was on the table, and we were led to believe by the current administration that our proposals were being seriously considered and open to further debate and discussion.

We were misled and will soon know if the east side Ridgewood community will again be treated as second class citizens and not heard from again.

Alan Dlugasch

Ridgewood

 

https://www.northjersey.com/opinion/opinion-letters-to-the-editor/letter-to-the-editor-local-residents-should-have-say-on-schedler-development-1.1392735

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Mayor Aronsohn thwarts citizens group

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photo by Boyd Loving

At the Aug. 5 Ridgewood Council meeting, the mayor took it upon himself to request a resolution to adopt the old Open Space Committee’s recommendation in 2010 to place a Major League Baseball standard diamond on the Schedler property. That would result in the demolition of the historic Zabriski House and the removal of 4 acres of trees, which buffer a residential neighborhood backing onto Route 17.

The mayor disregarded the 2012 amended version that gave interested parties six to 12 months to find a suitable use for the house. The group, Friends of Schedler, met its deadline as the Bergen County Historical Society expressed a desire to lease the house for a library. The Schedler group also was able to secure a $45,000 donation along with matching grants to cover the costs of stabilizing the house.

They sought a resolution that would allow them to gain a certificate of eligibility from the county and to establish a non-profit organization. The town only would have to provide the $45,000 grant to finish the work.

But rather than vote on this resolution, the mayor threw every obstacle he could think of at the presenter to prevent a vote from occurring. His own proposal for a second resolution was based on an outdated recommendation. We did not expect our mayor to throw the efforts of the people who acted in good faith under the bus. His last-minute resolution should be pulled.

Linda McNamara

Ridgewood, Aug. 10

 

https://www.northjersey.com/towns/ridgewood/ridgewood-opinions-and-letters

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Readers say “THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN”, got the shaft again

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Well, we can be doggone sure that the three of them lost EVERY vote from the east side of 17, and many votes from the west side of 17. We lost this battle, but we won a war, because this for sure put the last nails in their coffins. They will never get reelected. And don’t tell me the sports people will be out in force. Albano was TROUNCED in the last election, Mr. sports had a terrible turnout .

Any Ridgewood voter living east of Paramus Road would be absolutely insane to cast a vote for either ARONSOHN, HAUCK, OR PUCCIARELLI in the future. This will go down as the biggest screw job in Ridgewood’s history.

That’s gonna have to be a biiiig fence along Rt 17. It’ll look like a driving range when it’s done.And yet again, we plunder green space money for sports fields.

2012 municipal election results District 14 “THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN”

Votes
Pucciarelli 103
Killion 69
Forneza 55
Aronsohn 115
Shnozuka 83
Hauck 84

This was a done deal before the property was even bought. What people need to understand is the way some residents get themselves on committees and boards precisely to do the opposite of what the board purportedly is for.

Despite what the Deputy Mayor said last night, I predict the following:

1) The house will soon be bulldozed to the ground.
2) There will be artificial turf.
3) There will be lights.
4) The property will be clear cut of all trees.

You voted them in ladies & gents of the Salem Ridge area. Now you must pay the price.

The Lawns residents should pay attention to what happened last night because Lower Hawes field was mention. That will be the next target for Fast Eddie and the RBA.

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CHRIS HARRIS :Ridgewood is investigating the dumping of two truckloads of construction debris

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photo by Boyd Loving

AUGUST 13, 2015, 12:25 PM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015, 12:27 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — An investigation has been opened into the illegal dumping of two truckloads of construction debris behind the village’s composting site along Lakeview Drive.
Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said this week that Ridgewood police are attempting to track down the source of the unlawfully discarded asphalt and concrete.

Assorted construction materials were also deposited behind the village’s composting facility, Sonenfeld said.

 

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-is-investigating-the-dumping-of-two-truckloads-of-construction-debris-1.1392075

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Pedestrian was struck and seriously injured on Thursday morning in Ridgewood

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Pedestrian was struck and seriously injured on Thursday morning in Ridgewood

August 13,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blogRidgewood NJ,  An adult female pedestrian was struck and seriously injured on Thursday morning, 08/13, while she was walking through a municipal parking lot in Ridgewood. The incident occurred at approximately 11:20 AM in the Cottage Place parking lot off of East Ridgewood Avenue.

Ridgewood police, fire and EMS personnel responded to assist the victim, who was transported by ambulance to The Valley Hospital. The driver of the vehicle that struck the victim was backing out of a parking space at the time of impact. No summonses were issued by police at the scene.

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Are Your Kids on Facebook? Rapists Will Abduct Them, Warns Viral Video

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An absurd Coby Persin YouTube video wants parents to panic over nothing.

Lenore Skenazy|Aug. 12, 2015 1:55 pm

Here’s the latest “Parents, Please Commence Freak Out” video. It reminds me of the Joey Salads video, obviously, but also of the parents who had their 6-year-old snatched, blindfolded, and taken to a basement where the “kidnapper” threatened to nail him to the wall—all of that, just to teach him not to talk to strangers. That boy’s mom and grandma wanted to keep their child safe, but I would not be surprised if any natural “gut instincts” of his have been shattered for life. (Not to mention his trust in his loved ones.)

The same goes for these young ladies exploited by admitted prankster Coby Persin. The video shows Persin, who looks to be about 30, pretending to be a teen as he chats with underage girls online. The girls eventually agree to meet him in person; Persin secretly brings along their parents, who jump out from around the corner and terrify the poor girls as Persin berates them for agreeing to the meeting in the first place.

“I could be anyone…you shouldn’t talk to strangers,” insists Persin to the girls.

https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/12/are-your-kids-on-facebook-rapists-will-a

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Ridgewood will recruit more cops to replace those retiring

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AUGUST 12, 2015, 11:27 AM    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015, 11:27 AM

BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

RIDGEWOOD — With several veteran police officers about to retire, village officials say they plan to recruit additional officers for the police department in the fall.

According to Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld, six officers will be retiring from Ridgewood’s police department before the year ends

“Two have already retired and the others will retire between October and December,” Sonenfeld explained.

Ridgewood has 40 officers, and three new officers are being trained, Sonenfeld said.

“We will be actively recruiting trained officers in the fall with targeted start dates right at the beginning of next year,” Sonenfeld said. “We are also assuming some extra overtime will be needed as well as some shifting of functions from police officers to civilians, particularly at the police desk.”

Despite rumors suggesting otherwise, village officials said that the police chief, John Ward, is not retiring in 2015.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-will-recruit-more-cops-to-replace-those-retiring-1.1391064

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The Ridgewood Chamber hosts a “call to action” meeting on Hudson Street Parking Garage

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Ridgewood Chamber Board of Directors Meeting
August 12, 2015 @ 8:00am – Chamber Office
for more details call 201-445-2600
info@ridgewoodchamber.com

PARKING GARAGE –
We are so excited -88 years the Chamber has been working on getting a parking garage for the Village of Ridgewood.
We are hopeful that this will happen soon!

Thursday, August 20 at 8:30am-Chamber office
The Ridgewood Chamber now invites you to a
“call to action” meeting to put the facts on paper why this garage will not:
cost the residents more taxes,
why it will save their “downtown town”.
All businesses have a vested interest in
this parking garage.
Ridgewood NEEDS to bring the infrastructure of its business district up-to-date –
NOW IS THE TIME.

Ridgewood Parking Garage Facts
Yes     No
Parking Garage Needed         X
Developer Interest               X
Land Study                    X
Zero Cost to tax payer  X
Vote                           X
First “call to action” meeting…
Please call 201-445-2600,
if you are attending.