October 13 – Last Day to Register to Vote in Nov. 3 Election
On Tuesday, October 13 from 8:30am to 4:30pm, voter registration forms are available in the Village Clerk’s Office on the 5th Floor of Village Hall.
On October 13 from 4:30pm to 9:00pm the Village Clerk will be in the Ridgewood Library Lobby with forms to assist residents with voter registration.
2015 LEAF PICK UP SCHEDULE
NOTICE CONCERNING LEAF REMOVAL FOR 2015
Last year the Village of Ridgewood implemented a pilot program to outsource a portion of our leaf removal service. After reviewing and evaluating input that was provided by you regarding the success of this change, we again will be using the services of a third party contractor in Area B. The combined effort of the Village staff and this contractor will enforce our continuing commitment to improve your Village services.
In accordance with last years’ schedule, residents in Area B will remain the same with the exception of the following streets which will now be considered “Area D” for leaf season only.
Beechwood Rd. Unadilla Rd.
Carlton Terr. Valley View Ave.
Elm Ct. Waiku Rd.
Kemah Rd. Wastena Terr.
N. Monroe St. (house #108 – 412) Windsor Terr.
Palmer Ct. Woodland Ave. (house #116 – #223)
Sheridan Terr.
2015 DATES for collection are as follows:
Area A Area B Area C Area D
Oct. 19 – 22 Oct. 21 – 27 Oct. 23 – 28 Oct. 29 – Nov. 4
Nov. 5 – 10 Nov. 9 – 13 Nov. 12 – 18 Nov. 19 – 25
Nov. 30 – Dec. 3 Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 Dec. 7 – 11 Dec. 14 – 18
Dec. 14 – 18
Leaves must be placed directly in the street no more than 7 days prior to your scheduled pick up date. Please have your leaves in the street on the first day scheduled for collection. If you employ the services of a landscaper communicate these dates to them. No brush will be collected during leaf season. You may continue to bring leaves as well as brush to the Recycling Center. The hours of operation are Monday through Saturday, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Leaves can also be placed in paper biodegradable bags. Bags will be available at the Recycling Center on a first come, first serve basis. When using bags please place them on the curb area and they will be collected separately.
The most vocal comment heard from residents last year was on properties who did not comply with the schedule. Therefore enforcement will be vital to the Village’s success to improve this service. An enforcement agent will issue a summons to those that violate these guidelines.
As weather is a key component to this operation, if changes become necessary it will be posted on the Village of Ridgewood website. In addition you are encouraged to sign up for e-mail notifications via the Village website and to share this information with your neighbors. As a reminder, use caution when our leaf removal crews are on your block. When possible please take an alternate route to ensure the safety of all. Should you have any questions, please call the Street Division at (201) 670-5585.
Our motto is – “Leave” no leaf behind!
Thank you for your continued cooperation.
IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM RIDGEWOOD WATER 10/6
Ridgewood Water has received a number of inquiries about chlorine in the water supply. Equipment that feeds chlorine as the water leaves the
Twinny Treatment Facility pumped a higher amount than usual resulting in concentrations as high as 5 parts per million where 4 parts per million
is the maximum allowed by regulation.
Although this impacts only a portion of Ridgewood residents, we are notifying all Ridgewood residents. It is anticipated that the system
will be back to normal by 5 pm today. Please flush your pipes by running your faucets and flushing your toilets. Further
updates will be posted to the Ridgewood Water website at water.ridgewoodnj.net.
OCTOBER 6, 2015 LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015, 10:02 AM
BY MARK KRULISH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Losing your lawn for the greater good was the theme at an event organized by the Bergen Passaic Native Plant Chapter and the Ridgewood Environmental Advisory Committee (REAC).
The event featured a speaker who specializes in landscaping that aligns nature with function and design.
Christina Chrobokowa, a noted landscape architect, gave a presentation regarding alternative ground covers, which require less maintenance and resources in addition to being more environmentally-friendly.
Additionally, ground covers often use less water, which made the presentation timely as the village is currently under Stage 4 water restrictions. Ironically, the event was held on Tuesday, which was the first rainy night in weeks.
In the United States, there is almost 50,000 square miles of lawn, said Chrobokowa, almost three times more than the space occupied by corn. Lawns are still considered a coveted aspect of homeownership, even by millennials, she said, reporting that 83 percent in that age group said having a yard is important.
With the desire for a lawn still high, the aim is to strike a balance between meeting the needs of homeowners and the natural environment. While lawns serve as a place for active and passive recreation, relaxation and a place for pets to play, what currently exists on many properties is often not necessary.
“It’s not an easy road to travel when it comes to changing perspectives and a mindset that has been ingrained in people for many generations,” said Chrobokowa, referring to the lawn as “America’s most wanted and useless crop.”
https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/speaker-time-to-lose-lawns-1.1426299
May 2015, the Village Council tinkered with it and sent it to the Planning Board for comment, the Planning Board liked the tinkering. I don’t know whether the Village Council adopted the changes yet or not.
“Board member David Thurston asked if the new language opened up the board to a charge of making an arbitrary decision if it decides not to move forward with an application.
Village Planner Blais Brancheau said it should not be a problem in obvious cases,…..”
I am sure anyone who makes an application, particularly a big developer, will not regard their application as one that should obviously be turned down. We need to do what other towns do, not have such an ordinance.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/plannerson-board-with-new-changes-1.1340532
October 4,2015
Ridgewood NJ, Mike White,is a truck driver for our Sanitation Department and has been employed by the Village of Ridgewood for about 21 years. He is considered incredibly professional, very kind and extremely friendly . many residents in tyhe Village are familiar with him .
Last week we all learned that Mike’s son, Michael White, who had also worked directly with him as a seasonal employee, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident in July. Michael was 25 years old and leaves behind a 22-month-old daughter, Breelyn Mikynlee.
Many in the Village were heartbroken to hear of Mike’s loss and recognize.how difficult it must be for Mike and his wife Cheryl as they try to function in their while working through their grief.
Mike and his wife Cheryl are now also helping to support their beautiful granddaughter. As we all know, diapers and toddler’s needs are expensive, and a little bit goes a long way.
If you would like to donate to help Mike and Cheryl during this difficult time,
Obituary https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?pid=175308603
A Go Fund me Campaign has been set up In Loving Memory of Michael White. Here is the link:https://www.gofundme.com/an5b3hxs
file photo by ArtChick
OCTOBER 2, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015, 8:52 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
A daffodil for every resident
To the Editor:
The Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands is looking forward to spring! We are pleased to announce our 2015 campaign: “25,000 Village Residents = 25,000 Daffodils.” Our goal is to plant one daffodil bulb for each village resident.
Three years ago, the conservancy began the fall bulb planting project. To date, 14,000 bulbs were purchased and planted by residents, including Boys and Girls Scout troops, the Ridgewood Public School System and several local social service agencies.
Please join us on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the Stable between the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help us kick off this exciting event. As we keep working on our various park improvement projects, we also look forward to celebrating our Third Annual Daffodil Festival on Sunday, April 17, 2016.
Please visit our conservancy website at cfrpl.org for ways to participate, and for additional information. We thank our community for their continued support.
Cynthia Halaby
President
Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands
I dislike our deputy mayor as much as the rest of you but I think you are “burying the lede.” I do not think he meant, or even said, that he was the only RIDGEWOOD RESIDENT with a full-time job. I believe he was talking about the COUNCIL–thereby outing the mayor, who has claimed to have a job for years but clearly does not. The two councilwomen are not employed outside the home. The third male councilman LOST HIS JOB PARTLY BECAUSE THE MAYOR DROPPED A DIME and told his Staten Island boss that his running for council IN ANOTHER STATE would be a conflict of interest. Even the guy’s own legal team disagreed, but by then the councilman had left. This issue must never be allowed to die. Somebody, preferably a federal investigator, needs to get the mayor in a small room, shine a light on his shiny head, look him in the eye, and ask what happened. I would give a lot to be that investigator. Even in an elevator. He would not be able to look straight back.
From what I hear, many SUV’s in town will soon be sporting posters of Albert Pucciarelli with bold letters stating that he is the only person in town with a full time job. This will be cause for fender benders as people all over town crack up laughing.
The only one in town? in the world? He can’t have meant that even if he said it–especially considering that speaker after speaker had been stating “I’m a lawyer” and “I’m in advertising” and “I’m in real estate” and so on, and, well, an entire town can’t be unemployed at the same time. I believe that whatever he said, what he meant (he was flustered, for a change, and grasping for words) had to be that he was the only council member with a day job. Well, a mystery.
Note: I was at the meeting and I counted every speaker and wrote down their names. Some names I could not hear because the speakers were placed so their backs were to the audience, making it very hard to hear their names. After they stated their names, then they got bolder and you could hear their messages LOUD AND CLEAR.
Anyway for the record, I logged 84 people speaking OPPOSED to the high density housing, and one who simply questioned Mr. Aronsohn about accepting a bribe (I mean donation) from a developer. I counted five who were in favor, one of whom was a developer with a plan on the table and one of whom was his attorney. Those two don’t really count, do they?
If you count the two developer guys, that is 89 people (84 plus five, not counting the bribe-questioner who did not weigh in pro or con), with only 5.6% in favor.
If you delete the two developer guys, that is 86 people with only 3.5% in favor.
Now of course my math might be wrong because I don’t have a full time job. But, I guess that puts me in the majority since only one person in the room has a full time job.
On Monday, October 5 the Kelly Creegan Memorial Fund will host its second annual golf outing at Apple Ridge Country Club in Mahwah. Founded in 2012, the Kelly Elisabeth Creegan Memorial Fund seeks to share the memory, life and spirit of Kelly Creegan through community philanthropy. Last year’s event funded two scholarships for the Ridgewood High School class of 2015. This year the hope is to continue and expand that mission.
Registration is at 8 a.m. with shotgun start at 10:30 a.m. Golfers will enjoy a full breakfast and lunch with auction along with their round of golf. Price is $200 per golfer. For further information and sponsorship opportunities please visit our Facebook page, Kelly Creegan Memorial Fund, or email [email protected].
Special Public Hearing – October 14, 2015
The Village Council of the Village of Ridgewood shall conduct a Public Hearing in the Sydney V. Stoldt, Jr. Court Room on the fourth floor of the Ridgewood Village Hall, 131 North Maple Ave., Ridgewood, NJ at its October 14, 2015 Regular Public Meeting, which meeting begins at 8:00 p.m.
The purpose of this Public Hearing is for the Village Council to receive comments and suggestions from the public for the Village of Ridgewood’s 2015 Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund Municipal Park Improvement and Development Grant application. The Village has applied for this grant for Phase 1 work on the Schedler Park property, located at 460 West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, NJ. Phase 1 would encompass basic infrastructure improvements to include: installation of underground utilities (water, electric, sewer); demolition of two-car garage, small shed; capping of inoperable well; selective removal of down, dead, diseased trees; site clean-up; and cut in proposed parking lot driveway entrance.
Heather A. Mailander
Village Clerk
By Josh Saul
October 2, 2015 | 6:22pm
The coach of the women’s softball team at a Christian college in Rockland County tried to turn his players into porn stars by offering to help them get jobs in the adult entertainment industry — and even invited well-known skin-flick actress Allie Haze to a practice so she could deliver “life counseling sessions,’’ bombshell lawsuits state.
Kurt Ludwigsen, 44, was arrested in April for improper sexual conduct with his Nyack College players. Lawsuits filed Friday by three of them charge he would routinely slap their butts, grab their breasts and make them sit on his lap.
“I am going to ear f–k you. This is your punishment. You are going to stand here and take it,” Ludwigsen told a pitcher after she lost a game in March 2015, according to her Manhattan federal court lawsuit. “Ludwigsen then began to lick [her] ear. When [she] tried to pull away, Ludwigsen held her tighter and said, ‘Stop moving. I told you that you are going to stand here and take it.’ ”
The suits also accuse Ludwigsen of “inviting Haze to practice and directing students to life counselling sessions with her.”
OCTOBER 4, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2015, 12:29 AM
BY NICHOLAS PUGLIESE
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
NEW YORK — In the five years since Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge, concerns about online bullying and harassment have only increased as daily interactions are mediated more and more by technology.
Victims of online abuse — in the form of threats, personal data breaches or “revenge pornography” — often feel powerless to hold aggressors accountable, given the anonymity that the Internet provides and an opaque regulatory environment that lags advances in technology.
On Saturday, the New York Law School launched the Tyler Clementi Institute for Internet Safety, the country’s first pro bono clinic at a law school that represents victims of what is commonly known as cyberbullying. The institute, started in coordination with the Tyler Clementi Foundation and run by Celementi’s parents, aims to make lawyers available in all 50 states who will advocate on behalf of victims in schools, corporate settings and courts.
“It’s very encouraging,” said Clementi’s father, Joseph. “The Internet now allows people to make comments, post photographs, do all kinds of things that are in cyberspace forever and can be constantly referred to by anyone who chooses to look at it. The humiliation is amplified.
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On Wednesday September 30, 2015, an employee of the Ridgewood Board of Education reported vandalism at the Steven’s Athletic Field. Unidentified actor/actors had intentionally burned the synthetic turf playing surface in several areas.
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Ridgewood NJ, Members of Ridgewood P.B.A. Local 20 in conjunction with the Chiefs Office will be sporting PINK ball caps during the month of October to support breast cancer awareness. “We decided it was time to join the fight” said Peter Youngberg,
PBA president. “When a citizen sees a police officer wearing a pink hat out there it should grab their attention. We hope that it helps raise some awareness throughout the Village. We are also committing $500.00 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation”.
“Unfortunately most of us have family or know someone impacted by breast cancer, so as a department we stand together with the PBA in this effort. In support of breast cancer awareness we have authorized the wearing of Pink hats by department members”.Chief John Ward.
For more information or to donate please visit the following link:https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/
Above Photo: from left to right (Detective Peter Youngberg PBA President, Chief John Ward, Officer Jeff Kay, Captain Forest Lyons, Officer Michael Karcher, Officer Joseph Youngberg, and Detective Douglas Henky PBA Delegate)
