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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Business & Industry Association President & CEO Michele N. Siekerka, Esq. issued the following statement regarding today’s press conference by Governor Murphy on increasing New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Ridgewood as previously reported on this blog and announced by Village Hall the following changes are now in effect for all parking meters in the Central Business District, both on the streets and in the parking lots. New parking kiosks are now in full operation on North Broad Street. 15 minute meter(s) remain in place.
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Ridgewood NJ, tomorrow, Wednesday, September 5th @ 6:00pm Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino will sign his new book from 6p to 7pm, at Bookends in Ridgewood : Pitino: My Story.
Rick Pitino is a former basketball coach. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University, Providence College, the New York Knicks, the University of Kentucky, the Boston Celtics and the University of Louisville. Pitino led Kentucky to the NCAA championship in 1996 and Louisville in 2013, although the latter was vacated by the NCAA
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New parking system is not too hard to figure out . . . it’s too damn inconvenient to warrant my using it. I’ve kept dimes and quarters in my car for the past 30 years so, no, I am not toting around rolls of quarters in my pockets . Grab a quarter, drop it into the meter and go. Easy. I don’t have to memorize my five license plates or kept that information stored on my phone. My trips to the CBD are short in nature . . . run into Rite-Aid, go the the ATM, post office, etc. I’d spend more time going to the meter and inputting my information than it takes my to run an average errand. And there is no way in hell I’m parking in a garage at the far end of the CBD to run a 5 minute errand. This system might work for diners and strollers but it’s not going to work for the bulk of Ridgewoodians who are conducting their every day lives. We will simply be taking our business elsewhere.
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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:
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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:
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by Jim O’Connor
Two problems:
1. Business owners do not understand the law.
2. People exploit the loopholes.
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RIDGEWOOD PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Village Hall Court Room – 7:30 P.M.
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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.
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Ridgewood Senior Shopping Day
Tuesday, August 28
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood’s restaurant scene is about to welcome a new venue. Felina Restaurant and Bar. Felina, which will occupy the space that formerly housed seafood restaurant Fish in the old Bank of America ,Art Deco bank building at 54 E. Ridgewood Avenue. in the heart of the Central Business District in Ridgewood, and will feature masterfully prepared meals by acclaimed chef Anthony Bucco and the first of its kind in Ridgewood ,a rooftop bar.
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Ridgewood NJ, Traffic Alert – E. Ridgewood Avenue Paving Schedule .PSE&G has hired a contractor to restore the pavement on E. Ridgewood Avenue. They will begin milling E. Ridgewood Avenue, starting at Maple Avenue , and move east on Friday, August 24th for 4 days to be followed by paving. This work will be completed by Labor Day, weather permitting. If you are head into the CBD , the Ridgewood blog suggests you save time and bike in .
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog continued its Ice Cream crawl in Ridgewood this week by visiting Ben and Jerry’s . The ice cream was impressive , the out door space in the form of a very inviting patio was a clear winner .
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Ridgewood NJ, for the second week in a row , what has been described as a “Oil Rig” has been spotted in the Central Business District ( CBD ) , this time on Walnut Street ,near the intersect of Franklin avenue . The mysterious structure showed up over a week ago and has been focus on much speculation .
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Ridgewood NJ, with the new parking rules for the CBD right around the corner , and threats of a new reinvigorated police parking enforcement regime going into effect on Friday August 24,the Ridgewood blog
for the first time found the “Employee parking” full in the Walnut street lot .
These spaces require a CBD Employee Parking Permit and are located in both the Walnut Street parking lot and the Cottage Place parking lot, and are delineated by signage. CBD Employee Parking Permits and monthly hang tags for CBD Employee parking may be purchased at the Reception Desk in Village Hall or daily parking may be paid for through Parkmobile or in Cottage Place, at the parking kiosks.
