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Village of Ridgewood Downtown for the Holidays

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Ridgewood NJ, The Village of Ridgewood will be holding a Downtown for the Holidays event this year, which will be in keeping with COVID-19 restrictions.  Social distancing and face masks will be required. The event will be held on December 4, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  The streets will be open to traffic, so we invite you to stroll on the sidewalks and enjoy the kickoff to the holidays. The Village Christmas tree, at the corner of East Ridgewood Avenue and Broad Street, will already be lit, and will be glowing with lights, the trees in Memorial Park at Van Neste Square and at Station Plaza will be decorated with festive ornaments donated by residents, businesses, groups, and organizations; there will be a Kid’s Corner with a drawing to take home and submit for a prize; music throughout the area will be provided by various groups; dancers from Art of Motion Dance Theatre and youth from HeART in Motion Studio will perform in store windows, and be sure to take a walk to the west side of the Central Business District, through the decorated pedestrian tunnel!

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Ridgewood Pedestrian Mall on Hiatus Till Warm Weather Returns

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Ridgewood NJ, The Welcome Back to Ridgewood, Event which creates a pedestrian mall between Broad Street and Walnut Street, took place every weekend during the summer and into the fall.  At this time, the event will be put on hiatus until the weather warms up next year.  In the meantime, please continue to go to our many eateries, some of which have heated igloos or greenhouses or outdoor areas with heaters, so that you can continue to dine outdoors in the colder weather.

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All Village of Ridgewood offices are currently closed to the public

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Ridgewood NJ, Due to the increasing numbers of COVID-19 positive cases in Ridgewood and New Jersey as a whole, all Village offices are currently closed to the public.  Although the Village offices will be closed, our Village employees will be working in their offices during regular business hours, 5 days per week, to assist you.  If you must come into Village offices for a permit, license or to get information, please call the Village Department you wish to visit and we will make an appointment to allow you to do so.  Please be aware that you must have an appointment at a Village office in order to enter a Village building.

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COVID Vaccinations Launch Next Week in the United Kingdom

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London UK, the U.K. has become the first country in the world to approve the coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), which has been shown to offer up to 95% protection against COVID-19. The first 800,000 doses will be available in the U.K. from next week (another 40M doses are on order). Two doses three weeks apart are required for protection and will first be offered to frontline health care workers and nursing home residents, followed by older adults. Other countries aren’t far behind: The U.S. and the EU also are vetting the Pfizer shot along with a similar vaccine made by competitor Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), and a similar nod by the FDA is expected as early as next week

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Germbuster System offers Preventative monthly two-step Process Amidst Second Covid19 Wave

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Redbank  NJ, Bedside nurses are not the only RNs keeping us safe from the COVID19 pandemic. Gina Dehmer, RN, BSN, an Environmental Health Nurse focused on Infection Control, along with her business partner and environmental contractor and consultant Gary Syzmanski, has created a suite of preventative services for all indoor environments, commercial and residential, to protect those inside from a host of germs—including COVID19.

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NJBIA’s 62nd Annual Business Outlook Survey Shows COVID-19 Impacts, Enormous Dissatisfaction with Business Climate

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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA) released its 62nd annual Business Outlook Survey , The survey as expected showed a severe COVID-19 impact, an anticipated slow recovery and an overall dissatisfaction with NJ’s business climate.

In states that are booming like Texas, Florida or Tennessee, government works to lure new investment to their states. In New Jersey, the opposite is true. 9 out of 10 New Jersey Businesses surveyed feel that our state has made no progress in easing regulatory obstacles for business.

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Orchard Elementary School Goes Full Remote

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Ridgewood NJ, Due to two recent separate positive COVID-19 cases of unknown origin, Orchard Elementary School will transition to all remote learning tomorrow, Tuesday, December 1, 2020. In person instruction will resume on Tuesday December 15, 2020. Orchard Elementary School students should not participate in out of school activities during this time of remote learning. The situation is fluid and updated information from the NJDOH may alter this return date.

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BREAKING: Moderna to apply for Emergency use Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Today

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CAMBRIDGE  Mass ,  Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced that the primary efficacy analysis of the Phase 3 study of mRNA-1273 conducted on 196 cases confirms the high efficacy observed at the first interim analysis. The data analysis indicates a vaccine efficacy of 94.1%. Safety data continue to accrue and the study continues to be monitored by an independent, NIH-appointed Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). The Company also announced that today, Moderna plans to request an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and conditional approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The Phase 3 study, known as the COVE study, enrolled more than 30,000 participants in the U.S. and is being conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Hawes Elementary School Goes Full Remote Due to COVID

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Ridgewood NJ, Due to two recent separate positive COVID-19 cases of unknown origin, Hawes Elementary School will transition to all remote learning tomorrow, Monday, November 30, 2020. In-person instruction will resume on Thursday, December 10, 2020. Hawes Elementary School students should not participate in out-of-school activities during this time of remote learning. The situation is fluid and updated information from the NJDOH may
alter this return date.

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Travelers and residents returning from any U.S. state or territory beyond the immediate region (NY, Ct, Pa, and De) should self-quarantine

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Statement from Governor Murphy on New Jersey Travel Advisory Guidance :

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New Jersey Health Commissioner to Quarantine After Staffer Tests Positive for COVID-19

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Trenton NJ, Statement from Department of Health Communications Director Donna Leusner

“An employee working in the Commissioner’s Office recently tested positive for COVID-19. The employee was last in the building on Tuesday, November 24 and is currently isolating at home.

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Willard Elementary School Goes All Remote on Monday

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Ridgewood NJ, Due to two recent separate positive COVID-19 cases of unknown origin, Willard Elementary School  will transition to all remote learning, Monday, November 30, 2020. In-person instruction will resume on Thursday, December 10, 2020. Willard Elementary School students should not participate in out-of-school activities during this time of remote learning. The situation is fluid and updated information from the NJDOH may alter this return date.

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AstraZeneca Faces Hurdles to Regulatory Approval of COVID19 Vaccine

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Ridgewood NJ, previously reported on the Ridgewood blog that AstraZeneca issued a press release regarding preliminary results from the Phase 3 clinical trials of its candidate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, developed in collaboration with Oxford University (UK). According to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ,the press release indicates that the vaccine demonstrated 90% efficacy when administered as an initial half-dose followed by a full dose a month later. Interestingly, however, the vaccine was 62% efficacious in participants who received 2 full doses over the same period of time, resulting in an overall efficacy of 70%. No serious adverse events were identified in the trials. In total, the Phase 3 portion of the trials included more than 11,000 participants, and the researchers identified 131 COVID-19 cases. As has been the case throughout the pandemic, the data published via press release have not yet been peer reviewed, although the researchers reportedly intend to publish the full data in the near future.

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Murphy Administration’s Nursing Home COVID Policy Still a Recipe for Disaster

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Point Pleasant NJ, Senator Joe Pennacchio continues to question the administration and State Department of Health’s policy toward admittance of new COVID patients at long-term nursing facilities.

The Senator’s office received an anonymous call from a resident’s loved one who heard that the center was still accepting new patients who are testing positive for COVID. Office staff confirmed with the nursing home’s admissions office that new patients testing positive for COVID are in fact being admitted.

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