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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development has posted step-by-step instructions for the more than 550,000 workers who will go online to claim their weekly unemployment benefits starting Sunday.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Michael Doherty (R-23) issued the following statement:
We have a governor, and not a king. On a daily basis, Governor Phil Murphy continues to eviscerate the New Jersey Constitution.
Continue reading NJ State Senator Michael Doherty,”We Have a Governor, and Not a King”
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog has previously reported on a homeless woman with what appears to be a serious drinking problem who’s made repeated bogus 911 calls. She was arrested once again this week after she allegedly broke into the Ridgewood Public library. Ridgewood Police responded to a burglar alarm and reported that they found the 56-year-old woman in the library shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday.
Continue reading Is the Ridgewood chief of police playing favorites with the town drunk?
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education Election and the Ridgewood Municipal Election (to elect Village Councilmembers) will both be held on the same date, May 12, 2020. These elections will be a vote by mail election only. Vote by mail ballots will be sent to all registered voters, with a deadline to return them to the County. There will be two separate ballots in the envelope sent to you, one for the Board of Education and the second one for the Village Council. The envelopes included with the ballots are postage paid.
Continue reading Ridgewood Village Council Elections May 12th
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Wyckoff NJ, the Township of Wyckoff has approved a drop in the municipal property tax rate. The change was approved by the Township Committee at its budget hearing, lowering property taxes on the average home valued at $793,800, by $5.56 to $2,002.76.
The 2020 municipal budget, excluding grants, is $20,087,460, up $366,749 or 1.86%. The municipal amount to be raised by taxes, excluding the state-mandated $1.56 million for the library, is $11,940,626, up $4,123 or 0.03% . The municipal tax rate is down 0.00007 cents per $100 assessed valuation from 0.253 to 0.2523.
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Mahwah NJ, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrest of RALPH RENARD (DOB: 11/04/1998; single; airplane safety worker) of 8259 167th Street, Jamaica, New York on charges of Sexual Assault and Endangering The Welfare Of A Child. The arrest is the result of a joint investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Robert Anzilotti and the Mahwah Police Department under the direction of Chief Stephen Jaffe.
Continue reading QUEENS MAN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MISSING MAHWAH GIRL
Urgent Steps to Mitigate the Financial Effects of COVID-19
April 24, 2020
Dear Rutgers Colleagues:
Today, with the health and safety of our community as our utmost concern, we are beginning to determine our path forward to a new chapter for Rutgers as we recover from the unprecedented crisis of COVID-19. Rutgers will weather this storm, but our university—and indeed all of higher education—confronts perhaps the greatest academic and operational challenge in its history.
I am writing now to share with you the immediate strategy for the University as we respond to the effects of the pandemic. In what follows I will outline for you the urgent steps we are taking to mitigate the financial effects of COVID-19, as well as our approach to financial planning for fiscal year 2021.
Continue reading Rutgers Announces Pay Freezes,Travel Ban, Furloughs, Pay Cuts and Tuition Freezes
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Paramus NJ, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Sue Fulton today announced that all agency, road testing, and inspections facilities will remain closed until at least Monday, May 11. The closures are part of the Murphy Administration’s ongoing efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Village of Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache this is the latest update on coronavirus cases in Ridgewood is as follows :
The most recent numbers in RIDGEWOOD are as follows:
Continue reading VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD COVID-19 CASES UPDATE 4/24/2020
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Ridgewood NJ, President Trump demonstrated his newfound fascination with UV light during his COVID-19 briefing Thursday, multiple times talking about the UV light of the sun being able to cut down COVID-19 pathogen killing time from hours to just a minute. Here’s the quote:
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Ridgewood NJ, a reader stated to obvious , “There still seems to be a significant amount of misunderstanding among the general public which, I believe, is mostly due to the way in which they consume their news. Most news comes by way of the political filter of either CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS, which all hate Trump to varying degrees, and will present “the facts” in a way that hopes you vote for their guy, Biden, at the end of the year. Remember, we are in an election year, which has really ratcheted up the Trump Derangement Syndrome level. Otherwise, you watch Fox, which is really the only right-leaning TV news broadcaster, which does the opposite.”
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Ridgewood NJ, coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.
William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer.
Continue reading Department of Homeland Security : Sunlight destroys the COVID-19 virus quickly
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New Brunswick NJ,Rutgers University announced today that it has launched the nation’s largest prospective study of health care workers exposed to COVID-19. The study includes a series of clinical trials that will explore new drug treatments, antibody testing, and long-term health tracking in the hope of providing insight into how to treat the disease and prevent its spread.
Reader says that we have an incumbent running for the Ridgewood Board of Education whose claims cannot be verified. Mr. Mahmood has ignored or sidestepped questions from the residents—- which is opposite his claims of transparency. He needs to answer the questions with substantiation, because this role is too important.
Continue reading Residents ask Ridgewood BOE Candidate Mohammed Mahmood to verify his claims
