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Ridgewood NJ, Got extra sports gear taking up space? This is your last chance to clear out your garage and closets while supporting a great cause! Ridgewood’s Green Teams are organizing a Sports Equipment Swap, giving you the opportunity to donate, shop, and save money—all while promoting sustainability.
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Moving out can be an exciting time in someone’s life, but the very day of moving can be very stressful. Everyone moves at some point in their lives, regardless of age. But it’s a hard job that can be too much for even the most organized person to handle.
Continue reading 4 Things That Make All the Difference When You’re Moving Out
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Ridgewood NJ, 111th annual Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration Monday, July 5, 2021 . Please join us for our annual flag raising ceremony in Wilsey Square at 9am on July 5th. Please follow all local and state social distancing guidelines when attending this event. We will also being streaming the ceremony live on our Facebook page.
Check back soon for more details regarding the 2021 Celebration . Please consider making a donation to keep our great tradition alive! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GVYWEVF3BAGPJ
THANKS TO ALL WHO SUPPORT, VOLUNTEER, DONATE AND WORK TO MAKE OUR CELEBRATION A GREAT SUCCESS YEAR AFTER YEAR!
Concerned Residents of Ridgewood has been out in the trenches and lawyers’ offices for a decade. They must not be allowed to hold the bag financially as well. I just sent my third or fourth check for as much as I could afford. From $5 to $5,000, everybody in town should do the same out of sheer gratitude for their perseverance.
Checks made out to: Concerned Residents of Ridgewood. Mail to: Concerned Residents of Ridgewood, P.O. Box 150, Ridgewood, NJ 07451, or via PayPal or credit card online at https://www.stopvalley.com/Donate.html They have earned more than lip service appreciation from all of us. And the fight is not yet done. Lawyers are expensive. Let’s all participate.
The union representing New Jersey teachers has told Democratic Party leaders that it will not make any campaign contributions this year until the Senate votes on a constitutional amendment requiring that the state make quarterly payments to the public employee pension fund, a top Democratic official confirmed Tuesday. John C. Ensslin, The Record Read more
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Ridgewood will no longer donate to charitable groups
OCTOBER 22, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014, 12:23 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Ridgewood will no longer be donating thousands of dollars each year to local charitable organizations, a process the village manager said is illegal.
The public disclosure that the village was making these donations for a long period of time was made by Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld at a council meeting on Oct. 8.
Sonenfeld told the public that she could not specify for how long the donations have been made, but that they likely went on under several different administrations.
“I will tell you that it was probably somewhere in the range of maybe $10,000 [a year]… to sports organization, as well as to some Ridgewood charities,” she said.
Last Wednesday, Sonenfeld told The Ridgewood News that the donations had been going on for “much more than 10 years” (the technological records only go back that far). She also said that no state government entity had told the village to discontinue the donations.
She believed that the village wanted to support Ridgewood residents by making the donations, and had apparently not realized that they were illegal.
“Municipalities, by state law, cannot make donations to charitable institutions; there are very few exceptions to this,” she said. “I think it’s the idea that as a taxpayer … you’re not spending your money for someone else to determine what charity to give to.”
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/state-law-requires-ridgewood-to-stop-donations-1.1114768#sthash.PnhqFHmx.dpuf
