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How to Keep Your Home Comfortably Warm Before Winter Comes

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Many people dread the winter season because of how hard it can be to get warm and cozy during those cold months. However, you don’t necessarily have to feel cold or uncomfortable. With some simple and cost-effective tips, you’ll be able to keep your home comfortably warm, even on the coldest winter nights. Read on to learn how to prepare your home for winter. 

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New Jersey Office of Emergency Management :It’s Hurricane Season! Are you prepared?

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Ridgewood NJ,August 1st was the first day of Hurricane Season . Have you downloaded our NJ Hurricane Survival Guide? What are you waiting for?!?! Go to https://ready.nj.gov/plan-prepare/hurricanes.shtml to download our FREE guide. Learn how to build an emergency kit and make a communication plan with your family today!

Para información en español, visite https://www.fema.gov/es/disaster/4339/preparacion-huracanes.

Pets are family too! Remember to include them in your emergency plans. Get more info about preparing your pets for a disaster in the NJ Hurricane Survival Guide as well!

Have travel plans this summer? Be sure to download the FEMA mobile app to receive real-time alerts from the National Weather Service for up to five locations nationwide, learn emergency safety tips for over 20 types of disasters, and locate open emergency shelters in your area. You can download the free app by going to https://www.fema.gov/mobile-app.

If you, a family member or a neighbor have special needs, be sure to visit Register Ready, New Jersey’s Special Needs Registry for Disaster Planning, to get started on making your emergency plan NOW www.registerready.nj.gov. You can also call NJ 2-1-1 for assistance.

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Reader says, “leaving was the Right Thing to Do “

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I agree with the last comment. We also left several years ago, forced out by a job loss and increase in taxes. Lived through the Valley Expansion debacle and glad it was defeated. With all this development and that travesty of the parking garage Ridgewood will become another Montclair. It was hard to leave but with all that has happened in the past few years since our departure, I’m certain it was the right thing to do. And yes, that Town Garage has been an eyesore and issue of controversy for years. Make the speculators who bought it pay for clean up. It is not the responsibility of the tax payers but sadly it will probably end up as such