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Village of Ridgewood Council Council Meeting Tonight ; 3066,Ridgewood Water, Puppy Mills and Parking

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August 10,2016

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Ridgewood NJ, the Village of Ridgewood Council will have its regular public meeting at 8pm tonight with a couple of interesting things on the agenda .

First Ridgewood Water ;

16-233    Authorize Compensation for Participants in Lead and Copper Sampling and Testing Program – Authorizes Ridgewood Water to credit $25 to the water service accounts of the participants in the lead and copper sampling and testing program

16-234    Amend Agreement for Online Credit Card and Bank Account Debit Payment of Water Bills – Elimination of Convenience Fee for Customers  – Amends the existing agreement with Metropolitan Communications, LLC for the processing of credit card and bank account debit payments for water bills so that Ridgewood Water will be charged the $.25 convenience fee instead of the customer being charged.

Then there is parking ;

3542 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – Violations and Penalties – Increase Parking Ticket Fines

3543 – Amend Chapter 265 – Vehicles and Traffic – Overnight Parking Restrictions

3544 – Amend Valet Parking Ordinance

3545 – Amend Chapter 249 – Streets and Sidewalks – Increase Fines for Paving Moratorium Violations

3546 – Amend Chapter 145 – Fees – Sewers and Sewage Disposal Fees – Increase Annual Service Charge for Out of Village Dischargers

And of coarse land use ;

3540 – Amend Chapter 190 – Land Use and Development – Regulations for Political Signs and Temporary Signs

3541 – Repeal Ordinance 3066

and a few interesting tidbits :

3547 – Ban Puppy Mills

Resolutions:

16-246    Amendment to Central Business District Advisory Committee Resolution – Terms of Members

16-249    Authorize Ridgewood Wildscape Association to Fund Treatment of Noxious Weeds at Kings Pond Park

16-250    Declare Property Surplus – Street Sweepers – Declares two street sweepers surplus property and authorizes the Village Manager to dispose of said property

 

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Ridgewood Schools : Start is on September 6

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August 9th 2016

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood schools will be open and students will return to school on Tuesday, September 6 (minimum day schedule). Opening Day for teachers and support staff is Thursday, September 1.

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Reader say Ticket Blitz Hurts “Ridgewood Sale Days “

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Ridgewood sale days under attack by aggressive parking police .witnessed this last Friday at 12 15 aside the book store cottage place.

Merchants should look into this interms of a ticket amnesty for mid day to 6 pm for special Ridgewood sale days .try to get over ourselves RIDGEWOOD good will be remembered forever…parking tickets on sale days guarantee no repeat visit by that out of Towner…why would they come back..give them a thank you for coming flyer waiver reminder if the Meters can’t be waived.

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Can it be that Police and Village Manager (our code enforcers) don’t know the law or are they catering to Healthbarn?

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August 9th 2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Watch this short clip. Yelling at a resident, Sergeant Chuck says no dogs allowed at Habernickel park, any park. Roberta says, “it’s illegal!”
HealthBarn announces they are dog friendly and the LAW is thrown out to accommodate Stacey and her dog watering station.
Then HealthBarn lures/invites dogs, dog bites kid, the law is back again.
Can it be that the Police and Roberta (our code enforcers) don’t know the law or are they catering to Healthbarn? Either way it’s reckless and negligent.
https://www.tubechop.com/watch/8239728
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Is your town’s ban on political lawn signs unconstitutional?

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With barely three months left before the presidential election, 2016 candidate lawn signs are sprouting like mushrooms throughout the Garden State. Claude Brodesser-Akner, NJ.com Read more

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Reading to you Child Creates a Successful Adult

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August 8,2016

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Ridgewood NJ, Before they even understand what words and books are about, young children still benefit from listening to you read aloud. And by making books a part of your daily routine, you’re setting the stage for future success in school, work and life.

Benefits include:

Boosting School Readiness – Reading is one of the easiest ways to increase school readiness. When you read to your child, you’re building their vocabulary, language and literacy skills, while improving concentration, curiosity and memory. Watch the video below to learn more about how reading builds comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Success in School – Studies show that children who grow up with lots of books in the home tend to go farther in school.
A Love of Books – Reading together builds strong family relationships. By cuddling up together with a good book, you teach your child that reading is fun—even for adults.
Teaching Coping Skills – Books are a great way to teach children how to handle new experiences and stressful situations. Stories can help children understand, talk about and deal with everything from starting a new school to the loss of a pet.

Did you know?

If a child reads for 20 minutes every day, they are exposed to about 1.8 million words of text every year. That is 137 new words per minute!
If families read together for 20 minutes a day, 7 days a week, they get more than 121 hours of bonding time every year!
Many states use third-grade reading scores to predict the number of jail cells they might need in the future (about three out of five prisoners in America are illiterate).
For every year you read with your child, average lifetime earnings increase by $50,000. You make a $250,000 gift to your child from birth to age 5 by reading aloud, just 20 minutes a day!
Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3–4 times more likely to drop out in later years.

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Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce : Free Business Book Download on August 18h

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Free Business Book Download on August 18h
August 8,2016
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Ridgewood NJ , Sarit Lotem’s book “Get More Clients Online – How To Leverage Your Business And Generate New Clients” is coming to Amazon Kindle!

You can get it for free for one day only on August 18th. To reserve your free copy, just go tohttps://www.lotemdesign.com/get-clients-online/ and Sarit will send you a reminder so you will not miss it.

P.S.
You don’t need a kindle device to download and read Kindle books. You can download an app for your computer. Go to https://amzn.to/24T6xNo to see what’s available.

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Ridgewood YWCA Now Offers Special Needs Fitness Class

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August 8th 2016
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Ridgewood NJ, YWCA Bergen County now offers “Music and Movement Fitness Class”, a special needs program for children ages 6 through 12 years. This class is designed for children with intellectual and development delays, including autism, with self-help skills to independently participate.

Music and movement are stimulating for children’s physical, emotional and intellectual growth and can positively impact their educational experience. This program is designed to keep children focused and engaged by involving them with exercise, musical instruments, puppets, drumming and parachute play.

Instructor Lisa Powers, aka Lisa La La, has been designing and teaching children’s music and physical fitness programs since 2001 in preschools, daycares and public schools throughout Bergen County. She holds a B.S. in Music Business from NYU.

Classes are held Thursdays from 5:00 to 5:45pm at 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ. Registration opens Monday, August 15th and program session runs from September 6th through October 29th. For more information or to enroll, please contact the Membership Department at 201-444-5600 x400.

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Reader says the council needs to conduct an inquiry into improper favoritism in Village of Ridgewood

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Aronson left us these problems and we need to deal with them now, ourselves. How much money is too much to unravel what was done? Besides, this is not a witch hunt – – this is a targeted effort to try and determine the truth of repeated allegations of improper favoritism in Village life. There is a reason there is a law on the books that allows the council to conduct this inquiry. This is exactly the situation where an investigation is required.

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Reader asks ,Why would one think the Ridgewood Arts Center would be any busier?

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Until all the other Ridgewood problems are solved (Habernickle, high density housing, garage and most of all,Valley!) I can’t see the Village spending one cent on the library. It is already huge for a town this size and it has an auditorium that it rents out. (Check into how often it is rented and that will show you a need for maybe something extra on Sundays when they entertain but it is certainly not being put to daily usage. Why would one think the Arts Center would be any busier?

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Reader asks I heard there was a big dog bite at HealthBarn last week?

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I heard there was a big dog bite at HealthBarn last week? Can anyone confirm? I heard it was just under the eyes ON the face and it was BAD?

Yes if someone can confirm that would be great. It is not shocking that it happened since habernickel park is now filled with healthbarn private clients. By this I mean children paying healthbarn directly. Not Ridgewood. Yet Roberta calls it a partnership. Yet it is just a tenant/ landlord relationship. No reports of profits from healthbarns business coming to Ridgewood parks and rec. I hope because of her ” so called ” partnership Stacy doesn’t advise her client to sue Ridgewood too!

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The Village of Ridgewood should Offer developers incentives to build public parking

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Offer developers incentives to build public parking

Editor, The Ridgewood Blog:

I get frustrated beyond belief whenever any member of the Village Council mentions all of the public parking spaces that will be permanently “lost” when the Brogan and Ken Smith properties are both fully developed (portions of both properties are now configured as surface parking lots and provide public parking to commuters and/or employees of CBD located businesses).

Yes; parking spaces will be lost during construction, but they don’t necessarily have to be lost permanently if someone on the Village Council would heed to my suggestion of offering incentives, in the form of tax abatements, exemptions, or reductions, to any developers who incorporate a public parking component into their development plans.

Believe me, if it were financially advantageous for a developer to incorporate a public parking deck/garage into their plans, they would rush to do so in a flash.  Money talks, nobody walks.

So let’s get with it Village Council members – how about picking up the phone today and calling J. T. Bolger, Ned Cancelmo, John Saraceno, and Mike Smith to see what they have to say?

Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood resident

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Little League Softball: Ridgewood’s run to Junior East Regional finals a team effort

14U softball team for winning the Junior Softball State Championship!

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Little League rules mandate that every player on a team’s roster must have at least one at-bat in a game.

That was no problem for Tony Barbera, manager of the Ridgewood Under-14 Little League softball team, which roared to district, sectional and state championships this summer and missed by one game of moving on to the Junior Little League World Series in Kirkland, Wash.

https://www.northjersey.com/sports/high-school-sports/girls-softball/ridgewood-s-run-to-regions-a-team-effort-1.1640298?page=all

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Art in the Park presented by The Ridgewood Guild

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August 7,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Art in the Park presented by The Ridgewood Guild. Sponsored by Pinot’s Palette.

The weather held the Ridgewood Guild the first Friday installment of Art in the Park.

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16 paintings sold tonight at Art in the Park. All proceeds go to support our Ridgewood Guild events and programs.

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Jake and Bruce a winning team at Art in the Park. Great art by Valerie Philips!

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Ridgewood Open Houses for August 5th 2016

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1630325.1 MLS # 1630325
349 Marshall St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
2 Bedroom, 1 Full Bath, C/C
Wendy Dessanti, Broker Associate
Weichert Realtors, Tenafly

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1631685.1 MLS # 1631685
382 S Broad St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
3 Bedroom, 1 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Mary Beth O’Hara, Sales Associate
Coldwell Banker, Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1624919.1 MLS # 1624919
80 Pershing Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
3 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath, C/C
Youkyung Lee, Sales Associate
Eastern Realty, Inc.

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1622744.1 MLS # 1622744
300 Van Emburgh Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
4 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath, C/C
Glenn Hefferan, Sales Associate
Weichert Realtors Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1631890.1 MLS # 1631890
355 Walthery Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
4 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, S/L
Joan Marie Monton, Broker Associate
Coldwell Banker, Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1627914.1 MLS # 1627914
828 Arrow Ln, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Mary Beth O’Hara, Sales Associate
Coldwell Banker, Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1628866.1 MLS # 1628866
695 Kingsbridge Ln, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Beth Freed, Broker Associate
Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty-Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1619731.1 MLS # 1619731
262 N Van Dien Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Cynthia A. Farley, Sales Associate
Jody Earley, Sales Associate
Marron Gildea Realty, Inc.

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1628041.1 MLS # 1628041
135 Woodside Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
4 Bedroom, 5 Full Bath, Col
Erin Pruitt, Sales Associate
Frances Ekblom, Sales Associate
Tarvin Realtors

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1630446.1 MLS # 1630446
329 Northern Pkwy, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
4 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath,
2 Half Bath, Col
Marilyn Nuber, Sales Associate
Keller Williams Village Square Realty

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7

1630227.1 MLS # 1630227
266 Gardner Rd, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Kathleen Falco, Sales Associate
RE/MAX Accomplished Realty

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1630856.1 MLS # 1630856
213 Melrose Pl, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
MaryAnn Eldredge, Sales Associate
Keller Williams Realty Metropolitan

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1629185.1 MLS # 1629185
1090 Hillcrest Rd, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 4 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Ghada Abbasi, Sales Associate
Coldwell Banker, Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1615483.1 MLS # 1615483
200 Claremont Rd, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
2 Half Bath, Col
Till Horkenbach, Sales Associate
Keller Williams Village Square Realty

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1628863.1 MLS # 1628863
329 Cantrell Rd, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 4 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Suzanne Lenihan, Sales Associate
Tarvin Realtors

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1620183.1 MLS # 1620183
71 California St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Jennifer Wilkes, Sales Associate
Weichert Realtors Ridgewood

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/14
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1632381.1 MLS # 1632381
34 Clinton Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 3 Full Bath, Col
Elizabeth H. Thauer, Sales Associate
Tarvin Realtors

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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1629427.1 MLS # 1629427
305 West End Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
5 Bedroom, 5 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Victoria Wilkinson, Sales Associate
Solutions Realty, LLC

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/7
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Open Houses for Sun 8/14

1632133.1 MLS # 1632133
275 Meadowbrook Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
4 Bedroom, 1 Full Bath,
1 Half Bath, Col
Angele Ekert, Sales Associate
Miranda Jones, Sales Associate
Keller Williams Village Square Realty

  • Open House: 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Sun. 8/14