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>Expressing Elvis – Jan 8 Celebrating Elvis Presley’s Birthday in Poetry and Song

Ridgewood, NJ – January 8, 2011-“Elvis Presley is Alive and Well on Lincoln Avenue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey….” So reads the title of a poem by Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

On that same road but a little farther north — in Ridgewood — Elvis will be coming back. He will be alive and well — in poetry and song.

Since you may have wondered what to do after the New Year’s hoopla has quieted down, and after all the bowl games have been played, why not come out to get your own Elvis on?

Poets, we are sure that everyone has an Elvis poem or two. In honor of Elvis Presley’s birthday, why not join poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Laura Boss, James Gwyn, and others as they share their poems that include Elvis.

The event is on January 8, 2011, from 1-4 pm at Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church, 271 Lincoln Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. Plenty of free parking. A large space to accommodate all manner of bards and balladeers. Express Elvis in verse or in any variety of expression. Come on out to listen or to participate. Tune up your guitar. Dust off your jumpsuit. It will be a memorable afternoon. It’s free. All are welcome.

Note to Poets: If you’d like to participate, please submit your intent to James Gwyn at [email protected] by Dec. 31st so he can get a reading list together. (In other words, RSVP.)

Note to Singers: Acoustic, please. There are some mics, but best to bring your own. (Also, please RSVP.)

Note to Impersonators: Calling El Vez. Is he still playing in town?

https://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/2010/12/expressing-elvis-jan-8.html

>Water rate increase on Ridgewood council’s agenda
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
BY RICHARD DE SANTA
GLEN ROCK GAZETTE
Staff Writer

https://www.northjersey.com/news/111531329_Water_rate_increase_on_Ridgewood_council_s_agenda_.html
An ordinance to increase water rates by 5 percent next year is on the agenda for the Ridgewood council’s public meeting on Wednesday night.

Officials from Glen Rock, Midland Park and Wyckoff, which the water utility serves, are expected to attend the meeting.

Fighting the increase

The Glen Rock Borough Council recently formalized its participation in a lawsuit against Ridgewood Water over current and proposed water rate increases.

The council authorized $7,500 to cover potential legal fees at its Dec. 2 public meeting. The action was part of a resolution stating that the increases are detrimental to Glen Rock; information recently communicated by legal counsel supports the plaintiffs; and that the borough wishes to join in the associated litigation.

The suit was filed last summer by the Wyckoff council on behalf of that township, in addition to Glen Rock and Midland Park. It came in the wake of the 21 percent water rate increase incurred by the three towns this year, and the announcement of an additional 5 percent hike proposed for 2011. Hackensack attorney and former Wyckoff mayor Joseph Fiorenzo filed the suit on a pro-bono basis for Wyckoff

more:https://www.northjersey.com/news/111531329_Water_rate_increase_on_Ridgewood_council_s_agenda_.html

>Village of Ridgewood : Village Christmas Tree

>WikiLeaks cables: Barack Obama is a bigger danger

WikiLeaks harms the US. But the president’s refusal to acknowledge the threats we face is a bigger danger

John Bolton
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 December 2010 20.00 GMT

WikiLeaks has yet again flooded the internet with thousands of classified American documents, this time state department cables. More troubling than WikiLeaks’ latest revelation of US secrets, however, is the Obama administration’s weak, wrong-headed and erratic response. Unfortunately, the administration has acted consistently with its demonstrated unwillingness to assert and defend US interests across a wide range of threats, such as Iran and North Korea, which, ironically, the leaked cables amply document

more: https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/05/obama-us-security-danger-threats

>Port Authority’s new budget hold line on tolls

Motorists won’t face higher tolls at Port Authority bridges and tunnels in the coming year. However, they may find it frustrating entering the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey. (The Associated Press)

https://online.wsj.com/article/AP0e8ef33d538943a6b7d6408db74df118.html

>NJ taxpayers, businesses hit hard by unfair valuations

Inaccurate property records that fuel New Jersey’s nearly $25 billion property tax juggernaut cost landowners an estimated $1.6 billion in additional taxes every year. (Schnaars, Asbury Park Press)

https://www.app.com/article/20101208/NEWS/312070005/NJ-taxpayers-businesses-hit-hard-by-unfair-valuations

>Lightgate: Despite numerous requests by neighbors of Ridgewood High School (RHS), the Board of Education will not ask the Planning Board for another courtesy review of the lighting plan


Ridgewood BOE will not seek another review of field lights
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
BY KELLY EBBELS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer

Despite numerous requests by neighbors of Ridgewood High School (RHS), the Board of Education will not ask the Planning Board for another courtesy review of the lighting plan for the school’s two athletic fields, first approved in July.

“We’ve been there, done that, thank you very much,” said Bob Hutton, a Board of Education (BOE) trustee, who introduced the motion at Monday’s BOE meeting to close the discussion. BOE members voted unanimously on the motion.

With nearly 20 residents in attendance, many detailed the indignities brought by the bright lights and increased field usage, particularly at Stevens Field, including unauthorized use by out-of-towners, urination by football players in the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, parking issues, and garbage, among others.

Jim Morgan, a Beverly Road resident who has spearheaded discussions on the lights and helped launch the RHS Neighborhood Association, also underscored that Superintendent Daniel Fishbein misled the Planning Board at its Oct. 5 courtesy review of the field lights, when Mayor Keith Killion asked Fishbein if he had alerted the residents about the meeting.

more:https://www.northjersey.com/news/111474144_Ridgewood_BOE_will_not_seek_another_review_of_field_lights.html

>Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll and Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose introduced A3147, a bill to repeal the Global Warming Response Act of 2007

RGGI – New Jersey’s Cap & Trade

Since 2008, New Jersey has been a part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which has driven up electricity prices, transferred more than $66 million from the private to public sector and has contributed to the toxic business environment here in the Garden State.

Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll and Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose introduced A3147, a bill to repeal the Global Warming Response Act of 2007. This is an important first step toward restoring New Jersey’s prosperity. Contact your State Representatives and ask them to support A3147.

Find your Legislator: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp

Read the Bill: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/A3500/3147_I1.HTM

>Teens in U.S. Rank 25th Globally on Math Test, Trail in Science, Reading

By John Hechinger – Dec 7, 2010

Fifteen-year-old students in the U.S. ranked 25th of 34 countries on an international math test and scored in the middle of the pack in science and reading, raising concerns the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy.

Teenagers from South Korea and Finland led in almost all academic categories on the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, according to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, which represents 34 countries. U.S. students ranked 17th in science and 14th in reading. The U.S. government considers the OECD test one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday in a telephone interview. The Obama administration is promoting national curriculum standards and a revamping of teacher pay that stresses performance, rather than credentials and seniority.

“The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wakeup call to the entire country.”

The OECD’s international test, first administered in 2000 and given every three years, aims to measure skills achieved near the end of compulsory schooling. In the U.S., 165 public and private schools and 5,233 students participated in the two- hour paper-and-pencil assessment, given in September and November 2009. It consisted of multiple-choice and open-response questions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-07/teens-in-u-s-rank-25th-on-math-test-trail-in-science-reading.html

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Pearl Harbor attack remembered 69 years later

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Pearl Harbor survivors are hearing reassurances their sacrifice would be remembered by future generations as they gather to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.
National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis on Tuesday told about 120 survivors who traveled to Hawaii from around the country that the park service “will still be here telling their story” long after the last veteran of the war is gone.

Jarvis spoke before the dedication of a new $56 million visitors center for people paying their respects at the memorial for the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the attack and where the remains of nearly 1,000 sailors and Marines are entombed.

The event is being held across the harbor from the USS Arizona. Survivors are taking a boat out to the memorial that sits on top of the battleship.

MORE:https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_re_us/us_pearl_harbor_anniversary_3

>Ground Zero : St. Nicholas Church begins legal action against port authority

The leaders of St. Nicholas Church, the small whitewashed Greek Orthodox Church destroyed by falling debris on Sept. 11, 2001, have begun legal action against the Port Authority demanding that the church be rebuilt under the terms of a deal worked out several years ago. (Barbanel, The Wall Street Journal)

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704156304576003673355689308.html?KEYWORDS=jersey