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Trenton NJ, On Monday, the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee unanimously passed a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Kevin J. Rooney that allows EMTs from other states to work in New Jersey.
“The point is that none of our councils, including the current one, have stood up to fight these problems.
Worse, they have never really spent the time to deal with these issues head on and try to find creative solutions.
They could support litigation with other towns against these proposals. They could figure out a way to satisfy the obligations in the meantime, such as by designating one site for purely low income rather than 10% of numerous sites. Then, you would have had one site with 35 units rather than 4 sites totalling a couple of hundred. They could focus on the fact we had hundreds of beutiful apartment buildings, catering to a wide range of incomes, and we didn’t need to build shoddy units on top of the rail road tracks.”
“I got out last year as I viewed this as having an enormous impact on Ridgewood’s quality of life and various other factors that will gradually decrease property values.
Maybe a lot of Ridgewood’s “specialness” was realtor hype, but there were things about Ridgewood that made it a cut above similar towns in the region.
If you plan to stay in Ridgewood, then I predict that come time to sell your home, you will not get what you thought you would and the days of selling Ridgewood houses in a couple of weeks are long gone.”
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Ridgewood NJ, the retail chain Gap has shuttered two locations in New Jersey as part of a larger store-closing purge. 700 Paramus Park in Paramus and 235 East Ridgewood Ave. in Ridgewood are now closed . The chain still operates 28 Gap stores in New Jersey.
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Ridgewood NJ, The next Regular Public Meeting of the Ridgewood Board of Education will be held on Monday, January 27, 2020 at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be aired live on television, FiOS channel 33 and Optimum channel 77, and via the “BOE Webcast Live” tab on the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us. Meeting webcasts are generally posted immediately to the district website.
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Ridgewood NJ,The Ridgewood HS Band’s Citrus & Fresh Fruit Sale is still going! Please support the band by purchasing some delicious fruit today! All fruit can be ordered from the RHS Band Online Sales site until 02/16/2020. Just follow the instructions below.
1. Go to the RHS Band Website: https://www.rhsbands.org and follow the links, or go directly here: https://freshfruitorder.org/ridgewoodhs…/…/ProductsList.aspx
2. Pick out your fruit.
3. When checking out, if you have a “door hanger” select that child’s Seller ID from the pull down menu, if not just choose ID: 00 and we will assign your order to a student who covered your neighborhood during the door to door sales day.
Please note, you can order fruit to be shipped directly to family and friends, like that hungry college student who you want to eat healthy fruit!
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Ridgewood NJ, according to a post on “It takes a Ridgewood Village ” Facebook group , Steve Kim posted an interesting analysis , “Chances aren’t good that the $95 million referendum passes… Chances are slim that even the $70 million portion passes, if the total is split to two questions.
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“Don’t any of you realize the state of New Jersey. An and would force us to permit this type of construction or worse? Like them or hate them it is quite irrelevant who is in the town politics. It is our state courts from decades of liberal judges that have been forcing these stupid developments. The reason they are building giant apartments on top of train track is because the state has set tax incentives to do so : see Waldwick station and Allendale etc. The state of NJ thinks this will fight global warming (seriously). Also the developments are being forced on us ever since the mount olive decision in the 80s. See this as an example:
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Professional Sports Field Services, “Flood water can destroy the performance of a turf athletic field in a single event. Not that will occur everytime, but the potential is always there.
Thorough and proper planning for the site would have prevented a flood event in the first place. If a flood plane is the chosen site to install a turf field, then some form of mitigation or divergence would be appropriate if allowed by regulating agencies. If not, relocating the field, using natural grass, or some other alternative would be wise. Of course if you are reading this article, then it’s too late for the planning part isn’t it?”
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“It was Paul, Al , Gwen and later Roberta. They forced the high density ordinances and were pushing an even larger garage on Hudson. The current structure is a compromise. I hate it too but was around for the big fight and attended the meetings.”
“This is the best. Talk about Staring the pot. Well it shows that people are lazy they don’t want to stay open for business. Half of these businesses are all bullshit anyway it’s something for the wives to do, right, they open up at 10 they close at 54 days a week some of them don’t even give two shits if they make any money. Half of it so much bull shit.”
“I heard when you rent out one of these units they’re going to give you free headphones and earplugs. Wait until the train comes past and blows don’t warn all crazy hours of the night. And what about the freight train hauling past your home all crazy hours of the night vibrating that building you will see. Hopefully I’ll take care of the rats on the tracks. And wait until you see the characters that will be living at some of these locations. They’ll fit in just fine you’re right.”
“I’ve lived here since 1969 never had kids in the schools and cheerfully write my property tax check to subsidize the children of others. When I retire, the LAST place in the world I would move to would be an apartment next to the train tracks. I’ll head south to FLA, so NJ can’t pick the pocket of my multiple 7 figure estate. (when the state inheritance tax was repealed *partially* it allowed only children and spouses to benefit. Since I have no children, its going to friends kids who would be taxed. It AINT HAPPENNING. As usual those of us without children get screwed by the state of NJ, with school taxes when we are alive, and with estate taxes when we croak.
Those apartments will be full of temporary 8 year residents who cant afford a down payment on a house.”
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Ridgewood NJ, Chinese New Year, also referred to as Lunar New Year, is the Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China, and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia.
The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, has more than 4,000 years of history and is the longest holiday of the year. In the 21st century, the national holiday begins on the first of the Lunar Calendar and lasts until the 15th of the first month. In 2020, Chinese New Year begins on January 25th and ends February 8th.
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“The diversity point overlooks the lies told to us.
We were told these luxury developments would be perfect for villagers to downsize into. They would keep people from having to move away because their 4 bedroom houses were no longer needed and two bedroom places would be perfect.
So, no diversity, just moving old folks down to live by the railroad tracks.
I wonder how many villagers who worked hard their whole lives have in fact given up their colonials, and ranches, and tudors and their backyards and their neighborhoods to sign up to go live in these apartments by the rail road tracks?
That insidious lie was part of the whole scam.”
