Ridgewood NJ, The Village Council is looking for residents who are interested in volunteering to serve on the following Boards and Committees: The Central Business District Advisory Committee and the Zoning Board of Adjustment, and the Planning Board.
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Thu, August 01, 2019– Sat, August 03, 2019
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Ridgewood NJ, Sizzle into Summer with Sidewalk Sale Days..Rain or Shine…in or outside shopping…
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Notice of Vacancy on the Board of Education
What: The Ridgewood Board of Education is seeking qualified applicants to fill a seat that will be vacant as of July 30, 2019. The term will run from appointment this September to the April 21, 2020 Annual School Election.
How: Interested residents may pick up an application at the Office of the Board Secretary at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place, Ridgewood or click here to download the application.
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Ridgewood N J, Gail Callandrillo, Vice President of Planning & Government Relations at Valley Health System, has been named to the 2019 Top 25 Leading Women Intrapreneurs list by Leading Women Entrepreneurs (LWE).
The Top 25 Leading Women Intrapreneurs list, developed by LWE, honors women innovators in corporate environments who support diversity efforts. The women named to this prestigious list —selected out of hundreds of nominations—exhibit outstanding performance in four areas: market potential, innovation, community involvement and advocacy for women.
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Ridgewood NJ, Summertime is officially here! There are still spaces available for our Summer Sessions.
These workshops are suitable for younger students just beginning their Art Journey, as well as older students working on a portfolio for college applications. All students are taught in direct relation to their own personal skill level.
Why not give your child the Gift of Art this summer?
12 E Glen Ave
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Call (201) 652-9615
Nothing wrong with that. Managing a school system, especially the one as big as Ridgewood’s, is enormous responsibility. It should be compensated in line with free market rules.
I’d argue the government should get out of the education system altogether. Any artificial floors or ceilings government rules create cause more harm than good. For example the Teachers Unions that reduce competition. Getting promotions with tenor has been practically eradicated in the private sector. It’s role-based promotions now, given to best applicants. Not so amongst teachers.
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Ridgewood NJ, looks like Ridgewood’s plastic bag ban is nothing more than “Virtue Signaling “at its worst and in reality make the pollution issue even worse.
In 2011, the UK’s Environment Agency published an earlier-drafted life cycle assessment of supermarket carrier bags. The aim: establishing both the environmental impact of different carrier bags which are in use and their reuse practice. The intention was to inform public policymakers about the impact that a crackdown on plastic bags could possibly have. Needless to say, politicians had little concern for the actual assessment the report presented.
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If your house is not already on the market, then you are not sitting on what you think will be a sizable retirement plan. Have you noticed how many for sale signs there are? Way more than is seasonably normal. There are a number of reasons for this exodus, some of it due to national and international changes, and some of it local. The local stuff that is negatively affecting real estate are things like the new SALT changes to what is tax-deductable in property taxes. The Ridgewood issues are the loss of that special vibe that Ridgewood had, which is quickly fading with affordable housing, apartment blocks, and a multi-story car park. Other factors that once made Ridgewood a highly desirable place to live was its schools reputation. This was mostly a myth, made possible by realtors, and parents that had fallen for the bs and now needed to re-state the myth to friends so that their home investment was maintained. These days, we live in a world of data. Home buys have a multitude of online tools where they can do their school research.
The world is also changing. There’s a gradual flattening process in terms of work. NYC generates most of the high-paying 6 figure salary jobs that fuels places like Ridgewood. These high paying jobs are slowing moving out. The advancements in technology are slowing changing the global landscape and places like NYC will no longer be one of the special places where “the talent” is.
I am moving out, having sold my place already. I’ve enjoyed my time here but I won’t be looking back at Ridgewood with any fondness.
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Ridgewood NJ, Getting Folks Downtown: Ten Programming Tips from a Community Revitalization Expert Vibrant downtowns lead to vibrant communities. But first you have to give people a reason to come downtown. Community revitalization expert Quint Studer explains how.
Downtowns are hot right now. A great walkable, livable downtown attracts young talent. (These days they want to work, live, and play in the same place.) It boosts the tax base. It gets citizens engaged and activated and generates enthusiasm for further growth. It’s the heart and soul of a growing, thriving community. So if you’ve got revitalization on your mind, Quint Studer says you must start by building a vibrant downtown. And the first order of business is non-negotiable: programming.
Essentially, programming means creating activities that drive people downtown.
“You want to get citizens and visitors alike to hang out downtown so they’ll shop, eat, drink, and maybe stay overnight,” notes Studer, author of Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America (Be the Bulb Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9981311-1-5, $24.95) and founder of Pensacola’s Studer Community Institute (SCI). “But first you need to give them something to do there.”
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Heath Department and the New Jersey Department of Health remind you that the warm weather brings ticks and Lyme disease. May is National Lyme Disease Awareness Month, an excellent time to take precautions and learn the signs of Lyme disease. Lyme disease is an illness caused by infection with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (boar-ELL-ee-uh burg-dorf-ERR-eye). This bacterium is carried by ticks. This infection can cause a variety of symptoms and if left untreated can be severe.
Lyme disease is spread to people by the bite of an infected tick. In New Jersey, the most commonly infected tick is the deer tick (or black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis). Immature ticks become infected by feeding on infected white-footed mice and other small mammals, such as deer and meadow voles. Deer ticks can also spread other tick-borne diseases. Humans can be infected with more than one tick-borne disease at the same time. Lyme disease is not spread from person to person. It is not necessary to avoid someone who is ill with Lyme disease.
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Ridgewood NJ, 29 July, 2019 5:00PM – 7:00PM the Ridgewood Board of Education will host a Board of Education Meeting at the Education Center, 49 Cottage Place.
The Board of Education is seeking qualified applicants for a vacant seat as of July 30, 2019.
Details and the application may be found on the district website at
https://www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us/cms/one.aspx…
Applications are due to the Office of the Board Secretary by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, September 3.
I’d like to know which ones of our council members will attend this hearing and speak out against the outrage that is called “affordable housing.” Ridgewood should be out front leading this effort, not wallowing in self-pity and over-development and cowering to the developers seeking to profit from their strangulation of our town
Mayor Hache?
Deputy Mayor Knudsen?
Councilman Sedon?
Councilman Voight?
Councilwoman Walsh?
Let us know what you are doing to stop the over-development, or at least come out and say you support it and wish to see it continue.
“We have only met a small portion of our affordable housing. The massive downtown projects will be mulitiplied several times in order to meet the numbers. That is becuase of the way the council allowed the overbuilding to occur.
Going back to the original comment, i think it is vital that the council members clearly state their position and how they plan to represent us. Didn’t like Aronson, and thought he lied through his teeth, but he did speak openly about how he planned to turn Ridgewood into a city of multi-family homes, littered with parking garages and low end stores. And he had Pucc speaking up right next to him saying how he owed it to the Village to tear it down.
So, where does this current council stand?
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Ridgewood NJ, This Summer at HeART .Heart in Motion is thrilled to have these wonderful artists coming to teach this summer along with some live percussion to accompany a couple of the classes!
• July 30th – Lauren Beirne (Lauren Beirne Dance Works)
• August 6th – Lynn Needle (Art of Motion Dance Theatre) w/ live accompaniment
• August 13th – Robert Mark Burke (10 Hairy Legs)
• August 20th – Lara M. Friedman-Kats (Carolyn Dorfman Dance)
• August 27th – Alyson Monaco (Nikki Manx Dance Project)
Special Jazz Master Class: Saturday, July 27th
12:00pm – 1:30pm – Tammy & Rika of Studio Tammy Tokyo
HeART in motion location, 17 Chestnut St. Ridgewood, NJ 07450
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Ridgewood NJ, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at The Table at Latona’s.
Thursday, September 12th 2019 at 6:00pm.
Although Joe and Gregg have been in business in Ridgewood for a few months, they are already making a name for themselves by not only giving back to the community but by their gorgeous window displays of one of a kind tableware.
Please join the celebration. It’s Sure to be a great event.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
6:00 PM
The Table at Latonas, 26 E. Ridgewood Ave.
