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Ridgewood NJ, the RHS Applied Engineering Club’s FireGone team was invited to showcase their innovative Wildfire Assessor at the NJSBA Steam Tank Showcase on 10/25 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Congratulations to team members Alex Mueller, Michael Ip, Zahir Syed, and Praket Nigam.
12 Bookcases – Paterson K & 1st Grade Classrooms
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Ridgewood NJ, Joshua Fishkin, a Life Scout in Troop 7 from Ridgewood decided for his for his Eagle Project, he is building and filling 12 bookcases for the Kindergarten and First grade classrooms at the Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology. Any leftover money he raises will go towards buying more books that are chosen by the school.
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Ridgewood NJ, WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook parent Meta, suffered a global outage on Tuesday. Problems were first detected around 3:17 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors outages across internet services. Normal service on WhatsApp had appeared to be restored at around 5 a.m. ET.
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Ridgewood NJ, Toddlers through fifth graders are invited to come to West Side Presbyterian Church – in costume, of course – for some super-fun “trunk-or-treating” on Saturday, October 29 at 10:30 am. There
will be DJ music, donuts and apple cider too…and a costume parade at 11:15 am. See you in the parking lot at 6 South Monroe Street!
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Ridgewood NJ, Paving Schedule for the week of October 24th in Ridgewood .
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Ridgewood NJ, on Saturday we reported that Ridgewood residents have once again received another notice that their drinking water system contains higher levels of a family of chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other health problems. Ridgewood Water exceeds state levels of a class of chemicals called PFAS and PFOAS.
Over the years the Ridgewood blog has been a harsh critic of Ridgewood Water and while the current management is a great improvement the water system still has a long way to go to meet first world standards .
“Ridgewood Water customers will be the benefactors of one of the largest singular and direct clean water funding items in support of the region’s most important water treatment initiative,” Mayor Knudsen said at the time.
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Ridgewood NJ, in May of 2021 Ridgewood Fire Chief Van Goor divulged some interesting information to combat the rash of misinformation circulating in the mainstream and over social media about the per diem EMT issue . The Chief in an EMT FAQ rattled off a litany of Firefighter qualifications , who responds to emergency medical calls and yes, the modifications have already been tested in February 2021 when no per diem EMT’s were available .
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Continue reading NJ Transit Police : Operation to Protect and Harden the System Underway
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Ridgewood NJ, on Friday November 11th at 11:00 a.m. in Memorial Park at Van Neste Square , the American Legion Post 53 will be hosting a Veterans Day service. All are invited to attend, to honor those who have served in the Armed Services to protect our freedom.
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Ridgewood NJ, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the NJ Bureau of Securities (“Bureau”) took action today to halt an online entity purportedly operating from the country of Georgia from offering unregistered securities in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) tied to an online slots game and the metaverse.
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Ridgewood NJ ,the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood has begun notifying patients of a data breach risk, after documents containing patient names and medical record numbers were improperly discarded at an outpatient COVID-19 testing facility.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Village Planning Board successfully adopted the 2022 Master Plan. This has been an incredibly involved process that could not have happened without the dedicated residents and stakeholders of the Village of Ridgewood. Beginning with the visioning process, which involved extensive public outreach initiatives and culminated in Our Village Our Future, and working our way through the multifaceted master plan process, the Village has demonstrated its commitment to investing in the future of its citizens and business owners.
Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Adopts Comprehensive Master Plan!
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood High School Alumni Association hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of the Duffield STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) Initiative on Saturday, October 8, 2022. The School Transition & Employment Program for Student Success (STEPSS) hosted a well-attended Open House on Friday, October 14, 2022. The district plans to continue to host on-site paraprofessional job fairs. The late start committee meetings will get underway to develop a plan to submit to the Board. New Jersey has some new mental health grants, and the district is exploring opportunities for new mental health initiatives.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Board of Education has initiated a search for a successor Superintendent of Schools. To assist and counsel the Board through this process, we have retained the services of Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA), a consulting firm that specializes in assisting school boards in identifying and recruiting executive level educational leaders.
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Ridgewood NJ, the West Side Concert Series, an outreach ministry of West Side Presbyterian Church, is excited to announce its 47th season – the first full, in-person season since 2018-2019! The new season kicks off with a performance by The Hobart Trio on October 23 at 3:00 pm.
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