>James Rose Center Needs volunteers to help during the annual spring cleanup on Saturday, April 30
The director of the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design is seeking volunteers to help during the annual spring cleanup on Saturday, April 30.
The James Rose Center is located at 506 E. Ridgewood Ave. For more information, call 201-446-6017 or visit jamesrosecenter.org.
>Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan
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>Support the Fourth of July ‘Tradition : “Celebrate the Constitution.”
Friday, April 29, 2011
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Support Fourth of July tradition
To the editor:
July 4th in Ridgewood is a very special day that our area looks forward to all year. In 2011, the Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration Committee will sponsor its 101st anniversary on Monday, July 4. The day includes our flag raising, parade and fireworks. This year’s theme is “Celebrate the Constitution.” The committee is an all-volunteer community group that coordinates the day’s events and does not receive direct funding from the Village of Ridgewood.
The Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration began in 1910 when the local papers, the civic section of the Woman’s Club and the Ridgewood Fire Department joined forces to create a “safe and sane” holiday with an emphasis on patriotism. It has grown into one of the largest celebrations in the New York City area and has been featured on CNN and Good Morning America as well as local New York stations. The celebration was once again named Best Parade and Fireworks by the readers of (201) magazine.
>For Xanadu mall, stalled and scorned, deal may offer new life
It has been called “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America,” has bedeviled three governors and has burned through two developers. Despite $1.9 billion spent, it is still an unfinished pile of concrete, steel and garish pastel panels. (Bagli and Pérez-Peña, The New York Times)
>Turnpike, toll union agree to deal, average pay cut to $49G
The same faces with outstretched hands will continue to collect your coins and dollars at toll booths for the next two years — although for less pay — under a deal expected to be approved by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority today. (Higgs, Gannett)
>Towns cut back in wake of vote
What are people willing to live without in exchange for lower property taxes? For residents in a dozen towns in New Jersey, the answer is police officers, libraries, garbage pickup and senior services. (Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal)
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704330404576291530541990942.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>N.J. alerts 200K Medicaid recipients of requirement to enroll in HMO
Not content to wait for the state budget to pass in late June, the Department of Human Services is alerting about 200,000 Medicaid recipients — many with developmental or mental disabilities — that they will be required to enroll in an HMO. (Livio, The Star-Ledger)
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/department_of_human_services_a.html
>Christie signs tax-cut bills
Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday signed into law two tax-cut bills that had become a central point of the tug-of-war between Democrats and Republicans over how to stimulate job growth in New Jersey — and who should get the credit. (Symons, Gannett)
https://www.app.com/article/20110428/NJNEWS10/104280318/Christie-signs-tax-cut-bills
>April 28th, 2011 – Flag at Half Mast – Ret. Lt. Edward Outslay
The flags in Ridgewood are at half-staff due to the passing of retired Village Fire Lieutenant Edward Outslay. Our condolences go out to his family.
>New law eases municipal consolidation
Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation Wednesday that will ease municipal consolidation, opening the door for further study of a Cherry Hill-Merchantville merger. (Cooney, Gannett)
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>All but two N.J. towns vote to reject raising property taxes over Gov. Christie’s 2 percent cap
Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 12:14 AM
By Megan DeMarco/Statehouse Bureau
Voters rejected property-tax increases in 12 municipalities today, while two towns approved special ballots to exceed the new 2 percent municipal property-tax cap.
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/all_but_two_nj_towns_vote_to_r.html
>BOE Elections and High Property Tax
At the polling site at the Ridgewood High School gym, Sara Johnson said she was “very grateful for the schools and what they have done for my children.” As the wife of the high school football coach, she said, she votes yes “to offset the malcontents.”
“We’re all being taxed out of our homes,” she added, “but I don’t think people realize the state gives us so little, and we’re so dependent on local property taxes.” Ridgewood expects to get $1.9 million in state aid for its proposed $86.8 million budget for fiscal 2012.
Unbiased viewpoints…this is the only person they could get a comment from at the polls?
https://www.northjersey.com/news/042711_Passaic_Bergen_voters_approve_most_school_budgets.html
>Ridgewood Co-op’s Scholastic Book Fair revised times for the book fair
There has been a change to the schedule for this event. Below are the revised times for the book fair.
Step right up and join the Co-op for their Scholastic Book Fair on May 4th & 5th. This year’s theme is Book Fair Carnival. There will be raffles, crafts and a souvenir “carnival” picture. Bring the kids to this fun-filled event and encourage an early love of reading. It’s a great oppportunity to stock up on summer reading for the kids. The fair will run from 9:00am-3:00pm & 6:00pm-9:00pm on May 4th and 9:00am-3:00pm on May 5th. The event will take place in the East Room of the Ridgewood United Methodist Church at 100 Dayton Street in Ridgewood.
A nonsectarian school, The Co-op also offers morning and afternoon classes for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds, as well as Mommy & Me classes and Kindergarten Enrichment. Setting the school apart from other nursery schools, The Co-op is organized and run by the parents. This enables parents to actively participate in their child’s early learning experience. Music, physical education, field trips, indoor and outdoor play time and an in-house library are just a few of the experiences to which the children are exposed as supplements to the daily education plans.
For more information on the school or to set up an appointment to visit, please call (201) 447-6232 or email the school at [email protected].
>Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
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