A bill that would standardize taxes paid by those staying in short-term residential accommodations such as Airbnb was approved by the state Senate Monday and is heading to Gov. Chris Christie’s desk.
If signed, the legislation would provide more than $6 million in tax revenue for municipalities and the state of the New Jersey, supporters said.
A similar measure, put in place by Jersey City two years, generated approximately $1 million in revenue for Jersey City in 2016.
Updated on June 20, 2017 at 8:55 AMPosted on June 20, 2017 at 8:45 AM
BY JONATHAN D. SALANT
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
WASHINGTON — New Jersey could lose $600 million in federal transit funds if it doesn’t meet a federal deadline for setting up a rail safety oversight program.
The state is in the first stage of putting the program in place, according to a progress report released Monday by the Federal Transit Administration. Without a certified program, the state could no longer receive federal funding for transit.
“States need to realize timely action is critical,” FTA Executive Director Matthew Welbes said.
Ridgewood NJ, today is the Ridgewood High School Graduation. The class of 2017 will accept their diplomas starting at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. The Ridgewood blog would like offer a Congratulations to all the Graduates and best of luck on your new adventures .
Shared work spaces skew older in Garden State communities
Co-working companies are gaining a toehold in suburban New Jersey, fed by demand from members who have left the corporate world and large companies who want to provide employees flexibility.
While the co-working movement, led by industry giant WeWork, is established in cities across the world, it’s gaining momentum in the suburbs, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The typical suburban shared-office facility is under 15,000 square feet, and is usually targeted at an older audience than those co-working locations that lure millennials with beer and ping pong.
RHS Alumni Association is working on a small mystery. Someone found this RHS diploma for Candace Young and mailed it back to the RHS Alumni Association. The Association is looking for any meaningful connection to get it back to her. She is from the Class of 1980.
It is unbelievable if not one of our council members attended this event!!! Instead of wasting your time on silly squabble, bet down to the issues that affect each and every tax payer in Ridgewood. We do not want to turn our town over to developers who are going to destroy the Village and line their pockets under the banner of “fair housing.” Can someone confirm whether or not we participated in this event and whether we are taking an active ole in supporting this Assembly womens’ efforts? And if our council people are not, they should consider resigning because they really are not addressing the most pressing issue facing and threating our town. Its outrageous that our council members are fiddling while Rome starts to burn beneath their feet! Arohnson and his ilk turned the town over to developers. But this group is doing nothing to try and take it back. Its time for action.
Home bakers in New Jersey stew over country’s last ban
By Josh Cornfield | AP June 18 at 12:09 PM
TRENTON, N.J. — There’s only one thing preventing baker Mandy Coriston from selling the Irish soda bread she makes from her great-grandmother’s recipe inside her old cast-iron skillets: She lives in New Jersey.
New Jersey is now the only state in the U.S. where people can’t sell home-baked goods after a Wisconsin court this month invalidated that state’s ban.
Wisconsin officials have said they may appeal the judge’s decision, but the state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would allow home bakers to sell without a license.
A push by a group including Coriston to overturn New Jersey’s law has drawn plenty of supporters over the last eight years, but one state lawmaker has so-far blocked it from being considered because of concerns over public health issues.
Flood Watch-National Weather Service New York NY
338 AM EDT Mon Jun 19 2017
…HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT…
Northern Fairfield-Northern New Haven-Southern Fairfield-
Southern New Haven-Western Passaic-Eastern Passaic-Hudson-
Western Bergen-Eastern Bergen-Western Essex-Eastern Essex-
Western Union-Eastern Union-Orange-Putnam-Rockland-
Northern Westchester-Southern Westchester-New York (Manhattan)-
Bronx-Richmond (Staten Island)-Kings (Brooklyn)-Northern Queens-
Northern Nassau-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau-
338 AM EDT Mon Jun 19 2017
…FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT TODAY
THROUGH LATE TONIGHT…
The Flash Flood Watch continues for
* Portions of southern Connecticut, northeast New Jersey, and
southeast New York, including the following areas, in southern
Connecticut, Fairfield and New Haven. In northeast New Jersey,
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union. In southeast New York,
Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, New York (Manhattan), Orange,
Putnam, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland and
Westchester.
* From noon EDT today through late tonight.
* Numerous showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop
across the area from this afternoon into tonight ahead of a
slow moving cold front. Multiple rounds of thunderstorms have
the potential to move across the same area, leading to flash
flooding.
* Rainfall totals of 1 to 2 inches are expected across the watch
area, with locally higher amounts possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead
to flash flooding. Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation.
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should flash flood warnings be issued.
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police and Fire department personnel responded to a multiple family home located on Cedar Avenue, Ridgewood on Sunday afternoon, 06/18, to assist in searching for two (2) children, both under the age of 10, who went missing from the home’s front yard for over 45 minutes. The brother and sister were eventually spotted walking several blocks away on East Ridgewood Avenue, apparently after having visited a local frozen yogurt establishment. They were picked up and returned home by a relative who had joined the search party. Fortunately, despite having crossed at least two (2) heavily trafficked streets, both children were found to have been uninjured.
Ridgewood NJ, Because of Amtrak’s work this summer, the overall rail service plan for customers who will be traveling into Penn Station New York and Hoboken Terminal from July 10th – September 1st is as follows and will be in place continuously:
◊ Nearly all weekday Midtown Direct trains will be diverted to Hoboken except for the following four early morning trains, which will be operating into New York: Trains 6602, 6604, 6696 and 6306. All weekend Midtown Direct trains will operate directly into Penn Station NY.
◊ All Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley Line and Midtown Direct trains on the Montclair-Boonton Line will operate on regular weekday schedules with minor time changes to/from Penn Station NY.
◊ Main/Bergen, Pascack Valley and Port Jervis Lines will operate on regular weekday schedules, however, customers may need to adjust their connections to New York at Secaucus.
Ridgewood NJ, Radio and TV Host of The Mark Levin Show and New York Times Bestselling Author, Mark Levin will sign his new book on July 1st ,10 am ,”Rediscovering Americanism” ($27.00). Books available: June 27th.
*Books must be purchased from Bookends Bookstore to attend the event*
Bookends is a legendary New Jersey Landmark! We are known for our incredible author events and have hosted well over
1,000 authors in the past 15 years!
We take phone orders for signed copies. Call now at 201-445-0726!
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.
Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.
First In Line Certificate use is the the discretion of Bookends. Blackout dates may apply.
Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.
While we try to ensure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.
Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 201-445-0726
Ridgewood NJ, SUMMER SING:A night to sing some great music with Pro Arte Chorale, and Steven Fox, Pro Arte’s Maestro and 2017 Grammy nominee! Maestro Fox will lead us in a read-through of Handel’s Coronation Anthems and selections from Vivaldi’s Gloria.
Whether you’re shopping around for a choral group to join, or just out for a night of singing and fun, please come for an evening of lovely music, camaraderie, and refreshments.
July 10,2017 ,7:30pm :Admission is $10 per person, includes score rental, if needed. Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 155 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. No reservations required. For more info please email or call us. 201-497-8400, info@proartechorale.org
Ridgewood NJ, Today is Father’s Day, and Americans still see fatherhood as a vital role in a man’s life .A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 70% of American Adults say being a father is the most important role for a man to fill in today’s world. Just 17% disagree, but 13% are not sure.On that not the Ridgewood blog would like to wish everyone a happy fathers day
Now we know on which side of the political aisle the problem lies with respect to incivility in public discourse. (Rev. Jan, former Mayor Aronsohn, are you and your cabal of energizer bunnies paying attention?)
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As if this circumstance wasn’t painfully apparent from early on in the primary process, through the general election season, and on into the transitional period.
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So-called social justice warriors, many of them quite young, as well as battle-scarred political progressives have blood coming out of their eyes, out of their nose, out of their…whatever. Such is their dissatisfaction with the political transformation the country has voluntarily gone through after eight years of amateur hour America-bashing under Obama and a Republican party that has proven it can’t take “yes” for an answer (because it is inexplicably failing to line up behind Trump, the best thing to happen to them in many decades).
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The attempted assassin was going after members of the Congressional freedom caucus. He knew where the true obstacles were that stand in the way of the retrogressive statist agenda he (as a true, though deluded, believer) shares with Pelosi and the rest of the paleoliberals in D.C.
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Creating unnecessary political conflict, indeed stoking civil chaos, is the new priority of the progressives, and even the swamp-dwelling RINOs. Trump needs to bulldoze through all of it. He has the red-blooded American people behind him, even if Ridgewood has recently been overrun with emotional (if not chronological) teenagers.
Mark Krulish , Staff Writer, @Mark_Krulish3:27 p.m. ET June 16, 2017
RIDGEWOOD – A small residential street near an elementary school may be reopened to traffic on weekdays, a result of the move to full-day kindergarten.
The Village Council introduced an ordinance Wednesday that would limit the closure of Clinton Avenue to a single hour in the morning and 75 minutes in the afternoon.
