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Readers Rattle off a Litany of Complaints of the village choosing to support a business over the quality of life of tax payers

Habernickel HealthBarn USA protest

file photo by Boyd Loving

Many changes during my 28 years as a neighbor of the Habernickel Horse Farm. The once bucolic setting transformed into a chaotic mix of nonstop Health barn business activities and recreation programs. Hillcrest Road is a mess and wildlife is disappearing.Fear of retaliation keeps neighbors quiet.

Stacy Antine stalks the neighbors. She takes photos of them walking their dogs in the park and she instructs her employees to do the same.  She has a timeline in a few of them and they are NOT afraid to share it or speak out. This business destroyed a park and the owner made it personal and took neighbors to court. Ramon was aware of this situation and now as Mayor is promoting it. What a disappointment .

Be careful in that park. Antine keeps a list of all who enter even-neighborhood kids with backpacks what out. Unless you pay to go you get written up It is NO longer a friendly neighborhood park thanks to healthbarn and the village for still allowing it.

I heard that Antine was accusing neighbors of being racist, and now that I remember those hearings was back when Aronsohn and Sonenfeld ruled the dais that was the case then. People who spoke up against using a public park for a private enterprise were accused of not wanting children from Newark to come to lily white Ridgewood. Whenever the racism card is put down on the table all bets are off. She is despicable.

the neighbors are willing to let everyone know what Stacy Antine owner of healthbarn did to them in their own neighborhood where they must pay a ton of taxes to live Ramon should be ashamed to promote this business after the owner pulled a stunt like the one she did. Everyone should know and be aware that the village is choosing to support a business over the quality of life of tax payers

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Reader says A very small minority think that only those that own shops or restaurants in this town have the expertise to judge what the actual parking needs are in this village

Hudson garage

how does posting at 7pm on a Saturday negate any of the points made above? Does one have to be in town every night to have an opinion on the parking needs of this town? It’s this type of response that makes the argument for a garage so painful. A very small minority think that only those that own shops or restaurants in this town have the expertise to judge what the actual parking needs are in this village. Transference…now that’s funny. I guess your over active social calendar, which allows you to be in town every night makes you the preeminent authority on the traffic and parking issues that we may or may not face. Given we’re going on the time stamps of posts now, should we assume that you were just back from bellying up to the bar at Park West, monitoring the traffic flow through the window as you lectured the other patrons on how much better this Village would be if we had a parking garage? Maybe ask how many of your drinking buddies would use that garage if they had to walk more then a block to and from, my guess would be that none of them would….

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Reader says You wanted to make the village into your vision of a “Montclair light “. You lost

Ridgewood 3 amigos

The carpetbaggers came to town, they hedged their bets, bought some real estate,.they had confidence their puppet council would accommodate their demands so they can build build build , pocket the profits, and leave while sticking the taxpayers with the tab for a garage to enhance their bets, You made a bet. You wanted to make the village into your vision of a “Montclair light “. You lost. Now do us all a favor and go home, back to your real home which isn’t 07450

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Reader says Contamination at the Town Garage was well known to the purchasers who rushed to beat the Village in buying the land–hoping to make a substantial profit

Town Garage Ridgewood

Contamination at the Town Garage was well known to the purchasers who rushed to beat the Village in buying the land–hoping to make a substantial profit when they then sold it to the Village. They own it. It should be their responsibility for cleaning it up before selling it to the Village at a handsome profit. Is the Village going to subtract the cost of cleanup from the eventual purchase price? Or are we paying a premium to purchase the land and then must add cleanup costs to that? The lawyer groups were in such a rush to buy–why aren’t they being forced to do the cleanup? A homeowner with a leaking oil tank can’t just pass that cost on to the buyer, so why are we cleaning up land we don’t own?

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Wiest: It takes a village to support a community garden

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Wiest: It takes a village to support a community garden

AUGUST 15, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY BETTY WIEST

When was the last time you sunk your teeth into a luscious red, juicy tomato?

Our identity is all displayed on our New Jersey license plate: “Garden State.” From every corner of the state, agriculture is still alive. People are growing tomatoes, corn, peaches, apples, grapes and more on extensive farm fields to small homeowner plots and in quite a number of municipalities’ community gardens.

New Jersey has marketed “Jersey Fresh” since 1984 in a continuing effort to advertise, promote and identify a quality-grading program to help farmers inform consumers about the availability and variety of fruits and vegetables grown in our state. New Jersey farmers grow more than 100 different varieties of fruits, vegetables and herbs. It turns out that we are also ranked nationally in the top 10 as producer of blueberries, peaches, bell peppers, squash, tomatoes and cranberries.

The nickname “Garden State” goes back to 1876 when Abraham Browning, “an attorney, politician, and the owner of Cherry Hill Farm (hence Cherry Hill) coined the term, comparing New Jersey, two-thirds of which was rolling farmland, to a big barrel, open on both ends, from which Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers gobbled up the state’s agricultural bounty. The nickname was cemented in 1954 despite Governor Robert Meyner’s veto saying, ‘I do not believe that the average New Jersey citizen regards his state as more peculiarly identifiable with gardening or farming than any of its other industries or occupations.'” Despite being one of the most densely populated states, farming is ranked third behind pharmaceuticals and tourism, generating $65 billion a year.

Well, that’s fine for all the big farms in the state, but what about the little guy — the homeowner who knows the power of digging in the dirt, growing vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers for his own interest or for friends.

There is a national organization called the American Community Gardening Association whose mission is to “build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada.” It recognizes that community greening in urban and rural communities enhances the quality of life. It is a tremendous resource for support.

My yard does not lend itself to vegetable gardening; the backyard is far too shady. Only recently the front yard has become the only sunny spot and I have now incorporated lots of sun-loving perennials I could previously only enjoy from afar.

For people who live in Ridgewood, you should know that we have a community garden and it is located in Maple Park East just off Meadowbrook Road and the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook. It is overseen by the Village’s Parks and Recreation Department. Plots are “rented” for the growing season for $50 for a 10-foot-by-12-foot space.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/recreation/it-takes-a-village-to-support-a-community-garden-1.1067844#sthash.6rhQbU3Q.dpuf