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Continue reading Sunrise Assisted Living coming to Ridgewood?
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Ridgewood Nj, speaking of EV’s , Car and Driver magazine’s testing director Dave VanderWerp has compared the EPA’s fuel economy and range estimates to the results of his own real-world highway tests.
Continue reading Car and Driver magazine: Electric Vehicles Range is Greatly Exaggerated
Limiting Access to Individuals to post on social media pages has Become the Main stay of Village of Ridgewood Politics
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Ridgewood NJ, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide when, or whether, public officials who have accounts in social media can legally deny access to individuals who want to post comments. It’s also the issue in a pending suit in San Francisco by a journalist who was blocked from Supervisor Dean Preston’s Twitter account, and similar to suits against then-President Donald Trump for excluding critics from his Twitter platform.
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Ridgewoood NJ, the current Mayor and Village Council will not stop just with ramming through an irresponsible sports complex and disregarding the needs and safety of the neighbors in its proximity. Other inappropriate and harmful projects will no doubt be forthcoming. The only remedy is a recall election of this Mayor to mitigate the pending damage, unfortunately a recall is what’s necessary.
Continue reading Recall Mayor Movement Heats Up in Ridgewood
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Ridgewood NJ, the Village of Ridgewood’s 2023 Operating and Capital Budgets were introduced on March 30, 2023. The Public Hearing and consideration for adoption of the budget will be held at a Special Public Meeting on April 27, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in the Court Room of Ridgewood Village Hall. This will be broadcast live on the Village website Channel 34 on FiOS, and on YouTube. The public is invited to come in person to offer their comments on the 2023 budgets.
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Continue reading Money talks; Nobody Walks – Buying Goodwill as a Last Resort?
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Ridgewood NJ, an agenda item scheduled for discussion during the Ridgewood Village Council’s March 22nd Work Session is possible official Council support of the NJ Green Amendment bill. The agenda item was reportedly placed at the request of Deputy Mayor Pamela Perron, who may lead tonight’s discussion.
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
MARCH 22, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
Continue reading THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA MARCH 22, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, Chapter 231, P.L. 1975, notice is hereby given that the Village Council of the Village of Ridgewood will be holding both in-person and online Work Sessions and Public Meetings, via a Zoom webinar. The dates and times of the meetings are listed below.
Continue reading List of Ridgewood Village Council Meetings January through December 2023
Continue reading Village Council Meetings Filled With Mayor Miscues
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VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD
VILLAGE COUNCIL
REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING
MARCH 8, 2023
8:00 P.M.
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Ridgewood NJ, on Tuesday we reported that Village Hall employees did not have to report to work today due to inclement weather. We later discovered that the “regular joes” in many departments had to report to work on Tuesday and it was only the “white collar” workers in Village Hall that got the day off . The same people who we are told who were privileged during the covid pandemic. They stayed home for a long time while everybody else had to come to work or rotate schedules.
Continue reading Paid Snow Day at Ridgewood Village Hall, but Wait there is More
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Ridgewood NJ, we just could not believe that Village Hall employees did not have to report to work today due to inclement weather.
Continue reading Massive tax hike on the way, but paid snow day at Ridgewood Village Hall?
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Ridgewood NJ, citing the tremendous workload imposed upon him and other members of the Ridgewood Village Council, Mayor Paul Vagianos announced his desire to impose an 11:00 PM “waivable” meeting curfew on all future Council meetings.
Continue reading Ridgewood Village Council Seeks to Impose 11:00 PM meeting Curfew
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Ridgewood NJ, Village Hall and all Village Departments will be closed on February 20th in observance of Presidents’ Day. There will be no garbage or recycling pickups , and the Recycling Center will be closed. . All Village offices and Departments will re-open on February 21st.
