
Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Council: “You can keep saying it, but it won’t make it true”
Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Council: “You can keep saying it, but it won’t make it true”
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Ridgewood NJ, looking like a bunch of pathetic cry babies ,(TONIGHT)Wednesday’s Village of Ridgewood council meeting will feature discussions on the appointment of a new village historian, a topic triggered by a letter from current historians Peggy Norris and Joe Suplicki to Katherine Marcopul of the State Historic Preservation Office.
Continue reading Village Council Moves to Replace Village Historian and Rewrite American History
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Ridgewood NJ, while the Village of Ridgewood Council meeting have become a circus . Meetings have been characterized by bullying , lack of transparency, limited citizen input , total disfunction and a “my way of the highway” attitude .The Ridgewood Board of Education has avoided much of the same acrimony.
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Ridgewood NJ, with one failed initiative after another , the Village of Ridgewood Council puts pedestrian safety back on the front burner . Thanks to Councilwoman Lorraine Reynolds who championed the transfer of $500,000 designated for repairs to the village’s historic Zabriskie-Schedler house toward an estimated $1 million sidewalk project , known as the West Glen Avenue sidewalk installation safety initiative at the budget meeting in May, Reynolds argued that the historic home repairs would be stalled by lawsuits and the money should be put to more immediate use on “safety projects.”
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Ridgewood NJ, it seems one of the Village of Ridgewood Council members has embraced delusional thinking.
Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Council Member Embraces Delusional Thinking
THE RIDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL
PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
JULY 12, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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Ridgewood NJ, we just finished watching the Village Council’s entire, 4 hour and 26-minute-long January 31st budget meeting on YouTube and will now say this about that:
Continue reading Ridgewood Village Council – Do as we say, not as we do
VILLAGE COUNCIL
SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Continue reading VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD COUNCIL SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 23, 2022 7:30 P.M.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog is endorsing Melanie Hooban for Village of Ridgewood council . While we don’t see eye to eye on every issue with Ms. Hooban we feel she is the best and only choice for the Village .
Continue reading The Ridgewood blog Endorses Melanie Hooban for Village of Ridgewood Council
photo by Boyd Loving
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Ridgewood NJ, By a 3-1 vote during Wednesday night’s Village Council Work Session, Council members rebuffed calls (no pun intended) for allowing public comments to be made remotely during their open public meetings.
photos courtesy of Boyd Loving
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Ridgewood NJ, in the quest to get more people to park in the Hudson Garage the Village has posted several nifty new signs. During the August 4th Village of Ridgewood Council meeting several avenues were explored in an effort to to better utilize the empty parking garage on Hudson street :
Continue reading Village of Ridgewood Hopes Better Signs Boost Parking Revenue
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Ridgewood NJ, former councilmen Jeff Voigt, has developed a seemingly insatiable habit of sending a steady stream of letters to the various news outlets and social media sites. In these letters he includes exaggerations, off-the-wall opinions, and total falsehoods about all manner of Village of Ridgewood business. He clearly is driven by a hatred for one or two of his former council colleagues, and lets this flow in a diarrheic stream of false vitriol.
Continue reading Ridgewood’s New Three Amigos – Voigt, Perron and Johnson
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Ridgewood NJ, These are very preliminary election results. The County will be accepting ballots through May 14th, as long as they were postmarked by May 12th. Certified results will be sent by the County next week. The Ridgewood estimates as many as 500 additional ballots could have been mailed late yesterday or today .
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Ridgewood NJ, The Planning Board welcomes comments on the draft of the Village of Ridgewood Master Plan – Section 1: Our Village, Our Future from the Village community, which includes residents; local organizations, groups, and businesses; boards and committees; and any other members of the public who are interested in Ridgewood’s future.