The Ridgewood Historical Society has won first prize in both the poster and DVD categories of the Kevin M. Hale Publications Awards competition of the League of Historical Societies of New Jersey.
The poster and video were created to publicize the society’s current exhibit at the Schoolhouse Museum, 650 E. Glen Ave. “The Civil War Years: At Home and on the Battlefield” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The exhibit runs through July 29.
Paul Arohnson has received thousands of campaign dollars from Democratic politicians to establish an outpost in Ridgwood. He is a professional politician and was former Gov. McGreavey’s press secretary. The last time I check his fund raising for this campaign was close to $10,000. Most of this money is coming from direct democratic sources in Trenton and is union backed.
Paul Arohnson is running with Gwenn Haulk and Albert Puccarelli and has openly asked the voters of Ridgewood to sweep them into power.
Keith Killion and Jane Shinazuka have relied on a few hunded dollars to win this campaign.
Neighbors and residents of Ridgewood, you know what to do, who to vote for.
Keep dirty, professional politics out of Ridgewood.
Vote for Killian and Shinazoka (and even Russ Forenza who is not affiliated with Paul Arohnson, thank God!)
Four Ridgewood schools have been designated as Reward Schools under the state’s new accountability system.
A Reward School is one with outstanding student achievement or growth over the past three years. The district’s four Reward Schools are Ridgewood High School (RHS) and Hawes, Orchard and Willard elementary schools.
The Reward Schools designation is based on a three-year average of growth and proficiency and uses final test scores and graduation rates from the 2011-2012 school year. New Jersey has 112 Reward Schools out of 2,500 public school districts.
We Are in Age of ‘Late Great Depression’: Shiller
Published: Monday, 30 Apr 2012 | 6:44 AM ET Text Size
By: Catherine Boyle
Staff Writer, CNBC.com
The world is in a state of “late Great Depression,” well-known economist and author Robert Shiller told CNBC Monday
The Yale economics professor, who helped devise the Case-Shiller index for housing market trends, and famously called the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s and the housing market bubble later in the decade, told “Squawk Box Europe” that the world is in a “new age of austerity.”
“Our whole economy has been affected by variations in confidence. Central banks are sort of trusted, but the actions they have often affect people’s confidence by appearance rather than substance. We’re not in the most trusting mood now,” Shiller said.
Due to budget constraints the Village of Ridgewood May day parade has been canceled
In many countries, May Day is also Labor Day. This originates with the United States labor movement in the late 19th Century. On May 1, 1886, unions across the country went on strike, demanding that the standard workday be shortened to eight hours. The organizers of these strikes included socialists, anarchists, and others in organized labor movements. Rioting in Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4th including a bomb thrown by an anarchist led to the deaths of a dozen people (including several police officers) and the injury of over 100 more.
The protests were not immediately successful, but they proved effective down the line, as eight-hour work days eventually did become the norm. Labor leaders, socialists, and anarchists around the world took the American strikes and their fallout as a rallying point, choosing May Day as a day for demonstrations, parades, and speeches. It was a major state holiday in the Soviet Union and other communist countries.
Labor Day is still celebrated on May 1 in countries around the world, and it is still often a day for protests and rallies. In recent years, these have often been targeted against globalization.
May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and neopagan festivals such as Samhain. May Day marks the end of the unfarmable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations. As Europe became Christianized the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint’s Day. In the twentieth century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival again.
May Day Festivities : Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1
By Henry Goldman and Esmé E. Deprez – Apr 30, 2012 12:00 AM ET
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.
Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia.
URGENT: Aronsohn sells out supporters just to be Mayor!!!
Paul Aronsohn has injected some of the most divisive and nasty politics into our local Village council elections. In his efforts to become mayor, something that will remain elusive if Killion and Shinozuka prevail, he has sold out those that have supported his candidacy. Aronsohn’s self serving plea to Village voters to pull the lever for himself, Hauck and Puciarelli, must met with swift and decisive action. Remove Aronsohn lawn signs and either bullet vote for Shinozuka and Killion or better yet, vote for Killion, Shinozuka and Puciarelli.
The only reason Aronsohn seeks voters to support him with Hauck and Puciarelli is so he can be crowned king! Aronsohn sold everyone out. HE MUST GO!
(Ridgewood NJ) Based on the statements from tonight’s Candidate night Russell Forenza, Gwenn Hauck, Albert Pucciarelli have made the issue as being nothing but about Valley expansion plain and clear urging the council to embrace Valley in new dialogue while Paul Aronsohn forever the politician also seemed to be angling to open the door to Valley expansion giving his flip-fop critics ample ammunition but his intentions became ever so clear with his endorsement of Gwen and Al which said nothing but sell out to Valley.
Keith Killion was the only candidate to truly put the Valley issue to rest basically and said enough was enough , Valley doesn’t not deserve a special dispensation ,the issues has been decided with over 6 months of careful hearings and the answer is no.
Fireworks surrounded the question of Dr. Gabbert’s 12% raise ,but the criticism rang hollow coming from candidates running for council all having spend many years in Ridgewood while NONE has ever voiced criticism or concern of all the other outrageous spending and financial irresponsibility that has gone on since the founding of this blog including the recent $3.5 million settlement forced on Ridgewood by the then fire chief to busy blogging to focus on employee safety or the $400,000 golden toilet, the $9 million dollar Village “taj” Hall fiasco ,or the failure to pay rent by Ridgewood Taxi or the innumerable mishaps with village vehicles by the previous Village manager and so many other incidences of waste to many to mention.
While all the candidates all talked tough on budgeting few found any programs or departments they were willing to commit to cuts and Kieth seemed the only one honest eough to grasp the gravity of the situation and the pressure of balancing many interests against each other .
It was nice to note that all seemed to recognize Graydon Parks uniqueness and none seemed interested in an “action park” redo in Ridgewood ,while Al and Paul seemed to be the only ones looking to urbanize some say Ghetto-ize Ridgewood, Jane Shinozuka like most of us worries about over development. Gwenn ,Russ and Paul pushed the “wonders” of shared services , impressed by what Russ has done in Paterson I guess. .
In the end Aronsohn was slick, mixed politics on cue, charming and sleazy as always , Russ was well Russ out there and always talking about Paterson , Gwenn was there for Valley but did hit the ball out of the park on maintaining Graydon Park ,Al was knowledgeable but added little and Jane Shinozuka lawyer’d up .
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2012 Kasschau Shell Schedule – Free Concerts Under the Stars!
Concerts begin at 8:30PM at the Kasschau Band Shell (behing the Ridgewood Public Library). All programs are free. Please bring a chair or blanket. Please do NOT cross over the baseball field if a game is in progress.
Graydon Pool Resident Memberships Now Discounted through May 19th
The Village Council and the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation are pleased to offer discounted rates to Village residents who purchase their pool memberships early, through May 19th. Badges are now on sale and can be purchased from home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted).
Adult and child badges will be discounted $13 each while seniors will benefit a $5 savings from their already discounted fee.
In person registration assistance will be available Saturdays, May 12 and 19, from 10:00 am to 12 noon, as well as Memorial Day Monday, May 28th, from 10:00 am to 12 noon, at the Graydon Pool Badge Office, 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges will be sold daily throughout the operating season. Proof of residency (Driver’s license, utility bill) must be provided for all new memberships; checks are to be made payable to The Village of Ridgewood.
Village priced memberships are available to Ridgewood residents, non-residents who pay local property taxes to the Village of Ridgewood, and employees of the Village of Ridgewood and the Board of Education.
Non-resident seasonal memberships are available to all. The cost for each adult is $175; each child (2 through 15 years of age) $155.
Graydon Pool will open on Saturday, June 2nd with a festive weekend celebration (free to Village residents) including live entertainment, organized games and more. For season details please visit www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon.
Pool amenities include “The Wibit”, a modular play system aquatrack providing added physical fitness, a lending library of reading books, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong tables, shuffleboard, four-squares, hop-scotch, as well as a shaded playground, water features, shade kites, Adirondack chairs, picnic area, sheltered pavilion, charcoal grills, and The Water’s Edge Café. Special programs include “Storytime Under a Tree” for the little ones and swim instruction for children and adults, as well as an adaptive swim class.
Don’t hesitate to contact the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
The Ridgewood Historical Society Presents : Abraham Lincoln’s signature on display at the Schoolhouse
Museum’s “The Civil War Years” Exhibit.
Among the many Civil War items currently on display at the Schoolhouse Museum is an engraving of the Lincoln family completed by J.C. Buttre in 1861 and printed in 1865. The engraving shows Abraham and Mary Lincoln with their three then-surviving sons: Robert, Willie, and Tad. Tragically, Willie passed away from typhoid fever in 1862, adding to the heartbreak his family already felt over the war and the earlier death of another son, Eddie.
Inserted into the mat beneath the engraving is a scrap of paper that reads, “The conclusion of Solicitor Whiting above is approved by me.” It is then signed “A. Lincoln, April 12, 18–.” Because the paper is torn, the exact date of the signature is unknown.However, “Solicitor Whiting” presumably refers to William Whiting, who served as solicitor of the War Department from 1862-1865, so the original document most likely dealt with a military issue.
To see the actual Lincoln signature, one of the last photo’s of Lincoln, the Ford’s Theater Playbill from the night of the assassination, and the rest of the items on display in the museum’s “Civil War Years” collection, visit the Ridgewood Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum, on East Glen Avenue. The museum is open Thursdays and Saturday 1-3pm and Sundays 2-4pm. Please visit www.ridgewoodhistoricalsociety.org. for more information
Phone-a-thon will raise money for RHS ‘Learning Commons’
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2012, 2:19 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
CORRESPONDENT
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
A phone-a-thon to raise money for a project that will modernize the Ridgewood High School (RHS) library, including plans to add “state-of-the-art” technology and a new café, will take place Monday, April 30 through Wednesday, May 2.
RHS alumni and parent volunteers will be calling other RHS parents and alumni to ask for donations from 7:30-10 p.m. on each of the three days, according to David Zrike, chairman of the RHS Home and School Association’s development committee.
The HSA and the Ridgewood Board of Education (BOE) have been planning this project, called a “Learning Commons,” for more than a year, after the idea was first put forward by former principal Jack Lorenz, Zrike said.
“Our goal is to transform the RHS library into a state-of-the-art learning environment for the students. That would mean technology enhancement, and meeting rooms that cater more to the learning style of today’s students,” Zrike said in a phone interview. “(Superintendent Dan Fishbein) has been very supportive of this project and we’ve been meeting to start the initial planning of the project.”
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