FOOD POLICE: Ridgewood students trying out new lunch program
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Rather than inviting celebrity chefs and renowned food connoisseurs to a tasting event at Ridge School, officials are asking the toughest food critics — the students and their parents — to evaluate more than just a flavor of the month.
Ridge was selected to participate in a pilot program that, if successful, could change the entire district’s lunch menu as early as this fall. Beginning in May and running through the end of the school year, Pomptonian Food Service will offer Ridge students new and healthier lunchtime options to try.
Kids lobby Christie in the State House to ban homework
Some anti-homework lobbyists flooded the State House this afternoon and urged Governor Christie to ban their after-school assignments.
Christie, a father of four, spoke with a group of children today during an event in the Senate chamber organized as part of Take Your Child to Work Day. After a quick introduction, he took a series of questions from the children, with the first questioner asking him to enact a statewide ban on homework. (Reitmeyer, The Record)
Residents ask Ridgewood Planning Board to rescind vote on H-Zone
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2012, 4:31 PM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Though several months have passed since the Ridgewood governing body put a halt to any Valley Hospital expansion plans, the thought of another “Renewal” still looms in the minds of some residents.
Nearly one dozen residents lobbied Ridgewood Planning Board members last week, asking them to rescind the hospital zone (H-Zone) amendment to Ridgewood’s master plan that was approved nearly two years ago. The amendment set certain guidelines and parameters that were considered favorable to the hospital’s $750 million expansion project.
April 26, 2012 Help Fight NYC’s Proposed Commuter Tax
Dear Friend,
Recently there have been news reports that the Manhattan Boro President, Scott Stringer, has made statements that he wants to re-institute a “Commuter Tax” on anyone who works in New York City, but does not reside in New York City.
When I learned of this, I and my Republican colleagues on the Senate Budget Committee sent a letter to Mayor Bloomberg expressing our outrage that this idea was even being discussed. The unfair impact this tax would have on New Jersey residents is something that I felt could not go unaddressed.
Since then, Boro President Stringer and I have exchanged letters where he has attempted to justify this tax, syaing that it was perfectly reasonable to impose an additional tax on 301,702 New Jerseyans who work in New York City.
The income tax on commuters that Mr. Stringer is proposing would be 0.45% annually on anyone who works in Manhattan but resides elsewhere. This commuter tax on non-New York City residents would generate $725 million annually.
Mr. Stringer claims that the intention of this additional tax would be to dedicate that revenue to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mr. Stringer believes that the MTA needs an additional “consistent stream of revenue.” As I pointed out to Mr. Stringer, it is not the responsibility of the 129,262 residents of Essex, Bergen, Passaic and Morris Counties who work in New York City to additionally fund the MTA to make up for decades of mismanagement at the New York based Authority.
I can assure you, as I did Mr. Stringer, that if talk of this commuter tax continues, I will be the loudest opponent of it. As I continue to fight to lower the tax burden on New Jersey residents, I will not idly stand by and allow the government of New York to take more money out of our pockets to solve their financial issues.
I encourage all of you to reach out to Boro President Scott Stringer via email at bp@manhattanbp.org or via telephone at 212-669-8300 and express your concerns over this ill conceived plan of his.
As this continues to develop, I will send periodic updates.
A decade ago, Americans felt similarly about their local, state and federal governments. No longer.
Today, just one in three has a favorable view of the federal government — the lowest level in 15 years, according to a Pew survey. The majority of Americans remain satisfied with their local and state governments — 61 percent and 52 percent, respectively — but only 33 percent feel likewise about the federal government.
Truck loses tire on Route 17 northbound Ridgewood – No injuries reported
04/26/2012
Boyd A. Loving
(RIDGEWOOD-NJ) Shortly after 2:15 PM this afternoon, a dump truck loaded with material lost a set of rear tires on Route 17 northbound in Ridgewood. No one was injured in the mishap, however Ridgewood FD personnel responded due to an associated fluid spill. Personnel responded from the following agencies: Ridgewood PD, Ridgewood FD, and Bergen County PD. The truck was removed from the scene by a heavy duty wrecker following off loading of its contents on the property owned by David Ward.
Village Council Elections: Aronsohn the “jimmy Carter of Ridgewood”
It is obvious the Former Village Fire Department Director Jim Bombace is the one posting the viscous attacks on the Mayor. He fails to disclose that he earns in excess of $100,000 in pension for his years of service. He has been on a vendetta since he wrongly believed he was shorted a few bucks per month on his pension. His new role is Paul Aronsohn’s lap dog.
Aronsohn’s tactic is to deflect attention away for his disgusting ways by changing the subject. Let’s stick to the important issue here. Aronsohn needs to be voted off the Council so that Ridgewood can once again free itself of political hacks and outside influence. People who have run and served on the Council have always been nonpartisan and done the right thing for the Village.
Aronsohn wants to bring all of his “cronies” into paid Village positions and reward all of the unions with huge raises and a multitude of perks all at Ridgewood taxpayers expense. Just remember the last Council member of the same ilk… Jane Reilly and her Village Hall project disaster and her failed attempt at a run for Freeloader. By all accounts the very worst Mayor that Ridgewood has ever seen. Aronsohn could be next in line to become the “jimmy Carter of Ridgewood”
Sunday, May 6th from 12 Noon to 5PM, the Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce will sponsor an Arts and Crafts Street Fair on East Ridgewood Avenue starting at Maple Avenue and ending at Oak Street – Rain or Shine. Lots of activities for children and families. Enjoy the CRAFTS, MUSIC and FOOD!!!
State puts together $55 million fund for CHP and fuel cells
The state is looking to hand out up to $55 million in grants to encourage the building of combined heat and power systems and fuel cells to help business and industrial customers drive down their energy costs.
The program, a top priority of the Christie administration’s Energy Master Plan, is soliciting applications through June 25, 2012. It is being overseen by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and the state Board of Public Utilities. Up to $20 million will be allocated in the first award. (Johnson, NJ Spotlight)
RIDEWOOD SCHOOL ANNUAL PARENT/GUARDIAN SURVEY COMES OUT IN MAY
The Ridgewood Public Schools will solicit user feedback on the district’s new student information system in its annual parent/guardian survey this May.This year’s survey focuses on the single topic of the Skyward Family Access software system.
The brief, seven-question survey is targeted for e-mail distribution on Monday, May 7. All parents and guardians with e-mail addresses on file with the school district will be sent a separate survey link for every school their children currently attend. Parents and guardians will have until Friday, May 18, to complete the surveys. All responses and comments are completely anonymous. A dedicated e-mail address has been set up to take questions or concerns at survey12@ridgewood.k12.nj.us
Will Christie conditionally veto the health insurance exchange bill?
Gov. Chris Christie has until May 10 to either sign or veto a bill that creates a New Jersey health insurance exchange, the online marketplace where New Jerseyans will buy federally subsidized health plans in 2014, when the Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to get coverage.
But the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the ACA in June, and a ruling that strikes down all or part of the law could scuttle the state-run exchanges. Some Trenton insiders think Christie will conditionally veto the exchange bill, thus tossing it back to the legislature for revision and another vote — and allowing the governor to postpone his decision until after the Supreme Court rules. (Fitzgerald, NJ Spotlight)
New Jersey state college faculties protest pay, benefit proposals
Faculty from across New Jersey’s state college campuses protested Wednesday as tensions with Gov. Christie continue to grow over proposals to freeze professors’ pay and cut benefits.
Christie has called for four-year salary freezes and an end to perks such as guaranteed sabbaticals, a staple of academic life, at the state’s nine non research universities, which do not include Rutgers or the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, according to faculty union officials who have been involved in contract talks. (Osborne, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Dinner and a Movie is an ongoing event at several restaurants in Ridgewood. Every Tuesday night get 20% off your entire check at It’s Greek to Me and Smith Brothers when presenting a ticket stub to a movie that night.
Ridgewood residents offer ideas on how to develop Schedler property
Wednesday April 25, 2012, 3:49 PM
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
CORRESPONDENT
The Ridgewood News
While a consensus as to the makeup of an eventual open recreational area at the Schedler property is still far off, members of the Ridgewood Open Space Committee recently obtained a clearer sense of what residents want – and do not want – out of a potential park on the land.
Last week, the committee hosted the first of a series of public forums designed to gather comments and suggestions from residents and civic groups as to what the village should eventually do with the currently dormant Schedler plot, a 7-acre parcel of wooded land located between Route 17 northbound and West Saddle River Road.
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