>Village of Ridgewood : Seeking Residents to Volunteer to Serve on the Historic Preservation Commission

The Village Council is looking for residents who are interested in volunteering to serve on the Historic Preservation Commission as a “Class A” member. A “Class A” member is a person who is knowledgeable in building design and construction or architectural history.

The Historic Preservation Commission identifies, records, and maintains a survey and inventory of all buildings and sites of historical or architectural significance. The Commission also oversees the preservation of structures and properties which reflect the heritage of the community. The commission acts as an advisory board for the Planning Board, reviewing applications which are located in areas of the Village which are historical in nature.

All interested residents should fill out a Citizen Volunteer Leadership form (found on the Village website under “Forms”), and send it along with a cover letter and a biography or resume to:

Heather Mailander

Village Clerk

Village of Ridgewood

131 North Maple Ave.

Ridgewood, NJ 07451

Deadline for submission is September 23, 2011.

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photo courtesy of Boyd Loving

Ridgewood Street Fair
by Boyd Loving

The Ridgewood Street Fair, sponsored by the Village’s Parks & Recreation Department, was held today on East Ridgewood Avenue (between Maple and Oak) and in Van Neste Memorial Park.

Crafts, music, and delicious food were available from 12 noon until 5 PM.

The weather was ideal, which resulted in thousands of visitors to Ridgewood’s Central Business District.

If you missed this event, a similar street fair will be held on Rock Road in Glen Rock on Sunday, October 2nd.

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Kendra Wilkinson Wednesday, September 21st @ 12:00 Noon Star of the Reality series Kendra and The Girls Next Door, Kendra Wilkinson, will sign her new book, Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back. Books available Sept. 20th.

Jane Lynch **New Time Wednesday, Sept. 21st @ **5:00pm Star of GLEE, Jane Lynch, will sign her new book: Happy Accidents. Books available Sept. 13th.

Dyan Cannon Thursday, September 22nd @ 7:00pm Famed Actress, Dyan Cannon, will sign her new book:  Dear Carey:  My Life with Cary Grant.  Books available Sept. 20th

Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.
Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.Please call the store for details.

Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ   07450   201-445-0726

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Village Council Special Public Meetings Concerning Proposed Valley Expansion

The Ridgewood Village Council will be holding Special Public Meetings concerning the proposed Valley Hospital expansion in the Ridgewood High School Campus Center, 627 East Ridgewood Avenue, on the following dates: September 19, October 13, October 24, November 3, November 22, and November 29, 2011.

The meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. The doors will open at 6:45 p.m. and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The meetings will also be televised on Cablevision Channel 77 and through computer video streaming (limited viewers due to bandwith limitations). Agendas for each meeting will be posted on the Village’s website prior to the meeting.

>Main/Bergen County Line Service Adjustments due to Ongoing Disruption of the Port Jervis Line – Effective Monday, September 19 Until Further Notice
September 16, 2011

Limited rail service is restored between Port Jervis and Harriman. Customers utilizing rail service will be transported by bus between Harriman and Ramsey-Route 17 stations.  For details on this service and additional options provided by Metro North, visit mta.info/pj and click on the Alternate Travel Options link.

To address overcrowdingthatresulted from the suspension of Port Jervis Line service, peak-period schedules are revised between Suffern and Hoboken.

Additional New Jersey schedules are temporary and subject to change concurrent with restoration of train service between Port Jervis and Harriman.
Click here for a complete morning peak period schedule.
Click here for a complete afternoon/evening peak period schedule.

Service changes are summarized below.  Please refer to pdf peak period schedules for times at specific stations and connecting train times.

AM Peak

Train 1142 will now depart Suffern two minutes earlier, at 5:15 a.m., and add a stop at Ramsey-Route 17 at 5:19 AM.
Train 1192 will depart Suffern at 6:56 a.m. and make all stops to Allendale, then operate express to Secaucus and Hoboken.
Train 1194 will depart Suffern at 7:32 a.m. and make all stops to Ramsey, then operate express to Broadway station, Secaucus and Hoboken.
To alleviate overcrowding conditions for Broadway customers using Train 1154, Train 1194 will stop at 7:57 AM, replacing Train 1154 at 7:50 AM.  Train 1154 will no longer stopat Broadway station.
Train 1198 will depart Suffern at 8:21 a.m.and make all stops to Allendale, then operate express to Secaucus and Hoboken.
PM Peak

Train 1195 will depart Hoboken at 5:40 p.m., Secaucus at 5:50 p.m., and operate express to Ramsey, Ramsey-Route 17, Mahwah and Suffern.
Train 1197 will depart Hoboken at 6:11 p.m., Secaucus at 6:21 p.m., and operate express to Allendale, then make all remaining stops to Suffern.
With the added express service, Train 1169 will resume its previous schedule and no longer stop at Ramsey-Route 17.
PM Trains 1209 and 1355:

Train 1209, the 4:15 p.m. departure from Hoboken, will terminate at Ridgewood and be renumbered as Train 1311.
Train 1355, the 4:29 p.m. departure from Hoboken, is extended to serve Ho-Ho-Kus and Waldwick. It will be renumbered as Train 1267.
Main Line Customers using Train 1209 for local trips Ho-Ho-Kus and Waldwick may transfer at Ridgewood to Train 1267.
Midday

Former weekday Port Jervis Line trains that continue to operate between Suffern and Hoboken only have been renumbered as follows.  No schedule times have been changed.
Train 62, the 12:54 p.m. Suffern departure, is renumbered 1136.
Train 66, the 4:39 p.m. Ridgewood departure, is renumbered 1292.
Train 68, the 10:53 p.m. Suffern departure, is renumbered 1182.
Train 45, the 9:47 a.m. Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1153.
Train 67, the 9:58 p.m. Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1179.
Train 41, the 12:40 a.m. Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1141.
Weekends
Connecting bus service will continue to operate between Port Jervis Line stations and Ramsey Route 17, until further notice.

Former weekend Port Jervis Line trains that continue to operate between Suffern and Hoboken only have been renumbered as follows.  No schedule times have been changed.

Train 70, the 6:12 AM Suffern departure, is renumbered 1702
Train 74, the 10:12 AM Suffern departure, is renumbered 1710
Train 76, the 12:12 PM Suffern departure, is renumbered 1714
Train 78, the 4:35 PM Suffern departure, is renumbered 1772
Train 82, the 10:12 PM Suffern departure, is renumbered 1734
Train 75, the 1:25 PM Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1769
Train 81, the 9:30 PM Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1785
Train 69, the 12:40 AM Hoboken departure, is renumbered 1791

>Rasmussen Consumer Index : 11% Say Economy Getting Better, 65% Say Worse
Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis, gained another two points on Sunday to 67.9. Consumer confidence is up six points from a week ago and up two points from a month ago. However, it is still down seven points from three months ago.

Looking at all of 2011, the Consumer Index is 25 points off its peak and just eight points above the year-to-date low.

Just 11% of adults think the economy is getting better, while 65% believe it is getting worse.

The Rasmussen Investor Index gained five more points on Sunday, capping a gain of 13 points in three days.  Still, despite the surge, the Investor Index is up just three points from a week ago and seven points from a month ago. It is down four points from three months ago.

These updates are based upon nightly telephone surveys and reported on a three-day rolling average basis.

Detailed supplemental information, including a daily history and month-by-month trend data, is available for Platinum Members

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/indexes/rasmussen_consumer_index/rasmussen_consumer_index

>ARTHUR LAFFER from June 2010 :Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse
Today’s corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010. These profits will tumble next year, preceded most likely by the stock market.
By ARTHUR LAFFER
JUNE 6, 2010

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates. People and businesses change the location of income based on incentives.

Likewise, who is gobsmacked when they are told that the two wealthiest Americans—Bill Gates and Warren Buffett—hold the bulk of their wealth in the nontaxed form of unrealized capital gains? The composition of wealth also responds to incentives. And it’s also simple enough for most people to understand that if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work. Incentives matter.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies. According to a 2004 U.S. Treasury report, “high income taxpayers accelerated the receipt of wages and year-end bonuses from 1993 to 1992—over $15 billion—in order to avoid the effects of the anticipated increase in the top rate from 31% to 39.6%. At the end of 1993, taxpayers shifted wages and bonuses yet again to avoid the increase in Medicare taxes that went into effect beginning 1994.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/130059953_Tax_hikes__service_cuts_likely_as_Irene_costs_towns__61M.html

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Tax hikes, service cuts likely as Irene costs towns $61M

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011  
BY STEPHANIE AKIN AND ZACH PATBERG
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD

Hurricane or not, Irene is on track to becoming one of the most expensive natural disasters in North Jersey’s history, with preliminary estimates from the region’s municipal governments totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, public records show.

With damage yet to be tallied in many of the hardest-hit towns, Bergen County’s public agencies had reported more than $19.3 million in damaged public buildings, buckled roadways, garbage pickup and other government expenses by late last week, according to numbers compiled by The Record. And those costs will be at least partly passed onto residents and taxpayers in the form of higher property taxes, service cuts or loss of use to public facilities that are not immediately repaired, officials in several towns said.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/130059953_Tax_hikes__service_cuts_likely_as_Irene_costs_towns__61M.html

>Motor Vehicle Accident East Ridgewood and North Pleasant
Boyd Loving


(RIDGEWOOD- NJ) Several individuals were injured in a two (2) vehicle crash on Saturday evening at the intersection of East Ridgewood Avenue and North Pleasant Avenue.  The most seriously injured victims were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center.  One of the vehicles involved was a minivan, which was reportedly occupied by a family traveling with small children.  Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward was on the scene assisting with a post-crash investigation.


Update : Readers Report 


A Scion travelling at a high rate of speed was travelling west on Ridgewood Ave and lost control. It came across a lawn, hit some bushes and a fire box and then hit the mini-van which was waiting for the light on North Pleasant Ave. Both the van and the Scion wound up in the bushes of the house on the northwest corner of Ridgewood Ave. Nine people were injured; several went the hospital. Some needed to be cut out of the cars.

I live near that section of Ridgewood Ave and it needs better traffic enforcement. Cars fly down Ridgewood Ave at night. Obviously, the Scion was moving pretty damn fast to a stationary mini-van off the street move it probably 15′ and turn it sideways.

Once cars pass the lights at Pleasant or Paramus Road, it’s literally a speedway for them. I’ve seen cars tearing through here for years, particulary at night. There’s at least two or three fender benders a week heading east between Pleasant and the Duck Pond because people finaly get through town and speed but they forget that people actually turn into Walthery, Pershing and the Duck Pond.

Photos courtesy of Boyd Loving