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Saturday, January 24, 2015

What Was Your New Year's Resolution?

Time to Embrace
Pride of Place
Adopt a corner. Adopt a lot in your own neighborhood. Someone owns this invitation to danger. Make some noise. Click here and let our Elected Officials know how we feel about our places. Submit your Service Request Here.  Complain.

Join the conversation:
  • Leen De Weerd-Mosley Wow! Slumlord indeed! City or bank is the question.
    13 hrs · Like · 1
  • Debbie Bland Manning It's been like this for a few years now. There really should be a fence around this house to keep children away. It looks like it's about to collapse.
    12 hrs · Like · 1
  • Ronald Rollieson Any contractors around ?
    8 hrs · Like · 1
  • Rene Simons 1st & 4th Sts, been this way for years, 2 weeks ago PSE&G was there to cut street connection to gas. January 2015.
    1 hr · Edited · Like · 1
  • Curtis Caviness As the 4-3 Committee Person, I will pursue this with the City!!!!
    7 hrs · Unlike · 4
  • Ronald Williams I REMEMBER MOVING A FAMILY OUT OF THAT HOUSE IN THE 90s,, NOT SURE OF THE NAMES. JASON SIMPSON AND I HAD A MOVING COMPANY AT THAT TIME.
    5 hrs · Unlike · 2
  • Lucy D. Walker There exists a link where residents might lodge a formal complaint about this particular structure and others around our Fair City. Perhaps we are keeping our displeasure too close to home. 

    Ronald Rollieson. Do you know who owns this property? There 
    ...See More
    Submit a Citizen Service Request
    CITYOFENGLEWOOD.ORG
    5 hrs · Edited · Like · 2 · Remove Preview
  • Warren Neumann The code enforcement folks are busy harassing merchants who have too many signs in their store windows, you know, the easy stuff.
    4 hrs · Unlike · 3
  • Lucy D. Walker Warren Neumann. I get it. I was present at a City Council Meeting where an ordinance was passed that was supposed to deal with places like this. We do not make enough noise. And rest assured, 

    I also know that I am not winning friends with posts like this.  Too old to change now.
    3 hrs · Like · 2
  • Warren Neumann You have all the friends that you need, Lucy. don't worry about doing & saying what you know is right! We all have to remember our responsibility to shine a light into the murky corridors of city hall, in every city and state in this country.
    3 hrs · Unlike · 3
  • Rhonda Harris hey warren
    2 hrs · Like · 1
  • Mona Jones-Charles WHAT'S UP WITH THIS HOUSE ?
    FIRST STREET, RIGHT?
    BEEN LOOKING LIKE THAT FOR A MINUTE....HOPEFULLY, NO ONE LIVES IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A DEATHTRAP, AS WELL AS A BLIGHT/EYESORE !!!
    1 hr · Unlike · 1
  • Lucy D. Walker Deathtrap is right...
    "Just walk right up...no barriers...no deterrents....Hello children, come flirt with danger."
    1 hr · Like · 1
  • Jovan Davis I have been trying to get information about this house ever since I came. At one point (I believe last year) they started to work on it but didn't finish as you can see. It truly is a horrible sight.
    54 mins · Like · 1
  • Lucy D. Walker The Tax Assessors Office will provide the name of the owner. That is public information. It has been that way for a very long time. It is very difficult to have "Pride of Place" when that stands in the middle of the Place. Perhaps it is time that the p...See More
    48 mins · Like · 1
  • Tondelayo Phillips Only in our neighborhood why isn't the Bergen Record writing about this and the news coming out and showing this on the news? ...Oh a child has to be hurt first. Call the news!!! Tear it down
    6 mins · Unlike · 1
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Englewood Welcomes 2 new Police Officers

Two Police officers were sworn in by Mayor Frank Huttle III
on January 19, 2015.
Welcome Officers James T. Reed and Ximena Sarria.
We were especially happy to see a woman born, raised and educated in Englewood, New Jersey.


Monday, December 1, 2014

Do Ballots Stop Bullets?

To Our BERGEN COUNTY NAACP PRESIDENT:
Were you ever taught Civics?
When?
Why was your presentation directed to Eagle Students and not the entire
HS Student Body?
Are you going to have a similar talk with the people carrying the guns and the folks who pay them with our tax dollars?
Did you explain the connection between a diverse police department and the City Manager, City Council and Mayor?
Did you explain how policeman are hired and fired?
Did you speak at all about psychological tests Policeman should pass on a regular basis and not just once?
Did you talk and about Rookies with guns?
Do they know that their GPA's, no matter how high will not stop bullets or choke holds?
Did you tell them not to trick or treat at unfamiliar houses?
Did you tell them how important is to learn how to make 3 point turns in order to avoid turning around in driveways?
Did you tell them not to knock on doors asking for help if their cars break down?
Did you deal with the reasons why there is a lack of diversity in police departments?
Did you give them a History of the Participation of NAACP in Civil Rights Issues?
Did you explain Engleworld's Charter to them?
Did you define City Charter?
Did you discuss City Government at all?
Do they know what to do with the voter registration form THAT YOU GAVE THEM?
Did you explain that it is of utmost importance to go home and discuss the Act of voting with their parents?
Did you ask them if their parents voted in the last election>
Do they have any idea of what you meant when you told them that voting could change the world?
Did they walk away thinking that the ballot could stop a bullet?
How are children expected to know the value of a vote if they have not learned anything about citizenship?
DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT THE STUDENTS IN THE ROOM?
HOW EXACTLY WILL VOTING CHANGE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR CONTINUE TO DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE WE PAY TO PROTECT US?
civ·ics
ˈsiviks/Submit
noun = the study of the rights and duties of citizenship.
https://www.icivics.org/