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RIDGEWOOD Pickleballers will remain on limited play hours through Oct. 17, the Village Council voted Wednesday. The 60-day experiment approved in March restricted hours for the paddle sport at Glen School and Bellair tennis courts, where neighbors had complained about noise. It was due to expire Aug. 7. Pickleball play will continue to be limited to 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. No pickleball will be allowed Monday and Friday. Tennis play can continue from 8 a.m. to dark Sunday through Saturday. The ordinance calls the continuation of limited hours a compromise for the competing interest of both the pickleball players and the neighbors. ....
RIDGEWOOD A rally against anti-Asian racism attracted hundreds of supporters on Saturday but turned tense when a protester challenged the right of the village s white mayor to speak. The Ridgewood Chinese American Association organized the gathering at Van Neste Square Memorial Park after a series of violent attacks against Asian Americans across the U.S. in recent months. The group wanted to show the world that hate has no place in our community, according to its Facebook page. The first Asian Americans came 250 years ago, and 250 years later, many of us have succeeded; however, we still suffer from racism, aggression, xenophobia and hate every single day, co-organizer Julia Ding told the crowd. There is no more time to wait, not even weeks to waste. Minding our own business is simply no longer acceptable. ....
RIDGEWOOD An appellate judge has sided with residents who sought to move the election dates for the Village Council and Board of Education to November. Judge Richard Geiger on Tuesday affirmed a September ruling by Superior Court Judge Estela De La Cruz that Village Clerk Heather Mailander had acted improperly and unlawfully in attempting to block a petition by the group One Village One Vote to place the question of fall elections for both bodies on the November ballot. In scathing language echoing the De La Cruz decision, Geiger said Mailander s arguments go far afield of her ministerial role as municipal clerk and that she had punted her ministerial obligation to notify plaintiff of the reasons for her rejection of the Aug. 13 petition. ....