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Ridgewood Chamber Guide 2019 Media Guide to the PGA Championship SPORTS, 1S Non-Surgical Guaranteed ★ ★ ★ Medical Weight Loss SAVE UP TO $3,895 IN COUPON SAVINGS 201-266-5000 Call for a Same-Day Consultation! Hollywood’s Best Kept Secret in Bergen County! SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2019 Girls run sensational distance medley at Penn Relays SPORTS, 1C The Record (county newspaper) FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019 ❚ NORTHJERSEY.COM PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK RHS ranks 27th among the top high schools in NJ NorthJersey.com/Ridgewood The Ridgewood News (201) Magazine 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, Woodland Park, NJ 07424 973-569-7000 PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK How crews are ar repairing the George Washington ve Bridge while 280,000 vehicles cross it daily KEEP ING DRIVERS KEEPING SUSPENSE IN SUS S USPE Lawmakers face task taming state’s debt Ashley Balcerzak North Jersey Record USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY New Jersey is paying more than $4 billion a year to chip away at the state’s $46.1 billion worth of debt. New Jersey consistently ranks among the most-indebted states in the U.S., coming in fourth for tax-support- ed debt per capita, according to an analysis by bond credit rating company Moody’s Investor Service last year. The Garden State’s debt, the yearly payment of which took up about a tenth of the total 2019 budget, will be in the spotlight as the Legislature and governor’s office gear up to negotiate the $38.6 billion proposed 2020 bud- get. Major fights are expected to be over controversial tax break programs, state employee pensions and the future of an See DEBT, Page 8A Hannan Adely North Jersey Record USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY 
     
  
  Ali Stroker   and James Davis  star in   “Oklahoma!”   
        C LITTLE TLE FANG PHOTOS TOS Ridgewood’s s Ali Str Stroker makes Tony history histor his Kelly-Jane Cotter Asbury Park Press USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Ridgewood’s Ali Stroker has made history, becom- ing the first person who uses a wheelchair to be nomi- nated for a Tony award. Stroker stars as Ado Annie in the revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” The New Jersey native is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. “Oklahoma!” scored eight Tony award nomina- tions, including honors for director Daniel Fish of Tenafly. Stroker grew up in Ridgewood, where she starred in school plays. Her early professional work included portraying the Fairy Godmother in “Cinderella” at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven in 2006 and Olive Ostrovsky in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spell- ing Bee” at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn in 2011. She also appeared on the Fox series “Glee” and “The Glee Project.” At 2, Stroker was in a car accident and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed. In 2015, Stroker became the first actress in a wheel- chair to appear on a Broadway stage, playing Anna in a revival of “Spring Awakening.” In an interview with Ilana Keller for the Asbury Park Press in 2016, she spoke about being an inspira- tion and a role model: “That really happened organically because my vi- sion and my focus was on achieving my goals and my dreams,” Stroker said. “And then when I began to real- ize that I had to pave my own path and there hadn’t been a lot of people before me to do it, it was exciting
  
The cast of “O “Oklahoma!” features fe Ali Stroker of Ridgewood. ood. “We couldn’t “W couldn be more mor proud of Ali, and it’s it’ a thrill to watch wat her soar.” Lisa Cooney Director of education educa at Paper Mill Mi Playhouse because I could share my story. One thing sort of led to another and people were looking to me as a role model or a voice ice for my community.” commun Stroker er has remained supportive of Paper Mill Playhouse, yhouse, wher where, as a t teenager, she also spent two summers s in the theater’s Summer Conservatory pro- gram. See STROKER, STROKER Page 4A Bergen County high schools had a strong showing in the annual ranking of secondary public schools in New Jersey by U.S. News and World Report. Nearly a quarter of the top 100 schools across the state — out of more than 400 schools — were located in the northeastern county. These included the sec- ond-place Bergen Academies, a highly competitive magnet school that enrolls about 1,100 students. Other highly-ranked schools in the county includ- ed Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro and high schools in Glen Rock, Tenafly and Ridge- wood. The school considered the best in the state last year was High Technology High School in Monmouth County. The schools were also ranked nationally. “barr the thick cables that hold up the roadway U.S. News ranked more than 17,000 schools from Work crews are renovating the “barrels,” mad up of thousands of thinner thinn wires, some of which are being replaced. across the country, up from 2,700 last year. on the bridge that are made 592 suspender cables are being replaced as well. well This is on the north side of the bridge. The rankings methodology, which changed The this /NORTH JERSEY RECORD; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION ILLUST BY TAKÉ UDA/USA TODAY NETWORK year, now uses six measures, each given a different CHRIS PEDOTA/NORTH weight in the deciding algorithm. The measures include: seniors who took and stand directly on the bridge’s shoulder. e of Mind passed at least one Advanced Placement or Interna- Garden State Beneath his feet, the forces at work bend the tional Baccalaureate exam; math and reading profi- Christopher Maag brain. Here, 600 feet above the Hudson River, the ciency on state exams; the performance of underrep- North Jersey Record braided girders of the bridge’s western tower hold TWORK ORK – N.J. resented groups like students from low-income USA TODAY NETWORK 22.5 million pounds of steel cable and decking up in households; the breadth of AP and IB courses taken Maybe the coolest thing about bout Ken Sagrestano’s the air. Up here, inside an enclosure called the sad- and passed by seniors; and the graduation rate. eat the busiest bridge in the dle room, cables 6 feet in diameter flowed in a grad- is that “By evaluating more schools than ever job before, the he gets to treat world as his own personal swingset. ual arc over the tower’s thick, rounded grooves, all wingset. new edition expands that focus so all communities He swings from steel girders. ers. He shimmies down of it covered in thick gray paint and years of dust. can see which schools in their area are successfully ernoon noon this week on the ladders. un- On a sunny afternoon “It’s amazing,” Sagrestano said. serving their students — including historically The George Washington Bridge opened to cars Washington Bridge, Sagrestano pried open derserved populations,” Anita Narayan, George managing steel manhole cover on the flat roof of the bridge. editor of Education at U.S. News, said in a a statement. He climbed wung around, coming com to See GARDEN STATE, Page 6A The list did not include every high school in the down and swung state. A group of schools was unranked because they were too small or were missing primary data. To look up a school, visit the U.S. News and World Report high school rankings page. See SCHOOLS, Page 2A Meghan Grant North Jersey Record USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY 

  
Settlements have been reached in a lawsuit brought by a Ridgewood High School girl reported to be the victim of cyberbullying in 2017, and a boy seri- ously injured in a related fistfight. Two Ridgewood High students, identified only as “B.M.” and “S.E.” in the personal injury lawsuit, alleg- edly used mobile app Snapchat to share a “private photograph” of the girl without her consent, and used the app to “berate, harass, intimidate, embarrass and bully,” according to the initial complaint. The two students then allegedly coerced a third, unnamed male student into fighting S.E. twice, leav- More than Real Estate brokers…Friends you can trust. 

 
 
     
 
    ing the third boy with “ “severe, catastrophic and per- manent personal injuries.” injuries Under a settlement, Superior Court Judge John s Supe O’Dwyer er ordered B.M. and S.E., and their parents, to pay the girl $5,000, spl split evenly between the two fam- ilies. According to the order, $1,959 will be deducted settleme for her attorney’s legal fees. from the girl’s settlement presenting the injured boy, attorney Sheri Breen Representing Ja 4 letter to the judge that there was a noted in a Jan. settlement The terms involving the tlement “a “as to all parties.” pa boy have disclosed in court documents. ve yet to be discl Breen declined to comment. commen Attorney rney Michael Della Rovere, representing stu- dent B.M., declined to confirm whether his client had c See LAWSUIT, LAWSUIT WSUIT, Page 4A   



  

   
 YFCICD- 00021t(L)i Vol. 99, No. 18 For home delivery call 888-504-4280 50 cents Please recy recycle 100% recyclable 0% Deforestation Serving the village since 1889 Among the greats RHS Hall of Fame dinner honors longtime coach Jeff Yearing. 1B TANIA SAVAYAN/THE JOURNAL NEWS Peter D. Kramer Rockland/Westchester Journal News USA TODAY NETWORK Patti and Joseph Ranieri’s photos couldn’t capture just how small their newborn girl, Tess, was when she was born on July 19, 2008 — 15 weeks early, weighing an ounce shy of 2 pounds. They took photos of Tess’ tiny hand dwarfed by her father’s pinky finger, of Tess amid a mass of tubes and wires as she fought for her life in the Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York. See HOPE, Page 13A 1. High Technology High School, Lincroft, 39 in na- tion 2. Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, 53 in price rigging Cop’s ’s costume sparks probe Prosecutors allege nation Photos os show sho Maywood cop dressed in Teva and Pfizer among firms accused of 3. Middlesex County Academy for Science, Math- Orthodox Jewish costume at party. 1L illegally hiking generic drug prices. 3A ematics and Engineering Technologies, Edison, 61 in nation 4. Dr. Ronald E McNair High School, Jersey City, 67 in nation FRIDAY 5. Biotechnology High School, Freehold, 68 bergenPAC in na- presents sent nts tion MAY MA 17, 2019 6. Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health, 7:00 PM Woodbridge, 75 in nation Settlements reache hed d in i fistfights fist reached 
  

   
 
   


         
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