Well its been an busy and tumultuous week in the City of East Ridge. With all the buzz and media focused on the Superior Creek Lodge tragedy an extremely important event has gone relatively unnoticed. That event my friends and neighbors is the resignation of Thad Jablonski the city’s first Treasurer. Thad was a polarizing figure […]
Rental Inspection Ordinance Sorely Needed
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are probably well aware and have very strong feelings about what took place on Wednesday evening at Superior Creek Lodge. Just in case your unaware or one of those few who get there “facts” from social media I will give you a short recap. On Tuesday […]
DeGlopper: Make “The Jewel” New Home of High School Sports
I grew up in a very small town. Very small, tiny, little town. Not even a town technically it was a village. In the village of Hopkins, Michigan we had approximately one. One gas station, one bowling alley (all 4 magnificent lanes), one ice cream parlor, one grocery store, one place to rent moves, one […]
Duct Tape and Bailing Wire
When I was a kid I would on occasion watch “The Red Green Show,” a Canadian comedy show that aired in the Untied States on PBS. The show was a sketch comedy show featuring the title character Red Green. Red was a handyman who found that often the key solution to fixing most things around […]
Mannings Make ‘Joyful Noise’ Prior to Council Meeting
Men wearing nicely pressed suites and a musical intermission. No, this wasn’t some fancy Hollywood affair, this was Thursday night’s East Ridge City Council meeting. The star of the evening was certainly Councilman Denny Manning. Councilmen Manning arrived to the dais walking with the help of an assistance device. He informed the Council and those […]
Simple Fix for City’s Wrecker Ordinance
At Thursday night’s East Ridge City Council meeting, Councilman Larry Sewell stated that the council needs to look at the wrecker ordinance again now that the TBI investigation is done. The TBI investigation into the alleged forging of the wrecker ordinance took more than six months. The results of the investigation were forwarded to the […]
Let’s Cut the Red Tape
At the City Council meeting on Thursday night, Walmart Neighborhood Market was granted a beer variance. It appeared from how quickly this was moved onto the agenda (it skipped the agenda session completely) that the developer was completely unaware of East Ridge’s beer ordinance. It was revealed in the course of the meeting that our […]
Group of ERHS Students Protests New Dress Code
A group of East Ridge High School students gathered outside the Bennett Avenue school on Wednesday afternoon to protest the new high school dress code. The protest started inside the high school with students walking the halls before they were asked to leave and moved their protest to the public sidewalk. The group, which included […]
East Ridge Elementary Reduces School Fees
East Ridge parents lining up for school registration Monday morning were treated with a pleasant surprise. East Ridge Elementary Principal Gail Huffstutler had decided to lower the requested school supply fee from $50 per child to $30 per child, providing a much-needed $20 per child discount to the parents of the over 1000 children […]
To Fee or Not To Fee… ?
“Orange folder, orange folder, orange folder… Why are there no orange folders?” I thought to myself this morning while walking up and down the isles of Walmart looking to check off one of the more reclusive items on the school supply list. “Why can’t I use blue? The list specifically says one solid green, […]
Navigating ERNO 2.0
Its been an exciting few days since the switch was flipped revealing the new East Ridge News Online Website. We have had a lot of positive and constructive feedback that will help us to make the website even better in the future. One of the more common questions is that some people aren’t exactly 100% […]
Local Elementary School Supply Lists
We are attempting to make this as simple as possible. Find the school below, then find the grade and click the link to locate the supply list for you child. School starts August 13th for both local Elementary’s. Registration dates for each elementary is listed below East Ridge Elementary – NEW DRESS CODE Registration August […]
Part-Time City Manager and Fire Chief
In an incredible 3- 2 vote on Thursday night the City Council, in a charge led by Councilman Denny Manning and Councilman Jacky Cagle, decided that the city only need a part-time Fire Chief and part-time City Manager. The discussion as laid out by Vice Mayor Marc Gravitt was that the city needed to find […]
DeGlopper Critical of Use of Rainy Day Fund
On Tuesday June 30, the East Ridge City Council decided to act like 90 percent of American consumers and go into debt for Christmas. During budget discussions Councilman Cagle discussed including in the budget a Christmas bonus of $250 for full-time employees and $125 bonus for part-time employees. This added about $100,000 in expenditures to […]
Start the Music, Maestro!
After close to two years of keeping the seat warm it has become City Manager Andrew Hyatt’s time to depart for sandier pastures. Our city’s perpetual game of musical chairs to fill the City Manager seat will once again begin. Oh you know what… The nerd in me just missed a very obvious Game Of […]