City of Hoboken announces:
State of Emergency Declared In Hoboken
The Zimmer Administration has declared a state of emergency for Hoboken. Residents are urged to stay indoors and avoid travel unless absolutely necessary.
Hoboken City Hall will be open on Monday, December 27, 2010. Essential personnel are required to report to work, and non-essential personnel who are able to safely travel to work are also requested to report to work.
Residents are reminded that sidewalks must be cleared of snow within six hours after completion of the storm and that cars must be removed from all emergency snow routes:
City of Hoboken announces:
BLIZZARD WARNING, EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTES, AND REDUCED RATE GARAGE PARKING FOR SUNDAY & MONDAY
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning from 6:00 am on Sunday, December 26 to 6:00 pm on Monday, December 27. Wind gusts of 40-55 mph and 11 to 16 inches of snow are possible. Please be advised that as soon as City streets are covered with a layer of snow, cars must be removed from all emergency snow routes. These routes are clearly identified on street signs. They include:
City of Hoboken announces:
HOBOKEN RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT RENEWAL INFORMATIONHoboken residents with a current Resident parking permit should find an annual renewal letter in their mail in the next few days. The Hoboken Parking Utility offers the following to points of clarification:
1. Current permit holders who do not receive renewal information should contact the Parking Utility by phone at 201-653-1919 or email at parking@hobokennj.org.
2. Please note that there was an error regarding the renewal deadline in the letter. All documentation is due by January 15, 2011. The validity of current Resident parking permits will be extended to that date.
With a week to go is it too soon to say goodbye to 2010? Well things are slowing down with the countdown to New Years’a and people rushing to get all the last minute things done expected making the holidays frantic, harried and a drag for many.
So here’s a turn of hand from Jib Jab saying goodbye, perhaps early but hey this will be the last hurrah for many who plan trips and family get together’s heading to parts unknown tomorrow.
Hoboken has seen its share of ups and downs this year with municipal layoffs, a police reorg, initial tax reductions and a sinkhole. All of it becomes fodder for the political operatives: the paid, the unpaid and those who hope to get paid who thought they were underpaid in Tim Occhipinti’s invisible army. They all get another crack at the checkbook in 2011.
Blue Jersey, a state online Democratic website widely read including state officeholders posed this question in a story yesterday probing the antics of Tim Occhipinti’s fourth ward campaign.
Noting the anomalies in the invisible army of Occhipinti ‘campaign workers,’ Blue Jersey flatly calls for an investigation. The matter currently rests with the NJ Attorney General’s office after the Hudson County prosecutor forwarded the case when a folder of criminal referrals showed up from the Hudson County Board of Elections after its own initial investigation uncovered multiple problems.
Mayor Zimmer sent out a tweet on today’s landmark signing of arbitration reform into law:
Related: NJ.com covered the signing:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/gov_christie_signs_arbitration.html