Our neighbors from Beta Theta Pi in conjunction with Ben & Jerry’s announce:
“Do you love Ben & Jerry’s? Do you enjoy doing something for the greater good of mankind? Then on Wednesday April 20th from 4-8 pm you should head over to 4th and Washington with The Sigma Chapter of Beta Theta Pi as they are hosting their 1st annual Vermonster eating competition. What’s a Vermonster you ask? It is 20 scoops of Ben & Jerry’s very own ice cream and topped with as many toppings as you can imagine. Team up with 4 of your best friends (5 total people per team) and compete for the title of Conquering the Vermonster in the fastest of all Hoboken.
Hoboken Arts Foundation announces:
Dear Friend,
As you may be aware, an Arts Center was approved several years ago as part of the NW Redevelopment Plan. As we learned more about the technical requirements needed to make the Hoboken Arts Center a complete success, the original plan needed to be amended. To this end, a resolution to enter into an “interim cost agreement” for the Hoboken Arts Center is on the agenda for the CITY COUNCIL MEETING on APRIL 20th , next Wednesday evening. This is an important step toward final approval.
Your presence and support at this meeting is essential to moving this project forward. The meeting is on the main floor of City Hall, 7PM – 11PM. Please get there by 7PM to sign up to speak. If you support the arts, economic development, jobs and state-of-the-art schools, City Council members need to hear from you!
Details of the proposed venue:
Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer invited friends and supporters to meet Saturday in Church Square Park. Before the overcast weather turned to rain, the event was captured in these photos:
| Mayor Zimmer, in perpetual motion arrives with her family |
| BoE member Theresa Minutillo and friend sport matching Kids First t-shirts |
| An enthusiastic 4th ward supporter of Rami Pinchevsky smiled for this shot |
| A Cake Boss birthday cake appeared on the scene |
| Ann Holtzman laughs as Theresa Minutillo helps KF t-shirts find a good home |
| The mayor addresses the crowd standing with the loose coalition of council reform candidates. With her were 3rd ward candidate Greg Lincoln, 6th ward candidate Jen Giattino, 4th ward candidate Rami Pinchevsky, 2nd ward candidate Tom Greaney, 5th ward councilman Peter Cunningham. (Not pictured but there in spirt: 1st ward candidate Eric Kurta) |
Photos courtesy Gary Holtzman
Friday night fights comes in the form of Grafix Avenger’s fleshy vibrato Russo insider bleeding its guts on weaknesses in reform and taking great comfort in Beth Mason’s husband and the bottomless checkbook. Can’t wait for the ELECs after this election, the money pit will be showing and without question, the bodies will be buried everywhere. Is there Mason for delay (Delea) on the ELEC report front?
Here’s Deep Uvula bragging away and revealing something tough to finger on Franz the “independent” in the 2nd who has no campaign website, no communications to residents and not even a campaign Facebook page. His performance in the debates was solid and yet his reason for running seems odd since almost all of his positions on issues sound like position papers right out of Tom Greaney’s campaign.
After reading the report by Superintendent Mark Toback, you can glimpse the latest hate poured out in town by taking a peek at what Beth Mason’s favorite local website, Hoboken411 is spewing about the BoE.
Contrast and compare that report to the smears put forth on Mason411:
| (Click to enlarge.) Hoboken411 accuses BoE members of acting on “personal vendettas.” Evidence of the libelous statement is nowhere to be found. It continues to say a teacher was “targeted” again with not a shred of evidence. The Superintendent report released shows something entirely different from the libel printed there. |
Notice the catch all use of “critics” and the lack of any evidence in its claims. The whole article goes on and on like that and never once does it mention any of the specific inadequacies from the Superintendent’s report (available below).
Here are three additional (and final) segments from the Council forum for the 2nd and 5th ward. Part 3 is below and parts 7 and 8 with the closing remarks are at the jump.
Pt. 3
Pt. 7
Pt. 8
This completes all the segments of the both forums. Pt. 4 on the second night as it turns out was just a extraneous piece leading into the break.
One of the most unfortunate aspects of Hoboken politics is the uncanny lack of factual information in political disputes. As far as this political dispute, the use of children for political purposes is unseemly and based on the professional report the new Superintendent Mark Toback provides, he was presented with a situation there was nothing he could do but address it in the best way possible.
After you read the report, you’ll find it difficult to look at the situation here as it was reported or rather politically exploited. The violations here with exposure to the Hoboken school district is so long, a lawyer could retire on the feast if he sat down to dine at the table that is the Hoboken school district.
as Here is the second half of the corruption issue captured here leading into an offbeat question. The clip is another piece worth secluding as it took a somewhat innocent question asking, “What living person do you most admire?” and stumped two panelists as relatives could not be counted among them.
What on its face appeared to be an innocent question (was it?) turned quickly into attack material. Take a look and see how quickly a staged prop dovetails into another prop within the space of seconds, first with a self-depiction as victim and then springing into attack.