10/31/2009:

Pumpkins used for comical purposes

This photo wasn’t taken in Hoboken – but has to be the best Halloween display ever! Pretty much typifies a usual weekend in the Mile Square! Have you seen anything like this around town?

Also, in the spirit of “vomit,” this photo parody mirrors what many Hoboken residents are feeling about the way our city is being run. Phony campaign promises, corruption, and an ongoing shell game makes many folks around here want to hurl their own pumpkin seeds:

Trick or Treat?

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10/31/2009:

Set your watches back an hour!

At 2:00am Sunday, Daylight Savings Time ends, it becomes 1:00am again.

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10/31/2009 Update:

Thousands of Hoboken residents participated

Hoboken411 reader ZappaFan snapped some shots of today’s Ragamuffin / Halloween parade along Washington Street.

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10/31/2009 Update:

An Open Letter of Thanks

“On Wednesday, October 7th 2009, The Hoboken Police & Fire Department’s Annual Blood Drive occurred.

Respectfully,
Sergeant Dennis A. Figueroa S-19
Chairman, Hoboken Police & Fire
Departments Blood Drive Committee”

10/3/2009:

A big all-day blood drive is taking place this coming Wednesday October 7th – from 6am to 6pm. Head over to HPD Headquarters at 1st and Hudson to donate!

It’s that time again!

The Hoboken Police and Fire Departments are pleased to announce their annual blood drive. This blood drive is one of the oldest and largest in the area. There will be 15 donation stations to limit the wait time. The drive will be held at Police Headquarters, 106 Hudson Street, from 6:00am to 6:00pm on Wednesday October 7th, 2009. Refreshments from local and area restaurants will be served. Please encourage your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers to donate also.

For further information please contact: Sgt. D. Figueroa, Sgt. J. Petrosino, P.O. J. Costello, P.O. J. Simone, P.O. P. McNamara or P.O. D. Montanez at 201-420-2100.

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10/31/2009 Update:

I told her we’ll make up a better photo for the next event…

Hope for feral cats yet!

“Just a quick note to let you know the Fix A Feral Cat Fundraiser was a huge success – more than I ever imagined! Thanks again for posting the event on Hoboken411!

Take Care,
Patty”

10/16/2009:

Hoboken411 reader Patricia wants everyone to know about more animals in crisis in Hoboken…

Fundraiser at Louise & Jerry’s on 10/22

“Dear Hoboken411,

Litters of kittens are born every day in backyards, behind restaurants and empty lots. Cats dart across streets, scurry into alleys and hide under cars. Sadly, many suffer and die under the worst conditions.

We are hosting an event to raise money for and awareness of the feral cat crisis on October 22, 2009 at Louise and Jerry’s in Hoboken (2 hours open bar). I have attached a flyer to this email outlining the details. Additionally, I have provided information below on the importance of Trap-Neuter-Return! Please consider posting this information on Hoboken411 to help us spread the word about the importance of addressing this issue.

SEE “CAT FACTS” AFTER THE JUMP!!!

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10/31/2009:

(No, not a Halloween parody…)

Zimmer cuts ribbon while HUMC burns through cash

For three years, Hoboken411 readers lambasted former Hoboken Mayor David Roberts for cutting ribbon after ribbon – while Hoboken got deeper and deeper into scandal and debt. Roberts was mocked for running around town with scissors and having city employees put up his ribbon cutting pictures on the city website. Guess what’s changed under Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer?

Nothing.

As Acting Mayor, Zimmer is also automatically a member of the Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority Board. When news broke about the audit that showed a surprise $22 million dollar loss at Hoboken University Medical Center, did Zimmer attend the HMHA board meeting this week to grill hospital officials about what was going on? Was she there to hear the hospital CFO was “relieved of his duties?” No, but she did find time Thursday afternoon to cut a ribbon for HUMC’s expanded Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Roberts also cut ribbons while avoiding meetings

Dave Roberts also ducked HMHA meetings as Mayor but never missed a ribbon cutting at the Hospital. Still, even Roberts didn’t appoint a former Hospital CEO who resigned in a sea of red ink to the HMHA board. Zimmer’s secret midnight appointment of Jonathan Metsch has a lot of tongues wagging. Funny how Metsch also just happens to appear in Zimmer’s last mailer endorsing her.

Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine gets upgraded

Best of luck to the Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine on their new 4D ultrasound machines, which provide much clearer pictures than traditional ultrasounds. With so many mothers and mothers-to-be in this town it only makes sense for HUMC to step up its game in the maternity department. Not all the news is bad, and there are many good Doctors, Nurses and employees working hard to serve the community at HUMC. Whether the very highly paid upper management has what it takes to make the hospital break even is another story.

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10/30/2009:

Dark Horse Candidate?

It looks like Artie Lange isn’t the only person running a write-in campaign for Mayor of Hoboken. Former councilman and current Dave Roberts-appointed Zoning Board member Tony Soares is featured on campaign fliers found through town this morning. The last two times Tony ran for public office he lost by a huge margin.

Could a write-in campaign make the third time a charm?

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10/30/2009 UPDATE:

More details about lost $4 million grant

During one of his last City Council meetings back in June, State Assemblyman Ruben Ramos put the council on notice that he was working with Congressman Albio Sires, State and Hudson County officials to get millions of dollars of federal stimulus funds to alleviate Hoboken’s flooding problem. Ramos said the North Hudson Sewerage Authority’s flood pump plan was a “shovel ready project” ripe to gain stimulus money. He wanted the council – and whomever was going to be elected Mayor – aware that the City would be contacted soon to apply for the grant funds. Apparently Dawn Zimmer was not paying close enough attention, because as Acting Mayor she missed the opportunity to secure $4 million in stimulus funds. In this video from the October 21st council meeting Zimmer is asked about how Hoboken lost the money:

The four million dollars would have gone a long way to paying for the second flood pump that NHSA and it’s engineers at CH2M Hill say is needed to fix the flooding caused by high-tide storms. Zimmer’s public relations team claims the city wouldn’t have been able to find the additional $2 million needed to secure the grant, but that excuse falls apart when you see at the very same meeting the State Fiscal Monitor allowed the city to borrow over $4 million to secure grants to help pay for the cleanup of the long-delayed park at 1600 Park Ave.

People outraged by the loss of the $4 million grant say “Zimmer dropped the ball.”

Ironically, this Kim Glatt flier was on my car today:

See original comments from Mayoral candidate Kim Glatt after the jump.

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