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The new administration certainly has its work cut out for it.

Date: 11:20 AM Jan 5, 2010

Get ready ....things are only going to get worse....don't worry if it snows again it will be days before you see a plow and then they will blame everyone else. Steve and company will find a way to fund the town via the school and his buddies on the school board. I also think they will continue to lay off town employees....but what about current law suits with the ones they fired last year????The new motto for this administration will be" lets kick the can a little further down the road" ...meaning they will do nothing and you will not get any services for what you do pay...its all good...keep thinking that ...maybe its just a bad dream.

Date: 01:20 PM Jan 5, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Get ready ....things are only going to get worse....don't worry if it snows again it will be days before you see a plow and then they will blame everyone else. Steve and company will find a way to fund the town via the school and his buddies on the school board. I also think they will continue to lay off town employees....but what about current law suits with the ones they fired last year????The new motto for this administration will be" lets kick the can a little further down the road" ...meaning they will do nothing and you will not get any services for what you do pay...its all good...keep thinking that ...maybe its just a bad dream.

Who filed lawsuits for getting fired? The town never said anything about that???

Date: 01:28 PM Jan 5, 2010

It's obvious HF doesn't know how to manage our money. While other towns raised property taxes they discontinued all public projects. We didn't raise taxes and continued with public projects.... doesn't make sense does it? Yes we needed at new town hall but not where it is because of no parking and not for 12 million dollars and it's falling down. We didn't need to spend money downtown it's like dumping money into a bankrupt company - no return. The mistake at the lake was a huge waste of money I heard they are still trying to get a permit from the pinelands to tear down the old building that has been torn down almost a year ago?!$?! No one used that building it's sitting idol. When times are bad you cut the wasteful spending not the services. We can't even afford to buy salt for the roads or pay employees to plow them which is a huge safety issue if they care about the taxpayers so much. What an f***ed up mess. Nice job HF I just want to know one thing how are you making so much money when the town is losing so much money???????

Date: 01:29 PM Jan 5, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Get ready ....things are only going to get worse....don't worry if it snows again it will be days before you see a plow and then they will blame everyone else. Steve and company will find a way to fund the town via the school and his buddies on the school board. I also think they will continue to lay off town employees....but what about current law suits with the ones they fired last year????The new motto for this administration will be" lets kick the can a little further down the road" ...meaning they will do nothing and you will not get any services for what you do pay...its all good...keep thinking that ...maybe its just a bad dream.

Who filed lawsuits for getting fired? The town never said anything about that???

How much are these lawsuits going to cost the town? You think they would have learned after going after the Chief.

Date: 09:42 AM Jan 6, 2010

What I don't understand is why are our elected officials collecting a salary from the taxpayers when they are all very wealthy? Former Governor Corzine refused to take a salary or health care benefits while in office - that was the right thing to do. These people wanted to be on council. There are so many fridge benefits to being on council when you own a business, own rental properties or properties downtown. Ex: the taxpayers paid for downtown renovations to properties owned by the former mayor and his contributors. The taxpayers paid to run sewer to the bowling alley and to the businesses of the mayor his family and his contributors. Then there is that issue of the dirt at the airport. We are talking about millions of dollars that we paid out that didn't benefit us not one iota. Yet they keep telling us to volunteer! Why should we volunteer when they don't volunteer or give anything. Everything the taxpayer receives, we pay for, we get nothing for free!

Date: 10:26 AM Jan 7, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

What I don't understand is why are our elected officials collecting a salary from the taxpayers when they are all very wealthy? Former Governor Corzine refused to take a salary or health care benefits while in office - that was the right thing to do. These people wanted to be on council. There are so many fridge benefits to being on council when you own a business, own rental properties or properties downtown. Ex: the taxpayers paid for downtown renovations to properties owned by the former mayor and his contributors. The taxpayers paid to run sewer to the bowling alley and to the businesses of the mayor his family and his contributors. Then there is that issue of the dirt at the airport. We are talking about millions of dollars that we paid out that didn't benefit us not one iota. Yet they keep telling us to volunteer! Why should we volunteer when they don't volunteer or give anything. Everything the taxpayer receives, we pay for, we get nothing for free!

Yea Right, Jon Corzine really did New Jersey a favor when he bankrupted and ruined out state finances. The WIZARD of WALL STREET is a thief who stole our tax money and forced alot of business (who pay the bills) to close and leave the state.

GOOD BYE to CORZINE ......he should move back to Illinois when he came from.....Good riddance!!!!!

Date: 12:35 PM Jan 7, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What I don't understand is why are our elected officials collecting a salary from the taxpayers when they are all very wealthy? Former Governor Corzine refused to take a salary or health care benefits while in office - that was the right thing to do. These people wanted to be on council. There are so many fridge benefits to being on council when you own a business, own rental properties or properties downtown. Ex: the taxpayers paid for downtown renovations to properties owned by the former mayor and his contributors. The taxpayers paid to run sewer to the bowling alley and to the businesses of the mayor his family and his contributors. Then there is that issue of the dirt at the airport. We are talking about millions of dollars that we paid out that didn't benefit us not one iota. Yet they keep telling us to volunteer! Why should we volunteer when they don't volunteer or give anything. Everything the taxpayer receives, we pay for, we get nothing for free!

Yea Right, Jon Corzine really did New Jersey a favor when he bankrupted and ruined out state finances. The WIZARD of WALL STREET is a thief who stole our tax money and forced alot of business (who pay the bills) to close and leave the state.

GOOD BYE to CORZINE ......he should move back to Illinois when he came from.....Good riddance!!!!!

It seems as though HF is following in his footsteps. HF is bankrupting our town, they are ruining out towns finances with all the borrowing and spending. If you listen to these blog entries it seems as though a HF mayor has stole dirt from the airport and they forced business downtown to close, Tappers, Blueberry factory, Nemia's, ice cream place, Baskets by Inferrera's. Hopefully we will be saying good-bye to HF soon and they will go back to new york and where ever else they came from.

Date: 01:28 PM Jan 7, 2010

There is a new dry cleaner on Central Ave. that gives out a free bag of veggies whenever you prepay for your dry cleaning.

Whoop- dee-doo now we can get free veggies all year long.

Date: 02:30 PM Jan 7, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

There is a new dry cleaner on Central Ave. that gives out a free bag of veggies whenever you prepay for your dry cleaning.

Whoop- dee-doo now we can get free veggies all year long.

you can't be serious!

Date: 02:37 PM Jan 7, 2010

It would be interesting to see what the people in this town would do if the terrorists gave them a bag of veggies. I wonder would they blow themselves up??? Probably. Scary very scary!

Date: 07:20 PM Jan 7, 2010

Hamilton Township laid off four policemen yesterday.

Date: 08:14 PM Jan 7, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

There is a new dry cleaner on Central Ave. that gives out a free bag of veggies whenever you prepay for your dry cleaning.

Whoop- dee-doo now we can get free veggies all year long.

he has been there for years. now he has gone green.

Date: 11:08 AM Jan 8, 2010

Big Steve posted on the Town Website that Hammonton is better positioned in this economic crisis. Ha!

With 10 vacant storefronts down-town, an empty buildings where Patriot Windows, the old NJM and Kessler. How about all of those commercial properties that need renters. Let's not forget the crumbling neighborhoods like 2nd Street. The only problem is that some of the landlords include local judicial appointees if you know what I mean.

Hammonton's new motto: What the inner circle makes, the rest of the fools have to take!!!

Date: 03:59 PM Jan 8, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Big Steve posted on the Town Website that Hammonton is better positioned in this economic crisis. Ha!

With 10 vacant storefronts down-town, an empty buildings where Patriot Windows, the old NJM and Kessler. How about all of those commercial properties that need renters. Let's not forget the crumbling neighborhoods like 2nd Street. The only problem is that some of the landlords include local judicial appointees if you know what I mean.

Hammonton's new motto: What the inner circle makes, the rest of the fools have to take!!!

You can talk all you want you can even show people what you are talking about and prove it but they still won't believe you. Hammonton people are so clueless they probably don't even know that Kessler hospital has closed and don't care as long as their taxes don't increase.

Date: 04:03 PM Jan 8, 2010

Just getting around to reading the Hammonton News. I can't believe the washed up puppet master allowed the mayor to give him two appointments. How stupid can they be...this opens him up for all kinds of harassment and ridicule. This is like opening up a can of worms. Your stupidity will be your demise.

Date: 05:02 PM Jan 8, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

There is a new dry cleaner on Central Ave. that gives out a free bag of veggies whenever you prepay for your dry cleaning.

Whoop- dee-doo now we can get free veggies all year long.

Doesn't seem like a sanitary business to have produce in the same place that should be "clean." Insects, mold, food stains... no thanks

Date: 09:31 PM Jan 9, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Hamilton Township laid off four policemen yesterday.

So how many do you think Hammonton is going to lay off? My bet 3 immediately and 2 more just before the migrant workers start flocking in. Why because they are stupid.

Date: 12:54 PM Jan 10, 2010

This is what happens when taxpayers have to pay 4 million dollars to bring Stockton to Hammonton and who will it benefit.... not the taxpayers! They need to stop wasting money and use the public schools to hold classes at night like all other towns do.

Date: 06:49 PM Jan 12, 2010

Has council ever announced the final tally for the new town hall?

Date: 06:53 PM Jan 12, 2010

How could town council suggest making cuts to the police when the town is in such fine financial shape. Didn't we get some special rating from Standard and Poor, like a B- or something? Don't we still have a surplus. We have two officers in the school whose salaries are paid for by the school, an officer left, an officer retired, and another officer passed away. They are saving on five salaries right there.

Date: 10:22 AM Jan 13, 2010

Why is everyone so worried? Don't you remember the mayor saying we have a ten million dollar surplus?

Date: 08:24 PM Jan 19, 2010

The town employees are facing potential 10 furlough days this year and the ground work has been laid to lay off some police. Is there any truth to these rumors?

Date: 08:46 PM Jan 19, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Has council ever announced the final tally for the new town hall?

For as long as HF is in power and for as long as Bertino doesn't demand that answer than we'll NEVER know until a Democrat is in office.

Date: 04:55 AM Jan 20, 2010

Don't they have to tell us how much it cost?

Date: 07:18 PM Jan 20, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Don't they have to tell us how much it cost?

Try making an OPRA request for that info and see how far that gets you! They won't tell you what THEY don't want you to know. Not until THEY'RE ALL out office will we know the truth. Ask any councilperson and they'll just walk away from you about the true costs. Ask anyone who wore a 5.9 at Central & Vine hat as well?

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Have we all forgotten, the town has $60,000 that the Chief (at the moment) Frank Ingemi promised to give the town when he sued them and won he said he would NEVER keep that money, and let's face it if he gave to the town it would be all over The Hammonton News with his picture.(right Pat?) That $60,000 is clear the town paid for legal fees and that comes from the Chief's or Mr. Ingemi's attorney. Also if Ingemi reaches in his pocket like he said he was going to not to let the unpaid nurses walk out of Kessler we should have a nice chunk, and let's not forget Haggerty who the chief was going to pay all his bills if he did not get disability. So just from 1 Hammontonian that has got to be over$100,000.00 not as much as his salary but still a good chunk.The lesson, we all hear you when you talk and we all see you when you don't do.