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CHRIS RUTISHA– USER – Village Engineer rips down posters at Planning Board public meeting on June 14A lecture in civility was offered by Chairman Nicholson as he called the June 14th Planning Board H-Zone meeting to order. Yet, just moments before the meeting was called to order informational posters, neatly placed on the walls of the Benjamin Franklin Middle School, were violently ripped down by a Village Employee. The posters were crumbled and stuffed into garbage pails.
After watching their hard work be torn down, destroyed before their eyes and stuffed into trash cans, Ridgewood residents sat politely for this lecture in civility. Insulting the taxpayers further, the Chairman followed up with a diatribe exposing his contempt for Ridgewood residents. Mr. Nicholson stated he did not care how many of us showed up, he did not care how many signs we held up, and he did not care how many of our emails or letters he received in opposition. As an afterthought he turned to the Valley Hospital employees, filling the side of the auditorium, and politely stated “or in support”.
Nicholson’s disrespect and condescension towards Ridgewood residents was a disgrace and his lecture on civility was The Height of Hypocrisy!
