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The Ridgewood News opted not to publish a response from me, almost identical to the above letter, regarding Mr. Schimmel’s letter.

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Editor, The Ridgewood Blog:

 
On Friday, August 1, The Ridgewood News published a letter to the editor entitled:  “New driver frustrated by lack of village parking.”
 
Not surprisingly, the author of the aforementioned letter, Mr. James F. Schimmel, failed to mention that his family owns the commercial building located at 20-26 East Ridgewood Avenue, which is less than 150 feet away from the proposed Hudson Street parking garage.
 
Certainly, the value of said property would increase if the parking garage were built and rental fees for it could be increased as well.
 
Yet another letter writer who chose to omit key information from a letter to the editor about the proposed parking garage.  When will it end?
Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood resident
 
Note:  The Ridgewood News opted not to publish a response from me, almost identical to the above letter, regarding Mr. Schimmel’s letter.
 

8 thoughts on “The Ridgewood News opted not to publish a response from me, almost identical to the above letter, regarding Mr. Schimmel’s letter.

  1. Maybe he will join the League of Woman Voter also

  2. Don’t worry about it Boyd. The Ridgewood News is about to fold. The paper sucks. The editor is completely incompetent. Social media rules the news now. The election was driven by The Blog as well as facebook. All those stupid FB posts by Gail Price about her husband who was running for offce…..that helped kill his campaign. The FB posts by ditzy Hauck helped kill the campaigns of Price, Weitz, and Willet. The Blog provided the forum for people to reveal the truth. The Ridgewood News is basically becoming irrelevant now. We all rely on the internet to provide us with the news, the real news, the news as it happens.

    And by the way, Boyd, thank you for letting us know that the shameless parking garage proponents are using their children as pawns.

  3. Shame on them. The parents certainly approved/encouraged the letter.

    I was surprised by the letter. A teenager complaining about needing to walk a few blocks.

    There is parking, but not always in front of the store that you are visiting.

  4. Some kids will do anything to get their parents to buy them a car.

  5. Well I went to Raymonds for lunch yesterday and had a choice of four, yes four parking spaces within direct line of sight of the restaurant. The restaurant was packed, people waiting for seats. Now I know all you garage supporters will say that this was mid August so of course there was plenty of parking. But town was jumping, people were in Van Neste, Raymonds was crazy busy, and yet there was tons of parking. Like 8:11 said, some kids will do anything to get their parents to buy them a car, including write letters about how there has been a parking problem for 20 years and the author is only 18. So ridiculous.

  6. Isn’t that kid’s father on the Historic Preservation Commission? And he refused to recuse himself when the HPC voted on the garage even though he owned property that stood to gain big time by the presence of the monster garage? Nice people, very upright and ethical. Teach your children well.

  7. Somebody needs to do a better job of vetting those letters to the editor.

  8. Does anybody actually believe the kid had anything to do with that letter? A show of hands, please. Letter ends, “Let’s get it done”–has a teenage boy ever said or written that sentence, especially about a parking garage? Comical idea. But mostly, I feel sick about the endless pathetic attempts to manipulate and deceive us. Are Aronsohn’s minions being treated to the marketing programs of White Horse Strategies? They’re working so hard to fleece us. More important, could all these selfish, destructive, impossibly contemptuous people please shut up and go away or become honest? Either will do. Tired of identifying their ploys and rejecting them.

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