"Something is wrong in Denmark" !

Its a long time coming.....

Great! About time.

Finally, some momentum on this ... kind of

ABOUT TIME!!!! But who are they going to find that is willing to take a lower then private sector salary and deal with part-time elected governance who sometimes do not understand how to actually manage a town, are sometimes difficult to deal with, and change every couple of years. Who would be willing to take this job knowing when its time for a raise, they will probably be fired because the elected officials fear increasing taxes. I think this change my be needed, but I am worried the next won't be any better, and in fact could be worse!!!!!

funny how fast this story was printed, but still nothing on the appalling behavior from Mayor Aronsohn and Deputy Mayor Pucciarelli towards Councilwoman Walsh at last week's council meeting. Is this a pick and choose which story to print or do you print all the news? I guess I have my answer.

James, you're doing a good job. Keep up the good work.

James, so you skip the council fiasco last week when Aronsohn teed off at Councilwoman Walsh after she revealed purported violation of the Open Public Meetings Act and now you claim so called anonymous sources told you The VM is about to be fired. As a blogger, you have no claim to anonymity of source. Who was the source?

Looks like a case of "shoot the messenger".
Who are they going to blame after he's gone??????

Shouldn't take a week to report outragious behavior by our elected officials. I have noticed that Aronsohn is prone to obnoxious and disrespectful behavior. Bullies and attacks anyone who disagrees with him.

The planned ousting of Dr. Gabbert has the appearance of a well orchestrated diversionary tactic to draw both the press' and taxpayers' attention away from other issues.

Repeated violations of the NJ Open Public Meetings Act are what we should all be focusing on.

one thing to say about the village of ridgewood to many chiefs not enough indians

Was there any due diligence on the VM when he was fired by Westwood,filed suit and was then reinstated? Talk about a red flag!!!!.. Not to mention he has jumped around from Little Ferry and New Mllford...

I smell a big lawsuit for wrongful termination....... or at the very least a big payout to avoid that lawsuit.

Gabbert's hire and raise was based on political cronyism imo. He had baggage from his previous position in Westwood and baggage as mayor of Upper Saddle River. All has been tolerated...until now and rightly so!

As far as The Patch and James, check out the other areas and find a page run as well as this one. He keeps us well informed in the midst of natural disasters, both here and on twitter. Given the division in this town, his ability to remain impartial truly amazes me. As a moderator of this forum, he does an excellent job. There are other venues in this town if you want tawdry analysis with tacky commentary. He admitted he had other responsibilities this week and he was waiting on comments and feedback. Lets give him the benefit of the doubt.

Its not really cool to have a story on "sources",,, it more like someone is trying to play the media and it looks like that is what they did... Can I be a "source" and have an axe to grind or a political aspiration to attain?. If its "sources",, it might a well be me.... Will the reporters realize where the ilkness is coming from and realize its pretty sleazy way to play the game.

Keep up the good work James. To Gabbert, good riddance. To the Board, hire someone with no baggage, good ethics and who will serve only one master.

Is it true that Gabbert was focused on changing the design on the police cars to that UGLY swish/swirl design? It looks like a taxi cab. Instead of micro-managing crap like that, the manager should be running the town and not accepting raises when long time loyal Village employees are laid off. And as a 'send off' to Gabbert, paint the police cars the way they were. Black/white like the majority of towns here.

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I'm going to bet that this doesn't end too well...

First it is NOT Dr. Gabbert. He is not a medical doctor. If he were at a university he would be entitled to that honorific. Not out here in the real world. Second, Mr. Gabbert clearly deserves to be fired and my only question is what took so long?

He should have been fired after his no show during Hurricane Irene.

There are good people out there who could bring something to this village to help make it better. The salary is good.

Lets replace him with someone with imagination and enthusiasm.

lol

Remember, we each have to justify the value of the services that we offer with each new moment. If you have something meaningful to offer in the marketplace you a get a "merit pay" bonus. If you do badly you get fired. That's the way it is in the "real world." Its called a "free" market, and a "free" market always knows best because it is self regulating via the emperor's invisible hand. If you don't see the perfect efficacy of his invisible hand it is because you are lazy and a moocher. And why should I or anyone else have to pay for your handouts?

Its called ACOUNTABILITY, "private sector" style.

The problem these days is that too many people just won't take responsibility for themselves and try to blame their problems on others who have more power or affluence then themselves. That's class warfare. Very bad that.

"Republican Walsh" needs to resign because she made a political donation to Donovan and Donovan was "found with underage girls and illegal drugs in her home"? Truly disgraceful comments, delgado. If you have evidence that Walsh did something wrong, bring it to the proper authorities. And so what if she is a Republican -- what does that have to do with anything?

Well let's see...Ridgewood MOM is telling us that, in effect, she can say that the market "knows" the current demand, at any moment, for every product and service available in the entire economy, as well as the current supply, at any moment, of all these products and services Via the emperor's invisible hand....I thought that was Adam Smith, but there you go...the free-marketers persuaded us that the market always knows best because, they tell us, it has greater knowledge of economic facts than any individual or institution can ever have....sure....why don' t we run this past Alan Greenspan or Ayn Rand ...after 2008 and what has happen in our free market society any normal individual would concede the basics of the platform."private sector" style, if that's what you like to call it, is a laissez-faire approach to business that has failed badly...governance in commerce must go beyond the bare minimun as in the past because it is quite evident that the foxes were running the hen house....please govern yourself accordingly.

Honorable Walsh VOTED yes to give Gabbert a 12% massive raise. Also Honorable Walsh did give thousand dollars in campaign contriutions to Candidate County Ex. Donovan and fiinally Donovan then appointed Gabbert to the NWBCUA and now Walsh is NOT calling for him to resign... Gabbert shouldn't be fired, the enabler Walsh should be fired.

Sorry Ridgewood mom.....I jumped a little to fast on that ..... I'll Try and read next time b4 I blather.......

Why do we pretend this is not about party affiliation? We should end this charade of a non-partisan village council and ditch this antiquated Faulknarian form of government. Then everyone can lay their cards on the table and the citizens will have a clear choice of whom they want governing our village... Democrats or Republicans.