Thursday, February 7, 2013
Scott Bassinder says mayor should apologize to his father
Scott Bassinder, owner of Martell's Tiki Bar, says a letter uninviting the mayor from a fundraiser on Saturday night was from both him and his father. "Yes, it was from me, I think Vinny owes my father an apology," Scott Bassinder said on Wednesday, referring Point Beach Mayor Vincent Barrella calling David Bassinder, Scott's father, "a small man." At Tuesday night's Point Beach Council meeting, Barrella said Ronald Gasiorowski, attorney for Martell's, had emailed Municipal Attorney Sean Gertner notifying him that Barrella will not be admitted into Martell's when the chamber honors local volunteers and municipal workers Saturday night. The letter, which had been emailed as an attachment, was cc'd to David Bassinder, former Martell's …
Friday, December 7, 2012
Mayor acts Fri. after Bret Gordon says he will change vote
Mayor Vincent Barrella said he told Martell's on Friday that the town is allowing them to use a south end parking lot to store building materials and equipment to rebuild the end of Martell's Tiki Bar pier. The mayor's contact with Ed Brannagan, Martell's manager, followed Point Beach Councilman Bret Gordon saying in an email on Friday morning that he is changing his vote to allow Martell's to use the lot. It appears, at this point, that there are now enough council votes for Martell's to set up shop in the parking lot behind Risden's beach and its southernmost building on the boardwalk, just off New Jersey Avenue, rented by Surf Taco this past summer. Saturday Update: However, there is a question now about whether Martell's needs …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Ordinances calling for earlier bar closings or payments are on Tuesday night Point Beach Council agenda
Point Beach Council member Kristine Tooker says Councilman William Mayer never came to her with a financial offer from the boardwalk and that he should not be saying she "rejected" one. Mayer says Tooker is wrong, that he did ask her whether she approves of a boardwalk offer of $140,000 that he describes as the boardwalk's "alternative" to ordinances calling for either earlier bar closings or payments to stay open later, as well as the removal of a separate ordinance restricting parking in the boardwalk bars' District 4. And so goes just one of many disagreements regarding the failed "negotiations" between the town and Jenkinson's Boardwalk and Martell's Tiki Bar. There is not even agreement that they were "negotiations." "They were not '…
Carl Wilton
10:55 am on Friday, February 8, 2013
I think this slugfest has passed the point where the damage to both sides and to the larger community, in terms of public relations, has exceeded the benefit either side would gain from achieving a victory. It's hard for those who are personally invested in supporting either side to see it that way, though. more ›