Biergarten Set To Open In January and Beth Mason polling Hoboken residents?

All you Hobokenites who are eagerly waiting for the German-style biergarten that will be coming to Hoboken, will have to be patient a little while longer. You'll have drink your large German pints in Jersey City's Zeppelin Hall or one of the biergartens in New York City, because word on the street is the Hoboken one will open in January. The Biergarten will be located at 1422 Garden St.

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Former Hoboken-based reporter Tim Carroll wrote a story titled Mason Testing Hoboken Waters? on PolitickerNJ. In his story he reports that Second Ward Councilwoman Beth Mason may be polling Hoboken residents about her chances in higher office. 

Although the only person who seems to know anything about the poll is Tony Soares, who serves as chairman of the Zoning Board and North Hudson Sewage Authority Commissioner. Soares, who says he was called randomly by pollsters, is a supporter of Mayor Dawn Zimmer and a long-time political ally of Council President Carol Marsh and Fourth Ward Councilman Michael Lenz.

According to Carroll's story "the allegation is sketchy, but not unlikely."

Mason denied the allegations and told Carroll that she isn't interested in a higher office. "If I'm going to run for anything," Mason was quoted as saying, "I'm going to run for my seat on City Council."  

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