Government
By ERICA C.
August 16, 2023
To the Editor: I am writing to thank the Township Committee for the maintenance of our roads. My family and I live on a small road in town with just a handful of homes that would be easy to overlook by most. However, the Township has always respected us as taxpayers, responded to our ...
The year is 1869. Three years after Governor Marcus L. Ward signed a state Constitutional amendment delivering the end of slavery in New Jersey. Sixty-two years after the NJ state legislature took voting rights away from property owning female and African American residents. In 1869, the Charter ...
The League of Women Voters of Monmouth County (LWVMonmouth) celebrates August 26 as Women’s Equality Day. In 2022, we declared this day to be Women’s (In)Equality Day. The Supreme Court rollbacks of reproductive freedom and the failure of Congress to pass voting rights legislation or add the Equal ...
The League of Women Voters of Monmouth County (LWVMonmouth) celebrates August 26 as Women’s Equality Day. In 2022, we declared this day to be Women’s (In)Equality Day. The Supreme Court rollbacks of reproductive freedom and the failure of Congress to pass voting rights legislation or add the Equal ...
Dear Editor, My lifelong friend Armando Valles had a heart attack on June 30 in front of his wife Sue and their sons at their Millburn home. The ambulance that arrived could have gotten him to the hospital quickly — except that the town had closed Main Street between Millburn and Essex Avenues, ...
What’s the holiday most folks look forward to celebrating time-off? It might depend on how personal a connection they have to the meaning. Many U.S. holidays occur on a Monday which makes it a 3-day weekend getaway. Others happen on a specific date in the year which is where we are with July 4th ...
To the Editor: We would like to publicly thank Dawn Mackey and Scott Katz, 4th ward council members, for their quick and proactive response to the failing sewer pump located on Tamaques Way. For years our neighborhood has been plagued with sewage backups due to this decades old and outmoded ...
Our township of Berkeley Heights faces both an opportunity and challenge with the old nursing home situated between TD Bank and Thaitanium restaurant on 311 Springfield Avenue. This property, recently sold for around $900,000, is primed for development. However, the proposed redevelopment study ...
Town council Others O-2023-09 Section one as contained in the agenda of June 6 is acceptable in content. It does not give the chief of police the authority to exceed the fiscal boundaries rightly established by the town council and the mayor. The path to get this second reading was atrocious.
Mayor Brindle’s argument that Westfield downtown retail district is dying and need of an urban transformation seems to be falling apart as the pandemic recovery continues. After a recent walking tour of downtown with state business leaders, the mayor was quoted in the local newspaper, “Westfield ...
The current petition effort to require a public referendum vote on the Edison Fields project’s $11.8M bond borrowing deserves our attention and consideration. If this project was organized by the Board of Education, it would require voter approval. Consider the recent history of Westfield voters ...
Dear Editor: As the state Legislature and governor move to adopt the new state budget by the end of the month, there have been record surpluses in recent years. And we have seen the benefit in Belleville – with ANCHOR tax rebates and state aid that has allowed us to continually improve ...
Wayne failed to adequately plan to meet its affordable housing obligation under Mount Laurel Round 3 for over 20 years. As a result, there will be 2,961 new residential units, of which 529 are set aside as affordable. With proactive planning, Wayne could have changed zoning for various retail areas ...
Over the last two years, I've had the opportunity to meet with various residents, several members of CRAFD, the mayor, members of the town council and representatives of CME Associates to discuss topics pertaining to the Edison Field project. I would consider myself as someone who has spent a ...
While my wife and I were cooking dinner one night last week, neighbors of ours from a group called Citizens for Responsible Athletic Field Development (“CRAFD”) knocked on our door and asked us to sign a petition calling for a referendum on what has become known as the Edison Fields project. While ...
June 2 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and with gun violence now the number one cause of death for children in the United States, arguably it is more important than ever that the public be informed of developments in the law. Undoubtedly, most of us are disturbed by this statistic, ...
Dear Editor, June 2 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and with gun violence now the number one cause of death for children in the United States, arguably it is more important than ever that the public be informed of developments in the law. Undoubtedly, most of us are disturbed by ...
Folks, do you remember the Edison Fields Project being promoted by the mayor and council as carrying a price tag for the initial work of $9 million? That was the case beginning in September 2021, continuing for many months, and further continuing in the months after the council’s authorization of ...
I am appalled by the vitriolic criticisms by Engineers and self-proclaimed scientists who advocate for preserving their View off Long Beach Island with the result that many parts of Long Beach Island will be under water within 30-50 years. Make no mistake; this is about the View and not Saving the ...
Town council Ordinance 2023-09 Upping the police department to 41. First, correcting the false data. 24x365=8760 hours/year 10x48=1920 hours/police year 2860/1920=4.6 police employees to maintain 1 policeman 24/7 Last I knew we had 24 patrolpersons and 9 officers(33). This averaged 5.7 ...
Dear Editor: I have been a resident of the Greenville section (Ward A) in Jersey City for over two decades. During this time, I have witnessed firsthand the deplorable housing conditions and the abuses inflicted upon our community by exploitative landlords. Many of my neighbors find themselves ...
To the Editor, For the past three Council meetings the Township of Little Falls emailed Council agendas to the residents with less than nine (9) hours notice prior to the start of Council meetings. While this is legal it’s not in the best interest of transparency, open government and efforts to ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, May 12. We have a vaccination clinic Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m., for those over 12, and on Wednesday, May 24 from 4 to 6 p.m. for those under 12. This weekend, free yard sales will be held in the Iselin section of Woodbridge. St. James ...
Dear Neighbors, Spring is here and things are starting to green up in Ridgewood. With the warmer weather around the corner, preparations are being made for the return of the Pedestrian Plaza in our central business district beginning June 3. The Village is looking forward to a summer of ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, May 5. People have been asking, and we are happy to report, that our Township has been averaging less than four new cases of Coronavirus per day since March 1. We have vaccination clinics on Wednesday., May 10th from 4 to 6 p.m. and ...
It is a sad truth of municipal government service that faithful volunteers labor in anonymity over much of the routine decision-making that is integral to the smooth functioning of the Borough, but suffer public censure when any single decision they make runs afoul of citizens’ interests from time ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, April 28. Our Township will have vaccination clinics Tuesday, May 2 from 2 to 4 p.m., and again on Wednesday, May 10th from 4 to 6 p.m. for anyone age 12 or older. Appointments are preferred. Call (732) 855-0600 extension 5004. We are ...
It’s just like the Mayor and Councilman Ettman to do all they can to use Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum (FOLA) and Laurelwood to deflect from their first blunders of 2023. As if the Mayor’s New Year’s surprise proposal to pay himself a 674% raise and lucrative benefits was not enough, the ...
In a recent article on Tap-into Wayne entitled, “Wayne Township Makes Move to Dictate the Development of Old Toys R Us Property,” it is reported that the Mayor and Town Council are seeking to classify the Toys R Us property as “in need of redevelopment” so they can, as the Mayor explained, tell the ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. Today is Friday, April 21. The Township has free vaccination clinics at our Health Center on Wednesday, April 26 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for children over six months old and under 12 and on Tuesday, May 2 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for people 12 and up with no ...