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Letters to the Editor

February 27, 2023

The words "Sit still, keep quiet and look pretty" have rung in the ears of women for millennia.” Imagine being born for the sole purpose of marriage. Imagine your parents told you as a young girl that their money would only be invested in your brothers' college savings, but nothing would be ...

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Dear Editor, The West Orange Town Council is proposing amending an ordinance that would permit retail marijuana/cannabis businesses to operate within 200 feet (70 steps) of a school, daycare center, park, playground, public recreational facility or place of worship. THIS IS NOT ...

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Dear Editor, Re the Jan. 31, 2023 WO Council meeting. Former council member Cindy Matute-Brown conducted herself in a most craven manner. During public comment Matute-Brown blatantly accused Councilwoman Susan Scarpa of “whitewashing” her approach to the locating of cannabis dispensaries within ...

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To the Editor, I am writing in response to Mr. Morton's letter of October 8. The points made in this letter are largely "beside the point." The primary issue driving the hundreds of pet shop bans across the country is the conditions under which the USDA allows dogs to be bred and poor ...

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In 2019, one year prior to the most critical election in our nation’s history, I called on my colleagues in Essex County government to take the necessary steps to protect and secure the integrity of our elections and election results. In my role at the time as President of the Essex County Board of ...

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Today, the Supreme Court abandoned 50 years of established precedent and took the truly unprecedented step of stripping American women of the reproductive rights that the Court, regardless of its political configuration, had recognized and protected for more than half a century. In their ...

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Hi, everyone, I just wanted to share a surprisingly easy way to get rid of a lot of bugs in the yard in case you hate them like I do. 1. Get some yellow containers or some random colored containers and some yellow duct tape. 2. Put a couple of little food scraps inside that will rot and smell ...

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Ending The War in Ukraine…and US Involvement By Karla Schultz, NJ School Nurse and Veteran of Army National Guard I was filling up my car with gas recently and used it as an opportunity to talk with my daughter about inflation and how it means that we need to cut back on some of our ...

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Nature lovers and open space advocates scored a major win on Thursday when a proposed Public Storage facility at Crystal Lake was struck down by the zoning board in a unanimous vote. From the beginning, Our Green West Orange has argued that the residents of our township must be the stewards of our ...

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Blooming in many people's yards right now is a small yellow flower that, upon closer inspection, proves not to be a dandelion. Variously called lesser celandine or fig buttercup, its radical invasiveness triggers a predictable progression of emotions in the homeowner. Delight at its pretty flower ...

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