Vol. 25 - No. 3
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Dear Pharmacist
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Inside The Law Page 21.
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| May 27, 4, 2019 | October 2018
–Photo by Jennifer Peacock The Lakehurst Elementary School playground is open to the public until dusk. By Jennifer Peacock LAKEHURST - On most weeknights until dusk, the chain-link gate remains open to t he La kehu r st Ele mentary School playground. The rules are few and simple: besides being closed from dusk to dawn, the play area is only for school-aged children. There are
no beverages allowed in the play area, and no dogs permitted on school grounds. Visitors are asked to use the garbage cans for trash. When it’s dark, someone secures the playground with a heavy chain and lock. But weeknights are school nights. Most school-aged children
probably have homework, family dinners and other activities that fill their Mondays through Fridays. The weekends, school holidays and long summer break would be a great time to use the school’s playground and basketball court. However, the playground is locked.
The Board of Education and school administrators decided the playground needed to be closed up during the times after it was not only vandalized, but less-than savory activities were taking place by older persons there. Superintendent Loren Fu h r i ng and Board
this. They took a good thing they started with, trying to help clean up the environment a little bit, and then they started making it about money.” The Manchester Council did pass a resolution supporting Bill S2776, which would prohibit the use of plastic bags, Styrofoam, and single-use plastic straws. The original language of the bill, introduced June 25, called for a $5,000 fine per offense for violators. However, the bill went through a revision in the Senate Environment (Bag - See Page 9)
Hindenburg Crash To Be Remembered
(School - See Page 5)
NJ Heads Into Wildfire Season: What You Need To Know
By Kimberly Bosco On the heels of the Spring Hill forest fire that blazed through more than 11,000 acres of the Pinelands in Burlington County recently, the New Jersey State Forest Fire Service is speaking out to inform residents on what they do and what to expect when it comes to fighting fires.
By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – The councilman loves the environment and wants it protected. But the state using environmental concer ns as another way to tax residents, not so much. “The bill started out as, ‘We want to ban plastic bags,’” Councilman Craig Wallis said. The bill went through the typical revision process, “and then they decided, ‘Well, now we need to charge for paper bags. …They also added in they want to build a committee to monitor plastics. To me, we pay more people to do
The Spring Hill fire sparked up a little less than a month ago on March 30, 2019. As the most significant forest fire we have seen this year, the blaze burnt through 11,600 acres of forest in Washington and Woodland Townships. Shawn Judy, Assistant Division B Firewarden, (Wildfire - See Page 4)
–Historic Archival Photo The Hindenburg crashed on May 6, 1937. By Chris Lundy LAKEHURST – The Navy Lakehurst Historical Society will hold a ceremony commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the Hindenburg crash that (Crash - See Page 9)
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