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─Photo by Bob Vosseller The problem area of the well-used intersection of Commonwealth and Northampton boulevards were discussed in length by the mayor, council and residents following a report by the township police department’s traffic safety officer. By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Earlier this year resident Shawn Galbreath started a petition to address a problem that has existed for years. The intersection of Commonwealth Boulevard and Northampton Boulevard has been a magnet for accidents. He and other residents wanted to see this situation change.
“They (town and county officials) obviously know it’s an issue since rumble strips, f lashing lights and flashing stop signs are already installed. It’s time something is done before someone else is seriously hurt or dies,” Galbreath said. His solution was to add a traffic light. “If a traffic light was installed most of these
accidents would stop!” Galbreath said in a prior interview with The Manchester Times that the intersection has presented a safety problem since the 1950s. “I went to school in Manchester and back then it was a problem. It was a problem way before 20 years ago. I moved out of the area for a while but came back five years ago.
There seems to be a bad accident there just about every week.” Mayor Ken net h Palmer agreed with Galbreath that the issue needed attention. The mayor lives near the intersection in the Pine Lake Park section of town. Galbreath noted at the time that “there are really three bad areas (Police - See Page 4)
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COVID Caused Changes In Hospital Operations
By Bob Vosseller N EW J ER SEY – Howell resident Nicole Jackson serves as the Interim Director of Patient Care at Community Medical Center in Toms River. She is another front-line fighter in the continuing war on the coronavirus. She told this newspaper about how medical professionals have had
to change operations at work – and how they had to change their habits at home – in the wake of COVID-19. In her hospital role she oversees the workflow and what the nurses do. Also, she makes sure that procedures are being followed, and helps make new policies as more information about the virus emerges. That
includes all the new rules that came about since the pandemic conditions began back in March. “We had to adjust everything. The way we triage patients coming into the hospital and the way we treated patients while they were in the hospital. Even how we were around each other. We had to constantly
watch each other and keep ourselves safe,” she said. Jackson noted, “we had to protect ourselves and our families when we went home. Everything changed in a matter of a week or so. We knew we had to change things and we started to think about what we could change to make it a better experience
for everybody coming in: nurses, staff, family members. When you work in the ER it is like the front line of care.” She said triaging began right from the front door. “Once the virus really hit, we weren’t doing elective surgeries and not doing a lot of stuff in the main hospital where a lot of (COVID - See Page 6)
September 19, 2020
Manchester Adopts 2020 Municipal Budget
By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Township officials unanimously voted to adopt its 2020 municipal budget recently. Taxpayers on average will see a $38 tax increase in the municipal portion of their tax bill. “It is not a monumental tax raise but it is an increase from what we have seen in the last four years. The prior average home value prior to the tax assessment was $166,000 now the average home in the township is $198,000,” Mayor Kenneth Palmer said. Mayor Palmer followed up presented a full breakdown of this year’s spending plan with a PowerPoint presentation. He had given an overview during a meeting last month. (Budget - See Page 14)
Local Woman Knows The Importance Of Organ Donations By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Township resident Justine Applegate was among three transplant recipients announced as winners of the 2020-21 higher education scholarships through the Jessica Beth Schwartz Memorial Scholarship program. The scholarship program is funded through the Transplant Foundation, the charitable foundation which supports the mission of Gift of Life Donor Program which is the non-profit, federally-designated organ procurement organization. At just 12 years old Applegate’s active lifestyle was abruptly changed when she was diagnosed with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension. Her disease steadily progressed, and when she was 15, she discovered she would need a double lung transplant to survive. (Organs - See Page 15)
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