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─Photo By Bob Vosseller The Havens family from the Cream Ridge section of Plumsted holds up signs and greets attendees at a large rally held at the New Egypt Speedway earlier this month. By Bob Vosseller The event was in conThe Plumsted pit stop sonality Bill Spadea PLUMSTED – Bring- junction with the Peo- was on route to their speak. ing their views about ple’s Convoy which eventual destination of Among those present vaccine mandates and was patter ned after Washington D.C. but were the Havens family now, mostly defunct the truckers convoy in many locals came to the of the Cream Ridge secm a s k m a n d a t e s t o Canada that opposed Speedway to support tion of Plumsted. Alton hundreds of attendees t hei r gover n ment’s the convoy and to raise Havens joined his wife made a pitstop at the mandate for all com- a flag, listen to music, Elizabeth and daughter New Egypt Speedway mercial truck drivers buy some memorabilia and were carrying signs recently. to be vaccinated. and to hear radio per(Rally - See Page 5)
to hire police without a civil service test? Is that what this says?” “It allows a bit more lat it ude mostly for inter-department hiring,” Council President Martin Flemming said. “Everyone still has to pass the ordinances of the town and the prerogatives of the chief. Not all the towns of New Jersey are civil service.”
Flemming said, “at this time, we cannot hire anyone f rom a town that doesn’t have civil service. We’re not allowed to do it. This would allow us to do it. Egan clarified, “so you are going to hire policemen that have been fully vetted and are actual police officers but someone in a town that is not civil service?”
The Council President answered, “if they have the capability to do it. It opens the door and offers us a bit more latitude for the officers we want to get.” Resident Joseph Sullivan thanked Mayor Michael Reina and the council for their commitment to hire more police officers as “this ensures that as this township grows,
Council Wants To Curb Governor’s Emergency Powers By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – The Township Council supported a bill that would limit a governor’s ability to impose continued executive orders during a health emergency. “It supports Senator Declan O’Scanlon’s bipartisan bill S-1200 which would limit a public health emergency declaration to 60 days total,” Councilman Nino Borrelli said. The councilman explained the bill, co-sponsored by a Democrat member of the legislature, would include the initial 30 days and one 30-day renewal by the governor, “unless, an extension is granted by the legislature. Currently a state of emergency or a public health declaration can continue until terminated by the governor which has happened under Governor (Phil) Murphy in the last two years.” The bill includes that state of emergency and public health emergency declarations can be terminated by two thirds vote of the (Council - See Page 8)
Open Space Plans Mapped
Rova Farms During the public comment period Archpriest
By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – The township has a good variety of open space land that has been purchased for preservation, conservation and recreation purposes over time, officials said. Colliers Engineering Senior Project Manager Gerald DeFelicis recently provided a review of the township’s open space properties to the governing body. A large amount of it is contiguous but there are also various independent parcels. A lot of open space was preserved by the Ocean County Natural Land Trust, using a county tax. Much of it preserves watersheds in Jackson, DeFelicis said. “I looked at the idea of developing trails across the town but there looks like too many hang-ups in doing that short of going
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Police Hiring Practice Questioned
By Bob Vosseller JACKSON – A resident suppor ted the township’s move to hire more police, but questioned their requirements at a recent Township Council meeting. Resident R ichard Egan, a retired police officer, asked the Council about an ordinance they passed concerning the hiring of future police. “Are you going
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our police department grows with it. As we see in other places in the country, they took an opposite opinion and they saw chaos. We don’t see chaos in Jackson. It is a safe community and we are all proud to live here.”
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