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November 27 - December 3, 2021
Three Area Municipalities Receive Recommendation to Spray for Gypsy Moths
‘LOST CORD’ RESTORED
High Numbers of Egg Masses Discovered in Bass River, Washington and Woodland with 2,623 Acres Targeted for Initial Spray By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer
WO O DL A N D —T h e N e w J e r s e y Department of Agriculture (NJDA) has completed gypsy moth egg mass surveys in three Pinelands municipalities affected by a gypsy moth outbreak earlier this year and is recommending that some 2,623 acres of land in Bass River, Washington and Woodland townships receive at least one round of pesticide treatment in the spring. The NJDA is also recommending that 2,200 of the 2,623 acres targeted for initial spraying get a second application of pesticide due to “high numbers of egg masses” in those areas, or that the department’s 2022 Gypsy Moth Aerial Suppression Program cover a total of 4,823 acres in the three Burlington County municipalities. However, it is the decision of each one of those municipality’s governing bodies whether they would like their township to be included in the program, as outlined in separate letters sent to Bass River, Washington and Woodland townships from Joseph W. Zoltowski, director of the NJDA’s Plant Division, later obtained by this newspaper through an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request. The Pine Barrens Tribune previously reported that gypsy moths in May defoliated large amounts of trees in the three towns, including a several mile-wide area between Sooy Place Road, County Route 563 and Route 72 in Woodland. Another hardhit area ran from County Route 563 to
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Firewood cord.
When a LeisureTowne Resident Contacted the Pine Barrens Tribune About Revised Rules That Appeared to Limit the Amount of Firewood Homeowners Could Store on their Lots, the Board of Trustees Gave No Hint It Would Give an Inch, Let Alone Admit to a Blunder
By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer
SOUTHAMPTON—In an unexpected turn of events, a homeowners association described by its own attorney as being rather “strict” about enforcing its rules, after giving no indication that it was amenable to any sort of policy revision, has acknowledged that one of those edicts, which had caused a
number of its residents to become extremely distressed, was a mistake that would be immediately rectified. The concession came this past week at LeisureTowne, the 2,250-home 55-plus “active adult community” in Southampton Township, after the Pine Barrens Tribune began looking into a complaint it received from a homeowner there in regard to the
enforcement of rules that had been newly adopted by the LeisureTowne Board of Trustees modifying how firewood could be stored at any house in the community. What followed were conversations this newspaper had with that resident and several others – none of whom wished to be identified for fear of retribution See FIREWOOD/ Page 8
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CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN
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INDEX Business Directory..........12
Job Board........................15
Christmas Countdown.......3
Local News........................2
Events.............................11
Marketplace........................14
Worship Guide.................11
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