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SHAMONG—A presentation about the various strategies that the Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) has employed to ‘squeak by’ and keep a sharp decrease in state aid from impacting its educational standards and academic achievement levels took up most of the district Board of Education’s May 1 budget meeting and public hearing. The session concluded with a video of an excursion that a group of students, faculty members and administrators conducted at the New Jersey Statehouse

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SOU T H A M P TON — O ne we ek a f ter erroneous mail-in ballots were distributed to Southampton Township voters who requested to vote by mail in a June 4 Republican primary, corrected ballots were mailed to affected voters. The Pine Barrens Tribune learned this week from new Burlington County Public Information Officer Nicholas Gangemi that the erroneous mail-in ballots were not only sent by the Burlington County Clerk’s Office to Southampton Republican voters, but also to unaffiliated Southampton voters. The corrected ballots began arriving in the mailboxes of affected voters on May 4. Ac c om p a ny i ng t h e ba l lot s wa s a n unapologetic letter addressed to voters about the mishap (there were two versions, depending on whether the voter was a Republican or unaffiliated), signed on May 1 by Deputy Burlington County Clerk Wade Hale. The letter was written on the clerk’s office letterhead, with Democratic Burlington County Clerk Joanne Schwartz’s work contact information listed. Hale, a holdover from the Republican administration of Timothy Tyler—who lost to Schwartz in November 2018—said that Daniel L. James was listed as running for Southampton Township Committee on the previous ballots due to a “printing error.” James was a one-time deputy mayor of Washington Township, who resigned last year from the Washington Township Committee. At the time of his departure, the municipality was beleaguered by a controversy that included the alleged tampering with and disappearance See BALLOTS/ Page 22

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LITTLE EGG HARBOR—While the revelation that Pinelands Regional Senior High School Principal Shaun Banin has resigned received a reserved reception at the April

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29 Pinelands Regional Board of Education meeting, by contrast the news that Pinelands Regional Junior and Senior High School’s media education specialist, Leslie Karvan, was being laid off was greeted with genuine dismay. The Pinelands Regional Board of Education,

at its April 30 meeting, approved a motion to accept Banin’s resignation, which will take effect June 30. Banin has served in the post for three years, the latter part of which was a particularly disruptive period for the high school’s students, staff and administrators precipitated by the building’s shutdown for an extended period of time to allow for renovation work that is now reportedly close to completion. No explanation was given for Banin’s having given notice, and Superintendent Dr. Melissa McCooley declined to offer one to this newspaper. A call made to Banin was not returned. The Pinelands Regional School District has now posted an ad seeking applicants for the position of principal on the NJ School Jobs website, describing the qualifications for the soon-to-be-open position with the sentence: “Candidate must be a dynamic and visionary school leader with a commitment to high standards of academic excellence.” While the principal’s pending departure was not a subject of discussion, that was not the case with the elimination of a faculty member, as part

of a “reduction in force,” approved by a 9-1 vote. The only notice that the position of “media specialist,” along with other instructors, would be included in such a reduction appeared online in the form of a PDF attached to the board’s agenda. The PDF read that the layoffs were “based on reasons of economy, efficiency, organizational supervision and other good cause.” The instructors involved were not identified in either the agenda or online announcement because the district does not typically post the names of staff members who are losing their jobs, just their titles, according to McCooley in an interview with this newspaper. Two colleagues of Karvan came forward during a comment period of the meeting to voice a highly emotional protest over the media specialist’s position being eliminated. They characterized Karvan’s services as being essential to the ability of students to make the most of the audio/visual resources available to them at the school’s media center. See RESIGNATION/ Page 13

Goals and Objectives for 5-Year LRHSD Plan Adopted

SHAMONG—The process for developing a new five-year strategic plan for the Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) is nearing completion. Jesse Adams Jr. and Terri Lewis, of the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA), presented their recommendations for the new plan’s goals and objectives to the LRHSD Board of Education recently, which were later accepted through a formal vote by the board. The strategic planning process for the new five-year plan officially started in September and included community engagement sessions held from October to December at each of the district’s four high schools—Cherokee, Seneca, Shawnee and Lenape. The sessions, which included input from students, parents, and members of the community, had over 370 participants. The participants were divided into groups that identified strengths, achievements and challenges in the district. In January and February, an online survey was sent to various members of the community with an interest in the district, including all parents, students, faculty and alumni of the district. The survey had 1,820 participants. Individual interviews with one-third of the LRHSD Board of Education membership, along with district and high school leadership, was also conducted during the winter months. Two questions were posed to all of the interviewees,

“What do you see as the three greatest challenges facing the district?” and “What do you feel are the greatest priorities that the district should focus on during the next five years?” Adams said having the district maintain an optimum budget and financials, meeting the needs of a diverse community, providing mental health and wellness resources and meeting technology needs were the common replies given to the first question. According to Adams, the latter question also produced four answers: maintaining excellence, school safety, vocational/technical opportunities and a class ranking/GPA (grade point average) system. The feedback from the sessions, surveys and interviews led to the development of the goals and objectives adopted on April 17, pieced together in March by a District Planning Task Force (DPTF) consisting of 35 stakeholders. “I am extremely grateful for the level of participation that we received in the school district,” said LRHSD Dr. Carol Birnbohm. “The level of professionalism by the students, parents and community members was terrific. Our community really cares about our schools and we want to make sure that we are doing the best by our schools.” The engagement activities also allowed the DPTF to identify desired student traits for life beyond high school, and create three main pillars for the district: “Health and Wellness,” “Student Achievement” and “Soft Skills for Career and Life.” “These pillars represent three very, very strong

student-focused goal areas,” Adams said. The “Health and Wellness” goal involves improving and creating opportunities for more students to feel safe and welcomed in their respective schools. The objectives under this pillar were to: • Improve direct communication with all stakeholders to meet the health and wellness needs of all students; • Infuse instructional opportunities to teach digital citizenship throughout the school community; • Improve and expand on existing resources and curricula to educate the school community on mental health and substance use; • Develop programs to support the mental, social and emotional needs of all students during the school day; and • Establish a safe and comfortable student center to develop a supportive environment where students can learn. The “Student Achievement” goal entails creating a learning environment, which anticipates evolving opportunities for students to reach their potential. This pillar’s objectives call for the district to: • Re-evaluate the program of studies to reflect modern life and career practices; • Create more opportunities for students to explore vocational and career experiences; • Provide opportunities for all staff to grow professionally in their content areas; • Create a technological plan that reflects the needs of students and enhances instruction; • Increase and improve communication about academic progress; and

• Analyze the LRHSD assessment systems to increase performance-based assessments. The goal statement for “Soft Skills for Career and Life” entails creating an environment that provides opportunities for students to develop life skills in order to best achieve current and future goals. This pillar’s objectives call for the district to: • Enhance students’ abilities to effectively communicate both verbally and non-verbally; • Increase opportunities for student collaboration, both in and out of the classroom; • Teach students how to solve problems and resolve conflicts; and • Support opportunities to enhance time management and encourage perseverance, resiliency, confidence and social skills for all students. “Dr. Birnbohm and her team, for the next step, will spend the summertime developing specific action plans to achieve the goals and objectives,” Adams said. “Then, we will come back in September to unveil the full plan and formally adopt the strategic plan.” Birnbohm noted during an engagement session, at Lenape High School last December, that the last time the board had created a long-range plan for the district was about 10 years ago, and it was a 10-year plan, instead of a five-year plan. “With so much change in education, careers and technology, plus uncertainty in the future with jobs that don’t even exist yet, which we are preparing our kids for, the trend now is to have shorter strategic plans that focus on three-or fiveyear goals,” said Birnbohm in December.

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Residents Call for Changes in Wake of Property Issues By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WOODLAND—Numerous vacant and unkept properties in Woodland Township, and initial remarks by Mayor William DeGroff that officials had taken a tour of the municipality and “did not see many properties that were that bad,” led to several heated exchanges at the latest Woodland Township Committee meeting. Those disagreements led the mayor to ultimately acknowledge that there were indeed several “bad” properties in Woodland, but that officials are unable to address them at present due to a non-restrictive municipal property maintenance ordinance. “What was acceptable to me and what is acceptable to the ordinance is different,” said DeGroff as part of that acknowledgement. Township Clerk Maryalice Brown later told this newspaper that the ordinance isn’t lenient, but tolerant because residents specifically move to the township to get away from burdensome restrictions and regulations that are imposed in settings with a greater population. Code Enforcement Officer Thomas Boyd, also employed by neighboring Tabernacle Township in the same capacity, drew the ire of several residents for allegedly sending them “rude emails” in response to complaints about properties and not having available office hours. Some claimed that he was “not doing his job.” The mayor replied that he thought Boyd was “doing a fine job,” but that statement only seemed to further anger meeting attendees. Brown, during a discussion about one particular property, came to the defense of the code enforcement official, pointing out that Boyd’s jurisdiction over properties was limited in scope. “He did not say that there was nothing wrong with the property in question,” Brown said. “He said it is not in violation of the property maintenance ordinance.” Brown reiterated these remarks on Wednesday to the Pine Barrens Tribune, saying that “Mr. Boyd has done everything he can” and the property in question is “in compliance with our type of township.” The controversy began when DeGroff told residents at the April 15 Woodland Township Committee meeting that he, Boyd and Brown “rode throughout the whole town the other day” and “checked out different residences” for possible violations of the property maintenance ordinance. “We decided that we are going to leave the (violation notice) decisions up to Mr. Boyd, and let him determine if a property is not in compliance with the property maintenance code,” DeGroff said. “We really didn’t really see many properties that were that bad.” Immediately after the mayor’s remarks, Brown told residents that Boyd was going to send out violation notices to three property owners. “As far as saying things are not that bad, there are cars that have been there (sitting stationary

on properties in Lebanon Lakes) for decades at this point,” said resident Sue Erickson, of the township’s Lebanon Lakes neighborhood. “They have got to be leaking oil in the ground… There are also piles of debris and garbage on people’s lawns.” Erickson also claimed that there was a state parcel in Lebanon Lakes with five cars on it that have been “sitting there for decades.” Erickson asked officials to address why there were “many foreclosed homes” in Lebanon Lakes, before her husband, John, asked the township committee to “come out to the neighborhood and look around.” “I am a mechanic for a living on the (Joint McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) base, and I can tell that the tanks of these vehicles are rotted out with fuel,” John Erickson said. “The oil pads are probably gone. All of this crap is going into the headwaters of the Rancocas Creek McDonald’s Branch, all the way down to the Delaware River and out to the ocean. How can we stand for that? Mayor, you stated that you only saw three things (properties in violation of the property maintenance code.) C’mon!” Brown replied to the Erickson family that there are several homes in Lebanon Lakes that are unoccupied, and she, Boyd and DeGroff found two additional vacant homes on their tour that are not registered as vacated or abandoned property. She said that a letter was sent to the appropriate mortgage companies after the discovery to get the properties registered. “I think we really need to get our hands around this situation,” John Erickson said. “We have an environmental problem here. It is not with the state. It is not with the county. I think we should stop it right here. I shouldn’t have to call the state. You should be calling the state. I am a taxpayer. Is there anything you can respond to me with?” DeGroff replied to the 30-year Woodland resident that he would have Boyd look into the complaints and report any issues to the state. He added that the township committee was not going to render any decisions on the complaints because of concerns that allegations would surface against the township committee. “They will say, ‘You are doing this (taking action) because you don’t like this person,’” said DeGroff of potential township committee critics. As pressure mounted on the committee to take action, DeGroff turned to Township Solicitor Kelly Grant (who Brown on Wednesday said has taken over for William Burns) for advice, noting that it was the first time he had heard that fuel was leaking from unused vehicles in Lebanon Lakes. Just moments earlier, Sue Erickson had also revealed that a township ordinance permitted two unregistered vehicles to be stored on private property in Woodland. “You are allowed two unregistered vehicles in the yard,” said DeGroff after a conversation with Grant.

A foreclosed home in the Lebanon Lakes section of Woodland Township. That confirmation caused the faces of many officials and meeting attendees to wash over in disbelief. “Is that what the ordinance says—that you can have two vehicles sitting there, rotting, for anyone to look at?” asked John Erickson. Committeeman Matthew Henrich, in response to the revelation and John Erickson’s question, said “no—this is not OK!” John Erickson again repeated his request for the township committee to come out to Lebanon Lakes and look around at the neighborhood. “If something is going to sit there for 25 years, something needs to be done,” John Erickson said. “Somebody needs to take the bull by the horns and make something happen, instead of ignoring it until it bites us in the a**. With this being the case, why should I register any of my vehicles if we are allowed to have two.” Brown noted that current code allows residents to store two unregistered vehicles in their driveway or rear yard.

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“Obviously, we should look at this (ordinance) and change it,” Henrich said. “He has got a great point.” On the opposite end of town, several residents from Old Tuckerton Road and Baptist Road have spent the last year attending township committee meetings and contacting this newspaper with allegations that officials (except those with the Woodland Fire and EMS Company) were overlooking a man living at 300 Old Tuckerton Road who was allegedly threatening neighbors and passersby, purportedly blasting music in the early morning hours, allegedly igniting fires on his property without permits, reportedly creating an unsafe condition on his property with nail boards and trip wires, allegedly screaming at the top of his lungs in the middle of the night and purportedly walking on roads while banging pipes together to make disruptive noise and breaking glass in the road. See PROPERTY/ Page 10

Two-Car Collision Injures Two SOUTHAMPTON—A collision at the junction of Route 206 and East Railroad Avenue late on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 7, injured four people, two of them seriously, according to Sgt. Jeff Flynn, public information officer for the New Jersey State Police. The accident also resulted in all lanes of Route 206 being shut down for approximately four hours. Stephen Chambers Jr. 21, of Mt. Holly, and Warren Meikle Jr., 47, of Atlantic City, both passengers in separate vehicles, were transported to the trauma unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where they were reported in serious but stable condition

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Seek Shelter: NJ Tax Storm is Coming New Jerseyans know their fair share about slush. It is the nasty stuff that builds up on the side of our overcrowded roads during the winter when snow melts. The exhaust from cars mucks it up and turns it into an eyesore every year. That is not the only slush we are privy to in this state. We also know a lot about slush funds—those unknown places our tax money goes, never to be seen again. No matter how high our property taxes get, or what new state tax is created, it is never enough to feed the insatiable appetite of a good old, New Jersey slush fund. That is why when other state lawmakers introduced legislation to start a new one, I voted against it, and since it has passed, I have done everything in my power to make sure it doesn’t get implemented in my district. The slush funds I am talking about are stormwater utilities. These utilities would give towns and counties the ability to enact a “rain tax” on its citizens and businesses. I have started a “No Rain Tax” campaign, asking towns and counties to pass a resolution stating that they will not enact this tax on their people. So far, six of the 20 towns I represent have taken the pledge. Like most laws that ask for more money, this one, which allows localities to create a stormwater utility, was wrapped up in a benevolent cause to make it palatable to the masses. The pitch is that rain water hits our impervious surfaces and washes nasty stuff into our waterways. In order to clean this pollution up, we need to create a utility that can create projects and contracts and pay for it by taxing residents and businesses for how long their driveways

are, or how big their roofs are. The lawmakers behind this legislation forgot to tell you one big thing: towns already have stormwater management pla ns, r u n by t hei r publ ic work s departments and paid for by our highestin-the-nation property taxes. They also forgot to tell you that, by law, 5 percent of the tax collected has to go to the state and another 5 percent can be used on a locality’s general fund. We are not even one year into the law and 10 percent of the funds will be wrestled away for unintended purposes. We all know that number only goes up in Trenton. Instead of continuing to budget for stormwater cleanup with the money residents already pay to municipalities, we’re going to create a new fund, take 10 percent off the top and pay new employees to run the fund. Soon enough, the son-inlaw of a politically connected person will be making $150,000 as the “Stormwater Utility Director of Burlington County” with an assistant director making six figures right under him. I have watched this movie many times before. Let’s not talk in hypotheticals. Instead, let’s look to Maryland where a stormwater manager averages about $78,000 a year in earnings and gets $140,000 a year in some towns. Imagine having a couple of those in every town, as well as a public works director. We can also look to Greencastle, Pa., where their rain tax keeps on rising. This year, the average homeowner will pay $250 for the year and businesses will average $1,600 for the year. Every new tax has a good cause tied to it. If it didn’t, then it would never be

Ryan Peters ASSEMBLYMAN 8TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT

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(Re: Medford’s ‘No Rain Tax’ Pledge Draws Scrutiny from Residents) We live in a sad world when people are begging to be taxed. ~Burt Chaney

brought up in the first place. I am proscience. I believe in climate change. I believe that we have issues with our environment that need to be tackled, but I also believe that you can’t throw money at every problem and expect it to go to the right place. New taxes will not fix the root cause of money mismanagement. New Jerseyans pay more than their fair share and deserve a transparent government that budgets their taxes correctly so that environmental issues can be solved with the money that is already out there. We need smart money, not new money. Giving more money to this state is like leaving too much food out for your dog. Although you love him and you want to trust him, you know he is never going to stop eating. Creating new slush funds creates a fatter New Jersey, and it is about time we slim down a bit. Assemblyman Ryan Peters was elected to the State Assembly, to represent the 8th Legislative District, in 2017. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and obtained a law degree from Rutgers University School of Law. Peters has an extensive military background, serving his country as a Navy SEAL with multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve.

(Re: Medford’s ‘No Rain Tax’ Pledge Draws Scrutiny from Residents) It is not a tax! It is a fine to businesses and such who pollute drainage with oil, grease and other chemicals. ~Matthew Nairobi Orlandini

(Re: Medford’s ‘No Rain Tax’ Pledge Draws Scrutiny from Residents) So, if stormwater runoff is a monthly problem near Medford Leas, how come it is not being addressed with existing funds? ~Mary Neff DuBois

(Re: Medford’s ‘No Rain Tax’ Pledge Draws Scrutiny from Residents) It never ends! They are constantly reaching deeper into our pockets! ~Ron Bendig

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Setting the Record Straight on So-Called “Rain Tax” Recently, the Clean Stormwater Flood and Reduction Act was established (also referred to as the “Rain Tax”). Fortunately for the residents of Evesham, we have no reason to establish a stormwater utility, nor should we allow politicians to exploit this serious issue by asking for a pledge against it. Water is one of our most precious and threatened commodities. With over 60 percent of the state’s water pollution being attributed to stormwater, we must all be good stewards of our environment.

In Evesham, I can proudly say that when it comes to stormwater management, we have been ahead of other municipalities since 2008, and are becoming the model across New Jersey to keep these practices sustainable. If there is a proposal by our legislators, who want to strengthen our efforts to address stormwater management and build further incentives or alternatives, I would gladly work with my colleagues in support of those efforts. Communities pay heavy prices for a lack

of accurate information and rhetoric that can warp its image. Evesham is my home, and I consider it my duty and privilege as one of your elected members of Evesham Council to ensure good policy practices that are fiscally responsible, attentive to our community and well positioned for the future, regardless of politics and partisanship.

(Re: Medford’s ‘No Rain Tax’ Pledge Draws Scrutiny from Residents) The fact that a group of uninformed, brainwashed fools would argue for a new tax is exactly why New Jersey has the highest exodus rate in the country. These misguided sheep believe this is about population. It is nothing but a tax. ~Jack McGinnis

Heather Cooper Evesham Township Deputy Mayor Evesham, New Jersey

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Poets Perform at BMIA ‘Café’

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PEMBERTON—Something very unusual happened at the April 28 meeting of the Browns Mills Improvement Association (BMIA). Members found several young adults mixed within the crowd attending the meeting and didn’t watch a presentation on a community topic. It was not long before the reason became apparent. Two of the young adults, Tim Edwards and Sa Rae Nixon, were the planned “entertainment” for the meeting. E dwa rds, a n English major at Rowa n C o l l e g e at Burlington Count y ( RCBC) with a part-time job at Starbucks, recited poet r y to association members. His sister was the focus of one of his poems Tim Edwards which highlighted what he believes should be the respect women deserve for who they are. Ni xon su r pr ise d her stepfat her by reading a poem about him. Although not her biological father, he obviously had done much to provide for and guide her. Nixon showed appreciation for his efforts with her rap style poem about their relationship. This brought the audience to their feet with a standing ovation. Nixon, a Medical Arts junior at Pemberton Township High School, who qualified recently to compete in Poetry Nationals in Florida, and was able to recite her poetry at another national competition in California, had an excellent stage presence. It was easy for BMIA attendees to see how Nixon, who is also very active in the high school’s Fine Arts program, had won national acclaim. E dwa r d s g r a du a t e d f r om BC I T— Medford last year and studied carpentry. Now he volunteers to repair many items for both family and neighbors. He began writing and reciting poetry after observing Starbucks’ patrons participating in poetry

reading sessions. D u r i n g t h e l a t e s t BM I A r eg u l a r meeting, the boa rd announced that a Clean Communities program will be held in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township on May 18. As part of the event, volunteers pick up litter alongside streets. Anyone interested in volunteering to help clean up the township should report to the Browns Mills Firehouse at 8 a.m. The BMIA and Deborah Hear t and Lung Center are working together to earn program funding to freshen landscaping at a “triangle” park off Clubhouse Road and West Lakeshore Drive. If more than 30 people volunteer for the Clean Communities cleanup day, $500 will be raised to go towards the landscaping project. Therefore, participation in the cleanup day is strongly encouraged. As part of the 100th Anniversary of the BMIA, members are selling green “Pemberton Township” reusable grocery sacks for $4 each. All proceeds will be used t owa r d s f u nd i ng a n a n n iversa r y celebration. More details will be for t hcom i ng on t hat c elebr at ion , anticipated in October, so check later columns in this Sa Rae Nixon newspaper for more information. Also com ing up, with more details forthcoming, is a community picnic planned for June. There will be no BMIA meeting in May. BMIA traditionally sponsors a college scholarship for one township student. In an effort to help finance this year’s scholarship, resident Deborah Giles, also a local artist, has designed a Pemberton Township flag, suitable for yard display. The flags, which can be displayed on any residential flag pole, are on sale for $25 each. See any BMIA member, or attend a meeting, to order your flag. Residents of the township are invited to join the BMIA and become active in the oldest civic organization in Pemberton Township. Annual dues are only $15 per family. Checks may be sent to: BMIA, P.O. Box 395, Browns Mills, NJ 08015.

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MEDFORD —The Medford Volunteer Center, which provides assistance to migrant workers who travel to the region to assist local farmers during the growing season, opened its doors earlier this month at Flying W Airport and Resort. The grand opening, by Migrant Worker Outreach, has coincided with its clothing drive. “We have two rooms, one for the volunteer center and one for the Migrant Worker Outreach Clothing Drive,” said Dory Dickson, a retired teacher and director of the Medford Volunteer Center. “At first, the clothing drive will fill up most of both rooms. We won’t have much space for volunteer center activities until the blueberry harvest finishes and we have distributed the donated clothing.” Those interested in donating clothing to Migrant Worker Outreach can do so through May 31. Dickson advised residents to check the hours for the donation drive by visiting MedfordVolunteerCenter@blogspot.com . A list of items requested to be donated can be found by visiting the “Get Involved” page of www.MigrantWorkerOutreach.org . “Our volunteer center was originally scheduled to open at a Skeet Road address, but although a lease was signed back in December, the deal fell through,” Dickson said. “We are glad that we found an alternate location. We are looking forward to being at Flying W Airport and Resort in Medford as it is a friendly environment. I think it will be a good fit for us.” She added that the organization not only uses tables in the volunteer center to pack donations for distribution, but also assemble gift bags on them. The volunteer center will be a shared space, Dickson said, that other groups and organizations can use. “The center will be a drop-off site for

Distributing Dignity,” she said. “We are collaborating with Volunteer Center of South Jersey and we have also reached out to Volunteer Center of Burlington County. Both organizations offer a wider range of services than we do. Our focus will be to organize projects and activities at the center, including ones that volunteers can do from home or at school, often in collaboration with other groups.” Dickson also plans to welcome new and returning farm workers this summer with activities. “Volunteer Kathy Coulibaly, and her helpers, will be teaching English in the evenings, outdoors, at a migrant camp in Hammonton,” she said. “Volunteer Copelia Morales, with her helpers, will visit multiple camps, bringing fresh bread, produce, and baby items to pregnant workers and those who have young children with them. Other volunteers will organize recreational activities and the distribution of donated clothing. Dickson added that Princeton High School student Andre Biehl will be interviewing farm workers for the Migrant Worker Journals, which are published in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Jamaican Patios. A generous donor from Medford Leas contributed funds to help print the journals. “Our journals are distributed free at migrant camps in South Jersey, and a sample copy goes to local libraries,” she said. “I am excited about the Jamaican journal, which is new this year. We are having fun putting it together as volunteers from Browns Mills, the states of Pennsylvania and Florida, and the island country of Jamaica, are all contributing articles or helping with translations.” Those seeking additional information on becoming a volunteer, or dropping off a donation, can reach Dickson before June 1, or after June 15, by calling 609-969-2480.

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PEMBERTON—Area seniors concluded the month of April by traveling to Tropicana Casino and Resort, in Atlantic City, to watch “The Grand Ole Opry Tribute.” T h e s h o w, w i t h a c c o m p l i s h e d impersonators, featured favorites originally performed by Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Patsy K line, Johnnie Cash, and Elvis Presley. It was performed flawlessly in a theatre that has about seating for 2,000 people.

All of the locals who attended the show remarked about how the singers really sounded just like the original stars. A head of t he 3 p.m. per for ma nce, trip participants walked the boardwalk, visited Fiest a Din ner Buffet to g rab lunch, patronized Seaside Café, shopped at various Marketplace stores and cashed their complimentary $20-coin voucher by playing games of chance. The day was bright and sunny, with just a little breeze, so the boardwalk stroll was perfect. At the buffet, favorites included freshly-prepared beef ribs and fried chicken.

Other “stars” near and dear to area seniors’ hearts are the teenagers involved the Pemberton Township High School Choral. The choral group will be exploring the voice and guitar at a Spring Recital, to be held at 1 p.m., on May 24, in the high school’s auditorium lobby. Admission is free and all seniors are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served after the recital. The school is located on Arneys Mount Road. The next excursion for area seniors is a scheduled trip to Hunterdon Hills Playhouse on May 30 to see “Over the River and

Through the Woods,” a “hilarious, familyfriendly comedy of epic proportions.” It is about a young, single man from the state who visits his grandparents every Sunday for dinner and wants to take a dream job on the west coast against the wishes of his relatives. Tickets for the comedy, available at the Pemberton Township Senior Center, on Brook Street, in Browns Mills, are $60 for resident seniors and $70 for out-of-town guests. The trip also includes a full sit-down dinner with a dessert buffet.

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New Jersey State Police did confirm to this newspaper last year that the man was arrested at one point. Due to the nature of this dispute, this newspaper withheld these claims for publication until now when an email was received from the neighbors giving the OK to print their stories. The man, the neighbors claim, has been vacated from the premises through a bank buyback executed by the Burlington County Sheriff’s Office. Brown said he is gone from the home. “I was informed there are no violations at 300 Old Tuckerton Road,” said resident Jane Donoghue during the April 15 township committee meeting, after listening to the Erickson family complaints. “We have an abandoned vehicle sitting there. We have a travel trailer there that looks like someone put a bomb in it and blew it up. We have a dumpster that is probably five feet over the top, full of trash and there are some people who now have figured its existence out and are using it to dump their trash in it.” Donoghue told the committee she didn’t understand what Boyd was looking at. “If this was on your road, you would not tolerate it at all!” said Donoghue to the township committee. “Properties like this bring the value of the town down. Taxes are going up and we get absolutely nothing from our code enforcement official.” DeGroff repeated that officials drove around the township to look at properties, which prompted Donoghue to ask the mayor if he felt the property was in acceptable condition. It was at this point of the meeting that DeGroff noted that there was a difference between what he perceives as unacceptable, and what the township’s property maintenance ordinance defines as unacceptable.

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WWW.PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM “Is it bad?” DeGroff asked. “Absolutely—but I don’t know what more we can do…I have been by the property a lot. Is it bad? Yeah—but there are a lot of properties that you can say are bad. According to the ordinance, they are not bad.” As Brown said that there is nothing Boyd can do about the situation at 300 Old Tuckerton Road since the parcel is not in violation of the property maintenance ordinance, Donoghue claimed a parcel next door to it definitely was in violation of the law and the code enforcement official “was not carrying his weight.” “Look at the property next to it!” she said. “The ordinance says that you are only allowed to have two boats in storage. I counted four. Was that looked at?” DeGroff replied that he was unaware of a property having four boats stored on it. Donoghue’s revelation forced Brown to exit the meeting room to retrieve the township’s code book. Upon returning to the meeting, Brown read the section of the property maintenance ordinance pertaining to boats, campers and travel trailers. One particular line of interest was that such utilities cannot be stored on private property for more than a year. “The boat regulation says boats can be stored ‘12 months maximum,’ but the vehicles regulation doesn’t?” asked Henrich in disbelief. “That should be changed!” Resident Terry Sheerin, one of the other neighbors affected by the situation that has been ongoing at 300 Old Tuckerton Road, replied that the township’s noise ordinance, passed in 2009, should also be enforced. She spent most of last year trying to get the measure enforced, claiming that she was being affected by the loud music that was purportedly being played at that address. However, Sheerin discovered last year that the noise ordinance never went into effect since the measure was not sent to the state to be validated, as required by law. This oversight means that the township must begin the approval process all over again if it wants to have a noise

ordinance. The state now demands that if a municipality adopts a noise ordinance, it must have certain regulations in it. The committee has stated its hesitancy in passing a new noise ordinance, with the belief that the state mandates are too strict for the rural character of the municipality. “In 2018, I first brought to your attention to the noise ordinance,” she said. “Somehow, my bringing this up was perceived as a personal vendetta. It is a year later, and we have visited this and visited this. I should have brought cake for the anniversary. Nothing has been done.” Sheerin added that the community deserves to hear a straight answer from the township committee as to whether it plans to adopt a new ordinance or keep the existing ordinance and enforce it. “You (Mayor DeGroff) indicated at a recent special meeting, when asked about why a referendum wasn’t held authorizing $250,000 in spending on a Route 72 redevelopment project study, that ‘We are elected officials’ and ‘We are going to do what we think is right for you.’ With these ordinances, there seems to be a common thread, or there seems to be a problem. I am asking you now to do what you said and do what is right for us.” DeGroff replied that he can have Brown resend the 2009 ordinance to the state and see what the outcome of doing so is. Sheerin also voiced her displeasure with Boyd, before Donoghue spoke out against him again, calling for him to be replaced. “I did animal cruelty cases for about 20 years,” said Donoghue to the township committee. “My success ratio was 99.5 percent. Do you know why that was my success ratio? I built a case. I kept records. I kept logs. I took pictures. I interviewed witnesses. You are not doing any of this in this township regarding ordinances. “You have adopted an attitude, ‘Oh well, we will just let it ride. We will let our residents wallow in mediocrity because that is where it is at. It is not that bad.’ I am sorry, but I

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didn’t buy property in this township to have my taxes go through the roof, be provided basically with no services, no response from the committeemen, and rude emails from our code enforcer. Something has got to change. Somebody needs to step up and make things happen in this town…Fix it gentlemen!” Henrich, in response, asked the township committee if it is “safe to say” that the governing body would “look at the ordinances once more.” DeGroff and Mark Herndon, Woodland’s third committeeman, nodded their heads indicating that they were going to conduct another review. After the meeting, Sheerin told this newspaper that both she and Donoghue have filed Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests for a complaint and resolution log from the Code Enforcement Office. Sheerin said she received a reply that no such records exist. Brown on Wednesday confirmed that because there is no requirement that Boyd maintain a log. Boyd, when reached on Tuesday, said that he was not going to comment on the accusations against him, but that he would attend a scheduled May 22 township committee meeting, at the request of DeGroff, to address the concerns. He did note, however, that since the April 15 meeting, three dumpsters were removed from 300 Old Tuckerton Road and were “completely taken away.” “The bank also hired a landscaper to take care of the lawn,” he added. In the Lebanon Lakes matter, Boyd said he tried to contact the “individuals who made the complaint,” but was unsuccessful. “I left a card at their door, and received no call back,” he said. The April 15 township committee meeting was then adjourned, but quickly reopened in what was a rare move to allow for one last public comment from a somewhat emotional woman. “We are proud Woodland residents,” she said. “What we are doing here tonight is trying to make it better. It is good, it is awesome, but let’s try to make it better.”

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Cindy Juniewicz, a social studies teacher who is one of those colleagues, called Karvan’s being let go “a tragic loss,” noting that she helps students, parents, teachers, administrators and community members “numerous times in the course of a regular day.” She attested to Karvan’s ability to do specialized tasks every day in the running of the media center, several of them simultaneously. Juniewicz noted that Karvan’s average weekly contacts with students this year had been shown to be 207 in February, 315 in March and 400 in April. Kristy Raber, an Earth Science teacher and the second colleague to come forward singing Karvan’s praises, noted that the media specialist has “many obligations demanding her expert certification” including those involving print, reference, research, Chromebooks, MacBooks, computers, audio-visual equipment, and copy machines. She added that the specialist leads or works with a number of classroom programs and initiatives, including an outreach program with the Ocean County Library to provide free library cards to students, as well as facilitating print and online material unavailable to students in Pinelands’ library. “Karvan’s unique certification enables her to focus on literacy and technology in all grades across all curriculums,” Raber said. “While doing all this, she makes our media center a welcoming space, especially important to those students needing a safe haven during the day. She is a certified specialist whose skills cannot be replaced by a member of our uncertified clerical staff.” When Board Member Karen Poklikuha asked whether “any further consideration” could be given to the decision to lay off “our media specialist,” McCooley replied that “these are hard decisions to make,” and “nobody wants to see staff reduced.” “It is not a termination, it is a reduction in force,” she said. “We can always bring the position back should the need arise in the future. But, a great deal of time and discussion went into the decisions that were made and the building of this budget. It is still my stance that the position at this point should be reduced.” A major consideration, she said, was the fact that study halls are about to be eliminated at Pinelands, and that teachers will now be accompanying students using the media center. “We are in a tough situation, along with other school districts in this state,” said Board Member Patricia Chambers, referring to the substantial cuts in state aid that have made it necessary for schools to find savings wherever possible. She noted that people might find it hard to understand “the tough decisions” that have to be made until sitting on the side of the school board. Also slated to be included in the same reduction in force is one of four Industrial Arts instructors, along with a decrease in the number of hours devoted to speech and audio/visual broadcast instruction. While, the teachers’ objections to Karvan’s downsizing was the only controversial note to be introduced at the meeting, Board President Susan Ernst took an opportunity to address less civil sessions that have taken place in the recent past, saying she had done some research on how residents’ forums were to be conducted at board meetings and she was making changes as a result. The opportunity to offer comments, Ernst emphasized, is “not a forum to debate issues, or enter into a question-and-answer period, or a cross-examination of the board or any of its members.” “In addition, it is my responsibility to maintain a certain level of public decorum,” she said. She went on to note that in her three years as president, the district has been through some difficult times together, resulting in meetings where respect and decorum “have been questionable.” She said the situation has

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and early school start times are to blame,” Codey contended in introducing the measure, which was approved by the Senate Education Committee in March. Numerous studies, he said, supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control, have shown that early school start times conflict with their “basic biology,” and that starting the school day at 8:30 a.m. “would provide significant advantages for the learning abilities, health, safety and overall well-being of students.” The current starting bell for Pinelands junior and senior high students is at 7:20 a.m., whereas other districts on the New Jersey coast have somewhat later starting times. Strong backing for revising that schedule was voiced by Board Member Stephen Kuricki, who noted that adults and teenagers have “different biological clocks,” and that while the complications are problematic, “it is something

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a school district and as a community,” Stow pointed out that whereas in the 1994-95 school year amounted to nearly 40 percent of school funding, with sending communities paying roughly 49 percent of the bill, the state aid in the upcoming school years will drop to less than 18 percent, with taxpayers contributing over 76 percent. Despite that, he said, the budget for the upcoming year will “stay within the two percent cap,” which the district has more or less managed to maintain over more than a decade, and the combined general budget and debt service will still be 1.65 percent less than the current year’s figures. “So, you might ask me, ‘If you are losing a million dollars in funding and you are still coming under the rate there, how are you doing it?” Stow said. “Well, we have an unbelievable staff and an unbelievable administration that worked tirelessly to contain costs.” Stow then endeavored to demonstrate what the Lenape Regional High School District has accomplished and achieved with its current, reduced resources. The budget for the next school year, which was unanimously approved by the board, calls for a total tax levy of $124,522,106, representing a 2.13 percent increase for the 2019-2020 school year, as contrasted with a 2.71 percent increase the year before. The amount consists of a general fund tax levy of $117,776,347, up two percent over the previous year, and a debt service figure (covering things voters have already approved) of $6,745,759, up by 4.52 percent. The economy measures outlined by Stow to compensate for the drop-in state aid included a reduction in health benefit premiums, which he said had “saved a huge amount of money,” eliminating curriculum writing and new textbook purchases, transportation reduct ions, a nd sa la r y brea kage wit h retirements. Reduction of staff through attrition, with six employees due to retire in the next school year not scheduled to be replaced, is another money saving maneuver being undertaken. Additional money-saving measures taken, he said, have involved the elimination of the Lenape North principal’s position in 201516 and of the Cherokee South principal and office manager dur ing the cur rent school year, as well as the use of shared services, including for purchasing, trash and recycling, transportation, insurance, banking, professional development and peer-to-peer student training. Among the achievements of the district highlighted by Stow during the presentation were: • An average graduation rate for its four high schools of 96 percent; • Some 91.6 percent of class of 2018 graduates having continued their education at more than 280 four-year and two-year colleges and universities; • SAT scores at all four district high schools being consistently above state and national averages and among the highest in the region; • Accreditation of all the schools in the district by The Middle States Association Commission on Secondary Schools, which has also acknowledged them as “worthy of emulation in public secondary education.” In addition, Stow noted that the district currently has a total of 242 course offerings; 26 advanced placement courses and 67 College Acceleration Programs (CAPs) in partnership with both Rowan College of Burlington County and Rowan University, with 1,482 of its students taking advantage of those courses during the 2018-19 school year and earning a total of 8,518 college credits. “If you’ve got a kid in college, you know what it costs for a credit,” Stow said, “That

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WWW.PINEBARRENSTRIBUNE.COM doesn’t even the cost of books, which is on top of that. Our kids get that right here in the Lenape District.” Another area in which the LRHSD has progressed, he said, is that of special education, with the number of incoming freshmen in that category expected to increase by 103 to a total of 311 during the 2019-20 school year. Additionally, he said the number of special education students being placed in facilities out of the district have been halved in the past 13 years to 70 in 2018. “That means those students are engaging with our teachers and our students,” he said. “It is better for our kids; it allows us to be more of a community for all kinds of different people. It also gives us the opportunity to save money, because when you consider that tuitions range anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 for one student going out of district, it is an amazing savings for us. “It says something about our staff and administration when we are able to accomplish (special education) programs like this that make parents want to send their kids to the Lenape District, as opposed to sending them out of the district.” Stow noted that since 20 05, special education enrollment has remained steady, while general enrollment has declined. He added that the special education staff since 2005 has been increased to 22 and that some 24 new hires will have dual certifications in both regular and special education. In 2019, he said, close to 75 percent of the teaching staff will be dual-certified. The budget chairman also pointed out that the LRHSD has done all of the above, while managing to keep its administrative costs per pupil at $1,644, or $491 (23 percent) below the state-mandated regional limit, and adding no new programs or staff for either general or special education. “I remember when I was in school, if you came home with a report card like that, you got rewarded,” Stow said. By contrast, Stow noted that, “the state takes money from you.” Stow told meeting attendees that the LRHSD board and administration is “not just simply sitting on our laurels” and “wanting everyone to hear our sob story” about the substantial amounts of aid money the district has been losing. “We are doing everything we can as a community of Lenape Regional District board members, administrators and staff to try to get the message out to everybody that what Trenton is doing is not right, it is not fair and it doesn’t make sense if you really look at it,” Stow said. He added that while legally the state has the responsibility for funding education, it had “backed off that years ago.” T he sit uation has prompted t he superintendent to appeal to the governor’s office and to other officials, he said, and is also what motivated students, staff members and administrators from the LRHSD to rally at the state capital on the final day of hearings on the governor’s proposed budget, as depicted in the video shown to those in attendance, which has also been posted on the LRHSD website. “If we don’t find a better way to create revenue and fix the state’s flawed schoolfunding formula, our state’s and our district’s great reputation for student success is at risk,” Birnbohm said in the video. The superintendent went on to explain to the participating students that the district’s participation in the rally was so that local legislators, and others, making decisions about school funding can hear local voices so that they will understand that “these cuts will hurt programs for students.” “We want to get the governor’s attention, we want to get the Senate Budget committee’s attention, we want to get the legislators’ attention so that they can understand that these cuts impact out students, and that these cuts are real,” Birnbohm said.

After defining the mission of the rally in the video as being “to shed light on the fair funding formula, which is not a fair funding formula,” Estlow encouraged members of the community to become actively involved in the campaign, suggesting, “they can write letters, they can call the governor’s office, they can call New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney’s office and they can reach out to their legislators and join these rallies.” A number of students also shared their feelings about the issue on the video. One of them, Jalen Sampson, a senior in the LRHSD, observed that “people in the communities should kind of take charge a little bit more.” “If people just spoke out about the things that they believe in, and we voiced our opinions and did more demonstrations like the one we’re doing here today, I think that can make a difference,” she said. After showing the video, which drew a round of applause from those present, Birnbohm cited Sampson’s statement in pointing out that the “off-the-cuff” and “unrehearsed” comments from students were all “very passionate,” and that those students had really “learned a lot about the civics process.” After than k ing the students and administrators who attended the demonstration, the superintendent also noted that the event had coincided with the last public hearing on the governor’s proposed budget, and now was the time to be heard since the Senate Budget Committee can either adopt the governor’s budget in its proposed form or propose one of its own, which sometimes happens right up to the end of June. “So we have this window now to reach out to members of that Senate Budget Committee and articulate what is happening here in the Lenape Regional High School District,” she said, noting that district officials would be taking the month of May to do so, and that community members are likewise welcome to

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He is Really Pushing Their Buttons While my Pat is a genius and can build and construct like a dream, he has never been drawn to technology. The man struggles with the remote, will not touch a computer and still has a flip phone. Then, just last week, he said this shocking and world-shattering sentence to me, “I wonder if I should get an iPad.” You show me someone who is not flabbergasted at that statement, and I will show you someone who does not know my Pat. In fact, I once left him at the computer and told him I would not help him with a spreadsheet unless he typed something by himself. I returned 15-minutes later to find that he had typed, “I can’t do this.” But apparently the poor dear had gotten tired of bothering others, requesting that they look up things he needed to order. This especially became a problem after our four sons went on to find their “big boy” jobs and he could no longer ask them to “get on your Google machines and see if you can order me a part for this nail gun.” Meanwhile, our one son, Vernon, has his finger on the pulse of technology. He possesses all of the latest software and knows how to link his laptop with his iPad via his iPhone. In short, he pushes buttons like it is his job. So, I had Vernon order an iPad for Pat. My son downloaded all of the necessary applications and mailed it to his Dad with a note that said, “I hope you appreciate all that I do for you.” Little did we know that Vernon had not only made his Dad’s new iPad ready, but he had made himself the administrator. We never really paid it any mind. I mean, how much power can an administrator of an iPad wield anyway? It never really posed much of a problem until Pat was trying to look for tractor parts on his iPad and a message with “What are you doing?” appeared on the screen. “There is some weird stuff going on in this Google machine,” Pat exclaimed. “What do you mean ‘weird stuff?’” I asked as I approached. “Well, do you really think I would type this?” Pat said. When I looked at the screen, I saw the little pointer moving, although no one was touching the device as Vernon clicked on this and scrolled on that. Screens were changing and alterations were being made so rapidly that it would make your hub spin. He opened some applications, closed others and then made

alterations faster than you can say gigabyte. All from his big boy home there in Des Moines! “Vernon!” I said in the text message that I fired off to him using capital letters so he knew that I meant it. “Leave your father alone!” We could not hear Vernon’s rolling laughter, or see him slapping his knee as he guffawed, yet we knew it was happening. We would have immediately replaced Vernon as administrator if it was not for one thing—he was the only one who knew how to set that setting. But I am the “Mom” and mom overpowers administrators in any and all in-home situations, so I told Vernon that if he did not quit hacking into his father’s new iPad, I would remove him off of the family cellphone plan. You show me someone who thinks that sounds brutal and I will show you a woman who has never logged onto Facebook to see that her son had exchanged her cute profile picture with something that he had manipulated in Fat Booth. The humanity! When Vernon was home recently, I found him sitting in my car pushing buttons. “What are you doing now?” I inquired. You never know with Vernon, he may be changing radio stations or sending a message to NASA via a Bluetooth device. “I’m syncing your garage door opener,” he replied. Not wanting to ask why, when I probably would not understand the answer, I simply said, “Oh,” and went on about my business. I never gave it much thought until the day after Vernon left and I went to open the garage door with my remote and it would not work. Doesn’t that just beat all? Most likely Vernon could now open our garage door through a satellite somewhere over the Western Hemisphere, yet I could not open it from three feet in front of it. “How do I fix this?” I asked Vernon as I called him post haste. “Can’t you people do anything without me?” he retorted. As soon as I can figure out how, iMom is going to unsync his iPhone from all of his iDevices. Now that will really push his buttons. Lori Clinch was born and raised in North Platte, Nebraska, a hotbed of material for writers whose passion it is to make people laugh. She is the mother of four sons and the author of the book “Are We There Yet?”

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(Continued from Page 1) of the town’s most sensitive documents from town hall, necessitating security upgrades at the facility. Officials, however, maintained that James was resigning from elected office because he received a pension from the state and there is a regulation that when a person retires, he or she must give up working any other government job to get a pension check. James had retired at the end of June from his security job with the Atlantic County Parks Department. A recently provided list of candidates running in the June 4 primary election, and published online by the clerk’s office, now lists James as running again for Washington Township Committee as a Republican. James has not returned this newspaper’s phone calls. Seeking reelection to the Southampton Township Com m ittee a re Republicans Elizabeth Rossell, also Southampton’s deputy mayor, and Committeeman Michael Mikulski. Mikulski, who is running unopposed, was erroneously from the first ballot. Hale, Schwartz and Burlington County Board of Elections Chairman Joseph P. Dugan, as of press time, did not return any of the multiple messages left with them for comment on this story over the course of the weekend through Tuesday. Gangemi, however, introduced himself to the newspaper on Tuesday evening and said Wednesday that “contradictory information and human error are at the root of the issue.” Some “451 voters were impacted by this error,” he said. “‘Printing error’ means simply that there was an error in what was printed…The printing company, Election Graphics, Inc. bears no responsibility for the error.” When the erroneous mail-in ballots were distributed, an accompanying envelope asked voters to return the completed ballots within three days to the Burlington County Board of Elections, though, due to a recent change in state law, such ballots can now be counted by the Board of Elections if they are postmarked by Election Day and received within 48 hours. Hale, in his letters to affected voters, outlined procedures that he claimed will be followed to address the erroneous mail-in ballots that have already been submitted to the Burlington County Board of Elections. “I f you have ma i le d , or ot her wise submitted, the first mail-in ballot to the Board of Elections, please use the corrected Republican ballot to record your vote and return it to the Board of Elections,” he wrote. “The Board of Elections will count the corrected mail-in ballot and disregard the first mail-in ballot. “If you do not mail, or otherwise submit, a corrected Republican ballot to the Board of Elections, your original submitted ballot will be counted as a vote for all contests and candidates except Daniel L. James.” If unaffiliated voters were not planning to vote Republican or had already submitted a Democratic mail-in ballot, Hale told them to discard the “corrected ballot package.” Gangemi said that 117 incorrect ballots had been received, so far, by the Board of Elections. Mikulski, also on Wednesday, said that although no one from the clerk’s office had provided him an explanation for the mishap, he doesn’t believe the error was done intentionally and is not particularly concerned with his own candidacy in the primary because he is running unopposed. However, Mikulski said that he wants to make sure there are no ballot mistakes going forward, especially for candidates like him who will be facing a challenger in November’s General Election. “More importantly is that there is a process

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referring to him as “a master of the name game who constantly puts an insulting adjective before everybody’s first name.” The letter from Howarth, written beneath his “Joe Howarth for State Assembly” logo and addressed to “Dear Assemblyman Ryan Peters,” opened with the admonition, “It is disturbing to me that you not only produced a video publicly condemning President Trump, you went so far as to defend the Democratic congresswoman who disrespected him.” Then, after claiming that Peters’ comments were “widely criticized in the media” and among rank-and-file Republicans, Howarth went on to contend that “in times like these, we should be coming together in support (of) our President and the conservative values that unite us.” He referred to headlines such as the one that appeared in the Pine Barrens Tribune over a story about the video as only serving “the interests of the Democrats, the RINOs (an acronym meaning Republicans in Name Only) and the opportunistic ‘Never Trumpers’ who seek to stop him. “Therefore, I am calling on you to join me in signing the Republican National Committee’s Presidential Pledge of Support for Our President,” Howarth told his former political partner, asking him to “please sign and return (the pledge) to me” along with the members of the press who were copied on the email. “Only by doing this will any doubts about your support for our president and his mission to ‘Make America Great Again’ be put to rest,” the letter from Howarth read. “Either you are with President Trump or you are the SWAMP, there is no in between!” Howarth’s online correspondence with Peters also included a note written to Trump, bearing his signature and a space below for Peters to provide his as well. “Please know that I am 100 percent behind you in these critical times,” the note reads. “It is extremely vital that we all stand together against the Democrats, the mainstream media and other powerful foes who are determined to derail your presidency and destroy you personally. I am proud to pledge my support and UNITE all members of our movement.” In a reply sent via email Monday morning to both Howarth and the media, Peters cited his record of service as a Navy SEAL “who has deployed for multiple combat missions in places like Iraq and Afghanistan” and “faithfully served multiple presidents, including President Trump.” Peters added that he would service his country and president again at a moment’s notice. “I don’t need to sign a political pledge to prove my commitment to the Constitution and Commanderin-Chief,” Peters said. “I have done it every time I have left a secure base in the middle of the night, in a faraway land, to defend our flag.” Howarth’s insinuation that he had been unfaithful to the party was also refuted by Peters. “I understand that kind of loyalty and sense of purpose is lost on someone who, as soon as the going got tough for Republicans in Burlington County, did everything he could to bail on our party and begged the Democrats to take him in,” Peters said. Both the titles of “Assemblyman” and “Navy SEAL Commander” were inserted beneath his signature. After Peters made it evident that he had no intention of signing the loyalty pledge, that is when Howarth also emailed it to Stanfield, along with a letter calling on her to sign it “unlike your running mate Ryan Peters.” Howarth added that he had hoped Stanfield didn’t share Peter’s opinion that “Democrats should be defended for attacking the president.” Howarth also told Stanfield that “as someone who ran on the same ticket as President Trump in the 2016 election,” she shouldn’t have any issues supporting Trump again. He reiterated to the former sheriff that there is “no room in our party for RINOs and ‘Never Trumpers’ who seek to impede our President’s success.” Howarth also charged in his emails to both Peters and Stanfield that the effort to push him out of the party, “along with attacks on my character” and “the development of a false narrative questioning

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my party loyalty” had begun a few days after a Jan. 24 meeting he had with Peters and party leaders in which he had expressed his concern about Peter’s “attacks” on the president. “These are the types of tactics that have only served to make the swamp deeper and deafen voters to the true conservative values that distinguish us from the Democrats,” Howarth declared in again urging his one-time political ally to “finally stand with our president.” He also asked Peters to “publicly disavow” supporters of his “who have chosen the swamp.” He was apparently referring to what he called a “group of party insiders and bosses” that he said were supporting Peters’ campaign of having “made questionable comments about what it means to be a Republican.” But in his subsequent conversation with this newspaper, Peters claimed Howarth, with whom he had shared an office and had campaigned on various issues, “has never been a fan of Trump” and that “anybody who knows him knows those are not his views. “It’s a 100 percent lie, and it’s laughable,” he contended, asserting that Howarth’s identifying himself as a “hard-core Trump supporter” had only come about after he tried to join Addiego in switching his party affiliation, but was rebuffed by the Democrats. Then, after Howarth “got caught,” Peters contended, he was rejected by the Republicans as well. “He changed his whole narrative and decided that the only direction left for him was to go way hard right and transform himself into a Trump backer,” Peters declared. “He is just not a Trump guy, and never was. It is a slimy political move, and I don’t think he believes any of it. He is just hoping an uneducated voter comes along and says, ‘Trump guy, I’ll support him.’ This is what people don’t like about politicians. They’ll say anything to get re-elected.” Peters further claimed that Howarth and Addiego have continued to maintain a close and cordial relationship and to work in the same office together after Addiego’s defection from the GOP. A call placed to that office elicited an automatic response that the caller had reached the office of Addiego, Howarth and Peters, although the latter has since moved out. An individual who answered a second call to that office declined to answer when asked whether Howarth still works there, saying he would refer the question to Addiego’s staff. Howarth has refrained from criticizing Addiego even while his rift with Peters has widened in the ensuing months. Stanfield did not respond to calls from this newspaper seeking her reaction. However, when Stanfield was previously asked whether she shared Peters’ view of Trump, she replied that while she agreed with the president on different issues, “I don’t like the name calling.” She also said that she had made the decision to run with Peters on the evening when she saw that Howarth) was “nowhere in sight” and Peters was “very decisive about his inclination to stay and fight.” In an earlier interview announcing her plans to retire as sheriff, she also expressed her great admiration for Peters. Howarth did not return messages for comment by this newspaper’s deadline time. Burlington County Republican Committee Executive Director Jesse Estlow, when contacted by the Pine Barrens Tribune, said that neither he, nor Burlington County Republican Committee Chairman Sean Earlen wished to comment on the matter. “We don’t have an interest in weighing in on it at this time,” was how Estlow put it, adding that he also spoke for Stanfield, as well as “other county candidates.” The other contender in the GOP primary race for Assembly, international lawyer Jason Huf, of Lumberton, when contacted by this newspaper for his reaction, replied that “this sort of thing is precisely why I entered the race.” “It really doesn’t have anything to do with the problems facing working families in South Jersey,” he said. “Republicans need a united front heading into November I think if we (Republicans) focus on each other, instead of the issues, that isn’t going to make anybody happy except Democratic Governor Phil Murphy.”

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