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Vincentown Branch of Investors Bank Set to Close April 9 Plan to Shut Walk-In Office Would Leave Southampton with One Remaining Bank

By Andy Milone Staff Writer

QUESTIONS, QUARRELS AND QUAGMIRES A state-owned building, which used to be a former first-aid-squad headquarters, in disrepair.

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Concerns, Controversies and Confusion Over Six Land-Use Issues in Woodland Include Unsafe Structures, Reduced Revenue Hopes and a Public-Safety Debate

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WOODLAND—Concerns, controversy and confusion over the ways that various tracts of land are ‘to be or not to be’ utilized or otherwise supervised were the focus of wide-ranging and lengthy discussions at a Feb. 24 Woodland Township Committee meeting, during which new information was revealed by tow nsh ip officials

regarding some still-unresolved issues.

T he topic s at issue range d from the somewhat diminished status of a prospective senior housing development that was once viewed as a potential form of economic salvation for the township to the fate of ramshackle properties to the white-hot dispute over a cellphone tower that has been viewed as both a boon and a detriment to public safety.

Com m i s sion Cu r ta i l s Exp e ctat ion s for Route 72 Senior Housing Plan A 101-a c re tra ct that Wood land Township owns on the south side of Route 72, bordering the New Lisbon Developmental Center and extending behind Romanza Pizza & Pasta, which had been eyed by the Woodland Township See QUAGMIRES/ Page 8

SOUTHAMPTON—The branch office of Investors Bank at the corner of Main and Mill streets in the Vincentown section of Southampton Township, a site occupied by a number of different banks over the past several decades, will reportedly close its doors on April 9 as part of the publicly traded company’s plans to consolidate such branch operations this year.

The anticipated closing will leave the township with just one open banking location, a PNC branch just north of the convergence of state Route 70 and U.S. Route 206 known as the Red Lion Circle, with a Beneficial branch also previously located near the circle having been phased out.

A notice announcing the anticipated closure of the Vincentown Investors Bank branch has been posted on its door, asking customers to travel to 415 Stokes Road in Medford, about six or seven miles away, where a branch is located that notably also offers drive-through service whereas the Vincentown branch does not. Customers were reportedly notified beginning back in January of the bank’s plans to close the office.

As of the present time, the future tenant of the building, which has been previously occupied by other banks such as Roma and Sterling and is located at the center of Southampton’s quaint Vincentown Village, is not known. The building, at 52 Main Street was not listed as being for sale online as of March 16.

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Mayor Calls for Patience, Promises ‘Wow’ Type Pocket Park After Some Residents Cry Foul That It Will Take Away Beach Recreation Facility, Slated for Country Lake Lakefront, Is Intended to ‘Discourage Swimming’ in Spot Not Designated ‘Public Beach’

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PE M B E RT ON —T h e m a y o r o f Pemberton Township is calling on residents of the Countr y Lakes neig hborhood to have “patience” after he and other officials apparently were the subject of a recent critical social media post, and received numerous phone calls, opposed to municipal plans for a park project near the intersection of Spring Lake Boulevard and Chippewa Trail.

The project, slated for a sandy, mostly open lakefront township property abutting Country Lake, was apparently only first learned about by most residents when they saw the “addition of rip-rap on the shoreline to discourage swimming,” according to Mayor David Patriarca in an interview with this newspaper.

Some residents of the neighborhood – though the mayor contended at a recent council meeting and to this newspaper that it was a very limited number – have been seen in the past using the property to take off for a swim in the lake (in addition to using it to launch watercraft).

“There were a ton of people on Facebook, and social media coming up with a lot of negative comments on this project, discussing how the town is taking away their beach,” said the mayor during a recent Pemberton Township Council meeting. “… Some refer to it as a beach. It is not a township beach; it is township property.”

The purpose of the project to put in a “pocket park,” Patriarca maintained during the recent council meeting, is to actually, in part, “discourage swimming” due to the fact that property is not an officially recognized public beach, without having to put no swimming signs up.

“What the township is doing, as part of maintaining our properties, is creating another park in the community, while also protecting the township against risk,” the mayor contended. “If that property was accepted as a township beach, I believe it would then be subject to the standards the town is required to maintain for a public beach, including performing regular water testing and employing lifeguards. If we then failed to do that, then I believe an attorney representing someone would sue this town.

Part of our job is to protect the town from potential litigation.”

He urged residents “do not go down and

swim off that property” given the lack of water testing and lifeguards manning it.

The mayor, a former township police patrolman, in the interview with this newspaper, further contended that he recalled seeing a “horse on a spring” mechanism that children could play on back in the day on the parcel, and that it “wasn’t like a beach like Mirror Lake.” He added that the property used to be owned by the then-Country Lakes Homeowners Association, “but when they failed – I want to say it was in the late 80s,” the organization “signed everything over to the township and it became public property.”

“The individuals who are shouting that we took an amenity away from them with a beach they used so much – 99.9 percent of them making noise about this don’t go down and use beach to swim,” Patriarca maintained. “It is just a few people – not many people – who just like to bring negativity to the community and, unfortunately, they don’t want to give us a chance to build this park. But yet we got a history of success.”

Some online comments included oneperson writing, “swimming is a liability, but the slippery rocks aren’t?” while another wrote, “We have a beautiful area and can’t use it.” It was also claimed by an individual that “we didn’t have lifeguards all the time when we were kids.”

“I don’t see how lifeguards are uptown, and in Presidential Lakes, and yet we don’t have them in Country Lakes,” said one man.

Currently, Patriarca said, residents on the southside of the Country Lake (the community is essentially split by the lake) have to travel to Tensaw Drive, on the northside, to access playground equipment.

The town is looking to “install that element” on the township property in question. The plan also calls for the installation of park benches so one can enjoy the lakeview, a floating dock with attached fishing piers and a walking trail.

“We will still have a boat launch there to launch boats and watercraft,” the mayor maintained. “We are looking to do passive recreation, but also trying to include playground equipment in there for kids.”

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Evesham on Brink of Purchasing 166-Acre Tract from Garden State Beagle Club for Open Space with Help from Green Acres, County Grants

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

EVESHAM—You might call it the reverse of the cliché that a place is “going to the dogs.”

Some 166 acres of practically pristine open space to be used as a new Evesham Township municipal park is instead likely to be coming from the dogs – or to put it in more precise terms, the Garden State Beagle Club, from which the Evesham Township Council plans to purchase the property with the help of a $750,000 grant from the State of New Jersey Green Acres Local Acquisition Program, as well as other anticipated ones.

The acquisition of the new park, which will be located off Elmwood Road in the northern part of the township, was authorized by a unanimously approved enabling resolution at a March 10 council meeting and will be financed through a bond issue, according to Township Manager Robert Corrales.

If all goes according to plan, Corrales told the Pine Barrens Tribune in a subsequent phone interview, it is anticipated that the new nature preserve, complete with trails and passive recreation areas, will have been acquired from the club as of June 1 for approximately $5 million, or $30,000 per acre, its currently appraised market value.

That anticipated closing date was also confirmed by an unofficial spokesman for the beagle club, who told this newspaper that the township had “made us an offer” that would now have to “go back to the members” for approval, but added that “we as a club would very much like the township to have it” and continue to maintain it as open space.

In fact, the only reason the organization has decided to sell the property, he said, is that it is now surrounded by homes, which has prompted concerns among its members, who raise and train beagles to participate in American Kennel Club-licensed field trials, that the noise these high-spirited dogs make might disturb neighborhood residents, especially early in the morning. And while he maintained that they know of very few actual complaints along these lines, it is out of consideration for the club’s “very good neighbors” that the membership has thought it best to find a more isolated location for its activities.

The amount of residential development in the im mediate neighborhood, and the fact that the township is “85 percent built out,” are also primary reasons that municipal officials are so enthused about the

prospect of acquiring the tract, according to Councilwoman Patricia Hansen, who is a member of the township Environmental Commission as well.

“This is one of the things residents have requested we do – to stop building apartments and save some open space from being developed,” said Hansen in a phone interview with this newspaper on March 15.

“So, it is my pleasure to be able to say that, yes, we finally have over 160 acres that we’re saving from development, and are finally able to give them what they want.”

The importance of “providing people easy access to green space,” she added, has been accentuated by the Coronavirus pandemic and resulting necessity for individuals to keep their distance from each other.

While a lot of Evesham residents have been drawn during this time to the 1300acre Black Run Preserve in the southern part of the township, Hansen noted, the result has been occasional overcrowding of that facility, “so the more open space we have, the more people appreciate it.”

Corrales concurred that residents have been asking for another green space not given over to athletic fields, as are some of the township’s other parks, where neighborhood residents can benefit from a natural setting.

“We want to make sure this is going to be a nice destination for Evesham families to come and enjoy,” he said.

The township manager also anticipated that about half the cost of the prospective new park would be covered by both the Green Acres grant the township has already received and additional ones from the program it plans to apply for in coming months, with perhaps another quarter coming from a county open space grant.

The remainder he expects will be paid for by the township.

The mostly wooded site, which extends into Mount Laurel Township, also includes a building containing two bathrooms as well as two bedrooms, which has served as a clubhouse, as indicated by a letter sent out a year ago from Terry Caruso, South Central team leader for the Green Acres program, to Evesham Community development Director Nancy Jamanow.

When asked if a name for the facility was being contemplated, Corrales replied that it has yet to be determined, but he believes it will be one that gives some sort of recognition to the land’s present ownership and “its legacy and history.”

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Landlords in Woodland May Soon Have to Register with Township for $50 Per Rental Should Law Pass Clerk Says Registration Is Necessary So Township Can Inspect Following Turnover, Is Aware of Poss. Occupants During a Fire

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WOODLAND—Individuals renting out their Woodland Township properties to tenants may soon have to register annually with the township to do so.

The Woodland Township Committee has introduced an ordinance that would require township landlords to register with the township no later than Jan. 15 of every year.

Should the ordinance pass following a second reading and public hearing scheduled for March 24, township landlords, for this calendar year, would need to register with the township by June 30.

“This just allows for (Code Enforcement Officer) Mr. (Thomas) Boyd to know which properties are being rented,” said Township Clerk Maryalice Brown of the reason why the township is interested in establishing a rental registration requirement during the latest committee workshop meeting.

“Because, as per state statute, whenever a tenant turns over, by law he is to go in and inspect the property to make sure it has proper CO2 detectors, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, etc., and without the registration, we have no idea who is where and what properties are rented and are not.”

Landlords, however, will be required to pay a $50 registration fee to the township per rental.

“So, if you have one building with four apartments, it is a $200 registration fee,” Brown contended. “It is not per tenant rollover; it is just an annual registration.

So, if you rent to three different people in one year, you are not going to have to pay another fee.”

However, while a landlord may not have to pay another fee for the year should there be a turnover during it, the ordinance, as currently presented in its draft form, requires updated information concerning a “change in tenancy” be submitted to the township within 30 days.

Resident Terry Sheerin suggested that given that there are probably a limited

number of landlords in Woodland, because it is rural, the township send letters to them notifying them of the pending ordinance (even though Brown had just claimed the township was unaware of who they are and where the properties are located). She maintained it is always best to receive input from those who may be affected before a law is adopted.

Brown said that as part of the registration process, landlords will be required to not only provide their contact information, but the contact information of any tenant(s), along with “how many adults, how many children” so that the local fire department, in the event of any blaze, is aware of how many people may be located inside a dwelling.

A copy of the draft ordinance, included in an agenda packet, notes that the submission of a “rental property registration statement” to the township clerk, along with the appropriate fee, “shall constitute a valid license to operate.” The ordinance, in its current draft form, also requires of landlords to provide the township with a “floor plan of the unit” to include the dimensions of each room and designated sleeping areas.

“No space shall be used for sleeping purposes, which has not been so designated as a sleeping area on the sketch provided by the owner and approved by the construction official or zoning officer, which shall be on file with them,” the introduced ordinance states.

The potential new township law notes that “all rental properties may be inspected” by township agencies, and that the town shall provide “notice to affected operators” to the landlord address that is registered.

“Inspections shall be made in accordance with the consent of the occupant(s), who is/ are of legal age to grant such consent, or, absent tenant consent, with the operator’s consent or with a court order, unless there is reason to believe that a violation exists which poses an immediate threat to health or safety, requiring inspection and abatement without delay,” the introduced ordinance states.

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Fire-Safety Egress to be Added to Second Floor of Medford Lakes Firehouse After 2017 Pact Mandating It Is Found to Have Been Unfulfilled

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By Andy Milone Staff Writer

MEDFORD LAKES—Despite the fact that four years ago the Medford Lakes firehouse was found to have significant building code violations, and an agreement was made to remedy that problem by March 2020, it has been revealed this month that nothing was done in all that time except to move the firefighters potentially out of harm’s way.

Local officials contend, however, that they were unaware of the past agreement, despite the fact that the current fire chief, Craig Farnsworth, and past borough manager Julie Horner-Keizer signed the document.

“There was an agreement that was signed prior to me being here, and we need to stick to that agreement,” said Borough Manager Dr. Robert Burton during a March 10 Medford Lakes Borough Council meeting. “I wasn’t privy to this. It was before I was manager.”

Among the multiple violations found during the 2015 inspection was that there is no second means of egress on the second floor of the firehouse, reportedly constructed in 1974. The agreement then mandated that one be put in place by March 1, 2020—but only if an entirely new firehouse hadn’t already been constructed by that point.

Building a new firehouse has been a subject of discussion at council meetings over the last couple of years.

This newspaper has learned that since the agreement was signed by officials in 2017, the only action that has been taken is repurposing of the second floor for storage and moving the firefighting squad to the current building’s downstairs.

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of a set of steel steps along the side of the building, while replacing one of the windows with a door, according to Burton. But it also will “put some money” into renovating the second floor so that firefighters can comfortably reoccupy it, as opposed to it remaining a space for storage because of its lack of an egress.

Depending on how these improvements proceed, the downstairs bathroom could be remodeled, as well, he said.

The original plan of adding a temporary trailer containing an office, bathroom, complete with a shower, and more meeting space, has been put on hold as a result of this latest plan, Burton confirmed.

Ef for ts have be en made “l ittle by little… to fix a lot of the issues that we’re having” with the current firehouse, Burton maintained, so that the building can continue to be a “stopgap” until such time as the municipality decides to “move forward with a new firehouse.”

“But we still don’t want to put a whole lot of money into upgrades if we’re going to be (constructing) a whole new firehouse,” he later added in a telephone interview. “That would not be good stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”

Some $19,000 for improvements to the current firehouse have already been allocated in this current year’s budget as one of a number of capital projects.

Borough Solicitor Douglas Heinold in a telephone interview with this newspaper said the state “just wants compliance,” and he expects council will approve a resolution next month that indicates how the municipality plans to address the lack of egress within a six-month timeframe. If the issue were to extend beyond that, he added that is when the borough may have to worry about a potential penalty.

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Pemberton Twp. Limits Use, Placement and Electric Output of Both Temporary and Permanently Installed Generators Decision Follows Renewed Complaints About Noise and Fumes from Generators Being Used to Power Homes Due to Shutoffs

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PE M B E RT ON — I n t h e w a k e o f renewed complaints about residents using portable generators as a primary source of electricity after a utility shutoff due to nonpayment, Pemberton Township Council has prohibited generators “permanently installed or permanently connected” on residential properties unless a $50 permit is secured from the township’s Department of Community Development, and certain stipulations are met.

The stipulations primarily concern placement and screening to prevent any noise and fumes from disturbing others, and to limit the usage of permanently installed generators to emergencies that exclude “a residential household’s failure to pay a gas or electric bill.”

Additionally, council has limited the number of generators one can have, and has applied limitations on their electrical output – including for temporary generators.

Temporary generators also may not now be operated due to a household’s failure to pay a gas or electric bill.

Of fic ia l s h a d prev iou sly hop e d a stipu lation adde d i n the tow nsh ip’s noise ordinance, adopted late last year, (prohibiting the residential use of any electric generator that produces electricity, and produces sound that is clearly audible from a distance of 50 feet, unless electric power is interrupted for reasons beyond the control of the owner or occupant of a property) would give enforcement agencies the ability to quell the concerns, but heard in late January that it was not effective enough.

“I am happy to say you enacted an ordinance that went into place at the end of December,” said James Gray, who lives in the 400 block of Tulip Street. “However, the ordinance is not strong enough. The resident in question with a generator still defies the law. The police have been called, and at times it has been uphill challenge with the police department concerning this generator. So, I am seeking more intervention from you all.”

Some ten tickets, Gray claimed, had been issued to his neighbor since the noise stipulation concerning generators went into effect.

Gray, last fall, previously described that his Tulip Street neighbor has been running a portable generator “all hours of the day and night; day-after-day” since February 2020 “as a as a primary source of electricity,” and that the device has been creating constant noise and releasing CO2 gases to the point that the neighborhood is having difficulty sleeping and the quality of life has diminished.

Gray had collected over 50 signatures from people calling on municipal officials to act, and contended that the Salvia Street home of one of the signees is being impacted from two generators in use for two separate dwellings.

Mayor David Patriarca, in response to Gray’s statements last year, revealed to council “it is going on in several areas of the community” based upon the number of complaints he has received, and where they have been coming from.

“Now that we don’t have foliage on the trees, generator use absolutely overwhelms our neighborhood,” said Gray to council on Jan. 20.

Council, since hearing again from Gray in January, has been debating and modifying potential regulations that ultimately now comprise of a “generator ordinance,” a new section of township code adopted March 17 during a teleconferencing meeting of the legislative body.

Under the new ordinance, only one permanently installed generator is permitted per residential lot, and the output of a permanently installed generator cannot exceed 24 kW. A permanently installed generator can also only be located in the rear yard or the side yard of a parcel “unless utilities are supplied through the front of the residence,” and must also maintain a minimum set back of “5 feet from the side or rear property line” and a distance of “no greater than 15 feet from the principal structure.”

In the event that a permanently installed generator can only be put in the front yard of the residence because of the location of utilities, it must be “screened with fencing, shrubbery or other landscaping at least 4 feet in height as approved by the Department of Community Development.”

All screening or fencing will be required to comply with the generator manufacturer’s recommendations, the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association and the zoning requirements of the township.

“If the screening or fencing is not maintained, any permit granted is subject to immediate revocation by the Department of Community Development,” the new ordinance states.

The exhaust of any permanently installed generators is now also required to be “vented upwards” and “directed away from neighboring properties” as much as is “practically feasible.”

All permanently installed generators will also now be subject to state and federal fire, plumbing and residential code requirements, while temporary generators will be subject to state Department of Community Affairs regulations to “prevent power being pumped out to the grid,” potentially resulting in an electrocution hazard for utility linemen restoring power.

Residents, under the new township law, are now allowed only one temporary generator with an output of “not more than 24 kW.” “This (allowed for output) accommodates a generator running a whole house of 200amp service,” Patriarca contended.

In addition to permanently installed generators, temporary generators cannot be used because of “a residential household’s failure to pay a gas or electric bill,” but rather only for an emergency, or “loss of primary power due to power outage due to a natural or man-made event beyond the control of the property owner or occupant.” A lone exception to operate temporary generators outside of a power outage is for the “operation of equipment attendant to the construction or renovation of a residential dwelling.”

While the new law allows for a temporary generator to be placed on any side of a residential lot, it must be placed “a minimum of 5 feet away from the side or rear property line and no greater than 15 feet from the principal structure.”

The new code allows for specific testing periods for both temporary and permanently installed generators.

Those with unique circumstances are permitted under the new law to apply to the Pemberton Township Zoning Board for a land use variance.

If an individual is convicted of violating t he ge ner ator ord i na nc e, t hey m ay face a “potential” fine up to $1,250, or “imprisonment up to 90 days.” And each day that a violation continues “shall be deemed a separate offense.” Township Solicitor Andrew “Andy” Bayer noted that the penalties are set by state law.

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One-Alarm Fire in Shamong Displaces Family of Five

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Firefighters take control of a one-alarm fire on March 7 in Shamong Township, and examine the damage.

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was burning.”

While firefighters were able to “stop an extension into the second floor” of the twostory home, “we lost one bedroom, one half a bedroom, the kitchen and laundry room.”

“All four rooms were well-involved,” Smith said. “But we were able to knock the fire and stop an extension into the attic.”

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SH A MONG — A fa m i ly h a s b e e n displaced from their Shamong Township home following a March 7 fire.

The blaze at 198 Stokes Road, according to Indian Mills Volunteer Fire Company Chief John Smith, was reported around 12:45 p.m.

Upon arrival, the fire chief said he was met by the homeowners’ daughter, who told him that a dryer inside the home was on fire.

After walking around to the back of the house, Smith told this newspaper that he observed the “exterior wall of the home

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Former Private-Duty Nurse Facing Additional Charges in Suspected Sexual Abuse of Severely Disabled Teen PEMBERTON—Additional 2 0 2 0 w i t h fi r s t - d e g r e e charges have been filed against aggravated sexual assault, a 3 4 -y e a r- o l d m a n w h o second- deg ree attempted was charged last year with a g g r av at e d a s s au lt a n d sexually assaulting a severely second-degree endangering developmentally impaired girl the welfare of a child. He was while working as her caregiver released at that time following in the family’s Southampton a detention hearing.

Township home, according to The victim, who was 15 at the Office of Burlington County the time, has a neurological Prosecutor Scott Coffina. disorder that has rendered Edmondo DiPaolo, of the her unable to move or speak, 100 block of Daniels Avenue caused her to be partially DiPaolo in Pemberton Township, is now blind and to have to be fed facing new charges that include and medicated through tubes. first-degree aggravated sexual assault and Family members initially contacted the two second-degree counts of endangering authorities after discovering an injury to the welfare of a child – the same offenses he her leg. The investigation revealed that her was charged with a year ago – in addition to femur bone had been broken while DiPaolo second-degree sexual assault. was harshly adjusting her position prior to The new charges relate to alleged abuse sexually assaulting her. In addition, the of the same victim, Coffina’s office said, and prosecutor’s office claimed that DiPaolo were filed after law-enforcement personnel pushed her face into a pillow, squeezed her reviewed nearly 200 hours of footage taken throat and shoved a stuffed animal into her during the five months when DiPaolo was mouth to restrict her breathing, working at the residence.

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Committee for a retirement haven that could consist of up to 36 homes—or perhaps even twice that number— is now in flux.

In early 2019, township officials held a question-and-answer session in which they announced their intentions to utilize the property to bring in needed ratables, though at the time they said they were unsure of how many homes would actually be allowed to be built there.

Some of those who attended the Q and A were put off by the proposal and whether it might put a strain on municipal resources, despite the fact that the site involved is a considerable distance from the Village of Chatsworth, where the majority of the township’s inhabitants reside.

Nevertheless, the governing body then proceeded with a Threatened and Endangered Species (T&E) study, which included a survey of snakes – a requirement of the Pinelands Commission, a state agency that has landdevelopment jurisdiction in the area. While no snakes were found to be denning on the site, nor were any bobcats or barred owls found, the finding in late 2019 that the parcel was suitable for nesting of red-headed woodpeckers clouded its future, and the mayor subsequently tried to temper expectations.

“We even had a suggestion to have another town-hall meeting in the spring to get more input from the residents,” said Mayor William “Billy” DeGroff at the time in response to a question about whether the township intended to move forward with the project in the wake of the finding. “I know a lot has been said that it is going to happen overnight. If it happens at all, it is not going to happen overnight. It is going to be years down the road. That is my personal view.”

DeGroff, in the first meaningful update since then, told township committee meeting attendees at the end of 2020 that he would like to have a town hall sometime this spring.

But then came word last month that he and Township Clerk Maryalice Brown would be meeting with the Pinelands Commission about the potential development.

After initially discussing the results of that meeting with the township committee on Feb. 24 behind closed doors, DeGroff then announced publicly that there are “57 acres we can develop” and “we were advised a limited number of homes can be put on that property,” as well as some commercial uses “out front.”

“What we have to do as a township, is we have to decide what we want to do to move forward,” the mayor contended on Feb. 24.

“There are not a whole lot of things that can be put up there. There can be no solar fields, no marijuana cultivation, and basically any farming done on that property is limited to

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Graffiti painted on an abandoned building in the Lebanon Lakes section of Woodland Township. blueberries or cranberries – and I just don’t see that happening. There is not a lot that can be done.”

The mayor said the next step the township committee will be taking is to send out a letter to residents asking for their input.

“If anyone has any input on what you think we should do with that property, please email us,” DeGroff said. “Help us decide what we want to do with the property.”

Would-Be Flipper Loses Battle to Restore Condemned Home A house flipper’s attempt to rehabilitate a home in the downtown Chatsworth section of Woodland, which was turned upside down in 2019 after township officials condemned the dwelling, declaring that the 1874 structure with an electrical meter on it, which had been inhabited for decades, was sitting on a non-conforming lot, will not be seen through to completion after all.

Following a court battle, the township, ac cording to Brow n, has now taken ownership of the property.

“We finally received the deed, and finally took ownership of it, and will be going out for proposals for demolition of the home,” said Brown on Feb. 24.

Brown contended in November 2019 that the dwelling at 4007 County Route 563 is “ready to fall down” and that the municipality is dealing with an “urgent situation” as it could fall on a neighboring home. Officials ended up temporarily securing the home and putting a fence around it, while the court battle dragged on.

Farwez Ali, who tried to flip the home after purchasing it, a civil engineer who said he had migrated from The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the U.S. over 40 years ago, previously claimed to this newspaper that he had found the home to

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A l i h a d c o nt e n d e d t h a t s e v e r a l circumstances, including Brown expressing her belief at the workshop meeting that he was cutting holes in a wall of the home to make it fall down faster, were the result of someone very powerful in town working behind the scenes with the township’s code enforcement officer, Tom Boyd, to see that the home is removed. There were also allegations made by Ali that suggested possible discrimination might be involved.

William Burns, who served as the township solicitor at that time, and is now back in that post for this year, has previously called Ali’s statements “false” and “defamatory.”

“The good news is that unsafe property is finally in the township’s possession,” said Burns during the Feb. 24 committee meeting. “That matter can be closed and moved on, as it is now township property.”

Brown mentioned during that meeting, as she also did in November 2019, that a neighboring property owner had expressed interest in buying the lot to add it to her existing tract.

“I have not heard back from her since,” the township clerk maintained.

Dilapidated Clubhouse Not on Tax Map; Last Known Owner Reportedly Deceased Yet another property purportedly in unsafe condition may be condemned by the township in the coming months. This one is located on Baptist Road – except it is not on the township tax maps.

Brown made that revelation during the Feb. 24 committee meeting.

“It is not on the tax map, and we actually sold it a few years ago for unpaid taxes, and when we did it, it then all came to our attention that it is not even a real, legal

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DeGroff noted that the structure on the lot used to be a gun club, and now “the roof has fallen in” and “the building has (partially) fallen down.”

“You can move to take possession of it via court order,” Burns said. “You can then demolish it and try to dispose of it.”

Brown noted that she discovered its owner was Charles Reese, but that she “did some digging and Charles Reese is dead.”

“I got his obit and called around,” the township clerk said. “I felt like Nancy Drew.

I learned he was a bigtime member of the VFW. I called all family members and left messages, and have not heard from anyone.”

Burns said the township’s only recourse is to “condemn” the property and “declare it an unsafe structure.”

Resident Calls on Township to Tear Down Graffiti-Laced Ex-First-Aid-Squad Building A building in the Lebanon Lakes section that has “been rotting there for 40 years,” according to a concerned resident named Devin in a letter read aloud during the Feb. 24 committee meeting, is an unsafe structure, township officials subsequently acknowledged. But knocking it down would require the “express written approval of the state,” or its owner, Burns maintained.

“The State of New Jersey used to lease the building to the (then-)first-aid squad for $1,” Brown said. “When the first-aid squad disbanded, it went back to the state.

I can send Mr. Boyd back out there, and he can issue a violation notice to the state, but because we are a municipality, we have no jurisdiction over the state, so we have no enforcement of that violation.”

The concerned resident, also attending the meeting by telephone, said of the former squad building that it has “got graffiti,” along with “satanic pictures on it.”

The mayor said he will have officials again look at the property, and then send correspondence to the state.

“The state may say, ‘OK, go in there and rip it down,’ but that will cost us a lot of money,” DeGroff said.

The concerned resident replied, “Let me know and I will do it.”

DeGroff claimed that the municipality has also written past letters to the state about the condition of another building on Route 70.

“There is not a whole lot we can do, but we will try to do what we can,” the mayor said. “Something needs to be done with it.

I don’t know if we can rip it down and have our guys do it.”

The concerned resident, in his letter, wrote “maybe it is time for some things to go.”

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designated as a township paper street, and which is also included in development applications he filed with the Pinelands Commission, all while he contended he had created a firebreak. But not everyone is happy with the result, which one neighbor claims has brought about a recreationalvehicle traffic “nightmare.”

Meanwhile, the Woodland Township C o m m it t e e h a s b e e n e mb roi l e d i n controversy over the matter, DeGroff and Deputy Mayor Mark Herndon previously having admitted to at least some advance knowledge of Worrell’s plans and agreeing to allow him to retroactively submit a “clearing” application on the municipality’s behalf to the Pinelands Commission.

Questions, however, have surfaced as to whether Worrell violated the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan, which prohibits clear-cutting without commission approval unless in fact the intent was to create a firebreak. The committee later voted on Aug. 26 of last year to approve a plan submitted by Worrell to revegetate the area with 600 pitch pine trees per acre, while maintaining a firebreak along the paper street known as 13th Street.

At the time the revegetation plan was approved, Brown said the firebreak could be maintained as long as Worrell places barriers on “13th Street” at both Kossuth Avenue and Lebanon Road to “prohibit vehicular traffic passing through” that undeveloped thoroughfare.

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The state agency is still said to be considering the revegetation application for approval, and is purportedly reviewing additional correspondence from Worrell about whether he did in fact create a firebreak.

Worrell contended during a July 24, 2019 township committee workshop meeting that even though the pathway he created in the woods, which runs from Savoy Boulevard to Prince Street, follows the township’s designated paper street, he cleared a 55-footwide firebreak, with “firebreak” being the operative word.

Meanwhile, as the dispute continues, Darlene Hatfield, a resident of Savoy Boulevard, who has been both affected and angered by the clear-cut, has yet again expressed concern that riders of ATVs, quads and motorbikes are continuing to use the cleared land for recreational purposes.

The resident has demanded to know when the barriers will be installed. She was told during the Feb. 24 committee meeting that Worrell had to complete the project by March 31.

“We are going to go out, because their (the commission’s) recommendation is that we take our engineer out there to make sure the proper gate and proper blocking of the firebreak is done,” DeGroff contended. “They didn’t feel dirt mounds were sufficient.”

Hatfield told the township committee that the parcel has “now become a freeway” for those who have “quads, four-wheels and dirt bikes – you name it.”

“It has been an absolute nightmare,” she said, adding that she can’t even get in and out of her own home because of the off-road vehicles tearing it up, along with drainage issues, noting an oil company even expressed hesitancy about delivering fuel to her home.

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Another resident, Terry Sheerin, voiced concern that officials may get into further trouble by making recommendations to Worrell on how to close off the land.

“The township is not involved in putting up the barricades,” replied Burns, though Sheerin pointed to the mayor’s remarks just moments earlier. “The township is not involved in doing any of the work. The town is not doing anything with the respect to the barriers.”

The township, the solicitor added, has not made any recommendations, but the commission has directed the municipality to work with Worrell to close off the access.

Ce l l -Towe r O p p o n e nt s C ite Fa i l u re to Notify Them, Prompting ‘Redo’ Construction of a previously approved 120-foot cellphone tower (and associated 2,500-square-foot equipment compound) on Giles Avenue, a paper street recently vacated by the Woodland Township Committee “right behind” the Woodland Township Volunteer Fire and EMS Company’s firehouse in the Chatsworth section of the municipality, is still on hold.

The Pinelands Commission, which issued a stop-work order in late November of last year, informed the project’s developer that construction cannot resume at least until the state agency acts on a “substantial issue” raised by the “conditional use and minor site-plan approval with bulk variance relief granted by the Woodland Township Land Use Board for the proposed development.”

Resident Andrew Windisch, along with some 30 others, most of whom live in the vicinity of the proposed site, had signed a petition and are part of a Facebook page Windisch created called “STOP Cell Phone Tower in Heart of Chatsworth NJ,” contending that they support better emergency communication, but are opposed to the selected site for the tower, which they believe will “expose residents and the public

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to radio frequency (RF) radiation and other hazards, creating potential health, safety, financial, liability and scenic impacts.”

The township committee vacated Giles Avenue, a paper street, by ordinance on June 23 of last year, following a public hearing, to make way for the cellphone tower, deeming it unnecessary for ingress or egress to any lands, or to facilitate the flow of traffic.

Opponents of the project have cited failure to notify them of the street vacation as part of their basis for challenging it, claiming that property owners living within 200 feet of the affected area were required to be notified under state law prior to a public hearing.

A subsequent OPRA request response, recently provided to this newspaper by Windisch, revealed that “no proof of mailing receipts exists for 200-foot radius mailings by certified mail.”

Despite that, DeGroff contended in December of last year that he believed the proper protocols were followed, though Brown refrained from commenting, both she and township legal counsel taking the position it was part of ongoing litigation.

“I really don’t understand what is going on with the vacation of Giles Avenue,” said resident Jane Donoghue during the Feb. 24 committee meeting. “You guys vacated the road under ordinance 2020-4 on June 23, 2020. The township clerk certified every requirement was met for the vacation of the road. You guys have not overturned that ordinance. But, yet, last week, there was another application to vacate the road.”

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But what had transpired between Feb. 9 and the March 16 board meeting was only revealed in limited detail after a series of pressing questions were posed to officials by this newspaper.

“Mr. Williams and Mr. (August “Augie”) Daleo sent in letters of interest and Mr. Williams was selected,” McCooley told this newspaper.

After additional questioning about whether there was a public announcement of this decision, the superintendent revealed only that “a formal letter was emailed to all board members.” The reason for Williams’ selection wasn’t immediately clear.

Williams, when reached by telephone on March 17, told this newspaper that he recalled that the formal letter was sent by the superintendent on March 5. He also acknowledged that his reception was chilly.

“My priority is to have openness, honesty, and transparency for all – the community, the staff, the students and the administration,” Williams said.

Daleo, who is the board vice president, launched a tirade against Williams in the fall of last year. The incident came amid controversy over a request from McCooley to have her contract extended with the district (Daleo, an original crafter of a sharedservice agreement that allows McCooley to share her services with Pinelands Regional, still supports the superintendent, while Williams has voiced concerns with her manner of leading the district.) McCooley’s request for a contract extension has not yet been moved forward, despite a number of scheduled attempts to do so last year.

Daleo, in his tirade, had revealed Williams’ intent to file an ethics complaint against McVey, who served as board president in 2020. Williams was pursuing the matter, in part, because he believed McVey was conflicted in voting on any matters pertaining to McCooley due to her having family members who fall under the superintendent’s administrative purview. McVey, in response, has contended to this newspaper that those family members are not her dependents.

All of this has led to the division amongst board members.

Williams, when asked by this newspaper how he planned to move forward and resolve the differences, replied, “My plan for attempting to bring the board together is to have each and every board member’s views heard and discussed and not just dismissed, whether or not you agree with them or disagree.”

“They are also elected officials and their views should be heard, not stifled,” he added, maintaining that having “true transparency” would also help solve the problem.

Williams noted that he believed the board has a contractual obligation to decide on the superintendent’s contract sometime later this year, and that “upon receiving guidance from the board’s legal counsel, I believe we will have to have that discussion.”

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LITTLE EGG HARBOR—Thomas “Tom my” Williams, who has been a member of the Pinelands Regional Board of Education representing Bass River Township for nearly 20 years, has reportedly been chosen by the executive county superintendent to serve as the public body’s president for the remainder of 2021.

W i l l i a m s , h o w e v e r, d e s p i t e h i s distinguished some two-decade record of service on the board (which previously included a stint as its president) and long career in law enforcement before retiring as a lieutenant with the Little Egg Harbor Police Department, was given only a brusque acknowledgment by the administration during his first night at the helm on March 16.

“All right sir, the floor is yours,” said Business Adm inistrator Nick Brow n immediately after Williams answered that he was present during a roll call of membership.

“You are ready to take over.”

It was just over an hou r i nto the meeting when Williams’ new role as the board’s president was accorded any other recognition (and those watching got some confirmation that he was in fact now serving in that capacity) when Betti Anne McVey, who served in the post last year, congratulated him on his accomplishment.

Superintendent Dr. Melissa McCooley, when later asked by this newspaper via email if she would like to provide a statement on Williams’ selection as board president, replied, “You have never asked me for a statement when someone was elected president. Why now?”

This selection process, however, had been anything but usual.

The Pi nelands Reg ional Board of Education was unable to break an impasse in selecting a board president during its January reorganization meeting, despite multiple attempts at doing so. The tie votes were the result of newly-elected Board Member Raymond W. Bartlett not being seated until Feb. 2, leaving the board with an even number of members for reorganization, and division amongst the membership. Brown had contended that Bartlett needed to pass a criminal background check before he could be sworn in, and that there was a “processing backlog” due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Board Solicitor William Donio, after the impasse could not be broken, stated that he believed state statute was clear that the decision rested in the hands of the top county school official.

Then, on Feb. 9, the board was advised of a letter from the executive county superintendent suggesting that it re-vote for board president given that it now had a full complement of members.

“The suggestion of doing a re-vote is foreign to my experience,” contended Donio at the time. “And I believe foreign to any school district solicitor.”

Donio, and McCooley, also at the time, then both told the board that given the fact that state law stipulates that the executive county superintendent “shall” make the selection of a board president for any school board that cannot select one during an annual reorganization meeting, they were concerned about the possibility of future legal ramifications and challenges should it not be followed.

Donio added that a board’s bylaw also reaffirms that process “verbatim,” and that there is a “longstanding” past decision of the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) that also upholds that process.

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(Continued from Page 1) for, like, 175 years,” said Larry Roohr, a 68-year-old soybean farmer, who reached out to this newspaper about the branch’s planned closure. “They’re just closing it with little notice. I’ve lived here all my life, and I remember going to the bank when I was four or five years old. It was old then.”

Roohr added that it would be a “real shame” if Vincentown customers end up having to travel to Medford to cash checks and do other banking, and noted that the current bank employees “know the area.”

“They know the people,” he said. “One lady had been working there for 38 years.”

Investors Bank, based out of Short Hills, Essex County, which has been in business since 1926, is closing its branches in nearby Marlton and Voorhees as well, effective April 9, and does not have any intentions of opening up any new branches in the immediate area at this time, according to employees at the nearby branches.

The company announced in December that it had plans to save approximately $3

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(Continued from Page 2) the project is “very fluid and changing as we go all along.”

“But what I ask from council and residents is to have patience,” he said. “If our history is not enough to stand on in this particular area alone, look back at what we have done with our own people, on our own projects, on our own infrastructure.”

The complaints appeared to have struck

to $4 million in future costs annually by “consolidation” of 10 branches in 2021.

Investors Bancorp, Inc. (the holding company for Investors Bank), as of Dec. 31, 2020, had 156 Investors Bank branches located throughout New Jersey and New York.

The company’s CEO, Kevin Cummings, during a fourth quarter earnings conference call on Jan. 28, referred to 10 anticipated closures as part of a restructuring that will save the company an estimated $4 million annually in the future.

One of the Vincentown branch’s five employees confirmed the corporation’s plans to consolidate after multiple unsuccessful attempts were made last week to reach Marianne Wade, who is listed on the company’s website as the investor relations contact and named by employees as the media contact.

The bank employee told this newspaper that there were no plans for the future use of the building at this time. Southampton Mayor Michael Mikulski, when reached by telephone, also indicated that he was not aware of what the future may hold for the building.

“We’re sad that the bank is vacating the building, and I am hoping another bank

a chord with Patriarca – as both during the recent council meeting, and in an interview with this newspaper, the mayor referred to repeatedly past park projects in the township, completed under his mayoral leadership, which began in 2007.

Speaking about the renovated Country Lakes Clubhouse, he said, “some people are wowed at that building.”

He called the renovated Browns Mills Improvement Association (BMIA) building “now one of our star feature buildings here in the community.”

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were looking into possibly contacting some other banks to see if there was any interest in opening up a branch there.

pointed out, was transformed from a “tin building with basketball nets inside” into a community center.

And last but not least is Imagination Kingdom, he said, which this newspaper found online is described as a top playground in the state where “you truly get to run wild with your imagination.”

The township, according to the mayor, is waiting for conceptuals from three different recreation equipment suppliers before deciding on a final design for the Country Lakes pocket park. He noted that his administration has invested close to $7

million in the Country Lakes community, including by also rebuilding/repairing its dams and keeping the lake filled.

“So, we don’t have too many failures in our portfolio and I am not blowing any smoke,” Patriarca said. “It is a team effort, in which we work collaboratively, and with members of the community. We do these things to better the community and our success rate is quite high. All I ask for is patience and I think at end of the day we will have another wow factor in our community.”

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(Continued from Page 7) repairable, but the house is unlivable for now,” Smith contended.

The fire chief estimated there was about $300,000 worth of damage caused by the blaze. He said the affected family includes a mother, father and three daughters.

“There was the one daughter and she was the only one home that day,” Smith said. “She was getting a shower, heard the alarm go off, smelled smoke, came out of the shower, came downstairs and realized there was a fire in the area of the laundry room and kitchen.”

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Conservation Foundation, but also the State of New Jersey.

“Since everyone is keenly aware of how important the emergency communications project is, the decision by the committee was made to re-vacate that road, and re-present it to the land use board,” Burns said.

However, this newspaper did not observe a formal vote (or discussion) about re-vacating of Giles Avenue during a public meeting of the township committee. Burns, in a statement later emailed to this newspaper after he was asked for more information about when that decision was made, responded, “The township committee has not taken formal action to re-vacate Giles (Avenue) or supersede Ordinance 2020-4.”

Burns, during the February 24 committee meeting, contended that the decision to go through the process of revacating the road will ensure that both the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, and the State of New Jersey are provided proper notice.

This is “so the ‘emergency communications tower’ project can move forward as quickly as possible,” he added.

A hearing on the application, already postponed twice, is now scheduled for April before the Pinelands Commission. Burns noted that the hearing had been postponed in consultation with both the land use Board’s attorney and the “applicant’s attorney – Nancy Valentino.”

Valentino represented Shawn Viscardi, chief of the Woodland Fire and EMS Company, in a personal dispute involving the township a few years ago.

Officials, as early as 2003, have sought a cellphone tower for the Chatsworth section of Woodland, with those efforts being expedited after a 2017 incident in the area involving school children, in which a bus driver had difficulty calling for help.

While municipal officials, prior to 2018, had come up short in finding a communications firm or developer willing to build a cellphone tower in town, the fire company, under Viscardi’s leadership, had learned shortly thereafter of FirstNet, an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce that deploys, operates and maintains a nationwide wireless broadband network through AT&T dedicated to public safety and first responders. FirstNet was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the communication troubles first responders experienced that day due to intense call volume.

The fire company, upon learning about the wireless network for first responders, applied to FirstNet to have a cellphone tower installed in close proximity to its Chatsworth firehouse so that it could access

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The cause of the fire, he said, is under investigation by the state fire marshal. He said that investigators currently don’t know the cause, but have determined that the fire didn’t start in the dryer, and are looking into whether it may have rather started in the electrical wires going to it.

“It wasn’t actually a dryer fire,” he said.

The blaze was the fourth major incident this year for the volunteer fire company, and the fifth since the day after Christmas, with the chief calling the volume of incidents “unbelievable,” maintaining “you are talking about a years’ worth in nine weeks.”

The family involved in the latest fire was said by Smith to have another place to stay as of press time.

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it, given the often-spotty cellphone reception in the area, and received federal government approval in 2019 to have one installed, as previously reported by this newspaper. The proposed project would be facilitated via that program.

Burns, during the Feb. 24 committee meeting, contended that the cellphone tower application “is not the township’s appl ication, but rather it is the fi re department’s application,” so “that is why there is a decision to re-do that.” He further maintained that the location of the emergency communication tower “has been tweaked, and the Pinelands Commission is aware of the new location.”

W he n a ske d by Donog hu e i f t he committee will have to rescind the measure adopted on June 23, 2020 to vacate Giles Avenue, Burns replied, “the first process is before the land use board.”

In the later statement given to this newspaper, Burns also claimed that the committee “in an abundance of caution” is referring the matter back to the land use board for review and recommendation, as the fire department “has indicated” it is submitting a new application.

“The land use board and the committee also want to ensure that all property and easement holders are properly notified, including, but not limited to, the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Conservation Fou nd ation and Con rai l (the latter not mentioned during the committee meeting),” Burns said. “The application to vacate the road is that of the volunteer fire department, not the township. The tow nsh ip com m itte e anticipates the new application to vacate the road will be presented to the land use board for review at the April meeting by counsel for the fire department. If the land use board makes the recommendation to vacate the road, the township committee will take all necessary and proper action including possibly rescinding and superseding the prior ordinance at the April Committee meeting.”

One of the other major reasons the Pinelands Commission issued the stopwork order last year is because of past land use board testimony by the developer that the structure will not just be an “emergency communication tower,” but will benefit residents by being designed so that it can accommodate three additional carriers, “or four carriers in total.”

An accessory tower to the existing EMS/Fire Company is OK, but if the proposed tower is a “principal use” on the parcel, according to the Pinelands Commission’s letter, “it is not a permitted land use in a Pinelands Village in the absence of a Pinelands Com missionapproved comprehensive plan for local communications facilities.”

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