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“recommended for treatment” in the spring.

For a municipality to qualify for the program, according to the NJDA, a residential or recreational forest must have an average of more than 500 egg masses per acre and be at least 40 acres in size.

A single egg mass, the department notes, contains up to 500 eggs.

“By treating these areas now, it will help prevent the spread of this insect and significantly reduce its populations for years to come,” said New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher in a statement through the press release. “This program has been very effective over the last several years and helps preserve the valuable trees and plants that are a food source for this destructive pest.”

According to the NJDA, if a town agrees to treatment, it will take place in both May and June.

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site as his other business, and that he has partnered with Manaresi to open what he called a “hash facility.”

“What is it going to entail?” asked Howard “Howie” Rothschild of the plan for a hash facility. “How is it going to be made? What is going to be used to make it? There are a couple different ways to make it.”

One woman contended there is one way that has a “very high risk of blowing up,” which Bass River Deputy Mayor Louis Bourguignon agreed can happen with one method.

However, Bass River Township Solicitor JoAnne O’Connor maintained, “Pinelands (or the Pinelands Commission) is not going to allow that,” which Bourguignon also agreed with.

“As soon as we move away from cultivating, and we process or manufacture, Pinelands has to be involved,” O’Connor said. “They only allow cultivation to be a sort of hands off because you are a Right-to-Farm community. You have a right to farm, and this (cannabis) is included with lettuce, apples or whatever you are growing.”

Some in the audience expressed their surprise with cannabis being thought of as the same thing as basic fruits and vegetables.

“That means anybody could do this,” one man quipped.

O’Connor assured the audience that the Pinelands Commission would not permit any type of dangerous activity, declaring, “this is so state regulated,” maintaining an enterprise

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residence was completely destroyed.

Zane said that there were two residents that were home at the time of the fire and were able to make it out of the residence on their own, but that they “lost everything but the clothes they on their back.”

Those two residents, according to the fire chief, were eventually transported to the emergency room for evaluation. There were no injuries to firefighters as a result of the fire, he added.

A GoFundMe fundraising page established for the victims, the McQuillen family, noted that “first and foremost, everyone is safe,” and then described that “Corey McQuillen woke up to flames at her window, before the fire alarms

The department noted in its release that it would, moving forward, be referring to the gypsy moth as the LDD, and added that the agency, along with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), use Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) to combat the LDD moth. When asked why the name change, Wolfe replied, it was made by the American Entomological Society, and “we decided to go with the scientific name Lymantria dispar dispar to avoid confusion.”

B.t. is described as is a “biological insecticide” that kills the LDD caterpillar “when ingested.”

It was pointed out in the NJDA’s press release that two to three consecutive years of significant defoliation (defined as 75 percent or more) can “kill an otherwise healthy tree.” However, “any LDD defoliation can make trees more susceptible to other damage” that can “lead to the death of the tree.”

Oak trees, it was noted, are the “preferred host for LDD,” but the caterpillars can be found “feeding on almost any tree.”

“would not risk” losing their license and startup costs of “tens of thousands of dollars” by doing something not permitted.

“It is going to have to comply with Pinelands regulations, state regulations and there is going to be inspections,” O’Connor maintained.

While Mauro later acknowledged there are “different ways to make hash,” he pointed out there are “lots of ways, like anything else, to make various materials,” but maintained that his firm is “going to use a non-chemical, very safe way” to produce hash that “just uses ice.”

He added that the process that his company would undertake takes after the one used by the late Frenchy Cannoli, pointing out he “teaches everybody how to use it (the process) on YouTube.”

“It involves ice, water and special bags,” Mauro explained. “Then you use Dawn dish soap. Non-chemicals are involved. It is a very safe practice, used for a very long time.”

As far as the business just having received conditional approval for a Class I operation, Mauro told this newspaper that he is “working with the town engineer and town clerk, and will be following whatever they tell us to do next,” but that he intends to do “indoor growing.”

“Evan is going to be a partner in the hash facility, or in the manufacturing,” he said, noting the Class II application has not yet been filed with the state. “But he is going to have a stake in that too. So, you’ll have two local people getting together to create more tax revenues, and ratables.”

Revenues and ratables, he pointed out, are needed in Bass River.

sounded and courageously ran to her father, Ray McQuillen.”

“They both blindly ran through a billow of smoke and exited unscathed,” it is added.

As of press time, some 526 individuals donated through GoFundMe more than $35,195 to the McQuillen family to assist them.

“If you have ever visited the McQuillen household, you know it was filled with family pictures and cherished mementos collected throughout the years,” the organizer wrote. “Unfortunately, we cannot replace the most valued items as those, but we can help rebuild their life with one donation at a time.”

During the fire, Prickett’s Mill Road was closed between Medford Lakes Road and Oakshade Road. The Red Cross also responded to the scene to provide assistance to the family.

“The Tabernacle Fire Department would like to thank all of our mutual aid companies for their help throughout the incident,” Zane said.

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Coleman, was absent from the pair of Jan. 3 meetings. Paul Seybold, appointed Washington’s deputy mayor again for 2023 (a post he has held since 2019), and Washington Committeemen C. Leigh Gadd, Jr. (reappointed as the municipality’s Director of Public Safety), did not weigh in on the request.

“I think we should have a public meeting, the three of us at least, on the budget, to at least explain what we are doing,” said James, before Hand potentially swayed him in another direction in recounting what Absecon does for its budget review.

Manning responded to the mayor that in the event a public budget meeting is held, “if you guys want to take over,” after she gives any presentation or remarks, she would be OK with that, “but I just felt like, as I was going line-by-line, people were directing things to me.”

“You guys decide the salaries, I don’t,” Manning pointed out.

James responded that Manning was “absolutely right” in that she “shouldn’t take any heat” for the salaries “because it was what ‘we’ bring forward.”

The Washington mayor, during the exchange, suggested that he was open to a possible compromise of sorts in which the township committeemen, one-by-one, sit with Manning to “go through the budget,” (if two or more members gather at one time to discuss public business, under the state’s Sunshine Law, it is considered a public meeting that must be noticed) and then the elected officials will “have a meeting to discuss it with the public.”

“We’ll have to figure something out,” declared James, with Manning asserting she was fine with continuing to hold a public budget meeting if the committeemen “run it different, just not like last year.”

“That is why we get paid the big bucks,” quipped James of the buck ordinarily stopping with the township committee.