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‘Disturbing,’ Secret Videos of Carns Family, Children as Well as of Their Property in Medford ‘Fed to Council’
‘IT’S TIME’
Carns Family Member Declares ‘Swamp’ Will ‘Get Drained One Way or Another’; Activist: Council, Manager Should ‘Resign’ By Douglas D. M elegari Staff Writer
MEDFORD—An apparent set of secret video recordings of members of the Carns family, their children, as well as some of their guests, in addition to one featuring an individual walking onto the Carns family farm for at least two minutes and filming the family’s belongings, buildings and vehicles, all of which were quietly sent to Medford Township Manager Kathy Burger, who in turn then “fed” them to Medford Council, as a fulfilled Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request reveals, has left members of the Carns family to declare such a pattern of behavior is not only an egregious “invasion of privacy,” but one that is something “that is really disturbing.” And not only has a member of the family, following the discovery, declared that the “swamp,” as he put it, “will get drained one way or another,” but it has led a state First Amendment activist to call on both the township manager and all five township councilmembers to “resign,” maintaining that they are “all guilty of racketeering.” “We want fairness and to be treated as though we live in Medford, New Jersey, United States,” declared Brendan Canavan, husband to Carns family sibling Heather Lou Carns-Canavan, both of whom live at the tree farm with their children. “We don’t live in Nazi Germany, or Communist China, or Putin’s Russia. We live in Medford, New
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A proposed rendering for a mixed-use residential housing project at the former Rowan College at Burlington County campus in Pemberton.
Pemberton Twp. Council Designates Fieldstone Associates as ‘Conditional Redeveloper’ of Closed College Campus with Firm Proposing to Build Mixed-Use Residential Housing Comprising Single-Family Homes, Townhouses and Apartments Upon Purchase of Tract Officials Say Attraction of New Residents Will Aid Efforts to Redevelop Downtown Browns Mills by Providing More Consumers to Patronize Businesses; Project to Restore Land to Town Tax Rolls
By Douglas D. M elegari Staff Writer
PE M BE RT ON — “ P r o g r e s s ,” a s Pemberton Township Mayor David Patriarca put it to this newspaper, is happening on the redevelopment front in Pemberton Township with Fieldstone Associates, LP, designated by Pemberton Township Council on May 18 as the “conditional redeveloper” of the former Rowan College at Burlington County
(RCBC) campus (also formerly Burlington County College). The fi r m, pr ior to re c eiv i ng the conditional designation, negotiated with the township administration and submitted a concept plan to the township, one that proposes to demolish the former college campus, located along both the Pemberton Bypass and PembertonBrowns Mills Road, replacing it with “mixed use residential housing” with some
452 proposed units in total that would be either for rent or sale. The 226-acre former college property, said to still be currently in the hands of RCBC, has become an “eyesore” since its May 2018 closure, with once functional educational facilities now dilapidated from years of abandonment and repeated vandalism. Vegetation on the property has See HOUSING/ Page 10
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