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LRHSD Releases Project List for Upcoming, ‘Tax-Neutral’ $66.6 Million Bond Proposal

MAKING A SPLASH

Should Referendum Be Approved, State Will Give $24 Million in Aid Resulting in No Tax Levy Impact

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

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Washington Residents Say Disorderly Behavior on the Mullica Is Now Leading to Property Damage with Mayor Wanting to Petition for Permanent Reduced Bridge Openings to Alleviate Situation; Mullica Twp. Leader Says Lack of On-Demand Openings Due to Bridge Issue is Creating ‘Bottleneck’

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WASHINGTON—An “out of control” situation of purported law breaking and other rambunctious behavior on Washington Township roads and along the Mullica River, a waterway that serves as the boundary between Burlington and Atlantic Counties, or between Washington and Egg Harbor City/Mullica Township, described by numerous Washington

residents and officials during summertime meetings of the Washington Township Committee, has not improved, they say, but actually has worsened in some cases during the last month, with it particularly bad over the Labor Day weekend, despite vows by the New Jersey State Police to step up enforcement activities in the area.

And now the Washington mayor has expressed he would like to petition Atlantic County, in charge of the Green Bank Bridge, to petition the U.S. Coast

Guard to reduce the draw bridge’s openings permanently, after observing that when there was a reduction in openings last month due to mechanical and electrical issues with the bridge, it brought a brief respite to the purported problems on the waterway.

Although there are reports that Atlantic County recently petitioned the U.S. Coast Guard to authorize a permanent reduction in the bridge openings over concerns with See MULLICA/ Page 13

SHAMONG—The Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) has released a list of projects that comprise a “tax-neutral” $66,628,944 bond referendum that will appear on the General Election ballot this fall in the district’s eight sending municipalities (Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle, and Woodland), which includes HVAC upgrades, air conditioning, turf fields and classroom modifications to support career pathway programs.

Should voters approve the referendum, “the state debt service aid percentage will equal 40 percent of the annual debt service due with respect to the final eligible costs of the projects,” states a copy of the bond proposal question.

According to Superintendent Dr. Carol Birnbohm, during an Aug. 25 LRHSD Board of Education meeting in which the governing body approved the bond proposal to be decided by voters, that equates to the state providing the district with about $24 million in “special state aid” toward the planned projects, or covering about 36 percent of the total project costs, though she emphasized that aid will only come about upon voter approval of the referendum.

As previously reported by this newspaper, Birnbohm announced in July that the district’s financial advisors and bond counsel determined that such a contribution from the state combined with “an old debt payoff” See PROPOSAL/ Page 8

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Nelson Drive Resident, in ‘Emotional’ Exchange, Demands Medford Hold Tennis Club Owner Accountable in Building 3 Outdoor Courts Man Claims Proprietor Did Not Revegetate Club Parcel After Previously Conducting Unauthorized Land Clearing; Solicitor Says That’s Not True

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

MEDFORD—Remarks from Medford Township officials during a Sept. 7 Medford Council meeting that a proprietor of a tennis club in town, planning to add three outdoor tennis courts to its operation to the dismay of at least some residents on neighboring Nelson Drive, had revegetated the property about a decade ago after reportedly violating the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP) by removing trees, and that the tennis court project does not permit outdoor lighting, resulted in an “emotional” exchange of words during the session between the officials and one of those residents, Jeff Sallade.

Sallade, in disputing those remarks, contended that “somebody did not do their job to check and see if it (the revegetation) actually happened because he (Venku Mandalap, the owner of Arrowhead Tennis Club at 6 Nelson Drive) never revegetated that area,” and also pointed to comments from officials during the preceding council meeting that lighting of the outdoor tennis courts was permitted in the project approvals up until 9 o’clock each day.

The apparent changing accounts on the part of officials on Sept. 7 regarding the outdoor lighting added fuel to the exchange, which became so emotionally charged for a time that it resulted in Township Solicitor Timothy Prime later trying to characterize it as “not adversarial.”

T h at d e s p it e Tow n sh ip Eng i n e e r Christopher Noll during the exchange calling a second Nelson Drive resident, Matthew Bell, a “so-called expert” in the matter, one who during a previous council meeting on Aug. 18 pointed out that he was a federal engineer for Joint Base McGuireDix-Lakehurst (JBMDL) before contending that the project was “dormant” for so long since the approvals were given that it is now “null and void,” with Sallade adding at the time that his neighbor had showed the plans and application to those at his place of work, “independent from all this,” and they “pointed out things raising a lot of questions of how this was approved.”

Prime, during the Aug. 18 council meeting, had contended that Bell made “a number of misstatements of facts,” the approvals remain valid, the deadline has passed for them to be overturned, the project has become vested and there are no open violations against the applicant.

T he Nelson Dr ive re sident s, who maintained at the preceding council meeting that the approvals allow for Arrowhead to install outdoor lighting, expressed concern at the time that the light would shine into their bedrooms during sleeping hours.

As previously reported by this newspaper, Noll initially contended on Aug. 18 that no outdoor lighting was proposed, but then after Township Manager Kathy Burger added “not at nighttime,” Noll pointed towards Burger with his hand and clarified, “They are not allowed to be on after 9 o’clock.”

“Who do I call at 9:15 p.m. when the lights are still on, when he is being told they have to be off at 9 o’clock?” asked Sallade of officials during the Sept. 7 council meeting, who maintained the tennis club has not been held accountable for past violations of the law. “What is our recourse?”

Prime replied that Sallade can contact the township’s zoning officer.

“They (the township’s Zoning Office staff) will have Mr. Noll investigate,” Prime added. “And if there is a violation, he (the

tennis club owner) will be ordered to correct it, or cited for it, or whatever.”

But after Sallade asked, “Can you understand why we don’t have a whole lot of confidence in that working out?”, referencing the charges he made that the tennis club owner was not held accountable for past violations of the law, Noll contended that “there are no outdoor lights” approved for the outdoor tennis courts.

“When I was here at the last council meeting, we brought up the lights, and it was kind of weird, because one of you said there is no lights, and then the other one said, ‘Well the lights have to be off at 9 o’clock!”

Sallade pointed out.

Mayor Charles “Chuck” Watson, who had just posed for a picture with Sallade days earlier while on the campaign trail in his bid for re-election, campaigning at a small business block party at Freedom Park arranged by Sallade, also a small business owner in the municipality, claimed in response that the “approved project” called for “no lights,” before asking Noll to confirm that.

“No tennis court lights, period,” Noll declared. “We said that at the last meeting.”

But Sallade maintained that “somebody at the last meeting said they were going to be off by 9 o’clock,” while Prime denied that was the case.

Sallade and Noll then started to talk over each other.

“Can I finish?” Noll quipped. “I said at the last meeting, somebody from the audience said it isn’t true (that there is no lighting). It is true! I’ll have the plans for you! You can look at the plans! Read the plans! You have a so-called expert back there, Mr. Bell. There are no outdoor lights, period.”

Sallade, who was actually the one at the last council meeting who said that it was not true that the approvals didn’t call for outdoor lighting, in response, again recounted what he had witnessed at that prior meeting.

“Well, if I am remembering correctly, at the last meeting, when we brought up the lights, somebody said ‘Well there aren’t going to be lights,’ and then somebody else stepped in and said, ‘The lights need to be off by 9 p.m.’”

The videotaped Aug. 18 statements from both Burger and Noll can be viewed on the township website, as of press time, at the 12:06 minute mark of the Aug. 18 proceedings, during the public comment section.

“They have to stop ‘playing tennis’ by 9 p.m.,” retorted Watson in claiming what was actually said during the preceding meeting.

The mayor added that he “sat on the Planning Board when this happened,” and that the tennis club “wanted outdoor lights” but “one of the conditions of approval, because we heard your concerns when you were here, is that there were to be no lights on the tennis courts.”

“And if there is, all of a sudden, lights on the tennis courts, when people are playing, we will take care of it,” the mayor declared.

Watson’s claim, however, contradicted another by Deputy Mayor Erik Rebstock (a l s o p i c t u r e d w it h S a l l a d e w h i l e campaigning) at the preceding council meeting, who said that he “did not believe” any of the current members of council were on the planning board at the time the project had been approved.

“The condition of the approval is the outdoor tennis courts shall not be lit at nighttime, period,” contended Prime on See COURTS/ Page 6

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

New Owners of Historic Buzby’s General Store Plan to Reopen Chatsworth Landmark Shortly with the Addition of an ‘Eatery’ to Its Name Pair Hopes to Have Restored Establishment Up and Running in November, with ‘Home-Style’ Breakfast and Lunch Menus, Locally Sourced Foods to Fill Larders of Township Residents

By Bill Bonvie Staff Writer

C H A T S W O RT H — T h e p l a n n e d reopening of one of the area’s most iconic establishments, Buzby’s General Store in the Village of Chatsworth, the hub of rural Woodland Township and the “Capital of the Pines,” is the kind of news that is bound to both gladden the hearts of local residents and deliver a big morale boost to the region’s economy, which has been struggling to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

First opened in 1865, the landmark business, which closed (for a second time) in 2017 after its last owner, the late historian and author R. Marilyn Schmidt, was no longer able to maintain it, is now in the process of being fully restored and expanded by two new owners, Jason Grater and Edward Strojan Sr., who are partners in an LLC called King of the Pine Barrens Enterprises and now hope to have it back up and running by Thanksgiving, if not sooner, under the name “Buzby’s Eatery and General Store.”

In addition to initially offering both breakfast and lunch (and hoping to be open for dinner eventually, as well as catered events such as bridal showers), with a seating capacity of 32 and an online takeout option, the refurbished operation will also serve local residents once again as a true traditional general store where they

can buy basic grocery items such as milk, eggs, bread, and various sundries “that they would ordinarily have to drive 10 or 12 miles to get,” Strojan told the Pine Barrens Tribune in a phone interview this past week.

“We’re going to be what Buzby’s was originally – the go-to place for Woodland Township,” he maintained.

Along with “trying to keep the atmosphere as nostalgic as possible’—for example, by procuring the original penny-candy counter from the Stratford Historical Society, to which it had been donated by someone who purchased it in an auction – the new owners are also in the process of creating what they think “is going to be a real home-style menu from scratch,” as Strojan described it, complete with “very, very healthy and locally sourced foods.”

Their “hardy breakfast” selections, for example, will include what he calls his “buzz spuds”—seared, cubed potatoes with a soft, creamy inside and a crispy, crunchy exterior, “well-seasoned and mixed with just a little bit of soft sautéed onions and green pepper”—and “pancakes that will knock your socks off,” based on his having “researched all of the pancake recipes you can imagine,” which will be served with an emulsification of butter and pure maple syrup.

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Fire Destroys Barn Used for Deck Restoration Material Storage Following Explosion; Spontaneous Combustion Suspected Cause

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

SHAMONG—An early morning blaze on Sept. 8 destroyed a barn at 152 Indian Mills Road in Shamong Township.

According to John Smith, chief of the Indian Mills Volunteer Fire Company, the “building was already about 85 percent gone” upon his arrival to the scene.

“Anyone in the firefighting business knows that when you have a barn fire, once it gets going, you don’t really have much of a chance,” Smith said. “The outcome is usually a total loss. You can’t get into them; they are usually all dried out.”

Initially, he said, the blaze was reported to be occurring behind a residence on Manitoba Trail, and possibly thought to be a shed fire, but as Smith approached the scene, he observed that it was actually a barn on Indian Mills Road that was on fire.

“That is when I put all companies in service and called for additional water tenders,” he told this newspaper.

The fire, he said, was called in by a resident of Manitoba Trail who heard an explosion and then looked out his back window and observed the barn on fire.

According to the fire chief, the barn that caught fire belonged to a man who refinishes decks for a living and used it for storage of his equipment and materials.

It was a “total loss,” Smith declared.

“The Burlington County Fire Marshal investigated the cause and believes it was possibly the result of spontaneous combustion from rags used for staining decks the day before, and left in a trailer with a can of gas and a generator,” said Smith of the cause.

“That caused the explosion we believe the Manitoba Trail homeowner heard.”

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A barn inferno in Shamong on the morning of Sept. 8.

In addition to the barn, one SUV and one pickup truck was totaled by the inferno, according to Smith. No animals or people were injured, however, he said.

Smith noted that the deck restorer was able to move three other vans he had away from the fire, saving them from any damage. The fire company went into service to save another building next to the barn, Smith added.

Also in the barn, according to Smith, were bales of hay, a hay wagon and other items that were set aside for a barn wedding to be held on Sept. 12.

The “wedding went on,” according to the fire chief, in another barn on the property, with the use of replacement bales of hay, etc.

Numerous area fire companies assisted in the Sept. 8 fire response, Smith noted, with Vincent Fire Company providing a command post, Medford Lakes Fire handling water supply, Tabernacle Fire handling ladder operations and Tabernacle Rescue Squad providing rehab. Many other firefighting agencies provided water tenders.

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Public Hearing on Redevelopment Plan for Greenberg Farm Features ‘Serious Concerns’ About Drainage, Nearby Airport Pemberton Council Ultimately Approves Plan After Solicitor, Mayor Advise Such Issues Will Be Addressed in Redevelopment Agreement as Well as in Site Plan Hearings with Town, County Planning Boards

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

PEMBERTON—A redevelopment plan for three lots, totaling some 153-acres, that comprise the Greenberg Farm, which abuts both North Pemberton and Arneys Mount roads, has been approved 4-0 by Pemberton Township Council (with Councilman Donovan Gardner abstaining due to being a friend of the Greenberg family).

The redevelopment plan, completed in anticipation of a prospective developer for mally proposing an age-restricted housing development for the former dairy cattle farm in the near-future, passed on Sept. 1 despite resident John Emmons, a welder and fabricator who has done a lot of repairs on farm equipment and owns a farm about a half-mile away from the Greenberg Farm, raising concerns that any development could further contribute to water retention and drainage issues already occurring on the Greenberg Farm, as well as in the general vicinity, with his wife, Mary Jane, noting that she was also concerned about the impact such a project could have on a small airport that abuts the property.

Township Solicitor Andrew “Andy” Bayer, however, maintained that council should be only “thinking globally” at this time as the redevelopment plan “provides zoning for the site and nothing else,” with Mayor David Patriarca pointing out that “zoning in this area already exists to allow permittable development on this property” and the redevelopment plan “gives the town

more leverage with the developer to now negotiate the terms and the way it is going to be developed.”

During a preceding council meeting, Chris Dochney, of CME Associates, a consulting project planner to Pemberton Township, said the redevelopment plan allows for “a maximum” of 354 age-restricted, singlefamily homes to be built on the Greenberg Farm, compared to the 450 units that was allowed through the Overlay District, or what had been the existing zoning for the Greenberg Farm up until passage of the redevelopment plan.

John Emmons, in referring to Pemberton officials settling on requiring a 200-foot buffer with a “gently sloped,” 4- to 6-foothigh berm for any proposed development on the Greenberg Farm, recounted a time “a number of years ago” when “Marvin Greenberg” had purportedly approached a “heavy equipment operator” “about the area in the front” of the Greenberg Farm that “retains water.”

“Erwin (the equipment operator) told him that the only thing you could do is run a drain line from that waterhole all the way down to the stream by the airport, in the back, and he did not want to go for the price of that,” John Emmons recalled. “So that right there tells you that the property does not drain really good.”

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(Continued from Page 3) noted, Buzby’s Eatery will be offering “specialty dishes that include spicy tuna wraps, an acai bowl, Greek avocado toast and a six-layer veggie sandwich. But he emphasized that everyone involved in preparation will be trained to prepare them “in the same way I do it”—something he first put into practice while running the Sweet Pea Market in Margate after hearing complaints about variations in sandwich quality.

Strojan said he now makes it his business to “know what the customers like,” which is why “every menu item will be written out in terms of how it should be made and how it is supposed to look.”

As for where the eatery’s ingredients will be coming from, in addition to relying

on a purveyor they have previously used to supply the highest-quality fresh-baked products, Strojan said he and his partner will consider using local bakers to provide such commodities as pies and pastries, as long as they can inspect the premises where these items will be prepared.

“I’m open to using any local sources of supply, provided they can keep up with the demand, because I think it’s going to take off,” he asserted.

Plans also call for a souvenir shop of sorts to be included in the mix, which will carry things like coolers, hats, T-shirts and PineBarrens-related books.

Right now, the partners, who also have someone lined up to manage the operation, according to Strojan, are busily engaged in retrofitting the interior of the structure, which is on the National Register of Historic See STORE/ Page 6

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(Continued from Page 2) Sept. 7 of what was imposed on the applicant by the planning board, with Watson serving as a Class I manager and Councilman Frank Czekay currently representing the governing body as a Class III member. “The use of the outdoor tennis courts is limited from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The tournament play hours have to be staggered over three-hour periods to avoid overflow parking conditions on the property. The applicant shall install landscape buffering to the satisfaction of the board’s planner, along the portion of the property that is located near a residential zoning district. Those are four conditions.”

Sallade responded that if those conditions of approval are carried out, “then we are not happy, but we are satisfied,” but again maintained “we know the owner of this business has violated some things over the years” to which he was “not held accountable.”

“About 10 years ago, he cleared out the entire back of his building of all the vegetation without any permits, and about three years ago he started to clear out the vegetation between his building and his neighbor’s house without permits,” Sallade contended. “The township was called, and the township came out and stopped him. So again, that shows there was some wrongdoing on his end. Right? And the owner has not been held accountable to revegetate any of that land.”

Prime, however, maintained “to his knowledge, there are no existing violations,” however, there were a few in the past that “the township and Pinelands Commission picked up.”

“The Pinelands Com mission is the en forc e ment agency for thos e,” the municipal solicitor said. “They required remediation – reforestation.”

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(Continued from Page 4) Sites but whose commercial survival was once in doubt, for its grand re-entry as a sort of cultural and culinary centerpiece of the Pine Barrens region.

“When we looked at the inside of this building, it struck us as so quaint and nice that we wanted to make sure we kept that same nostalgic feel,” he recalled. (Along with its Victorian appearance, Buzby’s is endowed with a full commercial kitchen as well as a rear office, geothermal heat and central air, and is handicapped accessible.)

Originally, the pair had set an opening target date for mid-October, but that “now appears like it’s going to be pushed back” to November, Strojan said. The initial plan, he added, calls for Buzby’s to be open for breakfast and lunch

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In response to Sallade alleging, “That didn’t happen!”, Prime maintained that “It did happen,” and the owner of the tennis club also had to eliminate “three parking spaces.”

“Well, first of all, the engineer is here, but it happened,” Prime declared. “There is more to be done … conditions of approval….”

But Sallade stopped the solicitor in his tracks, remarking, “Before you go further, so when you say, ‘It did happen,’ what happened?”

Prime then began to feverishly look through his notes to offer a response.

“I mean we don’t have to look things up!” Sallade asserted. “I can tell you, as I live right next to it, he cleared it out 10 years ago, completely cleared it out, and did nothing! Now, over the course of the last 10 years, stuff regrew, but he did not have to revegetate it!”

A clearly frustrated Prime retorted, “That is not the case, Jeff!”, and asserted that Sallade was “making statements that aren’t true!”

Prime, in ultimately referencing his notes from an “investigation” he claimed to have conducted based on the statements of Bell and Sallade from the Aug. 18 meeting, contended that “the Pinelands Commission issued a letter on Aug. 3, 2018, saying they approved the revegetation, and the violations are resolved” and that “there were six separate letters from the Pinelands Commission requesting more information” about what had happened with the land clearing.

“There were further investigations by the Pinelands Commission,” Prime maintained.

“They indicated the violations have been resolved.”

Sallade, retorted, “OK, I can tell you somebody did not do their job to check and see if it (the revegetation) actually happened because he never revegetated that area!”

“My biggest concern going forward now is that this gentleman thinks he can get away

with anything he wants because we have not held him accountable as a township!”

Sallade declared. “… We just want to make sure that moving forward, since this project is going to move forward, that he is going to be held accountable for any actions that he does going forward, which in our opinion, it feels like it has not been the case up until now. We don’t have to stand here and argue.”

That is when Prime asserted that the exchange was not an adversarial one.

“I know, it is emotional, right?” asked Sallade, pointing out that there are ten homes on Nelson Drive that have been there for about 15 years, and that he “understands” the number of residences of his neighborhood are insignificant for the matter to be a priority to the township.

“It is our neighborhood and we feel like the township didn’t represent our best interests.

That’s all.”

Prime insisted, however, that Mandalap “has been held accountable.”

“I have said on three separate occasions to you and Mr. Bell that if in fact he is doing something that is not in accordance with the approvals, the township engineer inspects the projects, will advise the council, and if we have to, we will take action,” Prime said. “I can assure you no one is unsympathetic to you.

He has to comply with the conditions of the approval. I know you think he can do whatever he wants to do, but that is not the case!”

Watson told Sallade to email both him and the zoning officer with any perceived violations of the approvals, and that he often “pesters” Burger “all the time” upon receiving emailed complaints about land use issues “to look into them.”

“I will have it looked into,” the mayor vowed to Sallade. “If they are playing tennis at night, and it is lit up, we will take care of it.”

Noll also gave h is com m itment to Sallade that “as the township engineer who conducts inspections” he will “make sure”

that everything the tennis club does is in accordance with the approved plans, “and if not, I will hold him accountable.”

Both Bell and Sallade at the Aug. 18 council meeting had threatened to pursue legal action to overturn the approvals if the township council did not “intervene” on their behalf to stop the project.

Mandalap, in an interview with this newspaper published last week, pointed out that he had followed the law in obtaining the approvals and claimed to have started the project, adding that there is no outdoor lighting. He said the approvals call for completely revegetating the parcel, and that he had already conducted parking lot improvements to abate a prior issue raised by the Pinelands Commission.

He insisted the controversy was the result of an argument one of his employees had with a resident of Nelson Drive and locals being unhappy that the approvals allow him to fence the perimeter of the new tennis courts, which would cut off access to a dirt road that runs through part of his property leading to a convenience store, forcing them to use the main highway. The new tennis courts, he maintained, have been “constantly requested.”

At the Sept. 7 session, Prime reiterated that while the residents of Nelson Drive “are entitled to the protection of the township to the point that we can,” it is “the planning board’s job, not township council, to hear applications, decide them the best it can, and impose conditions to protect residents.”

“As much as we had hoped that the project would not move forward, I think we have come to the realization that it is going to move forward,” said Sallade on Sept. 7. “So, it is disappointing to us. But we also realize there isn’t much we can do about it. So, my concern going forward is the accountability that the owner (of Arrowhead) has not been held to over the past 10 years.”

Thursdays through Sundays, closing sometime between 3 and 5 p.m., and then, “contingent upon how fast we can get geared up and how fast it takes off,” to expand those hours, perhaps even to a point where it can stay open seven days a week, 12 hours a day.

The pending re-opening is already generating quite a bit of excitement among locals, Strojan claimed, noting that it has even been included in a new book for young adult readers, “Piney Joe’s Adventures: Exploring the New Jersey Pine Barrens” by area author William J. Lewis, who he said found out about it just as the book was going to press. (Buzby’s General Store is also talked about by John McPhee in his watershed 1967 book, “The Pine Barrens.”)

Currently, there are two signs in the building’s front window, featuring the establishment’s new logo, one with two bees flying around it that says, “What’s the buzz

… the re-opening of Chatsworth’s favorite gathering spot” and the other that says “Now Hiring,” and advising applicants to apply at Buzbyseatery@gmail.com.

To better help facilitate the project, Grater is now living above the store in the quarters once occupied by Schmidt, its former owner and the author of more than 60 books on Pine Barrens food and customs, who purchased it in 1998 after it had been initially closed for seven years, keeping it going as a gift, art and book shop and café until 2017, when health issues forced her to put it on the market.

It has since remained closed, except for a couple days during the 36th Annual Cranberry Festival (the last one held) in 2019, a few months after Grater, who worked in telecommunications and had installed internet for Schmidt, purchased the property for $150,000.

Strojan, besides having operated the SweetPea Market in Margate (which he recently closed, due to a shortage of help, to devote himself to the reopening of Buzby’s), has worked with his son a restaurateur, in helping to retrofit the Victoria Freehouse, a British-style pub in Old City Philadelphia.

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PUBLIC NOTICE PROPOSED PLAN RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, RESTORATION ADVISORY BOARD MEETING, AND RECORD OF DECISION SIGNED PROPOSED PLAN ISSUED FOR MRS FR004, FORMER PRACTICE MORTAR RANGE, AT JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST The Department of the Air Force and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) invite public comment on the Proposed Plan for Munitions Response Site (MRS) FR004, Former Practice Mortar Range, located at Dix. The Proposed Plan addresses the potential risk for munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) at MRS FR004.

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(Continued from Page 4) “impervious structures, homes, blacktop and things like that there” it essentially would “put a retention basin there.”

Emmons said a “good example of one” is just cattycorner from the Greenberg Farm, in the front of the Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center at 100 Arneys Mount Road.

“It turns green,” said Emmons of the retention basin. “That means the water does not drain out of it. That was the former Emmons farm then purchased by Charles “Charlie” Jones. I helped Charlie Jones farm that ground, plowed it, cut it, and there was never a problem with water laying there. Then they put Early Childhood there with blacktop and berming, and they put the retention basin out front, and now the water does not drain. They have even drilled holes in that basin, and it still does not drain. So, we have a problem around that area with water that does not go away.”

John Emmons pointed out that retention basins that do not drain “become a mosquito haven,” an irritant and safety issue “for people who live in the area.”

Patriarca, who lives on Arneys Mount Road, agreed with Emmons that the area of North Pemberton and Arneys Mount roads “is a problematic area for drainage” and that “Early Childhood is an example.”

“Now we have ‘Arneys Mount Pond,’” said the mayor in referring to the retention basin at Early Childhood that is retaining water, which he said was the result of a layer of marl (a carbonate-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt) that is about 5 feet deep that nobody wants to dig out and replace with sand. “It has gotten so bad that two months ago, when we had a really horrendous rainstorm, right after it I walked outside into my backyard and I thought it was a Sci-Fi movie as I saw so many frogs – not toads – to the point you couldn’t walk without stepping on a frog, and I mean big ones!”

As a result of what occurred at Early Childhood, Patriarca maintained, the township “will have to look at these things” such as the site drainage and assure that any redevelopment agreement addresses it.

The mayor added that he and another member of the council sit on the planning board and “will be looking at these issues as they come forward to make sure that the development, if it is ever built, is built responsibly.”

Patriarca acknowledged that replacing farmland with impervious materials “does create issues,” but that it is why “engineers design these things (developments and drainage basins).”

“Some (engineers) design things better

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than others,” said the mayor in pointing out how important it is for the township to have oversight and ensure due diligence is done throughout the redevelopment process.

B ay e r, w h o c o nt e n d e d t h a t a redevelopment agreement would give the municipality the flexibility needed to ask a developer how it would deal with things such as site drainage, “and flush out the details,” pointed out that the developer would have to follow the recently updated stormwater management regulations issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), which he called “very stringent.” He said he “would hope” that by a developer following those regulations, in tandem with recommendations from the township engineer, “it would fix the problems we are talking about.”

Mary Jane Emmons, in raising the concern of potential impacts on Pemberton Airport, a private-use airport first activated in May 1951, with a 2568 x 100-foot runway that is utilized by an average of 33 aircraft per day with 24 aircraft based on the field, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database last updated Sept. 9, asked if those who move to the future age-restricted housing development would want to do away with it.

“What is going to be done to ensure that airport does not get closed down?” she asked, noting that aviation is important to her as a retired member of the U.S. Military.

“How are they going to be grandfathered in to all this? And who is looking into that, or has that been looked at? And has the owner of that airport been contacted as far as the ramifications to the aviation side of it?”

Business Administrator Daniel Hornickel, in response to the questions about the airport, contended that “the airport is going to function just as it is functioning.”

“Are people going to complain about it in the future?” Hornickel asked. “That is always possible; sure, it is. But in recognizing that there is an airport a couple parcels over, the plan that we have seen anticipates having a large area of open space in-between the houses that are built and the airport. So, they are not trying to build homes on that side of the tract. They are trying to leave that open for a pasture, or to even permit somebody else to farm it.”

Mary Jane Emmons also questioned the impact any future development of the Greenberg Farm would have on traffic in the area. She pointed to another housing project near the Walmart in Lumberton Township, which she contended failed to include necessary turning lanes in the approvals, the ramifications of which are now being realized with traffic being blocked at times by those trying to turn into the development.

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The Air Force evaluated four alternatives and is proposing a magnetometer (mag) assisted MEC clearance known as “mag and dig”. The proposed action will address the potential hazards and ensure the MRS is safe, compatible with planned future land use, and protective of human health and the environment.

Copies of the Proposed Plan are available for review beginning Monday, 20 September 2021, at the Burlington County Library located at 5 Pioneer Blvd., Westampton, NJ; at the NJDEP Records Custodian, 401 East State Street, Trenton, NJ (call in advance of visiting, 609.341.3121); and, at the U.S. EPA Region 2 Record Center,18th Floor, 290 Broadway, New York, NY (call in advance of visiting, 212.637.4308). A copy of the Proposed Plan can also be viewed online on the Air Force’s Administrative Record website, http://ar.afcec-cloud.af.mil/ or at www.envirorestorejbmdl.com (click on the Community Involvement tab).

Proposed Plan Public Meeting (Virtual) The Air Force invites the public to attend a meeting on Thursday, 30 September 2021, 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be virtual via MS Teams.

Please contact Katrina Harris at kharris@bridgeconsultingcorp.com or 610.494.8044 for information on how to join the meeting by computer or phone.

Public Comments Community input is integral to the remedial alternative selection process.

The public is encouraged to review and provide written or verbal comments on the Proposed Plan during the 30-day comment period (20 September to 19 October 2021). Comments must be postmarked by 19 October 2021 and sent to Mr. James Richman, Remediation Program Manager, 787 CES/CEIE 2403 Vandenberg Avenue Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ 08641, emailed to james.richman.1@us.af.mil, or sent by fax to 609.754.2267. The final remedy will be selected after the public comment period has closed, and all comments have been taken into consideration.

RESTORATION ADVISORY MEETING – PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND (VIRTUAL) The RAB meeting will immediately follow the public meeting, starting at approximately 6:45 p.m. and ending at approximately 8:00 p.m. The RAB meeting provides an update on JB MDL environmental restoration projects.

RECORD OF DECISION SIGNED FOR MCGUIRE OPERABLE UNIT 1 The Department of the Air Force and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst announce the signing of a Record of Decision for three sites at the McGuire Operable Unit 1 (two soil-capped landfills referred to as Sites LF003 and LF004 and a former Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office Storage Facility referred to as Site ST007) to address contaminated soil and groundwater. The remedies selected for LF003 and LF004 are Optimized Soil Covers, Land Use Controls, and Long-Term Monitoring of Groundwater and Surface Water. The selected remedy for ST007 is Land Use Controls. The selected alternative will provide protection of human health and monitoring while causing less disturbance to the sites than clear cutting and installing full caps. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed the Record of Decision and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection concurred with the selected remedies. Copies of the Record of Decision are available at the Burlington County Library, NJDEP Records Custodian, and U.S. EPA Records Center (see addresses above). The document can also be viewed on the Air Force’s Administrative Record website, http://ar.afcec-cloud.af.mil/.

Contact the JB MDL Public Affairs Office at (609) 754-2104 for more information.

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meant the new tax levy impact from the referendum would be zero, or what amounts to a “tax-neutral bond proposal.”

“We can keep the tax impact to zero largely because the projects in our bond referendum qualify for over $24 million in a special type of state aid,” said Birnbohm in one of four videos released with the project list, also aired at the Aug. 25 board meeting. “This is money we either ‘use it or lose it.’ This special type of state aid is only available to us through a voter approved bond referendum and it is a different pot of money than the money that we see continuously cut by the state through the School Funding Formula.”

The final eligible costs for the projects “approved by the state Commissioner of Education” are $61,081,339, according to the bond proposal question, with $22,962,546 for Cherokee High School, $20,249,568 for Lenape High School, $7,536,026 for Seneca High School and $10,333,199 for Shawnee High School.

The referendum, according to the bond proposal question, also consists of $5,547,605 worth of “school facility construction elements” in addition to “facilities efficiency standards,” which are “not otherwise eligible for state support,” with $574,854 for Cherokee High School, $1,807,619 for Lenape High School, $1,625,270 for Seneca High School and $383,537 for Shawnee High School, with the balance going towards such work at the district’s administrative and warehouse facilities.

Air conditioning, which would be installed at all four of the district’s high schools through the bond referendum, has been a hot topic in the district for the last two decades or more,

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the lack thereof which has more recently led to considerable controversy, early dismissals, and safety hazards on hot weather days.

B i r n b o h m ’s p r e d e c e s s o r s h a d unsuccessfully pursued a bond referendum that would have provided financing for air conditioning in LRHSD schools, but now climate change is causing more hot weather days with greater humidity levels, today’s students are acclimated to air conditioning at home and having great difficulty adjusting to hot temperatures in the classroom, expanding use of technology in the classroom not only generates its own heat, but requires cooler temperatures for optimum performance, a greater number of children are suffering from pre-existing medical conditions such as asthma, and there have been mask mandates associated with the current Coronavirus pandemic.

“We absolutely see an uptick in students who visit the nurse’s office when we have a very hot and humid days,” said one district nurse in the video campaign. “The students are sometimes so overheated, that they complain of headaches, nausea and fatigue. They require time to cool off and hydrate.”

Another district nurse pointed out in the video campaign that some students have been sent home early due to overheating while in school.

“I will walk into my classroom at 7 a.m. and it will be 85 or 88 degrees,” said teacher Jennifer Pulliam, of the district’s Shawnee High School, in the video campaign of the conditions in her classroom during a hot weather day. “If the temperature is 90 degrees outside, it is usually 90 something inside. That is the hard reality right now.”

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their own heat and can quickly overheat in such conditions, leading to disruptions in teaching.

A couple of district students also featured in the video campaign provided accounts of feeling “nauseous” and “sick to my stomach” while attending classes on hot weather days.

“I can have the most energetic lesson, but if a student is only focused on how hot they are, it is really difficult to accomplish learning,” quipped another teacher in the video campaign.

Anthony “Tony” Voiro, director of Buildings and Grounds for the LRHSD, maintained in the video campaign that the “improvements to our HVAC system go beyond comfort.”

“It (air conditioning) makes for a better learning environment,” he said. “Kids are dealing with heat and kids with breathing issues, or other disabilities that they may have, especially struggle. It is just not effective to learn, and it is just not effective to teach in that environment.”

In addition to the air conditioning, the proposal includes projects that would upgrade existing HVAC systems, many of which, according to Voiro, date back anywhere from the mid-1950s to early `90s.

“Upgrading our HVAC systems will enable us to run them more efficiently, have better control to temper the air better, to have more air efficiency in our buildings, and be overall more effective for the learning environment,” he said. “It will also save us a lot of money in the long run. Newer equipment runs more efficiently, with less maintenance, and now is the time to do it if we have the ability to get one third of that money back. It is a win-win.”

Allyson Roberts, a spokeswoman for the LRHSD, stressed in a statement provided to this newspaper, however, that while upgrading the district’s HVAC systems will enable the addition of air conditioning in all four schools, “that is not the main reason we need to upgrade these systems.”

“Our facilities team has done an exceptional job maintaining these aging systems, but some are as much as 60 years old, and it is becoming increasingly inefficient and costly over time to keep them running,” she wrote. “Compare it to the high price and difficulty of finding car parts – or even a home appliance – that is no longer in production. Newer systems are more energy efficient, which also saves money in the long-term. Importantly, these upgrades qualify for state aid to help offset about onethird of the costs when they are included in a voter-approved bond referendum.”

HVAC, Roberts added, also makes a difference beyond heating and cooling for comfort.

“In addition to regulating the temperature (which only increases as our students carry their personal computers), our schools could gain a greater ability to control air quality for a more effective learning environment,” she maintained. “The proposed upgrades and

additions of HVAC systems to our facilities will further improve our ability to temper and filter air, and to manage its flow.”

Another major component included in the bond referendum is the replacement of grass fields at both Lenape and Seneca with turf fields. Cherokee and Shawnee already have turf fields. According to the video campaign, having consistency among the district’s four high schools would “create equity among the athletic facilities.”

“And turf is the modern standard for high schools,” contended the narrator of the videos, Marc Sonsini, an employee of the district. “Athletes who play on grass can be at a significant disadvantage at high school and at college.”

Sarah Scannell, head coach of Lenape’s field hockey team, maintained in the video campaign that having a turf field would be “a game changer” for her team.

“We are playing teams that practice on turf all season long,” she pointed out. “And we are prepping for them on grass. It is such a disadvantage for us.”

Explaining that disadvantage was another coach who maintained that turf fields provide for a “consistency of the ball” and “a consistency of the ball to be stopped.”

“Certain skills can’t be learned on the grass,” she asserted.

Other district coaches, in the video campaign, pointed out that “most colleges don’t play on grass anymore” and that “when we watch student athlete recruiting videos, we actually refuse to watch anything played on the grass because it is not applicable to the Collegiate Game Divisions 1, 2 or 3.”

“It is so extremely beneficial for our student athletes to be playing on turf at the high school level because it just prepares them for the game speed that they will be seeing in the future,” declared one district coach.

One of the coaches featured in the video campaign pointed out that many games played on grass fields have to be canceled or rescheduled after heavy rain, but a student athlete added that a turf field “is ready to play on.”

In addition to the turf fields, all existing stadium light fixtures for the district schools would be converted to LED fixtures, according to the video campaign.

As for the customization of classrooms and addition of equipment in them for “career focused learning,” Sonsini said that it will enable the LRHSD to “open its expanded career pathway programs to any district student.”

“We realize not all our students career goals require a college degree,” said Heather Xenakis, LRHSD director of Curriculum and Instruction, in the video campaign.

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(Continued from Page 7) has been speaking to “anticipates having a turning lane to get into the development” and that “there certainly is going to be an expansion of the roadway so people can move off North Pemberton Road to get into the development without blocking traffic.”

He added that given that North Pemberton Road is a county road, the prospective developer will have to submit plans to not only the township planning board, but also the county one.

“Now keep in mind, it is a proposed senior development,” Hornickel said. “So, in most situations you are not necessarily having morning rush hour and evening rush hour with a bunch of seniors coming and going (since a lot of them would be retired). Are there going to be seniors coming and going?

Of course. But it is not like you are going to have people jamming up the roads all at the same time during the day.”

The business administrator, who on Aug. 18 urged council to move the ordinance forward that approves the redevelopment plan for the Greenberg Farm so that he can show the prospective developer that the municipality “is ready to move forward” with the senior housing project and “council is making progress on it,” noted at the time he was doing so because he was “trying to attract development, not only in this location, but throughout the township” in a bid to increase municipal ratables, “which is something, when I took this job, that I walked into and knew it was the lay of the land in Pemberton Township.”

John Emmons told council on Sept. 1 that “after reading in the newspaper” that “people say the taxes are going to go down with the ratables,” he contacted Terry Jerome, a councilman in neighboring Pemberton Borough, to ask him if Hearthstone at Woodfield, an age-restricted community in the borough, brought taxes down.

“He said, ‘John, your taxes are in three portions – county, township and school,’” John Emmons recounted. “He said, ‘It won’t affect the township or county taxes. The only thing is with the school, those people there will be paying into the school without any kids going there.’ But he said in the borough it was negligible. It didn’t amount to anything in the way of a tax savings. He has stood there a long time on council. I asked, ‘Did your taxes go down?’ He replied, ‘No they didn’t.’”

John Emmons noted that Jerome also mentioned “‘that in the beginning, an agerestricted community looks great’” but that “‘as things age, somebody has to take care of the infrastructure’” which ‘“then ends up being a burden’” for the municipality if they are responsible for the community, along with concerns about whether the borough’s water system (which would likely serve the portion of the township where the Greenberg Farm is located) could handle hundreds of new homes.

“If there is a HOA (homeow ners’ association), then they are responsible for the curb,” John Emmons said. “But like Terry told me, ‘If you want ratables, commercial is the only way to go because they are responsible from the curb, in. Same

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Patriarca, who called the concerns the Emmons raised “valid,” said that he would be “supporting an HOA in this project.”

“I believe the developer is OK with doing a HOA in this project,” the mayor maintained.

“Why should we bear the burden of this?

This town is already developed, and we are in a time where we just can’t take on these expenses. If they want to build it, they have to maintain it.”

The Emmons were the only ones to participate in the Sept. 1 public hearing on the ordinance approving the redevelopment plan, or new zoning for the Greenberg Farm.

“There is going to be a couple of additional layers of protection here beyond significant layers of protection protecting the township’s interest in addressing what I would suggest are the degrees of serious concerns that were raised by the residents tonight,” Bayer pointed out. “All we are doing is zoning.

Respectfully, we don’t need to solve how is the site going to drain, how is the traffic going to be impacted, and where is the water coming from. That is going to be addressed through later activity and scrutiny.”

A public hearing for an ordinance that had been enacted by the then-council in 2009 to rezone the Greenberg Farm to allow for age-restricted housing had drawn so many people, according to those meeting minutes, it went from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., with a thencouncil member recorded as noting that he recalled only two people during “36 hours’ worth of (prior) public hearings” saying that they were in favor of a development there.

The mayor, during council’s Aug. 18 meeting, had recalled “that residents of the community came out strongly against any development on this property 10 or 12 years ago,” but said that he did not know if there was any opposition, “or a real volume of individuals” against the latest plan.

“The age-restricted housing is a permitted use on this property, and it was done back around 2008 or 2010 I believe,” said Patriarca on Sept. 1. “When we changed the zoning, it made it permittable. And when we did that, we went through a very lengthy process of re-examining the master plan. We went to each community in the township and held public meetings. We had residents come out in opposition of this development and property.

“They all wanted the town to preserve the property, but nobody wanted to buy the property from the owner who wants to develop it, or wants to sell it. He’ll sell it for preservation if someone wants to give him his price. But nobody offered that. So, the town compromised with the residents and zoned this property at that time making it a permitted use to build an age-restricted community on this property. So, it is already permitted.”

The mayor admitted, however, that even “my wife doesn’t want to see any houses there.”

“She likes looking at the silo,” he said, noting that the redevelopment plan is just a zoning adjustment allowing not only different options on the Greenberg property, but for the municipality to get a better hold on it.

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PUBLIC NOTICE JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST (JB MDL) NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF ENGINEERING EVALUATION/COST ANALYSIS (EE/CA) FOR NON-TIME CRITICAL REMOVAL ACTION (NTCRA), PHASE II WATER LINE CONSTRUCTION, FOR PUBLIC COMMENT The Department of the Air Force and JB MDL announce the availability of the EE/CA for NTCRA, Phase II Water Line for public comment. The Air Force sampled private offbase drinking water wells located adjacent to JB MDL and confirmed the presence of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) above the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Lifetime Health Advisory (HA) level of 0.07 μg/L (individually or combined) at five properties. The owners of the properties were immediately notified and were provided bottled drinking water as a temporary short-term solution.

The EE/CA removal action objective (RAO) is to “eliminate the human health risk posed by PFOS/PFOA-impacted drinking water above the EPA Lifetime HA level.”

The EE/CA recommends connecting all impacted properties to a municipal water line as the permanent long-term solution to eliminate future exposure to PFOS/PFOA-impacted drinking water above the EPA Lifetime HA level. Water would be supplied by the Municipal Water Authority (MUA) of Manchester Township or the Borough of Lakehurst based on the location of the impacted property. The MUAs operate, maintain, and distribute water obtained from deep confined aquifers free of PFOS/PFOA surface contamination.

The Air Force encourages the public to review and provide written comments on the EE/CA for NTCRA during a 30-day comment period, from 20 September 2021 through 19 October 2021. Comments must be submitted in writing to the contact listed herein and must be postmarked or emailed no later than 19 October April 2021. Please send your comments to Mr. James Richman, Remediation Program Manager, 787 CES/CEIE, 2403 Vandenberg Avenue, JB MDL, New Jersey 08641 or by email to james.richman.1@us.af.mil. The EE/CA is available for review on the Air Force’s Administrative Record website, http://ar.afcec-cloud.af.mil/, by selecting JBMDL-Lakehurst in the drop down list and entering AR#W004275, or on the JB MDL Restoration Advisory Board website, https://envirorestorejbmdl.com/ under the “COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT” tab.

Contact the JB MDL Public Affairs Office at (609) 754-2104 for more information.

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hands-on opportunities for those students.”

According to a special webpage (www.lrhsd. org/vote), which the LRHSD has established to provide the community with details of the bond proposal, if voters approve it, the district would be “on track to begin some work by the end of the school year.”

“The proposed LED stadium lighting and turf additions at Lenape and Seneca high schools will be among the first projects to start in summer 2022,” the website states. “The proposed HVAC work, along with the other interior renovations, electrical and plumbing upgrades, will take place in stages to avoid an impact on the educational process. HVAC projects will start in the summer of 2022 and could extend to the 2024-25 school year. All of the HVAC, plumbing and electrical project scopes are connected to each other and will be done together, with start-ups happening throughout the project term.”

It is noted that the district’s architectural firm, The Design Collaborative, “foresees some preparatory work” by the end of the 2021-22 school year, with “more intense work” ramping up when that school year ends.

Birnbohm, during the Aug. 25 board meeting, noted there is a “short window” of time for voters to become informed of the proposal as mail-in ballots will be disseminated in early October, with in-person

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“We want the public to know what is in the bond referendum,” she maintained during the latest board meeting. “And how we are trying to make our schools better at zero new taxes.

We all know informed voters make better decisions in the booth.

The district has scheduled four “virtual community forums” to discuss the bond proposal in more detail with voters, with one for those in Seneca’s sending municipalities scheduled for Oct. 13 at 5 p.m., one for those in Shawnee’s sending municipalities scheduled for Oct. 13 at 7 p.m., one for those in Cherokee’s sending municipality scheduled for Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. and one for those in Lenape’s sending municipality scheduled follow for Oct.us14on at 7 p.m. Roberts told this newspaper that the facebook.com/MedfordUMC public will soon be able to register to attend by visiting lrhsd.org/forum .

“What is really interesting, is on our communication committee, there are several students, and they stood up and were like, ‘I really don’t understand why anyone would vote ‘no’ to this. What is the big deal?’ This is a no brainer. But we really can’t take it for granted even though it is a zero-tax increase.

This is a general election and people are distracted by other questions in the booth, or whatever else is going on – other issues. Our job between now and then is to get the word out as much as possible.”

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the bridge itself, which is being opened at least 500 times during each summer month, a spokesperson for Atlantic County has denied that is the case.

A community leader from neighboring Mullica Township, however, is suggesting that anything other than on-demand bridge openings is “very hurtful” to his town and that a dangerous situation is posed by the “bottleneck” on the river from the reduced openings.

James Kramer and Susan Dunphey, whose Washington home, on River Road in Green Bank, is nearest Ski Beach, which is on the Atlantic County side of the Mullica, in Mullica Township, previously described to the Washington committee that the private beach has turned into “party central,” resulting in underage drinking, individuals cursing loudly, people giving the middle finger, the blasting of music into the wee hours of the morning, and fights involving the throwing of bottles, all while people on “wave runners, jet skis and boats who fly through there every two minutes,” are disobeying no wake zones in the vicinity of the bridge, leading to a dangerous situation.

Their calls for action, aired during a July Washington committee meeting, were published recently by the Pine Barrens

Tribune, which also reported on the recent efforts by Washington Mayor Daniel James to contact several law enforcement agencies to see if they can bring resources to the municipality to “calm things down.”

“I appreciate everything you are trying to do Mayor James; I really do,” said Dunphey during a Sept. 7 meeting of the Washington committee. “But it is still out of control on the river – worse than ever. The marine police (of the New Jersey State Police) have been up here sporadically, but not enough. Now it has come to property damage at my house.”

K ramer, who lives w ith Dunphey, explained that they left their home by boat to take a trip to Oyster Creek on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 4. While passing Ski Beach, he contended, those on the beach shouted at them using a microphone of some sort, ‘“No wake! No wake!”’

“They were just playing with us,” said Kramer of what occurred, with Dunphey adding that those individuals just have “no respect” for those who live in the area.

They returned home later that evening observing nothing out of the ordinary, except that the partying was continuing, according to Kramer. But by morning, on Sunday, Sept.

5, he said, they discovered that someone had “smashed the buoys” advising of a no wake zone, which Kramer said he had made himself at the request of state police, and that their “dock was ripped off.”

“The whole jet ski dock, with the jet ski on

it, was totally broken off away from the main dock,” said Dunphey of the discovery. “And it was (prior to the damage) secured with nuts and bolts and everything.”

Dunphey added that their boat was also found to have sustained “deep scratches,” though it was unclear whether it was from being vandalized, or from the “jet ski floating down the river on its dock” hitting it.

“Now it has come to the point of true property damage,” she declared.

Kramer maintained he was fairly confident that those utilizing Ski Beach were “running the buoys over on purpose” and “chopping them down” because over the last month, leading up to the incident, some utilizing the beach were shouting, “‘We are not slowing down for your wake anymore!’” He added that some were even yelling, “’We are going to run them over!’”

“This is the (mentality of) these kids – these brats from Sweetwater (a riverfront section of Mullica Township)!” Kramer asserted. “That is where they are all coming from!”

Dunphey pointed out that some of the property damage that purportedly has occurred over the last month was also the result of watercraft operators deciding not to slow down for the wake.

“The wakes are creating a lot of damage now,” she said.

Dunphey noted that someone had filmed over the Labor Day weekend a speeding powerboat “nearly running over two people”

swimming at Ski Beach.

“You can hear the powerboats from our homes,” Kramer contended. “The music is so loud! This whole beach – it is like living next to the Atco Dragway or an outdoor concert! It is every day. But this past Sunday, they were out there at 8:30 a.m. blasting the radio. It is insane!”

James said that he was aware that the New Jersey State Police did have its marine police patrolling the waterway over the Labor Day weekend, and that when in the vicinity, their presence “calmed things down for a little while” and “pretty much shutdown Ski Beach.” However, he and the Washington residents maintained that as soon as the state police would leave the area to move downstream or upstream, the situation turned rambunctious again.

“It was nasty Sunday and Monday,” Kramer maintained. “Just nuts! When they (the marine police) are there, it works. The worst time is 4 p.m. to dark. They are all drunk by 7 or 8 at night, blasting (music from their) speakers.”

Dunphey added that some of the watercraft are operating in the river during the nighttime hours with no lights, posing a further danger to public safety, pointing out that some watercraft are not even equipped with lights.

Both Dunphey and Kramer said they now “want marine police dispatched as much as possible” to the area, as the situation “is now costing us money,” and explained that when See MULLICA/ Page 15

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“I did write a letter to the owner of the property (Ski Beach), and got no response,” Dunphey said. “The property is located in Mullica Township, and my next move is to go to Mullica and file a noise complaint with them. It is out of control. You know, I hate to do it, but if the (property owners of the beach) are not going to take care of the problem, somebody has to take care of it.”

Washington Committeeman C. Leigh Gadd, Jr., who reportedly served as a detective for the Absecon Police Department and was appointed last month as Washington’s public safety director, recommended that Dunphey ask Mullica Township officials if they have a “general nuisance ordinance in place.” The Washington committeeman said he too “had an issue” with someone on the Mullica recently.

A secretary with the Mullica Township Police Department, “Gabby,” who works under Chief of Police Brian Zeck, had told this newspaper last month that the beach “is under our jurisdiction,” but pointed out that it is not accessible by vehicle.

“There is no road to it,” she said. “I am not sure that area is patrolled by us.”

Mullica Township Police, she told this newspaper, do not have a boat to conduct patrols.

Kimberly Johnson, township clerk for Mullica, pointed out last month to this newspaper that since the municipal police department does not have a boat, she “would think the marine police are in charge of all boaters.” She maintained that Ski Beach, “has been there at least 30 something years.”

“To my recollection, we have not received anything (as far as recent complaints),” Johnson told this newspaper.

Washington Emergency Management Coordinator David Simpson, during the Sept.

7 Washington committee meeting, suggested that there are differing opinions and attitudes involving the matter, and it comes down to residency.

“I want to say on our side of the bridge, our residents – they are very well mannered,” Simpson said.

“What I have been seeing on social media from the other side is pretty bad.”

Simpson alerted Washington officials and residents during the latest proceedings that the Green Bank Bridge is now “going to be on timed openings until the end of September” and “after that,” the “county (Atlantic) has apparently sent in a request to the Coast Guard to get a permanent change to the bridge so that it would operate on the hour and half hour during the summer of

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“I was going to ask you how we can go about petitioning Atlantic County to petition that because 500 openings in a month is completely ridiculous,” said James in response to the revelation.

Simpson noted that he was unsure how Washington could go about petitioning Atlantic County to petition the Coast Guard, but that he “wants to call down” to the headquarters of the Coast Guard to see if they will be sending anyone up here from the Coast Guard to see the bridge, or meet with the people.”

James asked Simpson to let him know the results from calling the Coast Guard’s headquarters because he would be willing to meet with them “because that (reducing the openings) would calm that situation (the purported unruliness on the water) down a little bit.”

Prior to the meeting, however, Gaetan Panarello, an administrator of the Facebook group “Sweetwater, NJ (Mullica River)” posted in that group that he “met with Mr. Hal Pitts, the commander of the fifth Coast Guard district bridge command,” and explained to him “the bottleneck” the reduced openings “has created on the river and dangers it has created such as boats blocking the channel waiting for a bridge opening.”

“It also has many boaters and jet skis passing through the side of the bridge, which is both illegal and dangerous as well,” said Panarello of his observations. “Based on this, he has instructed his specialist team to re-evaluate the current state as he was not aware of people passing through the sides and loitering in the channel. Hopefully, this will push them to rescind the temporary order and get us back to normal on-demand operations.”

Panarel lo, i n an “up d at e” to h is original posting, noted that “after another conversation with the bridge command office of the Coast Guard and DHS (Department of Homeland Security), it has come to my attention as though Atlantic County has filed a formal motion with the Coast Guard to try and permanently remove the on-demand status of the bridge for next year and are trying to have it changed to a scheduled opening of some kind.”

“This is just entirely unacceptable and very hurtful to the residents of Atlantic County, and especially to the residents of Sweetwater and those who love boating on the Mullica,” Panarello declared. “I have no idea who is influencing their decision making, but clearly it is not based on the thoughts or concerns of the residents of the county (Atlantic), or our town of Sweetwater, and the many boaters who love the Mullica River.”

The Pine Barrens Tribune previously reported that the proprietor of Sweetwater Marina and Riverdeck, a famed restaurant in the Sweetwater section of Mullica Township, as well as Jersey Devil Marina, pleaded with officials to open the bridge more frequently

at the height of the bridge troubles in August, contending that having “this bridge being open” is “dire” to riverfront businesses such as the ones belonging to her.

The proprietor, since the coverage of the issues on the Mullica, has pointed out on Facebook that a media outlet based in North Jersey, NJ Advance Media, has “named us the ‘greatest thing’ about Mullica Township” and that “‘the Riverdeck is a local slice of paradise that fronts the grand and graceful Mullica River.’”

Despite the reports of a petition already being filed with the Coast Guard, Linda Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Atlantic County, told the Pine Barrens Tribune on Sept.

13 that “Atlantic County government has had no discussion with the Coast Guard about instating permanent revisions for Green Bank Bridge openings related to summer marine traffic.”

“The U.S. Coast Guard has full jurisdiction for all decisions involving bridge openings,” she added.

Sarah Camillo, who in August presented New Jersey State Police Tuckerton station’s Trooper Ryan Cotta with a petition asking for increased police presence and enforcement in Washington, said during the Sept. 7 Washington committee meeting that she “appreciates the steps taken so far to take care of the issues on the roads and water,” but that it was “not enough.”

Camillo, who discussed how River Road in Lower Bank is now a race strip, pressed James if he had received any word from the state police about what its plan is to address the situation.

“It is time to give them a call,” the Washington mayor said, noting that he has not heard from them since Cotta held a public hearing at the Washington committee August meeting and that he only observed New Jersey State Park Police pulling over a couple of motorists for speeding.

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commander that he had spoken to in July about coordinating with the state police and using the agency’s boat to patrol the Mullica, all in response to the concerns, had since retired, and that he was hopeful whoever would replace that person is a familiar face that he can approach with the issues.

Camillo pointed out that she had done some research online and learned that state law allows “municipalities and counties” to set the speed limit in residential districts to 25 mph, and pointed out it looked as though her neighborhood qualified for such a speed limit.

Gadd replied that Township Engineer Kevin Dixon had told the Washington governing body last month that he thought the speed limit on River Road in Lower Bank meets the statutory criteria for 25 mph and “it is absolutely going to be followed up with the county.”

“If we have signs that puts the speed limit at 25 mph, I believe motorists will slow down to 35 mph,” Camillo contended. “We are just at the point that I think we need to do anything that we can do to possibly slow some of this down.”

Camillo also pointed out to the Washington governing body the comments made by some on the Pine Barrens Tribune’s Facebook page in response to a recent article on the situation involving Washington roads and the Mullica.

“The comments include, ‘Nothing like a newspaper quoting three people, blending speeding on a road people rarely even use to drop in watercrafts, with waterway issues.

These issues are severely exaggerated,’” said Camillo in reading some of the comments aloud. “‘Sadly, you’re just going to have to get used to it,’ and ‘It’s only going to get worse every year.’ This is what we are dealing with.

“Something needs to be done! We are heading into fall and winter when all the boating is going to die down, and I feel like we are going to take a laidback attitude, but spring is a comin’. And I think we need to stay on it – just keep working as hard as we can to come up with a solution to try to get something done.”

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