An open letter
to the committee
To the editor:
I can only begin to express in this e-mail the outrage I felt after reading on the township’s bulletin board the Request for Proposal to rebuild the Main Street firehouse tower into a communications / cell phone installation.
It is hard to imagine anything more inconsistent with the look and feel of historic Cranbury, and the fact that this document was created by our ownelected officials is absolutely outrageous.
The modifications proposed to the existing tower will substantially increase the bulk and, therefore, the visibility of this structure that sits right in the heart of the town’s registered historic district.
There is no amount of monthly income that can justify adding this monstrosity to the center of town. And there should be no committee or committee member that would want as its legacy a tower that once built, will only get bigger. A more appropriate action would be to move the existing tower out to the Station Road police deadquarters location.
It is time for sanity to return to the Township Committee, and to close this project down.
Bill Beam
Cranbury
Place blame
where it belongs
To the editor:
On the same day the Senate released a report confirming that Saddam Hussein never had ties with Al Qaeda, we also learn that Donald Rumsfeld refused to consider planning for post-war Iraq.
According to Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, the secretary of defense actually threatened to fire anyone who discussed post-war plans.
Our poor troops never had a chance coming or going.
How can the president continue to go on television and continue to draw illusory links between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Will he never be held accountable for his actions and words?
More than ever, I am proud of my representatives in Congress: New Jersey’s Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12). These intelligent, courageous men opposed President Bush’s war from the start, and continue to call for an end to our mistaken involvement in Iraq.
If the rest of our country had such wise leadership, we could have avoided the unnecessary disaster that Iraq has become.
Eddie Konczal
Monroe

