Al Colina
Hopewell Township
On Oct. 27, the Hopewell Valley Regional School District held a groundbreaking ceremony at the high school for its new turf field. In attendance were elected officials from all three Valley municipalities, school board members, sport groups and their families, marching band members and friends and the many, many donors who helped turn this dream into a reality.
This was a unique nonpartisan celebration where town and gown came together as one, and it should have remained just that.
And it was until you turned your attention to your parked cars’ windshield wipers. On every parked car you’d find a doorhanger from one of the local campaign candidates.
Now, one might attribute this imprudent and inappropriate act to a young candidate who takes all his sports perhaps too seriously. But the deputy mayor should know better (N.J.S.A.18A:42-4 prohibits politicking on school property) than to place this political literature on parked cars at such a community-wide ground breaking event.