By Birgitta Wolfe
BORDENTOWN CITY — Mayor James Lynch reacted sharply to complaints Monday about postings on the Bordentown Farmers Market Facebook page calling for a list of residents to be shot.
”It’s all hate. It’s terrible,” he said Tuesday.
Residents Michael and Nancy Tunney, who were among targets of postings, appeared before the City Commissioners meeting Monday.
”They were devastated,” the mayor said.
Someone had stolen the identify of a city resident and his photo and used them to post threatening messages about eight or nine Bordentown residents on the Facebook page, Mayor Lynch said.
The resident whose identity was taken appeared before the commissioners to say he was not involved with the postings.
The Farmers Market page, managed by Deputy Mayor Heather Cheesman, was taken down Sunday, but reappeared 10 minutes after the City Commission meeting was over, Mayor Lynch said.
”We don’t need this. This gives us a black eye,” the mayor said, noting the city attorney will be looking into the matter.
Earlier at the Monday meeting, about 50 people from the Mt. Zion AME Church appeared to hear a proclamation by the mayor renaming the church Summer Youth Program in honor of the late Rev. Jasper T. Daniels Jr., who died Jan. 12.
The program accommodates about 50 children for $10 each during July for lunch, academic and recreational events.
After the reading of the proclamation, the church members left and the Facebook discussion ensued.
”I’m glad they weren’t here to hear all that,” the mayor said.
