Tag: Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve
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Metuchen to enter into its first PILOT with Gulton Tract redevelopment; public meeting to discuss redevelopment March 24
METUCHEN – The borough will enter into its first PILOT, payment in lieu of taxes, with the redevelopment of the Gulton Tract, which essentially allows the borough to invest $20 million in borough infrastructure. “It includes everything from substantial money for our schools ($6 million), money to help renovate our library, which is badly needed,…
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Engaging stories of 2021
As the New Year approaches, the Criterion Sentinel takes a look back at some of the engaging stories that made headlines in 2021. Metuchen plans to ‘do more’ to recognize borough’s namesake Lenni-Lenape Indian Chief Metuchen Borough officials acknowledged not enough was being done to recognize the borough’s namesake Lenni-Lenape Indian Chief Metuchen (Matouchin or…
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Family, friends and colleagues unveil sign for Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve
EDISON – Family, friends and colleagues of Peter J. Barnes III gathered for the official unveiling of a sign renaming the former Dismal Swamp Conservation Area to the Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve. Barnes, who passed away at age 64 in February after a brief battle with cancer, was instrumental in preserving hundreds…
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Bill to rename Dismal Swamp Conservation Area in honor of legislator is headed to governor
A bill to rename the Dismal Swamp Conservation Area and a commission to oversee its regulation in honor of the late Peter J. Barnes III is headed to Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk to be signed into law. The legislation, which Senator Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. and Assemblymen Robert Karabinchak and Sterley Stanley sponsored, unanimously passed…