Tag: Your Turn guest column
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Sierra Club: Proposed Colts Neck Manor raises environmental concerns
By Taylor McFarland The Colts Neck Planning Board held a special meeting on Nov. 3 to vote on the Colts Neck Manor development. The proposal is for a 360-unit, high density housing complex including 72 units of affordable housing with (a total of) approximately 1,000 residents. The proposed development site on Route 537 near School…
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Friends of Jackson Library welcome volunteers to support good cause
By Lorraine Palmé When I learned to read as a 5-year-old in Brooklyn, my aim in life was to read all the books in the library. I started very systematically and alphabetically to achieve my goal. By the time I received my gold card and had to leave the children’s section, I had already read…
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Monmouth County history: The hunt for Deborah Lincoln’s tombstone
By Thomas K. Robbins President Abraham Lincoln did not know his ancestors and dismissed questions about his ancestry saying, “I don’t know who my grandfather was, and am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” Although he was not interested in learning about his forefathers, Miss Ida Tarbell certainly was. Ida Tarbell…
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Garbage pickups cause concern in Manalapan
By Rob Petreanu It has been six months since Manalapan Township’s new approach to garbage collection went into effect. Trash pickups were cut back to once per week and recycling pickups to once every two weeks. How is it working out? Not so well, say a growing number of Manalapan residents, including the 1,397 who…
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Keep the garden in ‘Garden State’
By Janet Tauro An anticipated state Senate bill that would expand the process around warehouse development proposals in New Jersey might be the first step toward keeping the “garden” in the Garden State. The bill, as first reported by NJ Spotlight, was expected to be introduced in late April by state Senate President Stephen Sweeney…
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BPU must deny rate increase proposed by New Jersey Natural Gas
By Jeff Tittel The New Jersey Natural Gas Company has filed a rate case with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU). The petition would increase ratepayers’ monthly bills by 24.8%. According to New Jersey Natural Gas, this rate increase would help pay for costs associated with the Southern Reliability Link pipeline which runs…
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Warehouse will become a blight on Upper Freehold Township
By Penny Otte When I moved to Upper Freehold Township, it was a lifelong dream. When I was in my 20’s, before Interstate 195 existed, I was taking a drive through Roosevelt and the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area when all of a sudden the woods opened up to open farmland. Immediately, I was at an…
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Development crashing headlong into Barnegat Bay watershed
By Janet Tauro The Barnegat Bay watershed is alive. Within the watershed is the World Biosphere Pinelands, containing the headwaters of the Toms and Metedeconk rivers, and the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer, which supplies the drinking water for more than one million residents at the Jersey shore. Amidst a plethora of wildlife and plant species lies the…
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History and hiking in New Jersey are perfect together
By Michele S. Byers It’s hard to go more than a few miles in New Jersey without bumping into an historic site. The state isn’t called the “Crossroads of the American Revolution” for nothing. George Washington spent more time here than in any other state. And New Jersey has many historic sites connected to early…