Op-Eds
In Hunterdon County north of New Jersey’s capital — where more than 130,000 people live, work, and send their kids to school — not a single full-time journalist is covering the news. New Jersey as a whole has just 5.1 local journalists per 100,000 residents, ranking 49th out of 50 states, according ...
By any fair measure, the small 0.28-acre Borough-owned parcel at 58 North Passaic Avenue has already crossed an invisible but meaningful threshold. For more than four decades it has sat beside our 6.9-acre Memorial Park, green and wooded, functioning in the lived experience of residents as a ...
To the Editor:Can we preserve the vacant, green, wooded, 0.28- acre, Borough-owned lot at 58 North Passaic Avenue, right next to our nearly 7-acre Memorial Park?Can we prevent 58 North Passaic Avenue from being paved over and replaced with four apartments and a parking lot, permanently depriving ...
We elect our public officials to represent the people and serve our community. Sadly, in Chatham Borough, this fundamental obligation often goes unfulfilled. At the Borough Council meetings over the past five months, residents have raised important issues during the public comments portion of the ...
As a U.S. military veteran and now a firefighter, I believe there is no higher calling than public service. In uniform, whether in combat zones far away or on emergency scenes in our own towns, honor, integrity, and trust are everything. They are the foundation upon which lives depend—and upon ...