2016-01-23 - The Jackson Times

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Vol. 16 - No. 34

Inside This Week’s Edition Business Directory....................19 Community News...................8-10 Dear Joel....................................17 Dear Pharmacist ........................15 Fun Page ...................................20 Government ...............................7 Inside The Law .........................22 Letters to the Editor .....................6 Wolfgang .................................23 WWW.MICROMEDIAPUBS.COM

January 23, 2016

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TIGER, LION CUB SHARE SAFARI NURSERY

–Photo courtesy of Six Flags Great Adventure This tiger and this lion are now being raised together, a unique situation for the nursery at Great Adventure. JACKSON – Spots and stripes have cats” as one litter, despite being taken over the nursery at Six Flags Great two species that would typically Adventure’s safari as the veterinary team never meet in the wild since they welcomes a Siberian tiger cub, the first are native to different continents. tiger birth at the safari in 13 years, and an “Within a week, two first-time mothers African lion cub. What makes the situation gave birth to healthy cubs but failed to care so unique is that for the first time, the team for them, so we stepped in,” said Dr. Ken is hand-raising the two fuzzy, female “big Keiffer, a Six Flags veterinarian. The lion

was born November 19 and weighed 3 lbs, and the tiger followed on Thanksgiving and weighed 2.4 lbs. The Six Flags veterinary (Nursery - See Page 4)

GOP To Decide Vacant Freeholder Spot

By Catherine Galioto OCEAN COUNTY – County Republicans will meet January 26 to decide who will fill the shoes of Jim Lacey, the Ocean County Freeholder who resigned recently. The vacancy meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the TR Hotel on Route 37, where the Ocean County Republican organization will meet as county committee for candidates to Lacey’s seat. Lacey, who resigned December 31, had

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served as a freeholder since 1993. His term was to end January 2017. Freeholder Director John Bartlett announced Lacey’s resignation December 31 from the five-member, all-Republican board of chosen freeholders. Lacey, who was also serving on the Brick Municipal Utilities Authority as its executive director, earned an annual base salary of $192,280 from the MUA. However, the MUA is advertising the position. Lacey’s

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appointment as executive director was to expire this year. The county Republican convention would also likely nominate a replacement for Freeholder Jack Kelly, who was nominated by Gov. Chris Christie to the state Parole Board. If his appointment is confirmed by the state Senate, Kelly would be required to resign as a freeholder as well. Lacey’s resignation and Kelly’s anticipated (GOP - See Page 4)

By Jennifer Peacock JACKSON – The nearly four hours of testimony at the Planning Board’s January 11 meeting went until almost midnight amid reprimands, interruptions and yielded time caps, as residents concerned about Great Adventure’s proposed solar array facility off Reed Road again came out awaiting their chance to be heard. After hearing both the applicant’s testimony, and the environmental groups’ experts opposed to it, residents may finally have a chance to speak at the Planning Board’s February 1 meeting. The attorney representing various environmental groups, Michele Donato, questioned three more of her witnesses who blasted Great Adventure’s experts’ reports, calling them contradictory to one another and filled with erroneous information. Donato and her final witness for the evening, Geoffrey Goll of Princeton Hydro, a geotechnical engineer, testified that the plans as presented do not meet municipal, county, state and federal regulations. A major concern raised was Great Adventure’s request for a waiver to not construct the site to meet 2-year-flood conditions. Flooding of the area, which may pollute the Toms River watershed and flood surrounding homes in the area with an already high water table, may result from the compaction of ground and inability for stormwater to properly recharge the underground aquafer. Additionally, many hours have been spent discussing grasses which need to be planted and maintained on the site as part of existing regulations; environmental experts for Donato have said the grasses suggested aren’t native and won’t provide the desire effects. However, attorney for Great Adventure Neil Yoskin, a former staff attorney with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and currently specializing in environmental law at Sokol Behot LLP, said GA will not seek the waiver if it will move approval along. Additionally, Dr. Emile DeVito testified

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