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Vol. 13 - No. 22
Your Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving Howell and Farmingdale
–Photos courtesy Howell Township HOWELL – Ghouls, superheroes, princesses and characters aplenty took to the Howell Target parking lot to enjoy the annual township tradition of trunk or treat. The event features elaborately decorated vehicles and community groups and businesses set up in the lot to hand out candy to celebrate Halloween. This year, besides some scary and intricately decorated trunks, were also educational displays and a Ghostbusters’ Ecto 1 vehicle. For more photos, see page 5.
Howell May Consider Stiffer Penalties To Unregistered Eateries agricultural markets caught the collective eye of township council members, who decidedly did not want to impose the law on farm stands, which often make a minimal amount of money from selling their wares by the side of the road. But they also did not want to delete the inclusion of “agricultural markets,” since some establishments that are permanent retail businesses could consider themselves as such, and escape the requirement to register. “According to this, they should have always been required to have a license,” said Mayor William Gotto, speaking of farm stands, after Director of Community Development Jim Hermann said the stands are exempt from registration fees.
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By Daniel Nee HOWELL – Officials were poised to introduce an ordinance prescribing stiffer fines for businesses that sell food items without registering with the Board of Health, but backed off on the measure after concerns were raised that the ordinance would negatively affect the township’s numerous roadside farm stands. The ordinance would have adopted a fine of no less than $500 for establishments that do not register and complete an inspection beforehand. The ordinance would have covered permanent retail food establishments, mobile establishments, agricultural markets and temporary retail establishments. The portion of the ordinance regulating
Inside This Week’s Edition
Business Directory ........................... 18 Classifieds ........................................ 19 Community News ......................... 7-11 Dear Joel ......................................... 21 Dear Pharmacist .............................. 14 Fun Page ......................................... 20 Inside the Law ................................. 22 Letters To The Editor ......................... 6 Wolfgang ........................................ 19
“They’re not going to do $500 in sales in a whole season or a whole event,” Gotto said of some stands, opposing the fine that could effectively take a significant chunk of a business’s earnings. “If they sell a few tomatoes once a week, if they are found to be in violation, the fine would exceed their sales,” said Councilman Edward Guz. The penalty should be applied “to the people who really should know better,” Gotto said, meaning permanent food markets and restaurants. The ordinance ordering registration and inspections with the Board of Health currently contains no fine, which is what led the board (Penalties - See Page 5)
–Photo by Daniel Nee Recently planted trees outside the residential development called The Cove in Howell. An old shade tree law was examined by council recently. By Daniel Nee HOWELL – Regulations aimed at preserving Howell’s green characteristics will remain in place, but an outdated law requiring the township to maintain trees on private property has been eliminated by the township council. The law, under which developers pay a (Trees - See Page 5)
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