PLUMSTED – New gas lines, progress at the Municipal Utilities Authority facility, filling a giant hole and new traffic lights were among the topics of Committee reports presented during a recent Committee meeting.
Deputy Mayor Herb Marinari said he had attended a recent special Board of Education meeting and noted that the school district has an interim School Superintendent, John Russo, who will serve until December. “They will proceed to see if they can get a permanent superintendent.”
He said Russo had been an administrator for over 23 years. “It is good that we have a superintendent to oversee at least the first quarter of the school year.”
Marinari noted the presence of Board of Education President Susan Potter in the audience. “I want to thank her. She’s been the board president and has gone through three terms on the school board and has done an excellent job and I thank you for what you have done for this community.”
Potter is not running for re-election in this year’s two seat, three-year term BOE race.
Mayor Robert Bowen noted a request to have a road sign at Province Line Road at the intersection of Route 537. “The one going west is actually up and a light at that same intersection. The work has been submitted (to JCP&L and North Hanover Township as it is in their jurisdiction.)
“Lennar will pay for it if there is any additional cost,” the mayor added. Township Clerk Jennifer Witham said that if the light had to have LED lighting that would be covered by Lennar, the developer.
“There are two PSE&G gas lines going in, in town. One in Jacobstown and one on 539,” the mayor said.
Witham added that Burlington County would be installing direction signs along Route 537 East.
Councilman Dominick Cuozzo reported during the meeting that he and Marinari met with the township’s municipal utilities authority (MUA) and Cuozzo made a site visit to the facility there. “We had the opportunity to meet both the township employees and then the sub-contracted employees who have been working on that facility and they gave us a tour of the plant.”
“We designed the plant so it will fit into the community as an attractive red barn so it goes well with the aesthetic and rural character of our town. We do have plans for an extension to the system,” he said.
He credited Councilman Michael Hammerstone for bringing his own plumber in to assist with a “potential health hazard issue to fix a three-day $45,000 project was fixed in two hours and the system is working as it needs to be.”
Several proclamations were presented during that night and one went to a local fighter who brings a New Egypt flag to all his fights in representation to the community. Mayor Bowen and Committeeman Cuozzo joined Ramirez Boys Fight House Coach Jennifer Hlubik, fighter De’Jon Farrell-Francis and the organization’s veterans operations head volunteer Rogers Ramirez for the presentation.
Committeeman Cuozzo read the titles Farrell-Francis’s won. “De’Jon has dedicated himself to the pursuit of combat athletic sports. He wears the New Egypt flag and represents our town well.”
Cuozzo said the fighter represented the country as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army “and was accepted into the Secret Service Academy but withdrew to become a champion in combat sports and that is a high honor as well.”
“He has the title of the New York Middle-Weight Kick Boxing Champion, defeated several folks from Brooklyn and knocking out his previously undefeated opponent in the third round which is a big deal. Thank you for representing our town,” Cuozzo added.
The fighter replied, “I represent all the people of Plumsted and Burlington County. Thank you all.”
