Email: jhummel@njadvancemedia.com Web: nj.com/ben Cellphone: 856-237-6645 U.S. Army: RA13815980 The column that says who knew a proposed roundabout in Bridgeton City Park would draw 100 percent criticism from adoring area fans? — Good evening! — County government has gotten a lot of flak for some proposals, but none more than a circle at the north end of the city...
Email: jhummel@njadvancemedia.com
Web: nj.com/ben
Cellphone: 856-237-6645
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The column that says who knew a proposed roundabout in Bridgeton City Park would draw 100 percent criticism from adoring area fans?
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Good evening!
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County government has gotten a lot of flak for some proposals, but none more than a circle at the north end of the city park in Bridgeton where Sunset Lake bask in he algae every summer and the Donald Rainear AmphiTheater is never called by its proper name.
It wouldn't surprise us if the state ordered the project.
Now, in Millville, they would say, the intersection there has been that way since 1912, so why do we have to change it now?
What most people are complaining about is the cost for something they don't see as a problem.
This is going to be what makes it OK: "The state is going to pay for it, and if we don't spend the money, we will lose it, and somebody else will get it.''
What is not going to make it OK is that Park Drive has been closed down so many times for construction projects that it should be labeled a temporary road.
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Sam Feinstein had to shut down the comments on Bridgeton Community Bulletin Board because it was no longer a discussion -- all one-sided.
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Will this triple the attendance at the next Bridgeton City Council meeting?
Maybe.
Even though it's the county's idea, there is more room at city council than there is at freeholder meetings. A whole courtroom, in fact.
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Why is it we can only get crime statistics from 2014 now, but, in Arkansas, Walmart headquarters knows exactly what you bought today in their store as soon as the cashier rang up the sale?
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We don't want to let go of the Greatest Generation.
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