News roundup for Thursday, Aug. 7
Summer flounder. Image via atlanticanglers.com.
Towns’ tree laws may be cut down based on an Ocean County case that made it to the state Supreme Court. The case’s focus: Jackson Township’s tree-protecting ordinance, passed in ‘03. Builders say the law is a revenue-raiser.
With a new half-mil investment from the North Jersey Transportation Authority, NJ Transit’s diesel locamotives will be retrofitted to stop, not idle.
The state appellate division will rule today on whether Long Branch used its powers appropriately when it snapped up homes for oceanfront redevelopment.
Columnist: Take care of weeds and poison ivy the natural way, with goats.
Some Mahwah residents have been told to “use caution” with their tap water, which showed higher-than-normal lead levels in a recent test.
South Plainfield residents learned more earlier this week about findings that the level of PCBs in the Bound Brook near a Superfund site were higher in 2007 than a decade earlier. Major remediation activities are to begin next year, according to the EPA.
Fishermen and women may soon get the feds’ okay to fish more flounder, since the East Coast flounder population is looking better than expected.
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