Column: Highlands 'Hero' Shown the Door
Don't expect the new director to do any better at getting compensation for land owners.
You’re my hero. Now you’re fired. Does that make any sense? That’s what Highlands Council member Michael Francis of Hopatcong effectively said to the council’s director, Eileen Swan, last Thursday night. Bizarre as that was, at least some of those members who voted to fire Swan were honest in saying they had no problem with Swan’s work and that the move was, indeed, a political takeover by Gov. Chris Christie of the body that is supposed to be independent. This is the New Jersey definition of independent. Many parts of the meeting were surreal. Kurt Alstede, who for years sat at the end of the council table as its chief—often only—naysayer, sat off-center as vice chairman and watched as Bergen County Surrogate Michael Dressler took up his …
Dan Grant
3:01 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Chris your venom is showing. That developement is now 10-12 years old, was studied and approved by the Township paid hydrologist and in addition brought municipal water to the corner of Barney and Brookwood at a cost of roughty $160 thousand paid for by the developer. The idea that it disrupted under ground water flow is not true, Besides that is not even in the Highlands area. more ›