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Hamilton Township – Atlantic County
Back on April 22, 2021, we shared important information about Hamilton Township and the Lake Lenape Dam.
Here’s a link to refresh your memory about this important public issue.
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There is an important, new development that we want to update you about.
The Atlantic County Department of Regional Planning, in collaboration with Hamilton Township, will hold a public information meeting on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.
The purpose of the meeting is to review the Lake Lenape Dam Rehabilitation and Spillway Reconstruction project.
The meeting is taking place at the Hamilton Township Municipal Building, 6101 Thirteenth Street, Mays Landing, New Jersey 08330.
Atlantic County’s design consultant will be making two presentations at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
The public will be able to pose questions at each of the public meetings noted above. The program ends at 7:30 PM.
The history of this dam is fascinating, dating back to the mid-1800’s. It closed in 1940.
Hamilton Township took ownership of the dam in 1978. The County of Atlantic became a part-owner several years later in order to directly assist Hamilton Township financially.
The project includes improvements to the dam’s powerhouse, along with the overall rehabilitation of the aging dam.
Atlantic County and Hamilton Township are working with the Department of NJ Dam Safety, NJDEP, the State Historic Preservation Office, NJ Pinelands Commission, and others to assist with moving this project to ultimate completion.
The important information below was prepared by The County of Atlantic as follows:
Those interested may participate in-person (face masks required) or remotely by phone at 1-347-991-6404, Access Code 818 252 992, or by joining from a computer, tablet, or smartphone at www.townshiphamilton.com/live-meeting (speakers and microphone required, camera optional).
Anyone who is interested but lacks the ability to participate may contact Douglas DiMeo at dimeo_douglas@aclink.org or by calling…
PLYMOUTH TWP. — A Nanticoke man was arraigned Saturday on allegations he initiated two pursuits with state police at Wilkes-Barre with the last chase ending in a park.
Joseph John Clark, 39, of East Main Street, first fled a trooper during a traffic stop on West End Road in Hanover Township, and about one hour later attempted to flee another stop damaging three cruisers, according to court records.
The pursuits and Clark’s arrest happened Thursday.
According to the criminal complaints:
A state police trooper stopped Clark on West End Road at 3:23 p.m. During the traffic stop, Clark identified himself as Joseph Bass and gave an incorrect date of birth.
Clark refused to exit his vehicle and sped away at a high rate of speed nearly striking the trooper, the complaint says.
Clark allegedly passed several vehicles while driving on the berm of the roadway.
As Clark sped away, state police learned Clark’s cellular phone number.
A trooper sent Clark a text message using another name asking to meet at the Canal Street Park in West Nanticoke, Plymouth Township.
Clark agreed to meet at 4 p.m.
When Clark pulled into the park driving a 1990 Dodge Ram pickup truck, he stated, “This is a set up” when he observed state police cruisers approaching him.
Clark attempted to flee the park as troopers conducted several PIT maneuvers to stop him, the complaint says.
After approximately two minutes of attempting to escape the maneuvers, Clark abandoned his truck when it became disabled. He was tackled after a 60-yard foot chase, according to the complaints.
A search warrant was executed on Clark’s truck resulting in the discovery of a 9mm semi-automatic pistol loaded with 10 rounds, the complaints say.
Clark allegedly told troopers a friend…
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This morning, you might be wondering: how exactly did we decide that a Pennsylvania groundhog’s shadow has anything to do with the weather? By the way, Punxsutawney Phil did see his shadow Wednesday morning, thus forecasting six more weeks of winter.
As it turns out, this is a tradition centuries in the making.
The holiday began as the Christian celebration of Candlemas Day, which took place every year on Feb. 2. On this day, Christians would take candles to their church to be blessed.
At this time, the holiday had nothing to do with groundhogs nor the weather — the goal was to bring blessings into the home for the rest of winter.
Over the years, people began to predict the seasons based on the weather of Candlemas Day, says the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. As the following English folk song shows, if the day was bright and sunny, the winter season would be longer and colder; if skies were cloudy, a temperate spring would come soon.
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.
This interpretation of Candlemas gained popularity across Europe, including Germany. The Germans were the first to introduce animals to the Candlemas tradition. s prediction beginning at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2.
However, a different kind of “hog” was the center of attention on German Candlemas Day: the hedgehog. If the hedgehog saw his shadow, a six-week “Second Winter” would come.
When Germans migrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, they brought the celebration of Candlemas with them. However, there…
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PLYMOUTHTWP. — A Nanticoke man was charged on Saturday with two pursuits with state police in Wilkes-Barre, alleging that the final pursuit ended in the park.
According to court records, Joseph John Clark, 39, on East Main Street, first escaped from a soldier during a traffic outage on West End Road in Hanover Township, trying to escape from another stop about an hour later. Damaged three cruisers.
The chase and Clark’s arrest took place on Thursday.
According to the criminal accusation:
State police soldiers stopped Clark on West End Road at 3:23 pm. During the traffic outage, Clark confirmed that he was a Joseph Bus and gave him the wrong date of birth.
Clark refused to get out of his car and speeded up at high speeds that almost hit the trooper, complaints say.
Clark is said to have overtaken several cars while driving a berm on the road.
As Clark rushed away, state police learned of Clark’s cell phone number.
Trooper sent a text message to Clark using a different name, asking him to meet at Canal Street Park in West Nanti Cork, Plymouth Township.
Clark agreed to meet at 4 pm
When Clark drove a 1990 Dodge Ram pickup truck and pulled it into the park, he said, “This is a setup” when he observed a state police cruiser approaching him.
Clark complains that he tried to escape from the park when the soldiers performed some PIT operations to stop him.
After attempting to escape the maneuver for about two minutes, Clark abandoned the truck when it became invalid. According to the complaint, he was tackled after a 60-yard foot chase.
Complaints say a search warrant was executed on Clark’s truck and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol loaded with 10 bullets was found.
Clark told soldiers that his friend…
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The Delaware Tribe of Indians came together Saturday in prayer, ceremonial cedar smoke and song to bless the ground for a soon-to-be-constructed Delaware Veterans Memorial Wall.
“It was a beautiful day the creator presented us with,” Lenape Veterans Committee chair Kenny Brown said Monday. “It was just a very unique and exciting experience.”
The committee has been raising funds to erect a veterans wall for several years. Following auctions, raffles, a GoFundMe account and a significant donation from the tribe, a construction company has now been hired to make way for its construction on the north side the pond at the Delaware’s tribal headquarters at 5100 Tuxedo Blvd.
Attendees included committee member and veteran John Sumpter, the Lenape Color Guard, Chief Brad KillsCrow, Assistant Chief Jeremy Johnson, Tribal Princess Morgan Messimore, tribal domicile commissioner Allan Barnes, representatives from the Delaware War Mothers and others.
Brown, who served in the US Army from 1966 to 1973, said he believes the Lenape Color Guard to be one of the first tribal color guards in the area to ask female veterans to participate as members. Auxiliary members include the Lenape Gourd Dance Society and Delaware War Mothers.
“We have four ladies in our color guard who present the colors with us. Two were in the Army, one was a Marine and one is Navy and they are special ladies,” Brown said.
The wall will be about 60 feet long and 7 feet high with bronze lettering. It will feature service flags from all branches of the US military, the tribe’s turtle, wolf and turkey clans, an honor to Prisoners of War, benches and 12×12 paving tiles etched with veterans’ names.
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In order to fill 320 episodes, Supernatural writers got to explore all sorts of terrifying creatures. So what is a wendigo and when did it get featured on the show?
To understand the monster, we need to take a look at its origin story. The Algonquian tribes saw the Wendigo as more than a mythical monster. It was a cautionary tale of what happens when you let gluttony overcome you.
Let’s take a look at the beginning of the legend and where it shows up in pop culture today.
What Is a Wendigo?
So what is a wendigo? According to Algonquian legend, these creatures weren’t born a monster. They became one.
A wendigo is the result of a person driven to madness by hunger. This hunger leads them to do something unforgivable: resort to cannibalism.
When they eat human flesh, that person becomes a beast driven only by hunger. The very thing that created them will haunt them for the rest of their lives. They will spend the rest of their time on this earth hungry, only getting momentary relief when actively eating another person.
Some people who saw the creature believe it’s a relative of Bigfoot. Others think that the creature is more similar to a werewolf.
A wendigo resides in the cold, so sightings mostly take place in Canada and sometimes northern states like Minnesota or in the Great Lakes region. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Algonquian tribes would commonly blame missing person cases on wendigo attacks.
In some accounts, the wendigo uses his swift speed to entrap victims. But his primary…