Searching for the truth in Upper Saddle River
Following the water issues that recently plagued Pleasant Brook news has filtered through the ether that Toll Brothers has been issued a Stop Work Order. Again. But in typical Upper Saddle River Borough Hall fashion with complete lack of transparency there is no information about this anywhere. Nothing to the residents, nothing on the town…
In the month of ghosts, spirits, Halloween and spectral goings on Toll Brothers have once again left residents stunned by unleashing white water into Pleasant Brook. Sadly, and shockingly, the long history of brown water being released into the Pleasant Brook continues. For over 2+ years stormwater runoff, pumping, flooding and numerous other issues have…
Could Upper Saddle River Brown be the Pantone Color of the Year? While you were distracted with the Super Bowl, The Academy Awards, Valentines Day and numerous other distractions of the quiet winter months you may have missed what is still going on. Toll Brothers Orchard Ridge Preserve are at it again. Pumping. Purging. Discharging. Leaking. Draining….
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? A good Whodunit? Will they or won’t they? Heading into the weekend when Upper Saddle River administration is away, the mayor and council are enjoying a well deserved rest, borough hall is closed and no one is around to monitor activity the question is……will Toll Brothers purge the tanks…
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It clearly was to much to hope that the continued environmental damage that Toll Brothers has unleashed on Upper Saddle River, Mahwah, Saddle River and downstream residents has finished. Despite over 700 days of continued pumping, runoff and no sanctions or penalties Upper Saddle River and Mahwah enacted a Stop Work Order in July 23,…
As the year wraps up Upper Saddle River mayor and council are holding their ‘End of Year Meeting’ at 4pm today (December 30, 2019). Agenda here. It appears mostly about shuffling money around (“transfer of appropriations”) and bonds, so if fiduciary issues are your thing it might be of interest and worth your time. It’s…
With the upcoming election the incumbent Republican candidates Minichetti, Ditkoff & Rotella are clearly worried. The have been resorting to smear tactics, have gotten personal and are running a dirty campaign. They refused to do a town hall forum with their opponents, Grupp, Garbar and Galasso. They started decrying the lack of experience of the Democratic…
Do You Remember This? An Upper Saddle River Fairy Tale Many, many years ago, when life was quite different, Upper Saddle River embarked on a quest to find what the residents wanted. For ways to improve the quality of life in a town that really was doing quite well, where people clamored to buy a…
September 2019 was an unnaturally dry month, barely any rain fell. A good and bad thing for Toll Brothers at The Preserve, formerly knows as Apple Ridge. No one could see if their new and improved stormwater control worked. The one that they were forced to install after a Stop Work Order. So with no rain,…
Do you remember this? Following 9/11 Christy Todd Whitman told the media that the air quality was safe at Ground Zero. If you lived in this area following the September 11 attacks and could see lower Manhattan you would know this was a lie. Not a stretching of the facts, a plain lie. The…