Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

This is how the South Brunswick Township Council says happy new year, with a reorganization meeting and the swearing in of the sitting mayor for another four-year term.

Mayor Frank Gambatese (left, photo by Dennis Symons from today’s meeting), as he told us last week, has a somewhat modest agenda that includes the completion — finally — of Route 522 and a township-bus commuter system that will bring commuters to the train and bus.

Both are worthy goals.

Here are a couple of others we are hoping he and the Township Council can make happen:

  1. Preserve the Van Dyke Farm
  2. Begin renovation work at the Community Center
  3. Find a stable source of funding for the township Food Pantry and Human Intervention Trust Fund

And a couple of others that will require help from the state

  1. Widen Route 1 to three lanes in each direction
  2. Kill the MOM line

Happy new year from the Post.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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