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Christie: Lower property taxes
wont come without changes
Governor says residents need to do
more than just complain about costs
BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP
Gov. Chris Christie says its time for residents to step
up and accept sacrifices in services if they want lower
property taxes.
We know what to do to solve the problem, but we are
unwilling as a society to accept the medicine we need to
accept to solve it, Christie said during Ask the Gover-
nor, his monthly radio program on New Jersey 101.5.
I at times grow disillusioned by New Jerseyans who
are always complaining about their property taxes but
dont want any reduction in services or change in the
OBAMACARE
Bill fails;
whats the
prognosis?
The Capitol stayed open into Friday morning as the Republican majority in Congress remained stymied by its inability to
fulfill its political promise to repeal and replace Obamacare because of opposition and wavering within the GOP ranks.
Rising premiums, court fights and Trump could
all bedevil health insurance law, without repeal
MICHAEL L. DIAMOND @MDIAMONDAPP
It has survived the U.S. Supreme Court,
disgruntled consumers and, perhaps most
dramatically, lawmakers who this week tar-
geted it for the dustbin.
Rather than breathe easy, the Patient Pro-
tection and Affordable Care Act, or Obama-
care, faces yet another obstacle: An admini-
stration with lots of power to make sure it
doesnt work.
I think (the Trump administration) is go-
ing to do everything they can to try to make
Obamacare fail, or let it fail on its own
weight, said Linda Schwimmer, president
and chief executive officer of the New Jer-
MORE ONLINE: Stay with APP.com for the latest developments in the health care insurance debate.
Son and daughter-in-law of former
Brick mayor jump to their deaths
ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN
BRICK - The son and daughter-in-law of former
Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli committed suicide early Fri-
day morning by jumping from a Manhattan office
building, according to the New York Post and Brick
Shorebeat.
Glenn and Patricia Scarpelli, ages 53 and 50, respec-
tively, left behind a suicide note titled: WE HAD A
WONDERFUL LIFE, but went onto explain in the let-
ter that they were in a financial spiral and could no
longer live with that reality, according to the New York
Post article.
The couple were found in the middle of 33rd Street
between Park and Madison avenues in the Murray Hill
neighborhood of Midtown after jumping from the
ninth-floor window of a 17-story building at 5:45 a.m.,
the Post reported.
The couple had two children, ages 19 and 20.


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Property taxes are still slamming New Jerseyans. Watch a
video by searching homeowners at APP.com.
way things are being done, he said.
The statewide total in tax collections under Chris-
tie has grown by $500 million annually since he took
office in 2010. The average property tax bill entering
2017 was a highest-in-the-nation $8,549, up 2.35 per-
cent from the previous year.
Half of the voters in a recent Monmouth Univer-
sity poll named property taxes as their most press-
ing concern.
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Howell neighbors
dont want waste
transfer station
They fear allowing construction
debris could lead to other garbage
SUSANNE CERVENKA @SCERVENKA
FREEHOLD - Howell residents are fighting a plan to
allow construction debris to be trucked in and out of a
new facility in their neighborhood.
The neighbors say theyve gotten scant information
about a plan that would allow Resource Engineering
LLC to build a solid waste transfer station on its proper-
ty at 34 Randolph Road near the boundary with Lake-
wood.
Resource Engineering already operates a Class B
recycling facility on the 10.4-acre property, which al-
ASSOCIATED PRESS lows it to receive, store and process tree stumps, un-
treated wood and brush. It can
collect 220 tons of material a day.
The proposed transfer station
would accept between 1,200 to MORE
1,500 tons of bulky waste, like ap-
pliances and furniture, as well as ONLINE
construction and demolition de-
bris. That material would be
A Howell flower
farmer finds joy
processed in a 25,000-square- in her job. Visit
sey Health Care Quality Institute, a research foot building that would be con- APP.com and
group. structed on the site. search flower
New Jersey Obamacare consumers But neighbors said they are farmer.
should see few changes for next year after worried that if construction de-
the Senate failed early Friday to pass a bill bris was accepted, it would lead
that most notably would have eliminated the to the processing of other gar-
requirement that consumers either buy bage.
health insurance or pay a penalty. There are a lot of unanswered questions here, said
But they will wade into a marketplace that Stephen Reid, an attorney who represents a competing
will be filled with uncertainty an element recycling company and who was establishing contact
that in the world of insurance can lead to lists with additional neighbors.
higher prices, experts said. Monmouth County freeholders were scheduled to
With a New Jersey governors race under- have a mandatory public hearing Thursday on the pro-
way, it prompted them to predict that health posal to add the waste transfer station to the countys
solid waste management plan but postponed it.
See OBAMACARE, Page 4A County Administrator Teri OConnor said the county
received new information that made the application in-
complete and referred it back to the countys Solid
Waste Advisory Council.
See HOWELL, Page 4A
MORE ONLINE
Go to app.com/news/Brick for more news about the
community and school system.
Glenn Scarpelli worked as a chiropractor in New
York, according to the news reports.
His father, Joseph Scarpelli, served as Bricks
mayor for nearly 13 years before he resigned in De-
cember 2006, one month before he pleaded guilty to
taking at least $5,000 from a developer who sought
building approvals in town between 1998 and 2003.
The former mayor could not be reached for com-
ment.
Glenn Scarpelli was a 1982 graduate of Brick Me-
morial High School.
Erik Larsen: 732-682-9359 or elarsen@
gannettnj.com
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