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Oaklyn Installs Fourth Officer in as Many Months

by Kyle SullenderThe Oaklyn Council

approved and administered the oath of office to another new police officer at its meet-ing on Tuesday. The addition of Special Police Officer Ian Booth marks the fourth new officer to be sworn into Oak-lyn since the beginning of November.

The Oaklyn Police Depart-ment spent several months shorthanded last year after a number of expected and unex-pected departures. In Decem-ber, Chief Mark Moore said that a recent hire had put the department close to being back at full strength. With the addition of Booth, the depart-ment should be fully staffed after any necessary training is complete.

In other police-related news, councilman Mike Enos, who took over as Director of Public Safety after some shuffling to start the year with the depar-ture of and then addition of two new council members, used his time during commit-tee reports to outline his vision for the departments under his influence.

“There will be a lot more analysis of each of my depart-

Heights Schools

Make Big Tech Gains

by Bethany MitrosThe Heights Board of Edu-

cation received an update on upgrades to the district’s tech-nology at their Tuesday meet-ing, but it was the students who stole the show. “We’ve come a long way in terms of technology in the district,” said Superintendent of Schools Michael Adams. “We’ve done a lot to prepare for the 1-to-1 Chromebook initiative, and it’s going well.”

At the elementary level, he said third-graders take their Chromebooks home like those in grades 4-12, and at the high school, they received a num-ber of upgrades. The media center now has a variety of tables, a smart board, seating with charging stations, modu-lar seating that can be rear-ranged for a class and a 65” interactive board where stu-dents can display their proj-ects so everyone can see, but the most exciting addition is

Haddonfield Passes Puppy

Mill Ordinanceby Evelyn Allen

Animal advocates can now breathe a sigh of relief as the Haddonfield commission-ers passed an ordinance that will ban the selling of animals from potentially abusive puppy mills and breeders. The com-missioners held the first read-ing of the ordinance regulating the sale of dogs and cats from pet shops in December, which is similar to recent ordinances in other towns in a Camden County-wide effort. However, the ordinance was pulled when borough solicitor Mario Iavicoli recommended that the board change some of the language.

COLLS PREP: Workers from Brave Industrial Paint were hard at work amid the cold temperatures and strong winds this week, pressure washing the Collingswood water towers in preparation for paint.

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Talk About a ‘High Pressure’ Job!

by Brett AinsworthAt a Monday night work

session of the Haddon Town-ship Planning Board a couple dozen neighbors of 419 Maple Ave. turned out to hear about plans to raze the dilapidated 19th-century homestead there to make way for three sin-gle family homes. Though no official action was taken- that could come at a March 2 pub-lic hearing of the board- a coalition of neighbors along the Haddon Township-Had-donfield border expressed their concerns in a detailed let-ter sent to the board by Maple Ave. resident Brad Ashfield.

The wooded nearly 3/4-acre property, now owned by James Brandenburger of Riv-erton’s JRB Property Group, was last used as a duplex. During the work session Bran-denburger’s attorney, David Oberlander discussed the application before the board. Brandenburger seeks waiv-ers from two types of stud-ies, traffic and environmental, normally required of a major property subdivision.

Board member Joe Iacovino asked Oberlander why the applicant does not want to

do a traffic study. “It’s mainly a cost issue,” he responded. A study requires a detailed survey of properties within 500 feet.

Oberlander said three homes replacing the exist-ing property would have no impact on traffic counts. Relat-edly, planning board engineer Greg Fusco said the amount of vehicle trips the proposed homes would add to road-ways can easily be estimated with industry standard num-bers.

Ashfield’s letter on behalf of residents, though, raises a number of traffic concerns for heavily traveled Maple Ave. which connects Haddon Ave. in Haddon Township to Grove St. in Haddonfield. Branden-burger’s site plan with three 50’ by 197’ lots shows each property with two-car wide driveways leading into two-car garages.

The configuration and short length of the driveways

Maple Ave. Residents Rallying Against Plan

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COUNTY ROAD: Well-traveled Maple Ave. connects Haddon Ave. to Grove St. and could become home to three new homes where the 19th-century homestead, seen here, would be razed. Neighbors worry the pro-posed driveway configuration would lead to an increase in accidents.

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