Phillipsburg council wants to know if meetings were caught up in alleged spying scheme
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic pushing its meetings to Zoom, Phillipsburg Town Council met at the Phillipsburg Housing Authority’s Heckman House.
The authority’s executive director, Paul Rummerfield, now faces charges of official misconduct and related counts after he allegedly installed cameras and microphones to spy on employees.
Council last week voted to have the town’s attorney, Rich Wenner, reach out to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office to see if any of its meetings either public or behind closed doors were caught in the alleged surveillance scheme.
We need more doses or may have to shut down COVID vaccination clinic, hospital tells Murphy
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
Ed Phillips, of Allentown, sits still as Sam Miranda, a RN and Hospital Supervisor, gives him his free COVID-19 vaccine on Jan 27, 2021, at St Luke’s Allentown campus. The vaccines were being given to people 75 and older who had an appointment for this walk-in vaccination clinic.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Warren County and St. Luke’s University Health Network officials are sounding the alarm that more COVID-19 vaccine doses are “desperately” needed from the state of New Jersey.
St. Luke’s tells N.J. more vaccine is ‘desperately’ needed in Warren County
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
Ed Phillips, of Allentown, sits still as Sam Miranda, a RN and Hospital Supervisor, gives him his free COVID-19 vaccine on Jan 27, 2021, at St Luke’s Allentown campus. The vaccines were being given to people 75 and older who had an appointment for this walk-in vaccination clinic.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Warren County and St. Luke’s University Health Network officials are sounding the alarm that more COVID-19 vaccine doses are “desperately” needed from the State of New Jersey.
St. Luke’s Warren Campus President Scott Wolfe in a letter Tuesday to Gov. Phil Murphy said supplies have forced the Phillipsburg hospital to curtail clinic hours. Once the second round of booster shots are administered, without additional vaccine, the clinic may need to close, Wolfe warned.
Phillipsburg eyes industrial uses along Delaware River, instead of homes
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
Phillipsburg Town Council Vice President Bobby Fulper, from left, and President Frank McVey tour undeveloped land between Howard Street and the Delaware River that they support rezoning from residential to industrial, in a screenshot from a Facebook Live broadcast Jan. 20, 2021.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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But downriver, past the railroad bridges and Delaware River Park and the Phillipsburg Pistol Club, town officials now say they want to see an expansion of the town’s industrial base.
Town council last week voted 3-2 to direct the Phillipsburg Planning Board to draw up a rezoning from residential to industrial for the wooded, undeveloped land between the industrial uses on Howard Street and the Delaware River. Councilman Harry Wyant Jr., raising concerns about truck traffic downtown, voted no along with Councilwoman Danielle DeGerol