Sale of the two former Milltown firehouses moving forward with due diligence
Sale of the two former Milltown firehouses moving forward with due diligence ×
MILLTOWN – Now that the Milltown Fire Department has a new home on Washington Avenue in the Public Works Complex, borough officials are in the beginning stages of moving forward with the sale of the two firehouses.
“The borough will do its due diligence and have [the firehouses] appraised and see where we go from there,” Mayor Trina Mehr said at a Borough Council meeting on March 8.
Councilman Nick Ligotti said since the project began in 2016, the former administration and the new administration, with cooperation of the Milltown Fire Department, have shared with the public the firehouses would be sold to recoup some of the cost involved in the new firehouse. There are plans to move the monuments outside the firehouses to the new firehouse.
Family members of those living in long-term care facilities demand new visitation policy post-vaccination rollout
MILLTOWN – Former Mayor Gloria Bradford spent 13 years as the voice of the borough.
“She was the first woman mayor, very independent and strong,” her daughter Diane Salkeld said as she described her mother.
Now Salkeld is the voice for her mother, who is suffering from dementia and lives in an assisted long-term care (LTC) facility. Bradford has spent the year – like so many in LTC facilities – battling isolation and separation from family and friends due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Salkeld, along with Family Advocate Care Experience (FACE NJ) for Seniors, a group of 1,000-plus family members of residents in LTC communities in New Jersey, is raising awareness of the life-threatening effects of isolation and demanding a new visitation policy by the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) to allow safe, in-room caregiving visits by family members immediat