Maplewood TC

Winokur, who turns 100 today, still lives in the same home in Maplewood she moved to 71 years ago — and has “loved every minute of being here.”

Noting concerns about crime stemming from the 24-hour Wawa, late-night noise, an increase in unhoused people and a recent shooting, one resident said that Maplewood has “…become lackadaisical where safety is concerned, but I live on the border and it bothers me greatly. I pay a lot of taxes. And I like to be safe.”

After several years of late budgets, the township passed the final budget in May. Work is already starting on next year’s budget.

Regular fees will plunge by roughly 10%, and the ‘Pool Pals’ program will enable lower-income residents to pay 30% of the regular rate.

Petitions to run on the ballot in the June 4 primary as either Republican or Democrat are due to the Maplewood Township Clerk at close of business on March 26. No Republican has successfully run for TC since the 1990s.

The TC recently designated six of the eight lots within the area — which face Maplewood Ave. and are between Inwood Pl. and Durand Rd — as an area in need of redevelopment.

Since moving here in 1989, Adams has played pivotal roles as an environmental activist, a champion of economic redevelopment, and even named one of Maplewood’s best-known neighborhoods.

Property owners will be notified of the actual 2024 annual taxes in their July 2024 tax bill. Mayor Dafis stressed that the TC is “firewalled” from the process and therefore cannot respond to specific questions concerning residents’ new assessed values.

Dafis will be serving his third term, and DeLuca his ninth on the TC.

In honor of October’s Banned Books Week, the Maplewood Memorial Library Board of Trustees…