Gail Travers

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:Sunrise Bay resident Carol Ischen and her line dancing class were almost forced to stop dancing. The CDs that they danced to for years were wearing out and barely playable. The girls had a list of songs that they danced to, but there was no way or no one to record them onto new CDs. Then came two saviors and a combined effort that spanned the generations. First, resident Beverly DeAngelo’s grandson Zachary was able to download their song list from the internet onto a flash drive.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:I am writing to urge elected officials to do everything in their power to protect everyday people in our community instead of enabling Trump’s tax breaks for billionaires and corporate polluters. The upcoming budget bill moving through Congress is a fight over our country’s values and priorities. We must:• Protect climate and clean energy policies that are lowering our energy costs, cutting climate pollution, and creating good jobs nationwide.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:I read with great dismay the recent votes and comments by Congressman Jeff Van Drew. He is twisting himself in knots with a semantics game to justify his vote to greatly reduce funding for Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. Liar, liar, pants on fire!The budget bills that he voted for may not “technically” cut current payments to recipients, but this is a game of semantics. The bill will reduce funding for each of these programs, without question.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:Every year we are faced with the costly necessity of beach replenishment. Each year tens of millions of dollars are spent to dredge the ocean floor to replace what the forces of nature chose to remove. Sure, there is a detrimental blow to the ocean floor ecology, but most deem it to be a necessary price worth paying to maintain the beach status quo. But is it? About 10 million tons of glass containers are produced each year in the U.S. and only about 30% get recycled to any extent.

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Gail Travers

To the Editor:I have been on the Ship Bottom Land Use Board for over 10 years and never have I seen anything like this. The mayor and council agreed to redevelopment plan with a developer to put homes and some open space where the Ship Bottom School currently is. The developer would get the parcel rezoned for housing and Ship Bottom would get six lots or 30,000 square feet of open space. The mayor and council then decided and approved the purchase of six additional lots for $3.5 million.