Who Is Watch07748? Apparently It's Tony Perry

 That's a question that many have asked, including the Asbury Park Press.  It seems however, after Monday night's meeting of the Middletown Township Committee the answer is evident, Watch07748 is none other than Middletown Committeeman Tony Perry.

The video from Monday night's meeting is queued to where resident Jim Grenafege asked Tony Perry directly whether or not the anonymous email sent out two weeks ago by a fictitious group calling themselves, " Residents Against Over Development" attacking Democratic candidate Sean Byrnes, came from his campaign and if he had any knowledge of it before being sent to residents.  Perry's non answers are very telling.

Tony Perry did his best two-step to avoid answering the question as it was asked, " Were you, in any shape or form associated with that email?", What followed was a political non-answer by Perry that by the omission of a direct answer, confirms that he and his campaign was responsible for it. The exchange between Grenafege and Perry lasted several minutes and became a little heated due to frustrations over  non-answers (you can watch the exchange yourself, it's queued up to 2:13:35 of the video).

Bottomline here is that Tony Perry and the Middletown GOP where caught redhanded attempting to smear a rival candidate and through their own stupidity, it came back to bite them in the ass. Now Tony Perry and his buddies are backpedaling under the scrutiny of local media and outraged residents and trying to cover-up their tracks.

As I said before, the attempt of this little dirty-tricks email was underhanded and unethical. It also is in violation of campaign election laws for not being properly identified as coming from and paid for by Tony Perry's campaign. 

You can watch the entire 3 hour video ....  HERE.  The Public Comments portion of the meeting starts about 22 minutes in. A vast majority of those there to ask questions of the Township Committee were they to ask about the proposed sports complex being considered for Stevenson Park.

September 17, 2018 Middletown Township Committee Meeting

I just finished watching the video of this past Monday night's Middletown Township Committee meeting. It started off as your regular, run of the mill monthly event. The Township promoted two police officers due to recent retirements and an ordinance was adopted to acquire property along Rt. 36 in Pt. Monmouth to be used as a vehicle impound facility. And an ordinance to amend the redevelopment plan for the new municipal complex was moved to the November 19 meeting.

The most interesting part of this meeting and the real highlight of it that should interest everyone, was the Public Comments portion of the video, which starts at the 22:14 minute mark of the video.

Many local residents came out to passionately voice their opposition to the proposed sports complex that is being planned for Stevenson Park, off of West Front Street in Lincroft.

After the first person voiced their opposition to the plan, acting mayor Kevin Settembrino started that members of the Township Committee will be meeting with residents of Shady Oaks in the coming days to answer any questions that residents living there would have. He then stated that if those he called upon to speak to the committee refrain from asking or rehashing questions about the sports complex. As you can expect, that comment didn't go over well and residents continued with their line of questioning.

During much of the questioning, those speaking were interrupted incessantly and often combatively, by both acting deputy-mayor Tony Fire and acting-mayor Kevin Settembrino.  In the end however, more than a dozen people, which included Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, voiced their opposition to this complex being built at Stevenson Park.

Will their voices be heard? Based on responses by members of the Township Committee, probably not.  We'll have to stay tuned.




As always you can download a copy of the Meeting Agenda that contains the discussion items and the proposed resolutions and ordinances that were voted on or presented during the meeting. A box around an item is a link, bringing you further into the document to that resolution or ordinance. At the end of the resolution there will be a link bringing you back to the agenda. Attached to this agenda is also the monthly bill list, so that everyone can see how the Township is spending our tax dollars.

September 4, 2018 Middletown Township Committee Meeting

This month's Workshop meeting of the Middletown Township Committee took place on Tuesday night September 4th. It was held in the courtroom of Town Hall this week due to the large crowd that wished to speak at the public hearing that was conducted on the  proposed development of Stevenson Park.

Stevenson Park is located on W. Front Street and is an undeveloped park on the western end of Shadow Lake.  The Township is proposing to construct up to 9 soccer fields in the park. There were many people attending to express their concerns, on both sides of this project.

Also at this meeting, ordinances were adopted to increase the amount of money the town will borrow to provide more playground and remote control equipment in the parks, land swaps within the Bamm Hollow development project for utility easements and to provide death benefits to EMS volunteers.

Ordinances were also introduced to amend the municipal complex development plan and to purchase more property along Rt. 36 in Pt. Monmouth.





As always you can download a copy of the Meeting Agenda that contains the discussion items and the proposed resolutions and ordinances that were voted on or presented during the meeting. A box around an item is a link, bringing you further into the document to that resolution or ordinance. At the end of the resolution there will be a link bringing you back to the agenda. Attached to this agenda is also the monthly bill list, so that everyone can see how the Township is spending our tax dollars.

Shadow Lake Herbicidal Treatments: Date of Application – June 29, 2015

from Middletown Public Information:

In an effort to control excessive growth of waterborne plant life, aquatic herbicidal treatments will be performed at Shadow Lake in June 2015. The herbicide “Navigate” will be applied to approximately 39.5 acres of the 85-acre lake. The approximate treatment area includes the inlet section of the lake near Stevenson Park and extends eastwardly to portions downstream and along the shoreline of Shadow Lake. This aquatic plant management will focus on the control of a highly invasive plant called Water Chestnut (Trapa natans).

Herbicide treatments will be conducted in a one-step process as follows:

On or about June 29, 2015, weather permitting, a granular herbicide Navigate application will be applied via mechanical spreader from an airboat. This will be completed in one day....

Residents and property owners bordering the lake and visitors to Shadow Lake will be required to follow the posted drinking water restrictions and water use restrictions as indicated above, and should make necessary arrangements during the restriction period.

ther efforts by Middletown Township to control growth of Water Chestnut in Shadow Lake shall include the mechanical removal of approximately 4 acres of invasive aquatic vegetation from the portion of the lake adjacent to Stevenson Park later in 2015;

Should you have questions regarding the application schedule or need general information on the project, please feel free to call me at 732-615-2110. Specific questions about the application process or herbicide information may be directed to the contractor, Allied Biological, at (908) 850-0303.

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Shadow Lake Herbicide Application 9/8/14

From Middletown Alerts:

In an effort to control excessive growth of waterborne plant life, aquatic
herbicidal treatments will be performed at Shadow Lake. The approximate treatment area includes the inlet section of the lake near Stevenson Park and extends eastwardly to portions downstream and along the shoreline of Shadow Lake. A follow-up herbicide application will be applied on or about September 8, 2014 weather permitting. The purpose of this second application is to treat plants that were washed free of herbicide by incidental boat traffic. This application will be completed in one day. The first application was applied in June.

Shadow Lake Notice

Middletown Township Committee Meeting 7/2/12

Here is the latest video of the Middletown Township Committee at work. It is of the July 2nd, 2012 workshop meeting. The meeting lasted all of 35 minutes so it should be easy viewing.

At the workshop meeting a resolution was passed to amend the unadopted budget for the current year and another resolution was adopted to begin the bidding process on the dredging of Shadow Lake.

Resident Leo Christofolli asked during the public comment portion of the meeting if approval was given to dispose of the dredge material at the designated location in Sayreville. Mayor Tony Fiore and the Township Attorney said that the permits to dredge the lake were issued and they are going to proceed even though no permanent location for the dredged materials has been approved. Mr. Fiore stated it will remain on Stevenson Park until the DEP decides where it will be located..




And as always, you can download a copy of the meeting agenda that contains the discussion items and the proposed resolutions and ordinances that were voted on or presented during the meeting. A box around an item is a link, bringing you further into the document to that resolution or ordinance. At the end of the resolution there will be a link bringing you back to the agenda. Attached to this agenda is also the monthly bill list, so that everyone can see how the Township is spending our tax dollars.