Please join us on Monday Nov. 28th at 7 PM at the Public Library meeting room for our Neighborhood & Crime watch meeting.  All are welcome.  Light refreshments will be served.

Tentative Agenda:

1) Crime Watch session with city officials.

2) Regular participants who are residents of the city are asked to make their nominations for our slate of officers for 2012 (President. Vice President, Secretary & Treasurer, 2 year terms).   Elections will be at our January 30th meeting.

3) Mr. Bruno Oriti, co-founder of Prarie Fyre Time Exchange will give a presentation on the project and answer questions.

4) Our annual Holiday Open House is slated for Saturday Dec. 3rd.  Final planning at meeting.

Forwarded by Michael Beltranena, Management Specialist for City of New Brunswick:

"Please let everyone know that the City Council will be reviewing the conditions imposed on the Tropicana Bar Liquor License.  Our residents should be present to let the council know that the conditions are working and must be made permanent.  The hearing will be November 16, 2011 at 6:30 PM at City Hall Council Chambers."

This year for the first time, the Second Ward Block Club joined the Unity Square Partnership celebrating National Night Out August 2, 2011.  We provided watermelon and some general help and Lorena Gaibor and her staff and volunteers from Unity Square provided all the rest... music, dancing, raffles, and general good cheer.  We've posted a short video on YouTube.  As you can see, everyone had a great time!  Here are some photos of the event... 

Just sending out a greeting as a test of the link here. Thanks, Morris

Many Second Ward residents have expressed concern that the write-in process for voting June 7 was weird and murky.

During Tuesday's election, many people tried to write-in a name. But it was not clear how to do it. 

For example, one person typed in a first name, then couldn't figure out how to insert a space before typing in the last name. Hoping to insert a space, he hit the "Enter" key which terminated the entry all together. So his attempt to write-in failed.

Another voter asked a poll worker for instructions about how write-in works and she was told simply, "It's in the machine." There was no other help given. This is pathetic and unacceptable.

Several people said they were not sure their write-in had been registered by the voting machine.

Voting lies at the heart of a democracy. All our voting machines should be easy to use. And the people overseeing elections should be able to explain how the machines work. At the very least they should have some simple instructions written on a piece of paper.

There's no excuse for the voting process being weird and murky, as it was on Tuesday.

--Peter Montague

At a meeting June 8 at Robeson School, Mayor Cahill described two concepts for giving Recreation Park a makeover.  Consultants discussed the pros and cons of each concept with about twenty attendees from the neighborhood.   For more information, contact the City's Planning, Community, and Economic Development Department at 732-745-5050.