@DenvilleLibrary Trunk or Treat will be held on Sunday, October 20th in the Lower Bloomfield Avenue Parking Lot from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, #Denville .
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Pink Witches Night out in #downtowndenville Friday, October 18, 2024 5:30pm – 10:00pm !!
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The damages from the storm were not just from Hurricane Helene. There were human errors. The dams did not fail. The waters were manually released because it was thought there were mandatory evacuations in place. Those orders were rescinded and curfew orders were instilled. Whomever released the lake waters never checked back to ensure the evacuation orders were still in place before releasing the lake flood waters to ease the pressure on the dams. Victims need to seek out attorneys now. Their property insurances can subrogate the damages.
There was a mandatory evacuation order in place:
Rutherford Cty Emergency Management rescinded the evacuation order:
LAKE LURE DAM UPDATE: 9/27/24, 8:00 PM:
“Engineers have evaluated the Lake Lure Dam and determined it is no longer at imminent risk of failure. The flow rate has been controlled, and there is no immediate danger.”
Town of Lake Lure, North Carolina Official Website
Quote: “Lake Lure Lake Levels has been dropped by about 5 feet for assessment and repairs of the Dam.” (note: Lake is 720 acres).
The flow rate being controlled meant, water from the lake was released! This water being released could only be done under a mandatory evacuation order. That *was* in place; but rescinded leaving the curfew order in place. This order prohibits you from leaving your home.
This is video of water being released manually to ease the pressure on the dam of Lake Lure. This 14.8 mile long lake was lowered 5 feet. This is the water that flooded North Carolina. Lowering a lake like this can only be done under a mandatory evacuation order. Rescinding it is what caused this devastation.
This is video of water being released that flooded into Tennessee.
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Denville Food Truck Festival this Sunday! General admission is $7 and a wristband for kids to have a blast on inflatables is $15. Bounce Houses, Kids Games, Beer, Bands, Vendors and OF COURSE… 19 Food Trucks!
Current home town #Wharton #MorrisCty He was honored today in France! #POW #Purple Heart Recipient #WW2
| Chester A. “Chet” Kochan (#42101224) | ||
Picture taken August 2011 | Place of Birth Date of Birth Rank Platoon Company Battalion Regiment Division Decorations | … 1925 … … F 2nd 331st 83rd Infantry Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, European African Middle-Eastern Campaign Medal with two Bronze Campaign stars, |
| When he was drafted in 1943 at the age of 18, Kochan didn’t think the Army was for him. He was hoping he could join the Navy, but he was told it was filled up. So into the Army he went and soon joined the most hazardous part of it, the infantry. First he was sent to Fort Dix, then basic training at Fort McClellan in Alabama. He became a rifleman in the 83rd Infantry Division of F Company, Gen. George Patton’s Third Army.In the last week of June, a little more than two weeks after D-Day, Chet Kochan and fellow soldiers landed at Omaha Beach at Normandy as replacement troops. He made his way to the west, first through Saint-Lô, a town virtually leveled by the American assault, and then farther west to Saint-Malo about 90 miles from the Normandy beaches. That was in early August. Kochan was shot on August 11, 1944. “We were fighting street to street, door to door” Kochan said. “We captured two Germans we just surprised on the street.” Kochan and about 10 of his fellow soldiers were set to take on a German anti aircraft gun. “We rushed it,” he said. “Guns were firing at us and we were hit with hand grenades.” That’s when he was shot. The bullet entered at the base of his neck in front and exited the neck at the back. As the 19-year old Army Private Chester Kochan lay bleeding from a gunshot wound he never blacked out and he never lost his sense of humor. “The medic looked at me and said, ‘you have two holes in your neck’, “I told him he better bandage the bigger hole.” “I was lucky, it didn’t hit a vein or any other vital part,” he said. He was patched up as best as possible and, because he had nowhere else to go, continued to move forward, this time through a tunnel toward the big gun. “At the end of the tunnel the Germans were there.” He said. “We were captured. One German asked me, ‘Why are you fighting us?'” Kochan and his fellow prisoners found themselves blindfolded by the Germans. “I thought they were going to kill us,” he said. But instead of being shot or even taken prisoner of war, “we were sent to an American field hospital.” The Germans and the Americans had somehow worked out a deal to trade wounded soldiers. “I was in the hospital for three months. I still have shrapnel in me,” he said. He did not return to the front, instead he was assigned to be a driver for fellow soldiers. Chester “Chet” Kochan spilled his blood on France soil, earning the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. In 1946 he was honorably discharged from the Army as a private first class. “My captain, Capt. (Robert) Mitchell, had wanted to make me an assistant squad leader and offered to promote me to corporal,” he said. “I didn’t want that.”  Chester “Chet” Kochan on the right somewhere in France  After the war he worked for Singer Manufacturing in Elizabeth, then became quality control specialist at Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway Township until he retired. The trouble is, he didn’t really retire. At age 86 he still did quality control work for Norton Systems in Norwalk Conn., and also for Lockheed-Martin in New York City.In recent years France has been looking for American veterans who fought in France from D-Day onwards. On May 8, 2012, Chet Kochan joined 39 other World War II veterans for a special ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Kochan and his fellow soldiers were awarded the French government’s Legion d’Honneur, the French Legion of Honor award, for his service in France during the war. |
#MorrisCty Services and Resources for #Veterans and residents !!
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#MorrisCty is one of the most fiscally responsible counties in #NewJersey . Once again, the county Earned a AAA financial rating. Keep our leadership in tact. Vote Republican Column 4 this June 4, 2024 ! Polls open @ 6am.
John Krickus is #MorrisCty ! Commissioner Krickus served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves and is a graduate of Drew University with a BA in Economics and Political Science. He received his MBA from Lehigh University and was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New Jersey. Krickus worked in data analytics for Dun and Bradstreet and Experian.
Peter L. Cullen, Kimberly S. Dean, Anthony Thomas Donadio, Jr, Fabio A. Escobar, Susan Eno Foelsch-Maher, Wayne F. Henderson, Elihu W. Kaufman, Bill Lee, Mateo Osorio, Robert McDonnell, Frank Rigillo, Robert W. Smith, Brian Stanislaus
The Morris County Board of County Commissioners presented Distinguished Military Service Medals to 13 veterans at the Morris County Annual Memorial Day Observance ceremony at the historic county courthouse in #Morristown.
The County of Morris will be hosting an online Public Information Center meeting to inform local residents, organizations, businesses and the general public of the Local Concept Development Study for the Lenape Island Bridge 1400-935 over Indian Lake located in Denville, New Jersey.
The purpose of the meeting is to inform the public of the condition of the bridge and to solicit input and comments regarding the study’s Purpose and Need Statement. This meeting is being conducted in conformance with federal and state regulations. The meeting is open to all members of the public.
Date: Monday, June 10, 2024
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Place: Online via Microsoft Teams at https://tinyurl.com/dxawt2y5
Meeting ID: 272 913 121 645 Passcode: zidAWC
Or call in (audio only): 1-412-634-6334 Phone conference ID: 698 735 191#
The public is invited and encouraged to comment on the bridge study. Written comments will be accepted through Friday, July 12, 2024. Comments may be submitted in the following ways:
Mail: Meghan Paccione, Principal Engineer–Bridges/County Project Manager
County of Morris Department of Public Works
Division of Engineering & Transportation
P.O. Box 900
Morristown, NJ 07963-0900
E-mail: LenapeIslandBridge@gmail.com
Online: LenapeIslandBridge.com
Fax: 973-539-3141
More details at Morris County Press Release
