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“We Now Have Our Own Town…Opportunity To Create Our Own Image”

Lake Como resident Robert Kirk, as quoted in this November, 2004 story:

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Five years later, in August of 2009, image still not so great:

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Why we would want to take on all those problems is beyond me but there’s another thought I want to share today, namely, why should Lake Como even be a town?  They are farming out some or all of just about every function that you can think of as a reason to have a town: police, courts, schools, public works, first aid and probably some other things.  Maybe they should just outsource their Mayor and Council while they’re at it.

The area that is now Lake Como was part of Wall Township until 1924, when the residents there voted to part ways with Wall because of a tax dispute.  The current residents should recognize that their forbearers made a big mistake in 1924, that their town is not viable and is living off of state aid, and that they should humbly ask Wall Township to please take them back.

8 Comments

  1. Guest wrote:

    They should ask to become part of Belmar, not Wall. You can’t tell where one town ends and the other begins as it is now. Very little new manpower would be needed to support and as a result Belmars tax base would expand to pay for pavilions etc.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 5:37 am | Permalink
  2. admin wrote:

    No, thanks. They are bankrupt. Wall has more money than we do and is in a better position to take over. Besides, it did used to be part of Wall.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 5:53 am | Permalink
  3. Tom Dilberger wrote:

    They are farming out some or all of just about every function that you can think of as a reason to have a town: police, courts, schools, public works, first aid and probably some other things.
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    Well, they’re just yet another town in our state that is essentially a ward of the state. Look at Asbury Park, Camden, Trenton, Elizabeth, Paterson, Etc. Nothing new under the sun here in NJ.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:19 am | Permalink
  4. OLD MAN wrote:

    I sort of remember when they were part of Wall

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:52 am | Permalink
  5. Anonymous wrote:

    A ward of the state. Not an award of the state. The lake watershed issue with overflows from Wall and Spring Lake Heights is so sad. No inertia

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:20 am | Permalink
  6. Eugene Creamer wrote:

    lesson from the sinking Titanic …. follow the rats.
    stop wasting money fighting WRAT.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:59 am | Permalink
  7. Belmar Voter wrote:

    I am in the court of let Reggie Hyde reap what he has sowed.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
  8. Anonymous wrote:

    Occupancy went from hundreds to thousands over night. Only belmar neighborhood watch women showed at hearing to protest expansion of license.

    Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

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