To the editor:

      My wife and I live in the Village Grande at English Mill. We attended the Egg Harbor Township Board of Education meeting Jan. 10 that your article “Noise complaints prompt board to form committee” reported about. That the vast majority of board members were receptive to hearing and meaningfully discussing “complaints” from the high school's across-the-street neighbors was encouraging.

To the editor:

In the past several editions of The Current there have been letters to the editor regarding the Fair School Funding Act being promoted by state Sen. Doherty. Some facts would be helpful in understanding this whole process.

First let’s acknowledge that Abbott Districts are the product of approximately 30 years of frequent and controversial dialogue, litigation, and 13 decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

In Abbott II (1990), the court found that the school funding formula was unconstitutional as to poorer urban districts. The court identified those districts that appeared to qualify as "poorer urban districts," but ultimately left it to the Legislature, the state Board of Education and the commissioner of education to make that determination.

To the editor:

In his Dec. 15 column, “Why electric cars are inefficient polluters,” Seth Grossman made provocative, yet erroneous allegations.

He claimed that an internal combustion engine wastes very little energy. The truth is that in such an engine, 80 to 85 percent of the chemical energy of gasoline is lost to heat and not converted to work. In contrast, an electric car engine is about 80 percent efficient in transforming the electron flux into useful motion energy.

To the editor:

There have been many questions over the years as to what is permitted by law concerning restaurants that allow bring your own bottle (BYOB). This is my understanding:

Under no circumstance many any BYOB be advertised in any fashion by an unlicensed restaurant or other public place where food is sold to the public. A person found guilty of this is a disorderly person under the terms of NJSA.2C:33.

It allows only beer and wine to be consumed, however in a discussion with a lawyer from the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control this summer, he pointed out that if it’s a private party and not opened to the public, spirits can be bought in – this I found to be interesting.

To the editor:
It is a little late for Ventnor Commissioner John Piatt to be asking the public to back the Fair School Funding Act fostered by state Sen. Mike Doherty. This plan was out before the recent election for state legislators, and the public obviously decided it wanted no part of it. I am sure Mr. Piatt knows that municipal elected officials, school boards and the Atlantic County freeholders can pass supporting resolutions every week, and they are only worth the paper they are printed on.