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Traditional acupuncture is based on the belief that the body is controlled by a flow of energy, referred to as qi, and pronounced "chee." According to ancient texts, qi travels through pathways in your body called meridians. Acupuncturists believe that interruptions with energy flow in these meridians are responsible for modern ailments.
Acupuncture improves your body's functions and helps boost its self-healing processes through anatomic site stimulation - usually called acupuncture points. To stimulate acupuncture points, professionals typically insert fine, sterile needles you're your skin. Most patients feel little-to-no discomfort as the needles are applied. Typically, needles are left in the skin anywhere from five to 30 minutes. After their session, patients often report an incredible feeling of relaxation.
While some practitioners still adhere to traditional acupuncture philosophies, modern acupuncturists take an integrative approach. Today, professional acupuncturists use the therapy to stimulate the body's natural healing and pain-fighting processes. When coupled with personalized chiropractic care and physical therapy, patients can find real relief from painful physical conditions.
At Denville Medical, your licensed physical therapist's goal is to maximize your body's structure and increase its overall function for long-term health. To accomplish this, our physical therapists combine traditional and innovative techniques focused on increasing muscle strength and improving the body's range of motion. Our goal is to discover the root cause of your pain or mobility problems. That way, we can address the true reason why you need physical therapy, and work towards achieving long-lasting relief.
Of course, we understand that every patient is different. Your doctor can provide expert care in an encouraging environment by creating a customized treatment plan for you using modern, evidence-based research.
Professional acupuncture treatments can be incredibly helpful for patients suffering from a wide range of disorders. When paired with personalized chiropractic care and other medical treatments, acupuncture is even more effective.
With a systematic treatment plan, patients can find help for painful symptoms like:
Professionals practicing acupuncture in Roxbury, NJ, use several techniques to achieve overall patient wellbeing, from Cupping and Gua Sha to Needling and Facials.
Made popular by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, most acupuncturists describe cupping as giving an inverse massage. Rather than using pressure to release tight muscles, acupuncture cups create a suction effect. The suction pulls on muscles and fascia to relieve tension and improve blood flow. Like a massage, cupping is very relaxing for patients. Most people describe it as enjoyable, although the suction cup markings may look painful to friends and family.
Acupuncture cups are made using various materials, including glass and plastic. Cupping applications also vary - some clinics go the traditional route with cotton balls, rubbing alcohol, and fire. Other applications include manual placement with silicone suction points. Usually, patients receive one of two cupping styles. The first uses stationary cups, which remain for about 10 minutes. The second uses moving cups, supplemented with massage oil to let the cups glide over painful areas.
Also called "dry needling," chiropractors and acupuncturists often use this technique to reduce trigger points within soft tissues and muscles. In this application, acupuncturists use a sterile needle and insert it into the trigger point, which fosters a feeling of "release" that helps reduce muscle tension and pain while boosting mobility.
Trigger points are hypersensitive, irritable skeletal muscle areas formed in rigid bands of muscle fiber. Trigger points lead to neuromuscular dysfunction and manifest in painful symptoms, increased stress, and lower overall functionality. During an acupuncture session, these needles are applied to trigger points, which cause a twitch, essentially releasing and restoring proper muscle function.
Gua Sha is the practice of using tools to scrape the skin and apply pressure to painful areas of the face and body. A Gua Sha is a flat, hard tool, usually made of stone. Recently, Gua Sha has taken the skincare world by storm, but the technique has been providing relief for centuries. It is one of the oldest forms of Chinese medicine used to boost blood circulation and energy flow.
In traditional Chinese, Gua means to press or stroke, while Sha refers to redness. Gua Sha usually causes small red spots or bruises to form, which are also called microtrauma spots. When using Gua Sha on microtrauma areas, your body elicits a response that can help break up tough scar tissue. When paired with professional chiropractic care, Gua Sha can be quite effective, even for moderate injuries.
At Denville Medical, we aim to serve you with long-lasting quality of life through personalized acupuncture treatments in New Jersey. The path to a pain-free life begins with a friendly, informative appointment, where one of our doctors develops a customized treatment plan tailored to your body's needs. It starts with your first evaluation, where our experts learn about your medical history, diagnostic tests, current condition, and overall health goals. From there, we'll create your plan and help you hit your milestones until your quality of life is improved.
With treatments like needling, cupping, Gua Sha, and acupuncture in Roxbury, NJ, included in your scope of treatment, musculoskeletal relief is right around the corner.
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ROXBURY, NJ – The ability to view Roxbury School Board meetings over the Internet, something that came and went with the COVID-19 crisis, may be coming back.The board recently gave preliminary approval of a resolution that would bring a return to livestreaming of its meetings. A second vote is needed to finish the process.“The Board recognizes the value of livestreaming regular and special Board of Education public meetings and, from time-to-time, other public meetings of the Board and its committees,” says th...
ROXBURY, NJ – The ability to view Roxbury School Board meetings over the Internet, something that came and went with the COVID-19 crisis, may be coming back.
The board recently gave preliminary approval of a resolution that would bring a return to livestreaming of its meetings. A second vote is needed to finish the process.
“The Board recognizes the value of livestreaming regular and special Board of Education public meetings and, from time-to-time, other public meetings of the Board and its committees,” says the resolution. “Therefore, the Board, at its sole discretion, may live stream in real time all or any portion of public meetings.”
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Although people interested in school board activities would be able to watch the meetings from afar, only those showing up in person would have the ability to weigh-in with comments. “Public comments are reserved for individuals who are in-person at a Board meeting,” the resolution says.
The pitfalls presented by allowing comments from those watching meetings remotely was raised in January by Roxbury School Board Member Carol Scheneck, who said she attended a seminar on the topic at the New Jersey Education Association Convention. At the time, she said she was concerned about the possibility of slanderous or otherwise improper comments from members of the audience being broadcast during the live stream.
However, it’s not only remote viewers whose comments might be problematic; the potentially unsavory words of members of the public attending meetings would be broadcast over the live stream. Toward that end, the resolution contains a provision stating any live steaming broadcasting of a board meeting “may contain a notification disclaiming responsibility for statements made by those in attendance at the meeting.”
The resolution notes that the board-approved written minutes will remain the official record of meetings.
It also says the board reserves the right to "discontinue the streaming of a meeting at any time by majority vote of the Board members in attendance at a public Board meeting if streaming becomes impractical due to equipment malfunction, operator unavailability, if the streaming is creating any impediment to conducting the meeting in an orderly fashion.”
Roxbury School Board Member Heather Champagne, who chairs the board’s policy committee, said Roxbury Schools Superintendent Frank Santora attended the committee meeting and "shared that there will obviously be a cost associated … that the administration will need to look into.”
The board began using the WebEX platform to offer remote attendance of meetings after it canceled in-person gatherings in April 2020. That came to an end in July 2021, a move that brought complaints from some constituents who liked the convenience the live streams offered.
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ROXBURY, NJ - A hot start and timely turnovers helped the Roxbury High School football Gaels defeat Morristown 36-14 on the road Friday. The Gaels improved to 8-0, with one regular season game remaining next week.Roxbury received the opening kickoff and was immediately in the red zone, as Colin Richter returned the opening kickoff all the way down to the Roxbury 15-yard line. On first-and-10, the Gaels looked to pass, but the attempt was incomplete.On second down, Jahmani Miller got his first carry, picking up five yards. On th...
ROXBURY, NJ - A hot start and timely turnovers helped the Roxbury High School football Gaels defeat Morristown 36-14 on the road Friday. The Gaels improved to 8-0, with one regular season game remaining next week.
Roxbury received the opening kickoff and was immediately in the red zone, as Colin Richter returned the opening kickoff all the way down to the Roxbury 15-yard line. On first-and-10, the Gaels looked to pass, but the attempt was incomplete.
On second down, Jahmani Miller got his first carry, picking up five yards. On third down, the Gaels were unable to gain any positive yards, and Gunnar Hilsinger went onto the field to nail a 27-yard field goal to give the Gaels an early 3-0 lead.
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On Morristown’s first play from scrimmage, quarterback James Dzikowski threw a 7-yard screen pass. A false start penalty then pushed Morristown back five yards, and a block in the back two plays later set up a third-and-13 for the Colonials.
Dzikowski went back to the screen pass, and the Colonials picked up 18 yards and a first down. On the following play, a fumbled exchange on a toss play ended in a Gaels fumble recovery.
The Gaels offense started its second drive with an 8-yard pass from Skawinski to Richter. After a 3-yard run from Miller, the Gaels had a first-and-10 at the Colonials 16-yard line.
Skawinski found his big target Connor Patton, open in the flat, and Patton took the reception to the end zone for a 16-yard touchdown as the Gaels’ lead extended to 10-0.
Morristown needed to put together a good drive to gain back some momentum. However, a few plays into their drive, the Colonials fumbled again, and the Gaels were on it, gaining possession of the ball.
Miller then opened the Gaels offensive drive with a 5-yard run on first-and-10. Then, Skawinski hit Richter on a screen pass for a 14-yard pickup. Two plays later, a jet sweep to Richter picked up another 12 yards and another Gaels first down.
The Gaels were now set up with a first-and-goal from the 2-yard line, but a false start pushed them back five yards. This was no issue though, as Skawinski took the quarterback run seven yards for a touchdown. A blocked extra point kept the score at 16-0 in favor of the Gaels, with the first quarter coming to a close.
The opening play of the second quarter was third-and-one for the Colonials, who then picked up four yards on a reverse. Three runs later, the Colonials were set up with a fourth-and-two.
Morristown looked to run and picked up just enough for a first down. Two plays later, running back Braden Van Zile found space down the left sideline and picked up a 34-yard run, setting Morristown up with a first-and-goal from the Gaels 7-yard line.
After a 5-yard run on first down, a quarterback sneak from Dzikowski got the Colonials on the board.
After the touchdown, Morristown tried a surprise onside kick, but Liam Aretz recovered it cleanly for the Gaels. Two plays into the drive, the Gaels picked up three yards and were tasked with a third-and-seven.
On third down, Skawinski rolled out left and found Richter for a 24-yard pickup. Three plays later, Skawinski found Richter on a screen pass, which he then took 20 yards to the end zone, increasing the Gaels lead to 23-7.
The next drive for Morristown opened with a 7-yard run, which was followed by a 3-yard run and a 2-yard run. Then, Dzikowski found Trey Friday open for a 36-yard gain in the passing game.
A few plays later, Dzikowski found Jasiah Brown on a screen pass for a 31-yard touchdown with 0:56 remaining in the first half. The Gaels ran the clock down to halftime, with a score of 23-14 in favor of Roxbury.
Second Half
Morristown got the ball to start the second half, as it looked to gain momentum with a touchdown drive. After a 4-yard run, Dzikowski’s second-down pass attempt was nearly picked off by Matt Rattay.
Then, on third-and-six, Dzikowski found Van Zile on a backside screen pass, as he picked up 35 yards for the Colonials. Three plays later, Dzikowski found Van Zile on the same play design, picking up another 12 yards and set up a fourth-and-short for Morristown.
The Colonials went with the quarterback sneak, which proved too strong for the Gaels defense, as the Colonials moved the chains. A false start and a 3-yard loss pushed the Colonials back into a second-and-18.
After a 10-yard run, a 0-yard pickup on third down forced Morristown to attempt a 40-yard field goal. The attempt was just barely wide to the right, and the Gaels got the ball back.
A first-down screen pass picked up two yards for Roxbury, which was followed by a 1-yard run. On third down, a false start pushed the Gaels farther back, as they now faced a third-and-12.
Skawinski rolled to his left and found Richter again, as he caught the pass down the left sideline for a 31-yard pickup. Then, after an 8-yard run from Miller, Skawinski found Nik Edelman deep down the middle for a 34-yard gain for the Gaels.
Skawinski finished the drive with an 8-yard touchdown run. The Colonials blocked the extra point for a second time, and the score remained 29-14 with the Gaels on top.
Morristown started moving the ball with the run on its next drive. After a 6-yard run on second-and-eight, the Colonials picked up 18 more yards on the ground, and then four more yards as the third quarter came to a close.
Morristown opened the fourth quarter with a false start penalty. Two run plays later, the Colonials had picked up another first down and seemed to have gained momentum offensively.
Then, on first-and-10, Dzikowski got sacked by Jadon DeRosa, losing six yards in the process. Incompletions on second and third down forced Morristown to punt on fourth-and-16, as the Gaels got the ball at their own 19-yard line.
The Gaels offense was unable to drain much clock on its drive, as a holding penalty set it back, eventually into a three-and-out.
Hilsinger’s punt gave possession back to the Colonials, as they had the ball at their own 41-yard line. With over six minutes on the clock, a quick touchdown would keep the Colonials within one possession, so the game wasn't quite out of reach.
After a 5-yard pass, Dzikowski found another curl route open, which picked up 12 more yards for Morristown. Then, Dzikowski hit a screen pass for a gain of seven yards.
Right as Morristown started moving the ball, the Gaels defense stepped up. Dzikowski looked for a quick pass in the flat, but Skawinski flew up to it, picked off the ball, and had nothing but green grass ahead of him on a 64-yard return for a Gaels pick-six.
That play all but secured the Gaels victory, and two plays into the Colonials following drive, Dzikowski threw another interception to Skawinski.
The Gaels decided to continuously give the ball to Miller, who wore down the Colonials defense enough for Roxbury to run out the clock, defeating Morristown with a final score of 36-14.
With one game remaining, the Gaels are 8-0 with Livingston being the final regular season contest for the team. The Senior Night game will be at home next Friday. The 1-6 Livingston Lancers are coming out of bye week and will hope to end the Gaels undefeated regular season in a game that should draw many fans to the Succasunna stadium.
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Special to DailyRecord.comROXBURY – Roxbury coach Ryan Roumes is constantly raising the bar for his football team in practice and with season-long goals.After six straight non-winning seasons, Roumes has been trying to reclaim the successes of a once-proud program that boasts three sectional titles and 22 playoff appearances.A winning campaign last year for the first time since 2015 was the first step. Now, the squad finds itself in the driver’s seat for a division crown.Senior Colin Ric...
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ROXBURY – Roxbury coach Ryan Roumes is constantly raising the bar for his football team in practice and with season-long goals.
After six straight non-winning seasons, Roumes has been trying to reclaim the successes of a once-proud program that boasts three sectional titles and 22 playoff appearances.
A winning campaign last year for the first time since 2015 was the first step. Now, the squad finds itself in the driver’s seat for a division crown.
Senior Colin Richter had 115 receiving yards and a pair of first half touchdowns to guide Roxbury past West Morris 28-14 in the SFC Liberty White division clash Thursday night.
“No one signed up to just be pretty good at the start of the season,” Roumes said. “We have to stay hungry and can’t be satisfied with any of this.”
The victory ends a five-game winning streak in the series for West Morris (2-2), which has lost two-straight games.
Roxbury quarterback Anthony Skawinski, who completed 10-of-12 pass attempts for 207 yards and three touchdowns, heaved a Hail Mary to Richter, who made an acrobatic grab to haul in a 41-yard score with 1:02 remaining in the first half to put the Gaels ahead 21-7.
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The senior dominated secondary of Richter and Jared Irwin, who each tallied interceptions, Elijah Kali and sophomore Nikolas Edelman clamped down on the West Morris receivers. At one point in the game, the Gaels defense forced Wolfpack quarterback Jake Morris to throw seven straight incompletions.
Roxbury’s 4-0 start is its best since opening the 2015 season at 6-0 before losing 35-14 to Wayne Hills in the North 1 Group 4 quarterfinals to finish 8-2.
“We have a big group of seniors and that’s playing a part and we’re playing our best,” said Rattay, who had a touchdownfor Roxbury. “If we do one thing good, our coach want us to do it better, and we try to bring that to our games.”
Roxbury remains in control of the division title. The Gaels have two more critical Liberty White road games ahead at Mount Olive (Sept. 29) and Morristown (Oct. 14).
West Morris suffered back to back defeats for the first time since the close of the 2018 season when the Wolfpack fell to Irvington, 28-16, and Westfield, 20-13.
The result ends a five-game losing streak for Roxbury in a non-competitive stretch to its Morris County opponent. The Gaels were outscored 172-28 by West Morris over that stretch of games.
Richter showed why he is one of the most athletic players in Morris County near the close of the first half.
After a 24-yard gain on third-and-16 put Roxbury at the West Morris 41, Skawinski unloaded a long toss that deflected off the hands of Wolfpack defender Tyler Wu. Richter collected the ricochet and made the grab while fighting off a defender on his left arm and falling down backwards in the end zone.
It was the third catch of the half for the senior who had 101 receiving yards at halftime. Rattay made a key block to give the quarterback just enough time to throw the ball.
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? The Gaels scored on four of their initial five drives in the game.
? Roxbury scored as many points (28) Friday night as it has in the previous five games against West Morris
? Richter had a game-high 115 receiving yards, two touchdowns and an interception for Roxbury.
? Senior lineman Jadon DeRosa had two sacks to lead a feisty defensive front for Roxbury.
“I like the ball in my hands, so I try to put myself in the best position to get the ball at all times.” – said Richter, who touched the ball five times in the victory.
? West Morris (2-2) hosts Sparta Sept. 22.
? Roxbury (4-0) travels to Warren Hills Sept. 22
Photo Credit: TAPinto RoxburyArtist rendering of Goodwill store coming to LedgewoodPhoto Credit: Goodwill By Fred J. AunPublishedOctober 4, 2023 at 5:02 PMROXBURY, NJ – The former Buddy’s Small Lots store on Route 46 in Ledgewood will soon be home to a Goodwill Industries outpost.Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey expects to open the new retail store in January, said Jose Medellin, the company’...
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Artist rendering of Goodwill store coming to LedgewoodPhoto Credit: Goodwill
By Fred J. Aun
PublishedOctober 4, 2023 at 5:02 PM
ROXBURY, NJ – The former Buddy’s Small Lots store on Route 46 in Ledgewood will soon be home to a Goodwill Industries outpost.
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey expects to open the new retail store in January, said Jose Medellin, the company’s director of communications. “We are excited to open a new Goodwill store and donation center in Ledgewood,” he added.
Buddy's Small Lots in late August announced it was closing after being in business for 12 years" It's social media announcements noted that Goodwill was "coming soon."
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In papers submitted to the township, Goodwill said the new 13,740-square-foot store will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will employ 15 people.
“The proposed retail store would be open to the public for selling donated clothing and goods, receiving and organizing donations into containers and receiving and transferring donated goods by truck,” said Goodwill in a zoning permit application.
It said the store “will sell and accept donations of gently used apparel, accessories, shoes, housewares but not large bulk items such as couches or mattresses.
It said 9,000 square feet of the store will be for retail sales including small housewares, cookware, glassware, seasonal clothing and small electronics. The remaining $4,500 square feet will be used for accepting and sorting donations.
“Retail customers will enter and exit through the main entrance and donor customers will enter through the side door,” said Goodwill. “Both the sales floor and back of house areas will be fully staffed with 15-20 Goodwill employees whose duties include attending to retail customers, accepting donations from donor customers, stocking/staging retail items and staging donated goods for pickup.”
The company stressed there will be no drop-boxes at the site; all customers wishing to donate must enter the building.
“This site is located in a highly populated area that will engage the largest number of donors and shoppers, and will be visible from the road on a busy traffic corridor,” said Goodwill NYNJ Executive Vice President of Donated Goods Retail Ilana Zimmerman. “As a nonprofit thrift organization, our goal is to serve the community as a sustainability resource to help residents re-use and re-purpose the clothing and goods they no longer need while using the revenue to fund employment and other support services for the same community.”
The store will be the company’s second in Morris County. The other is located at 226 Route 46 in Rockaway.
Goodwill said its stores “re-purpose donated goods and transform them into services for the community through (a) double impact mission of sustainable fashion and power of work.” It added that it is “investing to design stores that provide a safe, clean, convenient and fun donating and shopping experience tailored to the growing resale market with merchandise free of the environmental impact of fast fashion.”
Goodwill said that, in 2022, it re-purposed more than 38 million pounds of pre-owned clothing and home goods, “successfully diverting them from the landfills, and saving nearly 57,000 metric tons of CO2 from polluting the atmosphere.” It said that nearly 1 million people dropped their clothing and goods at Goodwill NY/NJ sites that year.
“Goodwill is bringing the fun of thrift, the beauty of upcycling, with the meaning of social impact to your community,” said Katy Gaul-Stigge, Goodwill NY/NJ president and CEO. “The shopping landscape is changing across the country, with thrifting and secondhand shopping going 100% mainstream. Goodwill NY/NJ has been a sustainable fashion powerhouse for over 108 years and is leading the way to changing the clothing manufacturing cycle to decrease creating new clothes that are then discarded and hurt the environment.”
Job openings for the Goodwill store in Ledgewood will be posted some time in December, said Goodwill, noting that candidates may check the Goodwill NYNJ website: https://goodwillnynj.org/work-for-us/
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ROXBURY, NJ – Tractor-trailers coming and going from a massive warehouse project being proposed for the former Hercules site in Kenvil will need fuel.Roxbury Planning Board Chairman Charles Bautz fears that fact.His concern, one of several expressed by Bautz and other board members during a recent meeting, is that truckers will not simply come an...
ROXBURY, NJ – Tractor-trailers coming and going from a massive warehouse project being proposed for the former Hercules site in Kenvil will need fuel.
Roxbury Planning Board Chairman Charles Bautz fears that fact.
His concern, one of several expressed by Bautz and other board members during a recent meeting, is that truckers will not simply come and go from Route 80, as the project’s developers contend. When their rigs need diesel fuel, those drivers will likely venture onto local roads, Bautz said.
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“I feel we’re making a lot of assumptions,” he told representatives of Hartz Mountain Industries, the developer proposing the 2.5-million-square-foot warehouse project on Howard Boulevard.
The developers predict most trucks headed to the site will come from the east on Route 80 westbound. Hartz Mountain believes the drivers will get off at the Howard Boulevard exit, make their deliveries to the warehouses and head right back onto the interstate.
As a means of preventing big trucks from doing otherwise, Hartz Mountain proposes signs barring truckers leaving the site from turning left on Howard Boulevard (to head southbound toward Route 46). But Bautz suggested the real problem will not be when the trucks depart. It will be when they arrive.
“Most truckers are going to need fuel,” he said at the Sept. 6 board meeting. He said drivers will want to top-off their tanks before making their deliveries, possibly at the Kingtown Truck Stop on Route 46 in Ledgewood.
Roxbury Mayor Jim Rilee, who also sits on the planning board, agreed. “They’ll come off (Route 80) at the Netcong exit,” get fuel at Kingtown and take Route 46 through Ledgewood to Howard Boulevard, he said.
Hartz Mountain’s traffic engineer, Daniel Disario, conceded he did not try to predict truck fueling scenarios when writing his traffic study. The accuracy of that study was something else the planning board questioned at the meeting, contending traffic counts used by Disario were outdated.
“We’re wasting time on 5-year-old numbers,” Bautz said, questioning Disario’s reliance on counts taken years ago by county and state agencies. He said Hartz Mountain should have conducted new tallies before filing its application.
“You knew what you were coming in for,” he said. “You could have said, ‘Screw the state. Screw the county' ... You’re coming in with a humongous application with counts of 4,306 trips per day just into your site. Why wouldn’t you take the approach to do something last September before we started? Why weren’t (you) proactive. Every board member’s saying it. It just seems silly to me.”
Disario disagreed. “I take issue with your characterization of all the work we put into this,” he retorted. “In what I’ve submitted to you, we identified what we think is the traffic this project is going to generate. The fact is, the amount of traffic this development is going to generate as a warehouse development is not significant.”
Hartz Mountain needs a zoning variance to build the so-called "Roxbury Commerce Center" on about 200 acres of the 1,000-acre site. It contends the warehouses will bring fewer vehicles to Roxbury than would an office park that would not need such a variance.
What About Mt. Arlington?
A fear that truck traffic will not simply go between the site and Route 80 was also expressed at the meeting by residents of adjacent Mount Arlington. Among those expressing that concern was Mount Arlington Mayor Mike Stanzilis.
“I completely agree with you wanting to prohibit the left-hand turn to go into Roxbury,” he said. “I don’t want them to go into Mount Arlington.”
Bautz agreed about the potential impact on Mount Arlington from truckers that need local services.
“We are trying, best we can, to get them back onto Route 80 eastbound with the least amount of impact,” he said. “I have concern about items they may need to get back on the road. Obviously, do we want them going into Mt. Arlington? No. We want them to go onto Route 80.”
The board will continue to review the proposal at its Oct. 4 meeting.
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