See photo galley The Big Snow Storm
By Bill Cleary
Some Gloucester City residents are still upset with the way local authorities enforced the snow removal ordinance (#73-15) following the December blizzard. The record snow storm began on Friday December 19th and didn’t end until early Sunday morning, December 20. Nearly two feet of snow fell over that time period.
According to Chief Housing Officer Joseph Stecklair he and Mayor Bill James were discussing the storm around 9am in front of the municipal building on Monday, December 21. Stecklair said he noticed that pedestrians were being forced to walk in the streets because sidewalks were not cleared. Because of safety concerns Stecklair said he contacted Police Chief George Berglund, and it was decided that the housing office would gather up addresses of those properties that were in violation of the law.
\”It took Kyle (Wagner) assistant housing officer all day to cross reference the addresses with the tax records,\” said Stecklair.
That information was turned over to the police department who mailed the citations on Tuesday, December 22.
Stecklair said only properties on the west side of town were cited. \”Reason being most
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