STAR-LEDGER'S MULSHINE WEIGHS IN ON OUR LEAF-BLOWERS, AND NANCY ADAMS

TC member Nancy Adams and her favorite unblown leaves. Photo:Star-Ledger

Readers know we have been following the battle over leaf blowers in Maplewood, which came up again on Tuesday as the Township Committee heard the first testimony about the recent three-month pilot program banning them during June, July and August.

The views were mixed as you can see HERE.

Paul Mulshine

But now Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine got into the act, penning a Thursday piece that appears decidedly anti-blower, and pro Nancy Adams. 

She is, of course, the TC member who proposed the ban after finding she could not work in her College Hill home with the ear-shattering noise. (and she was not alone.)

Mulshine, who visited town wrote, in part: 

At one house, two guys with blowers managed to spend 15 minutes pushing around a pile of leaves that could have been raked up in five minutes. I could see a cloud of crud drifting onto the neighbor's porch and onto the sidewalk, where a lady who was walking with a kid had to go through it.

At another house a lone leaf-blower pushed the same tiny pile of leaves around a yard for five minutes, again with little effect. The lady and the kid had to dodge that as well. 

But the best part of the column, agree or disagree, are shots he took of Adams in her leaf-adorned front yard.

Photo: Star-Ledger