These are the people Vance Funk is saying are bullies and haters and horrible neighbors. They aren't any of those things, Mayor Funk. They harbor no ill will to you, Vance, so stop running to the News Journal every two weeks and giving all of Newark residents a black eye........(News Journal) Melissa Nann Burke reports ~ Newark's Funk: We don't feel welcome.
Properties near the Funks’ on Beverly Road are staked with yard signs urging “No More Gas Pumps.” The mayor continues to hear constituents opposing the project, even though he’ll now leave office before the proposal could come up for a vote.“Even when they became clear that this was affecting my health, they continued to put signs up around my house,” said Funk, who survived a stroke in 1993 and is worried about having another. “It’s bizarre to me."
The Funks, who own a home in Bethany Beach, expect to close on a condo in the Washington House Condominiums on Main Street in late October......Funk, who plans to continue his law practice, says he’s wanted to move to Washington House for at least four years. Elaine held out until now.“We’ve had enough,” Elaine said. “It was just too much – all of it."
With some comment rescues ~.........Jim McKelvey helped organize the South Main Street Coalition for Safety that meets in Funk’s neighborhood and distributes “No More Gas Pumps” signs.“He’s done tremendous stuff for the city. We’re sorry he’s decided to give up his post,” said McKelvey, who has appeared at city events wearing anti-gas-pump sandwich boards. “These are people with opposing views – we just happen to be his neighbors.”
- Are you sure he isn't doing this because half the city is going to be up in arms about the proposed power plant at the STAR campus??? If anyone cares, we are facing a HUGE fight with the University over this and if Funk thinks he is stressed - how about the people who will be living within spitting distance of this property - ohm I forgot, the city signed a "confidentiality agreement" last July with Data Centers, LLC so they can build a great big turbine fired generating plant right smack dab in the middle of south Newark. Could it be that Funk was sensing the fury that the people will be directing at City Hall?????
- As a guy who has dealt with Vance for 30 years I wish those idiot people would just leave the nice man alone.He has done more for Newark than all of them combine- If the residents don't want it then why push it down their throats? Yeah, Mayor Funk has done some great things. But they just built a Wawa by the Hudson Service center. Does every piece of land in Newark HAVE to be developed and by big corporations? From what I read here, ppl really like Vance so I don't get the "we don't feel welcome" angle. They just don't want another damn Wawa.
- We all know that Mayor in a City Manager city isn't the same as Mayor in most cities, and we all like Vance Funk (I stop and chat with him every time I see him at Deer Park or Main St., etc.), a lot, but if a few yard signs, and not getting his way for once, is "too much" for him, then, yeah, it's time to step aside. Also, if he didn't anticipate the reaction from his Old Newark neighbors, who are famously protective of their right to quiet enjoyment of their properties and community, then the Mayor is seriously out of touch.
- I feel bad for the guy. No one should feel the way Vance and and his wife feel. If I were him, I'd leave Newark all together! I wouldn't shop in Newark or spend a dime in the city anymore! Why should he after the way his neighbors are making him feel after all he has done for the city. Shame on them
(Newark Post) Josh Shannon reports ~ Annual block party unites – and reunites – neighbors - Apple Road tradition began in 1949
A quiet street nestled between the bustling university campus and the business district of South Main Street, Apple Road remains one of the city’s tightest-knit communities. Older residents say the block party began as early as 1949 and continued for decades. Sometime along the way it dropped off for a few years, but in 2008 a group of neighbors revived the annual tradition, and it’s been going strong ever since. “We just have to do it,” Laurie Herman said. “We think it’s important to meet the people on the street.”
On Sunday, about 50 neighbors – a mix of retirees and families with young children – brought lawn chairs and gathered in the 600 block, where the road dead-ends. Kids rode their bikes up and down the street, and everyone shared a potluck meal, including “Apple Road Apple Cake” for dessert.
For three hours, they talked and laughed and reminisced. But again and again, the conversation came around to the same topic: the community feel that Apple Road has been able to retain through the years.~*~
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