Gloucester Township Republicans

08/31/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gloucester Township Republicans
August 31, 2026

Contact:
Tom Crone, Executive Director
[email protected]

Gloucester Township Republicans Support Iron Horse Range and the Second Amendment

Gloucester Township Republicans stand with the members and operators of the Iron Horse Gun & Archery Club — a private, member-only range that has served this community for more than 75 years on Garwood Road in Erial.

Law-abiding residents have a right to keep and bear arms. They also have a right to a lawful place to train and practice. Iron Horse is that place. It was here long before the subdivisions that later surrounded it. It has been grandfathered into local land use. Police have previously reported that the ranges met safety standards. Neighbor disputes over noise and development pressure are not new. What is new is a lawsuit that seeks a court order to shut the range down.

Buy first. Get rejected. Then sue.

Court filings in the public record describe a sequence every resident should read carefully.

Harvey Sternberg, principal of Bryn Mawr Garwood LLC — an entity formed in March 2026 — first offered more than $200,000 to shut the range down. The operators countered at $1.25 million in May 2026. Sternberg did not accept that counter-offer. He filed suit instead, citing “potential” environmental harm and asking a Camden County judge to close a 75-year-old range so adjoining land under contract can move toward development.

That is not how a good-faith environmental case usually begins. It is how a land assembly begins when the asking price is too high.

A public hearing on whether the court will immediately close the range is scheduled for Friday, September 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 32, Camden County Superior Court, 101 S. Fifth Street, Camden. Docket: Bryn Mawr Garwood LLC v. Iron Horse R&R LLC, Dean Rea, et al., CAM-L-002643-26.
Campaign cash and “anonymous” complaints do not mix.

Reporting on this case has documented tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions from Sternberg to Mayor David R. Mayer, Gloucester Township Democratic candidates, and Democratic-aligned local PACs — including the GT Chairman’s Club, the Gloucester Township Democrat Committee, and Gloucester Township Citizens for Government Reform. Older public filings show Sternberg as a Team Mayer donor going back years.
At the same time, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Gloucester Township have been investigating anonymous environmental complaints against the range. Township officials have visited the site, taken drone photos, and issued directives. Residents are entitled to ask a simple question:

How can township government investigate anonymous complaints against a property the plaintiff wants closed, while the plaintiff has been a longtime donor of tens of thousands of dollars to the mayor and the local Democratic organization that runs this town?

No one is accusing a judge of bias. We are saying the appearance of a pay-to-play township, investigating a donor’s target after a rejected buyout, is exactly the kind of conflict residents have learned to recognize. If the environmental claims are real, produce the expert reports. If they are a pretext, say so.

Development pressure is not theoretical. It is in the same township.

While this lawsuit proceeds, another developer is seeking to put 743 homes on the former Freeway Golf Course at 1858 Sicklerville Road — the “Freeway Pointe” proposal on about 154 acres, at a requested density far above the one-unit-per-acre R-1 standard. Neighbors have already turned out against the traffic, school, sewer, and open-space impacts.

That project and the Iron Horse fight are not the same application and not the same applicant. They are the same pattern: open land in Gloucester Township is treated as inventory. Recreational uses that have served families for decades — a historic golf course, a grandfathered gun range — become obstacles to be rezoned, sued, or squeezed until they disappear. Residents already living with crowded roads and rising taxes have every right to ask what 700-plus new units on Sicklerville Road, plus the loss of Iron Horse on Garwood Road, would do to schools, emergency services, and the character of Erial and Sicklerville.

Our position

Gloucester Township Republicans support Iron Horse. We support the Second Amendment. We support residents who want answers.

1. A lawful private range that has operated here since the late 1940s / 1950s should not be extinguished because a new LLC wants the adjoining dirt.

2. A rejected purchase offer followed by a shutdown lawsuit is a fact pattern the public can evaluate for itself.

3. Tens of thousands of dollars from the plaintiff developer to Mayor Mayer and Gloucester Township Democrats, paired with a township investigation of anonymous complaints against that developer’s target, demand sunlight — not silence.

4. Massive nearby housing proposals, including 743 units at the former Freeway Golf Course, show why this is about more than one club. It is about who this township is run for.

We encourage members, neighbors, and anyone who values both the Second Amendment and honest local government to attend the September 4 hearing, review the public filings, and demand that environmental claims be proven with evidence — not used as a lever after a buyout failed.

Gloucester Township Republicans will continue to stand with law-abiding gun owners, with Iron Horse, and with residents who are tired of watching this township get carved up for someone else’s profit.

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08/28/2026

25,600 jobs lost in New Jersey in a single month—the biggest drop since the first months of COVID. Payrolls are now back where they were in February 2024.

This isn’t just a statistic. It’s businesses packing up because New Jersey is too expensive. HelloFresh is closing its Swedesboro facility. That’s Gloucester County. That’s our backyard.

Senate Republicans have been clear: cut the sales tax and eliminate the business surcharge so we can keep and attract jobs. The current path is not working for working families here in Gloucester Township.

Affordability was the promise. July’s jobs report is the result.

08/27/2026

GT Democrats are always borrowing and spending with murky details.

GT UNITED — FIRE DISTRICT 5 FACTS

Special election: Saturday, September 12, 2026

Voters in Gloucester Township Fire District 5 (Lambs Terrace) will decide whether the district may borrow and spend $700,000 to acquire and renovate 1773 Sicklerville Road and the building on that lot.

This is a capital / bond question, not the February budget election. Only District 5 residents vote.

The property:
1773 Sicklerville Road, Sicklerville

Owner listed on the township tax record: Thomas & Jennifer J. Storer

Block 15804, Lot 15 • Fire district F05

Assessed value on that record: $263,800

The District 5 station is next door at 1781 Sicklerville Road, on the Sicklerville Road corridor near Freeway Golf Course and Iron Horse Range.

The ballot seeks to authorize the borrowing of $700,000 to buy the land and building and renovate it. It does not state a purchase price, appraisal, renovation scope, or the annual tax cost of the debt.

The owner of the property in question is an elected official

Jennifer J. Storer is an elected member of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District Board of Education (re-elected November 2024). That is public record. It is not a charge of wrongdoing. It is a fact voters can consider when the fire district asks to buy the property.

Attend the next regular meeting:

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 7 pm

Gloucester Township Fire District 5 Commissioners Office
1781 Sicklerville Road, Sicklerville, NJ 08081

Meetings are open to the public.

Ask for the appraisal, sale price, renovation plan, and tax impact before the September 12 vote.

Regular 2026 fire commissioner meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 7 pm. Dates posted by the district: Jan. 6, Feb. 3, March 3 reorganization, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, Aug. 4, Sept. 1, Oct. 6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1, plus a special meeting Dec. 29 at 6:00 p.m.

Meeting minutes are posted on the district website.

Board of Fire Commissioners (district website)

• Barry Engelbert — Chairman & Personnel Director

• Chris Rinaldi — Vice Chairman, Treasurer & Co-Secretary

• Jim Davidson — Commissioner

• Daryl T. Lloyd — Commissioner

• Gerard Sprinitis — Commissioner

District clerks (district website)

Cindy Jeminney • Colleen McWilliams • Nancy Lynch

Contact (no email posted)

Gloucester Township Fire District 5
1781 Sicklerville Road, Sicklerville, NJ 08081

Phone: 856-228-0678
Hours: Monday–Wednesday 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. • Thursday 3:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m.

Website: http://glotwpfiredistrict5.com

2026 budget:http://glotwpfiredistrict5.com/budget/2026/2026adoptedbudget.pdf

Read the ballot. Show up September 1 7 pm at
1781 Sicklerville Road. Get the numbers in public.

08/26/2026

More wasted taxpayer dollars on the I Hate Trump campaign. SCOTUS will affirm the EO and once again embarrass the AG and the Governor. But our property taxes and energy costs will not have been addressed once again.

Under our Constitution, states run elections—not the federal government, and definitely not the postal service. We are confident the courts will block this unconstitutional attempt by the president to interfere with the states’ administration of free and fair elections.

https://www.njoag.gov/ag-davenport-sues-trump-administration-to-block-unlawful-usps-rule-attempting-to-restrict-voting-by-mail/

08/26/2026

Democrats are once again trying to scare voters with misinformation and outright lies about President Trump’s Executive Order and the related USPS ballot mail rule.

Here are the facts:

President Trump signed Executive Order 14399 on March 31, 2026. It directed the U.S. Postal Service to create uniform standards for how federal election mail-in and absentee ballots are prepared and handled through the mail. The goal is to strengthen election integrity by improving tracking, requiring Official Election Mail markings, automation-compatible envelopes, and unique Intelligent Mail barcodes, and by having states submit lists of the voters to whom they intend to mail ballots.

The rule does not change any state law on who is eligible to vote by mail.
It does not decide who qualifies for an absentee or mail ballot.

It does not decide whether any returned ballot is counted.

Those decisions remain entirely with state and local election officials.
States retain full control over who receives a mail ballot. The Postal Service simply checks the envelopes and lists states themselves provide before accepting the mailings. USPS has stated it will not implement the rule for the 2026 election unless federal courts lift the current injunctions blocking it.

This is about clear standards, better chain-of-custody visibility, and enforcing existing federal law against unlawful use of the mail in elections. Nothing more.

Stick to the facts. Ignore the scare tactics.

08/26/2026

Today’s announcement from the New Jersey Attorney General celebrating a “landmark victory” over Meta is being sold as protection for children. In reality, it is another expansion of government power into the private decisions of parents and private companies.

Through aggressive litigation, the state is now dictating default time limits, mandatory pauses, nighttime blocks, and other controls on social media platforms—decisions that properly belong to parents, not bureaucrats. When government imposes these defaults and claims victory for “parents and young people,” it is not empowering families. It is substituting the judgment of the state for the judgment of mothers and fathers. This is classic Nanny State overreach that further usurps parental responsibility.

New Jersey stands to receive hundreds of millions from this settlement. Taxpayers deserve a clear answer: exactly how will that money be used?

And if the Attorney General, the Governor, and the Democratic-controlled legislature applied even a fraction of this zeal to New Jersey’s crushing property taxes and ongoing energy crisis, ratepayers and taxpayers would actually see relief. Instead, we get more government control over how parents raise their children and how private companies design their products.

Parents do not need the Attorney General as a third parent. They need the freedom to raise their own children, and New Jersey families need leaders focused on the real costs driving people out of our state.

08/25/2026

Common sense isn’t so common anymore. Thank you Assemblyman Bergen for making sense.

08/23/2026

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