Parks Lose Out On Repair Funds ; Lawmakers Won't Vote On Codey Bill

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The $75 million that acting Governor Codey was seeking for state park improvements was to have been the most ever to be spent on fixing up the state's recreational and historic treasures, supporters said.

It would have shored up sagging monuments and fixed broken bathrooms. It could have seeded two ambitious North Jersey projects - to turn a former junkyard in River Edge into a Revolutionary War museum and to rehabilitate two neglected parks overlooking the Great Falls in Paterson, park advocates said.

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Parks Lose Out On Repair Funds ; Lawmakers Won't Vote On Codey Bill

The visions of sugar plums aren't dancing in the heads of park advocates now. Assembly leaders announced this week that they will not consider the parks measure, which the ou...

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