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Over the past several years I have watched with interest the ongoing debate in The SandPaper editorial section over offshore windmills. Something in the debate triggered a vague memory; the story begins with an announcement in the Jan. 24, 1960 Trenton Times.
“A jetport, the biggest in the world, might come to Trenton’s backyard. … The jet age global terminal proposed for the Lebanon Forest area of Burlington County (plus part of Ocean County) would be the largest of its kind in the world.
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