About Montague Township, NJ & its Heritage: 2021

Jim Carpenter was a long-time Montague resident -

one of the original MVFD Founders,

a Life Member, and Past Fire Chief.

Condolences to family, Fire Dept. members, and friends!

Courtesy https://blogs.va.gov/

This year’s poster, the Centennial Anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, was taken from an illustration created for a book called Twenty-One Steps. Written by Jeff Gottesfeld, the book gives military families an opportunity to learn and share with their children the story behind the dedicated men and women who watch over the tomb 24 hours a day.

A Veterans Day Prayer

Thank you to all of our Veterans!

See Facebook for Montague Grange #140

postponed til Sun., 10/31 due to weather.

Spotted Lanternflies

have appeared in Montague

Please go to :

www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/pests-diseases/spotted-lanternfly/#reporting-tool

to report if you see any.

Spotted lanternfly printable - click to see page with info & photos.

"This insect has the potential to greatly impact agricultural crops and hardwood trees. SLF feeds on the plant sap of many different plants including grapevines, maples, black walnut, and other important plants in NJ. While it does not harm humans or animals, it can reduce the quality of life for people living in heavily infested areas."

It has an insatiable appetite for the sap of fruit, ornamental and woody plants.

More info and how to help prevent the egg masses which will survive Winter and ways to help eradicate this insect:

https://news.psu.edu/story/613936/2020/04/02/impact/extension-educators-offer-tips-managing-spring-spotted-lanternfly-egg

Traveling memorial brings history lesson to local students

Click title to see images

The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was recently set up at Woodbourne Park in Wantage.

One of the veterans shown assisting in getting it mounted is a Montague resident.

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An area veteran is trying to get something going to help facilitate better help for more recent vets.

The effort is titled:

Operation: Got Your Six

This past Sat., he and others walked

13 for 13: Hike for the Fallen

in memory of the military personnel killed in the recent suicide bombing at Kabul Airport.

Part of that walk was over the upper part of Montague's River Rd.

SUMMER 2021

As this year moves on, despite the challenges of coping with COVID -19, we'd want to recognize two events that marked things of a happier nature:

Winners of the Miss Montague

& our Junior Royalty competition:

Courtesy www.montague.org/community/royalty.html

and the official dedication of our long-awaited Firehouse:

Courtesy of
https://www.facebook.com/Montague-Volunteer-Fire-Department-652512374857182/

Courtesy: website for Radio 103.9 in TX

REMEMBER & HONOR

THOSE WHO GAVE ALL!

Today in history

Fascinating tidbits from the archives

March 23

On March 23, 1775,  Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech, telling the congregants of St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

31 Years later, the United States was not just a country in the image of Henry's words, but expanding: on March 23, 1806, explorers Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of their "Corps of Discovery" journey, and began the arduous journey home.

Nearly sixty years later and the country was almost unrecognizable. Larger than Lewis and Clark left it, and divided now not between Loyalists and Patriots, but between Confederates and Unionists.

On March 23, 1862, the First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia commenced, marking the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign.

Virginia's Shenandoah Valley was known as the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy" due to its ample harvests and transportation centers, its role as an avenue of invasion into the North and its capacity to serve as a diversionary theater of war. The region became a magnet for both Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, and nearly half of the thirteen major battles fought in the valley occurred as part of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign.

The Civil War raged and ended; Reconstruction came and left, and with the new century came even more change, and more progress. So much so that just exactly 103 years after Jackson's Campaign, the United States launched its first two-man space flight crew with the Gemini 3 on March 23, 1965.
Courtesy: Arcadia Publishing.

They helped publish a book written and compiled by the then Township Historian, Mrs. Batko.  MONTAGUE was specifically composed in time for the township's 250th anniversary, celebrated in 2009.
Copies may still be available for purchased through the township's historical society - M.A.R.C.H.

This Friday, March 26th,

Montague Township will mark its 262nd anniversary!