What Would You Build in Mendham?

Mendham-Chester, NJ - Earlier this week, Mendham-Chester Patch asked our Facebook readers what they would build or fix in town if they were given $1 million.

Readers from across the area responded with answers varying from new playgrounds, renovated high schools and improved hospitals.

Also early this week, U.S. News and World Report released its list of the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals Across the Country. The hospitals were ranked in terms of “clinical outcomes,” “efficient coordination of care,” and “care-related resources.”

The publication periodically releases lists regarding the best schools in the country as well as most livable cities. Many of the things that make a town or city ‘livable’ are resources and public spaces i.e. good schools, roads, parks, libraries, etc. Not surprisingly, these were many of the things readers said they would build or fix in their town if granted $1 million to do so.

Here’s what your neighbors said they would build in Mendham-Chester:

• "I would put up some sort of bullet-proof wall around the Black River Middle School so that the kids can go outside during hunting season, rather than being held hostage in the gym in case they get shot by someone missing a deer or a skunk or a wombat or whatever they kill out there."
• "New fire trucks"
• "Outlaw the LED headlights that blind you at night, and add reflective paint on roads that are pitch black so you can see where you are going when those headlights blind you."
• "I would begin the process of moving power lines underground."
• "Mendham Health and Racquet Club needs a face lift."

What would you build or renovate in Mendham-Chester if you had $1 million? Let us know on our Facebook page.

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