ACTION ALERT
MILLS: IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER At press time, intelligence came to Hackensack Riverkeeper headquarters indicating that the Mills Corporation is attempting to move further with their plans to destroy 206-acres of wetlands within the Hackensack Meadows. Be ready for public hearings in January at the offices of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission in Lyndhurst on January 15 and January 30. For further information,contact our office 201-692-8440 NO MILLS!  NO MALL!  NO WAY!
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Oscillation on the Flats "Rocking chairs and hammocks and hearts each have their own unique periods of vibration." –E.G. Valens, THE NUMBER OF THINGS. Hammocks and hearts vibrate, and doors with rusty hinges on the meadow shacks. Oars scrape in the oarlocks, Squeaky music on the Hackensack. All of Newark Bay moves slowly back and forth like water carried in a basin. The rower pulls, pulls hard to float past steel tracks and oil tanks against the wind, past swamp grass, TV towers, sun- flowers and the poorhouse on Snake Hill, floating, pulling, breathing deep, before tides turn day's rippling river to dark unmoving ground.   –Lillian Morrison Contributed by Susan Gilman

Correction:  In the previous Hackensack Tidelines, the pictures of the Urban Fishing Program in Bayonne and pictures from the American Rivers press conference were taken by Haley Peele.