Warwick unites through wildfire, farmland preservation, infrastructure upgrades, and collaborative leadership.
By Jane Anderson
The town of Warwick and its villages, through heir long history of cooperation, embody the spirit of the Helen Keller quote: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Words became action in November, when over the course of two weeks, the Jennings Creek wildfire burned more than 5,300 acres of land straddling the New York-New Jersey state line at Sterling Forest State Park within the town of Warwick, on the eastern shore of Greenwood Lake. Drought conditions and wind gusts whipped energy into the wildfire; schools closed, and volunteers streamed to the Greenwood Lake Fire Department with donations of water and food.…
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