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Supporting Documentation · Apr 15, 2026

Yerrr Canna LLC Ltr to W Orange PB re Request for One Year Extension of Approvals 41026 __w ENCLs

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EXHIBIT E

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Star-Ledger @ = LEGAL AFFIDAVIT AD#: 0011084850 State of New Jersey,) ss County of Middlesex) Maria Nunez being duly swom, deposes that he/she is principal clerk of NJ Advance Media; that Star-Ledger Is a public digital newspaper, with general circulation in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren Counties, and this notice is an accurate and true copy of this notice as printed in seid digital newspaper, was printed and published in the regular edition and issue of said digital newspaper on the following date(s): Star-Ledger 04/05/2026 Maria Nonez Principal Clerk of the Publisher ‘Swom to and subscribed before me this 6th day of April 2026 Online Notary Public. Notarization 5 facilitated by SIGNiX® (a8) Feanette Kegeymalshe Notary Public NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (VIRTUAL MEETING ONLY) TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE PLANNING BOARD PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Township of West Orange Planning Board (the “Board”), at its regular meeting to be held on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., will hold a public hearing by virtual format on the Zoom platform on the application of Yerrr Canna LLC (the “Applicant”) for a one-year (1) extension of prior approvals granted to Applicant by the Board, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-12(a), and §§25-48.5 and 25-48.10(a) of the Township of West Orange Municipal Code. The prior approvals for which the one-year extension are sought were granted under Board Application Number PB-24-05, memorialized in a Resolution of approval adopted by the Board on April 17, 2024, and consisted of Conditional Use approval, C-2 bulk variance relief pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70(c)(2), and minor site plan approval, for the operation of a Licensed Class 1 Cannabis Cultivator (Micro) in accordance with §25- 14.2(b)(2)(0) of the Township Code. The subject property is located at 76-82 Ashland Avenue, 26 Park Avenue, and 10 Park Avenue, and is identified on the official Tax Maps of the Township of West Orange as Block 62, Lots 22.01, 32, and 34 (the “Property”), located within the L-Industrial Zoning District, where Licensed Class 1 Cannabis Cultivators are a conditionally permitted use. The prior approvals authorized the reuse of an existing two- story commercial building for cannabis cultivation purposes, together with limited site

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bis Cultivators are a conditionally permitted use. The prior approvals authorized the reuse of an existing two- story commercial building for cannabis cultivation purposes, together with limited site improvements, including employee parking areas (with ADA-compliant and electric-vehicle spaces), circulation and access controls, parking and pavement striping, fire and emergency access improvements, limited landscaping and lighting improvements, and installation of a generator subject to applicable noise standards. No expansion of the building footprint or increase in the intensity of the approved use was authorized under the prior approvals. The present application seeks only a one-year extension of time to

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maintain the validity of the previously granted approvals. No changes, amendments, or modifications to the approved use, plans, or conditions of approval are proposed under this application. A virtual meeting on said application will be held virtually before the Board on April 15, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., via the Zoom platform, at which time any interested party may appear by electronic or telephonic means, on their own or through counsel if they so desire, ask questions, present comments, and be heard with respect to the application. There will be NO in-person public attendance at this meeting. For public participation and Zoom access to the meeting, please input or copy and paste the following online link below to join the meeting and enter the password below when/if prompted: https://us02web.zoom.uS/j/86191393347? pwd=VebrHks3Cp QYpitnDZItM3VCkmDZUR.1 Dial by Telephone (US): 646-931-3860 Webinar ID: 861 9139 3347 Password: 510951 Zoom Participants will be muted upon entry and may speak during the public comment portion of the hearing upon recognition by the Chair or moderator. For those persons having technical difficulties logging into the meeting, call the Township of West Orange at 973-325-4109. All plans, materials, and documents relating to this application are on file in the Office of the Township of West Orange Planning Board, Department of Planning and Development, located at 66 Main Street, West Orange, New Jersey 07052, and are available for public review during normal business hours, typically 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. The plans, materials, and documents may also be reviewed electronically on the Board’s webpage: https://westorange. org/527/Planning-Board or by contacting the Board’s Secretary, Jamilet Baquerizo Vite, at 973-325-4111 or via email at planningboard@westorange.org. Yerrr Canna LLC By: Kenneth D. McPherson Ill, Esq. FBT Gibbons LLP One Gateway Center Newark, New Jersey 07102 (973) 596-4415 4/5/26 $211.98

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Public Notice Compliance Statement of Compliance for Publishing Public Notices for Municipal-Wide Circulation essexnewsdaily.com is a New Jersey online news publication that meets the criteria set forth in P.L. 2025 C72 / 54654 to publish public notices for municipal-wide circulation. essexnewdaily.com receives at least 4,000 unique monthly visits on average, no less than 50% of which is from IP addresses within the following municipalities or within a 10-mile radius of the municipality. Average monthly unique visits 33,782. Belleville Irvington Orange Bloomfield Maplewood South Orange East Orange Newark West Orange Glen Ridge Nutley

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CHAPTER 72 AN ACT concerning publication of required legal notices, supplementing Title 35 of the Revised Statutes, and amending various parts of the statutory law. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: C.35:3-1 Definitions. 1. As used in P.L.2025, c.72 (C.35:3-1 et al.): "Electronic format" means an Internet website and other technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities that is operated by or for a newspaper for publication. "IP address" means an Internet Protocol address. "Legal notice" means any resolution, official proclamation, notice, or advertisement of any sort, kind, or character, including proposals for bids on public work and otherwise, required by law or by the order or rule of any court to be published by a public entity, corporation, an individual, or any other entity. "Local government unit" means a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the State, or any agency, board, commission, utilities authority or other authority, or other entity thereof, or a person who is a local government unit officer or employee. "Online news publication" means a news publication in electronic format that contains news on matters of public concern and has published news predominantly in the English language at least once per week for at least one year continuously. "Print newspaper" means a news publication in print form that contains news on matters of public concern and has published news predominantly in the English language at least once per week for at least one year continuously. "Public entity" means the State, any State agency, and any local government unit, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or political body in the State. "Secretary" means the Secretary of State. "State agency" means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government and any division, board, bureau, office, commission, or other instrumentality within or created by a department and, to the extent consistent with law, any interstate agency to which New Jersey is a party and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality, or agency. A local government unit shall not be deemed an agency or instrumentality of the State. C.35:3-2 Public entities to publish, advertise legal notices on

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uthority, commission, instrumentality, or agency. A local government unit shall not be deemed an agency or instrumentality of the State. C.35:3-2 Public entities to publish, advertise legal notices on official Internet website. 2. a. After March 1, 2026, whenever a public entity is required by law or by order or rule of any court to publish or advertise a legal notice, the public entity shall publish or advertise the legal notice on the public entity’s official Internet website. The public entity’s officia l Internet website shall be accessible and available to the public free of charge. A direct hyperlink to legal notices published on the public entity’s official Internet website shall be conspicuously placed on the website’s homepage. b. No later than March 1, 2026, the Secretary of State, with support from the Office of Information Technology and any other State agency the secretary deems necessary, shall establish an Internet webpage on which shall be included hyperlinks to the legal notices webpage of each public entity created pursuant to subsection a. of this section. The legal notices hyperlink webpage established by the secretary shall be accessible and available to the public free of charge and shall be accessible by direct hyperlink conspicuously placed on the

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P.L. 2025, CHAPTER 72 2 Secretary of State’s Internet homepage. Each public entity shall submit the hyperlink to the Secretary of State and provide any updates thereto prior to effectuation. c. No later than March 1, 2026, a public entity shall maintain an Internet archive of legal notices that are no longer displayed, which shall be kept for at least one year. The archi ve shall not be subject to any records retention schedule adopted by the State Records Committee nor to the "Destruction of Public Records Law (1953)," P.L.1953, c.410 (C.47:3-15 et seq.). A public entity shall display a legal notice on its legal notices Internet webpage for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before transferring the publication to the public entity’s Internet archive. A local government unit shall initially publish an Internet archive no later than July 1, 2026 and shall maintain the archive thereafter. d. A local government unit may, in addition to the publication on its official Internet website pursuant to subsection a. of this section, publish or advertise a legal notice separately on an eligible online news publication that meets the criteria of subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.2025, c.72 (C.35:3-3). The local government unit shall provide a notice in a prominent location on its official Internet website if it publishes or advertises its legal notices in an online news publication and shall publish a hyperlink to the online news publication. C.35:3-3 Non-public entities, publishing, advertising legal notices, online publication, eligibility. 3. a. (1) After March 1, 2026, whenever a corporation, individual, or any other entity that is not a public entity is required by law or by the order or rule of any court to publish or advertise a legal notice, the corporation, individual, or other entity shall publish or advertise the legal notice on an online news publication that satisfies the requirements o f subsection b. of this section. (2) The corporation, individual, or other entity shall select an online news publication based on the geographic target as established or implied under the law, court order, or court rule requiring publication. b. To be an eligible online news publication under subsection a. of this section, an online news publication shall: (1) use a domain name for the Internet website that will be easily recognizable

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ion. b. To be an eligible online news publication under subsection a. of this section, an online news publication shall: (1) use a domain name for the Internet website that will be easily recognizable and understandable to users of the website as belonging to that online news publication; (2) maintain the online news publication on the Internet in a manner that is fully accessible and searchable by members of the public at all times, other than during routine maintenance or circumstances outside of the operator’s control; (3) ensure that legal notices published or advertised on the online news publication comply with the requirements that would apply to the legal notices if they were published in a physical newspaper, as applicable; (4) maintain an archive for at least one year of notices that are no longer displayed on the online news publication; (5) display a legal notice for at least one week, or other time period as required by law, before placing it in archive; (6) enable legal notices, both those currently displayed and those archived, to be accessed by key word, by party name, by case number, by county, or other useful identifiers; (7) maintain an adequate security system and develop a contingency plan for coping with and recovering from power outages, systemic failures, and other unforeseen circumstances; (8) not charge a fee or require registration or a subscription to view legal notices; (9) maintain media liability insurance of up to $1 million;

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