To the editor: I think your readers may want to be aware of an issue that has cropped up involving another newspaper that covers West Milford and Wayne Gottlieb, a member of the township’s board of education. In a story that appeared under the headline “Peeved trustees may drop newspaper ads,” Gottlieb referred to the North Jersey Media Group as the “enemy” and thereby exposed a problem more serious than the potential loss of a thousand bucks or so in advertising revenue to one of your competitors. The bottom line of the issue is this: I have asked New Jersey’s Supreme Court for a hearing to settle the question of whether or not handwritten notes taken by the secretary to the West Milford Board of Education during a meeting that was closed to the public should be released to the public. The general counsel of The Record put together a group of nine organizations that includes the Associated Press, the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania Press Associations, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Newspapers and still others, who filed a legal brief supporting my position and opposing the board’s. The common denominator for the groups is the taxpayers’ right to know what their public entities are doing behind closed doors. Gottlieb’s proposal that the school board withhold advertising to punish a perceived foe should be of interest to residents of the township and, especially, to people who believe in freedom of the press. The incident makes you wonder who else might be on Gottlieb’s homegrown version of Richard Nixon’s enemies list. Martin O’Shea Stockholm