Santa Claus isn’t the only one watching one South Jersey neighborhood, where a number of anonymous letters left have appeared on front porches offering feedback on their holiday light displays.

Some are praise, but some are scathing and labeled one family’s decorations as “lazy” and full of “Christmas flaws," - and it hit a nerve.

Angela Beatty said the note left on the front step of her Haddonfield home on Christmas Eve called out her lack of Christmas lights as a “Christmas violation.” The missive, which came with a box of 100-count lights, says it’s from the “S&V awards” given out by the “S&V panel.”

The identity of “S&V” remains a mystery.

Beatty said the note topped off a difficult holiday season for her family: their beloved cat, Bertie, has been missing for five months, a family member is recovering from an illness, and they were just involved in a car crash.

Those difficulties made putting up holiday decorations seem like a daunting task, so she skipped it.

"Did they not think this (sending the note) through? I don’t know if they knew me but clearly when they left the package they would have seen that I have the missing cat flier,” Beatty said, adding that the flier is prominently visible on her front step.

Someone calling themselves the "S & V panel" has left letters on the front steps of several Haddonfield homes either praising or criticizing their Christmas lights.

Still, the Beatty family home was not entirely without lights. The family decorates a bush outside their home with blue lights in a swirl every year, in honor of her father-in-law, who is an NYPD officer.

That wasn’t enough for the letter-leaver, who scolded the family for not having “neat, organized, and/or classy Christmas decorations.”

“Reflect on your flaws in the offseason, and correct them for next year,” the letter advises. The attached lights were meant to help “jumpstart” any 2020 holiday planning.

It’s not the first year "S&V” sent a letter, Beatty said, but it appears to be the first time the letter was critical.

Beatty said several people posted in a local Facebook group that they received positive notes about their decorations in 2018, and a neighbor down the street received one praising his home this year.

Someone calling themselves the "S & V panel" sent letters to homeowners either praising or criticizing their Christmas decorations.

“You have set yourself apart in your nearby community as a Christmas-dynasty!!!" the winning letters said, later reading, “Now we ask that you brag, gloat, mock, and trash talk all your nearby neighbors. They tried but couldn’t conquer.”

What makes the notes this year even more unsettling is that the letter writers say they have moved, but are still evaluating the neighborhood. Beatty said she filed a police report, saying she feels the note is “harassment."

Haddonfield police confirmed that Beatty filed a police report; a records request for any reports filed about the letters did not turn up any other reports made.

So far, Beatty says her friends and the community have been supportive. That support extends to the mayor, who said he had heard about the letters and was “deeply disappointed.”

“It is my hope that 2020 will bring a renewed sense of positivity and respect for one another,” Haddonfield Mayor Neil Rochford said in an email.

"I hate when people say let it go, and I wish I could but it just hit a nerve,” Beatty said.

This isn’t the first time a New Jersey neighborhood has been targeted by an anonymous letter writer. “The Watcher” drew national attention to Westfield when a mysterious letter-writer began targeting a family, claiming to have been watching their new home for years before they moved in. The identity of that writer has never been established.

Katie Kausch may be reached at kkausch@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @KatieKausch. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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