HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Crosswalk is planned for Denow Road area

By John Tredrea, Special Writer
   A mid-block crosswalk on a busy section of Denow Road can be built now that the Hopewell Township Committee has adopted an ordinance to that effect.
   Under the ordinance, adopted at the committee’s Oct. 8 meeting, the crosswalk can be installed in the vicinity of Hopewell Gardens, an apartment building on the southerly side of Denow Road, and Project Freedom, an under-construction project that will provide housing for disabled residents.
   The Project Freedom site is on the north side of Denow Road, just east of the Hopewell Crossing shopping center where a Stop & Shop supermarket and other stores are located.
   The crosswalk will be about 1,550 feet east of Denow Road’s signalized intersection with Route 31.
   ALSO AT THE OCT. 8 MEETING, the committee approved a request, from the Mercer vicinage of state Superior Court, to use the auditorium of the township’s municipal building for municipal mediation training. The training session will be held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Nov. 3.
   The committee also approved an application for shooting gallery renewal from James Regan’s Deer Run Farm, on Woosamonsa Road.
   Also approved was Capital Health Auxiliary’s application to hold raffles in January, February and March of 2013.
   The committee also OK’d, for another year, its agreement with the Mercer County Improvement Authority (MCIA) on curbside pickup of recyclables. Under the agreement approved by the committee, the MCIA will continue to pick up recyclables from Jan. 1, 2013 through Dec. 31, 2013.