Author: Central Jersey
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WHAT’S GOING ON: July 31, 2015
Fri., July 31 “Sing Along With Jumpin’ Jamie” will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library System. This music program is for children of all ages, accompanied by an adult. Online registration is necessary for this program. Fellowship of the Ravens Inc., will present “Dear Edwina,”…
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PLAINSBORO: Township toughens ordinance on vacant property maintenance
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO — Overgrown grass and weeds. Shutters hanging by a hinge. Dead or dying trees. Branches ready to fall down. Those are not common sights around Plainsboro, and the Township Committee wants to keep it that way. That’s why it has amended an existing ordinance to address the issue of…
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PRINCETON: Customer loyalty proves to be the secret ingredient in success of Hoagie Haven
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer In Wednesday’s mid-afternoon heat, Stephen Barksdale sat in front of a Hoagie Haven turkey sandwich that he was washing down with a bottle of Gatorade. He said he never went to the Subway restaurant located just a few doors away on Nassau Street — a sentiment that loyal customers…
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PRINCETON: Developer chosen to install solar energy system for Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A solar energy developer was chosen to install a solar system to provide electricity to the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority at a closed municipal landfill on River Road. The tripartite arrangement will see the town collect annual rent, priced on a descending scale starting at $24,501 in 2016…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Gahrmann earns spot in national motocross championships
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Hillsborough’s Matthew Gahrmann is living his dream. The 21-year-old dirt bike racer is racing this week in the largest amateur motocross race in the world, the 34th annual Rocky Mountain ATV/MC AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at country music star Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Mr. Gahrmann was…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Students write opinion letters on matters dear to them
Before school let out, the Beacon received several letters from Hillsborough Middle School students exercising their writing and thinking skills in making and substantiating an argument on a topic important to them. We condense some of them here, and will print a second batch next week. * * * Homework should not be given in…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Racing commission hearing called ‘theater of the absurd’
To the editor: The Racing Commission held a meeting on off-track betting that had the elements of the Theatre of the Absurd. The application to site an OTB facility is not presently completed and therefore was not available for public reading. The meeting was well attended by citizens who therefore do not know the…
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PRINCETON: Man, family OK after canoe capsizes in canal
By Lea Kahn. Staff Writer A 42-year-old man whose canoe overturned, dumping himself and his family in the Delaware & Raritan Canal Saturday afternoon, was found unharmed about a mile away in the canal, according to the Princeton Police Department. Police were called at 5:06 p.m. Saturday for a report of an overturned canoe in…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Town tells state it does not want signals at Pennington Circle
By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Residents don’t want the two new traffic lights — called metering signals — that New Jersey Department of Transportation is planning to install on Route 31; one just north of the Pennington circle, the other just south of the circle. The Township Committee put the wishes of…
