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  • DOT eyes Route 130 fixes

    The state Department of Transportation is looking to eliminate specific left turns to make Route 130 safer. By: Joseph Harvie    The state wants to make Route 130 safer.    To do that, the state Department of Transportation proposed eliminating left turns at Wheeling and Stults roads onto Route 130 south, and extending the length of left-turn…

  • County begins Curbing Hunger campaign

    Drive targets summer shortage at food banks. By: Donna Lukiw    Manville residents will be seeing a lot of orange on their curbs throughout the rest of June in support of the 11th annual Curbing Hunger campaign.    In May, Somerset County recycling crews tied orange collection bags to all county residents’ blue recycling bins in hopes…

  • Centex postpones hearing

    A zoning board hearing about a proposed age-restricted community was postponed. By: Joseph Harvie    A zoning board hearing on a proposed age-restricted community was delayed until the end of August when the developer, Centex, requested an extension of its hearing.    Centex Homes is seeking a use variance to build an age-restricted community on Perrine Road…

  • Ordinance clarifies farm housing laws

    North Hanover Township adopts an ordinance making life easier for farmers to provide for their migrant workers. By: William Wichert    NORTH HANOVER — For township resident James Durr, it’s a cold hard fact: many Americans do not want to pick flowers.    Those who will are migrant workers; and, while they’re helping sustain the agriculture industry…

  • Planning board backs creating 10-acre zoning

    Springfield Planning Board recommends changing minimum lot sizes from 3 to 10 acres. By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — The plan to change minimum lot sizes from 3 to 10 acres has hit a snag. It is within the rights of township officials to do it, but is it the right thing to do?    With the…

  • Long-time teachers say goodbye to high school

    25 years of passing on a love of language to her students. By: Melissa Hayes    As the school year comes to a close, so does another chapter in the life of English teacher Joyce Lott.    Her story in education began 25 years ago, when the high school was located on Major Road and she was…

  • Live! From SBHS, it’s VTN

    Students learn the broadcasting ropes on school cable channel. By: Melissa Hayes    "We’re hot in one minute," yells junior Toni Graziano.    It’s 9:01 Monday morning at South Brunswick High School and the students in the Viking Television Network broadcast journalism class take their places for the morning announcements, which air live during home base each…

  • Retiring principal left positive mark on HMS

    Bob DelPrete spent 25 years at middle school, 38 with district. By: Donna Lukiw    Bob DelPrete, principal at Hillsborough Middle School, will be remembered not only for his accomplishments at the school and his 38 years with the district after he retires this summer, but for his humor, compassion and his ability to connect with…

  • EDITORIAL: Land buy is money well spent

    EDITORIAL: Preserving open property would be in the best interest of the township.    The township is ready to add 90 acres to its stock of open space.    It announced last month that the township and the county had agreed to pay $9 million for the last remaining large parcel of open space in Kendall Park.…