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  • Beazer Homes takes its proposal to Hopewell Township ARC

    Beazer plans can advance to the full Planning Board once ARC has declared the developer’s applications complete. By John Tredrea    After several months of talking with neighbors of three southern Hopewell Township tracts the firm wants to develop, Beazer Homes has taken its first step toward a formal OK of its plans.    The firm met…

  • Applying a lesson

    After operating an in-house post office, students write overseas to make pan pals By:Donna Lukiw    While Weston Elementary School was participating in the "Wee Deliver" program, a mock postal service at the school sponsored by the US postal service, the students began writing friendly letters to the troops in Iraq.    "I really wanted the third…

  • Council holds off on police group

    Council tables ordinance due to issues of legality. By: Joseph Harvie    The Township Council will hold off on creating a police advisory commission designed to improve communication between the township and Police Department.    The council tabled an ordinance Tuesday that would have created the commission because of issues regarding its legality.    According to the ordinance,…

  • For the May 12 issue

    Jacqueline J. McElwee, George M. Drialo, J. Jay Nolan, Mildred A. Schuldes, John McLaughlin, Alice Parichy Wascoe, William H. Stackhouse Jr., Emil G. Barron. Jacqueline J. McElwee    ALLENTOWN — Jacqueline J. McElwee, 71, died April 28 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Kulpmont, Pa., she was a longtime resident of Allentown.…

  • Picturing New Jersey

    In ‘Garden State Project’ at Artworks, artists create a new vision of the state. By: Jillian Kalonick A piece from "Postcards from the Garden State"    If you graduated from a central New Jersey high school in the last five years, that all-important, postage- stamp-sized yearbook photo you posed for might be part of a collaborative…

  • The School House in the Triangle, Letter No. 2 of 8

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    From the Allentown Messenger dated June 9, 1932, Mrs. James West’s story of the old school house saved, relocated three times, and since restored near the Washington Township Library.     Last week, you remember we went down reflection’s lane with Josiah S. Robbins to the little whitewashed school house under the great oak…

  • CVS consultant saysstore’s customers won’t affect traffic

    Expects most to come from unbuilt Route 206 bypass By:Erica L. Lockhart    A crowd of residents heckled a traffic consultant’s claim the drug store proposed for the corner of Raider Boulevard and Route 206 would draw its traffic from the Hillsborough bypass.    Traffic consultant John Harter, testifying at the May 3 Zoning Board of Adjustment…

  • Police seek trio in robbery

    Police on the lookout for three men who robbed a gas station attendant. By: Joseph Harvie    Police are searching for three men who robbed a clerk at gunpoint and beat a gas station attendant at the Kwik Farms store and Mobile gas station at the intersection of Beekman Road and Route 27 on Sunday, according…

  • Town adopts budget with 2-cent tax hike

    Millstone Township’s adopted $6.6 million municipal budget includes a 2-cent tax rate increase for this year. By: Lauren Burgoon    MILLSTONE — There seems to be a tax revolt going on in Millstone. First the fire budget went down, then the school budget faced voters’ rejection. But if residents felt similarly toward the municipal tax increase,…