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  • BREAKING NEWS:Monroe school plan passes

    BREAKING NEWS:   Monroe voters support $69.9 million school budget. By:    MONROE – Voters in Monroe approved a $69.9 million school budget Tuesday by a vote of 2,802 to 2,052.    The spending plan increases school taxes by 2.96 percent, raising the tax rate 5.14 cents to $1.785 per $100 of assessed valuation. Under that rate, the owner…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Cranbury backs tax cut

    BREAKING NEWS: Budget passes; incumbents win re-election. By: Josh Appelbaum    Cranbury voters overwhelmingly backed a school budget Tuesday night that will decrease taxes by a penny.    The $15.6 million budget was supported by a 303-76 vote. The budget will mean that the owner of a house assessed at the township average of $225,000 will pay…

  • Hopewell Valley school budget passes by 91 votes

    Board races uncontested in district towns. By: John Tredrea    With just under 18 percent of the Hopewell Valley Regional School District’s registered voters going to the polls Tuesday, the district’s $53,071,724 general fund budget passed by 91 votes. The final tally was 1,355 "yes" votes and 1,264 "no" votes.    "It was very close," school board…

  • Woodrow Wilson foundation president to head Drew University

    Dr. Robert Weisbuch to succeed former Gov. Thomas H. Kean.    Drew University announced Monday that Dr. Robert Weisbuch, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in West Windsor, will be its next president beginning July 1.    Drew’s current president, Thomas H. Kean, former two-term governor of New Jersey and chair of the national 9-11…

  • Montgomery High robotics team in national tourney

    The Mad Capper heads for Atlanta. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Three weeks ago, the Mad Capper was packed up and shipped off to Atlanta. He will emerge this week to assist 18 members of the Montgomery High School Robotics Team at the FIRST Robotics national championships in the Georgia capital.    FIRST, which stands for…

  • Executive Snapshot

    Susan Young, president, Susan Young Media Relations By: Andrew Cangiano     Residence: East Brunswick.     Family: Husband, Andrew Rosengard; and two children, Stephanie, 11, Daniel, 9.     Education: Bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Quinnipiac University.     First job: Delivering The News Tribune — now The Home News Tribune — on a paper route in…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 19

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, April 19 Jazz club will destroy neighborhood To the editor:     I will not be able to attend the planned Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting on April 20, when this particular application is scheduled to be discussed, so I am putting my concerns in writing.    For some time now, I have…

  • School election results

    By: Following are the unofficial results for the April 19 school board elections. Absentee ballots are not included in these unofficial tallies. Winners are indicated in bold type. BORDENTOWN REGIONAL Three three-year board seats Joann Dansbury – 224 Pauline Glenn – 24 Christine Trogdon – 416 Budget question YES – 538 NO – 311 CHESTERFIELD…

  • BREAKING NEWS: South Brunswick defeats budget

    BREAKING NEWS: Five votes sends spending plan to Township Council. Incumbent defeated. By: Melissa Hayes    A five-vote margin has sent South Brunswick’s $119 million school budget to defeat.    Voters defeated a $81.9 million tax levy by a 1,475-1,470 tally and also defeated a second question asking voters to provide $657,597 for courtesy and late buses.…