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  • POST FORUM: Should the development process be streamlined?

    POST FORUM Join the debate.    The South Brunswick Post is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of South Brunswick want their town to take in the future.    This…

  • Township’s economic panelto host gathering for business owners

    Wine and cheese event set for May 2 By:Roger Alvarado    The township’s Economic and Business Development Commission is hoping that local business owners decide to it up on its offer to come out for a night of wine and cheese.    The commission is inviting all local business owners to attend a complimentary wine and cheese…

  • BRSD proposes decrease in two towns’ tax rates

    By: William Wichert    The $30.2 million Bordentown Regional School District budget for the 2005-2006 school year will go before voters on April 19, asking them to approve a tax decrease in Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro and a tax increase in Bordentown City.    This budget, which was adopted by the school board last week, is the…

  • Mustangs to rely on pitching tandem

    Lukacs, Anderson lead baseball rotation By: Rudy Brandl        Experienced pitching should help the Manville High baseball team reach its goals this spring.    Veteran skipper Steve Venuto enters his 11th year with a solid 1-2 punch at the front of his rotation. Senior right-handers Steve Anderson and Ernie Lukacs combined for seven victories last year,…

  • Raider netmen beef up schedule

    Kinrade back at first singles By: Rudy Brandl        Hillsborough High boys’ tennis coach Larry Johnson believes this is the time to push his team to even greater heights than it achieved last year. The only way to do that is by playing a higher level of competition.    The first thing Johnson did after the…

  • Council trims proposed tax rate hike by 2 cents

    Councilman Rick Miller seeks greater cuts. By: Lea Kahn    When Township Council introduces the proposed 2005 municipal budget next week, the spending plan will contain a 7-cent municipal tax rate increase — down from a proposed 9-cent increase.    Township Council settled on a 63-cent municipal property tax rate by slashing more than $300,000 from the…

  • Assemblyman, local officials discuss turnpike expansion

    Officials gather to discuss the expansion of a section of the New Jersey Turnpike through Burlington and Mercer counties. By: Scott Morgan and Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — Township officials met with state Assemblyman Joe Malone (R-30th) and officials from Bordentown and Chesterfield townships last week to gather information concerning a controversial plan to expand a…

  • For the March 31 issue

    Paul Nymick Sr. Paul Nymick Sr.    WASHIGNTON TOWNSHIP — Paul "Kye" Nymick Sr., 81, died March 18 at home.    Born in Clymer, Pa., he was a former coal miner for the R&P Coal Company in Luzerne, Pa., and a former lace weaver at the Native Lace Mill in Hightstown.    Mr. Nymick served with the U.S.…

  • Hasidim flock to funeral

    Thousands mourn Bobov grand rebbe. By: Joseph Harvie text —>    An estimated 4,500 mourners packed Washington Cemetery on Deans Rhode Hall Road at 1 a.m. last week in the sleet and rain to pay their respects to Grand Rebbe Naftali Halberstam, 74, of the Bobov sect of Hasidic Jews of Brooklyn.    The rebbe died at…