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  • Celebrating Paine’s birthday

    Events commemorating the 268th birthday of Thomas Paine are scheduled for Jan. 29 in Bordentown City. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN CITY — Mae Silver has an agenda: She wants to put people on the streets and customers in the stores as part of a citywide birthday party for Colonial author Thomas Paine.    No RSVP is…

  • Thompson, Hassett head Pennington Planning Board

    PENNINGTON PLANNING UPDATE By Marianne Hooker    At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Pennington Planning Board elected officers and reappointed its professional staff.    The board heard testimony concerning a change in plans for the proposed Emily’s Café.    Members also received an update on plans for the Shoppes at Pennington development, which will be located along Route…

  • EDITORIAL: Rail survey asks wrong questions

    EDITORIAL Township needs to address whether train station will benefit community.    The Township Council is reaching out to the community to determine whether local commuters want a train station built in South Brunswick.    It is mailing out a survey to residents designed to gauge local interest in a station that would be built somewhere along…

  • Wage proposal too much, too fast

    To the editor By:    Recently, acting Gov. Richard Codey gave his State of the State Address. He proposed raising the minimum wage by 38 percent over a two-year period, to $7.15 per hour.    The New Jersey minimum wage was increased by 18 percent in 1992 and by 2 percent in 1999. The minimum wage should…

  • Kids’ coins to assist tsunami victims

    Local schools collect money to aid Southeast Asia and eastern Africa recover from the Dec. 26 tsunami. By: Scott Morgan    Great things come not only from the mouths of babes, but sometimes their pockets.    When local school administrators and officials came back from their winter holiday breaks last week, many of them found pockets open…

  • Town gets state aid to help fix sidewalks

    DOT grants will fund sidewalk and curb repairs. By: Joeseph Harvie    The township received an additional $100,000 in state aid to go along with $300,000 in state Department of Transportation grants to be used for sidewalks and drainage projects.    State Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, a Democrat whose district includes South Brunswick, said Tuesday the $100,000 would…

  • Pape saves points, match for Redbird wrestling

    By: Kyle Moylan    While pins in the last contest can be dramatic, there are other ways wrestlers can win a match for their team.    Joe Kaplow got that dramatic pin in the final contested weight class to get Allentown a win in its first match this season. This past Saturday night, however, Pat Pape played…

  • School board vacancy deadline is Feb. 1

    Replacement sought for departed Reccoppa. By: Lea Kahn    A Feb. 1 deadline has been set for filing an application to replace former school board member Lawrence Reccoppa, who resigned earlier this month, said Schools Superintendent Max Riley.    The Lawrence Township Board of Education plans to select Mr. Reccoppa’s replacement at a special meeting, set for…

  • Eckerd proposal goes to zoning board

    14,690 square-foot Eckerds proposed to be built at intersection of Route 27 and Finnegans Lane. By: Joseph Harvie    The Zoning Board of Adjustment will determine whether it or the Planning Board has jurisdiction over a proposal to build two office buildings and a pharmacy at the intersection of Route 27 and Finnegans Lane.    Planning Board…