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  • Court decision frees Springfield to implement COAH plan

    State Appellate Court overturns previous county decision, thereby ending Springfield’s five-year struggle against high-density housing. By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — The township’s five-year fight to stop high-density housing won a legal victory last week when an appellate court overturned a decision that had given developers the right to build in the township.    About a year…

  • NBC union rejects new contract offer

    Northern Burlington County Regional Teachers Association rejects latest contract offer due to salary and prescription drug disputes. By: Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — Contract talks between the teachers union and the school board broke down at 3 a.m. Tuesday, with the two sides unable to resolve their differences over prescription drug co-pays and the creation of…

  • South Brunswick becomes Prime Time player

    By: Rich Fisher    Slowly but surely, South Brunswick High School is becoming a Central Jersey hot spot for big-time events.    It gets no bigger than the Isles Prime Time Shootout, which has become the pre-eminent mid-season high school tournament in the Metropolitan Area. And before the event moves to Trenton’s Sovereign Bank Arena for the…

  • Milton H. Grannatt

       Milton H. Grannatt Jr., 86, of Pennington died Wednesday at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Born in Hinsdale, Ill., he lived in Ridgewood and in Ewing before moving to Pennington three years ago.    Mr. Grannatt was CEO of the Fell & Moon Company and a member of its board until 2003.    Active in many local…

  • Vikings hit a cold spell

    By: Redd E. Patrick    It’s safe to call the South Brunswick High School boys basketball team ‘streaky’.    Within each game and now within the season itself, it’s been nothing but streaks for the Vikings.    In compiling a record of 12-1, which included a 10-game winning streak, the Vikings won nine of those games despite trailing…

  • Trust is established for Nyce children

    Donations also being sought to help defray the costs of shipping Michelle Nyce’s body to the Philippines. By Ruth Luse    Members of the Hopewell Valley community have joined forces to create an educational trust fund for the children of Michelle Nyce, who was allegedly slain by her husband, Jonathan Nyce of Hopewell Township, on Jan.…

  • The magical land of Lahaway, Part 2

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    This paper — about the area that is mostly Six Flags Great Adventure today — was written for the Aug. 3, 1916 Allentown Messenger by R.P. Dow, secretary of the Brooklyn Entomological Society and member of the American Museum of Natural History.     The prosperity of Prospertown died when the railroads came. The…

  • Gulick introduces $90 million school budget

    With enrollment growing and state aid flat, superintendent says his plan allows for minimum By:Marnie Kunz    Rising enrollments and "minimal improvements" resulted in an increase of $4.8 million in the proposed 2004-05 Hillsborough school budget. Superintendent Robert Gulick presented the $90 million plan to the school board and public Monday night at Hillsborough High School.…

  • Rhein and Ivey gain MOC berths

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Amy Rhein and James Ivey are "wild" about the Meet of Champions.    For athletes competing in last Sunday’s NJSIAA Track and Field Group Championships at Jadwin Gym, the name of the game to advance to the MOC was either a top-six finish or to be a wild card selection.    South Brunswick…