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  • Language skills dragging down test scores

    Latest tests scores show most students do well By:Beth Kressel    General education students in eighth and 11th grades passed the 2002-2003 standardized tests with flying colors, but special education students and those who speak English as a second language, must improve their scores in order to completely meet state standards by next year.    That was…

  • Hotel tax passed by council

    Florence Township Council approves plan to collect one percent of overall eight percent hotel occupancy tax. By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — The Township Council last week adopted a plan to cash in on a new state hotel/motel occupancy tax enacted as part of the state’s 2003-2004 budget.    During its Aug. 6 meeting, the council unanimously…

  • Hopewell Borough firehouse gets new floor

    Commissioner Mel Myers said the Hopewell Township Board of Fire Commissioners has agreed to fund 70 percent of the project’s cost.    Epoxy Techniques, Inc., of Forked River recently was awarded a contract (not to exceed $31,299) to provide a slip-resistant resinous flooring system for the Hopewell Firehouse, which houses the fire station and emergency medical…

  • Council will mull car sale restrictions Tuesday

    Hotel tax, police chief’s salary also on agenda. By: Lea Kahn    Aiming to prevent residential neighborhoods from resembling secondhand car dealerships, Township Council may introduce an ordinance Tuesday that would regulate how residents can go about selling their cars from their homes.    Township Council will discuss the proposed ordinance at its meeting Tuesday, which starts…

  • Funds for well work approved

    Florence Township Council approves bond for construction and repair of wells to accomodate growing municipal need. By: Scott Morgan    FLORENCE — The Township Council last week approved a two-part bond allotting $730,000 for the construction and repair of two township wells.    Of the total cost, $650,000 will go toward building a sixth well to accommodate…

  • Post Forum: Service station

    Should the township allow a service station to be built on Route 1 and Raymond Road? Should the township allow a service station to be built on Route 1 and Raymond Road?

  • Radio City nixes senior dancers’ New York debut

    Group planned to help rock band ‘Guster’ close Saturday night show By:John Patten    The members of Hillsborough Senior Dancers — known locally as the "Hillsborough Rockets and Rockettes" — had hoped to be cutting the rug at Radio City Music Hall Saturday night, but instead the rug’s been pulled from underneath them.    After practicing for…

  • Pennington OKs bonding for needed improvements

    Council also voted to adopt an ordinance covering $754,000 in capital improvements, including a new garbage truck. By John Tredrea    A bond ordinance authorizing $404,500 in improvements to the borough’s water, storm water and sewer systems was approved unanimously by the Pennington Borough Council Aug. 4.    Under the ordinance, $385,000 in municipal bonds and a…

  • Sr. League playoffs postponed indefinitely

    Final four will compete for title at later date By: Rudy Brandl        Heavy rain and flooded fields wiped out last week’s semifinal and championship rounds of the Hillsborough Senior 16-and-under Softball League playoffs.    The final four, originally scheduled for July 31, had already been pushed back after two regular season rainouts the previous week.…