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  • Matrix gets court backing

    Judge upholds Washington Planning Board approval of warehouse park. By: Cynthia Koons    TRENTON — A judge on Friday upheld the Washington Township Planning Board’s approval of the 5.58-million-square-foot Matrix warehouse park that residents of nearby Upper Freehold have tried to block.    The project, which was approved in September, has been the target of controversy for…

  • Valley school district gets funds for construction projects

    The amount represents 86 percent of the state’s proportion of funding related to the October 2000 facilities referendum. Hopewell Valley Regional School District    The Hopewell Valley Regional School District has received $7,635,882 in funds from the Economic Development Authority (EDA).    This amount represents 86 percent of the state’s proportion of funding related to the October…

  • Allentown High School student killed in car accident

    Crash also claims life of Jackson man. By: Cynthia Koons    Valerie Marotte, an Allentown High School junior with a flair for fine arts, was killed Monday night when the car she was in was struck by another after leaving a friend’s driveway in Jackson Township at 10:30 p.m.    She was a passenger in a car…

  • Fatal accident occurs on Route 130

    East Windsor woman dies in crash. By: Jamie Simpson    The fifth fatal automobile accident of the year for South Brunswick occurred early Thursday morning. Sonia Prieto, a 45-year-old woman from East Windsor, was killed just after 12 a.m. Thursday morning.    The accident took place at the intersection of Stults Road and Route 130. Ms. Prieto…

  • Kevin Brown

       MANVILLE — Kevin Michael Brown died Monday, May 26, in Phillipsburg. He was 43.    Born in Pennsylvania, he lived in Manville and Flemington before moving to Phillipsburg in 2000.    Mr. Brown was a maintenance mechanic for 23 years, most recently at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg.    He was a graduate of Manville High School…

  • Pennington adopts $1,279,000 budget

    Owner of a property assessed at $229,000 (the borough average) will continue to pay $1,328.20 annually for municipal purposes. By John Tredrea    Pennington’s municipal tax rate for 2003 will be 58 cents per $100 of assessed property value, the same as last year, under a $1,279,408 budget for 2003 adopted by a unanimous vote of…

  • Residents, students at odds over ‘a good night’s sleep’

    Police have been called, but found no problems. By: Lea Kahn    Ask Linda Simmins and Carol Dickson what they want, and they’ll say, "A good night’s sleep."    But sleep doesn’t always come — and not because they are insomniacs. Rather, they claim they cannot get eight straight hours of shut-eye because of their neighbors at…

  • Deeper Well

    Ken Lelen’s vintage music harkens back to an era when the pace was slower, and when music could be heard without distraction. By: Susan Van Dongen    The instruments are old, the songs are even older, but the singer is anything but old-fashioned.    Ken Lelen is certainly not a misty-eyed, free-spirited troubadour when it comes to…

  • Letter: Rule change bad for districts

    To the editor:     A union-backed bill that would reduce the power of school boards to effectively represent the public in labor negotiations is quietly moving through the Legislature. The legislation, A-3419/S-2398, would take away a board’s ability to implement its last best contract offer when negotiations are fully exhausted.    Although implementation is very rare,…