Category: archives

  • Letter: Lack of understanding of government form

    To the editor:     What is going on in South Brunswick? Less than two months into the New Year, Councilman Ted Van Hessen has launched an all-out assault on the reputation of our township’s well qualified and highly experience new manager, Barbara Sacks, by demanding that she resign. Fortunately for Ms. Sacks, neither man brings…

  • Time to stop war is now

    To the editor    In response to Hugh Brennan, Jon Rogeberg, and others in the community who write in support of war, we share a description of how governments convince their people that war is necessary.    It comes from one of the most notorious manipulators of people of the 20th century and is an eerily apt…

  • Officials say terrorism response plans are set

    Though unlikely to be needed in Manville, possibilities must be addressed. By:Alec Moore    Borough officials say that while a terrorist attack in Manville is unlikely, the borough is prepared for the worst.    "I don’t think anyone can ever really be fully prepared for something like that, but we’re fully equipped and we’re as prepared as…

  • Post Forum

    Should ranking police officers be allowed to use township vehicles when off duty? Should ranking police officers be allowed to use township vehicles when off duty?

  • Step up fight against driving after drinking

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse:     We heartily support the Hopewell Township Committee in its recent effort to persuade state legislators to take action that would lower — from .1 percent to .08 percent — the blood alcohol concentration for determining legal intoxication.    The committee, in its Feb. 20 resolution, says proposals — including Assembly Bills…

  • School budget would raise tax rate

    Lawrence board adopts 7-cent hike. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Board of Education adopted a proposed $50.6 million operating budget — up from the current $47.5 million budget — for the 2003-04 school year at its public meeting last week.    If township voters approve the proposed $42.3 million tax levy to support the budget…

  • Lady Raiders can’t come all the way back

    HHS eliminated in CJ 4 playoffs By: Rudy Brandl        FLEMINGTON — There aren’t many basketball teams that have ever won a game after giving up the first 16 points. Try as they might, the Hillsborough High girls just couldn’t do it in Monday night’s Central Jersey Group 4 playoff game at Hunterdon Central.    The…

  • Special education turnover worries parents

    Lawrence district loses three more teachers. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Board of Education subcommittee that is studying the turnover rate among special education staffers expects to present its findings to the full school board in mid-April.    Meanwhile, the special education staff is continuing to hemorrhage. The school board accepted the resignations of three…

  • LIFESTYLE: Bargaining for success

    Victoria Hess hopes her secondhand shopping skills will help her new boutique take off. By: Melissa Morgan    Victoria Hess got her first customers late Friday morning, as soon as she turned the sign on the front door of her new Kingston boutique to read "Open."    Two women walked in and immediately starting chatting with Ms.…