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  • Plumsted unveils municipal budget

    Tax rate stable under proposed plan. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — The township introduced its 2003 operating budget Monday night, a proposal that would not raise the municipal tax rate for a 14th straight year.    This year’s proposed budget is $3.9 million, an increase of approximately $511,000 over last year’s adopted budget of $3.39 million.…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       Estaban Miranda Cruz, 25, of Somerville was charged with disorderly conduct outside of a South Main Street restaurant at 12:03 a.m. Feb. 10.    He was taken to Somerset County Jail in Somerville in default of $1,000 cash-only bail.    Police arrived at Mi Casita after a caller reported that Mr. Cruz was acting in an unruly…

  • Local man charged in mall burglary

    Police say recent break in was similar to others comitted during January By:Sally Goldenberg    A Manville man awaiting trial in Franklin Township was charged Monday with third-degree burglary and theft at the Dollar’s Worth Store in the Rustic Mall.    East Camplain Road resident Robert Carman Jr., 34, was charged with a recent "smash and grab"…

  • Lady Bulldogs win three straight, run mark to 13-5

    Girls basketball By: Matt Nalbone    Now is the time of the year that brings out the best in The Pennington School’s boys basketball team.    With their regular season complete at 9-15, the sixth-seeded Red Raiders hosted 11th-seeded Lakewood Prep in the opening round of the Prep B state tournament Wednesday.    The winner of that game…

  • Plumsted gets pedestrian safety grant

    TOWN TALK by Ron Dancer    The Township Committee has been notified by the acting commissioner of transportation, Jack Lettiere, that Plumsted’s grant application to the "Local Aid For Pedestrian Safety Programs" has been approved in the amount of $100,000. The pedestrian safety program had 242 applications from municipalities across the state totaling more than $42…

  • For week of Feb. 13

    Elizabeth Kramer    HAMILTON — Elizabeth "Betty" Giesguth Kramer, 98, died Feb. 5 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She was a former employee of the state of New Jersey and was an admitting office clerk at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton for 12 years.…

  • Marking Abraham Lincoln’s ties to Upper Freehold

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING    This article, originally appearing in the Allentown Messenger dated Aug. 5, 1965, reports on the recognition that Abraham Lincoln’s ancestors once resided in Upper Freehold.     The frequently repeated historical error that President Abraham Lincoln came from "poor and lowly stock" and that nothing is known of his background save his "backwoods parentage"…

  • Frances B. Kruzel

       MANVILLE — Frances B. Kruzel, 83, died Friday, Feb. 7, at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.    She was born in Jersey City, and was a resident of Manville since 1949. Mrs. Kruzel was the daughter of the late Peter and Aniela Stanowski.    She worked in the insulation department at the Johns-Manville Corporation for 40 years…

  • Canceled meeting kills workers’ ordinance

    Mayor, Deputy mayor unavailable for meeting set to include public hearing on ordinance By:Alec Moore    Cancellation of Tuesday’s Township Committee’s meeting has killed an introduced ordinance that would have set office hours for many municipal workers and ended the township’s flextime policy.    The ordinance was introduced Jan. 14. Failure to hold the public hearing means…