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  • Panel looks to state program to help create athletic fields

    Committe votes to apply to Green Acres program By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — The Township Committee is looking to the state for assistance to create community athletic fields at the prospective site of a new elementary school in the township’s planned village district.    Last week, the Township Committee voted to apply to the state Department…

  • Board may OK limited student cellphone usage

    Public hearing on revised policy Jan. 21 By:Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — Northern Burlington County Regional high school and middle school students may be permitted to carry cellular phones with them while on school grounds, and use them with special permission.    The Board of Education is proposing to revise its policy on cellular phones and pagers.…

  • County landfill tipping fees increase

    Fees jump up 3 percent By:Eve Collins and Vanessa S. Holt    For the fifth year, the fee charged to dump solid waste at the county landfill will increase by 3 percent, a cost that will be passed on to taxpayers in municipalities that use the landfill.    The per-ton tipping fee will increase from $56.21 to…

  • ‘A Christmas Carol’

    McCarter Theatre comes close to perfection with its annual staging of this holiday classic. By: Stuart Duncan    For a full generation, the holiday season has begun locally with opening night of McCarter Theatre’s staging of A Christmas Carol.    It started with Nagel Jackson’s faithful adaptation of the Dickens masterpiece, Victorian buildings whirling on a turntable…

  • Alpaca farm offers tours for those who help pantry

    Goods to help St. Mary’s Food Pantry By:Michael Maugeri    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The Tuccillo Alpaca Farm is offering free tours in exchange for a donation of canned goods and/or pantry items for the St. Mary’s Food Pantry run by St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Bordentown City.    The farm, located on 30 Hogback Rd. in…

  • Panel wants more facts before installing light

    Committee tables motion until information becomes available at Dec. 27 meeting By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — Township officials said they want to clarify several points before going forward with an agreement with the county to install a traffic light at an intersection where a boy was killed last month.    A resolution authorizing an agreement with…

  • New Hope OKs $3.1 million budget

    By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — Borough Council members have given final approval to a budget that will raise taxes next year by about $12 for the homeowner whose house is assessed at the borough average of $10,595.    The $3.1 million budget passed Dec. 10 raises the total number of mills from 42 to 43.…

  • ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’

    This Brook Arts Center production shows off up-and-coming young talent. By: Stuart Duncan    The time has come to draw attention to Chris Patterson — or to put it more formally, Christopher George Patterson.    The young man has just directed back-to-back productions, first at The Villagers with Sweet Charity and now at the Brook Arts Center…