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  • Vote for change Nov. 5

    To the editor     Help! We’re drowning in taxes, and there’s no planning in this township anymore.    A large shopping mall and 900 new homes have been approved by the Democrat-controlled Planning Board and the Township Committee. As for the shopping mall, they issued building permits before traffic mitigation was dealt with or Environmental Commission…

  • Author-in-Residence meets with teachers, parents

       Children’s author Laurie Halse Anderson held two workshops last week — one for middle and high school teachers and one for elementary school teachers.    Then, in the evening, she spoke to parents.    This event kicked off a spring author-in-residence program sponsored by the Hopewell Valley Foundation.    Ms. Anderson will return during January-March 2003 to spend…

  • School officials make case on renovations

    League of Women Voters holds referendum forum. By: Lea Kahn    Township school district officials, aiming for a Dec. 10 bond referendum on additions and renovations to the schools, outlined those plans before the Lawrence Chapter of the League of Women Voters last week.    About a dozen people turned out for the Oct. 17 forum, raising…

  • Emergency enforcement proposal gets tabled

    Millstone Township coordinator upset with delay. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — A proposed ordinance to grant the township emergency management coordinator the power to issue warnings and summons for violations during a declared state of local disaster emergency was tabled last week, a situation that has left Emergency Management Coordinator Ron Trust hot under the…

  • Congressman’s help saved celebration

    To the editor    Representative Mike Ferguson and his staff have earned our family’s gratitude by ending the 5-year-long delay in the naturalization of our mother, Maria Oram.    Even though our mother has lived for decades in the United States, her 1997 application for U.S. citizenship seemed as if it would never be granted. In spite…

  • Blaze displaces borough family

    By:Sally Goldenberg    A single-family home on North Eighth Avenue went ablaze at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, causing no injuries to the occupants who have temporarily relocated.    The fire started as homeowner Rodney Weikel was repairing a pipefitting in second floor master bedroom with a propane torch, Manville Fire Official Barry Van Horn said. Mr. Weikel then…

  • Committee gives nod to road repairs

    Would realign intersection of Prodelin Way and Perrineville Road. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The Township Committee last week voted to pave the way for road realignment at the intersection of Prodelin Way and Perrineville Road.    In conjunction with Monmouth County, the township plans to undertake a realignment project for the intersection, reassign the right…

  • T-shirts, stickers join war on drugs

    Red Ribbon Week fights drug use By:Sally Goldenberg    Students at the Alexander Batcho Intermediate School on Brooks Boulevard have their clothes on backward today. It isn’t because they dressed in the dark, but rather they are celebrating a national, weeklong event aimed at educating students about drugs and preventing drug use. Lessons from ex-addicts at…

  • Township OKs law regulating park use

    Measure prohibits littering, hunting,throwing refuse in streams or ponds, and more By John Tredrea    A highly detailed 13-page ordinance regulating the public use of parks and lands preserved as open space in Hopewell Township was adopted unanimously by the Hopewell Township Committee Oct. 17.    In response to comments from residents that the ordinance appears too…