Category: archives

  • Dow Jones keeps staffers at Rt. 1 facility

    The publishers of The Wall Street Journal plan to keep transferred workers in South Brunswick By: Nick D’Amore    A handful of local employees of Dow Jones & Co. have moved from the South Brunswick facility to the company’s headquarters adjacent to the World Trade Center site.    However, the company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal,…

  • Area mayors say Amtrak derailment highlights nuclear waste plan concerns

    By:Alec Moore    Manville Mayor Angelo Corradino said the recent derailment of an Amtrak train near Washington, D.C., has reaffirmed his concerns regarding the safety of having trains laden with nuclear waste pass through the borough on route to a proposed underground storage site in Nevada.    "We don’t want to have happen here what happened with…

  • Police chiefs’ eventhonors Michael Moschak

       A special golf event set for Tuesday at Royce Brook Golf Club in Hillsborough will pay tribute to former Manville Chief of Police Michael Moschak, who died in Feb. 9, 2000.    The Chief Michael Moschak Golf Tournament is a project of the Somerset County Chiefs of Police Association. Proceeds from the tournament go to the…

  • HORSE PLAY: Hambletonian tales

    Local connections gear up for Saturday’s $1 million race at the Meadowlands. By: Ken Weingartner    It has been said that every picture tells a story. Such certainly is the case with horse racing, where each winner’s circle photograph represents a tale. BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" ALIGN="RIGHT"> Locals in race    Saturday’s Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks will feature a number…

  • District wants to know whereits state school aid funds are

    Governor plans reorganization of school financing board By:Sally Goldenberg    When Gov. James E. McGreevey announced the creation of a state-run corporation, effective Monday, to oversee New Jersey’s delayed school construction program, district Assistant Superintendent Thomas Venanzi was left to wonder when Hillsborough would receive reimbursements from the state for the construction projects that are already…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    For the week of Aug. 1. By: Pranksters should respect the property of others To the editor:    Sadly, as has been the case in summers past, Allentown appears to be experiencing the effects of youthful boredom. Yet another park bench on Lakeview Drive has been pushed over the hill toward the lake; not an easy…

  • Allentown soccer camp Aug. 5-9

    U.K. Elite Soccer and the Upper Freehold-Allentown Soccer Association are running program. By:    U.K. Elite Soccer and the Upper Freehold-Allentown Soccer Association are running a summer soccer camp in Allentown from August 5-9. The camp will be held at the Upper Freehold/Allentown soccer fields and run from 9 a.m. to noon each day.    The camp…

  • Remembering 9/11

    As the one year anniversary approaches, we’re looking for your stories and opinions    With the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaching, the South Brunswick Post wants to know how the lives of our readers have changed.    Where were you when you first heard of the attacks? When the Twin Towers collapsed? When the…

  • Reassessments rising too fast

    To the editor    I am in receipt of my property tax bill for the 2002-03 tax year. Needless to say, I am appalled at the outrageous tax increase levied, without warning, against my property.    I cannot comprehend how the municipal decision makers arrived at the expectation that homeowners of Hillsborough would be able to adjust…