Category: archives
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Millstone officials halve tax rate
Use surplus funds to reduce taxes to $161 for owner assessed at township average of $322,000. By: Scott Morgan MILLSTONE The Township Committee last week adopted the 2002 municipal budget, cutting the proposed tax rate in half with the help of surplus funds. This year’s budget is $5.93 million; last year spending plan was…
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Pennington delays vote on budget
The cause of the delay is an order from the state Department of Community Affairs By: John Tredrea An adoption vote on the $2.5 million Pennington Borough municipal budget will be delayed until June 3. The cause of the delay is an order from the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) that Borough Council appropriate…
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Superintendent’sremarks ‘arrogant’
To the editor I read with some dismay, though not surprise, School Superintendent Robert Gulick’s remark, quoted in your May 2, 2002 edition, that he and the school board "don’t see the election as a mandate," referring to the recent school budget election, in which the proposed budget was defeated rather decisively, 1,526 to 1,180.…
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Members of RAT give high school a good name
EDITORIAL Karla Stein’s son spends more time at Lawrence High School than he does at home. Since he is a freshman, this is not going to change any time soon. Because of that, Ms. Stein and a number of like-minded LHS parents have banded together to form RAT the Response Able Team to…
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New job cuts at Dow Jones
Company plans to lay off up to 100 workers By: Brian Shappell Employees at the South Brunswick location of Dow Jones & Co. are facing another round of job cuts. The company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal and other business periodicals, announced April 29 that it would cut 1 percent of its overall work…
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May 16 date for school budget fate
Washington Township Committee to hear report from task force studying defeated spending plan. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON Residents will find out May 16 what reductions, if any, the Township Committee will make to the school district’s $22.7 million budget. The budget was resoundingly defeated by voters last month. The committee is charged with reviewing…
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FORUM: Open space classrooms
Should the district renovate Brunswick Acres School and others to eliminate open space classrooms? Should the district renovate Brunswick Acres School and others to eliminate open space classrooms?
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RANDOM THOUGHTS: Baseball is about character
From The Bird to The Inspector, the national pastime has seen colorful personalities. By: Ken Weingartner It takes character to play baseball. Then again, perhaps it just takes being a character. No sport has seen as many colorful personalities as the national pastime. It probably has something to do with all the free time players…
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Community mustchange attitudes
To the editor I am the Pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church. With increasing frequency I have heard reports from my parishioners of incidents of verbal and physical assaults in our schools. This past week I was informed by a mother of a student at the high school that on Monday "the gay kid got…
