Category: archives

  • Montgomery budget aims at stable tax rate

    The real increase in township expenditures will be about 3.5 percent. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — This year’s municipal tax rate will remain unchanged from last year, township officials say, if all goes according to plan.    The Township Committee met Wednesday to discuss the preliminary budget figures for 2002, and Township Administrator Donato Nieman appeared…

  • DIRECTOR’S DESK

    Library year in review By: Howard Zogott    For our Board of Trustees Retreat last month, I was asked to prepare a list of what I thought were the accomplishments of the Cranbury Public Library in 2001.    To tell you the truth, I really enjoyed looking back over the year, rereading the monthly Director’s Reports I…

  • DISPATCHES

    Marketing of policy bad for democracy By: Hank Kalet    I did something last week I never thought I’d do.    I participated in a focus group.    I received a call from a friend of the family who told me the public opinion firm she worked for was looking for members of the media to participate in…

  • Students going for the gold

    By: Nick D’Amore    MONROE — Brookside School students took part in school olympic events Tuesday that tested their endurance, patience and wits.    But, they weren’t athletic events, but academic ones, testing their scientific knowledge and problem solving skills.    For the past two weeks, the students at Brookside have been engaged in various competitions, testing their…

  • Cable firm’s debt load clouds picture

    On Feb. 15, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded RCN’s debt rating to low "junk" status. By: David Campbell    Cable provider RCN is facing mounting financial problems including a downgrading of its debt and predictions of possible bankruptcy.    The bad financial news came a few days before the company announced the addition of Yankees Entertainment and Sports…

  • Professor: Terror suspects entitled to rights

    ‘This is a matter of giving due respect to principles of liberty and to the principles underlying our constitution.’ By: Jeff Milgram    While he gets angry when he reads stories about the victims of the World Trade Center attack, Princeton University constitutional expert Christopher Eisgruber believes the federal government must protect the rights of accused…

  • Feb. 22, 2002

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to include all reported transactions, Packet Online does not guarantee its completeness or independently verify its contents. Basking Ridge, Christoph Barrett, 25 Stockmar Dr, $795,000, 10/18/01 Basking Ridge, Kerry Collins,…

  • Talk to focus on ABM treaty

    By: Casha Caponegro    What effect will President George W. Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty have on the United States and its foreign policy?    This issue will be discussed at the next installment of the Cranbury Community Education’s World Dialogue program, "Global Security" at 3 p.m. Sunday.    The discussion will be moderated…

  • Neighbors ask questions about burnt mission

    The minister at the uninhabitable Bethany Chapel and Missionary Home on Stockton Street in Hightstown answered many questions posed by neighbors about the condition of the mission this week. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — A week after a fire damaged the rear of a Stockton Street mission home, some residents feel the blaze was inevitable…