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  • Reimbursement may be solution to appeals issue

    EDITORIAL: Washington Township Committee needs to clarify ordinance. By:    The Township Committee made the right decision when earlier this month it affirmed a Zoning Board of Adjustment ruling that will permit BP Amoco to build a gas station and convenience store on the corner of Route 130 South and Meadowbrook Road.    It is true, as…

  • County seeks feedback on bridge plans

    Engineers to hold presentation with Allentown community at the end of March. By: Mark Moffa    ALLENTOWN — Residents anxious to learn when work will begin on the Main Street bridge will have to wait several more weeks until Monmouth County is ready to present publicly its ideas for repairing the decaying structure.    Assistant Monmouth County…

  • Focus groups are into marketing, not solving problems

    DIPATCHES 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 a focus group. I would…

  • Zoners should make the public a priority

    LEDGER FORUM    For the first time in many years I attended a board of adjustment hearing on Feb. 13. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, I was a frequent attendee of these and Planning Board meetings. I was surprised to learn that the public is held in even less regard now than in the past.…

  • Thomas Kanach

       HILLSBOROUGH — Thomas G. Kanach died Friday, Feb. 8, in Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington. He was 80.    Born in Somerville, he farmed all his life on the family farm which was located in Hillsborough and East Amwell.    Mr. Kanach served in the U.S. Army during World War II.    He was a communicant of Mary,…

  • School bond: Pay now or more later

    Voters to decide on $47 million bond referendum By:    Nobody likes a tax increase. And with the economy as unstable as it is, higher taxes will be an added strain. But nobody wants to jeopardize the chances of local children to get a quality education, either.    Residents of Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough…

  • Robert Hamer

       PRINCETON BOROUGH — Robert F. Hamer Sr., 78, died Monday, Feb. 18, at Princeton Nursing Home.    Born in Trenton, he was a longtime Princeton resident.    He retired in 1993 after 45 years as a pipe organ cleaner with Church Organ Co. of Edison.    He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II, serving…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 02/21

    From the Feb. 21 edition of the Register-News By: 110 years ago    After passing through a severe attack of sickness, during which he was carefully nursed by his affianced, Thomas O’Brien was married on Tuesday last to Miss Mary Phalon.    Miss Braislin has leased for five years the house lately occupied by R.P. Snowden. Miss…

  • District fire budgets get voter approval

    By: Brian Shappell    Residents supported 2002 fire budgets at Saturday’s fire elections.    • In District 1, residents voted 41-6 in favor of a $661,084 budget, which calls for $527,584 to be raised through taxes.    That translates to a tax rate of 5.8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, down 1 cent from last year. For…