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  • ALLENTOWN: Borough budget approved

    Plan includes $164 average hike by Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer ALLENTOWN – The Borough Council unanimously adopted the 2013 $2.04 million budget at the May 7 public hearing.    Council member Jean Hunter was absent from the meeting and did not take part in the vote.    This year’s budget includes a 5.7-cent increase in the…

  • ROCKY HILL: Community information

    ROCKY HILL: Community information

    Rocky Hill Borough Sitting in the southeast corner of Somerset County, Rocky Hill was settled in 1701. In November 1783, following the close of the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" there. corporated as a separate municipality in 1890 and named for the Rocky Hill Ridge. It was…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Community information

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Community information

    South Brunswick Township Known as the "crossroads of progress," this bustling and diverse community of more than 40,000 people sits on 42 square miles at the southern end of Middlesex County. Its location along the major transportation corridors of routes 1, 27, and 130, as well as the New Jersey Turnpike, make it a prime…

  • FLORENCE: Burlington Coat Factory plants roots

    FLORENCE: Burlington Coat Factory plants roots

    Burlington Coat Factory has begun building its new 215,000 square-foot corporate headquarters, rendered above, in Florence Township. (Rendering courtesy of KSS Architects LLP)

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Mayor issues statement after council fires borough administrator

    HIGHTSTOWN: Mayor issues statement after council fires borough administrator

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN — Council members held a special meeting tonight to determine the fate of Borough Administrator Michael Theokas. “As indicated by the resolution, the governing body has decided to part ways with Borough Administrator Mike Theokas,” said Mayor Steven Kirson afterward May 8. “We have appreciated Mike’s hard work and…

  • LAWRENCE: Mrs. G project vote could be next week

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Zoning Board of Adjustment expects to wrap up its public hearing and vote on an application to redevelop the Mrs. G’s TV and Appliance property, on the corner of Route 1 and Bakers Basin Road, Wednesday night.    The 7 p.m. meeting will be held in the lower level conference…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Council fires administrator

    This article was first published 7:08 p.m. May 8, 2013 HIGHTSTOWN – Borough Administrator Michael Theokas is out of a job. Borough Council members voted 4-2 in an executive session Wednesday night to terminate Mr. Theokas immediately. Council President Larry Quattrone and Councilwoman Susan Bluth voted to keep the administrator. Mr. Theokas left the meeting…

  • FLORENCE: Community walks united against cancer

    FLORENCE: Community walks united against cancer

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    FLORENCE — Hundreds of community members walked united in the fight against cancer this May.    To celebrate Florence’s annual Relay for Life, Township Council members dressed in purple for their May 1 meeting, a date proclaimed Paint the Town Purple Day by Mayor Craig Wilkie.    A proclamation for the special…

  • LAWRENCE: Crowd gathers for Diversity Day

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    With a pile of small pieces of red paper with gold-printed designs in front of them, Abdul-Hady Kheder and his 7-year-old daughter, Farah, sat patiently and folded them into triangular shapes.    Then, the father and daughter stapled the pieces of paper together to form a decorative ball.    Nearby, 9-year-old Mohamed…