Category: archives
-

COMMUNITY CALENDAR 01/10
From the Jan. 10 edition of the Register-News By: Casino trip The Knights of Columbus 570 is sponsoring a trip on Jan. 13 to the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City for a four hour stay. Bus will leave from Bordentown at 4:30 p.m. Cost is $15 per person. Each person will receive $13 in coins.…
-

Man crossing road killed in Springfield
Allentown, Pa. resident was 82. By:Vanessa S. Holt SPRINGFIELD A Pennsylvania man was struck by a car and killed while crossing Wrightstown-Georgetown Road (Route 545) in the early morning on Jan. 2, said police. Martin Schaffer, 82, of Allentown, Pa., had been staying in a hotel on Wrightstown-Georgetown Road and was on his way…
-

Weisberg, Miller dispute troubled time frame
Councilman disagrees with mayor’s inaugural remarks By: Lea Kahn In her inaugural remarks at Township Council’s reorganization meeting Sunday, Mayor Doris Weisberg said Lawrence Township was in financial difficulty and with a "woefully" understaffed police department in 1995. That Lawrence Township was once in dire straits financially is not in dispute. What is in dispute…
-

New year brings new and better depth as SBHS hockey team goes on hot streak
By: Brian Shappell What a difference month makes. That’s especially the case for the South Brunswick High ice hockey team. The debuts of transfers Timon Peskin and Joseph Bertucci, who had to sit the first 30 days of the season, have given the Vikings a new found depth and propelled them to win three games…
-

Shortchanged
Only $1.4 million in state flood aid on the way to Manville By:Alec Moore Borough officials received unexpected news from the State House on Tuesday and now local officials are scrambling to fill a $600,000 municipal budget shortfall. Although Manville will get some state aid to help pay for the borough’s continuing recovery efforts from…
-

Anthony J. Barna
LAWRENCE Anthony J. Barna, 93, died Tuesday at Morris Hall, Lawrenceville. Born in New York City, he was a longtime area resident. Mr. Barna owned Ewing Barber Shop, retiring after 30 years. He was an Army veteran of World War II and member of American Legion Post 458 more than 50 years. He was…
-

Make Auten schoolfor 5th and 6th grades
To the editor I am writing to voice my concern about the 11th hour proposal to make Auten Road School K through 5 with an addition for 6th grade. I for one was one of those taxpayers who went to the polls last year and voted for an Auten Road Intermediate fifth and sixth grade…
-

Remembering the past,building for the future
GUEST COLUMN By: Shirley Turner The year 2001 has been difficult for America, for New Jersey, and for the people of the 15th Legislative District that I represent. I, like all of you, have run the gamut of emotions from shock and anger to determination and pride in our country, and I have been moved…
-

HOPEWELL BOROUGH PLANNING UPDATE
Public hearings on two applications for minor subdivisions drew about 25 people to the Jan. 2 meeting of the Hopewell Borough Planning Board By: Catherine P. Moscarello Public hearings on two applications for minor subdivisions drew about 25 people to the Jan. 2 meeting of the Hopewell Borough Planning Board. Reorganization was the main agenda…
