Category: archives
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Local shop owners are hoping to weather recession
While some larger stores are experiencing dwindling customers, hometown businesses continue to bring in loyal shoppers and plenty of profits. By: Melissa Morgan Rocco D’Armiento is adding a giftware line to an established array of home products he offers to his customers at Cranbury Paint and Hardware in Cranbury. Despite nationwide talks of lack-luster consumer…
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PENNINGTON PLANNING BOARD UPDATE
Hot tub issues resolved; West Franklin properties discussed By: Marianne Hooker At its Nov. 14 meeting, the Pennington Planning Board approved a hardship variance that will permit a hot tub in the back yard of a house on East Welling Avenue. The board also discussed a number of other issues, including possible development scenarios for…
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54 Hopewell landowners file suit seeking downzoning reversal
The suit is a replay of one filed early this year. In that case, Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg’s April ruling invalidated similar zoning changes – known as downzoning – approved by the Township Committee last year By John Tredrea A group of 54 Hopewell Township landowners has filed a lawsuit against zoning changes adopted…
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Local housing sales remain brisk.
Lower interest rates and the region’s strong school systems are helping to attract buyers. By: Al Wicklund The real estate market in the area didn’t feel the dramatic drop in home sales reported in other parts of the country following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, according to several real estate professionals. The…
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Officials praise new bus line
Route 130 service to operate between Hamilton and South Brunswick. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON A bus line previously embroiled in political bureaucracy and controversy formally was launched last week during a ceremony at the Jack Morton warehouse in the Northeast Business Park. Mercer County Executive Robert Prunetti and Mercer County Workforce Investment Board Chairman…
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Council to review disputed development
Residents will wait for a town council decision on the construction of age-restricted communities. By: Brian Shappell It will be up to the Township Council to review a September Zoning Board of Adjustment decision that granted a variance to build an age-restricted development on two Ridge Road sites. The council will review the application because…
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Local firm wins school communications awards
School boards association heaps 11 awards on Boyar and Sandler School Communications The Flagtown-based Boyar and Sandler School Communications received 11 awards from the New Jersey School Boards Association in the 2001 School Communications Competition. Boyar and Sandler School Communications partners Sandy Boyar and Dave Sandler formed their partnership in 1991, working with design professionals…
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Viking girls swim team optimistic
By: Carolyn M. Hartko The motto for this year’s girls’ swim team at South Brunswick High School could be "onward and upward." In spite of losing a girl who dominated the program for four years, Lady Viking head coach John Harding thinks he’s looking at the best team to hit the water for SBHS in…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE
Voice Stream Wireless gets OKs By: Marianne Hooker At its Nov. 7 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment granted approvals that will allow Voice Stream Wireless to build a new 145-foot tower on a site near the intersection of Routes 31 and 518. The board also granted two hardship variances. One of these…
