Category: archives
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Affordable housing goal in sight
Parkside project will place 16 affordable housing units in five buildings near Maplewood Avenue. By: Amanda Bok CRANBURY — The Parkside affordable housing project, to be located on Bennet Place, may open by May 2002 with rent that is slightly higher than levels recommended by the state Department of Community Affairs. The project will place…
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Democrats vow to fight Bush on stem-cell research rules
Barbara Johnson of Princeton joins Rep. Rush Holt at news conference. By: Jeff Milgram TRENTON With Barbara Johnson of Princeton and Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) by his side, Sen. Robert Torricelli told a State House press conference Thursday that Senate Democrats will take the moral high ground in the fight to expand federal funding…
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Washington announces high school site
Land for proposed project adjacent to Pond Road Middle School. By: Mark Moffa WASHINGTON Superintendent Paul Harren on Friday announced property for the school board’s proposed high school will be adjacent to Pond Road Middle School, fronting on Robbinsville-Edinburg Road. Mr. Harren said the district plans to purchase approximately 70 acres of land from…
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Intersection fix center of debate
Township won’t release $2 million in performance bonds for improvements to intersection of Route 130 and Half Acre Road. By: Amanda Bok CRANBURY — The township will not release performance bonds to Prologis Trust before the company fulfills a 3-year-old promise to improve the intersection of Route 130 and Half Acre Road. During routine approval…
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Stephen W. Csurbak, 75
Stephen W. Csurbak, 75, of Monroe died Saturday at his home. He was born in Trenton and lived in the Englishtown area for the past 55 years. Mr. Csurbak was a production supervisor for Helme Products in Helmetta, where he was employed for 35 years before retiring in 1989. He was then employed by Duke’s…
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Buildings at Training School will be demolished in 2002
State officials say unoccupied, deteriorating structures too costly to repair. By: Al Wicklund MONROE Two unoccupied and deteriorating buildings at the New Jersey Training School for Boys could be torn down within the next six months, state officials said this week. Repair of the buildings, two-story brick residential cottages, would be too costly, Sharon…
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Henry Keegan
MANVILLE Henry Joseph Keegan died Aug. 11 at Franklin Care Center, Franklin Park. He was 78. Born in Sayreville, he lived in Somerville before moving to Manville in 1955. Mr. Keegan was employed as a firefighter for the Veterans Administration Supply Depot in South Somerville for 30 years, retiring in 1977. He served in…
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New system for tax assessment shows its flaws
EDITORIAL: New system of determining property assessments may create more trouble than old method It seems almost every silver lining has a cloud, a point driven home by the receipt of new property tax bills this month. While we watched in awe at the sky-rocketing stock markets and gloated over our wise property purchases that…
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Area firefighters honored for heroism
Monroe Council cites township’s three fire companies and firefighters from Jamesburg, Helmetta and Spotswood. By: Al Wicklund MONROE The township’s three fire companies and firefighters from Jamesburg, Helmetta and Spotswood were cited recently by the Township Council for their efforts in battling a house fire on Spotswood-Englishtown Road Aug. 1. A resolution adopted by…
