Category: archives
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Housing, golf, marina eyed for old mill site
An area for retail and restaurants would be included in the plan, which would fill the 234-acre Florence Township site. By: Vanessa S. Holt FLORENCE A developer already associated with the Roebling name presented a $100 million plan to the Florence Township Redevelopment Agency last week that could bring a senior housing development, a…
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Board likes senior housing plan
A 117-unit senior citizens rental housing development, proposed for a parcel on Darrah Lane, last week gained the Affordable Housing Board’s stamp of approval. By: Lea Kahn Now that the advisory board has given the project a thumbs up, developer Brisben Bramblewood LP is seeking Planning Board approval. The board will consider the application when…
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Letters to the editor
For the week of August 2. By: Large tax increases will hurt property values To the editor: It’s been several weeks since estimated tax bills for the third quarter of 2001 were sent out and it appears to have gone unnoticed both in this newspaper generally and on this page specifically that taxes in Washington…
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Althea J. (Scamardella) Bogdan, 56
Althea J. (Scamardella) Bogdan, 56, of Columbus died Wednesday, July 25, at Capital Health System at Fuld. Born in Orlando, Fla., she was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Spotswood and Hamilton before recently moving to Columbus. She was formerly employed by Stern & Peshkin of New York City. Her parents, Alphonse and Ernestine…
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Quilters assist area hospital
Babies in neonatal intensive care units need a lot of love and attention. By: Sarah Winkelman ALLENTOWN Babies in neonatal intensive care units need a lot of love and attention. That’s why Anne Way, a nurse in the neonatal center of the Capital Health System at Fuld hospital in Trenton, wanted to do something…
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Furnishing lives with dignity
Program aims to help those who are leaving temporary housing "How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to change the world," said Anne Frank in her book "The Diary of a Young Girl." The quote is scrawled on a colorful plaque that is mounted on the office wall…
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A police presence in Valley schools could be good thing
EDITORIAL By: Ruth Luse "In a post-Colombine world, we need a resource officer … it would make the school safer. It would make school life better and police work more effective." This recent comment about a plan of the Hopewell Township Police Department to place school resource officers in CHS and Timberlane Middle schools…
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Manager must answer speed hump questions
Letter to the editor I read in The Ledger the comments of Lawrence Municipal Manager Guhl concerning the multitude of "traffic calming" humps in the streets of our township. I am generally opposed to the speed humps except in very limited circumstances. Mr. Guhl claims 10-to-1 support in favor of the humps but my informal…
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‘Ghost World’
Awkwardly above-it-all comic book characters come to life in this edgy screen conversion. [R] By: Kam Williams Ghost World, an automatic entry on my annual top 10 list, is based on Daniel Clowes’ uncensored, underground comic book about Enid and Rebecca, two rebellious, rudderless teen-agers totally out of sync from everything status quo. The film is…
