Category: archives

  • April 5, 2001

    Eleven letters Train whistles are required To the editor:    A letter from Nabil Hamdan published in your March 29 edition requires a response.    The question is asked why CSX Railroad crews blow the whistle so long as they approach Route 518 in Hopewell? The short answer is that they are required to do so by…

  • Make certain senior housing is affordable

    EDITORIAL: If the goal is to provide lower-cost housing, the township should mandate lower prices. Leaving it to the market leaves too much to chance.    Senior housing should be an important part of the housing mix of any community.    We need places for local seniors to move to when they find it’s time to give…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR 04/05

    From the April 5 edition of the Register-News By: Memorial monument    The Roebling Garden Club is seeking donations to purchase and erect a monument to honor Dr. J. Howard Hornberger at his gravesite at Cedar Hill Cemetery. A booklet also is being prepared including anecdotes, memories and stories about Dr. Hornberger, who served the community…

  • Local school board candidates express election goals

           The Register-News recently sent out questionnaires to those running for seats on their local boards of education.    The purpose of the questionnaires was to give candidates a forum for their platforms and to provide voters with information. By:Vanessa S. Holt and David Koch    The following are profiles of the candidates from the Bordentown Regional,…

  • Meals on Wheels program loses county funding

    Washington rejects alternative program in effort to keep services local. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — A Mercer County funding decision last week left the township’s already troubled Meals on Wheels program further in peril.    Susan Molnar, who runs the township’s Senior Center, said she received a call from a county official 4 p.m. Friday informing…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of April 5 By: Coalition needs to prove it is unbiased in case To the editor:    We all know about allegations against Millstone Township Committeeman Bill Kastning early last fall and the resultant investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. And while there are numerous interesting components to this matter, I don’t…

  • Board weighs sale decision on easement

    Plans for Promenade center include widening Rt. 206 at Amwell Road By: Laura Toto    The Board of Education faces a decision this month on whether to allow a 10-foot right of way on Hillsborough Elementary School’s property to be used to widen Route 206 at the Amwell Road intersection.    Critics, however, contend the school board…

  • Celebrating Passover the Ethiopian way

    By:Pat Tanner    Like Jews the world over, those in Ethiopia — of whom there are 26,000 — prepare for Passover by making unleavened bread.    In this case, however, it is not made with wheat, but with dried legumes, such as chickpeas, and is called "qita" instead of matzoh.    In fact, says Ephraim Isaac, an Ethiopian…

  • Arrested youth released to uncle

           MOUNT HOLLY — The 14-year-old Florence Township Middle School student, arrested last month for allegedly threatening to shoot several people in the school, was released to a family member this week after he appeared before a Superior Court judge, said Sgt. Jack Smith, public information officer for the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. By:Vanessa S.…