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  • Residents vow to battle West Windsor warehouse plan

    Proposed Old Trenton Road center comes under fire after Planning Board gives preliminary approval By:David M. Campbell        WEST WINDSOR – Opposition is growing to a proposed warehouse and office complex given a preliminary thumbs up by the Planning Board last month.    But board member and Township Councilman Charles Morgan is chastising a fellow council…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Edition of Nov. 9 Why tenure? To the editor:    On Nov. 6, Pennington Borough Council discussed granting tenure to the Public Works director. I am puzzled as to the wisdom, both short- and long-term, of this step.    At a time when public institutions are moving away from tenure, why would Pennington renew it? Tenure was…

  • Brandstetter got the job done

    By: Rudy Brandl    Lost in the ugly season-ending 2-1 loss to Oratory Prep was the classy manner in which Manville High boys’ soccer coach Mike Brandstetter handled his troops after the game.    While most players and fans were still complaining about the controversial call that led to the defeat and several unsportsmanlike incidents that took…

  • DISPATCHES: We need campaign controls, or I need a bigger mailbox

    By: Hank Kalet    The best thing about Election Day is it marks the end of the election season.    That may seem like an odd comment, coming as it does from a self-professed political junkie like myself. But the end of the political season means we’re done with political advertising, done with the bulk mailings that…

  • Business group trims up downtown

       Manville will be decorated with banners and flags celebrating the holidays, with the Manville Business and Professional Association paying the cost of about $6,000. By:Eric Schwarz    The decorations will be placed on borough’s 96 lampposts in the business district temporarily to replace the seasonal banners, which for the fall have featured a cornucopia, leaves and…

  • A great time to reflect on conservation foundation’s success

       This year, New Jersey Conservation Foundation celebrated 40 years of land-saving activities in New Jersey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of preserved acres. It’s a great time to reflect with appreciation on the countless donations of time, energy and money that have contributed to this success, and the success of NJCF. It’s also a chance…

  • Four vie for two Board of Education seats

       The Board of Education will hold a special meeting Monday to interview four candidates to fill two seats. By:Laura Toto    The candidates are Neil Hudes, an administrator at Hunterdon Medical Center; Joanne Labish Taylor, a director of registration and resource development at The Childcare Connection; Michael Lewis, a math and computer science teacher at Middlesex…

  • POLICE BEAT 11/09

    From the Nov. 9 edition of the Register-News By: BORDENTOWN CITY    Police said four men were arrested at 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 1 after they were found hiding in bushes within the Episcopal Church cemetery on Prince Street.    All four subjects were charged with defiant trespassing, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and possession of…

  • ‘Get Happy’ recalls Garland’s trials, triumphs

    BOOK BEAT by Marge Dwyer    Its hard to imagine another biography of the legendary Judy Garland with anything new to say, but Gerald Clarke, author of "Capote," seems to have unearthed a fair amount of information not known to the general public.    In research which took 10 years he traveled thousands of miles across two…