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  • Foul odors in Bordentown City can now be reported

           BORDENTOWN CITY – In response to complaints about "foul air" in and around the city, Mayor Zigmont Targonski provided several numbers this week where residents can call to report odors. By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY – In response to complaints about "foul air" in and around the city, Mayor Zigmont Targonski provided several numbers…

  • Former postmaster pleads guilty to theft charge

    Could face jail time and fine By:John Tredrea    Zenon Fedorowycz, the 48-year-old Trenton resident who ran the Titusville Post Office from 1989 until he was suspended with pay June 7, has pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling $105,000 in postal funds over a two-year period beginning in June, 1998, postal officials said Tuesday.    Postal…

  • Strike two against yard waste law

    Town Council may take a third swing    It’s back to the drawing board – again – for Township Council in its quest to craft an ordinance dealing with yard waste in the roadway. By: Lea Kahn    A proposed ordinance that would have limited township residents to putting 3 cubic yards of yard waste in the…

  • CHS Homecoming highlights

    Events begin Friday, end with Saturday dance Central High School Homecoming highlights? ?    Hopewell Valley Central High School’s annual Homecoming festivities begin officially at 2 p.m. Friday with a pep rally in the school’s gym.    At that time, the crowning of members of the Homecoming Court will take place.    At dark on Friday, there will…

  • Candidates debate development sites, Krame

    CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK By:Laura Toto    Hillsborough has sporadically placed strip malls everywhere and bumper-to-bumper traffic along Route 206.    All four candidates for Township Committee agree traffic is a problem and that commercial development can be good for Hillsborough – if it is developed in the proper location.    Democratic incumbent Mayor Joseph Tricarico, and Republican challengers Mike…

  • POLICE BEAT 10/26

    From the Oct. 26 edition of the Register-News By: BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP    At 9:08 a.m. Oct. 7, Henry Jakowski Jr., of Trenton, was issued a summons for obstructing traffic, police said.    According to police, Steven R. Chambliss of Yardley, Pa. said he was traveling east on Farnsworth Avenue in his Volkswagen Jetta, when Mr. Jakowski’s GMC…

  • Parents help improve playground

    Ben Franklin schoolyard safer now    Nailing down a loose board once in a while.    This is what Nancy McInerney was told when she asked what kinds of things she and her husband, Jim, would be doing if they signed up for the Benjamin Franklin School PTO Playground Committee. By: Kristy Klaus    "I was looking to…

  • Bush can’t form coherent policies

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    Dubya speaks of fuzzy math. Surely something doesn’t add up. That is, how in the world could the Republican Party have a presidential candidate with such a fuzzy brain? It should be frightening to think that a man who seems incapable of speaking in anything but sound bites…

  • Weekend climb up the family tree turns up a lot of monkeys

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED By:Minx McCloud    My father’s cousin Jean, the matriarch of the family, recently turned 90, so on Sunday, 115 family members and friends gathered at a banquet hall in Connecticut.    I have not seen these folks since I was in college, so most of them were complete strangers to me. My cousin-twice-removed, LeeAnn,…