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  • State Plan has answer to New Jersey’s growth

    THE STATE WE’RE IN by Michele S. Byers New Jerseyans might like to know that they don’t have to stand by and watch their traffic increase and communities crumble. A recent study concluded that implementing our State Plan would make a difference.    Last week, Rutgers released an "impact assessment" of New Jersey’s State Plan. This…

  • Don’t be fooled on Democrats’ Krame record

    To the editor:    The recent letter by Charlene Walker (who made a $500 contribution to the 1999 Democratic campaign/ Dem ELEC 1999) on the topic of whom to blame for the Hillsborough Promenade shopping mall ("Hate the Promenade? Blame the Republicans," Oct. 5), is distorted, and a correction of the record is required. As a…

  • Mind your own business and let me freeze

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED By:Minx McCloud    A cool autumn breeze blew and I could almost see my breath as I walked to the grocery store early Sunday morning. I swung my arms energetically, happy to be alive.    For about five minutes.    An elderly woman walked toward me, dressed to the teeth for winter, including a wool…

  • School bond balloting Tuesday

    Project includes new school, additions and renovations to two others By:Ruth Luse    On Tuesday, Oct. 17, voters in Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington will go to the polls to say "yes" or "no" to a plan that would, if approved, build a 540-seat K-five elementary school in Brandon Farms and add to and renovate…

  • Healthy debate on actual issue slips into race

    BEACON EDITORIAL — OCT. 12 By:Hillsborough Beacon    Few things are healthier for a democracy than a good, old-fashioned debate. The steady flow of thoughts, the exchange of ideas, the often heated disagreements – all these combine to form a panoply of information on which voters can base their decision come Election Day.    The best example…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR 10/12

    From the Oct. 12 edition of the Register-News By: Newspapers sought    The Bordentown Library is looking for issues of the Register-News from 1998. The library has been awarded a grant from the New Jersey State Library to have its copies of the Register from 1993 through 1999 microfilmed, but is missing the issues from June…

  • Municipalities league backs truck ban regs changes

    Public hearing Oct. 18 By:Cindy Williamson    The New Jersey State League of Municipalities announced Tuesday it will file a brief Oct. 16 in U.S. District Court in Newark, supporting the state’s proposed changes in a law banning 102-inch-wide trucks and double trailer-truck combinations from using state highways and county roads.    The state will hold a…

  • Football loses to old friends

    By: Kyle Moylan    It’s often difficult to tell the players in a football game without reading the uniforms and program.    This past Friday night, however, it was the uniforms and program that must have been unrecognizable for a lot of Allentown area fans.    In what could have almost passed for a intrasquad game, Notre Dame…

  • Rose Rizzuti Trapani, 75

    By:    SOUTH RIVER – Rose Rizzuti Trapani, 75, died Friday, Oct. 6, at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New York City, she lived in Hightstown for 25 years before moving to South River 25 years ago.    She was a seamstress for many years in South River, and most recently worked at Marion…