Category: archives
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Council looks for way to stop flooding
Gress Street residents hit hard in Aug. 12 rains By:Eric Schwarz The borough hopes to hire an engineer Monday to determine what should be done to alleviate flooding along Gress Street during heavy rains. The problem came to light most recently when heavy rains Aug. 12 flooded the back yard of Ken Estes, a Gress…
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Less support for high schoolat second Washington forum
More than 100 turn out to voice opinions; decision due Sept. 26 By: Frank C. D’Amico WASHINGTON – At a second public forum held Tuesday to discuss whether a high school should be built in the township, opinions diverged more than at the previous meeting. More people spoke out against the high school proposal Tuesday…
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Recreation complex questions will be answered
EDITORIAL By:Ruth Luse Valley citizens who want the facts about the proposed Valleywide recreation complex should attend the Sept. 26 meeting of the Recreation Roundtable – the group responsible for the creation of the plan. We urge residents who have questions to ask them at this session, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the school…
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Republicans rewrite political lineup
Original council candidates drop from race By:Eric Schwarz The two Republican candidates for Borough Council and the municipal chairman all have resigned, though their reasons were personal rather than political. Martin Wierzba, 27, and Andrew John "A.J." Rathbun, 26, have replaced the previously announced candidates, Susan Darabant and Alfred Nowak. And longtime municipal Republican Chairman…
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Preservation of rural character behind downzoning
GUEST OPINION By:Robert Higgins The Hopewell Township Committee recently passed controversial but essential "downzoning" ordinances. Essentially, these ordinances reduced residential density and eliminated additional new commercial development on lots not already under Planning Board approval. The four Committee members who voted for the ordinances were elected to preserve the township’s rural character, and rezoning is…
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School finances absolutely fat-free
To the editor: I would like to respond to several misleading and inaccurate statements made last week in the letters to the editor and in the article on Liberty Academy Charter School ("Charter committee bills its school as alternative to construction project"). On Oct. 3, the voters of Hillsborough will go to the polls to…
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Dorothy Barocas Koppelman
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP – Dorothy Barocas Koppelman died Sept. 16 at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 82. Born in New York, she lived in Princeton 28 years. Mrs. Koppelman and her husband endowed the Holocaust-Genocide Resource Center at Rider University. She was past president of Lawrenceville Hadassah and Temple Avoda Sisterhood. She served on…
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Lillian E. Lashuk
HAMILTON – Lillian E. Lashuk, 85, died Friday at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton. Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident. Daughter of the late Raymond and Beatrice Shelby Larue, wife of the late Peter and mother of the late Kenneth Wise, she is survived by three cousins, Delores Fornal of Lawrenceville, Helen…
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR 9/21
From the Sept. 21 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…
