Category: archives
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Open space is good news for everyone
BEACON EDITORIAL By:Hillsborough Beacon Especially these days, when it often seems like the state is being paved over faster than we can say, "Boy, the view here is inspiring," few things are nicer than hearing that a tract of real estate has been saved from development. So we join with the neighbors of a 537-acre…
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Tuesday accident snarls Route 206 traffic
Accident takes an hour to clear By:David Learn A minor accident at Route 206 and Falcon Road Tuesday night had traffic tied up in knots for about an hour, police said. The accident, a two-car collision, happened at 8:12 p.m. when a southbound Ford Crown Victoria rear-ended a southbound Ford Taurus wagon as its driver…
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Longtime police assistant recognized
Administrative assistant wins annual Chief’s Award By: Lea Kahn ‘Without Mrs. Zeise, it would be very difficult to run the Police Department. I came (to the chief of police position) without a lot of administrative skills. She kept me straight.’ John Prettyman Chief of Police The longtime secretary to the chief of police and a…
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Township delays vote on recreation salary
Could decide proposed director’s wages Sept. 7 By:John Tredrea The Hopewell Township Committee decided Aug. 17 to delay, until Sept. 7 at the earliest, an adoption vote on an amendment to the township salary ordinance under which a Valleywide recreation director, a newly created and yet-to-be-filled position, would be paid $53,719 to start. The top…
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Township OKs Elizabethtown for King’s Path water
More approvals will be needed By:John Tredrea Township officials last week OK’d Elizabethtown Water Company’s servicing of the 16-house King’s Path neighborhood, located just east of Hopewell Borough. The locale has been plagued with a serious well-water contamination problem. Wells in King’s Path have been found to contain up to 500 parts per billion of…
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A CHAT WITH MARY
Loss fords his way through world of e-commerce By:Mary Kaempfen His finely chiseled features betray a sensitive and thoughtful young man and his articulateness banishes all thoughts of his being young and only 30. He is Bill Loss, entrepreneur and president of NIS Marketing, his own firm in Belle Mead. What does NIS Marketing do?…
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Pennington Dance has open houses
Pennington Dance will hold open houses from 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the Unitarian Church on Pennington-Washington Crossing Road, and on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at the Cyrus Lodge on Burd Street in Pennington. For information about registration for classes that begin Sept. 11, call Nancy Warner, director at 737-7596.
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Watching parents age a living nightmare for their children
MOST THINGS CONSIDERED By:Minx McCloud My dreams have become nightmares. In them, Mom is dead; Dad, with sunken eyes, ignores me as he grieves for her. I am an outsider, and in the worst nightmares, I experience major car troubles and nobody cares that I cannot attend my mother’s funeral. It has been this way…
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Highway application ready for state review
Routes 206 and 27 may go on state historic register By: Jane Karlicek ‘The draft application is almost an inch thick on the desk and there isn’t a word more than is needed.’ Robert Craig State historic preservation specialist PRINCETON TOWNSHIP – With the last public hearing under its belt, the nomination of the King’s…
