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  • Writing for your life

    The college essay should come from the heart – but be absolutely free from errors! By: Faith Bahadurian     Few steps of the college admission process are more fraught with anxiety than the essay.    Sure, grades and SAT scores make you tremble, but in the essay, you are being asked to reveal the real you…

  • Michael Sweeney

    By: Staff infant son of HIGHTSTOWN – Michael Jonathan Sweeney, infant son of James and Sara Ryba Sweeney of Hightstown passed away Aug. 8 at Capital Health Systems at Mercer, Trenton. He is survived by his paternal grandparents, Michael J. and Kathleen V. Sweeney of Hightstown; his maternal grandparents, Nancy and Thomas Distelcamp of Hightstown…

  • Mayor looks forward to cable competition

    Predicts approval for Cablevision to wire entire township By: Jeff Milgram    MONTGOMERY – When it comes to cable television service, Mayor Don Matthews thinks competition is a good thing    With that in mind, Mayor Matthews predicts that the Township Committee will approve a resolution Thursday that will permit Cablevision Systems Corp. to wire the entire…

  • Stockton Street ruling upheld

    Neighbors lose bid to prevent ad firm from moving in By: Jennifer Potash    A group of Mercer Street residents lost their bid to prevent an advertising firm from moving in nearby.    A June ruling by the Appellate Division upheld Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg’s ruling that the evidence the Princeton Borough Zoning Board of Adjustment…

  • RCN headquarters plan moving ahead

    Office park to include 10 office buildings with a total of 1.5 million square feet, and 10 three- and four-deck parking garages with space for 6,697 cars By: Lea Kahn    LAWRENCE – The Township Planning Board has given RCN Corp. the green light to start building its 1.5 million-square-foot office park.    The board granted final…

  • Committee reviews office building, 3M plan

    By: Jane Karlicek    MONTGOMERY – The Township Site Plan Committee reviewed plans last week for a new office building at Research Park on Route 206 and an expansion to a warehouse at 3M’s Belle Mead Quarry.    S & S Investments of Princeton wants to construct a two-story, 16,000-square-foot office building. It is seeking a use…

  • Road signs not offering local businesses any benefit

    By:Gregory Brewer To the editor:    In an Aug. 4 letter to the editor, which sounds like the opening salvo in a renewed political campaign, unsuccessful Republican council candidate Carol Higgins fires broadshot, including a personal attack on the mayor, all stemming from township opposition to the recent Department of Transportation commercial sign program.    Let me…