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  • 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…

  • ‘No one is safe,’ says Maureen Kanka

    Mother of Megan Kanka issues warning to parents during talk in West Windsor By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – "My son Jeremy came to me and asked, ‘Who is OK and who is not?’ This was on the heels of Megan’s death."    Maureen Kanka’s 7-year-old daughter, Megan, was raped and murdered in 1994 by…

  • Tower talk continues for North Hanover

    Frank James Associates could build cell phone tower on Schoolhouse Road site By:Jeff Mikalaitis        NORTH HANOVER – Township Attorney Nicholas Costa has been authorized by the Township Committee to continue discussions with Frank James Associates to pursue the possibility of allowing the company to build a cell phone tower on a Schoolhouse Road site.…

  • Latest crime report shows mixed results in area

    While Princetons show drop, Montgomery and West Windsor increase. By: Jeff Milgram    Crime dropped 6 percent across New Jersey last year and also saw a decline in the Princetons, according to the 1999 Crime in New Jersey – Uniform Crime Report, issued Tuesday by Gov. Christie Whitman.    But the crime rate rose significantly in Montgomery…

  • OBITUARIES 8/10

    From the Aug. 10 edition of the Register-News By: Ruth M. Harris Tell    CROSSWICKS – Ruth M. Harris Tell, 79, of Crosswicks died July 31 in Select Specialty Hospital, Philadelphia.    Born in Hammonton, she resided in Crosswicks 40 years.    Mrs. Tell was the daughter of the late James and Susan Friedley Harris. She was the…

  • Veteran board member resigns

    Cronin on NBC board for 17 years By:Jeff Mikalaitis        NORTH HANOVER – After 17 years of representing North Hanover Township on the Northern Burlington County Board of Education, Matthew Cronin has resigned because he has moved out of the district.    "I relocated," he said. "I moved out; otherwise I would still be involved."    Mr.…

  • Foreign invasion a threat to our habitat

    By:Michele S. Byers    As I hiked along the Delaware River with a group of friends last weekend, one of them asked me to identify the tall, purple flowers growing along the river’s banks.    "Purple loosestrife" I told them, "they’re an invasive exotic."    "They’re a what?" my friend asked, looking puzzled.    Suddenly, I realized that I…

  • Mel Coakley

    Studied cabinetmaking in England By: Staff    HIGHTSTOWN – Mel Robert Coakley, 57, died July 27 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at New Brunswick.    Born in Queens, N.Y., he was raised in Metuchen and moved to Hightstown 15 years ago.    He taught cabinetmaking while living in Nova Scotia and studied in England with master woodturner…

  • Church shopping helps new residents in choosing their religion

    By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – Shelly and Larry Klein are thrilled to be members of First Presbyterian Church, Hightstown, even though it took them several months to find a church after they moved to East Windsor from Arizona in 1997.    It took the Kleins about a year for them to settle in a…