Category: archives
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Hillsborough Promenade goes through
Planning Board narrowly approves controversial shopping center By:Jack Baney and David Learn Get ready, Hillsborough. A new shopping center is coming your way. The Planning Board voted 4-3 to approve the Hillsborough Promenade at a meeting Thursday night that lasted nearly until midnight. The center, which will cover about 400,000 square feet on 95 acres…
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Property rezoned for adult housing along Old Road
Project targets 225 acres in Little Rocky Hill with up to 400 units By: David Weinstein Putting an end to a contentious and sometimes raucous debate over the future of 225 acres in Little Rocky Hill, the South Brunswick Township Council has changed the zoning of the land from residential to allow for senior housing.…
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Free ice cream for safe bicycling
Cops distribute gift certificates to helmeted children By:Jack Baney Safe bicycling can carry township children to ice cream sundaes through a Hillsborough Police Department program starting this week. The department last week announced its bike patrol officers will distribute 400 gift certificates for local ice cream shops to children 17 and younger who wear helmets…
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Post office opening set for October
Construction delays cause project to miss July target date By:Jack Baney Township residents will have to wait a little longer for their own post office – a wait that will be well worth it, according to postal officials. The Hillsborough Post Office on Amwell Road, originally scheduled to open this month, now has the tentative…
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VFW gives police $3,000 to buy new defibrillator
Money comes from weekly bingo games By: Eric Schwarz The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2290 will donate $3,000 to the borough to buy a third defibrillator for the Police Department. Defibrillators are devices that restart the heart with an electric current. The borough is relying on donations and a possible grant to buy up…
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Township would put a lid on fast food restaurants
Public hearing Aug. 1 on bill to prohibit construction of new fast-food restaurants along the Route 1 corridor, except in strip malls and shopping centers that are set back from roadways and highways By: David Weinstein Did somebody say restrictions? The South Brunswick Township Council is considering an ordinance to prohibit construction of new fast-food…
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Rita P. Wetherell, 97
Rita P. Wetherell, 97, died Sunday in Applegarth Care Center in Monroe. She was a resident of Rossmoor since 1985. Ms. Wetherell was born and raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Bay Ridge High School. She resided in Morris County, Florham Park and Madison, for 30 years, moved to Monmouth County, Deal and Brielle, where…
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Subdivisions on Planning Board agenda
By: Lea Kahn A two-lot subdivison on Federal City Road and a request to amend the Liberty Green subdivision approval top the agenda for the Planning Board next week. The Planning Board will meet Monday at 8 p.m. to consider those issues, and to swear in a newly appointed member. The meeting will be held…
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Carnival worker stabbed during scuffle
Two men in argument over fee to use shower By: David Weinstein An argument about a $1 payment to use a shower resulted in the stabbing of an Englishtown man working at the annual South Brunswick Family YMCA Carnival Tuesday afternoon. Edward Perkins, 44, was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick…
