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  • Many questions for Hillsborough Promenade

    By:Patricia Curran Attention Hillsborough Township residents: The Planning Board has before them preliminary and final major site plan approval the sheep farmon Route 206 and Falcon Road. These acres have wetlands, high-tension wires and 75- to 100-year-old red oak trees. On this land Mr. Krame wants to put 415,000 square feet of buildings, with a…

  • Zoning chair runs for clerk

    Wiznitzer seeks county position on Florio’s slate By: Lea Kahn        When Lawrence Township and Mercer County Democratic Party voters go to the polls to select their party’s nominees in the June 6 primary, they will have more than one name to choose for U.S. Senate — and for Mercer County Clerk.    Township resident Edward…

  • LMS named one of New Jersey’s ‘stars’

    One of only 10 schools in the state named a ‘Star School’ By: Lea Kahn        The Lawrence Middle School has been named one of 10 “Star Schools” in the state Department of Education’s annual Best Practices/Star Schools Program.    School district officials will pick up the award, which also carries a $1,000 check, at the…

  • ‘Million Moms’ are misguided moms

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    Media darlings Jodi Tolman, Debra Wachspress and their Bunch o’ Moms March have gotten a heap o’ Lawrence Ledger ink recently: half a page March 9 for their two letters, half a page May 4 for that puff piece starting on page one, another quarter-page May 4 for…

  • Just call her ‘Grandma’

    LEDGER LAND by T.J. Furman    When most people address Alice Holden, they call her “grandma.”    Many of those people are of school age, but none actually is one of Mrs. Holden’s grandchildren.    Mrs. Holden has been working at Benjamin Franklin School on Princeton Pike in some capacity since the start of the 1960-61 school year.…

  • Terrifying story

    Holocaust survivor speaks to Sunnymead students By:Jack Baney    Sunnymead School fifth-graders recently were asked to imagine an awful scenario.    “Visualize someone coming knocking on your door and telling you, ‘Collect all your clothes, collect all the valuables you have and assemble in the school yard,’” Margit Feldman, 71, of Bridgewater, told them on Tuesday. “Can…

  • RCN will create problems, opportunities

    Staff editorial    RCN’s decision to move to the heart of Lawrence Township, off Princeton Pike, bears the proverbial good news and bad news.    The haste with which the application was pushed through is not a concern to us. The application was reviewed thoroughly and evidently was prepared meticulously by the developer.    The application met all…

  • Public gets first look at Brearley House

    Ribbon-cutting ceremony draws 80 people By: Lea Kahn        The newly restored 1761 Brearley House was unveiled to the public Saturday morning — two decades and several false starts after its restoration first was proposed.    About 80 people drove down dusty, unpaved Meadow Road, off Princeton Pike, for the dedication ceremony and tour of the…

  • Township gets new administrator

    Begins work in Hopewell on June 5 By:John Tredrea        Christine Smeltzer, administrator, clerk and chief financial officer for Cranbury Township for the past 10 years, will leave that post to become Hopewell Township’s administrator.    Ms. Smeltzer is scheduled to start her new job June 5, at an annual salary of $90,000.    Ms. Smeltzer said:…