Category: archives
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: BOE passes $138 million budget
By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor The Board of Education unanimously passed a $138 million budget for 2012-13 Monday night, the first time a school budget passed without a township vote. ”We are going to talk about tonight, a budget that is, in many ways, very frugal,” Superintendent Dr. Gary McCartney said at the beginning…
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POLICE BEAT: Robbinsville
A 1982 Ford F1900 tractor and a 1991 Chrysler Lebaron were stolen from the same residence on the 200 bock of Windsor Road, police said. A friend of the victim, who is overseeing the property, told police the tractor, valued at $4,000, was take sometime between 4:30 p.m. on March 11 and 3 p.m. on…
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ALLENTOWN: Redbirds tennis aiming high
By Justin Feil, The Packet Group The Allentown High School boys tennis team has a lot of familiar faces back this spring, but most of them are playing in new spots. ”They’ve all advanced over last year,” said Redbirds head coach Daniel Fallon. “That’s a start. I’m looking for them to step up a bit.…
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MANVILLE: New Jersey as ‘The Corrupt State?’ No more
Report runs counter to stereotypical view of our politics You know the long-standing stereotype New Jersey is a place where business is decided behind closed doors after cash in envelopes has been passed under the table? Fuhgetaboutit. According to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, New Jersey has cleaned up its act and…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Sireci: COAH made us do it
Planning Board chair says mixed-use project OK was necessary By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Hillsborough Township planners unanimously approved a plan Thursday night for 469 apartments, an extended-stay hotel and some retail stores for a 50-acre tract off Route 206 near Valley Road. To people who complained the project took down too many trees, didn’t…
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LAWRENCE: Florio speaks to change, policy
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer It is undeniable that one of the few constants in society is change, but it is the rapidly increasing pace of change that is disruptive especially when public policy is unable to keep up with those changes. That was the message delivered by former Gov. James J. Florio, who…
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Kid With a Bike’
By Elise Nakhnikian THE films of writer-director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne usually pivot on a tough moral choice forced on the main character, whose life probably was no bed of roses to begin with. A Chinese box of those moral choices is nested within their latest, The Kid With a Bike, but the dilemma…
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MANVILLE: Two meetings will review school budget
The Manville Board of Education has moved up one of its budget review meeting dates for parents and citizens to Thursday, April 5. It had been scheduled for Monday, April 16. There now will be two budget reviews April 5. One will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Manville High School auditorium. The other will…
