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CENTRAL JERSEY: Voters approve fire budgets
By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor Voters approved fire budgets and re-elected incumbent fire commissioners in both Millstone and Plumsted townships on Saturday. Millstone In Millstone, the $1.7 million total fire budget with a $1.5 million tax levy (the amount raised by taxation) was overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 135 to 20. The spending plan…
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Communications Specialist
By: Summer DeFeo ISELIN, NJ, —February 22, 2012—(4:00 PM) The boil water advisory issued by Middlesex Water Company on the morning of Wednesday, February 22nd remains in effect for residents of Fords, Avenel, Woodbridge Proper of Woodbridge Township and the Clara Barton section of Edison Township through Thursday, afternoon February 23, 2012 until 4:00 PM.…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Police Blotter, week of Feb. 23
Township police said a Vliet Drive resident reported Feb. 12 that a GPS, valued at $250, was stolen from an unlocked car during the overnight hours. Police also reported two driving while intoxicated charges. On Feb. 4 Gisella Paez, 24, of Hillsborough was charged with DWI while driving a white BMW on Farm Road. A…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: High school students inducted into academic society
Principal Tim Matheney presents certificates to the newly inducted members of the National Honor Society at South Brunswick High School Feb. 15.
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HILLSBOROUGH: History comes to life at school assembly
Students took on roles as historical figures in a study of biography at Auten Road School. Here is Dylan Van Cleef as 20th-century physicist Albert Einstein.
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Voters pass local fire district budgets
By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing editor Area voters, though few in number, went to the polls Saturday and approved fire district budgets. In Bordentown Township’s Fire District 2 (Derby Fire Company), voters approved the budget that calls for a tax rate of 13.6 cents, up from 13 cents. The vote was 60 to 19, For the…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: High school students inducted into academic society
By Maria Riegel, Special Writer South Brunswick High School held its National Honor Society Induction Feb. 15 in the auditorium at the Ridge Road facility. ”This year 149 students were inducted, but we have inducted as many as 170 students in any given year,” Co-advisor Samantha Saldanha-Kuncharam said. According to Ms. Saldanha-Kuncharam, students are invited…
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LAWRENCE: Four charged in multiple burglaries
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Four men have been charged in connection with several unrelated burglaries that have occurred in Lawrence Township within the past five months, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar. Rufus Thompson, 23, of Trenton, and an 18-year-old Hamilton Township man each have been charged with two counts of burglary, two…
