Category: archives
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Lea Kahn
By: centraljersey.com Tentative calculations call for a 5-cent school tax rate hike due mainly to a declining ratable base, caused by an increase in tax appeals. The hike means the owner of a house assessed at the township average of $161,292 would pay $3,790 in real estate taxes to support the 2011-12 school district budget.…
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Volunteers make the city work
Cynthia Strauss, LFD No. 4, Lambertville There have been a lot of articles the past month in many newspapers about disbanding the Columbia Fire Company in Lambertville. I find this very interesting for the mere fact that each of the volunteer fire companies in town own their own buildings. How do you shut down…
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Fire budget up for vote Saturday
By: centraljersey.com One of the common misperceptions about local taxes is that people only get to vote directly on one part of the bill – to fund schools. That’s not exactly true. School budget and board elections in April do give voters a chance to say yea or nay to two-thirds or more of the…
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Cabaret raises $14K for Millstone schools
By: centraljersey.com MILLSTONE – Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence (MTFEE), a nonprofit organization, raised $14,000 from its second annual Cupid’s Cabaret that was held Feb. 5 at Knob Hill Country Club in Manalapan. Proceeds from the event will help MTFEE provide grant funding to the Millstone Township School District for new and innovative programs,…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Three charged in shoplfting baby formula
By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer Three people were arrested Feb. 10 after a woman allegedly tried to shoplift baby formula at the Target on Route 1. Sgt. James Ryan said Friday police were called to the store at 3:25 p.m. to investigate the alleged theft of baby formula by a customer that was stopped by…
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Doug Carman
By: centraljersey.com TRENTON – Rosario DiGirolamo will spend at least the next 21 years of his life in state prison for the 2007 slaying of a Hightstown mother. The 36-year-old former Millstone Township resident, showing little emotion beyond a slight frown to Judge Ed Neafsey, kept silent Feb. 9 in state Superior Court as the…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Shelving donation helps food pantry handle rising demand
By Doug Carman, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN — The demand warranted the supply, but a local food pantry was stuffed. Satiated, actually, with food donations but lacking the shelving space to hold it all. Rise Executive Director Leslie Koppel said the pantry received 10 sets of shelves late last week from Diversified Rack and Shelving of…
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Briefs
By: centraljersey.com HBA Spring hoops registration is now being held for boys and girls in grades 3-12. Spring hoops was designed with flexibility for players in baseball, soccer and lacrosse. Games are played on rotating weeknights at Timberlane Middle School and there will be one practice a week. For further information e-mail [email protected] or call…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK – OSHA investigating warehouse incident
Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe The Hermann Warehouse Corp. on Distribution Way where six workers were overcome by carbon monoxide Saturday morning.
