Category: archives
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False complaint leads to arrest
By: centraljersey.com Mary Brienza Staff Writer A woman who, police say, falsely accused a South Brunswick police officer of hitting her has been arrested herself. After being stopped on Route 1 Oct. 19 for having an expired registration and allegedly talking on a cell phone while driving, a North Brunswick woman accused a South Brunswick…
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Pat Tanner
By: centraljersey.com I recently asked a select group of Princeton-area chefs to share their most delicious, most furtive secrets, and, boy, did they ever! One was even moved to wax poetic. Contrary to what I’m trying to get you to believe, though, I asked not for their personal peccadilloes but rather for their best, most…
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MCC is cooking
By: centraljersey.com Space is limited; early registration is recommended. Featured chefs include Frank Campione, Bill Conrad, Elizabeth Dinice, Lawrence Frazer, Wendy Jaeger, Benson Yu, MCCC’s own Douglas Fee, coordinator of hospitality programs, and a new addition, Chef Rita Bohlumbohm. Chef Jaeger will whip up flavorful meals on a budget with "Soups and Stews of France,"…
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LAWRENCE: Detox center awaits hearing
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The township Zoning Board of Adjustment spent more than three hours listening to testimony from the chief nursing officer and an administrator at the Sunrise Detox drug and alcohol detoxification center last week, but ran out of time to complete the application. More than 100 people filled the…
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LAWRENCE: Bills would require tuition payments
By Lea Kahn Victoria Hurley-Schubert, The Packet Group Cash-strapped public school districts that host private schools and colleges could pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition payments from those institutions if bills pending in the state Legislature are passed. Senate Bill S-426 and Assembly Bill A-3463 would require private secondary schools…
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John Tredrea
By: centraljersey.com A $1,460,000 contract for the conversion of the Masonic Temple, at 88 E. Broad St., Hopewell Borough, into a new borough facility was awarded to a Marlton firm by Hopewell Borough Council on Dec. 16, Clerk Michele Hovan said. Work on the project is expected to begin next month, she said. When the…
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POLICE BLOTTER
West Amwell and Lambertville West Amwell Township police reported: — On Dec. 7 at 5:38 p.m., police investigated a three-vehicle crash on Linvale-Harbourton Road (Route 579) at the intersection of Route 31. Nicholas Megjugorac, 36, of Lopatcong, was stopped in heavy traffic. Elena Barroso, 61, of Basking Ridge, was stopped in traffic behind him when…
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LAMBERTVILLE: City gets ready to buy land for open space
By Linda Seida, Staff Writer LAMBERTVILLE — The mayor and the City Council on Monday took the steps necessary to give voters what they said they wanted: the preservation of open space behind the CVS pharmacy at North Union and Cherry streets. The council authorized Mayor David Del Vecchio to sign an agreement of purchase…
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Princeton Township
By: centraljersey.com Adarsh Bajaj, 46, of Princeton, was charged with failure to yield at a stop sign. At 8:16 a.m. on Dec. 15, Ms. Bajaj failed to stop at a stop sign while traveling west on Terhune Road and struck another vehicle traveling south on Jefferson Road, police said. The impact caused Ms. Bajaj’s vehicle…
