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  • Editorial

    Chasing ratables – or our tails By: centraljersey.com It might seem counterintuitive, but building a tax base with commercial properties does not necessarily lead to lower property taxes. NJ Future, a planning advocacy group, issued a "special report" earlier this month that raises questions about the link between commercial development and tax rates that should…

  • MANVILLE: Anglers’ club thanked for 20 years of help

    MANVILLE: Anglers’ club thanked for 20 years of help

    By: centraljersey.com The Somerset County Park Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution recently expressing their appreciation of the efforts of Rogue Bass Anglers Club of Manville, for more that 20 years of support of the Therapeutic Recreation Department initiatives. Rogue Bass has sponsored the Somerset County Park Commission Youth Fishing Derby to benefit the Therapeutic Recreation…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Landlord ordinance still being reviewed

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Residents who want to see stronger controls over apartment rentals and harsher penalties for violators will have to wait a while longer as officials debate a range of stiffer fines.    The City Council last week began a discussion of the governing ordinance to “make it a little tighter,”…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Firefighter stayed for the company he kept

    HILLSBOROUGH: Firefighter stayed for the company he kept

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer William Melenchuk Jr. recognized for 60 years volunteering    When he joined Hillsborough Fire Company No. 2 in 1950, William Melenchuk was just following in his father’s footsteps, he said.    Sixty years later, the New Amwell Road resident no longer dons fire fighting equipment when there’s a fire in town —…

  • Question: Should city buy plot?

    Question By: Linda Seida – Staff Writer LAMBERTVILLE – Voters will determine if the city should spend nearly $200,000 on slightly more than half an acre of undeveloped land in the floodplain to preserve it as open space. The question will be put to voters on Nov. 2 as a non-binding referendum, but Mayor David…

  • Pols promoting bigotry

    Dispatches By: Hank Kalet Opponents of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque in New York are painting their opposition as a defense of hallowed ground and the memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed during the terrorist attacks nine years ago. But if you listen closely to the arguments, you realize that their opposition to the…

  • Trio indicted on murder charges

    By: centraljersey.com MOUNT HOLLY – Three Philadelphia men were indicted Aug. 18 by a Burlington County grand jury on charges of carjacking a 57-year-old woman in Philadelphia in September 2009 and killing her in a wooded area in Mansfield Township, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi. The indictments were returned against Lenroy Laurance,…

  • Police blotter

    By: centraljersey.com LAWRENCE – Yangzi Mao, 25, of Glenn Avenue, was charged with shoplifting Aug. 15 for taking jewelry and clothing, worth a combined $59.02, from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 1:50 p.m. Aug. 15, police said. A store loss prevention officer saw her pick up a pair of earrings and put them…

  • Join conversation on Great Outdoors

    By: Michele Byers The Obama administration is developing a comprehensive, cutting-edge strategy for preserving America’s natural heritage, and the time is now for citizens to join this conversation about conservation. On April 16, President Obama officially launched the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative at a White House conference for conservationists, farmers, ranchers, sportsmen, government leaders, public…