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  • LAWRENCE: Grant equips 6th graders with notebook computers

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    LAWRENCE —   When the Lawrence Township public schools open next week, Lawrence Intermediate School sixth-graders will be packing a little more in their backpacks than the usual pencils, notebooks and erasers.    They will be toting new Dell netbook computers, thanks to a $1.4 million federal technology grant that has put…

  • LETTER: Charge denied

    Virginia Monson, Bordentown To the editor:    Tonight, Aug. 23, 2010 I presented a statement to the Bordentown Township Committee at their Public Session. My statement addressed the fact that Bordentown Township lacks what I consider, “Curb Appeal” on Rtes. 206/130 and has no commercial center or town “pulse.” My statement reflected my own personal opinion.…

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  • LETTER:Civility requested

    Victor and Nancy L. Minnick, Bordentown City To the editor: It is a sad shame when a constituent is forced to voice their distrust in their elected local representative via a letter to the editor. The sheer fact of the matter is this: In a city the size of Bordentown we should be able to…

  • ALLENTOWN: Bus drivers’ jobs get reprieve

    School district to hire Millstone staff members By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Upper Freehold Regional School District officials say they have hired 21 of the 30 Millstone bus drivers who recently lost their jobs when that district decided to outsource its transportation routes to UFRSD.    Although UFRSD Business Administrator Diana Schiraldi says the…

  • Collecting for Hungry at Har Sinai Temple

    By Har Sinai      HAR SINAI HUNGER PROJECT   Hopewell Twp. – Har Sinai Temple will be collecting food for the hungry at both its Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services on Sept. 9 and 18.           At Rosh Hashanah services on Sept. 9. bags will be distributed so that they can be filled with…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Mosque collecting supplies for Pakistani flood victims

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    The Islamic Society of Central Jersey is coordinating relief efforts to send aid to millions of people displaced in Pakistan due to heavy monsoon rains and flooding.    The ISCJ will collect supplies Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ISCJ building located at 4145 Route 1 South and…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Accident victim is recuperating

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Police have identified the 36-year-old man killed in fiery crash involving two motorcyclists, a pickup truck and an RV on Route 130 last week as Raymond Wiley of West Windsor.    Mr. Wiley was killed Aug. 17 when his Yamaha YZF motorcycle hit an RV being towed by a…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council OKs tax hike

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    When municipal tax bills go out in September, South Brunswick residents can expect to see an approximately $96 increase after the Township Council adopted the municipal budget with a 5-cent tax rate increase Tuesday evening.    The $47.03 million spending plan, reduced from last year’s $48 million budget, was adopted unanimously…