Category: archives

  • Letters to the editor

    Parents must make certain kids get quality schooling By: centraljersey.com It’s hard to look back over the last month or so of 2010-2011 school budget events without feeling concerned for the Hillsborough school district and our children who attend the schools. After the district lost $5 million in state aid for next year and presented…

  • Jottings

    By: centraljersey.com Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words "Bordentown Jottings" in the subject line. Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. All township seniors age 55 and over welcome. Meetings in June…

  • Man faces charges in officer assault

    By: centraljersey.com CHESTERFIELD – A township man who allegedly attacked police with a knife a month ago has been identified, released from the hospital, and now faces charges, police said. Christopher Strasser, 26, has been charged with two counts each of attempted murder and aggravated assault against a police officer, as well as one count…

  • Greenstein proposes change in decal law

    By: Davy James – Staff Writer A flood of objections from parents and younger drivers has prompted a series of competing bills that would remove a rule requiring teen drivers to place red decals on their license plates. The red decal rule was created as part of Kyleigh’s Law, which went into effect May 1.…

  • Editorial

    Road repairs will require a new gas tax By: centraljersey.com Few New Jersey drivers have good things to say about the state’s roads. Pockmarked by potholes, overburdened by traffic and generally state of the art for the 1980s, our roadways are in desperate need of repair and modernization. Too bad that the state’s Transportation Trust…

  • Lawrence falls to Allentown

    By: centraljersey.com The Lawrence Lacrosse dropped a well-played, 12-6 contest to arch-rival Allentown. "Our kids played strong, but a skilled Allentown team proved to be a formidable opponent," coach Tony Muzi said. Added coach Greg Hamer "Our players came off a one-practice week, and I think it took a while for them to get back…

  • Higher student activity fees save 1 teacher

    By: Joanne Degnan – Staff Writer ALLENTOWN – In order to save the job of a high school math teacher, the Upper Freehold Regional school board has raised the new student activity fee for high school sports and extracurricular programs by 60 percent and eliminated its freshman-only football team. Under the changes approved May 26…

  • Special education inspection on tap for high school

    By: Linda Seida – Staff Writer WEST AMWELL – An audit of the special education program will be conducted at South Hunterdon Regional High School, but at this point there are more questions than answers about how it will work. Who will perform the audit? How long will it take? Exactly what will the audit…

  • Two contests highlight local primary elections

    By: Geoffrey Wertime – Staff Writer Residents will decide during Tuesday’s primary who will appear on the ballot for municipal races in November. Voting in primaries throughout the state will take place from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Locally, only Bordentown Township and Springfield have contested primary races. One three-year seat on the Township Committee…