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LAWRENCE: Council OKs raise for police chiefs
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Chief of Police Daniel Posluszny and Deputy Chief of Police Joseph Prettyman are in line for salary increases under the terms of a salary ordinance approved by Township Council Tuesday night. The salary ordinance calls for a 3.25-percent pay increase retroactive to 2009, but no salary increase for…
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PLUMSTED: Mom, daugher team up on menu for cancer patients
By Audrey Levine, The Packet Group PLUMSTED When she was 25 years old, Angela LaMor, of Lakewood Road, began to have continuous discomfort in her stomach and felt something hard when she pushed on it. When the symptoms continued, she made an appointment for an ultrasound in late 2005 and was told to make…
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Customer Appreciation Day and Open House, Allstate in Monroe
Saturday, June 26, 11:00am – 3:00pm By Jo Ann Crisa You are invited to join Vijay and his staff for a day filled with food, fun and games sponsored by Expert Insurance Solutions Inc., your local Allstate Insurance Agency. We are located at 350 Applegarth Rd., Monroe Twp, NJ 08831 (corner of Prospect Plains Rd.)…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Bandits botch copper theft
By Davy James, Staff Writer Two men were interrupted by a building manager Tuesday morning as they attempted to steal copper wire from a vacant commercial building on Cornwall Drive. At 7 a.m., a building manager responded to a burglar alarm at 2000 Cornwall Drive, just off Route 1. The building manager soon discovered two…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Planners approve large community for seniors
Sharbell plan for supermarket/disable home changed By Audrey Levine, The Packet Group ROBBINSVILLE — The Planning Board has approved an amended preliminary plan for a 248-unit continuing-care retirement community where a supermarket and special housing for the disabled was to be built on 436 acres at Route 130 and Gordon Road. An originally approved plan…
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MANSFIELD: Bordentown Township deputy mayor’s hearing delayed
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer MANSFIELD Bordentown Township Deputy Mayor Anita DiMattia’s hearing on drunken driving charges has been postponed. A Municipal Court official said the hearing, originally scheduled for 9 a.m. May 27, was postponed to June 24 after Ms. DiMattia’s lawyer invoked her right to discovery, or time to gather material for…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Neshanic fire chief collapses at fire scene
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Neshanic Volunteer Fire Department Chief William Iden was hospitalized Tuesday after suffering from cardiac arrest while at the scene of an electrical fire in a home on Amwell Road around 9:30 p.m. Chief Iden was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital where he is in the intensive care unit after collapsing…
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MANSFIELD: $100K trimmed from school spending plan
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer MANSFIELD The Township Committee has cut the elementary school district’s budget by $100,000. The new tax levy of $8.27 million will raise district taxes 1.94 cents per $100 of assessed home value, according to district Business Administrator Lisa Giovanelli. That means an increase of $65 for the owner of…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: 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. The…
