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  • Registration is Open for Summer Classes at MCCC

    By Saveria Symons Summer is learning time at Mercer County Community College, and this year the college is offering greater flexibility than ever in its course scheduling. Students can choose credit course sessions of six weeks, eight weeks, 10 weeks or 11 weeks, with starting dates of May 24, June 4, June 21, and July 7. …

  • LAMBERTVILLE: City residents will see new police car shortly

    Crown Victoria will take the place of a police car in “horrible condition” By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The city’s newest police car was delivered Friday and should hit the streets in about a week.    Lambertville bought the car, a Ford Crown Victoria with a special police package, for slightly less than $30,000,…

  • Voters are frustrated

    Irene Rudolph, Lambertville     At the budget meetings of the South Hunterdon Regional High School (SHRHS) Board of Education on March 11 and 18, there was passionate lobbying by students, parents, and coaches to protect their particular piece of the extracurricular budget. Indeed, a disproportionate amount of time at the March 11 meeting was spent…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Bye, bye to the electric bill

    HILLSBOROUGH: Bye, bye to the electric bill

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Vliet Drive resident hopes panels will meet all of home’s power needs    Vliet Drive resident Steve Mekler remembers oil embargoes in the 1970s when drivers could only get gas in their cars on odd or even days, and lines at the gas stations were miles long.    He said he remembers…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Police warn of scammers

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Police are advising residents to be on the lookout for people impersonating repair workers who they say stole cash and jewelry from an elderly woman and attempted to rob another residence.    Friday, police said they responded to two separate incidents. First they went to Eaton Road at…

  • LAWRENCE: Student sleuths tackle tax fraud

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Since his sophomore year at Rider University, Steve Locilento has been interested in accounting — but not just any type of accounting.     The 22-year-old senior is interested in forensic accounting — the area of accounting that gives close scrutiny to income tax returns in an effort to determine…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Budget delays cause of tension

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A Township Committee budget meeting originally planned for Monday has been canceled, and one committeeman says the move has put the municipality’s finances in jeopardy.    In an e-mail sent to the committee March 24 at the behest of Republican Mayor Bruce Hill, Clerk Colleen Eckert wrote, “The…

  • State budget will hurt schools

    Richard T. LoCascio of Chesterfield    Your article entitled “Shock and Awe,” (March 25, 2010) hits the mark regarding the devastating impact Governor Christie’s proposed budget will have on many Burlington County municipalities. What’s missing, however, is the sting felt by the school districts in these communities.    While you correctly point out Chesterfield Township will lose…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Men charged in burglary

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Two men have been charged in the theft of over $20,000 in electronics, jewelry and cash.    Miguel A. Ortiz, 39, of Browns Mills, and Arquimides Pierantony, 30, Trenton, were both charged March 24 with conspiracy to commit burglary.    Police said they were first called to a Forsgate…