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  • SENIOR MENUS

    Aug. 20-27    All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance.    The value of each meal is $4.95. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution.    All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same…

  • LAWRENCE: Council eyes bond to settle tax appeals

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Inundated by an avalanche of tax appeals — some of them dating to 2006 — Township Council has introduced a bond ordinance that would allow it to borrow up to $5.2 million to settle the appeals.     Township Council unanimously introduced the bond ordinance at its Aug. 11 meeting.…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Preservation plan gets $500K boost

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    A county effort to preserve a two-mile buffer around the McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix is set to receive an additional $500,000 thanks to an agreement between the county and the U.S. Department of Defense.    The money will go to preserve farmland in the 12,000-acre Military Installation Buffer…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Library keeps in touch with texts

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer     Parents may be less apt to castigate their teens for text messaging under a new library program that is the first of its kind in the country.     Beginning this month, county teenagers and parents of children 12 and under are the target of a pilot program that sends…

  • Company responds to allegations

    Joseph Guarino Jr., Vice President of Chanree Construction Co., Inc. To the editor:    We are Chanree Construction Co., Inc., the contractor for the general construction contract identified by name in “Construction Delays Caused Mostly By Rain” (7/30/2009), the article concerning construction of the New (Chesterfield) Elementary School. While we understand that the article essentially described…

  • SPRINGFIELD TOPICS: From the Aug. 20 edition

    Jen Kokotajlo Jen Kokotajlo     Tel: 410-7338     [email protected]    Deadline for submitting items for this article will now be Sunday evening. Anything submitted after may not be included in the following edition. Any questions please contact me, [email protected]. Thank you for your understanding. * * *    The Tenth Annual Fun Day will be held on…

  • LAWRENCE: Church gives $2,500 to Homefront

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Packet Group About 400 children and parents were on hand for the closing events of Holy Cross Lutheran Church Vacation Bible School in Bordentown Township last week, when two large donations were made to HomeFront, a Lawrence-based nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families break the cycle of poverty.     “It was a…

  • NEW HANOVER: Principal prepared for new position

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    NEW HANOVER — It’s shaping up to be a year of novelty in the district, as the New Hanover School is set to start a new year with a fresh principal and a different superintendent.    Principal Brian McBride is using the summer to settle into his new role with the…

  • STOCKTON: Council ponders formation of historic group

    Creation of commission would not automatically create a historic district By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    STOCKTON — The Borough Council is contemplating the creation of a Historic Preservation Commission.    The creation of such a commission would not automatically create a historic district.    One of the main reasons to establish the commission is because its existence…