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  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: From the June 18 edition

    Nancy Mrzljak Nancy Mrzljak     Tel: 298-0567     Fax: 298-3936     [email protected]    The Crosswicks Library needs volunteers to help with their Summer Reading Program. Are you a teenager or Keenager or someone in between? Volunteers are needed to listen to children as they tell about the books that they have read. Listeners are needed Monday…

  • WEST AMWELL: Local girl performs in ‘Through Our Eyes’

    Production tells the unique stories of individuals with disabilities and how they see the world By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — If you happened to see Rita Reischman driving from her West Amwell home to Mercer County in the past few months, you may have caught a glimpse of her passenger’s enthusiasm and…

  • FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the June 18 edition

    Peg Dotson Peg Dotson     Tel: 499-3807     Fax: 499-3807     E-mail: [email protected]    The Youth Group will be having a car wash Saturday, June 29, starting at 9 a.m. No charge, just leave what you can. This will take place at Florence U.M. Church, Second and Broad streets. * * *    Bordentown Chapter Order of…

  • STOCKTON: Town’s budget needs 4.5¢ tax rate increase

    Budget represents an increase of $38,810 over the 2008 budget of $578,863 By Linda Seida, Staff W#riter    STOCKTON — The Borough Council has voted 5-0 to approve the town’s 2009 budget of $617,673.    The budget will raise property taxes nearly $150 for the average borough homeowner.    Councilman Jeffrey Casaletto was absent from the meeting, which…

  • Stop madness now

    Daniel Kurz, Lambertville     When Marie Collins defends the cost-per-pupil in Lambertville schools, she cites a simple formula used to make this calculation: Divide the number of students by the total cost to provide educational services.    Ms. Collins believes this calculation is unfair because it compares Lambertville to larger districts that have more taxpayer monies…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Enjoying summer safely

    Safe Kids USA: 2.7 million children age 14 and under are treated in emergency rooms during the summer months By Craig Gronczewski, M.D. Princeton HealthCare System     Summer time is fun time, but it’s also the season when accidents and injuries among children reach their peak.     Consider that 2.7 million children age 14 and…

  • LAWRENCE: Fewer affordable units needed to fulfill town’s COAH obligation

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     The Lawrence Township Planning Board approved an amendment to its Housing Element and Fair Share plan on Monday night. It reduces by 13 the number of affordable units the township must provide between 2004 and 2018.     Township planning consultant Philip Caton said the state Council on Affordable Housing…

  • ALLENTOWN: High school years changed man’s life

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Andrew Pillar, 23, soon will begin his graduate studies in social work, acclimate to a new apartment in Pennsylvania and get married — not all things he expected to be doing a few years ago.    The Allentown native recently graduated from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa., with…

  • Civics lessons needed

    Jon Colin Carver, Lambertville     I have been reading with great interest the defenders and the critics of South’s null budget. To gain perspective, I asked myself a few questions to reframe the current controversy as if I were a businessman faced with making tough decisions about my firm’s future.    I asked myself: What if…