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  • LAWRENCE: Township seeks grant to help ease recycling

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     With little fanfare, Township Council has formally applied for a $10,000 grant through the Sustainable Jersey Small Grant program.     The council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the grant application at its May 19 meeting. The grant is being funded by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.     Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun…

  • Farm program offered for low-income seniors

    Participants will receive six checks valued at $5 each to be redeemed at participating farm stands    The Hunterdon County Division of Senior, Disabilities and Veteran’s Services has announced that county residents (60 or older) with low income are invited to participate in the New Jersey Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, sponsored in part by the…

  • MILLSTONE: School district leaders to get less in new budget

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    MILLSTONE — Schools Superintendent Mary Anne Donahue and district administrators took $60,753 in salary cuts after the Township Committee recently mandated the board trim about $1.1 million from the voter-rejected school budget.    Ms. Donahue said she cut $8,113 from her salary line item, which includes $2,900 for professional development…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: ‘Python’ performance

       Neil Innes, best known for his work with Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the 1970s, will appear at the Record Collector Living Room Concert series Saturday, May 30, at 358 Farnsworth Ave., in Bordentown City. Mr. Innes was a founding member of British comedy-rock band the Bonzo Dog Band starting in the 1960s and…

  • LAWRENCE: Rocker entertains and educates at high school

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer It was rock-and-roll time at Lawrence High School Friday morning, as the Mark Wood Experience — led by classically trained musician Mark Wood — both entertained and educated student musicians.     The Mark Wood Experience, made up of six professional musicians, kicked off its daylong visit with a 30-minute concert…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Area primaries to see one race

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    With the primary election scheduled for Tuesday, the area’s only contested municipal race is in New Hanover. Local candidates in North Hanover, Bordentown Township, Mansfield, Fieldsboro, Chesterfield and Florence are running unopposed in their respective political party’s primaries.    Voting will take place statewide from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.    Four…

  • MILLSTONE: COAH, sewer plant highlight debate

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    MILLSTONE — The need to address affordable housing and the township’s plan to do so with a development that would require a sewer plant was the primary focus of a debate last week between four Republican candidates seeking two seats in Tuesday’s primary.    The debate was held May 21…

  • New Hope History Day set for May 30

    Event will begin with ceremony on the grounds of the Parry Mansion    On Saturday at noon, the New Hope Historical Society’s fifth annual New Hope History Day will begin with a ceremony to be conducted on the grounds of the Parry Mansion commemorating George Washington’s crossing there in June 1778 with about 10,000 troops of…

  • Free Program Offers Something for Everyone

    Dayle Lehr Arthritis Foundation, New Jersey Chapter’s Annual Health/Wealth Day, a series of roundtable sessions on a variety of health-related and financial topics designed to help cope with important health and financial issues Topics include “Exercise and Arthritis,” “Ask the Doctor: Arthritis Diagnosis and Treatment,” “One- on-One with Medicare,” and “Fall Proofing Your Home.” FREE and open…