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  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Districts expect to get federal stimulus funds

    $609M allocated to New Jersey schools By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    Local schools are set to receive a collective total of nearly $2.5 million in federal stimulus funds, the state Department of Education announced last week.    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has allocated about $609 million to New Jersey schools, in both Title I…

  • MANVILLE: Budget falls

       Manville voters turned down the proposed $19 million school budget Tuesday, while returning Ned Panfile and Andrew Zangara — and adding Cathy Wiedwald — to the Board of Education.    With 12.8 percent of registered voters casting ballots, the budget failed by a 353-283 margin. The budget will go to the Borough Council, where council members…

  • FLORENCE: Police Beat from the April 23 edition

       Francisco A. Garcia Jr., 28, of Maple Shade, was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated, speeding and being an unlicensed driver. Police said they stopped him at 4:52 a.m. on Route 130 for driving 70 mph, and police smelled alcohol. Mr. Garcia then failed a field sobriety test, police reported. He was released pending a…

  • MONROE: Voters defeat budget

         Voters defeated a $100.43 million budget Tuesday by a vote of 2,697 to 2,075, Tuesday.      The budget was $3.38 million larger than last year’s plan and would have increased the school tax rate by .038 cents to $2.06 per $100 of assessed valuation. Under that rate, the owner of a home assessed at the…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: School budget gets thumbs up

    Voters elect high school student to school board      Voters approved a $139.4 million budget by a vote of 2,554 to 1,214, Tuesday.      Under the plan, the tax rate would remain the same at $2.605 per $100 of assessed valuation. Under that rate, the owner of a home assessed at the township average of $196,400…

  • 58th Annual Spring Meet

    58th Annual Spring Meet

    Karl Kovach’s 1931 Model A

  • 58th Annual Spring Meet

    58th Annual Spring Meet

    By Bernie Cooney The New Jersey Region, Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), proudly announces its 58th Annual Spring Meet.  As one of New Jersey’s most prestigious local events, this 58 year tradition of judging antique vehicles began in 1951.  All vehicles 25 years of age and older are eligible to compete.  This is one…

  • Relay for Life set

    John Pfefferkorn, Public Relations Chairperson for New Egypt Relay for Life To the editor:    Statistics can be a big motivator. Would you bet your paycheck on flipping a penny’s heads or tails odds? The chances are 50-50. Well, if you are a male living in the US, those are your odds of getting cancer in…

  • FLORENCE: Roebling cleanup gets $25M boost

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    FLORENCE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to receive over $25 million in federal stimulus funds for work on the Roebling Steel Superfund site.    The money will accelerate the cleanup of the site, which is already in progress, and will create more jobs in the area, the EPA…