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  • BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS: From the April 2 edition

       Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words “Bordentown Jottings” in the subject line.    Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. Next meetings are April 6 and 20. Doors open at 11 a.m., meeting…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Grant will expand life-saving training

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    $4,200 in total grant money will go toward training seven school nurses to teach CPR and Automated External Defibrillator use, allowing the nurses train school staff to administer CPR and use an Automated External Defibrillator.    Youth Heart Watch at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia offers the grant, Assistant Superintendent of…

  • WEST AMWELL: Public hearing on SHRHS budget April 2

    School’s expenses would increase about 1 percent while tax levy is expected to increase by about 3 percent By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — Taxpayers in all of South Hunterdon Regional High School’s three sending districts would see their property tax bills rise if voters April 21 approve the proposed $10.48 million budget.…

  • NORTHERN BURLINGTON: ‘Footloose’ brings back the ’80s

    NORTHERN BURLINGTON: ‘Footloose’ brings back the ’80s

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    The 60-person cast of Northern Burlington County Regional High School’s spring musical, “Footloose,” faced an unusual challenge for a school play: a focus on dancing.    ”Dance made it a challenge in so many ways,” said NBC theater arts director Valerie Gargus.    The school brought in renowned dance instructor Kerina Connor,…

  • WEST AWMELL: SADC holds auctions in Clinton for preserved farms

    Auctions to be held May 20 By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    Agriculture Secretary Douglas H. Fisher has announced that the State Agriculture Development Committee (SADC) will hold public auctions to sell 11 preserved farms.    Two of the farms are in West Amwell Township. The auctions will be held May 20 at 11 a.m. at the…

  • ‘Livid’ over candidate comments

    Betty Alfano, of Robbinsville President, Mercer Mobile Home Owners Association    I was livid when I picked up The Messenger-Press on March 26 and read what was printed about our mayor of Robbinsville, David Fried.    I have been attending council meetings for two years and never missed a meeting. I realize that it is campaign time,…

  • ALLENTOWN: Borough seeks federal cash to increase police force

    by Maria Prato-Gaines, The Packet Group    ALLENTOWN — Borough officials are seeking a $471,134 federal grant to increase their shrinking police force.    The Police Department has seen a recent decline in its staffing, with two officers having left the force within the past year, leaving four remaining officers to cover all shifts, said Robert Benick,…

  • ALLENTOWN: French pupils’ visit renders ideal exchange

    by Geoffrey Wertime, The Packet Group    ALLENTOWN — A tack in the map clearly marked the location of the town in the north of France where the visitors go to school.    Despite that distance, the 20 French students and their 20 American host students at Allentown High School showed an impressive melding of cultures Friday…

  • Wehrman lauded

    Art Miller of Bordentown City To the editor:    When I first moved to Bordentown, I was chatting with a neighbor regarding the run down of an adjacent property. Imagine my surprise when two hours later, on a Saturday afternoon, John Wehrman knocked on my door, identified himself as a city commissioner, and asked what he…