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  • WEST AMWELL: Officials consider fee for garbage collection

    Proposal: $75 for six months of service, and $150 for a year By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — The Township Committee is mulling the establishment of a new fee for garbage collection that would cost residents $75 for six months of service, and $150 for a year.    The move is one way the…

  • COLUMBUS NEWS: From the Feb. 26 edition

    By Peg Traino Peg Traino   Tel: 298-7476   [email protected] * * *    The Memorial Day Committee which, in the past was a part of the Historical Society is now the Mansfield Veteran’s Association.    The Association is responsible for presenting the Memorial Day Service in May and helping to maintain the small section of the…

  • LAWRENCE: Boarding school celebrates two centuries in Lawrence

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer When the Rev. Isaac Van Arsdale Brown accepted an offer to become the fulltime minister at the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville in the early 1800s, he soon realized that the minister’s salary was inadequate.     To supplement his salary, the Rev. Brown opened a school for boys in 1810. The…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the Feb. 26 edition

    Pasta dinner     Friday, Feb. 27 — St. Mary’s PTA is sponsoring a meatless pasta dinner on Friday, Feb. 27, from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The dinner will be held at St. Mary’s school hall located at 30 Elizabeth St., Bordentown City. The menu is pasta with marinara sauce, Caesar salad, rolls and butter,…

  • Police probe for connections in burglaries

    by Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    State Police are investigating a potential link between recent burglaries in Millstone and Upper Freehold, which have hit residences, vehicles and businesses.    Residents in the area have seen two suspicious vehicles, a blue minivan and a brown vehicle that may be a Buick LeSabre, Sgt. Greg Herbert confirmed this week.…

  • LAWRENCE: Deadline nears to file for school board race

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Township residents who want to run for the Lawrence Township Board of Education are facing a March 2 deadline to file for the annual school board election, which is set for April 21.     The nominating petitions must be submitted to the school district Business Administrator’s Office by 4 p.m.…

  • FLORENCE: Riverfront students win visit from Phanatic

    FLORENCE: Riverfront students win visit from Phanatic

    The Phillie Phanatic visited Florence Riverfront School on Monday. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • MILLSTONE: Republicans won’t back Abilheira

    by Matt Chiappardi, Special Writer    MILLSTONE — Committeeman Elias Abilheira and his colleagues on the township’s all-Republican governing body are going through a public divorce.    Local Republicans will not be supporting him for a re-election bid in November, something Mr. Abilheira says is fine with him. That’s because he said he wasn’t planning to run…

  • LAWRENCE: Schoolyard bullying subject of hearing aimed at revising outdated policies

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Seeking to crack down on bullying in New Jersey’s public schools, Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation last year that created the New Jersey Commission on Bullying in Schools.     Last week, a handful of commission members spent three hours at Lawrence High School in the second of a series of…