Category: archives

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Understanding anemia: Tired blood, tired bodies

    Anemia is easily diagnosed with a visit to your physi cian and a simple blood test. David B. Sokol, M.D., By David Sokol, M.D. Princeton HealthCare System     Feeling tired and run down?     Lacking energy to do the activities you used to?     Having a tough time making it through the day?     A…

  • WELLNESS: The power of tea: Big health benefits come in small packages

    WELLNESS: The power of tea: Big health benefits come in small packages

    Tea being measured out at Holsome Teas and Herbs in Princeton. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Ordinances set final stage for depot buy

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    HILLSBOROUGH — In the next step for the joint purchase with the county of the 369-acre Belle Mead General Service Administration Depot, the Township Committee unanimously approved the introduction of two ordinances Tuesday to reserve the necessary finances for the purchase.    ”Establishing the financing authorizations will put the township in…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Township briefs

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Ordinance funds Valley Road horn    The Township Committee unanimously Introduced an ordinance Tuesday to appropriate $85,000 to the Quiet Zone Capital Improvement fund for a wayside horn at Roycefield and Valley roads.    Committeewoman Lisa Nisivoccia did not attend the meeting.    The ordinance increases the money held for capital improvements from…

  • Alice T. Nilsen

       Alice T. Nilsen, 87, of Pennington died Nov. 25 at The Pavilions at Forrestal.    Born in Brooklyn, NY, she was a teletype operator for many years in both New York and Norfolk, Va. She later moved to Asbury Park.    Daughter of the late Clarence and Ella Keating Recker, she was preceded in death by her…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: COAH plan whittles township obligation

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    HILLSBOROUGH — The township plans to meet almost all of its affordable housing requirements for the next 10 years with three proposed projects totaling 733 new apartments and condos, in addition to already-approved projects, according to the affordable housing plan the Planning Board will hear next week.    The plan reduces…

  • Editorial: Gimmicks won’t solve crisis

       Back during the 1990s, then-Gov. Christie Todd Whitman used an accounting trick to balance the state’s budget while slashing state income taxes.    She revalued the state’s pension accounts, saying the booming stock market of the Clinton years meant that the pension accounts were worth more than the state’s actuaries were saying. That allowed her to…

  • Fighting that traffic ticket

    Catherine Kness of Trenton To the editor:     For anyone who has ever suffered a traffic ticket on Bakers Basin Road associated with “No U-Turn” signs/Lawrence Township — this alert may perk your interest into action.    Statute 39:4-197/Motor Vehicle & Traffic Regulation allows a municipality to install traffic control devices without implementing the DOT approval…

  • LAWRENCE: Clean Elections final report expected in December

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Clean Elections Committee, which had been charged with studying the issue of publicly financed municipal elections, expects to deliver a final report on its findings to Township Council next month.    The advisory committee met last week, and agreed to write a short report for Township Council. The members agreed…