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  • Bordentown City Halloween parade results announced

    Bordentown City Halloween parade results announced

    BORDENTOWN CITY — The 2008 Halloween Parade saw everything from witches on motorized coolers to pirate ships and the Jersey Devil on Sunday. The event encompassed a number of competitions, the winners of which have been announced.     In the parade itself, awards were given in a number of categories. The first-place business float belonged…

  • Turnpike letter isn’t the final word

    Jake Archer, Bordentown To the editor:  I write in response to Committeeman Bill Morelli’s editorial, dated Oct. 16, 2008, where he suggested Bordentown Township accept the current concessions offered by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) regarding the Turnpike widening. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Morelli’s version of our options and the benefits we will…

  • South police force moot

    Catherine Urbanski of West Amwell     I am responding to recent letters to the editor, which contained many very erroneous statements.    Contrary to Mr. Bergenfeld’s assertions about the police study, Ron Shapella has told our local police force that no local police officers would be without a job.    The township embarked on the study so…

  • Bordentown City man charged with theft, forgery

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer BORDENTOWN CITY—A city man who was the former treasurer of the Bordentown Historical Society has been charged with theft and forgery in connection to approximately $80,000 in missing funds.     City police said Barry Hausser, 62, was arrested Oct. 22 on charges of stealing nearly $80,000 from the Bordentown City…

  • Officials commended for ‘staying the course’

    Renee Ferguson, Bordentown Township To the editor:    This letter is in response to Bordentown Township Committeeman William Morelli’s guest opinion printed on Oct. 16.   The Turnpike expansion is a huge issue to more than 1,300 homes in Bordentown Township that border the Turnpike. We need to know that our elected officials are protecting…

  • Helene Marilyn Cody, 16

    Helene Marilyn Cody of Cranbury, NJ passed away on her 16th birthday from a brain aneurysm surrounded by her loving family. She was a lifelong Cranbury, NJ resident and Princeton High School Sophomore. She is survived by her parents, Linda and Win Cody; her sister, Jenna; her grandparents, Buck and Marilyn Cody her grandfather, Frank…

  • Sunny savings

    Landfill in Mansfield eyed for solar panels By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer MANSFIELD—The county is looking into installing more renewable energy sources, including outfitting a closed landfill off of Burlington-Columbus Road with solar panels.     Solar panels could be placed on approximately half of the closed 54-acre landfill that is on the property of the…

  • Bordentown City Halloween parade results announced

    Bordentown City Halloween parade results announced

    Girl Scouts are dressed as dalmatians for their "101 Dalmatians" themed costumes in Sunday’s parade.

  • School Daze

    School Daze

    "Kindergarten Recess," Randall Hagadorn’s photograph of children in Belmont Runyan Elementary School in Newark.