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Health official: Be alert for signs of Lyme disease
Ticks that transmit Lyme disease are most active in May, June and July, so Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard recommends that New Jersey residents spending time outdoors be alert for the signs and symptoms of this tick-borne disease and take preventive measures. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through a bite of…
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Editorial: Our country is still a work in progress
On Friday, we celebrate one of the most radical documents in history. The American Declaration of Independence, officially approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, accomplished something that was then rare. It announced to the world that the people who were then living in the 13 colonies voluntarily were coming together to…
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80-room hotel plans up for board review
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Write FLORENCE A proposal for a new hotel and restaurant along the New Jersey Turnpike will go before the zoning board again later this month. River Development, based in Port Monmouth, was granted a conditional use variance June 24 by the township zoning board. It allows the developer to utilize…
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Quick Chek opens on Rt. 206
By Audrey Levine Staff Writer More than 50 employees, company executives and Hillsborough officials gathered Monday to cut the ribbon for the opening of the new 5,000-square-foot Quick Chek on Route 206, the first in Hillsborough. ”We saw where we thought there was a need for one, and this is a great area,” said John…
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A cure for summertime ‘school transition’ blues
By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer A camp for students attending Alexander Batcho Intermediate School this September aims to help the students with the transition to middle school, without the regular school year’s tensions. The camp runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 14 through 17 and July 21 through 24, in the school’s gymnasium,…
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Margaret W. Crawford
FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Margaret W. “Peg” (nee Wainwright) Crawford, 79, of Fort Pierce, FL, formerly of Wrightstown, died Friday at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. She was born in Trenton and attended Pemberton High School. She was employed as a bus driver for Bordentown High School and then drove for Pemberton Township. She retired from…
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POLICE BEAT
Plumsted Police are asking residents for information regarding a stolen motorcycle. Cream Ridge resident Michael Labelle, 22, reported a 2005 Suzuki GSX motorcycle missing around 11:40 a.m. June 14, police said. The vehicle was being stored on Mr. Labelle’s property and the theft reportedly happened overnight. The motorcycle was entered into the National Crime Information…
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Borough cancels Street Fair
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer JAMESBURG — Locals will have to say sayonara to the borough’s annual Street Fair, at least for 2008. ”As far as the (Borough) council is concerned we’re not putting it on,” said Mayor Anthony LaMantia about the Street Fair, which typically is held in early September. “The goal is to…
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Council mulls budget, fuel cost challenges
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE The Township Council has introduced a $17.1 million municipal budget, which raises $9,491,561 from taxation and calls for a tax rate of 36 cents per $100 of assessed home value. The tax rate, 2 cents more than last year, would mean a municipal tax bill of $1,350 for…
