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  • Light rail popularity up as gas prices rise

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer BORDENTOWN CITY — With gasoline teetering over the $3 a gallon mark, many commuters are abandoning their automobiles and instead favoring public transport — especially those with access to the NJ Transit River LINE, which has stops in Bordentown City and Florence Township.     According to a press release from…

  • BREAKING NEWS — School board election results in

    Voters in Bordentown, Florence, Chesterfield reject budgets By Vanessa Holt, Managing Editor Bordentown Regional A $23 million tax levy that would have meant a lower tax rate in Bordentown City, and higher rates in Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro, saw a narrow defeat on Tuesday night. The budget failed by five votes, 467-462. City voters were…

  • Marian Palmer

    Former Montgomery resident     STONEHAM, Mass. — Marian Van Duzee Palmer died April 10 at the Arnold House in Stoneham. She was 81 and was a lung cancer survivor for just short of two years.    Born in Hamburg, N.Y., she grew up in Montclair and was a longtime Montgomery Township resident.    She attended the University…

  • New municipal building to get Nakashima pews

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    NEW HOPE — By virtue of a new acquisition, the borough is about to join the ranks of esteemed institutions such as Columbia University, the Museum of Modern Art and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.    What could small, but large-in-spirit New Hope, have in common with those venerable…

  • Two school budgets rejected

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    Voters sent mixed messages at the polls Tuesday, passing two school budgets but shooting down two others.    The spending plans of South Hunterdon Regional High School and West Amwell Elementary School were sent back to the drawing board.    South Hunterdon’s $10.13 million budget went down 520-412 with only its smallest…

  • Budgets pass in Princeton, Montgomery, West Windsor-Plainsboro

    Voters in the three Packet-area school districts approved school budgets on Tuesday, but in two cases the margin was thin. PRINCETON REGIONAL In Princeton, the $72.7 million budget passed by a comfortable 1,426 to 727. In the borough, the vote was 331-259.  In the township, the vote was 1,095-468. In the township race for two three-year…

  • Volunteers make a clean sweep for Earth Day

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer BORDENTOWN CITY— Several area groups will be sponsoring events during the next two weeks, seeking volunteer participation from residents eager to make “going green” a way of everyday life.     On Saturday, volunteers are needed for the sixth annual Earth Day cleanup and tree-planting sponsored by the Environmental Commission, slated…

  • State wants changes in traffic light design

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — Pedestrians and motorists should continue to use extra caution in the area of Route 165 and Swan Street, the site of several accidents including a fatality, because the installation of a traffic signal is not yet on the horizon.    As the father of a banged-up Lambertville teenager said…

  • Lambert withdraws from Democratic primary for Princeton Township Committee

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Karen C. Casey Lambert has withdrawn from the campaign for obtaining one of the two Princeton Township Committee seats up for grabs this year, because her husband Sam has suffered a heart attack, the Princeton Community Democratic Organization announced Monday.    The withdrawal of Ms. Lambert leaves two Democratic candidates for…