Category: archives

  • Post Forum: Affordable housing

    Should the state change the proposed third-round affordable housing rules?

  • Princeton Presbyterian youths join fight against hunger

    PRINCETON — The Princeton Presbyterian Church Senior and Junior High Youth Group has taken part in the 30 Hour Famine, an international youth movement sponsored by World Vision to fight world hunger. The young people fasted from Thursday, March 6 at midnight to Saturday. March 8 at 7:00 am (30 hours) in order to raise their…

  • Robotics team snags second at FIRST, readies for Atlanta

    By Katrina Pallop, Special Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — After earning the Highest Seed Rookie award and placing second overall at the New Jersey Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, Robbinsville High School’s robotics team is seeking community support to help raise the $15,000 they require to compete in the national championship at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome this spring.    The…

  • Board candidate no longer certain of televised meeting benefits

    Bill Michaelson, Huron Way In last week’s Ledger, School Board member John Gregg advocates televising school board meetings on Comcast Channel 19. This is a valid issue, more complex than anyone would realize at first glance, and it has come up for years. In fact, at last week’s meeting the Board reached a compromise in…

  • Meeting doesn’t soothe town’s budget woes

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    Hillsborough was represented at the March 13 meeting of mayors and officials who gathered at the Trenton War Memorial to speak out against Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed $33 billion budget that includes cuts in state aid to municipalities — including a $400,000 cut in Hillsborough’s aid.    Township Clerk Kevin Davis,…

  • America does the world’s heavy lifting

    Victor Heutz, Kendall Park    Mr. Kalet, while we can all debate the issues that led us into Iraq, its disingenuous to use only media sources that support your position — like the AP, why not throw in NPR radio and Al Franken?    To be fair, why not at least use some sources that are at…

  • Manager works to trim fat from budget

    Projected tax rate increase expected to stay the same By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Sharpening his pencil, Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun returned to Township Council Tuesday with an amended budget proposal that takes into account a $391,000 cut in state aid — while still holding the projected tax rate increase to 4 cents per $100…

  • Dispatches: Across the great divide

    By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor    Race has been the subtext of this year’s presidential election.    With U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, of Illinois, seeking to break the color line and become the first black man to win the nomination of a major party in the nation’s history and the tortured history of race in America, it…

  • EDITORIAL: Madness, for March, indeed in NJ

       There is only one phrase that can properly describe the premature arrival of daylight saving time, the simultaneous celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and Holy Week, the stunning resignation of New York’s governor (and, with it, unpleasant reminders of a similar fate that befell New Jersey’s governor nearly four years earlier) and a stock market…