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  • Groundbreaking marks Trent site construction

    Groundbreaking marks Trent site construction

    Staff photo by Robyn C. Stein — Development Committee member Michel Franc (left), Councilman Mike Powers, Community Investment Strategies President Christina Foglio, Councilwoman Pam Mount, CIS Vice President Theresa Reed and general contractor Robert Stone place their shovels in the ground at the site of the former Trent Motel on Business Route 1 Tuesday morning…

  • Township Council seeking to fill vacant rental stabilization board

    Last members’ term expired in 2000 By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Wanted: three landlords, three tenants and five interested citizens to serve on the township’s Rent Stabilization Board.    That’s what Township Council is seeking as it prepares to revive the board that rules on landlords’ applications to exceed the permissible annual rental increase, or tenants’…

  • Voters to elect council members, county positions at polls Tuesday

    Three Republican newcomers square-off against one Democratic newcomer and two incumbents By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select three Township Council members, as well as a raft of state and county elected officials.    Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.    At the municipal level,…

  • ‘Away From Her’

    ‘Away From Her’

    This quiet character study from an Alice Munro short story shows filmmaker Sarah Polley’s rich capacity for empathy. By Elise Nakhnikian    Forget the hype about Sofia Coppola: Sarah Polley, the 28-year-old writer-director of Away From Her, is the real deal. Sure, Coppola has a precocious sense of style, but her gaze never travels far from…

  • A road to nowhere

    Township, developer in court by Paul Koepp, Staff Writer    Stretching from Major Road to Deans Lane and from Route 1 to the Northeast Corridor train tracks, more than 400 acres of woods and wetlands sit vacant, except for an 8,800-foot dead-end road.    Now the developer of the land, one of the largest undeveloped tracts on…

  • Parents tie up anti-drug messages at schools

    Parents tie up anti-drug messages at schools

    Jennifer Rieger ties a ribbon on the fence at Weston School last week for Red Ribbon Week. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • ‘Away From Her’

    ‘Away From Her’

    Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent star in Away From Her.

  • Purple voter backs Democrats

       Like most of my neighbors, I’m a purple voter. I vote the candidate without regard for party, even though I’m a registered Democrat. This year, perhaps for the first time, I may vote for all three Democrats on each of their merits.    First, Linda Greenstein has been the reformer we’ve been asking for in Trenton.…

  • Memorial services

    Memorial services in observance of Veterans Day will be held at 11:15 a.m. on at the Veterans Memorial on Nov. 11 on Broad Street in Florence, next to the Municipal Building.  All community members are invited.