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Homeowners associations pleased with ruling
Supreme Court upholds right of planned communities to prohibit signs By:Stephanie Prokop MANSFIELD Carmela S. DeMarco, a five-year resident of Homestead (a 55-and-older housing community) and the president of its board of trustees, is "happy and delighted" that the state Supreme Court last week upheld the rules of the Twin Rivers’ housing community in…
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Letters to the editor
Town did fine job on zoning To the editor: The recent decision of the appellate court to uphold the zoning change of the property on the corner of Route 27 and Finnegans Lane from C-2 to OP was in no small part due to the excellent legal representation by Anthony Campisano as well as the…
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14th District candidates talk about ethics reform
The candidates agree that the public’s faith in elected officials in the state is at a low point. By: Paul Koepp The 14th District legislative candidates agree that the public’s faith in elected officials in the state is at a low point, although they have different ideas about what kinds of ethics reforms should be…
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Campers help feed hungry
BASE camp kids donated 500 cookies to Trenton Area Soup Kitchen By: Paul Koepp Kids at the school district’s Community Education BASE Camp summer program are providing the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen with some sweet treats. Families of BASE campers purchase or bake the cookies, and the kids bring them to camp and wrap them…
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The art of song; painter, musician team up to create beautiful music
By: Bill Greenwood Ever since the late 1990s, Donovan Klotzbeacher has been a fan of Louise Tracy’s art, but not in the traditional sense. Ms. Tracy, of Rue Road in Monroe, had been urged by her husband, Robert, to create a series of colored-pencil drawings of tropical fruit for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where…
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EDITORIAL: Open access to documents worth the price
System requires excessive time and money to find documents For the past five years, New Jersey has had a law on the books that gives citizens the right to dig into the filing cabinets of state, county and local government agencies to extract public information. Many thousands of New Jerseyans and more than a…
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Police set for a night out
National Night Out an opportunity for police and community to get to know each other By: Paul Koepp Residents won’t have to commit a crime to get up close and personal with township police Tuesday night, as the 24th annual National Night Out celebration is held at Woodlot Park on New Road. Firetrucks, rescue vehicles…
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Almas Smith
PLAINFIELD Almas "Al" Smith died July 25 at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield. He was 66. He was born in Macon, Ga., formerly lived in Manville, then resided in Plainfield for the last 25 years. Mr. Smith was employed as a manager at Korvette’s department store in Watchung for 20 years. Survivors include…
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View from a blimp
Touring the township from 1,000 feet up. By: Eileen Oldfield One of the last things Mark Finney, one of Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield’s blimp pilots, told me before I boarded the blimp at Readington’s Solberg Airport one morning last week was something I had hoped wasn’t obvious. "You look nervous," he said. Nervous? Only about…
