Category: archives
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Camp assists special needs kids
Camp DECKA provides kids a chance to learn life skills and social skills By: Paul Koepp A new school district program is making sure that developmentally disabled children in the township can have a fun summer. Camp DECKA, which stands for Developmentally appropriate Enriching Creative Kid Activities, provides children with special needs a chance to…
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Improvements eyed for Freedom Trail
State funding moves goal of unified bike paths closer By: Paul Koepp Bikers will have a smoother ride through Monmouth Junction and Kingston thanks to improvements to the Freedom Trial Bikeway, although plans to link the two sections with an overpass across Route 1 are still on hold. The township has received $75,000 in state…
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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…
