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  • 2-cent tax rate hike eyed in budget

    The $38.2 million spending plan will be introduced at Township Council’s April 5 meeting. By: Lea Kahn    The proposed 2007 municipal budget will carry a 2-cent increase in the municipal property tax rate — not the originally proposed 3-cent increase — when the $38.2 million spending plan is introduced at Township Council’s April 5 meeting.…

  • George Pierce

       BRANCHBURG — George Harrison Pierce died March 15 at home. He was 75.    Mr. Pierce was a chemist for 38 years with National Starch in Bridgewater.    The Purple Heart was awarded to him for multiple injuries received when he served in the Korean War; he received many other medals for his bravery.    He was a…

  • Anne Marie Chaballa

       MANVILLE — Anne Marie Chaballa died Thursday (March 15) at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 72.    Born in Big Mine Run, Pa., she lived Manville for many years. Mrs. Chaballa had been a bookkeeper for Richards Fuel Oil of Somerville for 20 years, retiring in 1991.    She was a member of the Finderne…

  • EDITORIAL

    A new Rx needed for tax reform.    When Gov. Jon Corzine called the state Legislature into special joint session last summer to address the state’s property-tax and budget crises, he insisted that a 4 percent cap be placed on tax bills.    The cap, he said in July, needed to be on "the increase in the…

  • Program ‘Aspires’ to enhance learning for autistic children in local schools

    By: Stephanie Prokop    MANSFIELD — Mansfield Township School District is receiving a $500,000 state grant that will be used to develop resources that allow students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to learn closer to home.    Assistant Business Administrator Marlene Walls said that the grant is actually part of a $15 million statewide program that Gov.…

  • Letters to the editor

    Week of March 22 Please submit all letters pertaining to the elections that would require a response from the candidates or district by April 3. Families’ kindness won’t be forgotten To the editor:    As a funeral director I’ve experienced many things. In life they say if you are able to make a difference, that is…

  • Vikings’ success story a best seller

    By: Sean Richards ÿ8SWIMMINGÿSean RichardsSports Writer    The South Brunswick High School swimming program accomplished so many great and wondrous things this year you’d need an epic the size of "War and Peace" to document them all.    It was a year in which it almost seemed like any time a Viking swimmer jumped in the pool…

  • For Whom the Bell Plays

    Joshua Bell will join the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at the State Theatre. By: Michael Redmond    Although Joshua Bell denies that he’s taken up conducting, he admits he’s "halfway there" — and having a blast — in the role of the "leader" or "director" of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the renowned British orchestra with…

  • Bordentown softball set to swing for a title

    By: Sean Moylan    Last year the Bordentown Regional High varsity softball team’s season ended with one of the best and most intense softball games one will ever see versus New Egypt in the Central Jersey Group 1 championship game.    The Warriors may have won the contest, but the Scotties played so well and so hard…