Category: archives
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Police to celebrate National Night Out
Police pup McGruff and SBPD team up for safety By: Lacey Korevec The township is getting ready to take a bite out of crime. On the night before this year’s National Night Out, McGruff the Crime Dog will team up with the South Brunswick Police Department and roam the neighborhoods of South Brunswick looking to…
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Businesses unfazed by tax hike
Rising gas prices are seen as more likely to have an impact on consumers’ spending habits. By: Charlie Olsen Since the state sales tax increased to 7 percent Saturday, business owners in Manville have mixed opinions on how the tax will affect business. Oscar Gonzalez, who owns and runs Discount Mattress and Furniture Co. on…
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Community Calendar
Block party Saturday, July 22 The Wellington Woods neighborhood in Bordentown Township is throwing its first neighborhood block party for residents from 2 to 7 p.m. The street will be blocked off from 29 Klein Drive until it meets Windsor Lane. The event will feature food, an inflatable slide, dunk tank, cotton candy, spin…
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Work set for last leg of Rt. 522
Project will extend highway through warehouse district By: Joseph Harvie Construction on the last phase of Route 522 is expected to begin this fall. The township has filed permits to build the road near a section of wetlands with the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Freehold Soil Conservation District, which reviews development plans…
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District set to meet goals for school year
Superintendent Donald Burkhardt reported on the district’s progress and reviewed the goals for the coming school year during Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. By: Donna Lukiw Superintendent of Schools Donald Burkhardt ticked off his "to-do" list of goals for the district and said most are almost complete or will be completed by the end…
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Council reviews Route 206 intersection study
Draft report will be sent back to regional planning commission. By: Lea Kahn A federally funded study that examined 14 intersections along Route 206 from Province Line Road to Harney’s Corner, near Notre Dame High School was given the once-over by Township Council on Tuesday night. The study, prepared by the Delaware Valley…
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Neighbors knock mixed-use project
Planning Board postpones decision until Aug. 7 meeting. By: Lea Kahn An overflow crowd made clear its objections to a proposal to construct a mixed-use building at 150 and 154 Lawrenceville-Pennington Road at the Planning Board’s public hearing on Moriello Plaza LLC’s application Monday night. The Planning Board, meanwhile, ran out of time and postponed…
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Elaine Wert
Elaine H. Wert, 79, formerly of Kendall Park, died Wednesday, July 12, at Care One in East Brunswick. She was born and raised in Princeton. She resided in Kendall Park from 1957 to 1998, moving to Manasquan in 1998. While living in Kendall Park she had been a communicant of St. Augustine of Canterbury Church…
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May Carro
May Carro, 97, died Wednesday, July 12, at the Little Sisters of the Poor Convalescent Center, Totowa. Ms. Carro was born in Taranto, Italy. She came to the United States in 1912 and lived in Massachusetts, New York, Sparta, Concordia in Monroe from 1982-1986, then Dayton, and Florida before returning to the Little Sisters of…
