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  • Town may sell rights to farm land

    Ballot question will ask voters for input By: Joseph Harvie    The Township Council is working on a ballot question that will ask voters to allow it to sell the farming rights to the 200-acre Van Dyke farm, if the township buys the land.    Councilman Chris Killmurray said Tuesday that selling the farming rights would allow…

  • Eyeing a new area for retail

    Ordinance would allow warehouses to open stores By: Joseph Harvie    The Township Council is considering ordinances that would allow retail stores to be attached to warehouses and increase the maximum height of warehouses in certain township industrial zones.    The ordinances were discussed after the Planning Board unanimously recommended in March that the council adopt them.…

  • Letters

    Save some land from developers    The countryside we used to know is gone, replaced by wall-to-wall condos and townhouses. Approval is given to greedy developers. All of this strains our already burdened utilities. With the influx of people, schools have to be built and enlarged, increasing our property taxes. This in turn forces retirees to…

  • Parents hear plan to divide LIS

    Proposal calls for fourth-grade lower school and fifth/sixth-grade upper school. By: Rebecca Weltmann    About 50 parents and Lawrence Intermediate School staff members gathered Tuesday night to hear district officials’ plan to divide LIS into separate schools under one roof, each with its own principal.    The proposal called for a lower school consisting of fourth-graders and…

  • WTLL boys advance to winner’s bracket final

    By: Kyle Moylan    Washington Manager Tom Vorraso will tell you that he’s always worried, that every opponent is a scary one.    Well, as the old joke goes, you should see the other guy.    If Vorraso is that concerned, one can only guess how the other teams feel about Washington. After all, following two one-sided wins…

  • Lawrence history hits some milestones in 2006

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING by Robert B. Immordino By:    For more than 45 years I have collected and compiled dates and events of Lawrence Township interest. During this period of time, on several occasions, a chronology of specific events or persons were compiled, published and or distributed.    Following my reappointment as township Historian on March 1, 2005,…

  • Vicke Roodhof

       BRIDGEWATER — Vicke Roodhof died July 7 at the New Jersey Eastern Star Home. She was 87.    Born in the Netherlands, she was a longtime resident of Bridgewater and Flemington.    Her husband, Willem Roodhof, died in 1985.    Surviving are three daughters, Betty Hisko of Forked River, Jane Pascadldo of Flemington and Anne Alimecco of Hillsborough;…

  • Festival celebrates bluberries fest

    Another NJ crop gets attention By: Marisa Maldonado    Tomatoes are the most well-known New Jersey crop. But on Saturday, the blueberry will take center stage at Kingston Presbyterian Church, which will host its Blueberry Festival from 6 to 8 p.m.    The festival, which will be held at the church on Route 27, will feature a…

  • Letters to the Editor

    July 13, 2006 Questions remain about tainted soil To the editor: In a recent issue of "The Jersey Sierran," Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club wrote concerning the issue of school-site contamination.    Referring to cleanup and capping of contaminated soil at school sites, he stated, "In Gloucester City (Camden County) the local school board chose…