Category: archives
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Environmental grants aim to promote ‘smart growth’
Mansfield, Bordentown City commissions get funding By: Molly Petrilla In an effort to promote "smart growth" throughout the state, the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) has awarded sizeable grants to 31 municipalities, including Mansfield and Bordentown City. Mansfield will put its $6,250 grant toward developing an environmental resource inventory (ERI), while Bordentown City…
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Independence Day events span early July
Bordentown, Florence, Fort Dix plan activities By: Molly Petrilla This year, local Yankee Doodle dandies can celebrate the country’s 230th birthday in several locations. Bordentown Township, Florence and Fort Dix each will host events in honor of Independence Day, and though not all the celebrations will take place on July 4, each will conclude with…
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Cranbury planning July 5 fireworks
Annual celebration always held one day later By: Jessica Beym Independence Day celebrations in Cranbury will go off with a bang this year as the township gears up for a colorful, firework show set for Wednesday in Village Park. Township Administrator Tom Witt is advising friends and families to get to the park early for…
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Letters
Mayor’s campaign inconsistencies To the editor: I wasn’t planning on writing a letter to the editor, but then again I can’t let local politicians continually lie to South Brunswick citizens without calling them on it. A few days before the primary election I received South Brunswick Mayor Gambatese’s campaign brochure in the mail. That evening…
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Manville High Spring Athletic Awards
School finished year with best season by far By: Rudy Brandl Manville High recently completed a very productive spring on the athletic fields, by far the most exciting scholastic season of the 2005-06 school year. After no varsity teams posted winning records in the fall or winter campaigns, all three spring programs won at least…
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UPDATED — Election outcome not likely to change
Defeated Springfield candidates review voting results By: Molly Petrilla Editor’s note: The recount, held Thursday night, revealed that the vote count was the same as recorded on election night. SPRINGFIELD Three defeated candidates planned to meet Wednesday night, after the Register-News went to press, to review the printed results from the June 6 Republican…
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Township targets ‘McMansions’ with ordinance
The Planning Board acknowledged, in an April re-examination report of the township’s 1995 Master Plan, that steps must be taken to prevent oversized houses from being built in more modest neighborhoods. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Township officials are still struggling with how to craft an ordinance that would limit the size of new houses in…
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Coaching takes high jumper to even higher heights
By: Sean Moylan These days, when meeting new people, Erica DiStefano is often friendly, yet slightly guarded. The athletes on her Bordentown Regional High School girls’ varsity track and field team know DiStefano primarily as a positive role model who teaches them the latest and most innovative techniques to improve their skills. And most of…
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Agnes Latka
By: MANVILLE Agnes L. Latka died June 25 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 78. Born in Lansford, Pa., she was a resident of Manville for the past 54 years. Mrs. Latka worked at Johns-Manville Corporation in Manville and then at Baker and Taylor Corporation in Somerville for over 17 years. She…
