Category: archives
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Millstone seeking to meet residents’ recreational needs
Parks, recreation and open space plan in the works (April 13) By: Purvi Desai MILLSTONE The Township Committee kicked off with baby steps last week a comprehensive park, recreation and open space plan that will provide recreation and leisure opportunities currently unavailable to residents. "Because of the fact that we’ve had an increase in…
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Millstone budget calls for no tax hike
Tax rate will remain at 9 cents (April 13) By: Purvi Desai Purvi DesaiStaff Writer MILLSTONE The Township Committee unanimously adopted a proposed $7 million budget April 5 that calls for no increase in the municipal tax rate. The tax rate will remain at 9 cents per $100 of assessed property valuation. A resident…
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Questions of tradition
Buckingham Place hosts model Seder. By: Marisa Maldonado The youngest person at each Passover Seder has the responsibility of asking four questions about the holiday. But when Rabbi Mendy Carlebach asked 8-year-old Jeremy Orlando to do the honor during a Seder held Tuesday evening at Buckingham Place, an assisted-living community on Raymond Road, the youngster…
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Letters for the week of April 13
Residents asked to join ride for autism awareness To the editor: My wife and I are proud parents of an 8-year-old boy who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. Although we were first stunned, we were quick to learn that autism is a disorder that affects approximately one in 166 individuals,…
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Police Beat
From the week of April 13 FLORENCE Police charged a 29-year-old Trenton man with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving and driving in the wrong direction in a one-way zone after an accident near Illusions bar on Route 130 Tuesday. According to police, Dublas Hernandez left the bar around midnight, made a left onto Route 130…
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Anna Andersen
HILLSBOROUGH Anna Andersen died April 7. She was 96. She moved to Belle Mead in 1994 and had lived at Foothill Acres Nursing Home in Hillsborough since 1998. Mrs. Anderson worked as a secretary for Con Edison and the Samaritan Hospital of Brooklyn, N.Y., for many years before retiring to Whiting in 1974. She…
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Brooks parking ban ordinance approved
There will be no parking on the north side of the street between North Third Avenue and North 13th Avenue. By: Charlie Olsen The Borough Council unanimously adopted an ordinance that will ban parking on a portion of the north side of Brooks Boulevard between North Third Avenue and North 13th Avenue. The parking ban…
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SBHS boys golf team conquers strange lands
By: Sean Richards With a young team and the bulk of its matches on strange and foreign courses, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the South Brunswick High School golf team had gotten off to a slow start this year. It didn’t happen. Although the Vikings dropped their first two matches, they quickly rebounded to…
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Stockton worries about paying for police
The governor’s proposal must clear the Legislature. By: Linda Seida Gov. Jon Corzine wants to bill towns like Stockton for state police patrols to raise $24 million toward closing a gap in the state budget. Stockton has no police force of its own and relies on the state police for coverage that now is provided…
