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  • Township needs 3 more cents

    Council introduces $18.9 million budget By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR – The Township Council has scheduled a public hearing May 16 for an $18.9 million budget that would cost the average homeowner about $42 in additional municipal taxes.    The spending measure, calling for a tax rate increase from 44.7 cents to about 48 cents per…

  • Aid figures remain flat

    School district may see a 4.7 percent increase in aid for 2006-2007, while aid for the township would remain flat. By: Jessica Beym    Cranbury officials said there were few surprises when the state released aid figures to schools and municipalities this week.    Under the $30.9 billion state budget outlined by Gov. Jon Corzine on Tuesday,…

  • Council demands action on police

    Says mayor must discuss consolidation as it introduces plan for 28-cent tax hike By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council has introduced a budget with a tax rate hike of about 28 cents while requiring Mayor Bob Patten to do something he says he’s been doing for a long time, apparently with no success:…

  • Dream Weavers

    Fiber artists offer ‘Contemporary Visions from Traditional Woven Arts’ at Hicks Art Center Gallery. By: Jillian Kalonick    A maze of spiraling fire escapes and bright blocks of color, Rita Gekht’s tapestry "Constructive Interlude" is easy to become lost in — exactly what happens when she is weaving, she says.    "It’s the dream of any weaver…

  • Monroe: remove concrete

    Ford Motor Co. asked to remove 12,000 cubic yards of contaminated concrete used at a construction site on Applegarth Road. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — The township will ask that Ford Motor Co. be required to completely remove some 12,000 cubic yards of contaminated concrete used as fill at a medical office complex under construction…

  • Monroe boys dip but girls get better

    By: James McKeever    After back-to-back superb seasons, the Monroe boys bowling team dipped below the .500 mark this winter.    Call it a rebuilding year if you will, because the 2006-07 season has the makings of a bounce-back year for the Falcons.    "We have a solid nucleus back," head coach George Packard said.    As for the…

  • State aid is stable

    Monroe and Jamesburg school and municipal officials’ state aid predictions were on target. By: Stephanie Brown and Leon Tovey    School and municipal officials in Monroe and Jamesburg said there were few surprises when the state announced formula aid figures this week.    Under the proposed $30.9 billion state budget outlined by Gov. Jon Corzine on Tuesday,…

  • ‘The land beyond the forests’

    An unofficial amabassador, museum proprietor talks up Romania By: Michael Redmond    Back in the 1890s, when the Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker was casting about for a suitably exotic location for a supernatural thriller, he settled upon Transylvania, which was then, as now, one of the most remote and least familiar regions of Europe. Stoker went…

  • Health commission urges hospital to keep clinic in town

    Princeton HealthCare System representative asserts service would be discriminatory By: Marjorie Censer    Members of the Princeton Regional Health Commission have reiterated the importance of maintaining a free-standing clinic in Princeton after the University Medical Center of Princeton moves.    At a meeting Tuesday, they pressed Pam Hersh, Princeton HealthCare System’s vice president of government and community…