Category: Bordentown Register News
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Bordentown City officials update residents on elevated lead levels in water
Bordentown City officials served as the hosts to a public meeting to provide an update on the municipality’s efforts to address reported lead exceedances in homeowners’ drinking water. The meeting was held on Feb. 4 at the Carslake Community Center in Bordentown as the City Board of Commissioners fielded questions from residents about the municipality’s…
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Bordentown Township police raise money for Unity Tour
The Bordentown Township Police Department is determined to support and honor those who have fallen in the line of duty this spring. Officers from the Bordentown Township Police Department came together at the Bordentown Rt. 130 Chickie’s & Pete’s location on Feb. 5 for a Police Unity Tour fundraiser. The Unity Tour is a four-day…
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Great New Jersey nature destinations
By Michele S. Byers New Jersey has an amazing diversity of landscapes and every region has a unique assemblage of native plants and animals, geological features and history. Want to explore this incredible natural diversity? Nothing tells the stories better than New Jersey’s environmental centers and science museums. These centers are gems for nature lovers…
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SOLUTIONS 2/7: Climate progress: Many signs — are they enough?
By Huck Fairman While reports of the destructive impacts of our climate crisis continue to appear in the media, now there are also reports of a number of positive developments initiated by governments and the private sector. Whether these developments will be sufficient to halt and reverse global warming is, at the moment, impossible to…
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Modell’s Sporting Goods location planned in Bordentown Township
Modell’s, the northeastern sporting goods retailer with more than 100 retail locations, is coming to Bordentown Township. Bordentown Township officials announced on Jan. 10 that they had met with Modell’s Sporting Goods, a newly contracted primary tenant for the Matrix Warehouse located at the intersection of Georgetown and Old York roads. The announcement from municipal…
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Gov. Murphy establishes Coronavirus Task Force amid “outbreak”
New Jersey to prepare for public health hazard during “rapid spread of coronavirus” Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Feb. 3 establishing the Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate all New Jersey efforts to prepare for and respond to the public health hazard posed by the novel coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China in…
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Burlington County Women’s Advisory Council holds winter coat drive
Burlington County Freeholder Director Felicia Hopson announced this year that the Burlington County Freeholders and the Women’s Advisory Council are sponsoring a winter coat drive for the County’s Housing Hub and Hope One mobile unit. County officials said the coat drive will run until Feb. 14 and are only collecting new winter coats. The coats…
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Bordentown Township consolidates zoning board powers to planning board
Bordentown Township municipal officials passed an ordinance to consolidate the powers of the planning board and zoning board of adjustment. The Bordentown Township Committee passed an ordinance at a Jan. 27 meeting to grant the township planning board the same extent and subject to the same restrictions of the zoning board of adjustment. Township officials…
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Bordentown City recipient of grant award to conduct solar energy study
Bordentown City is the recent recipient of grant money that will be used to conduct a comprehensive solar study. The study will result in how the municipality can best integrate solar energy and battery systems into its operations. Bordentown City officials announced on Jan. 21 that the municipality was selected as a $10,000 grant award…
