Category: Bordentown Register News
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County corrections department receives grant aimed to benefit medication assisted treatment
The Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders recently passed a legislation to accept state grant monies aimed to benefit a county assisted treatment program. The Burlington County Freeholder Board released an announcement on Nov. 27 that the board unanimously passed a resolution accepting a grant from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction…
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Florence Twp. School District and Law Enforcement to participate in charity basketball game
The Florence Township School District and police department will be teaming up again this year to help families in need this holiday season. For the past 10 years, the Florence school community and police have worked together to coordinate a charity basketball game several weeks before Christmas when participating members from each group face-off in…
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Holmdel woman wins TV at Central Jersey Holiday Shopping Bazaar
The Holiday Shopping & Craft Bazaar event at iPlay America in Freehold Township was held on Dec. 8 by Newspaper Media Group and centraljersey.com. It was a great way to buy unique gifts for all the special people in your life. Katie Kelliher from Holmdel, one of the attendees, was selected as the winner of…
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Prosecutor: Third defendant pleads guilty in GoFundMe scam; agrees to repay restitution to victims
Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced that the remaining defendant behind the fictitious GoFundMe campaign pled guilty to participating in the fraudulent scheme that misled donors into contributing more than $402,000 to a fabricated cause. In a statement released on Dec. 6, Coffina announced that 40-year-old Mark D’Amico, of Florence, pled guilty in Superior Court…
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Solutions 12/6: UN sounds alarm – now or never
By Huck Fairman Instead of falling, greenhouse gas emissions are rising. Most countries, but particularly the United States and China, the two biggest polluters, continue to increase emissions – when all science and scientists have been warning that we all must reduce them, significantly. The latest United Nations report starkly warns that to stay within…
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The State We’re In 12/6: Owl spotting in winter
By Michele S. Byers With the final leaves of fall on the ground, it’s time to look for owls. Winter is prime season for spotting and listening for owls, those incredibly mysterious and beautiful birds rarely seen up close in broad daylight. “Owls are a little more obvious at this time of year because the…
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Mansfield Township officials field discussion on developer settlement at meeting
The Mansfield Township municipality and a developer, Tower Gate Associates, will present their draft settlement to a Superior Court judge in a fairness hearing at the Burlington County Courts Facility in Mount Holly. The scheduled Dec. 19 meeting comes after Tower Gate and municipal officials settled on 74 affordable housing units proposed to be built…
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Bordentown City man sentenced for child pornography distribution
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a Bordentown City man who had hundreds of files of child pornography on his laptop computer was sentenced to prison for distributing child pornography online through a peer-to-peer network. In a statement released by Grewal, he said that 34-year-old Michael D. Gordon, of Bordentown City, was sentenced to…
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Prosecutor: Former Bordentown physician charged for narcotics distribution and fraud
Charges for narcotics distribution and fraud have been filed against a Bordentown Township physician by Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina. Coffina released a statement on Dec. 4, in which a former physician, Morris Starkman, of Yellowstone Road in Cinnaminson, was accused of illegally prescribing thousands of highly-addictive opioid pills out of his Bordentown Township practice…
