Category: Bordentown Register News
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Incumbents fill seats for Bordentown Township Committee
The Burlington County Clerk’s Office certified election results on Nov. 22. Voters in Bordentown Township and Bordentown City went to the polls on Nov. 7 and elected members of the governing body. Bordentown Township Committee Two Democratic incumbents ran in an uncontested race for the two, three-year seats on the Bordentown Township Committee. Aneka Miller…
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Congrats!
Congrats to Bordentown City’s newest sergeants Jeremy Archer (right) and Justin Lewandowski who were sworn in to their new posts at the Bordentown City Commissioners meeting on Nov. 13.
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Bordentown artists to showcase at Holiday Art Show
The Artists of Bordentown Holiday Art Show will highlight seven well-known contemporary Bordentown artists and crafts people and Leaping Dog Art Studios. The show will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 2-3 at Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks St. Admission is free. Since its founding, the Historic City of Bordentown has always been…
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Protecting the wetlands that help protect New Jersey
by Alison Mitchell, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation For the past 20 years, a New Jersey organization not widely known among the general public has been making a big environmental impact through dozens of projects aimed at restoring and enhancing the state’s wetlands – ecosystems that are critical allies in the global fight against…
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Common calendar, Packet papers, Nov. 24
Burlington, Mercer, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral member of our team whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or at the refreshment area. No medical…
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‘We have hope for the future’
New Jersey is experiencing a 23.4% decline in unsheltered homelessness, according to the state’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA). The DCA also announced that there was an increase in access to prevention programs, which aid to keep people from becoming homeless, at a press conference inside Homefront in Lawrenceville on Nov. 13. “The latest data…
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Rematriations’ return Native Americans to their land
by Jay Watson, Co-Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation It goes almost without saying – but I’ll say it anyway – that all the land in New Jersey once belonged to the Indigenous people who lived here for millennia before European colonization. After 400 years of wars, treaties, forced removals and migrations, and unfair government policies, little land…
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Common calendar, Packet papers, Nov. 17
Burlington, Mercer, and Somerset counties New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral member of our team whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or at the refreshment area. No medical…
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‘Longstanding tradition’
The Burlington County Sheriff’s Office is once again collecting toys for children in need this holiday season and is aiming to make this year’s toy drive its most successful ever. The Sheriff’s 28th Annual Holiday Toy Drive is underway with red donation bins placed in 44 locations across Burlington County. Collections will occur regularly from now through December 15. Thousands…