Category: Bordentown Register News
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Common calendar, Packet papers, December 31
Ongoing East Windsor residents can volunteer for appointment to various township boards and committees, including the Clean Communities Advisory Committee, Commission on Aging, East Windsor Municipal Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse, Economic Development Committee, Environmental Commission, Health Advisory Board, Local Assistance Board, Planning Board, Recreation Commission, and Zoning Board of Adjustment. The mayor…
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Thanks to fundraising efforts in 2021, Clara Barton Schoolhouse will be upgraded next year
The Bordentown Historical Society (BHS) closed out its 2021 fundraising year with $246,685 in grants awarded. The year ahead will include continued preservation, programmatic expansion and progress on Phase I of the restoration of the Clara Barton Schoolhouse, noteworthy on the cusp of Clara Barton’s birthday, Dec. 25, 1821, exactly 200 years ago, according to…
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Burlington County Clerk’s Office launches property fraud alert system
Burlington County launched a new online service intended to alert residents of potential identity theft or fraud. The new Property Fraud Alert System allows residents in all 40 Burlington County municipalities to sign up to have their name or business monitored for transactions and recording activities within the Burlington County Clerk’s Office and receive real-time…
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Common calendar, Packet papers, December 24
Ongoing East Windsor residents can volunteer for appointment to various township boards and committees, including the Clean Communities Advisory Committee, Commission on Aging, East Windsor Municipal Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse, Economic Development Committee, Environmental Commission, Health Advisory Board, Local Assistance Board, Planning Board, Recreation Commission, and Zoning Board of Adjustment. The mayor…
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More than 200 children receive Christmas gifts collected through Burlington County Sheriff’s Department toy drive
Santa Claus had some extra help this holiday season from the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department, which just wrapped up its largest holiday toy drive ever. Now in its 26th year, more than 220 local children received toys and gifts from the drive this year, a nearly 50% increase over last year’s successful operation, according to…
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SOLUTIONS 12/24: Our Warming Poles
By Huck Fairman While we worry about new strains of the virus and rising prices, recent environmental reports in the news reveal that we have other major changes to respond to. Namely while science has been aware of the of the planet’s warming at the poles, the most recent data warns that the warming is…
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Smartphone-based audio tour helps visitors access Revolutionary War history
Visitors and New Jerseyans alike can now use their smartphone to enjoy narrated travels in George Washington’s footsteps as the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area introduces its Ten Crucial Days audio tour. Travelers will follow the route of key events that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War in the very spots…
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SOLUTIONS 12/17: Emerson and Thoreau speak to our time
By Huck Fairman In happening upon a book review of a new history of the American Transcendentalists, particularly Emerson and Thoreau, I was awakened, as these two thinkers hoped their contemporaries would be, by issues of how we and our community should live. The book, “The Transcendentalists and Their World,” by Robert A. Gross, re-introduces…
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Army Reserve general honors fallen at Wreaths Across America event in Bordentown
More than a dozen tractor-trailers rolled down Rising Sun Road in Bordentown Township on Dec. 15 as part of a Wreaths Across America ceremony honoring the nation’s fallen military members. The trucks were carrying thousands of wreaths destined for Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, where they were placed on gravesites during a Dec. 18 wreath-laying…
