Category: news/hopewell_valley_news

  • HVN SUNSHINE LIST

       HOPEWELL BOROUGH COUNCIL: July 10, 7 p.m., special meeting, public hearing/adoption of 2008 municipal budget, lower meeting room 4, Borough Hall.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD: July 10 and 24, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: July 10, 7:30 p.m., 13 E. Broad St., Hopewell.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE: July 14…

  • Pennington seeks funding to redo King George Road

    Traffic Calming group has been focusing on four streets: King George Road, Burd Street, Abey Drive and Franklin Avenue, all used by commuters By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Curbing, sidewalks and bicycle lanes are among possible improvements to a section of King George Road that could be funded by a state grant for which Pennington…

  • Pennington budget plan needs tax rate hike

    Spending plan set for public hearing and adoption Aug. 4 By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    A proposed $3,333,941 municipal budget for 2008 was introduced by Pennington Borough Council on Monday night.    The spending plan, set for a public hearing and adoption Aug. 4, is down nearly $10,000 from last year’s budget.    Property tax bills will…

  • LHT session slated July 17 in Lawrence

    Becky Taylor: ‘We are on track to open over 50 percent of the trail to the public by the end of this year and complete the entire length by 2012’    The Lawrence Hopewell Trail (LHT) will hold its 2008 Stakeholders Task Force meeting from 7-9 p.m. July 17 at the Bristol-Myers Squibb campus, Route 206…

  • TITUSVILLE’S JULY 4

    TITUSVILLE’S JULY 4

    Titusville’s Miss 4th of July, Rosie Rarich (second from right), poses with her court, including (from left) Jessie Lindenberger, Kristen Birdsey, Victoria Potucek and Arielle Wolfe.

  • Outdoor dining law OK’d in Pennington

    New ordinance regulates a practice that already exists By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    All restaurants in downtown Pennington, including non-full service restaurants, are permitted to have tables for outdoor dining under an ordinance adopted by a unanimous Pennington Borough Council vote Monday night.    The new ordinance regulates a practice that already exists. Four downtown eateries…

  • Officials think garage fire happened by chance

    Could have been caused by propane torch that was used earlier in the day By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Shortly before 11:30 a.m. Monday, Gerald Kiernan noticed that his 96-year-old neighbor’s detached garage on Pennington-Hopewell Road was on fire.    Mr. Kiernan called 911 and went to check on his elderly neighbor, Frank Sheriff of 80…

  • Ex-councilman Butterfoss wins film award

    His "Twisted Logic" takes honors at New York City festival By John Tredrea     How’s this for a full life?     Thirty-seven years riding an ambulance as a volunteer emergency medical technician.     Teaching high school for 33 years.     Being a member of your town’s governing body for 12 years.     Being an ace…

  • Pennington man was major-league material

    But the color line stood between him and the Dodgers By John Tredrea     Several years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, a Pennington baseball player was so good that he was approached by a scout from the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team Robinson joined in 1947.     “The Brooklyn scout…