Category: news/hopewell_valley_news

  • School board, budget election Tuesday

    Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    On Tuesday, Hopewell Valley’s registered voters will go to the polls to say yes or no to the school board’s proposed $73.2 million budget for 2008-2009.    Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.    Hopewell Township voters will…

  • Monday’s filings yield no June primary races

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    There will be races for municipal government posts in November in Pennington and Hopewell Township, but none in Hopewell Borough.    There are no June 3 primary races in the Valley. Monday was the primary filing deadline.    — Two Democratic incumbent Pennington Borough councilmen and two Republican challengers will be on…

  • Valley groups unite for health study

    Ken Zeldis of Zeldis Research Associates Inc. in Pennington, will donate his time to help determine the most important health-related needs By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Hopewell Valley YMCA, Hopewell Valley Senior Services Commission, Hopewell Township Health Department, Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance and Hopewell Township Parks & Recreation Committee have retained a local research…

  • Pennington will need new member for board

    Kevin Doran, of Pennington, has resigned, effective Monday    Hopewell Valley school board member Kevin Doran, of Pennington, has resigned, effective Monday (April 14).    Mr. Doran announced his departure at Monday night’s board meeting, saying: “It is a choice I have to make … due to emergent and changing business requirements on my job.”    Mr. Doran…

  • HVN SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal and school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD: April 10, 7:30 p.m.; April 17, 7 p.m., Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP FIRE COMMISSIONERS: April 10 and 24, 7 p.m., Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: April 10, 7:30 p.m., 13 E. Broad St.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE: April 14, 7…

  • Hopewell Post Office parking is council focus

    This ordinance, designed to address ongoing parking congestion at that site, will receive a public hearing at council’s May 5 meeting, followed by a vote By Aleen Crispino, Special Writer    Hopewell Borough Council introduced an ordinance that would limit parking to 15 minutes in the three parking spaces in front of Hopewell Post Office at…

  • Farmers join rally to save Agriculture Department

    Farmers join rally to save Agriculture Department

    Local farmers, many on tractors, made their way south from Ringoes, via Pennington, early Tuesday morning. They were using Route 31 to make the trip to the agricultural rally in Trenton.

  • HVN SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE: Wrick Avenue neighborhood (Titusville) — proposal for use of 9 Wrick Ave. — special meeting, April 3, 7 p.m., Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE: April 7 agenda meeting canceled.     HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION: April 7, 7 p.m. (reception for Governor’s…

  • Farmers join rally to save Agriculture Department

    Farmers join rally to save Agriculture Department

    Valley farmers were among 500-plus tillers of the soil and their supporters in front of the Statehouse in Trenton on Tuesday for a rally against Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s plan By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Garden State governor’s notion to plow under New Jersey’s Department of Agriculture has got him in the doghouse big…