Category: news/hopewell_valley_news

  • Valley’s fire budgets get OKs

    Fire commissioners elected By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Budgets in all three Hopewell Valley towns passed Saturday, when fire district elections were held statewide.    The 2008 Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington fire budgets will all hold the fire tax rate to the same rate as last year. As has been the case since fire…

  • Reuter is back on Pennington Planning Board

    A member of the borough’s Environmental Commission, he formerly served on the Planning Board for 38 years By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    William Reuter is back on the Pennington Planning Board.    Mr. Reuter, a former longtime member of that board, was appointed by Mayor Tony Persichilli Monday night. The appointment runs through Dec. 31, 2010.…

  • Township officials, public works agree on contract

    Pact means increase of 4.15 percent for each year of the contract, which covers this year plus 2008 and 2009 By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Hopewell Township Committee and township Department of Public Works employees have reached agreement on a three-year contract, Mayor Vanessa Sandom said Tuesday.    The mayor said the committee voted unanimously…

  • Valley group to look at school needs for future referendum

    Valley residents interested in serving are encouraged to send or e-mail a letter of interest to Superintendent Judith A. Ferguson no later than March 3. Her e-mail address is [email protected] By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    An ad hoc committee of school officials and community volunteers will be formed soon to advise the school board on…

  • HVN SUNSHINE LIST

    Listing of municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., 13 E. Broad St., Hopewell.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP FIRE COMMISSIONERS: Feb. 14, 7 p.m., meeting; Feb. 16, 2-9 p.m., election and budget referendum, Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD: Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building.     PENNINGTON…

  • Valley’s fire districts to hold elections Saturday

    All commission candidates are running unopposed By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Saturday is fire election day in New Jersey.    Voters in the Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough fire districts will cast ballots on budgets and vote for fire commissioners between 2 and 9 p.m.    All candidates in the Valley’s three districts are running…

  • Mercer County forum is tough on Corzine fiscal plan

    ”We’ve got serious challenges ahead of us. We can ignore them and let them grow, or we do something about it,” the governor said By Matt Chiappardi, The Packet Group    HIGHTSTOWN — It was not a good Saturday for Gov. Jon Corzine.    The Mercer County stop on a statewide tour brought him to a high…

  • Penningtonians to pay more for water, sewer use

    Enabling law OK’d Monday By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Water and sewer rate increases that range from 2 percent for low volume consumers to 3.8 percent for the highest volume consumers were approved by a unanimous vote of the Pennington Borough Council Monday night.    The overall average increase is 3 percent, said Joseph Lawver, who…

  • E-mail flap kills plan for ‘paperless’ school board

    Exchange between Jim Wulf and superintendent was used by Mr. Wulf’s wife, Rhona Wulf By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    An e-mail controversy involving the wife of a school board member led the board to vote unanimously Monday night to shelve indefinitely a proposal that the board go “paperless” — that is, that the board communicate…