Category: news/hopewell_valley_news

  • Slopes measure gets planners’ nod

    Public hearing and adoption vote set Nov. 26 By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    A proposed Hopewell Township law establishing standards for construction on steep slopes was endorsed by a unanimous vote of the Hopewell Township Planning Board Nov. 8.    Slopes of the kind targeted by the measure can be found throughout the 60-square-mile township, but…

  • School district gets top mark in audit

    Business office staff, central office staff, and staff in each school building are working well together, the audit said By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Hopewell Valley Regional School District is doing an excellent job of handling its own financial affairs, an independent auditor has reported.    Under state law, all school districts in New Jersey…

  • Township officials adopt underage drinking measure

    Pennington is expected to follow suit By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Hopewell Township has adopted an ordinance prohibiting underage possession or consumption of alcohol on private property.    This new law gives police the legal power to crack down on unsupervised teenage drinking parties on private property. The new measure also closes a legal loophole for…

  • School board may abolish existing committee structure

    Policy group asked to do a rewrite By John Tredrea and Ruth Luse, HVN staff    The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education voted 7-2 Monday night to direct its Policy Committee to rewrite the policy on how the school board governs itself.    Under a proposed new policy that is expected to be put into written…

  • Schools religion report accepted

    Se report at: www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us. By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education voted Monday to accept the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religion in the Schools.    ”Now it is just a matter of sharing the findings as well as the critical question and answer section of the document, with…

  • Planners OK CHS’ GDP amendment

    Site plan hearing will continue Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Capital Health System (CHS) — which wants to build a 237-bed hospital, plus three companion office buildings, on a Merrill Lynch-owned tract of land in south-central Hopewell Township — got one of the OKs it needs Nov. 8.    Among necessary…

  • Area roadway shoulder closures slated by DOT

    Work should be completed in late December By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Replacement of an overhead sign structure on northbound Route 31 in Hopewell Township will result in closing of the shoulder of a portion of that road for about six weeks.    Two overhead signs on I-95 in nearby Lawrence also are scheduled to be…

  • Brandon throng protests cell plan

    New ordinance forbidding installations, like antennae, on pre-existing structures, like a water tower, may be on Nov. 26 Township Committee agenda By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    More than 100 Brandon Farms residents packed Hopewell Township hall to standing- room-only capacity Tuesday to protest the Planning Board’s Oct. 18 approval of a T-Mobile application to put…

  • Hopewell Township poised to buy Twin Pines

    For athletic fields, park, and maybe cell installation By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    One of the few remaining grass airports in this region is poised to turn into four-six full-sized athletic fields and, further in the future, a small park.    In addition, woodlands that are part of the airport tract could be the site of…