• SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Parent group wants more state aid

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Parent group wants more state aid

    Ed Birch photo Catherine Oliver puts $300 into a jar to illustrate the amount her family must pay per year in student activity fees.

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Hearing set for proposed $40M school budget

    By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer    BORDENTOWN — At its meeting March 6, the Board of Education unanimously approved submitting the proposed $40 million budget for the 2013-14 school year to the county superintendent of schools.    The proposed spending plan includes a number of changes from last year’s budget.    Should the budget pass as proposed,…

  • This is not Manhattan

    Cliff Wilson, president Sourland Planning Council     I write in response to the guest column of March 15, in which Elizabeth Ackerman and Ed Truscelli, co-chairs of the Marshall’s Corner-Pennytown Task Force, attempt to refute a number of points made by opponents of the township’s proposed development project.    In many respects, the Task Force did…

  • The New Brunswick Jazz Project Presents Virginia Mayhew Quartet at the New Brunswick Hyatt 3/21 7:30PM
  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: School board sets spending hearing

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education’s proposed budget for the 2013-14 school year has been approved by the Mercer County superintendent of School, on behalf of the state.    The board will hold a public hearing and plans to adopt this budget at a meeting Monday (March 25) at 7:30…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Burshnic volunteers during break; students earn dean’s lists

    Campus Corner column    Vanessa Burshnic of Hillsborough spent spring break serving others as part of James Madison University’s Alternative Spring Break program. Vanessa, a junior communication sciences and disorder major, traveled to Kansas City, Mo., from March 2-9 to volunteer at Sheffield Place, a residence for homeless women and children.    Students saw the impact of…

  • LAWRENCE: New law will create retail zone

    Residential area ‘no longer viable’ By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    An ordinance that would change the zoning from residential to commercial on a 37-acre parcel on the corner of Quakerbridge Road and Lawrence Station Road was introduced by Township Council Tuesday night.    The ordinance is headed to the Planning Board for comment and then back…

  • FLORENCE: Budget calls for no tax rate increase

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    FLORENCE — The Township Council has introduced a budget calling for no tax rate hike.    ”This is a credit to the mayor, Township Council and all employees who work together to stabilize costs and also reduce expenditures whenever possible,” said Township Administrator Richard Brook in an email March 7.    ”The…

  • PRINCETON: Mendez to take Crisis Ministry job

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Princeton needs to find a new director of its human services department after the woman in charge for the past nearly 14 years has decided to take a job elsewhere.    Cynthia Mendez said Thursday that she plans to leave April 10 to work for Crisis Ministry of Mercer County.…

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