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MANVILLE: Merchant wants town to act on old mall lot
By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Manville business owner Alice Day read a prepared statement at the Borough Council meeting Oct. 15, voicing her disappointment on how everything is being done behind her business in the Rustic Mall. Ms. Day, of AD Realty of South Main Street, extended her “sincere respect and appreciation” to the…
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ALLENTOWN: AHS students tasting victory
Changes in the lunchroom menu, new after-school meals offered By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor ALLENTOWN — It was a cafeteria food fight that made school administrators proud. Operation Paper Bag — a student-led protest at Allentown High School over the higher cost and smaller portions now required by the National School Lunch Program — launched…
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MILLSTONE: State grant sought to repair Stillhouse Road
By David Kilby, Special Writer MILLSTONE — Stillhouse Road may be getting some overdue repairs now that the township has applied for a state grant to fix one of the township’s main connector roads. The Millstone Township Committee on Oct. 17 approved a grant application seeking state funds for the repair work. The township is…
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MANVILLE: GOP council would counter ‘dictatorship’
To the editor: What is a dictatorship? It is defined as “an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual.” What is a democracy? It is “a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them.” Manville’s governing body is based…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Open space co-chair likes GOP on preservation
To the editor: Mayor Carl Suraci has led Hillsborough’s open space preservation program this year by negotiating to acquire 235 acres in the Mill Lane area and partnering with the county for the purchase of another 343 acres in the Sourland Mountain region. He has continued the practice of acquiring grants from county, state and…
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Letter: Vote for Shaina Ciaccio for Robbinsville school board
From: Shaina Ciaccio, Robbinsville. To the editor: In my work each day as a child welfare investigator, I see the importance of beginnings. Children are so much a product of their environment, and a long time passes before we see how much those early years affect our children. While schools can never take the place…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Township Committee candidates set to debate Monday night
High school students will run the show A group of Hillsborough High School students will host the second annual Township Committee Candidates’ Night at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in the cafeteria of the Auten Road Intermediate School. All five candidates — Greg Burchette, Jim Farley, Mike Goldberg, Judd Mandell and Carl Suraci — on…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Taxes, ratables center stage in council race
Dennis B. Shennard II, Robbinsville Township Council candidate
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ROBBINSVILLE: Sewer impasse riles mobile home park residents
By David Kilby, Special Writer ROBBINSVILLE After years of dealing with a deteriorating sanitary sewer system at Mercer Mobile Homes, the trailer park’s residents, owner, and the township zoning board are casting about for solutions while contending that in many ways their hands are tied. The Zoning Board of Adjustment said it did what…
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