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Allentown tax rate up despite cuts
Verizon’s tax issue, state’s mandates cause of increase BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Despite significant spending cuts, the municipal budget introduced by the Allentown Borough Council at its June 12 meeting will bring a 5.9- cent tax increase per $100 of assessed value for borough taxpayers. “We’ve cut an awful lot to get where we…
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Vets committee reborn under previous leadership
Committee to Honor Valor emerges in response to Township Committee vote thwarting old organization BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Due to recent events, Upper Freehold Township may no longer have an active veterans committee, but that does not mean that local veterans have been forgotten. After the Township Committee voted June 7 to accept the resignation…
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Erwin Mermelstein (center), along with other members of the road cycling group East Brunswick Cyclepaths takes a pit stop at Woody’s Towne Café in downtown Allentown June 17. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Millstone residents invited to beat the heat
Millstone Mayor Nancy Grbelja would like to offer refuge during this current heat wave. The Millstone Community Center, equipped with air conditioning, is open to all residents in need. The air-conditioned Millstone Community Center is located at 463 Stage Coach Rd.
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Allentown Borough Council meeting at first aid building, June 26
The meeting of the Allentown Borough Council scheduled for 7 p.m. June 26 has been moved from its usual site at Borough Hall to the Allentown First Aid Squad building at 70 Waker Avenue. The purpose of the change is to allow public participation in the council meeting, during which the Monmouth County Freeholder President…
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You heard it here first: a cure for Old-Timers’ disease
CODA GREG BEAN This may be the best argument for requiring students in K-12 school programs to learn a foreign language that I’ve ever heard. And if you’re like me, and becoming a bitmore forgetful with every passing year, it’s a pretty good argument for ordering a Berlitz course and becoming fluent in anything from…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Jessica Levenberg to wed Joseph Keim in October
Engagements Deborah and Richard Levenberg of Hillsborough announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Ruth, to Joseph James Keim, son of Jim Keim and the late Karen Hargey. Ms. Levenberg, a 2002 graduate of Hillsborough High School, received her bachelor of science degree in fashion merchandising from the University of Delaware in 2006 and is…
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MANVILLE: Library Happenings column for week of June 21
Readers will explore the night this summer as the Manville Public Library presents “Dream Big — Read!” as its summer reading program. This free program will be held Mondays from 10:30-11:15 a.m. from Monday, June 25, through Aug. 13 for children going into kindergarten through eighth grade. For information, call the library at 908-722-9722. *…
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LAWRENCE: Man charged with exposing himself to girls
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer A 36-year-old Lawrence Township man has been charged with sexual assault, lewdness and endangering the welfare of children after he allegedly exposed himself to three girls as they walked their dog in the White Pine Apartments development June 15, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Giovanni Baulo, 36, who…
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