• HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Pennytown area redevelopment is April 19 topic

       Hopewell Township planning consultants will present conceptual visualizations of the redevelopment zoning for the Marshall’s Corner-Pennytown Redevelopment project to the Hopewell Township Planning Board on April 19.    The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Hopewell Valley Central High School, Pennington-Titusville Road.    The purpose of this meeting is to present…

  • CRANBURY: Calendar

    Fri., April 13    ”Bored” games: 12 p.m., Monroe Township Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza; children ages 8-12 invited to join others to play an assortment of board games together; bring games from home if you wish; registration required; call, visit youth services or go online to register. Sat., April 14    Women’s tea social: 3 to…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Crash closes road

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Crash closes road

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    Fresh Ponds Road had to be closed for more than four hours Tuesday following an accident where a truck knocked down a utility pole and overturned, police said.    Sgt. James Ryan said the unidentified driver of the truck was taken to Robert Wood University Hospital in New Brunswick where…

  • FLORENCE: Township approves $10.7M budget

    By Amber Cox, Special Writer    FLORENCE — Florence Township Council unanimously approved its $10.7 million 2012-13 municipal budget.    Residents will have a local tax rate of 43.9 cents per $100 of assessed value, which is a 3.5-cent increase from last year’s 40.4 cents per $100 rate.    Homeowners living in the average assessed home of $229,291…

  • NEW HOPE: Chamber reorganizes

    NEW HOPE: Chamber reorganizes

    Caleb Lentchner is the new president of the Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors.

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Cerf upholds PIACS loss

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    Acting state Department of Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf has upheld an administrative law judge’s decision to dismiss the case of the Princeton International Academy Charter School against three public districts.    In the April 2 decision, Mr. Cerf said that there “is no legal authority, which precludes” school districts from…

  • PRINCETON: New issue on Dinky proposed

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    In a 3-2 vote, the Borough Council on Tuesday night introduced an ordinance to establish a right of way for future transit options from where the Dinky tracks are located in the borough to Nassau Street, a move that was praised by some in the audience but drew strong criticism…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council:No municipal tax rate hikes this year

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    After months of meetings and scouring the proposed municipal budget for savings, the Township Council is poised to vote on a $48 million plan that will not increase the tax rate.    ”Every department had to work really hard to get this down to a zero increase,” Mayor Frank Gambatese…

  • WEST AMWELL: South students get playwriting lessons from professionals

    WEST AMWELL: South students get playwriting lessons from professionals

       WEST AMWELL — South Hunterdon Regional High School was chosen again this year —for the third time — for participation in the McCarter Theatre YouthInk playwriting program.    Only two other New Jersey schools were selected to participate in the Princeton-based program this year — West Windsor-Plainsboro South and Neptune High School.    The six-week residency, funded…

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