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Fire districts can amend annual budget
Gov. Chris Christie has signed into law legislation sponsored by state Assemblyman Ronald Dancer (R-Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean) that will permit a fire district to use additional revenue received after the adoption of its annual budget to purchase needed fire protection items. The measure also makes the protocol for the insertion of a new appropriation…
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AHS students team up to be kind Valentines
Teens distribute handmade treats to seniors, locals BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Allentown High School students (l-r) Tom Bryan, Cara Spiegeland, Keon Allen (rear), Ismael Lemus and Andrea Glenn visit with a senior from the Cathedral Square Senior Housing community in Trenton as part of Random Acts of Kindness Week. PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI RUSSO…
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This virus an equal opportunity intruder
ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH I hate it when the family is sick. Yet after many years of parenting, I’ve learned that we’re destined to no fewer than two bouts with the flu per season. Never mind that we’ve had flu shots, bulked up on vitamins and doused the house with holy water. Readers…
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Tubing during a snowless winter
DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS LIZZ DINNIGAN Give me a tube and a snow mountain, and I turn into a child. If you’ve never tried it, snow tubing has the same sensation as sledding, except it’s bumpier and you don’t have to hoof it back up the hill. A slow-moving, flat conveyor belt, typically called the “Magic Carpet…
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Adoptee rejects ‘half steps’
Now the gay community gets to see the “Christ” in Christie, gay rights activists and adoptee rights activists are on parallel courses: both are fighting for a certificate — one for marriage and one that documents their true birth. Both view their cause as a basic civil right and both have the same opposition, Chris…
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Unhealthy diet has serious consequences
Did the Las Vegas Heart Attack Grill patron who suffered an apparent heart attack while consuming a 6,000- calorie Triple Bypass Burger actually eat himself into the hospital? According to an informal experiment conducted by ABC News, the effects of an unhealthy meal are felt almost immediately. ABC staffers Yunji de Nies and Jon Garcia…
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Property tax relief No. 1 priority for taxpayers
Recently, Gov. Chris Christie said that we should be careful about increasing the homestead credit because “it is other people’s money.” He also went on to note that the average property tax rate increase in 2011 was 1.8 percent if the homestead credit that the governor supports is included in calculations (as opposed to 2.4…
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Resident: BOE’s resolution is ‘power run amok’
Last week at the Millstone TownshipBoard ofEducation meeting, a coordinated manipulative transgression was committed against our given rights to vote . heT district arbitrarily adopted resolution P.L.2011 c 202 with which seven out of nine elected officials took it upon themselves, hiding behind the excuse of time constraints imposed by Trenton, to trample over one…
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