• MANVILLE: New law gives potential source for flood buyouts

    Manville would have to rely on county open space trust fund By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Homeowners of flood-prone properties may have a slightly easier path to having their municipalities buy their homes.    Municipal officials are weighing the state Legislature’s unanimous passage of a bill that allows local and county open space funds to finance…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Town moves its May elections to November

    Terms of mayor, two council members are extended to Dec. 31, 2013 By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — It’s official.    After more than a year of discussion and a public referendum meant to gauge voter sentiment, the Township Council has adopted an ordinance that changes the date of nonpartisan municipal elections from the first…

  • LAWRENCE: Council changes meetings start time

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township Council will begin its meetings at 6:30 p.m., beginning with the Feb. 1 meeting — 30 minutes earlier than its present starting time of 7 p.m.    For many years, Township Council — which meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month at the Municipal Building — started…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Celebrating a life, releasing the grief

    Spc. Benjamin Moore remembered by friends and family By Amber Cox, Special Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A year ago on Jan. 12 an improvised bomb took the life of 23-year-old Benjamin Moore in Afghanistan.    On the first anniversary of that loss, a community of more than 250 friends, family and colleagues celebrated his life and…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: It’s a bittersweet start to retirement for Joe Malone

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    BORDENTOWN CITY — It wasn’t supposed to end like this.    For Assemblymen Joseph Malone, R-30th, it was a hectic last day in an 18-year career in the state Legislature. The Bordentown City resident did not run for re-election and was looking forward to semi-retirement.    He had put in a grueling…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Firefighers, Teamsters get raises in new contract

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVIlLE — The Township Council has approved a new four-year contract with Local 3786 representing the town’s career firefighters that provides 2 percent annual raises each year for the next three years, followed by a 3 percent salary increase in 2015.    The memorandum of agreement with Local 3786 approved at…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: BOE mulls options for expanding two schools

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The school district’s architect told the Board of Education last week that adding a total 29 classrooms to the elementary and middle schools, and expanding both cafeterias, could be done for roughly half of the projected $35.1 million cost of building a new 38-classroom school building.    Voters rejected…

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  • CHRIS BEARD OF PENNINGTON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    CHRIS BEARD OF PENNINGTON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    By Henry Chai Chris Beard, a Princeton University sophomore and the son of Patty and Dave Beard, has been selected as a Cast Member for the 2012 national tour of Princeton’s famed ‘Triangle Show’ musical-comedy troupe. The company will be bringing its’s newest original musical, “Doomsdays of Our Lives” to the Equitable Auditorium in New…

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