• SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council eyes better way to build roads

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor The Township Council is looking at a different way to build roads in the community that could save it half the cost. "It is half the cost and lasts four times as long," Ken Justice of the Portland Cement Group trade association said during Tuesday night’s council meeting. The…

  • JCP&L in Titusville

    Gail Silver Titusville     In Titusville, yet again, we lost power with the Saturday storm. In the summer we had an outage on a sunny day. We had low power during the summer and with the last storm we were out of power again for days.    The outages are always blamed on the weather, but…

  • Power outages top list of storm woes

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Saturday’s fall nor’easter dumped 4 to 6 inches of snow on Lambertville and, backed by winds, brought down trees and branches onto power lines, causing a loss of power to significant portions of the city, Lambertville’s emergency coordinator, David Burd, said Monday.    The same was true of many areas in…

  • St. Nicholas’ Wanted For A Great Cause

    St. Nicholas’ Wanted For A Great Cause

    Michelle Trudeau and Patti Preston of YWCA’s Early Childhood Education Program and its Bilingual Nursery School help Jill Jachera, founder of the St. Nicholas Project, prepare bundles of gifts for distribution.

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    Debate

    Staff photos by Charles W. Kim

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Voting times and polling locations announced

    Township voters in 30 districts will go to the polls Tuesday. Polls in each of the districts will be open Nov. 8 from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., according to the Township Clerk’s Office. Districts 11 and 12 will vote at Brunswick Acres Elementary School, 41 Kory Drive in Kendall Park. Districts 5,6,8,9 and 16…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: First snow brings widespread power outages

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: First snow brings widespread power outages

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    On Saturday, while many were out doing errands, taking days trips or shopping, a fall nor’easter moved into the area. By the time it ended, what looked pretty at first became a nightmare for many.    Here’s the story, as told Monday by Hopewell Township police Lt. Lance Maloney.    ”There were…

  • CRANBURY: Cranbury dam options discussed

    David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — Recent discussion on the Brainerd Lake dam project revealed three options, none of which could hold back a storm like Hurricane Irene.    The township can fix the dam for a few million dollars, build a dam to resist a 25-year storm for $5 million or build a dam with…

  • Vote Moore, Trelstad and Howard

    Mary and John Heilner, Princeton We are writing to support the three Democratic candidates for borough positions – not because they are Democrats, but because they have by far the most relevant professional and life experience for these jobs.    Yina Moore, running for mayor, has been on the Planning Board for 11 years, and the…

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