• HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Kascik replaces Simonelli as sergeant

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Kascik replaces Simonelli as sergeant

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Chris Kascik has been promoted from patrol officer to sergeant in the Hopewell Township police department.    With his mother Sandy Kascik holding the Bible, the new sergeant took the oath of office at Monday night’s Township Committee meeting.    Sgt. Kascik replaces recently retired Sgt. Michael Simonelli on the township force.…

  • MONTGOMERY: Schools receive high rankings

       MONTGOMERY — Township schools scored high marks on three separate rankings that compare administrative and teaching costs to the other schools in New Jersey and across the country.    The state recently released its annual report card where Montgomery was rated the lowest spending district in Somerset County. Montgomery spends $11,628 per pupil while the state…

  • Ken Weingartner

    By: centraljersey.com The road through District 17 can be difficult, but Hopewell Valley’s wrestlers won’t face any surprises. The Bulldogs have already seen all the major players. Hopewell Valley, which on Tuesday night capped a perfect dual-meet season in the Colonial Valley Conference, to go along with its Mercer County Tournament championship, will travel to…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: State grants benefit area towns

    By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    Allentown, Robbinsville, Millstone and Upper Freehold Township are among the area communities receiving grants in 2011 to fund local road and downtown improvement projects, state officials announced last week.    The Department of Transportation said Feb. 9 it had approved a total of $78.75 million in municipal aid grants for 370…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – GOP holds dinner dance

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – GOP holds dinner dance

    Staff photo by Mary Brienza Al and Angela Adinolfi take a spin on the dance floor during the GOP dinner dance Saturday.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: New Jersey Tea Party to host April forum in East Windsor

    By Doug Carman, The Packet Group    The day after federal income taxes are usually due, New Jersey’s Tea Party activists plan to make East Windsor Tea Party central when they host the Garden State’s first Tea Party convention on April 16.    Convention spokeswoman RoseAnn Salanitri said many of the details still were being ironed out,…

  • West Windsor dispute wastes taxpayer money

    Pete Weale, West Windsor Albert Einstein had it right when he said “There are only two truly infinite things: the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.”    (This letter is in response to the Feb. 15 article on the dispute between a West Windsor Council member and the mayor.)    Whatever happened to…

  • Andrew Corselli

    By: centraljersey.com There are signs that the economy is gaining a beat in Hillsborough. It may not be what it was a few years ago, but it certainly looks more upbeat than it has recently. "I think it’s getting somewhat better here in town," said Gene Strupinsky, the township’s business advocate. "We seem to be…

  • Clean up the air

    Andrea Glenn, Hopewell     In October, Nomad Pizza was ordered to install a scrubber that met a specific standard for the reduction of soot and particulate matter (90-95 percent, I believe).    Last Friday night, at an almost undisclosed meeting (no mention of it on the website as of Thursday morning, and no mention in the…

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