• HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Budget awaits June 28 OK

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Not a single comment or question was voiced during Monday night’s public hearing on Hopewell Township’s proposed 2010 budget.    But, according to clerk’s office, the public hearing is expected to continue when officials meet June 28 — the next regularly scheduled Township Committee meeting — to adopt the budget, as…

  • MILLSTONE: Young siblings removed from ‘deplorable’ home

    By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    MILLSTONE — A 6-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister are in foster care after they were found living in a home with a dead rodent on their bedroom floor, 15 to 20 bags of garbage piled in the kitchen and hundreds of flies, gnats and mosquitoes, according to state police.…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Scouts working to help students and veterans

    By Chelsea Radler, Staff Writer    Less than 5 percent of the country’s 838,000 Boy Scouts will become Eagle Scouts, but that daunting statistic did not deter Tommy Grant or Jake Zamorski of Troop 90 in Kendall Park.    This year both boys launched Eagle projects, leadership initiatives that pose the biggest challenge to gaining Scouting’s highest…

  • CRANBURY: Teachers made their impact on eighth-graders

    By Maria Prato, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Eighth-grade students who have walked down Cranbury School’s halls leave prepared for the high school years ahead, with friendships that will endure a lifetime and, most importantly, with the memory of a teacher who has touched their hearts and expanded their minds.    This year’s graduating class is no…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: HHS’ Liang surveys (and wins) math contest

    HILLSBOROUGH: HHS’ Liang surveys (and wins) math contest

    Bufang Liang (center) is congratulated by Hal Noon (left), of Carroll Engineering Corporation, and Patrick Fatton, president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors, after his vicotry in the state TrigStar competition. Photo by Faith Wight

  • Nomad’s smoke

    Andrea Glenn, Hopewell Borough     I was quoted last week in an article concerning the smoke from Nomad Pizza. The owner stated that only “a little bit of smoke” came from his business. People from as far away as Hart Avenue (three-tenths of a mile from Nomad) also complained that they could smell the smoke…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Janssen solar facility may be biggest in state

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    An array of more than 13,500 energy-catching solar panels that Janssen Pharmaceutica is installing at its Hopewell Township campus is expected to be the biggest solar facility in New Jersey to date and the largest at any Johnson & Johnson site in the world, according to Janssen spokeswoman Tricia Geohegan.…

  • CRANBURY: Watershed has facts wrong on Brick Yard project

    Matt Stanton, Viridian    It’s unfortunate that Jim Walton, Executive Director, Stony-Brook Millstone Watershed Association has taken the position it has on the proposed warehouse development in Cranbury Township. While Viridian Partners has been actively involved in the project since 2006, and has been focused on transforming this site into a model Brownfield redevelopment project, Mr.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Patching helps fill budget gaps

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer School board finds savings to meet reduction    The school district will resort to patching leaky roofs, instead of completely repairing them due to funding cuts for capital projects caused by the additional $1.5 million budget reduction.    ”The patching is done as part of our normal maintenance,” said Superintendent of Schools…

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