• Raising a child with autism

    Intervention, community and school resources prove key to child’s development BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Sometimes children are delayed in their developmental milestones, and pediatricians tell parents not to worry because they will eventually catch up. While that may be true for many children, one in 60 boys and one in 250 girls living in…

  • Get counted, census forms at post office

    Enumerators will start visiting those who didn’t take survey on May 1 BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The census forms may have gotten to Roosevelt later than any other New Jersey town, but they’re finally there. Roosevelt residents, who were not mailed census forms because the U.S. Census Bureau would not send them to post…

  • Voters support Roosevelt Public School budget

    Average homeowner can expect to pay $4,350 to support spending plan BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Voters in the Roosevelt school election overwhelmingly supported the $1.4 million tax levy to support the 2010-11 school budget. While only 168 voters took to the polls April 20, twice as many cast ballots for the $2.5 million spending…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Grant will help fund rail station

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The township has nabbed a $250,000 federal grant for a light rail station in the planned Bordentown Waterfront Community.    The grant was announced Friday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, who was joined by Mayor Bruce Hill.    ”This is the type of investment that will help rebuild…

  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: From the April 22 edition

    The Chesterfield Township Committee meeting will be held 7:30 p.m., tonight, at the Chesterfield Township Municipal Building. For more information call 298-2311 or visit the township Web site www.chesterfieldtwp.com.     The Chesterfield Township Elementary School PTA will sponsor a Vera Bradley Bingo co-sponsored by Necessities for the Heart will be held 7 p.m., Friday, April…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Voters approve LPS, West Amwell budgets; South Hunterdon, Stockton plans are rejected

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    Local school budgets had only two winners out of four Tuesday as voters struggle with difficult financial circumstances of their own in the recession.    Voters approved a $3.18 million budget for the Lambertville Public School, 497-403, and a $4.5 million budget for West Amwell Elementary School, 345-343.     South Hunterdon Regional High School’s…

  • Hopewell Valley school budget soundly defeated

    Wulf, Keen Desai elected to township seats John Tredrea    Hopewell Valley’s school budget was defeated by a 258-vote margin Tuesday. With nearly 25 percent of the district’s registered voters going to the polls, the $63,360,557 spending plan received 2,132 No votes to 1,874 Yes votes.    Re-elected to the school board were Hopewell Township’s James Wulf…

  • The ‘Tones and Me

    By Marcus Budline, PHS Correspondent Though the syllables coming from the group of ten huddled men may sound like a mysterious incantation to those outside the room, the “dooms,” “dahs,” “oohs,” and “ahhs,” are much more to me and the other members of Princeton High School’s all male a capella group, the Testostertones. These sounds…

  • LAWRENCE: Voters OK $65M budget

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Despite a sour economy, township voters approved the Lawrence Township School District’s proposed $65.01 million operating budget for 2010-11 by a margin of 479 votes Tuesday night.     The vote was 1,848-1,369. The overall voter turnout of 3,217 was approximately 16 percent of the township’s 19,450 registered voters. Voter…

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