• Local budgeting awaits state aid figures

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer The state’s lack of direction is holding up the New Hanover budget, according to Mayor Dennis Roohr. He said the township won’t begin addressing the issue until the time “when we find out what we’re going to have to work with from the state.” Mayor Roohr said he anticipates the…

  • Resident ‘blinded by the lights’

    Ted Franckowiak, Bordentown Township While reading your article ‘Bleak’ the words ‘Township Committee wants to help spur economic development’ caused me worry. On Nov. 11, 2008, I addressed a letter to the mayor of Bordentown (Township) asking for a documented test for the lighting at Shoppes of the Glen to verify it meets the lighting…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION: March 8, 7:30 p.m., agenda and budget discussion; immediately following, board retreat, Toll Gate Grammar School cafetorium.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE: March 8, 7 p.m., regular; March 9, 6:30 p.m., budget review, Municipal Building.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP BOARD OF HEALTH: March 8, 6:30…

  • CRANBURY: Township buildings getting greener

    Grant helping make facilities more efficient By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The township is replacing windows at the Department of Public Works facility, seeking to make the building more energy efficient.    The approximately $8,600 project covers the cost of six new windows and is being paid for with a $100,000 sustainable economic growth…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Officials honor chorus as it fetes its 50th

    Hopewell Borough and Pennington issue proclamations By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Formed by three Hopewell Borough residents in 1959, the Hopewell Valley Chorus gave its first concert in 1960 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a May 23 concert.    With longtime chorus members and Pennington residents Tom and Kate O’Neill on hand at Monday…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police blotter

       First Student Bus Co. on Millstone River Road reported someone spray-painted four buses and a building sometime between 10 p.m. Feb. 21 and 6 a.m. Feb. 26. The police report noted the paint had been removed with no permanent damage.    Ronald Pozgay Jr., 40, of Somerville, was charged with drunken driving and careless driving at…

  • SENIOR MENUS

    March 4-11    All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance.    The value of each meal is $5.10. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution.    All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same…

  • MANVILLE: Fans flock to Dr. Seuss fete

    MANVILLE: Fans flock to Dr. Seuss fete

    Weston School third-grader Shelby Slater reads during the Feb. 24 Dr. Seuss event at the library. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • MANVILLE: Fans flock to Dr. Seuss fete

    MANVILLE: Fans flock to Dr. Seuss fete

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    More than 190 local fans of Dr. Seuss showed up for the Manville Public Library’s Feb. 24 birthday party in his honor.    The birthday celebration in the community room at the library was organized by Children’s Librarian Ruth Bielanski and Jennifer Dietrich, of the library’s board of trustees. Weston…

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