• HIGHTSTOWN: Borough won’t budge on taxi insurance threshold

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN —The Borough Council did not budge this week on lowering the $100,000 taxi insurance requirement it had not been enforcing for nearly five years.    That’s despite four cab companies claiming the regulation, higher than the $35,000 state minimum, would force them out of town.    Manuel Mendita, of East Windsor-based…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Shoebox’ needs help packing donations for overseas troops

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Operation Shoebox is still looking for donations and volunteers for Saturday’s fifth annual Christmas packing at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Washington Avenue. The packages prepared at the event will be sent overseas for serviceman and women in Iraq and Afghanistan for the holiday season.    ”The response leading…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Flu shots expected

    H1N1 vaccine due in early December By Davy James, Staff Writer    The long-awaited H1N1 vaccine looks like it finally will arrive in South Brunswick around Dec. 1, according to the township Health Department.    About 6,000 units of the vaccine are expected with a planned electronic registration to avoid chaos for the distribution of the vaccine.…

  • Facts and logic, not fear and anger

    David Sandahl, Hopewell Township     Fear and anger distort public debates. In a fast forward, interconnected world, it is all too easy to enflame public anxieties, making rational decisions much more difficult.    From the beginning of the recent Jacobs Creek Bridge controversy, John Hansbury suggested that Mercer County somehow illicitly or inappropriately “suppressed” a detailed…

  • MANVILLE: Company sues borough over tower rejection

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against the borough, challenging the Board of Adjustment’s denial in August to allow for the building of a cell tower on property owned by Manville Rubber, on Kennedy Boulevard.    Omnipoint Communications’ application to build the cell tower was denied by the Board of Adjustment in…

  • BRHS, NBC football win consolation games

    By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     The Bordentown High School football team defeated Roselle Park, 28-0, in a state playoff consolation game this past Saturday at home.     “It’s good for the kids,” Bordentown Coach Stephen Perry said. “One of the co- captains said this was the first shutout, the first home victory and the…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Depression in older adults can be treated effectively
  • PRINCETON: Loose Ends: Whereas, I’ve had it with pompous talk …

    PRINCETON: Loose Ends: Whereas, I’ve had it with pompous talk …

    Ever wonder who Robert was? Meet Henry Martyn Robert, Brigadier General, United States Army (1837-1923), who compiled his famous Rules of Order in 1876 after a meeting at his church didn’t go so well. No kidding.

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Ex-volunteers, others Rise up against service agency management

    Threats include competing store, going after funding By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Festering complaints from volunteers and community leaders regarding Rise now include accusations of nepotism and threats to attempt to cut off the service organization’s funding sources and open a competing thrift store.    For nearly two months, people who were formerly associated…

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