• ROBBINSVILLE: Physician eyes improved prognosis for island

    Spinal surgery for teen first step By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Most people who go on island vacations escape to forget their everyday lives. But, for Dr. John Tedeschi and his wife, Sheree, visiting the Caribbean island of St. Lucia earlier this month proved to be more of a humanitarian trip than…

  • SPRINGFIELD TOPICS: From the Aug. 27 edition

    Jen Kokotajlo Jen Kokotajlo     Tel: 410-7338     [email protected]    Deadline for submitting items for this article will now be Sunday evening. Anything submitted after may not be included in the following edition. Any questions please contact me, [email protected]. Thank you for your understanding. * * *    Attention all parents. The first day of school for…

  • Press gets it wrong on consolidation

        Oxford Economics Professor Thiess Buettner proved in his paper, “Determinants of Tax Rates in Local Capital Income Taxation: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Germany” that municipal consolidation is a driver of higher property taxes connecting the rise in property tax rates with the increase in population.    However, the last two editions of The…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Township seeks large turnout for drill

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    All the township is hoping for is a large turnout for its first “point of distribution drill” Thursday, designed to test Hillsborough’s plans for potential future emergencies.    ”The biggest thing is we need people to show up,” said Committeeman Anthony Ferrera, who arranged the drill with Office of Emergency Management…

  • Celebrating 50 Years of SU Football from Ernie Davis to Coach Marrone

    By: Pam Mulligan, President of the Central New Jersey Syracuse University Alumni Club Contact: Pam Mulligan – 908-472-0185 [email protected] August 25, 2009 For Immediate Release, Princeton, NJ Celebrating 50 Years of SU Football From Ernie Davis to Coach Doug Marroneabout the famed Syracuse running back who trampled racial barriers and in 1961 became the first…

  • CRANBURY: PNC says ‘no’ to township on discount for building purchase

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Discussions over converting the PNC bank building into a library-community center have come to a standstill after representatives of the bank informed local officials that they were not prepared to donate the building or come down on the price.    ”When we went to set up this phone call,…

  • Corzine plan for mortgages needs study

       Gov. Jon Corzine’s detractors (and there seem to be a great many these days) are having a field day bashing New Jersey’s chief executive on any number of fronts.    After drowning his ambitious financial restructuring plan in a torrent of outrage last summer, they jumped all over the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s more recent, scaled-down…

  • PLUMSTED: Packing the Sack for needy students

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    PLUMSTED — Donating school supplies for students in need is not a new effort here.    The New Egypt MOMS Club has held a supply drive for the past five years, known as Pack the Sack.    This year, the club’s realized goal was to fill backpacks for 42 students of…

  • CRANBURY-test-article: PNC says ‘no’ to township on discount for building purchase

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — Discussions over converting the PNC bank building into a library-community center have come to a standstill after representatives of the bank informed local officials that they were not prepared to donate the building or come down on the price.    ”When we went to set up this phone call,…

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