• WEST WINDSOR: Mediation scheduled for COAH complaints

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Mediation has been scheduled for later this month on two objections filed with the Council on Affordable Housing against the township’s fair share housing plan.    The objections, filed by Intercap Holdings and the Fair Share Housing Center, were reviewed and accepted by COAH earlier this year. Mediation…

  • LAWRENCE: Prospective volunteer hopes to head to Morocco with Peace Corps
  • Holt comments on Hansen letter

    Rush Holt, U.S. congressman, Hopewell Township     In his letter criticizing my vote for the American Energy and Security Act, Ken Hansen asks why I supported the bill. Mr. Hansen claims that I voted for the bill, not knowing what was in it, because of pressure from President Barack Obama and because of a chocolate-covered…

  • ALLENTOWN: Historic house receives some top-side TLC

    by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — This old house recently was given a little TLC.    Stephanie Smith’s late-1700s historic house on South Main Street became in need of a new roof, “especially with all the rain we had in June. The cedar roof was like a sponge,” she said.    Ms. Smith purchased the…

  • LAWRENCE: Amish family celebrates year of vending at Farmers Market

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Christopher Stoltzfus grew up in his family’s meat market business, so it seemed logical that when he planned to marry last year, he would look for a meat market business of his own.     When Mr. Stoltzfus learned that Cartlidge’s Meats — located at the Trenton Farmers Market on…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: East Windsor, Hightstown get no COPS cash

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    There will not be any new officers coming to either the East Windsor or Hightstown police departments through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Recovery Program.    Both towns had applied to participate in the program, but when the grant awards were announced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s officer earlier…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Fostering a love of reading

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    With about a month of summer vacation left before another long school year begins, for most kids getting some reading done is an arduous task that sometimes takes parental coercion.    However, for nearly 15 years, one Kendall Park resident has kept a summer reading program going strong for area students.…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Yeshiva’s lawsuit dismissed again

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer     ROOSEVELT — The lawsuit filed by the Jewish synagogue and religious school on Homestead Road that challenged the borough’s land-use laws was rejected for the second time last week.     The dismissal, handed down July 22 by judges on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed an early dismissal…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A Night Out with neighbors and the police (w/video)

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