• PRINCETON: Council recalls contributions of late chief

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    A government in mourning met at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting for the first time since the untimely death of Princeton Borough Police Department Chief Anthony Federico.    The work of Chief Federico, who died of a heart attack June 28 while on vacation in Maine, dominated the beginning of the proceedings…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Township eyes clothing bin regulations

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — In order to comply with a new state statute, the Township Committee last week introduced an ordinance that requires any clothing bin placed within the township to be registered.    The legislation was enacted to control the legitimacy of clothing bins placed in municipalities statewide, Deputy Clerk…

  • MANVILLE: Police blotter

       At 12:35 a.m. July 6, a North Second Avenue resident reported losing a black wallet containing a driver’s license, two Bank of America credit cards, as well as a Blackberry Flip cell phone, after leaving the items on top of a vehicle on Brooks Boulevard.    A North Eighth Avenue resident contacted police after receiving an…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Last steel beam hoisted at hospital site

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Last steel beam hoisted at hospital site

    The 237-bed, $341 million hospital is being built off the eastern side of Scotch Road and is scheduled to open in 2011 By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    The last structural steel beam atop Capital Health System’s new hospital in Hopewell Township was put in place during a “topping out” ceremony at the hospital site Friday…

  • Currie gets answer

    Derek Roseman, Lambertville Board of Education     While Bruce Currie points out the shortcomings of privately purchased and installed solar energy systems, he is incorrect to project those assumptions to the work of the South Hunterdon Renewable Energy Cooperative (Letters, July 9).    The aim of the South Hunterdon Renewable Energy Cooperative has always been to…

  • WEST AMWELL POLICE BLOTTER

       West Amwell police reported:    — On July 1 at 3 p.m., police investigated a motor vehicle hit-and-run crash on Rock Road West just east of Route 518.    Rosemarie Zarlengo, 77, of West Amwell, was traveling west when a southbound red pickup truck with a piece of pipe hanging from the side struck the mirror of…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Town faces fire budget deficit

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — The Fire Department, taken over by the township in 2006 to save taxpayer money, has overspent its pending 2009 budget by nearly $120,000, according to the man who Mayor and Public Safety Director Dave Fried just hired as business administrator.    Mayor Fried said he and new Business…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Titus Mill Road section gets 25-mph speed limit

    Measure involves segment of Titus Mill running west from its intersection with Pennington-Rocky Hill Road to a point 500 feet west of its intersection with Wargo Road, a total distance of By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    In response to steadily increasing pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the road, the Hopewell Township Committee voted unanimously Monday…

  • CRANBURY: They got the beat

    CRANBURY: They got the beat

    Photo by Philk McAuliffe. Kyle Currier, 12, of Cranbury works his soccer playing “tankbot” in robotics class.

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