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PENNINGTON: Officials oppose Corzine’s EMT plan
Governor proposes to transfer $4,000,000 from the state’s Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund to the general state treasury By John Tredrea, Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to decimate the state’s Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund by transferring $4,000,000 from that fund to the general state treasury has been unanimously opposed in writing by Pennington…
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JAMESBURG: Teen hit by drunken driver
By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer JAMESBURG — A 17-year-old Jamesburg resident was reported to be in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital after a collision with an alleged drunk driver on Buckelew Avenue April 30. Karlee N. Zelasko was driving a 1993 Saturn at around 5:48 p.m., and as she pulled out of…
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Central Jersey Events: May 8-15
STAGE Actors’ NET of Bucks County, The Heritage Center, 635 N. Delmorr Ave., Morrisville, Pa., Mass Appeal, through May 3
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CRANBURY: Green thumbs
Staff photo by John Keating. Pat Scott, Bill Schraudenbach, Christine Quinn and Pari Stave shovel dirt onto a river birch.
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HIGHTSTOWN: Memorial Park, public comment eyed in borough
By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer HIGHTSTOWN The Borough Council is moving forward with planned improvements to the parking lot at Memorial Park. On Monday, the council introduced a $154,000 bond ordinance to supplement a $350,000 grant from Mercer County for the estimated $425,000 project. The borough is bonding about twice what it actually needs…
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Governor’s plan shortchanges EMT funds
Peter Biondi and Denise Coyle The Corzine Administration will flood eight urban municipalities with long histories of fiscal mismanagement and wasteful spending practices with $145 million in Special Municipal Aid this year while it plans to siphon $4 million from the state’s EMT Training Fund to plug another budget deficit. The governor’s move…
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Community calendar for May 7
Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542. All items should be typed and must be mailed, faxed (609-924-3842) or e-mailed to: [email protected] before…
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HILLSBOROUGH: New federal program to fund farm purchase
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer The township will use funding available through a new federal program to purchase the development rights of the 162-acre Van Nuys farm near Hillsborough Road. The Township Committee unanimously approved a resolution April 28 to apply for a $1 million Federal Farm and Ranchland Protection Program grant for township’s purchase…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: EWRSD ex-special ed consultant defrauded district
TRENTON A woman employed as a learning disabilities teacher consultant by the East Windsor Regional School District in 2008 was sentenced Thursday to six months in county prison for using forged and fraudulent documents to obtain her position, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. said. Morgan E. Lang, 26, of Carteret,…
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