• HILLSBOROUGH: Bypass funding remains in authority’s budget

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    In its recently released proposed plan for fiscal year 2010, the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority set aside more than $19 million to begin work on one stretch of road for the much-anticipated, and prolonged, Route 206 bypass that runs through Hillsborough.    According to David Behrend, public affairs manager for…

  • HILLSBOROUGH:Right Touch completes township median landscaping program

    HILLSBOROUGH:Right Touch completes township median landscaping program

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    When Hillsborough’s Right Touch Landscapes, Inc., joined the township’s program for landscaping roadway medians, the company made plans to create an Earth Day event all its own.    According to Right Touch Landscapes owner Joe LaJeunesse, he decided to adopt a Hillsborough median to landscape in an effort to give back…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Sewer connection fees questioned

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Despite praise over the Township Committee’s plans to seek 0 percent financing through the Environmental Infrastructure Trust (EIT) to pay for work to be done during the building of sewers in the Claremont community, one resident questioned if anything can be done about high connection costs.    Tom O’Donnell, of Anne…

  • Green Market moment

    Green Market moment

    Phil McAuliffe Bob Hughes (left),a beekeeper from Yardville, and Pricilla Lehman-Borer.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: HHS ensemble performs in prestigious festival

       The Hillsborough High School Wind Ensemble was invited to participate in the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis in March, one of 15 bands in the country to be invited.    The festival is considered one of the most prestigious festivals in high school music, and the HHS Wind Ensemble is only the…

  • REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: From the Pole Farm to the Chop Shop

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    On the pole farm, now known as Mercer County Park Northwest, all the little streams were running fast and high. There’s been a lot of rain, of course.    It was about two weeks ago, and it was a pretty typical walk in the park in that the only person I…

  • Princeton University and borough taxes

    Anne Waldron Neumann of Princeton     Princeton University Vice President Robert Durkee wrote recently “that Borough taxpayers benefit financially from the University’s presence,” and that “This finding is consistent with the fact” that “Princeton Borough taxpayers pay the lowest tax rate of any community in Mercer County.”    Does “lowest tax rate” mean less in total…

  • Community calendar

       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…

  • Charlie Morgan responds on WW quorum dispute

    Charlie Morgan of West Windsor Township Council     Two of Ms. Heidie Kleinman’s statements in Tuesday’s Princeton Packet article about the budget meeting quorum issue simply are not true. The article quotes her as saying that she “repeatedly” asked me “over two weeks to change the meeting time because she could not make it.” The…

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