• PEI KIDS HOSTING 18th ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION AND DINNER

    Nicole Cody (Lawrenceville, NJ) — PEI Kids, a Lawrenceville non-profit organization that serves thousands of children each year throughout Mercer County, is hosting its 18th Annual Silent Auction and Dinner on Sunday, March 29 at The National Guard Armory in Lawrenceville. Proceeds from ticket sales and auction items will directly benefit PEI Kids’ array of…

  • WEST AMWELL: Bus group won’t take raise in pay

    Drivers made the decision on their own, according to Kerry Sevilis, business administrator By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — Bus drivers who serve South Hunterdon Regional High School will give up their raise in the 2009-10 school year to save the district some money in these difficult financial times.    The Board of Education…

  • MILLSTONE: Schools seek 11-cent tax rate hike

    by Lisa Rich, Special Writer    MILLSTONE — The township Board of Education has approved a tentative budget that carries an 11-cent increase in the school tax rate and cuts nine staff positions.    That hike, previously estimated at about 9 cents per $100 of assessed property value, rose in part because the district administration cut some…

  • LAWRENCE: Council approves new EMT union contract

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Township Council gave its approval to a four-year contract with the township’s emergency medical technicians at its March 17 meeting.     The contract with Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association Local 396, which represents the EMTs, is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2006, Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun said. It expires at the…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter for the March 26 issue

    Three parked cars were broken into outside their owners’ houses on Puritan Avenue between 9 a.m. March 18 and 11 a.m. March 22, according to police.     Someone broke the driver’s side rear window on two cars — a 1996 Nissan Altima and a 1994 BMW 525 sedan — and entered a 2000 Ford Mustang…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Worshippers seek home of their own

    by Peter Geier, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Iglesia Pentecostal Rios de Agua Viva, or the Living Water Pentecostal Church, has applied to the Zoning Board seeking approval to build a 11,673-square-foot church on North Main Street in Windsor.    Julio Sanchez, 55, the church pastor, said he started the church in Windsor a year after he…

  • Fire company bill ‘totally absurd’

    Wayne Smith, of Allentown    I was astonished to read the recent local media news articles regarding Allentown Borough officials’ plans to bill the Hope Fire Company for sewer and water use. With one hand, we budget funds for the fire company; with the other, we propose taking some of these funds away – totally absurd.…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Burglars target unlocked vehicles

    by Maria Prato-Gaines, The Packet Group    UPPER FREEHOLD — The township has seen a rash of car burglaries in the past month, leaving residents and police on the lookout for any suspicious behavior.    Residents have reported 10 car burglaries to police between mid-February and mid-March, according to New Jersey State Police Troop C spokesman Detective…

  • FLORENCE: Police Beat, from the March 26 edition

    FLORENCE    Two men were charged March 19 after police said they received reports of a man looking into parked vehicles on Creekwood Drive.    Police first questioned Jason Gufrovich, 30, of Yardville, who was seen in the area, and police said he was not able to account for his presence there. Police said he was carrying…

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