Tag: Bordentown City Board of Commissioners
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Downtown Bordentown Association hopes for another successful Restaurant Weekend
Another Restaurant Weekend is on tap early next month to help support the small businesses and restaurants that fill the one square mile district of Bordentown City. The fourth installment of the two-day event will take place on October 2-3 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The previous three Restaurant Weekend festivities have brought great…
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Restaurants prepare for indoor dining
Labor Day weekend will bring some additional options for the restaurants in Bordentown City to offer to residents in the community. Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Aug. 31 that restaurants can offer indoor dining to patrons at 25% capacity starting Sept. 4. The news is hopefully the start to a safe introduction to indoor dining,…
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31st Bordentown Cranberry Festival postponed until 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed back a fall tradition for the Bordentown community to next year. Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch and the Downtown Bordentown Association (DBA) decided last week that the right decision was to postpone this year’s Bordentown Cranberry Festival until 2021. “We feel it was the right thing to do and I…
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Bordentown City to hold special restaurant weekend
Restaurants and small businesses up and down Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown City have had to battle through the tough times of the current coronavirus pandemic. Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch sees the hardships his small business owners and their employees are going through and is continuing with help from the Downtown Bordentown Association (DBA) to…
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Bordentown City restaurants excited with the start of outdoor dining
BORDENTOWN – Stage 2 of Gov. Phil Murphy’s reopening plan for the state of New Jersey kicked off on June 15 with the start of restaurants being able to serve customers through outdoor dining. A total of 10 restaurants and shops in Bordentown City were ready to provide outdoor dining to their loyal customers after…
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Bordentown City announces small businesses that qualify for grant program
The culmination of the Bordentown City Small Business Grant came into effect on May 11 at the city’s Commission Meeting. Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch announced that 43 small businesses in the community would qualify for the grant to help them during the coronavirus pandemic. “Everything went very well,” the mayor said. “We were able…
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Bordentown City launches grant program for small businesses
Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch and city commissioners announced on March 23 that they were exploring measures to implement a grant program to fund small businesses in the city as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. That plan has since come to fruition in the form of the Bordentown City Small Business Grant. On April…
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Bordentown City mayor finds new measures to help local businesses during coronavirus pandemic
BORDENTOWN CITY – The coronavirus pandemic has affected many small businesses across the state of New Jersey, forcing most retail shops to shut down. Bordentown City Mayor James Lynch said he understands the ultimate risk that his city’s small retail businesses are taking by shutting down for the time being and has come up with…
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Bordentown City officials to enact additional testing for reported lead exceedances in homes
The Bordentown City Board of Commissioners announced at their November meeting that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is calling on the municipality to enact additional testing for lead in the water of homes. At a Nov. 11 board meeting, Bordentown City Commissioner Joe Myers said that the municipality was recently required by DEP to…