Tag: Hopewell Borough

  • Mercer County to open a vaccination site at Mercer County Community College

    Mercer County to open a vaccination site at Mercer County Community College

    Mercer County seeks to open a COVID-19 vaccination site at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in February. In mid-February the county plans to open the vaccination site for the public. According to Mercer County spokesman Michael Boonin, the college is holding a closed clinic this week to vaccinate its health care staff and nursing students,…

  • School district recognizes HVCHS students for their arts achievements

    School district recognizes HVCHS students for their arts achievements

    Hopewell Valley Central High School (HVCHS) students in the performing and visual arts have earned winning and finalist achievements as thespians, musicians and artists. The Hopewell Valley Regional School District announced the high schoolers’ achievements on Jan. 25. To begin, HVCHS students of the Thespian troupe 7964 competed in the virtual New Jersey Thespians Virtual…

  • Hopewell Borough’s master plan re-examination will afford public the chance to comment

    Hopewell Borough’s master plan re-examination will afford public the chance to comment

    Focused on future redevelopment of the borough, the Hopewell Borough Planning Board is holding the first in a series of master plan re-examination meetings next week. The first session scheduled for Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. is part of a planning board effort to engage the public for input on planning and development within the…

  • Hopewell Township police: White motorists accounted for 80% of traffic stops in 2020, police rarely use force

    Hopewell Township police: White motorists accounted for 80% of traffic stops in 2020, police rarely use force

    Hopewell Township Police Director Robert Karmazin recently presented a snapshot of 2020 data regarding traffic stops and use of force. The police department serves not only the Hopewell Township community, but also Hopewell Borough through a shared services agreement. The presentation was the first part of a two-part presentation, which spotlighted police department statistics, programs…

  • No delays in return to in-person learning for HVRSD

    No delays in return to in-person learning for HVRSD

    The Hopewell Valley Regional School District returns as planned to hybrid learning following a switch to full-remote instruction coming off of winter break. There will be no delays to in-person instruction and on Jan. 19 the hybrid model resumes once again throughout the district. There are six schools within the district – Hopewell Valley Central…

  • Change at water treatment plants will affect customers in Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset counties

    Change at water treatment plants will affect customers in Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset counties

    As part of an annual maintenance program for its water distribution system, New Jersey American Water will temporarily change the water treatment process from a chloramine (combined) residual to free chlorine residual at the company’s Raritan-Millstone and Canal Road water treatment plants. These surface water treatment plants serve New Jersey American Water customers in Essex,…

  • Pennington and Hopewell Borough councils re-elect council presidents

    Pennington and Hopewell Borough councils re-elect council presidents

    Council members in Pennington Borough and Hopewell Borough have re-elected each of their council presidents from 2020. During reorganization meetings on Jan. 4, Catherine Chandler was elected council president for the Pennington Borough Council and Charles Schuyler Morehouse was also elected to serve as council president for the Hopewell Borough Council. Pennington: After Chandler and…

  • HVRSD Board of Education officially swears in new members; re-elects school board president

    HVRSD Board of Education officially swears in new members; re-elects school board president

    Andrea Driver, Anita Williams Galiano, and Adam Sawicki were officially sworn in to start their three-year terms on the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education during the board’s annual reorganization meeting. School Board Business Administrator and Board Secretary Robert Colavita administered the oath of office on Jan. 4 to the three board members. Driver, Galiano,…

  • Mercer County moves away from title of freeholder

    Mercer County moves away from title of freeholder

    The Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders will now go by the term county commissioners, since the members of the board officially adopted the title change in its last meeting of 2020. Through an ordinance adopted on Dec. 17, the county’s governing body amended the administrative code changing all references of freeholder to the new…