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‘Embrace your challenges’
Three landmark businesses – the Trenton Farmers Market, Cherry Grove Organic Farm and Bountiful Gardens – and the Every Child Valued program were honored by the Lawrence Township Growth and Redevelopment Committee May 5. The purpose of the Economic Development Awards program is to honor those members of...
‘Make no mistake, the need is great’
With a snip of the scissors, Homes by TLC, HomeFront and developer Lennar celebrated the completion of a 26-unit apartment building at the Hopewell Parc development May 17. The partnership between the three groups means 26 families, chosen from among 386 applicants for the affordable housing units, will have a place to call home, officials said.
‘We are grateful’
The Watershed Institute has been awarded an American Water Charitable Foundation 2024 Water and Environment grant to expand its StreamWatch Schools Program in diverse communities. “We are grateful to the American Water Charitable Foundation for helping The Watershed Institute expand its StreamWatch Schools program,” said Executive Director Jim Waltman.
Princeton Council adopts 2024 municipal budget
The Princeton Council adopted its $74.5 million municipal budget for 2024, following a public hearing April 29. The municipal property tax rate will increase from 56 cents per $100 of assessed value to 58 cents. The owner of a house assessed at the town average of $853,136 will pay $4,948 in municipal property taxes.
Janet Regottaz Bickal, 96
Janet Regottaz Bickal, 96, passed away on May 2, 2024. Janet was born on Staten Island and grew up in Moorestown, NJ. When she was ten, her father Myles, an export salesman for RCA Victor, took Janet and her mother Edna along on a business trip. For five months, they traveled by ocean liner to South America, Africa and Europe. This ignited a passion for travel that lasted the rest of her life.
Marsha Niederer, 69
Buckingham, Pa.– Marsha Niederer, 69, passed away on May 7, 2024 at her home in Buckingham Springs, after an extended illness. Born in Manila, Philippines on October 18, 1954, the second child of Harry Lloyd and Virginia M. (Lipps) Harting, she was christened Valerie Marsha. She never used her first name. Because her father served in the U.S. Foreign Service, the Harting family spent the first eleven years of Marsha’s life living abroad in the Philippines, Laos, Germany, Taiwan, Lebanon, Libya, and Cameroon.
Targeted Treatments Offer Hope for Patients with Metastatic Liver Cancer
Metastatic liver cancer, also known as secondary liver cancer, occurs when cancer from another part of the body — including the colon — spreads to the liver. In some cases, the tumors in the liver may be able to be surgically removed, but often, when the disease is in an advanced stage, they are inoperable.
Public hearing on apartment building at historic Joseph Horner House canceled
The Princeton Planning Board’s May 23 special meeting to consider 344 Nassau LLC’s application to construct a 15-unit apartment building attached to the historic Joseph Horner House has been canceled. A new date for the public hearing on the developer’s application has not been set. The Princeton...
Migrating birds from the tropics returning to New Jersey
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” according to a Chinese proverb. But in the avian world, journeys can last well over a thousand miles – and begin with a flap rather than a step!. Each spring, birds known as “neotropical migrants” make incredible...
Gov. Phil Murphy, Commissioners mourn passing of state trooper
Burlington County Commissioners have issued a statement on the death of state trooper Marcellus E. Bethea, who was assigned to the Moorestown station and died during training in Ewing on May 5. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer website – which cited a post on X, formerly known as Twitter –...
Pro-Palestine encampment ends at Princeton University
Princeton University students’ pro-Palestine/anti-Israel encampment came to an end on May 15, less than three weeks after the students began a sit-in protest on April 25. Cannon Green behind Nassau Hall, where the students held their sit-in for 17 of those days, is empty of lawn chairs, umbrellas, tables, signs and posters set up by the protesters.
East Windsor Police blotter
A 56-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man was charged with having fictitious license plates, driving while his license was suspended, having an unregistered vehicle and failure to exhibit documents following a traffic stop on Route 133 East on May 13. Police determined that the license plates on the Mercedes-Benz he was driving had been registered to a BMW. The vehicle was impounded and the license plates were seized. He was also found to have an outstanding warrant from Allentown. He was processed and released.
‘We need both natural lands and playgrounds, sports fields’
In calling for the “preservation” of “half” of New Jersey’s land (https://centraljersey.com/2024/05/06/an-urgent-call-to-preserve-half-of-new-jerseys-land/), Jay Watson and the New Jersey Conservation Foundation are misleading your readers. What they’re including as “preserved land” includes a high portion of playgrounds and sports fields. These are well and good, indeed excellent and much needed, but the article would lead the reader to believe that all the preserved land will be natural: it tells us that the “1.4 million acres remaining that are neither developed nor preserved…are not just sitting around doing nothing! They’re quietly providing priceless ‘ecosystem services’: preventing flooding by absorbing rainwater from storms, holding soils in place, filtering impurities from the air and water, sequestering carbon to fight climate change, providing habitat for a diversity of wildlife, and improving our food security.” We need both natural lands AND playgrounds, sports fields, and so on. Let’s be accurate about what “preserving half of New Jersey’s land” means.
Common calendar, Packet papers, May 17
Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties. New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS), a division of New York Blood Center, which provides blood for local patients, is looking for a few good volunteers. The blood drive volunteer is an integral member of our team whose tasks include assisting donors with registration and/or...
Hillsborough Township creating a Community Equity and Diversity Profile
Hillsborough Township officials are taking a “deep dive” to create a Community Equity and Diversity Profile. Township Planning director David Kois and Samantha Ball, office administrator for the township’s Economic and Business Development and Sustainability Office presented the profile project at a Township Committee meeting on May 14.
‘It is insensitive’
The Princeton Historic Preservation Commission has declined to endorse a proposal to construct a 15-unit apartment building that would be attached to the historic Joseph Horner House at 344 Nassau St. However, the Historic Preservation Commission left open an opportunity for the developer, 344 Nassau LLC, to work with officials...
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