Archives for September 2007
It’s election time: Do you know where your taxes are?
Published on 30 Sep 2007 at 8:22 am.
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Jenny Uptegrove is the Republican Candidate for Borough Council In North Plainfield. My husband Bill and I moved to North Plainfield a little over three years ago. We bought our first house here for many reasons- Noth Plainfield was affordable, it is a diverse community, and it has beautiful older neighborhoods with friendly neighbors.
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Judge holds up condo project
Published on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:35 am.
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Procedural error halts N. Plainfield rezoning BY SEUNG MIN KIM Star-Ledger Staff A state Superior Court judge has ruled the North Plainfield council illegally rezoned the site of a former nursing home in the borough that officials have eyed for high-density, age-restricted housing, temporarily halting development plans there.
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Villa Maria Halted
Published on 20 Sep 2007 at 7:33 am.
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Courier News NORTH PLAINFIELD — Many nights in the Rutgers University law library have paid off for a Green Brook man who won his lawsuit against North Plainfield to at least temporarily stop the development of the Villa Maria site.
Franklin official bounced in recall
Published on 13 Sep 2007 at 4:41 pm.
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Councilwoman loses seat to former mayor BY NYIER ABDOU Star-Ledger Staff Voters in Franklin Township’s 3rd Ward yesterday ousted Deputy Mayor Ellen Ritchie in Somerset County’s first recall election, re placing the first-term councilwoman with Republican candidate and former Mayor Robert Mettler.
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Rabbi eyes N. Plainfield mansion for his yeshiva
Published on 12 Sep 2007 at 6:32 pm.
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Quaker-linked site has fiscal difficulties BY NYIER ABDOU Star-Ledger Staff The 19th-century McCutchen mansion — a 15,000-square-foot Queen Anne that anchors North Plainfield’s Washington Park Historic District — has caught Rabbi Eliyohu Sorotzkin’s eye.
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TRENTON: 2 lawmakers facing corruption charges resign
Published on 10 Sep 2007 at 5:55 pm.
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Courier News TRENTON — Two Democratic state legislators arrested last week on federal corruption charges have resigned, legislative officials said.
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FBI arrests 11 NJ officials for bribery
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 11:56 am.
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by Jeff Whelan Star Ledger FBI agents this morning rounded up 11 New Jersey public officials on bribery charges related to roofing and insurance contracts, authorities said
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Ethics reform lite
Published on 5 Sep 2007 at 1:29 pm.
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Tom Moran found it painful to watch Gov. Corzine sign a watered down ethics reform law yesterday. Tom Moran NJ Voices Gov. Jon Corzine signed four ethics reforms into law yesterday, then held each bill over his head in triumph, as if he had just hit a home run.