ANOTHER UPDATE!!!
I’m sorry this has been so dead. My writing now appears at mercerspace.com. I’ll come up with another way to use this space. In the meantime, check out my creative writing at lamemyles.wordpress.com.
Pennington to use federal money to improve school crossings
Published at hopewellspace.com, Sept. 8.
Pennington Borough will use $220,000 in grant funds to make improvements to two and possibly a third intersection near two schools.
The improvements aim to make walking to school safer for schoolchildren. The intersections, South Main Street at Curlis Avenue and West Delaware Avenue at Green Street, are situated near Toll Gate Grammar School and the Pennington School, respectively.
Home brewers craft do-it-yourself beer
Published on hamiltonspace.com, August 13.
For many people, the phrase ‘home brewing’ conjures up images of moonshiners concocting putrid mixtures in their bathtubs. It is an association Joe Bair, owner of Princeton Homebrew, hopes to dispel.
Bair and his shop, located at 208 Sanhican Drive in Trenton, which has any equipment needed for home brewing, have started many local brewers on the way to their first batch of beer. Bair is perhaps the area’s most important advocate for the hobby, having founded a club for home brewers in 1995 called Princeton And Local Environs Pale Ale and Lager Enjoyment Society, or PALE ALES.
Condemned house may halt day care construction
Published on hamiltonspace.com, August 5.
Hamilton may act to stop the construction of a day care center, if an engineer determines that it caused damage that led to the condemnation of a house on Evergreen Avenue.
Carmen and Madge Alessi lived in the house at 240 Evergreen Ave. until it was condemned as structurally unsound by the township after the wall of their basement buckled inward on Aug. 2. Madge Alessi said an engineer for her insurance company told her that constant vibration caused by the nearby construction of a Learning Experience day care center likely caused the damage, though the engineer won’t file an official report until Friday Aug. 7.
AN UPDATE!!!
Hey, people. Just to let you know, I’m working at the Jersey Journal now. If you want to check out my stuff, it’s mostly over at nj.com/bayonne. This won’t get updated for a while unless I get some freelance work.
State Senate panel sends measure on bicycle safety back for tune-up
Published in the Press of Atlantic City, May 8
TRENTON – State Sen. Steven Oroho, R-Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon, thought he had written a simple bill that would help make the roads safer for bicyclists. Drivers would have to keep their vehicles at least three feet away from bikers or face a $100 penalty.
But on Thursday, the Senate Transportation Committee tabled the bill when things were not as simple as they looked.
Committee votes to renew local judgeships
Published in the Press of Atlantic City, May 5
TRENTON – The state Senate Judiciary Committee voted to renew the terms of 10 Superior Court judges, including three from Cumberland County.
Richard Geiger, of Millville; Harold Johnson Jr., of Bridgeton; and Julio Mendez, of Vineland, each has served his seven-year term. Each judge spent at least part of his term in family court. Geiger, who presides over drug courts in Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester counties, reported drug court was expanding. Cumberland County’s drug court has 208 participants. “It’s a remarkable turnaround for many of the participants,” he said.
The committee voted unanimously for the four local judges. The state Senate must now approve them.
Health centers fear shunning patients due to budget cuts
Published in the Press of Atlantic City, May 5
TRENTON – Because of proposed state budget cuts, Katherine Grant-Davis, president of the New Jersey Primary Care Association, said community health centers might have to turn uninsured patients away or put them on waiting lists, something New Jersey centers have never done.
“Send us your tired, send us your poor, but send us your money,” she said at a Statehouse rally made up of health center workers, patients and supporters.
Corzine confirms five cases of swine flu in New Jersey
Published in the Press of Atlantic City, May 1
TRENTON — Gov. Jon S. Corzine confirmed Thursday that five New Jersey residents have contracted swine flu and that the state is awaiting confirmation on two more probable cases. The state Department of Health and Senior Services expects to hear back on the samples today from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Corzine said people should go about their lives normally, but stay home if they feel sick.
Cleaning house
As you, my legion of readers, might have noticed, a number of the links on the site have been broken. This is due to the Atlantic City Press updating their Web site. I grabbed a couple of my best articles off the archives while I was at work yesterday, and I deleted the rest. From this point forward all of the articles will be in PDF format, and they’ll be hosted here, so nothing like this happens again. Thanks for reading!
-Myles
