Taxes

Township voters will decide Dec. 9 whether they’re willing to invest an average $166 a year in funding improvements to the school district’s buildings and realigning the elementary school grades. That’s the increase in yearly school-portion property tax bills estimated by school officials if the roughly $85 million referendum is approved. The figure is based on the average residential assessment …

A scheduled vote to rejoin a statewide consortium to buy natural gas starting next year was postponed by the Board of Education at its Nov. 20 meeting. The board took the action on the recommendation of interim schools Superintendent Lee Seitz. Seitz, as well as all board members and members of the administration and township government, received an email earlier …

        Incumbent member Ed Potosnak and newcomers Patricia Stanley and Latee Walton-McCleod won election to full three-year Board of Education terms on Nov. 4. Margaret Steele won the one-year unexpired term of former board member Robert Trautmann. These results are pending the counting of provisional ballots, which are not expected to change the outcome. Potosnak, who was selected to fill …

A township family’s negligence lawsuit against the Board of Education was given new life recently by a state Appellate Court panel. The three judges remanded to Superior Court the lawsuit brought by Freddy Florian and his mother, Carmela, which a Superior Court judge sitting in New Brunswick had dismissed on summary judgment. The case stemmed from an accident in which …

Somerset County began several road paving projects on Oct. 31, which should take less than two weeks to complete, according to a notice from the township. Portions of South Middlebush, Amwell and Weston Canal roads will be repaved. These will be nighttime paving projects and the roadways will remain open with an alternating traffic pattern. Project areas are as follows: …

The township will soon accept bids for a new plenary retail consumption liquor license. Based on the last census which showed there are 62,300 people in the township, state regulations allow the township to issue five of the liquor licenses, which are used by bars and taverns. Th minimum bid for the license will be set at $200,000, according to a …

Contracts totaling more than $76,000 were approved at the Oct. 23 Board of Education meeting. The board approved a contract with Full Service Vending of Rockaway, through which the company will pay the board $27,118.05 to provide and maintain vending machines in the district’s schools. Full Service was one of two companies that bid for the contract, according to district …

[wpgmappity id=”14″]   Work that was originally supposed to have been completed on Weston Canal Road between Randolph Road and Cottontail Lane on Oct. 3 i snow not expected to be finished for another two to three weeks, according to a release from the Somerset County Freeholders. The road will need to be closed between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m., …

In a move that was met with a standing ovation and cries of “thank you,” the Township Council Sept. 22 voted to prohibit any type of sound system in Middlebush Park. The vote was not unanimous. Township Councilman Carl R.A. Wright and Deputy Mayor Brian Regan voted against the proposal, while Mayor Brian Levine sided with the remaining Democrats in …

The Board of Education at its Sept. 18 meeting said goodbye to its long-time business administrator, John Calavano. Sort of. Board members held a short ceremony at the beginning of the meeting to praise Calavano for his 17 years of service to the district, and, later in the meeting, hired him as a consultant through February, 2015. Board vice president Eva …