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Boy Scouts wereto paint car wash
Staff Photo by Greg Adomaitis
Graffiti at the abandoned Route 49 car wash, in Hopewell.
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Rotary dictionaries
Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner
Bridgeton Breakfast Rotary Club members Lee Hepner, left, presi-dent, and Cathy Furgesson deliver new dictionaries to the third-grade students at Fairfield Township School Thursday. Giving brand new dictionaries to the students has been an ongoing proj-ect of the service club.
Reason to move city election
By Jason [email protected]
BRIDGETON — Major league baseball player and Vineland resident Darren Ford appeared in Cumberland County Superior Court Monday to waive his right to stand before a grand jury for indictment on charg-es of theft and issuing a false report.
Ford, a 25-year-old center fielder for the
San Francisco Giants, opted instead to pro-ceed by way of accusation, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office.
The five-count accusation includes third-degree conspiracy to commit theft, third-degree theft by unlawful taking, third-degree theft by failure to make required disposition of property, fourth-degree false reports to law enforcement authorities and fourth-degree obstructing administration of
law.Ford also on Monday applied for Pre-
Trial Intervention, which provides first-time offenders alternatives to the tradi-tional criminal justice process, focusing on rehabilitation rather than prosecution.
The PTI application is subject to the approval of the county prosecutor’s office.
Ford on Nov. 18, 2009, allegedly told
Baseball player Ford applying for PTI
(See FORD, Page A-5)
By John [email protected]
Funds — one report suggested “sev-eral hundred thousand dollars” worth — are apparently missing from the campaign account of U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-Ventnor.
“The LoBiondo campaign recently became aware of an issue involving a former campaign worker,” Washing-ton attorney William McGinley, repre-senting the LoBiondo campaign, said Monday in an e-mail statement.
“The campaign has contacted the appropriate federal authorities and is actively cooperating with their inves-tigation. For this reason, we will not comment further on this matter at this time.”
The congressman himself was not available for comment.
His spokesman, Jason Galanes, referred all calls to McGinley, who works for the Patton Boggs law firm in the nation’s capital.
PolitickerNJ.com first reported the investigation Monday morning. Poli-ticker suggested in excess of $100,000 was missing.
LoBiondo, who won re-election ear-
LoBiondomissingfunds
(See LoBIONDO, Page A-5)
By Greg [email protected]
HOPEWELL TWP.— By this time next month, not only should the abandoned car wash behind the shopping center here have a new owner, but a fresh coat of paint, too.
Shopping center owner Terri Halter-Burrell is expected to finalize a sale of the property to a local businessman sometime next month.
The unnamed buyer has not yet decided what will be done to the car wash structure, accord-ing to Hopewell Township officials.
Louis Piccione, former car wash tenant,
had operated the facility for roughly 20 years. He ended operations earlier this year.
A buried oil tank, located behind the car wash, was removed in mid-October.
A contracted environmental company’s inspection, required by the Department of Envi-ronmental Protection, came back clean.
The paperwork is currently on its way to Trenton for approval.
Following that approval, sale settlement should be under way within the next 30 days.
The township committee had recently
(See CAR WASH, Page A-3)
By Jason [email protected]
MILLVILLE — Millville City Commission on Monday dis-cussed the possibility of moving municipal elections from May to November during state election years, when a statewide general election year may bring out more voters to the polls.
Commissioner Jim Quinn broached the subject during early comments at the commission meeting, stating the issue has been “bouncing back and forth” since residents in Vineland came out overwhelmingly in favor of a nonbinding ballot question mov-ing elections from May to Novem-
ber earlier this month.Vineland voters approved the
ballot question by a 6-1 ratio.“It’s hard enough to get people
to come out for one election in a year, but we have primaries, general election, municipal and school board election in a single year,” said Quinn. “We don’t have any say over the school board, but we can reduce that number by one by moving to November.”
The plan, according to Quinn, would be to pose a ballot question similar to Vineland’s to Millville residents when they head to the polls for the November 2011 New Jersey congressional election.
Voters would have the oppor-
Quinn bettingguber electionturnout biggest
(See MILLVILLE, Page A-5)