As we get ready to put together the South Brunswick Post’s first issue of 2007, it seemed as good a time as any to look back at the stories that kept us busy here last year.
What follows is a baker’s dozen (sorry, most of the links are paid):
1. Route 92 bites the dust.
2. Democrats elected in landslide as GOP disappears into the ether — while a former mayor mounts an unexpectedly robust write-in challenge.
3. Former state Senate President John Lynch, a major player in state politics and the unofficial boss of the Middlesex County Democrats for years, pleads guilty to bribery charges tied to a late-1990s plan by a South Brunswick sand mine to expand. He’s sentenced to 39 months in jail.
4. Police shooting case is settled after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the officer, then-Sgt. Raymond Hayducka — the current police chief.
5. Planning Board overturns its own denial of a warehouse complex after the developer adds a $100,000 contribution to pay for a study of flooding in the area near the N.J. Turnpike.
6. Renovations begin and are completed at Deans Apartments after a nationwide nonprofit buys the complex. At the same time, the Township Council — with prodding from the South Brunswick Post — creates a rental inspection program.
7. Boris Boretsky, convicted for killing his wife in their Kingston home, is sentenced.
8. The Township Council takes the advice of a local middle school student and bans smoking at two township parks.
9. County gets involved in the pursuit of the Van Dyke Farm.
10. Community Center to be renovated and expanded.
11. Bank robber nabbed.
12. District completes expansion and renovation at elementary schools.
13. Bomb threats close high school.
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Hank Kalet 