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The Highland Park Board of Health passed resolutions last spring concerning lack of sleep and exercise among middle school and high school students. At tonight’s meeting, the board members will be discussing next steps in implementing policies to improve student health. READ MORE
Arts in the Park, Airbnb, and teen center are among the topics discussed at the September 1, 2015 Highland Park Borough Council meeting. READ MORE
Motorists soon may encounter the first-ever four-way stop in Highland Park after a proposed traffic law comes up for its final vote Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. The location is Cleveland and North Second Avenues. READ MORE
Teaming up with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plainfield and Middlesex County and with the Borough of Highland Park, Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Engineering & Technical Operations is helping to build a home for a local Middlesex County family in need. READ MORE
Representatives of Rite Aid, at the corner of Raritan and Fourth Avenues, appeared before the Highland Park Planning Board on Aug. 13, 2015, seeking relief from conditions of a 2007 site plan approval – conditions which they acknowledged have already been violated in the recent renovation of the store READ MORE
Following the recommendation of the Highland Park Planning Board, the Highland Park Borough Council members at its meeting on August 11, 2015, unanimously rejected a suggested zoning change that would have limited new construction on residential properties based on the ratio of floor area to the property size. The Planning Board on July 9 voted against the measure following strong opposition from residents.
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Borough Briefs are generally a rundown of the items discussed at Highland Park Borough Council meetings. The meeting of August 11 was a forum for discussing a variety of items ranging from a teen center to a solar energy project. READ MORE
The Rite Aid on the corner of Raritan and Fourth Avenues has made a formal application to the Highland Park Planning Board to close permanently most of its exterior windows. The application will be heard at the Thursday, August 13, Planning Board meeting, 7:30 p.m.
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The Highland Park Borough Council unanimously has approved a new affordable housing plan that it expects will meet Highland Park’s obligations going forward.
The plan, ratified July 30, 2015, in a joint meeting with the Highland Park Planning Board, outlines the efforts the borough has undertaken since 2008 to improve its affordable housing obligations READ MORE
Water main break on Monday afternoon, July 27, 2015, is at the same location as a break on May 19, 2015. The aging and ailing infrastructure is causing a major inconvenience for the community. READ MORE