Merchants up in Arms Over Road Construction School Year to Begin Sept. 6 Townhouses Put Off Again Local Specialist Opens Family
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^Franklin NEWS RECORD Vol.27, No. 35 Three icctions, 58 pages Phone: 201-828-4646 Thursday, August 30,1979 Second class postage paid at Manville, NJ. 08835 $6 a year, 20 cents a copy Merchants up in arms over road construction bySandiLowich Business is just about non-existent Skip Nelson, owner of the liquor Special Writer at the Carriage Trade Gift Shop, ac- store at the center, echoed the sen- cording to Ron, the owner. "The few timents of the other shopkeepers. At least one Easton merchant has people that do make it in have a hard Business for him has dropped at no intention of leaving Franklin time getting here," he said. "I try to least 50 percent. "Between 8 p.m. and Township despite road construction keep open for loyal customers, but it's 10 p.m. I might as well lock the door. which has hurt business. not worth it monetarily." People aren't taking their lives to get "We expect to be a viable and According to the shopowner, the here," he said. successful tenant in Franklin," said first day the concrete barrier was put Richard Daitch, senior vice-president up last week he made only $4. Mr. Nelson also expressed concern of retail operations for Shop-Rite this about emergency and fire protection week, strongly denying a rumor the Al George, owner of the cleaning for the stores and the adjacent King store was going to be sold. store, said business has been down 33 James Nursing Home. percent since the barrier went up, and Mr. Daitch thinks the situation is down twice as much since road paving The buildings are served by the temporary and business will pick up. began. Many people who do come in Somerset Fire Company located north "We will promote the store to get back are picking up clothes already on Hollywood Avenue. In the event of a to normal volume," he indicated. cleaned. fire, engines would have to travel to Evidently it's the inconvenience of the nearest turnaround in order to road construction that is keeping In addition, customer complaints reach them. An ambulance on the way customers away from the Village have been heavy. On the average, two to a hospital in New Brunswick would Plaza and Shop-Rite centers as paving out of every three people are voicing have to travel nearly a mile to the and widening of two miles their displeasure. turnaround or else face oncoming of the road to four lanes takes place in "I've committed myself to another traffic to avoid the extra distance and front of their establishments and a location," Mr. George divulged, time. concrete barrier separa ting the lanes of refusing to elaborate. "But I have to traffic is completed. Mr. Nelson said he and Mr. Turk stay here until 1981 according to my have attended 14 business, township At 3:30 p.m., normally a busy time lease," be indicated. at the center, there were only 20 cars and county meetings since November. other than employee cars in the Mr. George explained the mer- Most township officials have been parking lot. chants have been unable to negotiate a very helpful, he said, "but once you Inside the food market there were deal so far with the nearby Somerset get to the state level you reach a deaf nearly as many employees visible as Diner for an access road from their ear." customers. And the customers that property off JFK Boulevard. "Their "We're receiving a lot of customer were there weren't too happy with the figures have been unrealistic," he complaints, but what can you say to problems created bytheroadwork'. maintained. people?" he wondered. THE CONSTRUCTION now taking place on Easton Avenue has turned the barricaded this opening-where shoppers were attempting to turnaround Mrs. Wilma Hahner of Somerset traffic pattern of that road into a chaotic mess. The intersection at Demon and cut across the roadway. Some storeowners are dissatisfied wffh the said she missed the shopping center Lane was so congested on Saturday morning that police eventually lengthening of the median, but most have just decided to grin and bear it. sign and had to travel down the road to (Rich Pipeling photo) turn around to reach the store. "Yes, the situation will stop me from coming here in the future," she acknowledged. Holiday brings early deadlines Teachers, pupils preparing Angie Dellasalla of North Brun- swick, who normally shops at the store, said it might be more con- Because of the Labor Day holiday Display advertising designed for venient for her to travel to another Monday, Sept. 3, special deadlines will placement in the Princeton Packet! Shop-Rite. be in effect for next week's issue. must be received by noon Friday. Patrons entering from the north Cancellations and changes in Display ads for Time Off magazine School year to begin Sept. 6 currently must proceed past Shop-Rite classified advertising must be made must be in no later than noon today, to Foxwood Drive to make a U-turn by noon Friday, Aug. 31. New Thursday. back. classified ads will be accepted through Display ads for this newspaper Although it might not seem so close Aug. 27 and school officials say that However controversial, the Schedules for high school students Those exiting the center and headed 5 p.m. Friday. Items for the Too Late alone will be accepted through noon with the humid weather of late, the parents should receive those passes by reassignment of students from Mid- will be mailed to homes before Aug. 31 south towards New Brunswick must To Classify columns will be accepted Tuesday as usual. The office will be opening of the Franklin Township AUK. 31. dlebush School to Hillcrest School will while class lists for elementary school travel almost a mile to Willow Road in through noon Tuesday as usual. / closed Monday, Sept. 3. schools is just a week away as they take place. Those students originally students will'be posted on the doors of order to turn around. —~_x will be open for classes on Thursday, If because of mail delay a student assigned to the Middlebush school for each school beginning today, Thur- Mr. Dennis Turk, manager of the Sept. 6. has not received a bus pass, drivers of the 1979-80 school year are re-assigned sday, until school opens. Easton Avenue Shop-Rite, had a map But before the doors open there is a school busses have been instructed to to Hillcrest. The district's elementary schools on the front showing customers how to lot that needs to be done by teachers, transport eligible students without An orientation meeting will be held will operate daily from 8:40 a.m. to reach the stores. "It's a lot easier than students and school administrators passes for the first few days of school. in the Hillcrest School on Tuesday, 2:25 p.m. Morning kindergartens will it looks," it claims. Special savings alike. Those students will then be instructed Sept. 4 at 10:30 a.m. for those parents run from 8:40 to 11:10 a.m.; afternoon coupons are also being offered to try All members of the schools' to report to their individual school whose children will how be attending kindergartens from 11:55 a.m. to 2:25 and attract customers. professional staff will begin their fall offices upon arrival where office Hillcrest. Both parents and their p.m.; intermediate school from 9 a.m. The smaller shops located at the semester two days earlier on Sept. 4 personnel will be prepared to children are welcome to visit the to 3 p.m. and Franklin High School center are all experiencing economic when teachers will report,to Franklin straighten out those problems. school before it opens on Sept. 6. from 7:48 a.m. to 2:48 p.m. problems caused by the roadwork. High School for an ' in-service- Transportation officials also advise program. the parents of kindergarten pupils that And to alleviate the normal amount students on their way home from of confusion concerningvbus routes, morning classes and those on their telephone hot lines have been put into way to school for afternoon classes operation in the district's tran- will be picked up from and delivered to sportation office in order to process their homes in small vehicles. The bus Local specialist opens pupil transportation problems. number on Kindergarten bus passes Parents may call these numbers, 873- pertains only to the regular school bus 3042 and 873-3043 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 going to school in the morning and the p.m. each weekday. regular bus coming home each af- Mailing of bus passes began Friday, ternoon. family practice office by R. Zuccarelli 'How You Too Can Make It'." "Such a specialization , provides Special Writer constant stimulation and1 room for Townhouses HIS NEXT decision was the area of growth because I must also deal with No one can ever accuse Dr. George specialization: family practice. psycho-social issues, and often with a Patterson of sitting still. "I believe in education and family's problems," he noted. The 36-year old North Carolina motivation and family support, so the He hasn't "developed" a golf game, native taught science, chemistry and one-stop concept of family practice is the doctor admitted, and emphasized put off again physics for three years after a major advantage. In family prac- that be does not have Wednesdays off. graduating from Elizabeth City State tice, we can provide care for newborns Instead, Dr.