A groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday marked the beginning of River Pointe Apartments, a $100 million residential development set to transform the Village of Batavia.

Notice of meeting in which the Stonebriar HOA Board approved an $82,000 assessment to oppose Siamas' trademark filing and to seek a trademark for the neighborhood as a board.

Opponents of the River Pointe development proposed for Upper Mount Bethel Township raised familiar complaints during the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's meeting.

TOMS RIVER -- An application for the township's first Orthodox Jewish high school is scheduled to be heard June 26 by the zoning board.

This small squabble speaks to a much larger issue — the trickle-down effect of cruelty as policy and empathy as weakness.