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jj Hi" Giants defeat Jets in preseason game SM2EHD Willi! (Jill II 1910 tar -Gourief Neuus c-nxom SECTION A 35 Cents A Gannett newspaper serving Central Jersey Bridgewater (908) 722-8800 hi MS! Trump wants anotner course Golf club seeks to build another 18-hole course on its 506-acre site in Bedminster. mm Ml NEWS SUMMARY Nation South Florida cleans up after Katrina as Gulf Coast braces for second landfall, A-5. in rtl ill jmiII p. Wkm. IMG) I 4 By STEFANIE MATTESON Staff Writer BEDMINSTER The Tramp National Golf Club is scheduled to go before the Planning Board on Thursday to seek approval for a second 18-hole golf course on 243 acres of its 506-acre site.

The new course will replace proposed houses, which were approved when the property was owned by golf course developer National Fairways. But the Trump organization has said it does not want houses for both aesthetic and environmental reasons. Ed Russo, a consultant to the Trump organization for land use and environmental issues, said he does not expect difficulty gaining approval for the course because 177th Fighter Wing loses bid for more planes, but McGuire Air Force Base to gain hundreds of jobs, dozens of aircraft. World Caged and barely clothed, eight men and women monkey around at Human Zoo exhibit, A-2. Some countries suffer more than others from soaring gas prices, A-2.

it will put less burden on the township's infrastructure, services and schools than houses. The property, formerly known as Lamington Farm, was acquired by the Trump organization from National Fairways in 2002, Russo said. National Fairways had in turn ac "Donald Trump came in here and rescued it He took a bankrupt mess and made it into one of the top courses in a few short years." ED RUSSO, consultant replace. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted to give the wing eight KC-135R Stratotankers, Saxton said. Saxton said the newer planes will help make McGuire the "number one tanker base on the East Coast." The news was not so good for the 177th Fighter Wing.

The New Jersey Air National Guard unit had been slated to receive 12 F-15s from Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, six F-15s from an Oregon Air National Guard base and six more planes from a St Louis base. But the commission said the New Jersey unit would receive no planes from any of the three bases. The commissioners gave no reason for that decision. The unit will get an additional six F-16s, but the commission did not specify where those planes would come See PANEL, Page A-4 By DONNA DE LA CRUZ The Associated Press WASHINGTON -The 177th Fighter Wing in Atlantic Gty was dealt a blow Friday when a federal panel rejected the Pentagon's recommendation to send 24 F-15s to the unit. There was better news for McGuire Air Force Base, which will gain more than 500 jobs and dozens of aircraft.

The job gain will come from the closure of the Willow Grove Naval Air Station outside Philadelphia. McGuire will receive all of Willow Grove's Navy and Marine Corps squadrons and their aircraft, said Rep. James Saxton, R-Mount Holly, whose district includes McGuire. The move will bring 30 new aircraft to McGuire. The 108th Refueling Wing at McGuire was slated to lose 16 aging KC-135Es, which the Pentagon did not want to I fit 18 Local Police: Hillsborough man crashed head-on into oncoming vehicle, B-l.

Middlesex considers place for borough teens to call their own, B-l. Branchburg man sentenced in series of home burglaries in Hunterdon County, B-l. vv Above, golfers hit from one of the fairways Friday at TrutriD National quired it from bankrupt car designer John De-Lorean in 2000, he said. If approved, work on the new course will begin in about a year, with the completion date set for late 2007, said Russo, the township's former Planning Board chairman. The club has about 250 members who pay a $200,000 membership fee and $13,000 a year in dues, he said.

The course is one of four nationwide owned by Donald Trump. The others are in Westchester, N.Y.; West Palm Beach, and Los Angeles. "He is extremely passionate about golf," Russo said about his boss. Golf Course in Bedminster. At left, a mower cuts the grass near the former the Tl Jlii(iWlr dairy barn at golf course.

Bound Brook meets student needs with bigger bilingual staff -I STAFF PHOTOS BY DAVID BERGELAND See GOLF, Page A-4 TIMELINE: BIRTH OF TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF COURSE 19303 183 1817 District hires several bilingual faculty staff members for its schools. The farm is sold to Morgan Cowperthwaitefor $17,000. Heandhiswife build a replica of the East Wing of the White House just to the rear of the current Trump National Golf Club clubhouse. The Dutch farm family, the Duyckincks, migrate to Bedminster and New Brunswick from New Amsterdam. The Duyckincks hold the farm for 287 years despite the difficulties of operating a farm.

In Jersey Possibilities are endless as Miss America, at 84 years old, begins looking for a new place to strut her stuff, A-3. Morgan's son, John K. Cowperthwaite, and his wife, Victoria, daughter of financier James Cox Brady, who owned nearby Hamilton Farm, build Lamington House, which becomes the center of society in the region. TIMELINE CONTINUES ON A-4 Deddy said. "WeVe never had as many bilingual teachers as we've just been able to recruit," Deddy said.

Deddy said the bilingual program will be administered differendy this year, allowing more students with limited English proficiency to stay in classrooms with their English-speaking peers. Instead of instructing them in Spanish-only classrooms, she said, bilingual teachers will work with the students in regular classrooms. The math class (for example) will be taught in English, but the teacher can and will speak Spanish when he sees a student not grasping," Deddy said. "So it's a huge accomplishment to have been able to recruit as many bilingual teachers this year as we have." See BOUND BROOK, Page A-4 Prosecutor seizes computers from police headquarters WEATHER By GREG MARANO Staff Writer BOUND BROOK -Teachers and faculty in the borough school district will be speaking a bit more Spanish in the upcoming school year. To keep up with the needs of the growing Hispanic enrollment, the district has hired several bilingual faculty members, including a math teacher and a social studies teacher for Bound Brook Middle-Senior High School, a sixth-grade teacher for Smal-ley School, a psychologist and a social worker, district business administrator Carole into Verry, other members of the South Bound Brook Police Department or the department itself.

Mayor Jo-Anne B. Schubert said Friday, "I have nothing to say on that right now." The prosecutor's office took control of the department for more than a year in 1999 and 2000 after a series of scandals that included a number of internal investigations and the indictment of two officers. The prosecutor's office took control after borough officials asked for help. Verry was appointed chief in July 2000, soon after the prosecutor's office returned control of the department back to the borough. By GREG MARANO Staff writer SOUTH BOUND BROOK Police Chief Robert A.

Verry confirmed Friday that two computers were removed from police headquarters by the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office. Verry said the two computers were taken by the county prosecutor's office Tuesday. He said their seizure has not affected the department's ability to function, and he believed the matter has been resolved, but would not provide any more details. Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest would not comment on whether there was an ongoing investigation HIGH: 83 LOW: 68 Partly cloudy today Chance of storms Sunday, See A-2 CYBER SURVEY 1 Courier Neuus COMING IIP MASCOT CORRECTNESS Among sports mascot names of Central Jersey high schools: Chiefs, Canucks, Warriors and Raiders.

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