1.   Sure, he ran on a campaign platform befitting a candidate for president of a civic association.

2.   Beset by personal animosities, the people of the neighborhood could not cohere into an effective civic association.

3.   A few months after the encounter, the civic association sued in a justice of the peace court.

4.   But the complaint nonetheless sheds light on the civic association, which appears to be an important link in the corruption inquiries here.

5.   But why do some towns have thriving Hindu-Muslim civic associations and others not?

6.   By law, a fund-raising group in New Jersey that takes in as much money as the civic association has must register with one of those two agencies.

7.   Civic associations are a fixture in New Jersey politics.

8.   Civic associations formed.

9.   Company executives populate the boards of local charities, civic associations and churches.

10.   Community boards are important because they can act as advocates of the neighborhoods they represent, just as civic associations do in the suburbs.