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  • Finding a way to help

    Interact Club at Hillsborough High School offers support to group for disabled adults. By: Melissa Edmond    Hillsborough High School student Tara Pokras and Allies employee Doug Conkling both hoped for a warm, sunny day for their November van wash. They got their wish Saturday.    A dozen Interact Club members were able to wash 14 vans…

  • Bring Back the ’80s

    The music of Trenton’s punk/New Wave palace will return for a night at Hope Hose Firehouse in Bordentown. By: Susan Van Dongen    It was the combination of moshing and the new age of litigation that most likely brought down City Gardens, known throughout the ’80s and ’90s as the punk/New Wave/alternative venue of choice in…

  • Letters to the Editor, Nov. 17, 2005

    B-MS, township both win To the editor and residents of Hopewell Valley:     I was proud to be a resident of Hopewell Township last week during the final negotiations between our Planning Board/Environmental Commission and officials representing Bristol-Myers Squibb (B-MS).    As many of you are aware, B-MS has been seeking a 20-year General Development Plan…

  • Cardinals show heart in first-round loss to Ocean

    Lawrence football By: Jim Green    Almost nothing went as planned for the Lawrence High School football team in its Central Jersey Group III state playoff opener Saturday against Ocean Township.    The Cardinals were out-gained 345-40 in rushing yards and 14-8 in first downs, committed three turnovers and had a long touchdown run called back because…

  • High school mourns the death of classmate

    Charles "Frankie" Morreale, 17, was found unresponsive in his bed by a family member on Friday, according to police. Police said foul play is not suspected. By: Lea Kahn Staff Writer On a table outside the attendance office at Lawrence High School, there is an oversized pad of paper and two red markers. On that…

  • Township and American Legion Post 414 honor veterans

    Lawrence pays tribute to its veterans. By: Jennifer Potash Managing Editor Honoring the sacrifice of veterans is the point of Veterans Day, but citizens ought not to forget about soldiers serving overseas.    "I think about the soldiers and the numbers of Americans who are in far-flung corners of the world, these young men and women…

  • Death on tracks in Pennington was apparent suicide

    Man has been identified as John Kevin Connell of 180 Clearview Ave. in Hamilton By John Tredrea    The macabre death of a 44-year-old Hamilton man on the railroad tracks in Pennington on Wednesday afternoon "appears to be a suicide," the county prosecutor’s office said this afternoon, Thursday.    The dead man has been identified as John…

  • LETTERS

    From the issue of Nov. 17, 2005. Appreciation to community To the editor:    As we go through a very challenging time, we have been so fortunate to be a part of such a wonderful community. We are so grateful to everyone who coordinated and donated at the car wash at Crossroads South Middle School, the…

  • EDITORIAL

    Corzine should commit now to public financing.    Now that the dust has settled on the most expensive — and, perhaps not coincidentally, the nastiest — gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey history, it seems an appropriate time to take stock of the state’s election laws.    Specifically, it’s time to recognize that the election-law reforms enacted over…