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  • EDITORIAL

    New direction in building-code enforcement will be helpful.    With a little more than a week at his desk, newly-appointed Director of the Building Department Ron Skobo probably has had little time to get situated.    But we’re sure he’s starting to realize the daunting task he has ahead, trying to steer his staff in enforcing mandatory…

  • Little Acres Farm to hold Pumpkin Day

    The event will be held 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Little Acres Farm Market will welcome the fall season with its annual Pumpkin Day event on Saturday and Sunday.    The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days.    Activities include hayrides to the pumpkin patch, where…

  • Veverka shifts, scores

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Occasionally, a soccer defender who sends a long ball out of the back gets credit for an assist on a goal. Even rarer is the defender who gets to poke one home himself. So when South Brunswick High School (7-3) senior defender Anthony Veverka scored the first goal in South’s 2-0…

  • New laws aimed at controlling pollution of waterways

    Bordentown Township Committee takes action to clean up stormwater. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Township officials are looking to control the trash that hits local streets and enters the municipal sewer system with a new series of laws.    The passage of six ordinances Sept. 27 by the Township Committee is part of the municipality’s…

  • Castaldo carrying NBC toward playoff spot

    By: Sean Moylan    Just when the experts were ready to dismiss the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity soccer team from playoff contention, NBC senior forward Jay Castaldo put his team on his back and led his Greyhounds to nearly everybody’s Top Ten list in the area.    "Jay Castaldo . . . he’s…

  • DISPATCHES: Candidates take facts and do the twist

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet New Jersey politics is dysfunctional at its best and dirty at its worst.    This is what I’ve learned recently about the major party candidates for governor:    1. Republican Doug Forrester will raise your property taxes. He is, according to the ads, the only man running for governor who has raised property…

  • Police Beat

    From the Oct. 6 edition BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP    Police charged a township man in connection with a hit-and-run accident involving a cyclist beside the I-195 off-ramp along Route 206 in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 29.    According to police, the cyclist said he was waiting for traffic to pass when he was struck from behind by…

  • ‘Proof’

    Based on David Auburn’s play, this taut drama is explosive, with puzzles and surprises and an outcome that is in doubt until the very end. By: Bob Brown    "When I survey my past life," the 18th-century intellect Samuel Johnson wrote, "I discover nothing but a barren waste of time, with disorders of the mind very…

  • Oak Ridge group sues Hopewell Township officials, developer

    The suit charges that Merrick Wilson failed to finish work on Cheyenne Drive in Oak Ridge III and the township didn’t meet its responsibility to require him to do it. By John Tredrea    Eleven residents in the high-priced Oak Ridge III development in southeastern Hopewell Township have sued the township and Merrick Wilson, builder of…