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  • LETTERS: A community helps following accident

    To the editor:    This is a heartfelt thank you to all the people that helped my son, Jason, who was in an automobile accident on July 16 in North Brunswick.    The North Brunswick Rescue Squad, North Brunswick Fire Company No. 2 and the North Brunswick police, who go above and beyond when lives are in…

  • Charter petition filed for November vote

    Judge rules against township in order to certify signatures. By: Melissa Edmond    Township Administrator Kevin Davis on Tuesday certified and sent to the county clerk’s office the petition placing a vote to change Hillsborough’s form of government on November’s ballot.    The move came after Superior Court Judge Peter Buchsbaum in Flemington ordered the township to…

  • Fires labeled arson

    Two suspicious fires occurred in Manville only three hours apart. By: Donna Lukiw    Somerset County Prosecutor’s Arson Task Force is investigating two suspicious fires that occurred in Manville only three hours apart.    Firefighters responded to a house fire at 1001 Dukes Parkway at 12:06 a.m. Wednesday.    Then, only three hours later at 2:51 a.m., firefighters…

  • Former Manville resident launches own flower shop

    Linda’s Flower Shoppe opened last month in the Triangle Center. By: Donna Lukiw    When life handed Linda Caswell a lemon, she made a bouquet.    Ms. Caswell is the owner of Linda’s Flower Shoppe in the Triangle Center, which she opened last month — seven months after she was laid off from a previous job.    She…

  • Tour set to celebrate D&R park’s 31st birthday

    The all-day tour costs $50 per person and includes lunch. Reservations are required.    On Sept. 24, help celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Delaware & Raritan (D&R) Canal State Park with a motor coach tour along the feeder canal.    The D&R is a 44-mile waterway that connected Bordentown and New Brunswick and is now the…

  • Hopewell-based team nets USTA section title

    Heads to Palm Springs, Calif., for nationals By: John E. Powers    It started out as a modest venture — four homemakers and four professional women, wanting to have some fun and upgrade their tennis games at the same time.    It’s a venture that has led them — the Hopewell Valley Chicks — to a United…

  • Community Calendar

    Fall ball    Saturday, Aug. 27 — Bordentown Little League will hold registration at Northern Community Park for fall baseball for those players in the 7 to 11 age groups this past Little League season. Cost is $40 per player.    Registration for ages 7, 8 and 9 will be held at 8:30 a.m. and practice will…

  • Weber-O’Neal named the new AD at BRHS

       At its meeting on Wednesday, August 17, the Bordentown Regional School District Board of Education appointed Ms. Wendy Weber-O’Neal as its new Athletic Director/Supervisor of Health and Physical Education for K-12. Ms. Weber-O’Neal has been in education for 13 years and is coming from West Orange High School, where she has taught since 1998. Her…

  • Glorious gardens are a community resource

    COMMUNITY VOICES by Robert and Christina Kales For another glorious summer, we have enjoyed the Lawrence community garden on Route 206. We chose our Lawrence townhouse to escape the endless summer chores of weeding and mowing but we missed growing flowers and harvesting tomatoes. So we look forward to each spring when the township announces…