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  • Community Calendar

    MOMS Club    Thursday, Aug. 11 — MOMS Club monthly meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. Come and meet other stay-at-home moms in the community. Refreshments will be served and children are welcome.    The group is open to residents of Florence, Roebling, Mansfield, Bordentown and Fieldsboro. Call 499-0601 for location and details. Antiques and Desserts…

  • CHS’ Dunne finishes well for PB squad

    Takes the 50 back at PASDA champs By: Jim Green    Billy Dunne isn’t about to let the rest of the pack catch up to him.    The Hopewell Valley Central High School swimmer is coming off a sophomore season in which he set the school record for the 100 backstroke (57.0) and finished second in the…

  • Hayducka to take reins of South Brunswick police

    BREAKING NEWS: Manager appoints 16-year veteran as township’s newest police chief. By: Melissa Hayes    South Brunswick Police Lt. Raymond Hayducka has been appointed as the next township police chief.    He was announced at a press conference Thursday and will replace Chief Frederick Thompson on Sept. 1. Chief Thompson was sworn in March 31 and announced…

  • Police again join effort against drunk driving

    By:Melissa Edmond    The Hillsborough Township Police Department will be participating in the national "You drink and drive you lose" campaign again.    The program includes conducting a Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) checkpoint as well as sending out additional patrols to target impaired drivers from Aug. 19 to Sept. 5.    Sgt. Darren Powell, coordinator of the program,…

  • Residents need a push to sign living wills

    EDITORIAL    In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court, in the matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, ruled that patients — or, in the case of those unable to make decisions themselves, designated surrogates — had a right to terminate life-sustaining medical treatment even if it meant the prospect of natural death.    This so-called right to die…

  • Panel eyes delay on Deans deal

    Tenants wait to see if apartment complex will be purchased by Volunteers of America. By: Joseph Harvie    Tenants in Deans Apartments will have to wait to see if their complex will be bought by a nonprofit group that has said it wants to make repairs and modernize the deteriorating facility.    Volunteers of America, a national…

  • Bordentown district joins security hotline

    "WeTip School Safety Program" will enable Bordentown Regional School District parents and students to make anonymous reports of crimes occurring on school grounds. By: William Wichert    In the coming school year, parents and students in the Bordentown Regional School District will be able to make anonymous reports of crimes occurring on school grounds through a…

  • Backpack drive helps need kids return to school in style

    HomeFront, a Lawrence-based nonprofit, asks residents to sponsor a homeless or underprivileged child to ensure these kids have clothes and school supplies for the start of the academic year. Over 700 homeless and needy children in Mercer County will receive brand new clothing an sneakers as well as a new backpack, chock full of school…

  • Firehouse work eyed for October

    Formal application being prepared. By: John Tredrea    The Hopewell Fire Department hopes to finish a proposed addition to the firehouse well before the end of the year and currently is preparing a formal site plan application on the project.    "I hope the application will be ready for the Planning Board in September, but it may…