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  • YMCA cancels annual carnival

    Scheduling conflicts force South Brunswick YMCA to cancel annual fundraiser. By: Melissa Hayes    The South Brunswick Family YMCA will not have a summer carnival this year because of scheduling conflicts.    The carnival, an annual fundraiser, had been originally scheduled to run from June 28 through July 2, but the company that provides the rides had…

  • Police Beat

    BORDENTOWN CITY    Police charged two city residents with drug-related offenses after a phone tip led them to a man and woman on Crosswicks Street on Aug. 6.    Police found 41-year-old Robin Gaines and 41-year-old Randy Brown walking along the 100 block of Crosswicks Street around 1:45 a.m. After getting permission from Ms. Gaines to search…

  • For the Aug. 11 issue

    Esther P. Brown, Steven Leigh Bell, Gary Edward Kater, William F. Latham, Thomas Edwards, John J. Garecht, Naomi L. Kerr, Mary C. Wolfe. Esther P. Brown    LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Esther P. Brown (nee Platt), 88, of Louisville, Ky., died on Aug. 5 at Suburban Hospital in Lousiville. Born in Haddon Heights, she lived in Roebling…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the Aug. 11 issue. Committee’s action may have negative consequences To the editor:    I would like to comment on the North Hanover Township meeting of July 28 and in particular to the committee’s action to adopt Ordinance (2005-09) zoning classification change from RA (Residential Agricultural) to C-1 (Commercial).    During the public hearing relating to…

  • Florence baseball 10’s 2nd in E.W. tourney

    By: Sean Moylan    After not making it out of pool play in the District 12 tournament, it would have been easy for the Florence 10-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team to have just gone through the motions in the East Windsor Tournament. Instead the entire Florence squad re-dedicated itself, practiced hard, and it discovered that…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Water and meteors: Ken Najjar will present "From the Creek to Your Home," a program on water at 7 p.m., at the Lawrence Nature Center, in Drexel Woods Park, on Drexel Avenue.    Following the program, David Bosted will lead a talk on meteors. Visitors are encouraged to bring chairs and watch the meteor showers…

  • Lawrence 9s still alive in district tourney

    Little League baseball By: Jim Green    If this rate of progress continues, the Lawrence Little League 9-year-old baseball team should be a contender next year when it enters the District 12 Tournament at the 10-year-old level.    As 10s, the Lawrence players will have the opportunity to play for state and region titles if they win…

  • Flood panel moves forum from flood-damaged firehouse

    The Flood Mitigation Task Force will field comments from the public Aug. 17 at the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad building. By: Linda Seida    In an ironic twist highlighting the necessity for solutions to the region’s flooding problem, the Flood Mitigation Task Force had hoped to hold its Hunterdon County meeting at Stockton’s fire…

  • ‘Life of Galileo’

    The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey offers this rarely staged Bertolt Brecht work. By: Stuart Duncan Robbie Collier Sublett (left) and Sherman Howard star in Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.    Just the thought of a Bertolt Brecht drama scares some theater-goers. The German-born playwright is known…