Category: archives
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Snyders get along just fine as coaches
Father, son worked well together this summer By: Rudy Brandl Fathers and sons don’t always get along on the baseball field, especially when the parent is coaching the youngster. There are bound to be disagreements over bad swings, missed plays and poor decisions. Gregg and Robert Snyder experienced some of those exchanges when Robert…
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Planning Board OKs 22-house subdivision
Maplewood Creek has gotten approval to carry on development of its 22-house subdivision. By: Joseph Harvie The Planning Board on July 20 granted preliminary and final subdivision approval for Maplewood Creek, a 22-house subdivision off Dunhams Corner Road. The development, proposed by Country Communities of Skillman, will extend from the township’s border with East Brunswick…
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Police Beat
BORDENTOWN CITY Police charged a 33-year-old Trenton man with hindering his own apprehension after officers confronted him near the Delaware riverfront on July 23. According to police, officers were sent to the riverfront, near the city marina, to check on a man who was reportedly trying to get into parked vehicles and who was illegally…
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Hopewell Township man to ride in Tour of Hope
Jeff Tredup: "I want to get the word out about the importance of clinical trials. People don’t realize the quality of care they actually get. People are not treated like guinea pigs." By Kate Herts Clinical trials are an important, yet risky, treatment option for cancer patients. Jeff Tredup, 40, of Treymore Court, Brandon Farms,…
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Township Council objects to transfer station
Township officals fear an increase in truck traffic if a proposed freight transfer station is built off Route 206 in Hillsborough. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Opposition to a proposed truck and rail freight transfer station in Hillsborough is picking up steam, as the Lawrence Township Council added its name to the growing list of naysayers…
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Bear Necessities
A new documentary on NJN explores the issues surrounding 2003’s controversial bear hunt. By: Susan Van Dongen <</td> New Jersey’s growing bear population and the methods state officials are using to control it are the subjects of Bears: Too Close for Comfort, airing on NJN Aug. 1. Tom Phillips would like to put a large…
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Businesses divided over future of Shad Festival
Some feel it’s a valuable tourism tool while others say it doesn’t attract the "high-end" shoppers Lambertville merchants want to attract. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE Is the annual Shad Festival a valuable tourism tool or an overgrown street festival that benefits the out-of-town vendors more than the city’s own shopkeepers? Depends who you ask.…
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Putting the ‘garden’ in ‘state’
The recipes…not only utilize the best of the summer bounty we are now enjoying, but reflect some of the many ethnic groups that give our state its characteristic diversity By: Pat Tanner The latest addition to Garden State-centered cook´books is Brian Yarvin’s "Farms and Foods of the Garden State." The newest addition to my rapidly…
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The one that didn’t get away
Lambertville resident Dick Welsh reeled in a nearly 20-pound brown trout in a fishing tournament this summer in Chicago. By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE It sounds like a fish story, one of those tall tales told by fishermen about the big one finally landed but lost. But the nearly 20-pound brown trout is no fish…
