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  • Police Beat

    BORDENTOWN CITY    Police charged a 25-year-old township man with shoplifting bread on July 15. According to police, officers spotted Crawford Fitzinger Jr. near the Corner Deli on Farnsworth Avenue around 2:35 a.m. In checking Mr. Fitzinger out, police said, officers found he had several loaves of bread, allegedly taken from a truck delivering bread to…

  • Bordentown 10’s advance in winner’s bracket play

    By: Sean Moylan    The Bordentown 10-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team’s 12-10 finale win over Allentown was so "wet and wild" they needed two days (Sunday and Monday) and seven innings for it to reach completion.    And while Connor Young and Doozer Cary each scored runs on passed balls in the top of the seventh…

  • For the July 21 issue

    George Popeson, John T. Berger, Mary Lou Marshall, Louise B. Higgins. George Popeson    MT. PLEASANT, S.C. — George Traian Popeson died Friday.    Mr. Popeson was born August 17, 1919, in Roebling, son of the late Dennis Popeson and Florence Popeson. He retired from MetLife Insurance Co. and was a U.S. Army Air Corp and a…

  • School busing committee plans to make final recommendations by Sept. 30

    HOPEWELL VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD UPDATE By Kate Herts    President Kim Newport presented an update on the findings of the Ad Hoc Busing Committee at the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education meeting on Monday.    Committee members have walked bus routes and taken rides on the buses themselves, and they plan to make their final recommendations…

  • EDITORIAL: Council needs tools required to aid tenants

    EDITORIAL Deans Apartments’ tenants still need help from the township.    The Township Council is promising to help tenants in Deans Apartments.    The council has threatened the complex’s owners, Property Management Co. based in North Adams, Mass., with fines if health and fire safety complaints being raised by the residents are not addressed quickly.    The council’s…

  • THE STATE WE’RE IN: Where ‘public good’ is concerned, confusion is eminent

    THE STATE WE’RE IN By Michele S. Byers Government is not doing anyone a favor by taking land and homes.    In a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs refuses to let a construction crew destroy his rabbit hole to make way for a highway. After a great deal of commotion with high explosives, Bugs outlasts the…

  • DeFillipo flips no-no in victory

    District 12 softball By: Jim Green    When Tom DeFillipo, manager of the Lawrence 10-year-old softball All Stars, is asked to describe his squad, one word comes to mind.    "Energetic," he said. "Myself and the other coaches (Andy Glass and Marco Peralta), we try to teach the girls two things: respect and responsibility, and after these…

  • Witching hour for Harry Potter fans

    Eager witches and wizards, and a few muggles, passed the time until the release of the sixth Harry Potter novel at parties held by Quaker Bridge Mall bookstores. By:Kate Herts Staff Writer Muggles, wizards and witches gathered in celebration of the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Friday night at Quaker Bridge Mall.…

  • Funny Money

    Two elderly women print their own cash in a new comedy at Somerset Valley Playhouse in Hillsborough. By: Jim Boyle TIMEOFF PHOTOS/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Marie Comerford (left) and Eva Goodman cash in on their new counterfeiting hobby in Old Money, a new comedy premiering at Somerset Valley Playhouse in Hillsborough July 22-Aug. 7. Below, clockwise from…