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  • This Week

    Thursday    Gang prevention seminar: Presented by the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission, the seminar is aimed at parents and education and features a presentation by Edwin Torres on how to protect children from gangs and prevent them from joining gangs.    The program starts at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Lawrence Library Headquarters…

  • Lawrence Hopewell Trail dedication set June 11

    Ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell Campus, 311 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road.    The first Hopewell Township leg of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail, a multipurpose, recreational path that will run through public and private lands in Lawrence and Hopewell, will officially open to the community on June 11 with events from…

  • Golf squad rebuilt on the fly in 2005

    Lawrence golf By: Jim Green    For the Lawrence High School golf team, the Central/South Jersey Group IV Tournament was just part of the greater learning experience that was the 2005 season.    With a core built around players that will be back next season, the goal this year was for the young Cardinals to improve and…

  • Hillsborough Beacon Staff

    Contact information Street Address 307 Omni Drive Hillsborough, NJ 08876 Phone: (908) 359-0850 Fax: (908) 359-3930 Mailing Address 307 Omni Drive, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 Managing Editor var addressP1="jpatten"; var addressP2="pacpub.com"; var txt="John Patten"; this.document.write(""+txt+"");

  • Open Gates

    Bucks County B&Bs and New Hope gardeners open their bucolic retreats to tourgoers. By: Ilene Dube TIMEOFF PHOTOS/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI A stone path leads to the original front door of the Tattersall Inn    The best way to experience a place may be to get lost in it. Relaxing one’s stands about knowing the exact point on…

  • Richard Eaton

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Richard Allen Eaton died May 26 in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He was 75.    Born in Florida, he lived in Irvington and Union moving to Hillsborough 47 years ago.    Mr. Eaton retired from American Can Company in Hillside 47 years ago.    He was a US Marine, serving his country…

  • Students to perform first musical in new high school

    The musical "Once Upon a Mattress," will be performed at Robbinsville High School this weekend, beginning on June 2. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — It may have been a long year of firsts for the first Robbinsville High School class, but so far none of those firsts has happened at the actual high school. The…

  • Primary election voters to pick candidates on Tuesday

    Polls will be open between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday. By Ruth Luse    There will be no primary election contests in Hopewell Valley on Tuesday, but local political party supporters — in addition to casting ballots for local favorites anyhow — will help choose their party’s county and state candidates for spots on Nov.…

  • The fundamental things apply

       In the third grade, Mrs. Henike showed slide photographs of the Constitution to my class. In the second row from the back, I half-heartedly listened to her sermon on natural rights.    Half-heartedly, because my classmate Lila Paty was in the throes of a boy problem and boy problems are way more important than boring American…