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  • Top reasons to choose Hopewell Grant

    …this new-home neighborhood by Beazer Homes has been very popular with homebuyers looking for a place that instantly feels like home Besides the luxurious interiors of Hopewell Grant townhomes, the community also features a recreation facility that will serve as the central hub of the community and a rural setting with acres of open space.…

  • APIECE to sponsor workshop in Montgomery

    By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — A workshop intended to provide parents of public school students with guidance for the Individual Education Plan process will be held 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Montgomery Center for the Arts.    The workshop, sponsored by A Parents’ Initiative for Every Child’s Education, will include parent training and an update on…

  • The eloquent Mr. Lincoln

    BOOK NOTES by Dr. Joan Ruddiman    George Washington and his contemporaries are at the center of a publishing storm, as reviewed last week in Book Notes. February is also the month to honor the country’s other favorite president. However, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday passed without much fanfare, other than a rather odd conjecture being floated about…

  • Lieutenant named city’s new police chief

    Lt. Matt Simmons will become the Chief of Police in Bordentown City. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — Giddy. That’s the one. If you listen to him talk about his impending promotion, Lt. Matt Simmons might sound happy, breathless, energetic. But that barely controlled giggle, that’s what gives it away. That’s what makes you come…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    Week of Feb. 24 By:    Juan Jose Rodriguez, 22, of North Main Street was charged with driving without a license after police stopped his car on South Main Street at 12:21 p.m. Feb. 15.    Mr. Rodriguez was issued a summons and released. ***    John J. Sauerhefer, 39, of Brooks Boulevard was charged with driving with…

  • Vikes fall short in GMCT ‘upset’ bid

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Even though they came in as the No. 1 seed, the South Brunswick Vikings were not given much of a chance when they took on fourth-seeded St. Joseph in the semifinals of the Greater Middlesex Conference Boys Basketball Tournament on Tuesday night.    St. Joseph came in with a 15-8 record, compared…

  • AHS girls basketball producing great finish

    By: Kyle Moylan    The Allentown High School girls’ basketball team came into the 2004-2005 season coming off a year in which it went 11-13 and played with a lot of underclassmen.    Going into last night’s game at home against Hightstown – one it was favored to win – Allentown was 10-13.    "We were 11-13 last…

  • Warehouse plan nixed

    Planning Board recommends against zoning change. By: Joseph Harvie    An overflow crowd packed the township meeting room last week, hoping to convince the Planning Board to recommend against rezoning a 220-acre farm for warehouses.    And the board complied, voting unanimously Feb. 16 to ask the Township Council not to change the zoning on the Davidsons…

  • Connelly leaving school district

    Upper Freedhold Regional School District Superintendent Robert Connelly will resign his post to become a professor at Seton Hall University. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — Exactly five years to the day he was hired by the school district, Superintendent Robert Connelly announced that he will resign his post at the end of the summer…