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  • Runaway found safe after search

    Missing Pond Road Middle School student was found hiding at his grandmother’s Hamilton home after an extensive 13-hour search. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — An extensive 13-hour search for a missing 12-year-old boy ended happily in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day when the child was found hiding at his grandmother’s Hamilton home.    Kenneth Lesczynski,…

  • Community Calendar

    Tree lighting    Thursday, Dec. 2 — The Roebling Historical Society will present its annual Christmas Tree Lighting at 6:30 p.m., Main Street Circle, Roebling.    Music will be provided by the Florence Township Memorial High School band. Kids are encouraged to bring flashlights to read the songbooks. The first 150 kids 12 and younger will receive…

  • Board ready to hold first budget session

    First meeting to be held Tuesday night. By: Melissa Hayes    The South Brunswick Board of Education’s Budget Committee will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.    The meeting is open to the public and will take place in the school board office on Executive Drive.    The committee is in the first stages of preparing…

  • Township resident is acting executive for watershed group

    MacKay joined Stony Brook in 1999 as senior watershed planner, became director of watershed management in 2000, and added deputy director responsibilities in 2003.    Noelle MacKay has been appointed acting executive director of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SB-MWA), succeeding outgoing Director George Hawkins.    Ms. MacKay joined Stony Brook in 1999 as senior watershed planner,…

  • OBITUARIES: Catherine Abruzzi

       Catherine Abruzzi    Catherine E. (Lyon) Abruzzi of Kendall Park died Thursday, Nov. 25, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Jersey City, she lived in Franklin Park before moving to Kendall Park 30 years ago. Ms. Abruzzi was co-owner of Golden Tiger Karate School in North Brunswick. She was a communicant of…

  • HHS field hockey team achieved one major goal

    Raiders won first division title in 20 years By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High field hockey team began the 2004 season with several goals, the biggest of which was to win the Delaware East Division title.    Along the way, the Raiders got greedy. They soon figured out they could play with anyone on their…

  • To Lee or not to Lee That is the question

    By: Kyle Moylan    The Bordentown High School football team knew exactly what to expect from New Egypt during the annual Thanksgiving Day game between the two teams.    Of course, knowing what’s coming and being able to do anything about it are two very different things.    Lee Hopkins ran the ball 22 times for 274 yards…

  • Hopewell Township police say skull could be linked to Cuban cult ritual

    Skull found in the Delaware River Nov. 22 may have been used in a ceremony of the Palo Mayombe religion. By John Tredrea    Hopewell Township police think the human skull found in the Delaware River Nov. 22 may have been used in a ceremony of the Palo Mayombe religion, which came to Cuba from the…

  • Benefit set Saturday for Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival

       Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival will be presenting a benefit reading of "The Merchant of Venice," directed by Princeton Rep Artistic Director Victoria Liberatori, on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Bank of America at 301 Carnegie Center, West Windsor. The evening will also offer a buffet dinner and desserts donated by Wild Oats Natural Marketplace amd…