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  • Fun, games on tap for Millstone Day

    This year’s celebration of Millstone will be held on Sunday, Sept. 12 at Black Bear Lake. By: Lauren Burgoon    MILLSTONE — With sizzling hot dogs and funnel cakes on sale, pony rides and face painting for the kids and a dunking booth, there will be something for everyone at the annual Millstone Day on Sunday.…

  • Bike tour to aid area Multiple Sclerosis Society chapter

    Cyclists, volunteers sought for Sept. 26 event. By: Linda Seida    Bicyclists and other volunteers are still needed to participate in a bike tour to benefit the Mid-Jersey Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.    Funds raised by the Grapes to Hops Bike Tour Sept. 26 will benefit New Jersey residents who have multiple sclerosis, according to…

  • Students’ memorial remembers teacher

    Manville students pay tribute to Carol Caliguari. By: Emily Craighead    When fifth-grade teacher Carol Caliguari died suddenly May 4, a month before the end of the school year, her students were devastated. Not knowing what else to do, some crawled under their desks and cried.    With the help of substitute teacher Jean Bartolome, the students…

  • The topic of kids and other delicate matters

    RANDOM NOTES by Scott Morgan    What’s the matter with kids?    No, seriously, what the hell is wrong with them?    When I was a kid, I didn’t like me, so it isn’t a surprise to anyone who knew me then that I’m not a kids kind of guy now. I have a goldfish I only have…

  • Sisters hit the big time on ‘The Jane Pauley Show’

    Sisters who own and operate Confectionately Yours put their cleaning habits to the test. By: Joseph Harvie    Stacey and Jessica Gondek may have been local celebrities because of their homemade ice cream and chocolate business, Confectionately Yours on Route 27, but national fame came not because of frozen treats but because of how clean they…

  • ‘Ravenous’ predator may roam D&R Canal

    One recent catch confirmed; others called cases of mistaken identity. By: Linda Seida    A recent catch of the non-native flathead catfish didn’t quite cause mass hysteria among local anglers, but it did cause a few false reports.    The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection recently announced that a teen had caught a flathead in Lambertville…

  • Florence starts defense of its title Saturday

    By: Sean Moylan    Using a relentless multiple 5-2 angle defense and a powerful running game, the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity football team took the world by storm last year and captured the Group I Central Jersey State Title.    The Flashes were 12-0 and beat a Keyport team, which had dominated Central Jersey…

  • DISPATCHES: Desperation in the new millennium

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet: Atonement needed to break free from the world of rage we live in. By: Hank Kalet    The news was incomprehensible.    More than 330 dead in the Russian city of Beslan, more than half of them children, the victims of a terror attack by Chechnyan rebels.    And yet, incomprehensible is the wrong…

  • Greyhound football team to be tested in opener

    By: Sean Moylan    "We have a lot of depth this year, which is going to be a big plus," said Jon Reising, the head coach of the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity football team. "This year we can really rotate kids around."    Yet because the Greyhounds will play a steady rotation of…