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  • County, township to hold auction to support TDR

    Auction to support the Transfer of Development Rights prorgam will be held on July 21 at the Chesterfield Hose Company fire house. By: Melissa Kadish and Scott Morgan    CHESTERFIELD – On July 21, the township will hold an auction to support the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program, the first of its kind to be…

  • Harmony finds pair in Neshanic choir

    Raritan Valley Choral Society members Regina and Toby Goodman form permanent duet By:Allison Busacca    After experiencing marriages that ended in dissonance, Raritan Valley Choral Society members Regina Brown and Toby Goodman found harmony together and were married June 19 at the Neshanic Reformed Church.    "We have so many things in common, it’s kind of scary,"…

  • Downey, Legion team beat Somerville again

    Hillsborough halts another skid in Manville By: Rudy Brandl        MANVILLE — Hillsborough has found Manville High’s baseball diamond to be a great cure for its summertime blues during the 2004 American Legion baseball season.    Last Saturday, the Raiders made the short trip to Manville for the second time this summer. Both times, the team…

  • ‘Anchorman’

    Portraying a local newscaster, funnyman Will Ferrell gets the scoop, and the ladies, in this satire from the days before cable. By: Elise Nakhnikian    One way to patch together a feel-good family movie is to make fun of how unenlightened we used to be, back in the Dark Ages of the ’70s or ’80s. Those…

  • EDITORIALlet: Towns deserve right to enact smoking ban

    EDITORIAL:State legislature unwilling to yield power to municipalities    New Jersey municipalities deserve the right to determine whether smokers can light up in public places.    Only the state Legislature has been unwilling to give them the authority to craft their own rules.    We understand why the Legislature has been reluctant to take on the tobacco industry,…

  • Patrolman dismissed from township force

    Bordentown Township police officer is dismissed for not adhering to sick time regulations and sleeping while on duty. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — More than two years after being told he was fired, a 13-year veteran police officer was officially dismissed by the Township Committee last week for not adhering to sick time regulations…

  • Sale to benefit boy with leukemia

    Yard sale to benefit Joshua Shafer, sponsored by Roebling Boy Scout Troop No. 3, will be held on July 17 at the Florence United Methodist Church. By: Scott Morgan    ROEBLING — Amy and David Shafer are already exhausted and it’s only been 32 days. Just that many days ago, a doctor told them that it…

  • DCA: Nonprofit organization should control ‘Fest account

    North Hanover Department of Community Affairs says PumpkinFest bank account should be run through a nonprofit or other community-based organization. By: William Wichert    NORTH HANOVER — A bank account set up by a former Township Committee for the town’s annual PumpkinFest 10 years ago has come under the scrutiny of the current committee after auditors…

  • POLICE BEAT

    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP    Someone broke into National Rent-A-Fence on Crosswicks Road between 5 p.m. July 2 and 5 a.m. the next day, stealing two radios and a fork lift ignition key before also vandalizing the property, police said.    The suspect, whose identity is still under investigation, stole a black radio and speakers from within the driver’s…