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  • Post 339 squad pulls off another upset

    Post 339 baseball By: Jim Green    For the second time this month, the Hopewell American Legion Post 339 baseball team proved it can play with the best squads in the county.    Post 339 picked up its third win in five games Tuesday, knocking off North Trenton 6-5 at Hopewell Valley Central High School. With the…

  • Concerts in the park set for Friday

    Ron Kraemer and the Hurricanes bring swing to Woodlot Park By:Matthew Kirdahy    The concerts in the park will continue when Ron Kraemer and the Hurricanes storm through the township with their swing tunes.    Mr. Kraemer’s band will perform Friday as part of the Concerts in the Park summer series hosted by the township at the…

  • Officials eye improved parking in Pennington

    Officials introduce ordinance to amend the existing parking code. By Allison Busacca    Parking in downtown Pennington could become a little easier now that Pennington Borough Council has introduced an ordinance to amend the existing parking code.    Under the proposal, the municipal parking lot would include 15-minute spaces, one-hour spaces and long-term spaces, in addition to…

  • Officials envision ‘mixed use’ at mall

    Preliminary proposal approved by Planning Board By:Roger Alvarado    The Borough Council will be next in line on Aug. 9 to review a tentative concept plan for redeveloping the Rustic Mall after the Planning Board gave its go-ahead to the proposal July 6.    The plan calls for up to 22 townhouse units to be built in…

  • Committee eyes zoning change

    Upper Freehold Planning Board turns over task of examining 6-acre zoning to the Township Committee. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Township Committee will take over the issue of 6-acre zoning now that the Planning Board has opted out of the process.    At the July 1 meeting Committeeman Stephen Alexander requested that the…

  • School construction well underway at LHS

    Access to campuses will be limited this summer. By: Lea Kahn    Longtime township residents won’t recognize the Lawrence High School campus on Princeton Pike these days.    Behind a newly installed fence, there are mounds of earth where there was once a parking lot. The trees that stood sentinel outside the school have been cut down,…

  • Two killed in one-car accident

    Fatal accident occurred Monday on Chris Court and Ridge Road By:Matthew Kirdahy    A one-car accident left two New Brunswick men dead and one critically injured when their Toyota 4-Runner slammed into a utility pole on Ridge Road and Chris Court at 2:39 p.m. Monday during heavy rain.    The driver Hernan Luque, 44, of French Street…

  • Trio charged with robbery

    Police: Men threatened teen By:Matthew Kirdahy    Two New Brunswick men and a North Brunswick man were charged Wednesday with robbing and threatening to kill a 16-year-old Highland Park boy at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday.    According to police, Alejandro Argueta-Panchame, 25, of Hamilton Street in New Brunswick; Rigoberto Hernandez, 25, of Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick; and…

  • Community thanked for considerate help

    To the editor By:    On June 9, my husband had to be taken to Somerset Medical Center. The Hillsborough Rescue Squad and the Somerset Medical Center MICU unit went above and beyond their normal duties.    When my husband was unable to walk to the stretcher, they moved furniture in order to bring the stretcher to…