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School suspends student with gun
Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School boy was charged with possession of a concealed weapon and reckless endangerment. By: Scott Morgan MANSFIELD A Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School boy was removed from school on June 10 after a teacher discovered that he was carrying an unloaded gun in his pocket, school officials said.…
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Post 414 beaten by Princeton
Baseball By: Jim Green Considering the difficulty of the Mercer County American Legion baseball schedule, Lawrence Post 414 needs to win most of its games against teams on its level. Lawrence missed a golden opportunity to pick up its second win of the season Saturday when it fell to Princeton 12-6 at Smoyer Park. Both…
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Sourland planners reviewing studies
Advocates say studies needed to see how water supplies in area are affected by development By:Roger Alvarado The Sourland Planning Council, representing Hillsborough, Hopewell, Montgomery, East and West Amwell townships and Hunterdon, Mercer and Somerset counties, met Tuesday at Montgomery High School to discuss the region’s future and devise ways of protecting the "character and…
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Local ‘moo-vie’ stars ready to meet with adoring fans
Norz-Hill Farm hostsSunday open house By:Allison Busacca New Jersey has been home to many celebrities: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springstein, Frank Sinatra. However, this Sunday, the Somerset County Board of Agriculture is giving people the chance to meet a new breed of celebrities at the 2004 Agriculture in Action Day: the Norz-Hill Farm Holstein Cows.…
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Hightstown Post 148 still working out the kinks
By: Neil Hay After the first four games of the new Mercer County American Legion League season, Hightstown Post 148 manager Rich Scheid was wondering how to wake up his team’s slumbering bats. With Gavin Vetrano, one of the team’s leading hitters, out for a few games with some assorted scrapes and bruises, the locals…
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POLICE BLOTTER
By: A red 20-inch "Next Wipeout" motorcross-style bicycle was found on North 10th Avenue, between 5 and 6 p.m. June 8. The bike was impounded by police, pending a claim from the owner. *** A Verizon vx4400 cell phone was reported stolen sometime on the morning of June 6 from a resident’s vehicle in the…
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Hopewell Township gets set for tax revaluation
The township will hire a state-certified firm to do the revaluation. That firm should be picked by December or January. By John Tredrea Hopewell Township has begun working on the tax revaluation it has been ordered to do by the Mercer County Board of Taxation. Pennington and Hopewell boroughs and Washington and West Windsor townships…
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Hopewell Borough has three candidates for council
Two Democrats, one Republican to seek two seats. By Ruth Luse Hopewell Borough now has three candidates for the two open seats on Hopewell Borough Council in the Nov. 2 general election. One is incumbent David Mackie, a Democrat, who filed to run in the primary and received 99 votes on June 8. The second…
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‘Man of La Mancha’
Bucks County Playhouse stages this musical about Don Quixote. By: Stuart Duncan Dale Wasserman, author of Man of La Mancha, was in Madrid working on a movie when he read a newspaper article stating that he was in Spain doing research for a dramatic version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The item was dead wrong, but…
