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Judge: Candidates filed correctly
The ruling reverses a decision made just three days prior that stated Mansfield Township candidates had filed in the wrong districts. By: Scott Morgan MANSFIELD Three township residents running for the Burlington County Republican Committee filed in the proper district after all, according to a decision in a county Superior Court late last week.…
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Eggerts Crossing Village — the effort of many
COMMUNITY COMMITMENT — ECV at 30 By: Lea Kahn Editor’s note: In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Eggerts Crossing Village, The Lawrence Ledger will feature a special 10-part series, "Community Commitment ECV at 30," every other week through October. In this installment, ECV Manager Fred Vereen Jr. looks back on the arduous…
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Naar to finish career at state singles tourney
Boys tennis By: Jim Green Lawrence High School senior tennis player Aaron Naar may or may not win his first-round match in the state singles tournament this weekend. One thing’s for sure, however: he will go out fighting. "He’s always determined," Lawrence coach Pat Tarrant said. "He’s a fine young man. He works his tail…
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Pennington School graduation Saturday
Pennington’s Commencement exercises begin at 11:30 a.m. The speaker for The Pennington School’s June 5 Commencement exercises will be the Rev. Dr. Alfred Johnson, resident bishop of the Greater New Jersey Conference of the United Methodist Church. Bishop Johnson, who was elected to the episcopacy and assigned to New Jersey in 1996, is also a…
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Anna Burgmiller
By: HILLSBOROUGH Anna (Dzyak) Burgmiller died May 27 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 84. Mrs. Burgmiller was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the Unite States in 1922. She was a former resident of South and North Plainfield before moving to Hillsborough 24 years ago. Her husband, August L. Burgmiller, died…
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Florence softball places second in SJ Group I
By: Sean Moylan The Florence Township Memorial High School girls’ varsity softball team’s wonderful season ended with a not so wonderful 6-0 loss to New Egypt at Lenape in last Thursday’s Group I South Jersey championship game. The game was a scoreless one until the fourth inning when the Warriors manufactured a pair of runs…
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Kapsimalis completes year with fine showing in javelin
By: Sean Moylan After losing Willie and Eric Munoz and Danny Alustiza to graduation last spring, Tim Tedesco and his Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity track and field squad went about the task of rebuilding the team this season. However, senior captains Roger Kapsimalis and Mike Greene made this transition year as…
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Sun shines on township parade
Lawrence honors fallen soldiers. By: Steve Feitl As it strolled down the performance corridor on Birchwood Knoll on Saturday, the Lawrence High School "Red Scare" marching band blared the unmistakable sounds of Sheryl Crow’s 2002 hit single, "Soak Up the Sun." Taking the pop song’s title at face value, it seemed a fitting anthem for…
