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  • LHS varsity lax team kicks off inaugural year

    Boys lacrosse By: John E. Powers    Like his team, Lawrence High School boys lacrosse coach Loni Robinson will be experiencing on-the-job training this year.    For Robinson, this will be his first year as a varsity head coach. And for the Cardinals, this will be their first year as a varsity team.    The 25-year old Levittown,…

  • Track team looks solid this spring

    Spring track By: Jim Green    Lawrence High School track coach Dave O’Neal will be in charge of both the Cardinal boys and girls teams this spring, and he feels both squads are capable of achieving lofty goals.    The Cardinal girls went 8-2 and finished tied for sixth at the Mercer County Championships last year, while…

  • Settlement plan tabled by council

    Residents object to proposal to construct 10 townhouses By:Roger Alvarado    Amid public outcry, Borough Council members balked Monday at passing a last-minute resolution that could have led to the construction of 10 townhouses along 13th Avenue and Brooks Boulevard.    The resolution would have entered the borough into a proposed settlement agreement allowing Brooks Townhouses, LLC,…

  • Red Cross program teaches preparedness

    To the editor    March is American Red Cross Month. For 87 years the Greater Somerset County Chapter has been touching the lives of the citizens of Somerset County through our disaster relief efforts, health and safety courses, blood service programs and other initiatives.    This year the mission and message of Red Cross Month is preparedness.…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE

    Board denies application for use variance to allow a resident professional office on Trenton-Harbourton Road By Marianne Hooker    At its March 3 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment voted to deny an application for a use variance to allow a resident professional office at 1459 Trenton-Harbourton Road.    The board also approved hardship variances…

  • Diane Feindt

       Diane Alison (Prosser) Feindt, 58, of Dayton, died Friday, March 19, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Rahway.    She was born in Waltham, Mass. Ms. Feindt was a technical assistant and software programmer for the state Department of Education in Trenton.    Her father, Birney E. Prosser, is deceased. She is survived by two sons, Andrew…

  • Upper Freehold officials to seek 25-mph limit on Ellisdale Road

    Committee members decide state Department of Transportation’s recommeded speed limit for Ellisdale Road is set too high. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — Buses filled with kids traveling at 41 mph. A high school student driving by at 87 mph. Cars speeding out of the Four Seasons retirement community.    These were among the sentiments that…

  • LETTER: A demonstration of commitment

    To the editor:     I am proud to announce my bid for re-election to the Board of Education.    I have lived in South Brunswick and been an active member of the community since 1984. I am employed as a certified school nurse for the Eden Institute, a school for autistic children and adolescents.    I have…

  • Manville relay invites more participants

    To the editor    I am personally appealing to everyone from this "never surrender" town of Manville to get involved in the Relay for Life this year at Manville High School on June 11 and 12th.    I am appealing to everyone because right now my husband’s aunt is on a respirator fighting end stage lung cancer…