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  • Red Raiders fall in home opener

    Baseball By: Mike Molaro    If anybody needs proof of the adage "No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse," just check with coach Jerry Russo and The Pennington School’s baseball squad.    With Mother Nature showing us who’s boss last week, the Red Raiders had their three-game slate postponed by rain and snow.…

  • Center set to collect donations for troops

    Drink mixes, cards and activities among goods gathered. By: Lea Kahn    Aiming to do its part to help the troops serving in Iraq, the Lawrence Neighborhood Service Center is collecting toiletries and other items to send overseas.    Two collection boxes, decorated by children in the center’s after-school program, have been placed in the lobby of…

  • Hillsborough couple acting on love of community theater

    Joe and Linda Giordano have gone from on-the-stage to behind-the-scenes By:Mary Kaempfen    "All the world’s a stage, And the men and women players." —William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"    There are 60 men and women who take turns being players on the stage at the Somerset Valley Playhouse on Amwell Road.    One of the players…

  • Voters to decide budget’s fate

    April 15 marks the date to vote on new budget and school board members. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Voters will have their say Tuesday on next year’s school budget and select three school board members from among six candidates.    The candidates are incumbents Robert Long and Dan Watts, former board member Bryan Laurita and newcomers Joan…

  • Blaze leaves woman homeless

    Homeowner runs into buring house to rescue cat from fire that broke out on Friendship Road in South Brunswick. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    A distraught Friendship Road woman, who returned home Tuesday to find her house in flames, broke away from a police officer trying to restrain her, ran inside the burning house and rescued her…

  • Fees can help keep garden in the black

    Editorial    Residents upset with Lawrence Township’s proposal to raise the nonresident fee at the community gardens 7½ times are right. The increase from $10 to $75 is too steep, but those same residents won’t like the alternative solution, either.    The entire issue revolves around one simple point: the township currently subsidizes too much of the…

  • When called, Hopewell Township pilot carries troops, cargo

    Civilian pilots like Rick Hotchkiss have opportunity to serve their country through an arrangement commercial airlines have with the military. The program is called Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). By Diane Tartaglia    Rick Hotchkiss is a fortunate man.    He recently returned safely from a successful mission flying troops from the United States into Kuwait (via…

  • A borough by any name?

    Is not the same, Hillsborough proves By:Alec Moore    A mix-up between two New Jersey communities resulted in a slew of angry phone calls for Mayor Tony Gwiazdowski last week.    On Saturday, radio news reports pointed out that the mayor and other officials in Fieldsboro –– a tiny municipality in Burlington County –– were prohibiting residents…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       An employee of Parkside Gardens, located on Route 206, reported at 11:30 a.m. March 20 that a statue was stolen from the property over the past several days.    According to police, the statue was a gray lawn ornament of a cat and a basket. The statue weighed about 100 pounds and was valued at $148.…