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  • Police arrest man after 7-hour standoff

    Mobile home resident was talking incoherently, carrying a knife By:Eve Collins    NORTH HANOVER — A seven-hour standoff between police and a mentally unstable mobile home resident resulted after a resident called township police on Christmas Eve to report that a neighbor was behaving irrationally while carrying a knife.    Steven Stein, 43, a resident of the…

  • South Brunswick boys basketball team has fun in win over WW-PS

    By: Redd E Patrick    Despite taking a 2-1 record into the consolation round of the Vaughn Stapleton Tournament in Bridgewater on Monday vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro South, the South Brunswick High School boys basketball team had to battle with everything it had just to get to that point.    There was an opening-night victory against Edison which…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 01/02

    From the Jan. 2 edition of the Register-News By: 100 years ago     Last Thursday night about 25 Freemasons were banqueted at the Washington House.     While hunting with friends in the country last Saturday, Harry B. Ford killed a red fox after nine hours’ chase. He will have the hide preserved.     Next Tuesday…

  • POLICE BEAT 01/02

    From the Jan. 2 edition of the Register-News By: FLORENCE    Police said James Smith, 46, of Florence was charged with careless driving after his car struck a tree on Florence-Columbus Road at 11:25 p.m. on Dec. 28.    Police said Mr. Smith was driving a 1992 Mercury Topaz north on Florence-Columbus Road when he veered off…

  • Panel delays votes on traffic-related issues in the township

    Committee says it needs more information before voting By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — The Township Committee on Dec. 27 decided it needed more information and discussion before it could vote to assume the costs of a new traffic signal and before it could create a one-way section on Front Street.    Last month, the Township Committee…

  • Select county workers to get small pox vaccinations

    Vaccinations to begin Jan. 31 in Burlington County. By:Eve Collins and Vanessa S. Holt    MOUNT HOLLY — Smallpox vaccinations will begin Jan. 31 for a select group of health-care workers in Burlington County in the first phase of a program that will be available to the general public in 2004, said Burlington County Public Health…

  • Franklin Park man killed in New Year’s crash

    Two hospitalized in early morning accident. By: Hank Kalet    A 22-year-old Franklin Park man was killed New Year’s Day when his 1989 Honda Accord veered across the double-yellow center line on Finnegans Lane and crashed head on into a 1995 Mazda at about 5:30 a.m.    Juan Torres-Peralta of Franklin Park was pronounced dead at the…

  • Year in review, pt. 2

    News from April to June of 2002 reported by the Register-News By:    This is the second in a series of four articles recapping some of the events of 2002 as reported in the Register-News. The following dates reflect the issue in which the story was published. April 4    With school board elections just two weeks…

  • ‘Auld Lang Syne’

    The traditional song of New Year’s Eve isn’t what it used to be By: Michael Redmond    Like other sticks-in-the-mud, I prefer to spend New Year’s Eve at home, with close family and close friends. Now I’ve attended my share of no-holds-barred New Year’s Eve revels, ranging from the swank to the funky, but as I’ve…