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  • HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: Bunting and Jones houses

    A look at the Allentown-Upper Freehold of the past. By: John Fabiano    From the "Allentown Messenger" dated May 13,1920:    The house on [31] Church street formerly owned by Mrs. Edmund Evernham, but now in the possession of Edward Otterson and his sister, Miss Maria Otterson, of Edgebrook, claims the distinction of being the oldest dwelling…

  • Lawrence freshmen happy to be part of Hopewell’s day

    Freshman Football By: Steve Feitl    The Lawrence High School freshman football team played before approximately 1,200 fans in Hopewell Valley on Friday.    Unfortunately for the Cardinals, no more than 50 of them were there to cheer on the Lawrence boys.    The remainder of the overflow crowd was there to see the HoVal Bulldogs play their…

  • Monroe ready for Country Fair

    Day of fun set for Saturday By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — From music to games and rides, the emphasis will be on family fun when Monroe Township holds its 14th annual Country Fair at Thompson Park Sunday.    The fair, sponsored by the Monroe Township Mothers Club and the township Department of Recreation and Parks, is…

  • Watershed group moves ahead with plans

    Six municipalities unite to study Doctors and Crosswick creeks region. By: Cynthia Koons    A six-town cooperative effort to assess the waterways in a 144-square-mile local watershed has approved a company to develop its plan.    F.X. Browne Inc., an environmental consulting firm based in Lansdale, Pa., will begin researching the Doctors and Crosswicks Creek watershed this…

  • TWELVE MONTHS: Free checking

    Trenton, 1980. A slightly more fit, younger me uncoiled from a frozen stance and sailed a 50-foot slap shot into the upper-right corner of the net. By: Scott Morgan Or maybe it was the upper left. I was upside down at the time, scuffing my Buster Browns and trying like anything to keep at least…

  • Pennington Borough receives $400,000 open space grant

    Money will help acquire land for ‘green belt’    Pennington has been awarded a grant from the state’s Green Acres Program in the amount of $400,000.    The borough, through the work of the Open Space Committee, applied to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for money to help acquire land around Pennington, in an effort to…

  • SBHS cross country encouraged despite losses

    By: Redd E. Patrick    On the surface, the results may not sound favorable, but considering the state of the programs, South Brunswick’s loss to East Brunswick in boys and girls cross country on Friday was actually quite encouraging.    The boys team, which is in a rebuilding mode for the first time in 10 years since…

  • HHS boys set sights on huge cross country year

    Klueber, Vaccaro more determined than ever By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High boys’ cross country team has enough talent and experience to produce the school’s finest season in history this fall.    Head coach Rich Refi has called this his best team ever, but knows that the Raiders must still work hard to keep pace…

  • V2A Transition Teamto be lauded at Mayor’s Breakfast

    Event. 5 at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club    The Vision-to-Action Transition Team (V2A Transition Team) — an intergenerational team of 13 volunteers — will be honored at the fifth annual Mayors’ Breakfast on Oct. 5 at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club.    The original members of the team include Fran Bartlett, Randy Bull, Donna Doran, Marylou…