Category: archives

  • McDonald’s application to be continued

    The fast-food restaurant is proposed for part of a 9.6-acre site on the Brunswick Traffic Circle, bordered by Princeton Avenue, Lawrence Road and the Brunswick Circle Extension. By: Lea Kahn    The would-be developers of a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant on the Brunswick Traffic Circle will have to wait until next month to find out whether the…

  • Veteran awarded posthumously

    War heroes’ daughter receives award for dad By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    Joseph Smolinski, an Army veteran of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was posthumously awarded the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal at the National Guard Armory in Lawrenceville, Tuesday.    Mr. Smolinski’s daughter, Debra Rockwell of South Brunswick, accepted the award on his behalf.…

  • Intimate Circumstances

    Several dozen of Carmen Johnson’s acrylics are on view in a one-woman show at the Pemberton Library in Browns Mills through Oct. 11. By: Susan Van Dongen Carmen Johnson’s "Finishing Touches," above, uses bright colors and rural imagery. Women populate many of the paintings, as in "Every Sunday," right.      When friends call Florence-based artist…

  • 13th Avenue to closefor rail repairs

    Traffic problems expected By:Alec Moore    Local residents who use either Route 206 or Main Street as part of their regular commute should expect to add a few extra minutes to their drive time.    Beginning on or about Monday, residents most likely will notice a heavier than normal volume of traffic along Main Street and the…

  • Swimming for dollars

    Kids raise money to help kids with cancer. By: Sarah Winkelman    MILLSTONE — For the second year in a row, hundreds of campers and counselors at the Frogbridge Day Camp swam to benefit children with cancer.    This year, Frogbridge Day Camp raised $8,670 for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation by taking part in the Kids Swim…

  • TWELVE MONTHS: At peace with himself

    I am a cynical, bottom-of-the-barrel, scrape-it-off-the-shoes pessimist. By: Scott Morgan Many of you who know me have come to accept this facet of my character. Many of you had no idea. But this is me.    I know the questions you ask about my cynicism. Why, you ask yourselves with furrowed brows and feelings of confusion,…

  • Washington teen dies in car accident

    Steven A. Ferry, 17, of Robbinsville killed in one-car incident in Lawrence Township. By: Ken Weingartner    LAWRENCE — A Washington Township teen-ager was killed Wednesday night in a one-car accident in the vicinity on Whitehead Road, according to Lawrence Township police.    Steven A. Ferry, 17, of Spring Garden Road in Robbinsville died when the 1991…

  • Appreciation for police

    To the editor:     I had an experience with the South Brunswick Police department that shows how fortunate we are in South Brunswick.     On Wednesday late ýPage=006 Column=001 OK,0001.05þ afternoon,Aug.14, my son and his girlfriend were on their way to the New Brunswick train station when they were hit by another vehicle. My son…

  • Lightning gets back on football field

    Thunder & Lightning By: Steve Feitl    With a new pigskin program under way at nearby Hopewell Valley Central High School, football seems to be growing in the area.    Lawrence is no exception.    Not only are numbers increasing yearly on the high school’s football squad, but the township’s younger football players are growing in numbers as…