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  • Police Blotter

    Lambertville    Approximately $2,500 worth jewelry was stolen from a shop located inside the People’s Store, 28 N. Union St., June 11.    The owner, Virginia B. Aris, 62, who resides in Pennington, told police one of the display cases in her shop was broken into sometime after 2 p.m. that day. At that time, an employee…

  • Editorial: veterans earned recognition for their sacrifices

    Brave men and women help us realize the cost of freedom By:    It isn’t just on Memorial Day or Veterans Day in which those who served their country can, or should, be recognized.    The efforts of veterans can be honored or spotlighted any time of the year. Burlington County officials did so last week when…

  • LIFESTYLE: The honeycombers

    Beekeeping — the sticky business of housing royal swarms. By: Chris Karmiol    If you ask him, Curtis Crowell will tell you some of the history of beekeeping documented in Egyptian drawings inside the ancient Temple of Luxor. They date back to 1415 B.C., he said, and show beekeepers smoking bees from their hives. The cave…

  • Annual ‘Occasion in the Park’ is a highlight for Roebling

    Event will take place June 30 By:Vanessa S. Holt    ROEBLING – When Charles Roebling founded the village here nearly 100 years ago, he built a community park where families could relax, stroll and enjoy themselves.    Today, that old-fashioned community feeling flourishes every year at the Roebling Historical Society’s Occasion in the Park at the park…

  • Ground-breaking ceremony for school set for July

    July 8 proposed for special day By:David Koch    MANSFIELD — The silver-plated shovels will hit the dirt next month when the Northern Burlington County Regional School District holds its groundbreaking ceremony for a new middle school.    The ceremony has been scheduled for July 8 at 6 p.m. on the site of the new school behind…

  • Goose-dropping woes bespatter Plumsted

    In addition to causing environmental damage, goose droppings have been identified as breeding grounds for any number of human pathogens. By: Scott Morgan    PLUMSTED — Canada geese were once looked upon as fleeting symbols of natural majesty and the permanent cycle of life.    How times have changed.    In many parts of the state — from…

  • Hidden gardens revealed on tour

    Visitors came from near and far to see a variety of gardens in Allentown and Upper Freehold. By: Joan Marshall    Last Saturday’s overcast weather did not deter the many enthusiastic visitors who came from near and far to see a variety of gardens in Allentown and Upper Freehold. The second annual Hidden Gardens Tour, sponsored…

  • Obituaries

    John Domanski    HAMILTON — John J. Domanski, 100, died Monday, June 17, at St. Joseph’s Residence at Morris Hall, Lawrenceville.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong Trenton and Hamilton resident.    Mr. Domanski had been a firefighter for Trenton and retired in 1956 as a prison guard for the state Department of Corrections. He had…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 06/27

    From the June 27 edition of the Register-News By: 100 years ago    A bicycle, which was recently stolen by a boy in the employ of John Rogers, Windsor, was recovered in a deserted tenement, where it had been placed by the thief in the hope that he could remove it at his leisure.    A passenger…