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  • Lawrence bats remain hot while defense falters

    Baseball By: Steve Feitl    Offensively, the Cardinals seem to be doing everything right.    Unfortunately for the Lawrence High School baseball team, the Cardinals have not been up to snuff defensively, and that’s been enough to keep the team grounded with a 4-7 record.    This was never more evident than in the team’s most recent game…

  • Orchid BioSciences cuts back

    Plainsboro firm says it is laying off about 90 people. By: George Frey    Orchid BioSciences Inc. of Plainsboro announced April 18 it would lay off about 90 people and consolidate some of its operations in a restructuring to reduce operating expenses and accelerate profitability.    The company is a genomics products firm providing DNA related services…

  • In their honor

    Humble, Kerr honored for their bravery in life-threatening event By:David Koch    MANSFIELD — Township residents came out in full force last weekend to honor two Mansfield police officers who brought an end to a crazed soldier’s rampage.    A ceremony was held Sunday at the municipal building to salute Mansfield Police Chief James Humble and Lt.…

  • Two area townships to receive turnpike sound barriers

    Bordentown, Chesterfield townships to benefit By:Vanessa S. Holt    Two northern Burlington County municipalities along the New Jersey Turnpike will receive sound barriers this year to reduce the impact of highway noise on residents.    On April 9, it was announced by turnpike officials that Bordentown Township is slated to receive a 3,000-foot barrier running along the…

  • Rainfall aside, drought persists

    On average, total rain is four inches below normal By:Vanessa S. Holt    Don’t start washing your car at home just yet. The drought is far from over, despite several thunderstorms and a handful of rainy days over the past several weeks.    According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey is still in the…

  • Footprints: First to leave for war serenaded by city

    By: Iris Naylor    "No dangers too great; no trials too severe but found them ready and willing," was the way Samuel Toombs described the young men who left New Jersey in 1861 to defend our nation.    The first group to leave Lambertville, the Independent Rifle Corps with 83 members, departed by train at noon April…

  • Students portray Ellis Island immigrants

    Event part of social studies project By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — In antique shawls and old-fashioned hats, in uncomfortably warm coats and scarves on an unusually hot spring day, Peter Muschal Elementary School sixth-graders transformed into a huddled mass of immigrants making their way through Ellis Island.    And if the Ellis Island checkpoints were…

  • Write-in candidate waits to see if seat is available

    Russo launched successful write-in campaign By:Vanessa S. Holt    CHESTERFIELD — Township resident Marilyn Russo launched a successful last-minute write-in campaign for the newly created third seat on the Northern Burlington Board of Education, but ongoing legal maneuvers make her future on the board unclear.    "I just really found out last Friday (April 12) that the…

  • 4/25 OBITUARIES, pt. 2

    From the April 25 edition of the Register-News By: Lloyd A. Jones    HAMILTON — Lloyd A. Jones, 35, died April 15 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Manchester, England, he lived in Hamilton 33 years and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1985.    He was a fabricator/welder with A.R.J. Custom Fabrications…