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  • Manville pounds Bound Brook in softball rout

    Ortman stars with no-hitter, big bat By: Rudy Brandl    BOUND BROOK — Amy Ortman enjoyed the type of day every softball player dreams about last Friday afternoon at Tea Street Field in Bound Brook.    The Manville High junior fired a no-hitter and did major offensive damage to lead her team to an 18-1 blowout victory.…

  • Perhaps it’s time for another Boston Tea Party

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By: Ruth Luse To James E. McGreevey, governor, State of New Jersey:    I want to share with you, on behalf of many New Jersey residents who probably agree with me, my feelings about the auto insurance fiasco and the state’s budget worries.    While I have no idea where my state income tax dollars…

  • A witness to history

    Suse Rosenstock, in a 1991 interview, tells her story. By: Hank Kalet    Editor’s note: The following story was originally published in The South Brunswick Post in 1991 and an updated version was published in September 1996 in a special supplement on the exhibit "Anne Frank In the World: 1929-1945." Ms. Rosenstock died Tuesday, April 9.…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 04/18

    From the April 18 edition of the Register-News By: Resident responds to ‘injustice’ To the editor:     I am writing this letter in response to a letter written in the editorial section of the Bordentown Register (March 31 — "Man will not accept injustice.")    I would like to say that when we assume things without…

  • Footprints: Ice cream machine engine exploded

    By: Iris Naylor    A little over 100 years ago in April 1896, the residents of Church Street were shocked by a sudden loud noise.    The engine that ran the ice cream making equipment in John H. Stockton’s ice cream saloon had exploded. Two sides of the building were blown out, and the engine room looked…

  • 04/18 OBITUARIES, pt.1

    From the April 18 edition of the Register-News By: Grace A. Castner    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Grace A. Castner, 84, died April 12 at Medford Leas Retirement Community in Medford.    Born in Lebanon, Pa., she lived in the Bordentown area since 1948.    She was a 1938 graduate of Jefferson Medical College School of Nursing, Philadelphia, and…

  • Free veterans seminar to be held at senior center

    Talk to be held April 27 By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Local veterans are invited to learn more about health care and other benefits available to them at a free seminar at the Bordentown Township Senior Center on April 27.    Andrew Law, commander of American Legion Post 26, said the idea for the seminar…

  • Letters

    U.S. needs non-terrorist allies To the editor:    Unfortunately, much media coverage of events in the Middle East is based more on pre-determined notions than actual events.    Biased conjecture has replaced hard facts until repetitive sloganized fiction has become the idiom of NBC, CBS, National Public Radio and public television. This is highlighted by their steadfast…

  • Delaware Avenue drainage project nears completion

    Final black-topping of the road was expected to be completed early this week. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — Delaware Avenue is about to get back to its old self.    The City Council heard a report from City Clerk Mary Sheppard on Monday night that the drainage project under Delaware Avenue is ready to start transporting…