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  • Students get ready for Cafe Night

    Event celebrates five-year anniversary By:David Koch    FLORENCE — Those who want to see the Florence High School Jazz Ensemble Band’s fifth annual Cafe Night this weekend will have to hurry to purchase remaining tickets.    Tickets for the band’s Saturday night show at the Middle School’s Multi-Purpose Room have been sold out, but people interested in…

  • Committee reaches budget consensus

    Budget trimmed by $99K By:David Koch    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A consensus was reached between the Township Committee and Fire District 2 Board of Commissioners which would have reduced almost $100,000 from the failed budget and keep the fire tax at last year’s rate.    The Township Committee unanimously passed a motion Monday night to reach a…

  • Council permits mayor to sign 20-year lease with NJ Transit

    Lease expected to be signed by the end of the week By:Vanessa S. Holt    FLORENCE — The Township Council passed a resolution last week authorizing the mayor to sign a 20-year lease with NJ Transit, which plans to build a light rail station at the site of the former Roebling Steel Mill.    Mayor Michael Muchowski…

  • Entrepreneurs turn to venture capital

    ‘You have a different kind of insight into a company. Sometimes the numbers don’t tell the entire story.’ By: David Campbell    Area techies are moving from running firms to funding them, according to attorney David Sorin of the firm Hale and Dorr in Princeton.    Mr. Sorin, whose practice focuses on emerging growth and high-tech businesses…

  • SBHS girls had solid winter track season

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    There wasn’t much cause for the winter blues around the South Brunswick High School track this past season. Along with other area teams, the Lady Vikings took advantage of unusually mild weather to work on their skills. They ended up with another solid year in the books, and emerged as one…

  • New Hope dubbed ‘The Little Apple’

    The borough will get a $316,000 Transportation Enhancement Act grant from the state for a new canal walk. By: Carl Reader    NEW HOPE — Borough Council member Geraldine Delevich put a shine on the "Little Apple" at Tuesday night’s meeting.    Reading from an account in the Philadelphia Inquirer of how New Hope now is being…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 03/14

    From the March 14 edition of the Register-News By: 100 years ago    Since the Burlington and Camden jails have been quarantined, justices of the peace of both counties found their business curtailed. Another feature of the small box embargo is that arrangements for the trials of indicted parties had to be postponed until the blockade…

  • U.S. has limits on stem cell research

    The issue of regenerating cells has proven sticky for legislators because stem cells often are taken from human embryos. By: George Frey    Today, there is no way to cure some tissues damaged in the body, so scientists hope that they will someday be able to regenerate different specific cells through stem cell procedures.    As early…

  • Leonard Karr

       Leonard Karr died Sunday, March 10, at Scottsdale Health Care Center in Scottsdale, Ariz.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he moved to Monroe in 1985.    Prior to his retirement, Mr. Karr was an Architectural Draftsman for Williamsburg Steel in Brooklyn, N.Y.    A World War II Army veteran, he was a congregant of The Jewish Congregation of…