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  • Firefighters offer thanks for donations

    To the editor    On Saturday, Sept. 22, the officers and firefighters of the Hillsborough Township Volunteer Fire Co. No. 2 held a "fill the boot" fund drive in front of the fire house on Route 206, to raise money for the Policemen’s and Firefighter’s widow and orphans fund of New York City.    We at Fire…

  • Proposed telecommunications tower would be near Routes 31-518 intersection

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING UPDATE By: Marianne Hooker    At its Oct. 3 meeting, the Hopewell Valley Zoning Board of Adjustment heard initial testimony on an application by Voice Stream Wireless which would allow construction of a new 150-foot telecommunications tower.    The proposed tower would be located on a site off Route 31, just north of the…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Suspicious letter forces closure of police department, clerk’s office

    The envelope, which did not bear a return address, leaked a white powder. By: Lea Kahn    The Lawrence Township Police Department and the Municipal Clerk’s Office were closed briefly Thursday morning after a white powder leaked from a piece of mail.    Chief of Police John Prettyman was sorting through the morning’s mail around 11 a.m.…

  • Park soon to open thanks to caring residents

    Close to 35 residents helped out By:Vanessa S. Holt    BORDENTOWN CITY — Thanks to the efforts of a group of local volunteers, Second Street Park is almost ready to open up to neighborhood children this fall.    About 35 residents helped install the main playground equipment at the park on Saturday, many of them bringing along…

  • Homework Blues

    Once a songwriter for Diana Ross and Kool & the Gang, Buckingham, Pa., resident Cathy Block now directs a charismatic group of young performers Oct. 20. By: Jodi Thompson    The situations and dilemmas are universal. Kids worry about the first day of school, fashion crises, getting busted for passing notes and not being invited to…

  • Florence football runs down another impressive win

    Flashes win, 34-6 By:Sean Moylan    Florence’s running backs piled up an amazing 309 more yards rushing in the Florence Township Memorial High School boys’ varsity football team’s 34-6 drubbing over Maple Shade last Saturday night.    That gives the Flashes over 600 yards on the ground in two games.    Phenomenal stuff.    Led by the success of…

  • POLICE BEAT 10/18

    From the Oct. 18 edition of the Register-News By: BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP    Richard Theriault Jr., 36, of Troy, Vt., was charged with theft of services, police said.    On Sept. 25, police responded to the Iron Skillet Restaurant at the Petro Truck Stop on a report of someone walking out of the restaurant without paying his bill,…

  • Footprints: Residents fretted about condition of streets

    By: Iris Naylor    Allow no one to tell you your ancestors didn’t have a sense of humor.    They had to have in order to survive those days of ankle-deep mud in the rainy seasons and inch-thick dust in the dry seasons. Oh, they complained, vehemently and regularly, in the pages of The Beacon.    In the…

  • Local man’s body is recovered

    Man was missing since Oct. 4 By:Vanessa S. Holt    SPRINGFIELD — The body of a township man missing since Oct. 4 was found last week in a minivan that had fallen down an embankment and into a creek off Route 537, said state police.    State police Sgt. Al Della Fave said a state trooper noticed…