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  • Family thanks LHS for a job well done

    Letter to the editor:    Before the new school year begins, I want to thank and praise the faculty and staff of Lawrence High School. Our son Alex, graduated with the class of 2001 and, as impossible as it seems, is ready to head off to college.    I feel his time at LHS was a great…

  • OBITUARIES 08/30

    From the Aug. 30 edition of the Register-News By: Geraldine E. Jackson    TRENTON — Geraldine E. "Gerry" Jackson, 65, died Aug. 20 at Capital Health System at Fuld Hospital.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong resident.    She was a crossing guard with the Trenton police for more than 30 years.    Daughter of the late…

  • Meyer’s Blood Purifier contributes to the health of wildlife

    SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By: Heather Lovett    If what they say about purple coneflower is true, we’ve got some mighty healthy wildlife at our place. I keep trying to grow it in my garden, but every summer the plants are eaten to the ground, usually before they get a chance to bloom. (Every summer until this…

  • Township eyes land for COAH

    Millstone looks to purchase properties on Route 537 for affordable housing space. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — To satisfy state requirements to provide space for affordable housing, the Township Committee is expected to adopt an ordinance next week that appropriates approximately $500,000 for the purchase of two family properties on Route 537.    Through the Fair…

  • ‘O’

    A Charleston, S.C., high school is the setting for this ambitious basketball adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello.’   [R] By: Kam Williams    You can’t tell a book by its movie. How far can a filmmaker stray from a Shakespeare classic and still sell it as an adaptation?    Considerably, according to Tim Blake Nelson, director of O, a contemporary…

  • White Knuckle Flying

    Climb aboard a Blanik glider, a barn-storming Great Lakes trainer and an open-cockpit Stearman. By: Jodi Thompson Treasure Island on the Delaware River, just above Point Pleasant, Pa., photographed looking down the wing of a Stearman biplane. Staff photo by Jodi Thompson    At 3,000 feet above sea level, the Delaware River looks even lovelier than…

  • Contamination found in well

    Tests confirm one resident’s drinking water is contaminated by high levels of the gasoline additive MTBE. By: Brian Shappell    Township tests of a private well on Friendship Road confirm one resident’s drinking water is contaminated by high levels of the gasoline additive MTBE, but well water at seven other nearby houses on Friendship, Culver and…

  • Officials hope to procure driving simulator for teens

       BORDENTOWN CITY — Imagine driving with a flat tire, through heavy snow or thick fog, or through a busy and dangerous intersection while still holding a learner’s permit. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Although no one would want her 16-year-old son or daughter to plunge into hazardous driving conditions before even taking a driver’s test, young drivers…

  • George Middleton, anti-slavery congressman

    HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: A look at the Allentown-Upper Freehold of the past. By:    From Charles H. Fidler’s Local History Sketches, Allentown Messenger Aug. 29, 1912:    About the first industries established in Allentown after Nathan Allen had built his gristmill were some tanneries, but there is not much known concerning their history. About 1743, Moses Robbins founded…