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  • Histroical society event just peachy

       BORDENTOWN CITY — Old-fashioned summer fun with homemade desserts and good company will return tomorrow with the second annual Peach Festival sponsored by the Bordentown Historical Society at the Friends Meeting House on Farnsworth Avenue. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Doris Gorman, recording secretary for the society, said 150 people turned out for last year’s event despite…

  • State accepts plan for school repair projects

    State aid will cover as much as 40 percent of the costs, if voters approve referendum By:Regina Tan    Voters may see the $2 million school improvement referendum for building upgrades in Manville schools early next year, according to Superintendent Francis X. Heelan.    On Tuesday night, the Board of Education passed a motion to accept the…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 08/16

    From the Aug. 16 edition of the Register-News By: 110 years ago    Complaints have been made against the miserable light now furnished by the Gas Company. Two months since, after decreasing the schedule of prices, the company began to furnish a substitute for gas, the new light being made from some sort of oil. Private…

  • Local artist enlisted for painted horses project

    A horse is a horse, unless of course, that horse is an 8-foot-tall fiberglass rocking horse. By:Alec Moore    Hillsborough resident Joe Recchia, an aspiring professional artist, is one of 49 New Jersey artists who have been commissioned to transform more than 50 bare fiberglass horse sculptures into works of art as part of Horseplay in…

  • Officials pushing for cleanup

    Fight continues to remediate gas station site in Millstone. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — The fight to clean up a 13-year-old environmental problem is going beyond local boundaries.    John Finley, chairman of the Millstone Township Environmental Commission, recently sent a letter to the Township Committee requesting that no further delays in remediation — or cleanup…

  • Stanley Bogdzewicz

    TRENTON — Stanley Bogdzewicz, 80, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, in Lawrence.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong resident.    An Army veteran of World War II, he served with the 63rd Armored Infantry of the 11th Armored Division in the battles of Ardennes and Rhineland.    He retired in 1968 after 25 years with Lawrence Hose…

  • ‘Rat Race’

    The celebrity and laugh quotients are high in this silly, side-splitting road show.   [PG-13] By: Kam Williams    If you’ve ever seen It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), then you already know the basic plot of Rat Race, a pot o’ gold comedy directed by Jerry Zucker. The original featured an ensemble cast of kooky…

  • Child porn investigation nets local arrest

    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A township man was one of 100 people arrested nationwide as part of Project Avalanche, a two-year investigation of subscribers to a Web site that included child pornography. By:Michael Arges    Thomas Joseph Maugeri, 50, of Ward Avenue was arrested July 11 as he took delivery of a package he apparently believed to…

  • TDR programs are an effective way to combat sprawl

       Many eyebrows shot up when the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) paid a politically connected cranberry grower — who had previously been cited for a major wetlands violation — $3 million to permanently preserve his land in the New Jersey Pinelands. By:Michele S., Byers    But appearances can be deceiving, especially to a public mind…