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  • Some oppose restaurant expansion

    Letter to the editor    Amalfi’s cuisine, located on Lawrenceville-Pennington Road (on the old Buxton’s site), is planning an expansion. The present plan is to triple the size of the existing building, create a new parking lot with 100 parking spaces and offer banquet and catering facilities. Although many Lawrence Township residents patronize this restaurant and…

  • Township’s Alliger Tract fields report due tonight

    The Township Committee is expected to consider a preliminary cost estimate for the design of three athletic fields on the Alliger tract. The Hopewell Township engineer was expected to have the estimate ready in time for tonight’s meeting and possible vote on whether to proceed with the design By: Ruth Luse    When the Hopewell Township…

  • Lawrence stays above .500 mark

    Post 414The Lawrence Post 414 baseball squad continues to keep its head bobbing above the .500 mark. By: Steve Feitl    This past week, Lawrence earned a split, routing Ewing on Saturday, but falling to Princeton on Monday.    The split left Lawrence at 12-11 — one game over .500.    However, the record does not appear to…

  • New Jersey farmland: We get what we pay for

       Even though New Jersey’s precious farmland is vanishing at the alarming rate of 10,000 acres a year, the recent preservation of a 41-acre farm in Harding Township, Morris County, raised a few eyebrows. The issue has nothing to do with the farm itself, and everything to do with the price paid for the farm. By:Michele…

  • Senior softball teams split close ones

    Manville No.2 remains unbeaten By: Rudy Brandl    Manville No. 2 remained unbeaten and tied for first place in the Hillsborough Senior Softball League, but it certainly wasn’t easy.    Ron Klementovicz’s team had to fight back to take the lead and hold off an Immaculata rally to squeeze out a 6-5 victory. Manville No. 2 (4-0)…

  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 07/19

    From the July 19 edition of the Register-News By: 100 years ago    Monday evening, Nelly and Mary Clark, daughters of Rose Clark, Second Street, took a bath in Crosswicks Creek, near the Water Works. One got beyond her depth and the other went to her rescue. Both would doubtless have been drowned had not Wm.…

  • Clergy members say that religious tolerance goes hand in hand with their religion’s beliefs

    MATTERS OF FAITH By: Brian Shappell    It would appear that encouraging tolerance for religious diversity within a dogma that teaches that one’s faith is the correct faith would be a difficult task.    However, for four representatives of the South Brunswick religious community — Imam Hamad Ahmed Chebli from the Islamic Society of Central Jersey in…

  • Meeting to focus on American Revolution

    In an effort to make more people aware of New Jersey’s key role in the American Revolution, the Delaware and Raritan Greenway is hosting a public meeting on July 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Allentown Public Library on South Main Street. By: Sarah Winkelman    ALLENTOWN — During the American Revolution 225 years…

  • Freinds, community support first Gsell golf outing

    Proehl, O’Hara help raise foundation funds By: Rudy Brandl    Every man should be blessed with so many friends.    Former players, fellow coaches and teachers, friends and members of the Hillsborough community filled Royce Brook Golf Club for the first annual Otto Gsell Memorial Golf Classic. The outing, which was co-run by the Raider Touchdown Club…