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  • Committee mulls new lawbanning teen drinking

    Law would allow police to investigate private parties By:Laura Toto    The Township Committee was expected to introduce an ordinance last night that would close a legal loophole and give local police the authority to arrest teen-agers caught drinking on private property.    Under current state law, police may only charge minors with underage drinking if they…

  • DEP to provide open space funds

    Millstone has been awarded another state grant for open space preservation. By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE — The township has been awarded another state grant for open space preservation.    At the May 2 Township Committee meeting, Clerk Bonnie DeVitis read a letter from Department of Environmental Protection Assistant Commissioner Carl J. Wild stating Millstone would…

  • Photo helps answer half a century of questions

       That we have all been put on this earth for a purpose is a nice and quite popular way of looking at life. To receive confirmation of such a thing in one’s lifetime though, can be truly mind-blowing. By: Steve Bates    Zachary French, a Lawrenceville Elementary School student who lives on Shirley Lane, sparked this…

  • Going yard with the Yankees

    Billy Crystal’s ’61*’, a new HBO movie about the M&M boys’ chase for baseball immortality 40 years ago, has a Princeton connection. By: Matt Smith    In the 1989 baseball movie Field of Dreams, a God-like voice in an Iowa cornfield urges a farmer played by Kevin Costner to "Ease his pain," referring to the character’s…

  • Septic solutions should be sought in township now!

    EDITORIAL By: Ruth Luse    Will the decision not to go with the ill-fated Trenton sewer connection — like the early 1980s decision not to build the missing link of I-95 through Hopewell Township — be one local government officials will rue in the years to come?    Only time will tell.    However, given Hopewell Township engineer…

  • Girls track team sets four records

    The Allentown High girls’ track team set numerous school records while placing fifth in its division at the Holmdel Relays. By: Kyle Moylan    The Allentown High girls’ track team set numerous school records while placing fifth in its division at the Holmdel Relays.    "They are really coming along nicely," Allentown coach Jacqueline Mulryne noted. "They…

  • School reopens after water contamination problem corrected

       CHESTERFIELD — Chesterfield Elementary School reopened with full-day sessions this week after a report of possible water contamination closed the school for part of last week. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Routine tests conducted at the end of April revealed the presence of total coliform and fecal coliform bacteria in the water supply, said Chief School Administrator…

  • Panel to unveil new school map

    The committee will present its redistricting plans Tuesday and Wednesday in Crossroads School. By: Amanda Bok    The school redistricting committee will unveil its plans to the community next week.    The committee will present its redistricting plans Tuesday and Wednesday in Crossroads School.    "What’s important is that the community will see where we are at with…

  • DWI suspect’s ID proves elusive

       Janusz Zegaldo, 31, of Linden was charged with driving while intoxicated 9:25 a.m. April 28, according to police.    Police received a complaint of an erratic driver near Beekman Lane and Conover Drive. Police reported they observed the vehicle Mr. Zegaldo was driving drifting to the left side of Peterson Street before it crossed the roadway’s…