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  • HIGHTSTOWN HAPPENINGS: PHOTOS: Week of March 8

    HIGHTSTOWN HAPPENINGS: PHOTOS: Week of March 8

    Batista Hightstown Police Director James LeTellier says Mayor Steven Kirson threatened his job after he spoke out about issues – including code violations – concerning the temporary police station at 415 Mercer St. The director attends the March 4 Borough Council meeting at the First Aid building on Bank Street. Mayor Kirson denied the police…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Teens showcase spirit of 1940s in spring musical

    HIGHTSTOWN: Teens showcase spirit of 1940s in spring musical

       HIGHTSTOWN — Ready for some 1940s music?    Hightstown High School will present “Guys and Dolls” on Friday and Saturday, March 8 and March 9, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, at 3 p.m. in the high school auditorium.    Tickets will be on sale at the door at $10 for adults and $8 for students…

  • HERALD: Local Easter egg hunts to hatch
  • NEW HOPE: Prohibition: Focus of April excursion

    NEW HOPE: Prohibition: Focus of April excursion

       Relive the exciting era of rumrunners, bootleggers, flappers and G-Men at the world premier of “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, on April 13.    Sponsored by The Community School of New Hope-Solebury, the motor coach will leave New Hope-Solebury High School, 180 W. Bridge St., New…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: FedEx tractor-trailer slowly leaked sodium hydroxide from Maine

    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: FedEx tractor-trailer slowly leaked sodium hydroxide from Maine

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Emergency personnel were removing pallets of various mixed corrosives at the Petro Truck Stop from a FedEx tractor-trailer that was leaking sodium hydroxide Saturday afternoon.    Police said the driver was carrying four different chemicals — phosphoric acid, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and inorganic phosphate.    There was a…

  • WEST AMWELL: Idea of third voting district rejected

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — The Township Committee decided during its Feb. 27 meeting not to add a third voting district in the township, but to add a second voting machine to the two existing districts instead, township clerk Lora Olsen said.    Due to concerns about the amount of time some people…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Kratovil born to ride

    HILLSBOROUGH: Kratovil born to ride

    By Chuck O-Donnell, Special Writer   The clock says 5 a.m., the thermometer reads 9 degrees, and there’s hardly a soul on the roads.    Hillsborough’s Joe Kratovil has a head start on the sunrise and the morning traffic as he rides his bike toward Sourland Mountain where the hills and dales will leave him with a…

  • HIGHTSTOWN HAPPENINGS: PHOTOS: Week of March 8

    HIGHTSTOWN HAPPENINGS: PHOTOS: Week of March 8

    Batista Second-grader Gianna Burzi, 7, of East Windsor, dresses as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in celebration of Read Across America March 1 at the Grace N. Rogers Elementary School in Hightstown. (Photo by Amy Batista)

  • Princyclopedia 2013: Journey to the Centre of the Earth