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  • Police seek robbery suspect

    Lawrence police are looking for the man who assaulted and robbed a local merchant Jan. 12 at the First Union Bank at the Lawrence Shopping Center. Lawrence police are looking for a man who struck a local merchant in the head with a gun and stole the business’ nightly bank deposit outside the First Union…

  • HHS track athletes poised for big state showing

    Coach Refi confident after solid effort at Princeton Relays By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High winter track athletes faced their toughest competition of the year at Saturday’s Princeton Relays at Jadwin Gym. Although the Raiders didn’t win any events, the high caliber of the meet brought out the best in them.    Hillsborough’s fine performance…

  • The inner light

    Our Kam Williams had a chance to talk with film icon Jack Nicholson, a New Jersey native, about his latest movie — The Pledge, which opens this weekend — showbiz, and his relationship with the media. By: Kam Williams Jack Nicholson plays a cop who vows to find the killer of an 8-year-old girl in…

  • Before-school care considered

    By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE — Parents are concerned a proposed change in school starting times will alter families’ morning routines and have asked the Board of Education to look into provide before-school care for children.    If the changes are made to the starting times at Millstone Elementary School and Millstone Middle School, the district…

  • EDITORIAL: Too much cash flowing through local campaigns

       Enough is enough.    It’s time to limit campaign contributions in South Brunswick and make it easy for residents to find out who’s pumping cash into their council members’ pockets.    For the fourth straight election, township candidates have set new records for political fund raising, pushing the cost of running local campaigns higher and higher.    More…

  • Panel tours firms to review safety

    Advisory board determines Rhodia operates in a safe manner By: Amanda Bok    Rhodia Inc. manages and disposes of its hazardous chemicals safely.    That is the conclusion of a South Brunswick-area Community Advisory Panel made up of residents and representatives from local chemical companies, after a facilities tour of Rhodia, on Prospect Plains Road in Cranbury,…

  • Rough sailing for ship of state without captain

    EDITORIAL    The complications arising from Gov. Christie Whitman’s decision to leave office with nearly a year remaining in her second term are starting to mount up. As Ms. Whitman prepares to assume her new duties as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state government she leaves behind is only now beginning to come…

  • PARENTS SPEAK ABOUT START TIMES

    Millstone board postpones vote until Feb. 26Potential schedule conflicts were the primary concern of parents who attended Monday’s Board of Education meeting to discuss proposed changes in school starting times. By: Frank C. D’Amico    MILLSTONE — Potential schedule conflicts were the primary concern of parents who attended Monday’s Board of Education meeting to discuss proposed…

  • DISPATCHES: Recollections of a hero on his passing

    By: Hank Kalet To-day, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. — A.E. Housman "To an Athlete Dying Young"    Tommie Agee wasn’t the greatest player ever to wear a Mets uniform.    But when I was about 6 or 7, he…