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  • Marguerite Barberian

       Marguerite Barberian, 71, died Sept. 30 at Tandem Health Care, Lawrenceville.    Born in Trenton, she was a longtime Lawrenceville resident.    She retired in 1995 after 35 years of service as a secretary for Public Service Electric and Gas.    She was a member of the PSE&G Retired Members Club.    Daughter of the late Artin and Mary…

  • Vitamin House success in town, on Net

    COMMUNITY OUTLOOK By: Lisa Hosfield    If you’re following the path to good health and nutrition, you need not leave Lawrence Township. Located at 1900 Princeton Pike, you’ll find The Vitamin House, owned by Ken Housworth.    Mr. Housworth opened the store in July 1988. The location is also home to a barber shop, hairdresser and various…

  • CAMPAIGN CORNER

    Edition of Oct.5 No easy answers To the editor: Our community is now on a path which most of us did not wish to travel – one with great divisiveness around the issues of mega corporations and huge housing developments. Our beautiful vistas are threatened. Each month our Environmental Commission and Planning Board receive more…

  • Bridge to be closed until Thanksgiving

    When it rains, Shabakunk Creek floods and delays the work By: Lea Kahn    The new bridge across the Shabakunk Creek on Princeton Pike is not expected to be completed much before Thanksgiving, according to Mercer County officials.    The mid-October completion date for work on the bridge, which is located near the Lawrence Shopping Center, has…

  • Distraught writer emotionally bushwhacks policeman

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED By:Minx McCloud    Everyone has a breaking point, I guess, and I reached mine on Saturday.    I had promised my (slightly crazed) father I would travel up to Connecticut for the third time that week to visit my ailing mother. When my husband told me he had to work, I knew I would…

  • Democrats hold developers’ smoking gun

    To the editor:    Although the "gunshot," representing the Democratic decision to approve Bill Krame’s massive Promenade shopping mall for Route 206, is already speeding toward the heart of our township, I’m worried about the two other shots that are "hanging fire" until after the election.    Unfortunately, the Promenade was not the only major developer’s proposal…

  • OBITUARIES 10/05

    From the Oct. 5 edition of the Register-News By: Carolyn Hammons    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – Carolyn Barbara Hammons, 75, died Sept. 27 at Arcadia Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Hamilton.    Born in Piscataway, she lived in New Brunswick before moving to Bordentown in 1962.    She enjoyed writing poems and short stories.    Daughter of the late Francesco Barratta…

  • Princessville Cemetery to receive face-lift

    Township groups coming together to save history Having restored the Brearley House, township officials have turned their attention to the Princessville Cemetery – the small graveyard on the corner of Princeton Pike and the dirt road that leads to the township-owned farmhouse. By: Lea Kahn    The Princessville Cemetery was reclaimed from the weeds about 25…

  • Family hopes relief from tumor lies in Colorado

    Kristi Pope, 10, suffers from brain cyst By:Eric Schwarz    Kristi Pope, a 10-year-old girl suffering from a rare brain cyst, will have surgery in two weeks that could be the first step toward recovery from a disease that has confronted her for most of her life.    Kristi met with doctors at Denver Children’s Hospital during…