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  • Voter registration deadline is Oct. 10

       The League of Women Voters of Lawrence Township has issued a reminder to township voters that Tuesday, Oct. 10, is the last day to register for this year’s general election.    Lawrence voters will be deciding on the presidency, the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, county clerk, county freeholders and a ballot question to provide…

  • Stats look better than score for Florence football in 26-13 loss to Pennsville

    By:Sean Moylan        Before anybody starts writing an obituary for the Florence Township Memorial High School varsity football team after its 26-13 home loss to Pennsville on Saturday, they should check a stat sheet from the game. Florence had 301 combined rushing and passing yards to Pennsville’s 229 yards. In fact, Florence outpassed Pennsville 90…

  • Driven out by the flood, put on hold by paperwork

    Hillsborough resident wants to put flood behind her By:Minx McCloud    After the flood hit Manville in September 1999, Shirley Williams, who now lives with her adult son, Larry Balawender, in an apartment building in Hillsborough, wasn’t sure where she and her family would go.    She was sad and angry. Her home was all but destroyed,…

  • North Hanover’s PumpkinFest raises money for good causes

    Last year, event raised $10,000 By:Jeff Mikalaitis        NORTH HANOVER – Flip Pennypacker, the organizer of the township’s ninth annual PumpkinFest, said the day is not only a chance for North Hanover to celebrate the bounty of the land as an agricultural community, but also an opportunity to aid various volunteer organizations.    Last year, the…

  • Jim Lehrer tackles tough topics in novel

    BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman    Like many, particularly those who live without cable television, I’ve come to depend on Jim Lehrer as a news source. He, at least, restrains himself and his assembled panel of experts from comment until after the news event. Peter, Tom and Dan seem to think they are the news event,…

  • Titusville Methodists barbecued chicken

    It’s an annual event Bob and Ann Wills of Hopewell were among many who attended the annual Chicken Barbecue fund-raiser held at the Titusville Methodist Church on Sept. 9. A good meal, we hear, was had by all!

  • Scramble sponsors mount

    MAIN STREET CORNER    By the time the Fourth Annual Main Street Scramble concludes Friday, it will surely go down as one of the most successful events in the history of Lawrenceville Main Street.    This year, Lawrenceville Main Street has been able to garner a record number of corporate sponsors for the event, meaning that this…

  • ShopRite seeks final Planning Board approval

    By: Lea Kahn    An application for final site plan approval for a proposed grocery store and an application for preliminary and final site plan approval for a proposed senior citizens housing development top the Planning Board’s agenda next week.    The Planning Board will meet Monday at 7 p.m. to consider the final site plan application…

  • Robert Kyle

    By: Staff    HIGHTSTOWN – Robert J. Kyle, 87, died Tuesday at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Graveside service will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Brainerd Cemetery, Cranbury.    Arrangements are by A.S. Cole Funeral Home, Cranbury.