Category: archives
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Drug alliance seeking assistance
By: Nicole Taylor UPPER FREEHOLD – A local organization is looking for new members to assist in its fight against drug and alcohol abuse. The Allentown/Upper Freehold Alliance to Prevent Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, referred to by its members as "the Alliance," has worked for 10 years to deter drug and alcohol abuse in the…
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Margaret J. Lisi
Margaret J. Lisi, died Saturday at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a resident of Kendall Park for 32 years. She retired in 1988 from Public Service Mutual Services Co. of New York after 25 years as an assistant manager in compensation claims. A brother, Joseph, is deceased. Surviving are her two sisters, Dorothy…
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Retired teacher, artist to pen new Chit-Chat
Merle Citron is scurrying about town, gathering items for popular column By: Mae Rhine LAMBERTVILLE – Her smile is infectious; her love of life and people unfeigned. Her happiness and enjoyment of just being alive is evident in every gesture, every word. She’s Merle Citron: artist, mother, teacher, wife and now gossip columnist. Ms.…
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City man charged with sexually assaulting boy
By: Sue Kramer LAMBERTVILLE – A Ferry Street man was arrested Friday by detectives from the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office and charged with two counts of sexual assault against a minor. Joseph Kerekes, 55, of 66 Ferry St. was arrested after the victim’s father reported the two assaults, which he said occurred over a…
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Time to make better investment in people
KIDS AND COMMUNITY By: Judy Shepps Battle It’s national presidential convention time, and the air will soon be saturated with utopian promises from all contenders. We can expect to be inundated with cries such as "Select me and this country will have quality affordable health care!" or "I can bring about full employment and crime-free…
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Chiropractor feels at home
Opens business in Allentown By: Mark Moffa ALLENTOWN – Two weeks ago, six years after purchasing a house on North Main Street and five years after initiating the process to work out of her home, Dr. Kim Wojcik opened her chiropractic office. "The whole goal of all this was so that I could be here…
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William J. Krasnow
William J. Krasnow, 84, died July 27 at Genesis Elder Care Center, South Brunswick after a long illness. Born in New York, he lived in Long Island for 44 years before moving to the Rossmoor Senior Community in Monroe seven years ago. He had been an office manager for the New York Department of Social…
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Ducks, geese cause ‘piles’ of trouble at park
Fowl feces messing up Cavallo Park By: Les Sdorow LAMBERTVILLE – The city’s Lambertville’s duck and geese "problem" is truly multi-faceted, causing many residents and officials to cry "fowl!" To some it’s the mounds of "poop" the big birds deposit along the Delaware and Raritan Canal towpath, on the river shore line and even in…
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Clarksburg duo in Hambletonian Oaks
By: Ken Weingartner After seven career starts, ChinaStar still is looking to find her way to the winner’s circle. There would be no better time to make that trip than Saturday afternoon. Certainly, that’s the way owner-trainer Kerstin Milton sees it. The Clarksburg resident will be sending ChinaStar behind the gate for Saturday’s $500,000 Hambletonian…
