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  • Walton, Lynch homer in opening win

    By:Sean Moylan        With Jaimie Walton and Taryn Lynch both blasting home runs in the Bordentown 12-year-old girl’s all-star softball team’s 21-2 win over Woodbridge last Thursday, it felt just like the good old days.    Yet, for this talented Bordentown club from District 12, the good old days are now!    By winning the game convincingly…

  • Police looking at burglaries

       A string of burglaries involving two law firms, a doctor’s office and a food service, which occurred between July 14 and July 17, netted the thieves $392 in cash, according to police. The break-ins may be related, they said.    The burglars took $200 in cash from the cash box in the comptroller’s office at the…

  • Toddler’s Village action delayed

    Zoners have traffic concerns By: Marianne Hooker    At its July 12 meeting, the Hopewell Township Zoning Board of Adjustment heard initial testimony on a conditional use variance request involving the expansion of the Toddler’s Village day care center on Yard Road.    However, the board postponed action on this case so that a study can be…

  • Julia J. Zajac

       Julia J. Zajac, 89, of Lawrence died Monday at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.    Arrangements are by Lisiecki Memorial Home, Trenton.

  • Nervous wreck? Blame the ‘news’

    MOST THINGS CONSIDERED by Minx McCloud    A noted psychologist recently said we could reduce our stress greatly if we simply stopped listening to the news.    To tell you the truth, the news doesn’t bother me so much as what’s in-between. Take the morning shows, for example. You have the usual reports of starvation, strife in…

  • Township waits to finish Krame paperwork

    ‘Better safe than sorry,’ mayor says of DOT moratorium By:David Learn Even with a green light from two of the township’s attorneys, Mayor Joseph Tricarico thinks it would be best to wait a while before closing out all the paperwork on the Hillsborough Promenade.    The Planning Board on July 13 approved the Krame Development shopping…

  • County clerk comes to Pennington Aug. 2

    Senior center is site for session    Mercer County Clerk Cathy DiCostanzo began a new "Bring Government to Our Seniors" campaign July 21 at the Lawrenceville Seniors Center. This was the first in a series of 11 such visits the County Clerk’s Office will make over the summer.    The program will run through the end of…

  • Need more vocal opposition to downzoning

    By:Stanley Stolarski    Two citizens have written letters to the editor in opposition to the Hopewell Township ordinances. We need more people like these writing letters to the editor. There have been good editorials and articles questioning the ordinances.    The best thing about these ordinances is they caused many citizens to take time to attend these…

  • Nervous wreck? Blame the news coverage

    By:Minx McCloud        A noted psychologist recently said we could reduce our stress greatly if we simply stopped listening to the news.    To tell you the truth, the news doesn’t bother me so much as what’s in-between. Take the morning shows, for example. You have the usual reports of starvation, strife in foreign countries, plane…