Category: archives
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Golf tournament predicted to draw 100,000
The Senior Professional Golf Association’s Instinet Classic begins at the Tournament Players Club at Jasna Polana on Monday. By: Jane Karlicek Fore!!! The Senior Professional Golf Association’s Instinet Classic is coming to the Tournament Players Club at Jasna Polana next week, bringing with it scores of golf players, golf lovers and traffic. And area police,…
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They will build ugly ego houses
LETTER TO EDITOR By: William Schmidt Our Hopewell Township neighbors and political leaders are proposing to upzone to four and six acre lots in the name of open space and keeping the township "rural." I doubt that the owners of those lots will be growing food for the starving in sub-Sahara Africa or for the…
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Post 26 still hoping to gain Legion playoff berth
By:Sean Moylan Coming into this year’s American Legion season, Bordentown Post 26’s Chris Larcome was still recuperating from a broken hand and Bordentown manager Tom Dolan had no idea what Larcome could give him. What Larcome has given Post 26 is one fantastic performance after another. And none were greater than his 5-0, three-hit,…
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WEEKEND PICKS
Blood drive; Foreign film festival; Music in the park Summer blood drive New Jersey Blood Services will conduct a blood drive today, Friday, noon-5:30 p.m. in the Immaculate Conception School Cafeteria, Manalapan Road, Spotswood, Blood is always needed to be available in case of emergencies. Traditionally, the advent of summer brings about more accidents and…
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Firehouse no longer prime site for tower
County freeholders identified alternate site along Route 130 By:Jeff Mikalaitis BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The Burlington County Board of Freeholders no longer is considering the Mission Fire Company, on Groveville Road, as a primary site for a proposed public safety radio communications tower. In a letter to John D. Kinsley Jr., chairman of the Board…
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SBAA 10’s win a pair of titles
South Brunswick tops Edison, 9-7, for Piscataway Tournament crown By: Ken Weingartner Winning any tournament is an accomplishment. Triumphing in a pair of tourneys with extremely large fields is even better. And that’s how the South Brunswick Athletic Association 10-year-old all-stars have started the summer. The squad has won two 18-team events, the East Amwell…
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GOP candidates misreprented Krame situation
To the editor: I am writing in response to Tony Gwiazdowski and Mike Avolio’s letter in last week’s Hillsborough Beacon. I am very disheartened to see that the "Silly Season" of campaign shenanigans has begun with such blatant misinformation. In this letter, Tony Gwiazdowski and Mike Avolio state that the land where the Krame shopping…
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POST FORUM: Master Plan
What would you like to see included in a new township master plan? What would you like to see included in a new township master plan?
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Florence resident to serve as assignment judge
Judge John A. Sweeney will succeed Judge Harold B. Wells III By:Vanessa S. Holt FLORENCE – Judge John A. Sweeney fondly remembers his first job delivering the Florence Township News when he was 12 years old. He still lives in the township, but Judge Sweeney, now 58 and serving in the Criminal Division of…
