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  • Promenade all wrong for Hillsborough

    By:Anthony Gwiazdowski Jr. and Mike Avolio To the editor:    As Republican candidates for Hillsborough Township Committee, we held a press conference on at 3 p.m. June 27, two days prior to the Hillsborough Township Planning Board meeting which was to decide the outcome of a builder’s suit to have a 394,000-square foot shopping mall half…

  • School safety panel calls year a success

    By: Matthew Armstrong    The Safe and Caring Schools Committee was very busy in its first six months in operation, trying to make the schools safer and improve the feeling of community in a school of 1,800 students.    "We ended on a real high note, tackling the issues that parents and students really cared about and…

  • Monmouth groups join train fight

    Opposition to rail spreads By: Matthew Armstrong    A proposed rail line through central New Jersey seems to have less support than once purported, and opposition to the rail line appears to be on the rise.    Two Howell-based citizen groups have been organizing recently in opposition to the line, and NJ Transit is acknowledging that the…

  • Blood supplies dip during summer

    Red Cross asks for donors By: Mae Rhine    Managing Editor?    The sun is shining, and people’s thoughts are geared toward vacations and other summertime activities.    It’s the time of year the Red Cross and other blood donation-gathering organizations dread because "it’s so easy to forget that blood donations are needed every day," says Malayna Johnson,…

  • Library program encourages summer reading

    By: David Weinstein    Grab a book from the South Brunswick Library. Read it for fun. Fill out a form. Win a prize.    This is a summer-months chain of events children and young adults in the township have been a part of for 10 years or more, and this summer is no different.    The Ticket to…

  • Post office joins breast cancer fight

    By:    ALLENTOWN – Acting Postmaster Joe Pepe said he is calling on all borough residents to help "fund the fight and find a cure" for breast cancer.    "The Allentown Post Office has joined a nationwide campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research by encouraging the use of a special fund-raising stamp on all their…

  • City couple partners in love, emergency services

    Patrick and Sharon Eckard volunteer for squad, fire companies By: Sue Kramer        An ongoing series about men and women emergency services volunteers.    LAMBERTVILLE – She can read his mind and he still asks her out on "dates."    After eight years of marriage, Patrick and Sharon Eckard still take so much delight in each other’s…

  • City may settle with developers

    Settlement talks in works with Music Mountain tract owners By: Cynthia Williamson        LAMBERTVILLE – Settlement talks are in the works between the city and a pair of the developers who are taking the city to court over a zoning change that significantly reduces the number of houses they can build on about 56 acres…

  • Library repairs moving in stages

    By: Kristy Klaus        ALLENTOWN – Renovations to the public library will be taken step by step.    Elaine Saullo, library board president, said the renovations are occurring in stages, and the board has applied recently for a New Jersey Historical Trust Grant to help restore the South Main Street 19th century structure.    "We just applied,…