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  • Lawrence impressive in loss to Steinert

    Baseball By: Mike Molaro    Statistics can show a team’s won-loss record, but they can’t measure the size of that team’s heart and soul.    It would be quite easy for the Lawrence High School baseball squad to play out the string and wrap up its 2000 season.    But that’s not the philosophy Brian Carter has brought…

  • D&R Greenway benefit June 4

    Good Times Galas at ETS    What do an afternoon of dressage, a canoe trip, a Trenton Thunder game and a flyfishing outing have in common? They are all events ready for sale at the First Annual Good Times Galas for the Greenway fund-raiser to benefit Delaware & Raritan Greenway, central New Jersey’s regional land conservancy.…

  • Cardinals draw Wall in states

    Softball By: Steve Feitl    A year ago a young, inexperienced Lawrence High School softball team traveled to Wall for a second-round Central Jersey Group III tournament game.    The Cardinals were defeated, 4-0.    Today (Thursday), an older, veteran-filled Cardinal squad will again travel to Wall for another second-round state tournament contest.    Much like the difference in…

  • Millstone Township Committee candidates

    Four battling in GOP primary By: Frank C. D’Amico        MILLSTONE — The June 6 primary features four Republicans vying to be their party’s two Township Committee candidates in the general election.    Mayor Cory Wingerter, a Republican seeking his second term on the board, is competing with Mark Cascella, Carol Nelson and Joseph Stasek.    The…

  • Editorial

       “Joan went to work on Monday, and just for going to work, she died.”    Perhaps nothing sums up the tragic death of 54-year-old Joan Eschen of Delaware Township as well as the words of Lambertville Mayor David Del Vecchio. Those words were spoken to TV crews and newspaper reporters at the emotional scene of the…

  • West Amwell preparing township Web site

    By: Graham Strouse        WEST AMWELL — A few months ago, Nance Palladino was learning the ropes of Web design from sixth-graders.    Now the township committeewoman finds herself in the unlikely role of assistant Web master for the municipality’s official — but as yet unnamed — Web site.    The site, which should be launched by…

  • Marie Ettere, 65

       HILLSBOROUGH — Marie M. (DiGiosafatto) Ettere died Saturday, May 20, 2000, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She was 65.    Born in Italy, Mrs. Ettere came to the United States in 1939, residing in Manville. She lived in South Plainfield for 20 years before moving to Hillsborough in 1983.    Mrs. Ettere was employed at the former…

  • Residents fear rail line’s impact

    By: Matthew Armstrong    Freight trains lumber through South Brunswick sporadically, making houses next to the tracks tremble ever so slightly.    At night, the rumble of these slow-moving freight trains can be enough to wake up those who haven’t gotten used to it yet — residents new to the area.    Children ride their bikes to their…

  • Lambertville parade nearly has no grand marshal

    By: Cynthia Williamson        LAMBERTVILLE — The annual Memorial Day Parade will kick off, rain or shine, at 9 a.m. Monday from the Village Square Shopping Center on Cherry Lane.    The grand marshal of this year’s parade is city resident Ed Nalence, a Navy World War II veteran, who was selected by fellow members at…