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  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Students compete in 3rd annual Spelling Bee

    UPPER FREEHOLD: Students compete in 3rd annual Spelling Bee

    Spelling bee contestants seventh-grader Kaileigh McLaughlin, sixth-grader Luke Brown, and fifth-grader Arya Singh listen as Stone Bridge Middle School Principal Mark Guterl goes over the rules. Staff photo by Joanne Degnan

  • Join Women’s Overnight Retreat Jan. 25-26 at Marriott

    By Har Sinai Temple RSVP Now for Har Sinai’s 8th Annual Women’s Retreat HOPEWELL TWP. – There’s still time to reserve a spot among the women of Har Sinai Temple for the 8th Annual Women’s Retreat whose theme is "Celebrating Renewal: Caring for Ourselves and Our World."           Designed as a weekend of bonding among…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Girl Scout cookie selling season begins

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Girl Scout cookie selling season begins

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    DAYTON — Get ready for the annual Girl Scouts cookie sale and a new cookie to tempt the taste buds.    Yesterday marked the beginning of the annual sale of Girl Scout cookies for the central and southern New Jersey (GSCSNJ) area.    GSCSNJ services girls who live in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden,…

  • New Hope walking tour slated Jan. 27

    New Hope walking tour slated Jan. 27

       Do you know where the first commercial bank in New Hope was located? How about the first general store; the first house with running water; the building that became a hospital for Revolutionary War soldiers?    These and many other questions about New Hope’s origins will be answered during the one-hour Walking Tour of Historic New…

  • CRANBURY: Puppy love lessons

    CRANBURY: Puppy love lessons

    By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer    CRANBURY — Eleven-year-old Isabel Kinney, of Cranbury, knows that while you may see some things with your eyes, you see others with your heart.    Starring as Helen Keller in The Pennington Players’ current production of “The Miracle Worker,” Isabel also recently became an official puppy raiser for The Seeing…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

       Editor’s note: Those responsible for sending us lists of 2013 meeting dates for local governing bodies, boards, commissions, etc., are urged to email them to us as soon as possible. Send to: [email protected]. Questions? Call 609-874-2177 except on Thursdays.    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP FIRE COMMISSIONERS: Jan. 17, 7 p.m. (public hearing and budget adoption), Municipal Building.    …

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Town rejects bids for two park rec buildings

    Building plans need to be scaled down and rebid By Charley Falkenburg, Special Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Township officials say the new recreation buildings planned for Blakely and Community parks will have to be scaled back because the initial bids for the projects came back significantly higher than expected.    The Township Council on Jan. 10 rejected…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: City, state park officials seek crosswalk

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The superintendent of New Jersey’s Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park has joined the government of Lambertville in asking the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to OK installation of a mid-block crosswalk on Bridge Street, near the point where the park’s towpath crosses that street.    The crosswalk is…

  • MONROE: Monroe BOE sues J’burg

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    MONROE — The Board of Education filed a lawsuit this week against the Jamesburg Board of Education, seeking back payments of more than $562,000 in debt service interest for its high school students, officials announced Wednesday night.    ”I just wanted to share with the board that we did officially file…