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  • LAMBERTVILLE: Transportation history session set

    LAMBERTVILLE: Transportation history session set

    A Bel Del crew takes a break to pose for a photo in 1890.

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

    UPPER FREEHOLD: Students compete in 3rd annual Spelling Bee

    The first and second place winners of the Stone Bridge Middle School Spelling Bee were Julian Tsang (left) and Deven Kinney. Staff photo by Joanne Degnan

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Town starts gun surrender program

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Town starts gun surrender program

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    Township police announced the start of Project Safe Surrender this week allowing residents to surrender unwanted guns to the agency without the fear of being charged with a crime.    ”We have always accepted firearms that residents wanted to surrender,” Chief of Police Raymond Hayducka said in a press release…

  • FLEMINGTON: Local office session set

       Want to be on a school board or be a member of your governing body?    ”School systems and local government are built on a solid foundation of interested and dedicated residents who choose to run for a school board and local government,” said Hunterdon County Clerk Mary Melfi.    So, it’s time for Clerk Melfi’s free…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Feds want new road at contaminated site

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    The federal government will try again for permission from Somerset County for a temporary easement to reach a contaminated “hot spot” on the former federal munitions depot off Mountain View Road.    After being rebuffed on using existing roads on the site, the government has applied to township planners to build…

  • ALLENTOWN: Newcomer Bliss settles in for Redbirds

    Novice wrestler off to 8-4 start By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    No one is more surprised than Anthony Bliss at the success he has had in his first year of varsity wrestling.    The Allentown High School junior hasn’t wrestled in three years, and never could have imagined he would start 8-4 as an undersized,…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Volunteer firefighters celebrate 50th anniversary

    ROBBINSVILLE: Volunteer firefighters celebrate 50th anniversary

    Dennis Symons Bob Thomson, Ruth Arnwine, Debbie Walker and Jim Merritt look through old photographs at a brunch celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Washington Volunteer Firemen. Mr. Thomson and Mr. Merritt are past presidents of the WVF and Mrs. Arnwine and Ms. Walker are life members of the WVF Ladies Auxiliary.…

  • 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…