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  • HILLSBOROUGH: Build a gingerbread house and help school’s theater

    HILLSBOROUGH: Build a gingerbread house and help school’s theater

    Hillsborough High School theater students demonstrate building a gingerbread house can be fun. From left are Kate Mochnacz (a senior), Lauren Wohlmacher (junior), Henry Toke (sophomore) and Jess Roman (senior). Money raised at the Dec. 9 "Bring It or Build It" will help Hillsborough theater students help pay for a trip to an international stage…

  • LAWRENCE: Attic fire extinguished

    LAWRENCE: Attic fire extinguished

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A house at 175 Arcadia Ave., in the Eldridge Park neighborhood, was damaged by a fire Tuesday night that started in an attic crawlspace on the second floor of the house, according to Lawrence Township officials.    The fire was reported at 6:35 p.m., and volunteer firefighters from the Slackwood, Lawrence…

  • MANVILLE: 2012 was quite a year for significant anniversaries

    Editor’s Notebook By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor     We’re winding down a year that held an astounding number of significant anniversaries.     Just culling the list to a few events of 50, 100 and 200 years ago boggles the mind.     We were reminded in October of the 13 days in 1962 when we stood…

  • LAWRENCE: Fire destroys parked car

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A fire that started in a car parked outside a home on Brunswick Pike destroyed the car and nearly touched off a fire in the house shortly after noon on Nov. 29, according to Lawrence Township Fire Marshal Dale Robbins.    The victim came out of the house, which was located…

  • SOCIAL SECURITY – Fact Sheet

    By David Vinokurov – Social Security District Manager n Trenton, NJ Fact Sheet SOCIAL SECURITY Ø In 2012, over 56 million Americans will receive $778 billion in Social Security benefits. December 2011 Beneficiary Data ο Retired workers 36 million $44.7 billion $1,234 average monthly benefit dependents 2.9 million $ 1.8 billion ο Disabled workers 8.7…

  • LETTER: ‘If You Give a Voter a School Referendum…’

    From Julie Lichtenstein, Robbinsville One of my all time favorite children’s books is “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” The book chronicles the adventures of a mouse and all of the subsequent events that happen if you give the mouse a cookie. A failed Robbinsville school expansion referendum will set off a chain reaction…

  • LAWRENCE: Attic fire extinguished

    LAWRENCE: Attic fire extinguished

    Lawrence firefighters look into the attic of a house on Arcadia Avenue Tuesday night. Staff photo by Lea Kahn

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Teens invited to audition for musical ’13’

        Teens are invited to audition in mid-December for a role in the musical “13,” which will be presented by the Somerset Valley Players from April 12 to May 5.     Needed are seven teenage boys and six teenage girls, all 13-17.     Auditioners should be prepared to sing 32 bars of a pop/rock or…

  • Living Nativity

    Living Nativity

    GSLC Living Nativity