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  • New Hope Historical Society goes back on the road

       The New Hope Historical Society will board the bus on Oct. 3 for a day in Wilmington, Delaware.    Join the society for a tour of two du Pont properties.    The first is the Nemours Estate. The spectacular French-style mansion was built as a gift by Alfred I du Pont’s for his second wife on 3,000…

  • WEST AMWELL: Linksmen to gather for annual moneymaker

    WEST AMWELL: Linksmen to gather for annual moneymaker

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — Set to be held this fall for the seventh time is the annual West Amwell Golf Day, which has grown into quite a successful fundraising event for West Amwell Elementary and South Huntedon Regional High schools.    ”We raised less than $1,000 during the first Golf Day,” said…

  • MANVILLE: Somerset Patriots 5-K run finishes at home plate

       The Somerset Patriots will host their 4th annual kilometer run on Saturday, Sept. 22, starting at 9 a.m.    The run will benefit the Somerset Patriots Children’s Educational & Sportsmanship Foundation and will feature a moderate course looping around the entire ballpark and finishing with a lap around the warning track of the playing field. Runners…

  • MANVILLE: Drinking incident fires up council meeting

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer    Residents continued to voice opinions at Monday’s Borough Council meeting regarding drinking on school grounds by a borough department head during a May charity softball tournament.    The May 19 event, sponsored by the Manville Recreation and Municipal Alliance at Manville High School, was intended to raise money to help…

  • LAWRENCE: Girl, 16, faces several charges

       A 16-year-old Lawrence Township girl was charged with disorderly conduct, hindering apprehension, resisting arrest, two counts of assaulting a police officer and underage consumption of alcoholic beverages on private property at 4:16 p.m. on Sept. 6.    Police were called to investigate complaints that juveniles were consuming alcohol near a building at the Avalon Run apartment…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Alligators, scary noodles and happy trails

    UPPER FREEHOLD: Alligators, scary noodles and happy trails

    SARAH K. ANDREW Kris Milby rides out of the water complex with her Mustang mare, Sunny, a Helping Hearts Equine Rescue graduate, at the Horse Park of New Jersey’s judged trail ride on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Sarah Andrew

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Boy Scout troop goes on New Mexico trip

    HILLSBOROUGH: Boy Scout troop goes on New Mexico trip

    Hillsborough Scouts stand atop a mountain range in New Mexico. From left are Dale Gates, Kieran Claus, Tyler Obropta, Sean Gates, Steve Sopko, Justin Mahalsky, Alex Duncan, Wesley Anderson, Nicholas Athanasiou and Cody Obropta. (Photo by Assistant Scoutmaster Chris Obropta)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Charity runners enlarge their scope

    HILLSBOROUGH: Charity runners enlarge their scope

    Steps Together group adds beneficiaries from fund raising By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Last year Courtney and Mike Newman of Hillsborough were stricken to hear that Ian Progin, a high school classmate of Courtney’s, was fighting an aggressive brain tumor.    How could we help? the Newmans asked themselves.    They decided they could raise money for…

  • Memorial Service For Private Samuel Davis Agin

    Joseph Seliga News Release – Memorial Service For Private Samuel Davis Agin The General James A. Garfield Camp Number 4 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War as part of its Civil War Sesquicentennial Celebration will conduct a memorial service at the grave of Private Samuel Davis Agin, Company I, 21st New Jersey Volunteer…