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  • MANVILLE: Farmers’ market’s days dwindling down

    Street sale of veggies runs to the end of September By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer     The farmers’ market on South Main Street will end its three-month run on South Main Street on Sept. 29. The farmer’s market will be open on Fridays, Sept. 14 and 21, and the last week Sept. 29 from…

  • LAWRENCE: Chief says priorities changing

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Just a few months ago, a resident who called the Lawrence Township Police Department to report a bat in the house or a mailbox that was knocked off its post could expect to see a police officer at the front door within a few minutes.    But faced with the loss…

  • LAWRENCE: New rabbi sees her role as a teacher

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The shortest distance between two points is a straight line — but that rule doesn’t always apply when it comes to finding one’s life work and a satisfying career.    Just ask Rabbi Vicki Seren Tuckman, who has been named only the third rabbi at Temple Micah since it was founded…

  • ALLENTOWN: Stone Bridge band parents offered bus refund

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor   ALLENTOWN — The parents of middle school band students who applied for subscription busing for 2012-2013 will not be granted reduced rates to reflect the days they must drive their children to school for before-school band rehearsals.    The Board of Education decided Sept. 5 that the district instead would return…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Charity runners enlarge their scope

    HILLSBOROUGH: Charity runners enlarge their scope

    Training for future runs are “Steps Forward” coaches and participants. From left are Louis Sanchez, organizers Mike and Courtney Newman, Leah Meltz and Damian Sian, all of Hillsborough. They’ll be out on the run Saturday morning at Duke Island Park.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Painting estimates weren’t as high as stated

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    That high school painting project rejected July 23 by the Board of Education wasn’t five times the $33,000 estimate of earlier in the year.    It was only about two times as large.    Greg Gillette told his fellow school board members Aug. 27 that Board Secretary Aiman Mahmoud had incorrectly spoken…

  • A Silent, Still Voice: Reflections on The Jewish New Year

    A Silent, Still Voice: Reflections on The Jewish New Year

    Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner blowing the shofar

  • ALLENTOWN: ‘Flamingo Fashion-ation’ takes flight

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — Flamingo fashion is the latest trend to swoop down on the borough, but it has nothing to do with clothing boutiques or haute couture.    The Allentown Library’s “Flamingo Fashion-ation” is a fundraiser for everyone willing to let their inner fashionista run wild by outfitting the library’s flock of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Boy Scout troop goes on New Mexico trip

    HILLSBOROUGH: Boy Scout troop goes on New Mexico trip

       Last month, 12 Boy Scouts and three troop leaders from Troop 489 of Hillsborough traveled to the Philmont Scout Reservation in the mountains of New Mexico. At 137,500 square acres, it is the largest Scout reservation in the world with about 1,200 staff members and 22,800 Scouts arriving every summer. Philmont also is operated as…