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  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS students present artistic final exam

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS students present artistic final exam

    Ed Birch photo Kelly Hovarth points out some of her work during the exhibit.

  • LAWRENCE: Primary elections are on Tuesday

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Lawrence Township’s Democratic and Republican voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select their party’s candidates for elective office, ranging from the U.S. president to the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders.    There is no election for the Lawrence Township Council this year.    The polling places will be open…

  • ‘The Dictator’
  • HILLSBOROUGH: Veterans come out for breakfast, parade

    HILLSBOROUGH: Veterans come out for breakfast, parade

    By Peter Sclafani and Gene Robbins    Veterans and their spouses crowded into the municipal building Saturday morning to begin the Memorial Day weekend ceremonies with a breakfast, speeches and the “roll call” of veterans.    Later, many moved to ride, walk or watch the annual parade to its end at the municipal complex’s Garden of Honor.…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Chase leads to fifth DUI

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Chase leads to fifth DUI

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    A near collision with a police car and a short chase led police to charge a Franklin Park man with DUI for the fifth time.    According to police, William Campbell, 52, of Franklin Park, was driving his 1994 Ford pickup truck south on North Umberland Way at 1:30 a.m.…

  • ALLENTOWN: Heavy truck traffic rattles Church Street residents

    ALLENTOWN: Heavy truck traffic rattles Church Street residents

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The reopening of South Main Street to heavy truck traffic following the completion of the new county bridge is having repercussions that are being felt downtown and around the corner on Church Street.    The incessant shaking and rattling from the increasing number of heavy rigs rolling through the…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Honoring the fallen

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Honoring the fallen

    Ed Birch photo American Legion Post 401 Commander Gary Cooper and Ladies Auxiliary President Barbara Buhl place a wreath at the memorial in front of the post on Major Road Monday.

  • LAWRENCE: Tending to graves of vets for 50 years

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Like clockwork, the small American flags pop up on selected graves in cemeteries right around each Memorial Day.    But who puts the flags on the graves, and why?    For more than a half-century, Nicholas Loveless, 86, has been the man who places the flags on the graves of more than…

  • The Lena and David T. Wilentz Residence visit the Holocaust Museum

    The Lena and David T. Wilentz Residence visit the Holocaust Museum

    By Toby Ehrlich Residents and Staff of the Lena and David T. Wilentz Residence recently went to Washington to visit the Holocaust Museum, for most it was their first visit. Kitty Thomas, one of the residents who went to the Holocaust Museum was asked about her thoughts of the museum. Kitty said “ it is something…