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  • ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    Dennis Symons Jordan Polefka (left) and Cynthia DeLorenzo sing Christmas songs in the Holiday Idol contest hosted by the Allentown Business Community Association on Dec. 3. Photo by Dennis Symons, www.dennissymons.com

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Primus poised to mass produce biomass fuel

    HILLSBOROUGH: Primus poised to mass produce biomass fuel

    Dr. Howard Fang holds bio´mass pellets that Primus uses to create fuel. Photo by Christina Izzo

  • ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    Dennis Symons ‘Holiday Idol’ contestant Selena Petrecca sings “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at the Allentown Business Community Association’s holiday celebration attended by more than 100 people Saturday night. The festivities also included a cookie-baking contest, a DJ, free hot chocolate and cider and the annual Christmas-tree-lighting. Photo by Dennis Symons, www.dennissymons.com

  • LAWRENCE: Man sought in two separate thefts of cigarettes

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township Police Department is searching for a man who asked for several cartons of cigarettes and then distracted the clerk before running out of the store in two separate incidents last week.    The man entered the CVS pharmacy on Brunswick Pike around 6 p.m. on Nov. 29 and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Laurie’s Legacy

    HILLSBOROUGH: Laurie’s Legacy

    A son continues to fight against breast cancer    Hillsborough teen Stephen Wurst wants to see a Christmas tree sparkle and glisten with bright and shiny ornaments next Tuesday night.    If it does, he knows he will have had a lot to do with it. And his mom will be looking down from above, smiling.    Stephen…

  • ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    ALLENTOWN: ‘Holiday Idol’ warms hearts on cold night

    Dennis Symons After helping to judge the sugary entries in the in the Allentown cookie-baking contest, a group of local youngsters gather around the Allentown Business Community Association’s Christmas tree at the gazebo on Lakeview Drive on Dec. 3. Photo by Dennis Symons, www.dennissymons.com

  • MANVILLE: Santa deliver gifts via firetruck

       The Camplain Road Volunteer Fire Company is accepting requests through Wednesday for its annual Santa gift delivery fundraiser Dec. 17-19.    For a minimum $10 donation per family, Santa Claus will arrive at your home via his sleigh and fire truck to deliver a holiday gift (which you provide) to your children. The fire truck will…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Laurie’s Legacy

    HILLSBOROUGH: Laurie’s Legacy

    Stephen Wurst holds a Hope ornament for the remembrance Christmas tree at Steeplechase Cancer Center. He asks for donations for ornaments in memory of his mother, Laurie Parlin, who died from breast cancer in 2009.

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Auditor gives school district finances good grade

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — An auditor has given the school district high marks on its financial practices along with advice to keep pressuring the state for $1.5 million in funds it has yet to deliver for construction of the high school that opened in 2005.    Rodney Haines, a certified public accountant and…