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  • CRANBURY: The Elms residents judge staff pumpkins, costumes

    CRANBURY: The Elms residents judge staff pumpkins, costumes

    David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The Elms of Cranbury had a staff competition Halloween where each department within the facility was judged on its creativity in pumpkin decorating.    Every department in the rehabilitation and nursing home on Maplewood Avenue received its own pumpkin to decorate, and the residents judged the pumpkins Halloween.    Those departments…

  • Two Assembly seats up for grabs in District 14
  • MANVILLE: Senior Center has reopened; her’s November’s schedule

        The Manville Senior Center on South Third Avenue, which had been closed following the Hurricane Irene floods, re-opened Oct. 26.     The center was damaged as a result of flooding. Fire company volunteers, Somerset County facilities staff and county Office on Aging and Disability Services staff worked to complete the clean-up, renovation and reorganization…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Storm alters leaf collection plan

    Last weekend’s snowstorm and the downed tree branches it caused are forcing the township to suspend its planned leaf collection schedule in order to clear brush from the storm. Township public affairs coordinator Ron Schmalz said Tuesday night that the schedule would be altered to allow workers to collect branches brought down by the storm.…

  • SENIOR MENUS

    Nov. 3-10    All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance.    The value of each meal is $5.10. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution.    All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       West Amwell Township police reported:    — On Oct. 25, police investigated a car/deer accident on Route 179 near Queen Road.    David Slagle, 33, of Bridgewater, was driving south when a deer entered the roadway and ran into the left front quarter panel of his vehicle.    No injuries were reported. The vehicle was driven from the…

  • Vote Tuesday could put state on path to legal sports betting

    By Gene Robbins, The Packet Group    Voters are asked on Tuesday’s ballot to amend the state constitution to put New Jersey in a position to allow betting on professional and amateur sports events.    A “yes” vote won’t automatically legitimize sports betting here. In 1992, the federal government prohibited it in all but four states, and…

  • MONROE: Parade success despite frightful weather

    Amy Batista, Special Writer    MONROE — While the weather outside was getting frightful, a different kind of fright was happening inside the Monroe Township Recreation Center.    Residents from around the area showed up in costumes for the first Halloween parade Saturday during the first snowstorm of the season.    Around 120 children from infants to middle…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ATA Martial Arts sponsors ‘board break-athon’

       ATA Martial Arts in Hillsborough will host its first “board break-a-thon” fundraiser from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at 450 Amwell Road to benefit the H. U. Lee Memorial Scholarship Foundation.    The scholarship fund was created by the founder of the American Taekwondo Association, Eternal Grand Master H. U. Lee, in 1992 to…