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  • LAWRENCE: Academies to open student minds

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Aiming to help students figure out what they want to be when they grow up, Lawrence High School’s three new career academies are set to kick off next week when school opens.    The Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Business and International Studies and the Academy of Science…

  • IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    Plumsted residents watch the floodwaters rise in downtown New Egypt on Sunday. Photo by Sherri Lotito

  • LAWRENCE: Flood waters claim sewer pipe victim

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Cesar Ortiz, the owner of Lawrence Landscapes, died Tuesday afternoon when he was sucked into a Ewing-Lawrence Sewerage Authority sewer pipe at 209 Bakers Basin Road — the former site of his business.    Mr. Ortiz, who lived on Lawrencia Drive, owned the property and had leased it to the Shemin…

  • IRENE: BURLINGTON -Cleaning up Irene’s mess begins

    By Birgitta Wolfe,Managing Editor     Cleanup is under way as area towns break out the mops, rakes and chainsaws after Hurricane Irene’s weekend drive-by.     While many town officials were grateful the damage was not more severe, tensions were high as the Category 1 storm passed through to the north.     Florence Township was put…

  • IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    A detached garage behind a home on South Main Street in Allentown Borough after Hurricane Irene. Photo by Kelsey Carroll

  • EAST WINDSOR: Fallen EMT laid to rest
  • HIGHTSTOWN: Sergeant named acting police director

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — There’s a new police leader in town.     Sgt. Frank Gendron will begin his duties as acting police director for Hightstown effective Thursday, Sept. 1.     Council President and Police Commissioner Larry Quattrone made the announcement via a Hightstown Borough press release Wednesday evening, Aug. 31.    Additionally, Wednesday was…

  • IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    Phil McAuliffe The Assunpink Creek in Lawrence overflowed its banks due to the heavy rain dropped by Hurricane Irene. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • Stop, remember and stand together

    Sen. Frank Lautenberg     To ensure America never forgets the price that terrorism exacted in the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. Senate recently approved legislation that asks all Americans to join together in a national Moment of Remembrance on Sept. 11 and I am glad that so many New Jersey communities have agreed to join…