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  • Council hopes to solve residential parking woes

    By: Linda Seida – Staff Writer LAMBERTVILLE – Exercise is good for many of us, but few want to get it by walking five blocks from a parked car to his/her residence. In other words, finding a convenient parking space in a city where many people maintain their own vehicles can be a pain. The…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Teen injured dirt bike riding in Flagtown

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    An 18-year-old resident was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center by medical helicopter with non-life threatening injuries Monday.    According to Hillsborough Township Police, Adam Santos, 18, no street address given, was riding a dirt bike eastbound in the woods near the 700 block of Clawson Avenue around 4:08…

  • Cat charges dropped

    By: centraljersey.com BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP – The local man who was ticketed for having too many cats on his property said the citations have been dismissed. This came after it was confirmed to police that he had had the cats licensed and after he gave two cats to his mother and let a third go free.…

  • Salandra finishes second in state bench press final

    By: centraljersey.com Hillsborough resident Mark Salandra recently competed at the 27th USA Powerlifting: 2010 New Jersey State Bench Press and Powerlifting Championships held at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton. There were over 200 lifters from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut and as far away as Virginia who were competing for National Rankings and…

  • HomeFront mounts school supplies drive

    By: Lea Kahn – The Packet Group The first day of school means new shoes, new pants, a new shirt, a new dress and a backpack full of notebooks, pens and pencils, erasers and crayons – unless you are one of the hundreds of children whose parents are clients of HomeFront. But Connie Mercer, executive…

  • Police beat

    FLORENCE By: centraljersey.com Seven teenagers were charged Friday with possession of fewer than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said they responded to a complaint of loud noise at a Delaware Avenue residence at 12:53 a.m. and found the seven people had marijuana and paraphernalia. The adults charged, all of Florence,…

  • Third-quarter taxes are due on Tuesday

    Taxes By: Linda Seida – Staff Writer STOCKTON – Borough residents have two additional weeks to pay their third-quarter tax bills without accruing interest. Quarterly tax bills normally would have been due Aug. 1. The grace period normally extends only to the 10th day of the month in which those quarterly bills must be paid.…

  • City police to get layoff warning

    Layoff By: Linda Seida – Staff Writer LAMBERTVILLE – The city will send a layoff notice to the local police officers union even as talks over union givebacks continue. The notice does not mean a reduction of the police force is imminent or even definite. What it does mean is that the city has started…

  • LAWRENCE: New guide to farm markets now available

    LAWRENCE: New guide to farm markets now available

    Pam Mount, right, of Terhune Orchards in Lawrence, helps a customer at the weekly Thursday Princeton Farmers Market, where copies the book ‘The Farm Markets of Central New Jersey’ are available for sale. Staff photo by Victoria Hurley-Schubert