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  • ALLENTOWN: One-stop shop for candy, bicycles and concerts

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor    When Bruno’s Bicycles moved to Main Street in Allentown from Globus Plaza in September it brought two unique things to the downtown scene — a companion chocolate store called One Sweet Ride and concerts.    The chocolate shop, which is run by owner Jim Bruno’s daughter, Heather, features 12 different…

  • COLUMBUS CORNER: JULY 31

       Mansfield Township will hold its next Environmental Board meeting at 7 p.m. on Aug. 11.    The next Township Committee meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 13.    Mansfield Township will hold its next Recreation meeting on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.    The Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Aug. 25.    The…

  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: JULY 31

    By Nancy Mrzljak    The Crosswicks Library Summer Story Hour will be held today, 9:30 a.m., Thursday, July 31 at the Crosswicks Library on Main Street in Crosswicks. The event will feature a guest reader, craft, and snack. Stories will be geared towards children in grades pre-kindergarten through the second grade but all are welcome…

  • FLORENCE: Players bring ‘Soul’ to youth football camp
  • LAMBERTVILLE: CCI volunteers help make Johnson’s garden grow

    LAMBERTVILLE: CCI volunteers help make Johnson’s garden grow

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer Tom Johnson’s vegetable garden needed some love and attention. Coming through to provide it last week was a team of CCI Greenheart volunteers, who worked with members of a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus and associates from Forest Green, an area business, to help Mr. Johnson out. In…

  • MANVILLE: Softball team plays ball to help Monto family

    MANVILLE: Softball team plays ball to help Monto family

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer A bunch of team players came together for the benefit of a little Manville boy by playing in a softball tournament on July 13 through the volunteer, non-profit Jack’s Kids of the Somerville Elks. Manville resident Sheri Lynn has been involved in the tournament for years and wanted to…

  • SENIOR MENUS

    July 31-Aug. 7 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…

  • CHESTERFIELD: Fatal intersection gets reconstructed

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    The intersection where an 11-year-old girl was killed on her way to school when a dump truck collided with her school bus in 2012 has been reconstructed.    County Route 660 (Old York Road) was the north/south minor intersecting street controlled by two stop signs. County Route 528 was the…

  • Canned Goods to be Collected at 4-H Fair

    Canned Goods to be Collected at 4-H Fair

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders  BRIDGEWATER – Somerset County Freeholder Patricia Walsh urges 4-H Fair visitors to bring one or more canned-food donations to the annual event next week. “The Food Bank Network is still extremely low on food supplies,” said Freeholder Walsh, who launched the ongoing “Buy One, Bring One” food drive four…