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  • FLORENCE: Car hits ditch, catches fire

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    FLORENCE — An Upper Freehold woman was sent to the hospital early Sunday morning after police said her car flipped over and caught fire while she was intoxicated.    Rebecca J. Banuelos, 22, of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, was charged Sunday with drunken driving, failure to maintain lane…

  • LAWRENCE: Group recounts ‘nightmare’

    LAWRENCE: Group recounts ‘nightmare’

    Phil McAuliffe Todd Stone-Sapp gets emotional during a news conference after returning from a church mission in Haiti. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the Jan. 21 edition

    Route 206 between Carter Road and Cold Soil Road was blocked for 14 hours after a tree fell across the road next to the Upper Cemetery early Monday morning, according to police.     A passing motorist contacted the Police Department at 2:51 a.m. to report a tree had fallen and was blocking both lanes, police…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: RHS basketball game to benefit injured teen

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer     ROBBINSVILLE — Robbinsville High School plans to donate proceeds from Friday’s basketball game to the family of Sean Nemazie, the local teen seriously hurt in a car crash earlier this month.     Robbinsville’s boys basketball team is scheduled to play Princeton High School in the Robbinsville High School gym…

  • DBA efforts continue to help community thrive

    Mary Barnes, Bordentown City    It has been two years since I took office as the president of the Downtown Bordentown Association. I have enjoyed working with the Board of Directors these past two years. Doug Palmieri, Tom Moyer, George Karousatos, John Chrambanis, Russell Puches and our dear departed friend, business owner and original DBA member…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Families, friends await word from Haiti after earthquake

    BURLINGTON COUNTY: Families, friends await word from Haiti after earthquake

    Sarah DeSilva, center, with two men from the host family she stayed with in Jacmel, Haiti, when she visited the country on a mission just before the Jan. 12 earthquake. Ms. DeSilva, like many other local residents with friends or family in Haiti, awaits word on whether her friends are safe.

  • Community Invited to Unique Arts Event, "Dancing to Connect," at MCCC Feb. 2

    Community Invited to Unique Arts Event, "Dancing to Connect," at MCCC Feb. 2

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. – The Dance Program at Mercer County Community College invites the community to "Dancing to Connect," an original modern dance performance to be held Tuesday, Feb. 2 at Kelsey Theatre, starting at 8 p.m. Presented free of charge, the event will mark the culmination of an intensive, collaborative three-day…

  • MILLSTONE: Hearing Monday on $1.76 million fire budget

    By Audrey Levine, The Packet Group    MILLSTONE — The Board of Fire Commissioners District 1 will present a 2010 budget of about $1.76 million to the public during an open hearing Monday to be followed by an official vote.    The budget, according to board Chairman David Markunas, is $1,759,285, a decrease of about $95,000 from…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Township to spend 1/4 million dollars for 49 acres

    By Audrey Levine, The Packet Group    UPPER FREEHOLD — Despite concerns from one committeeman over the price of a 49-acre development easement on Holmes Mill Road for farmland preservation, the Township Committee recently approved the $1.57 million purchase of which the township is expected to pay about $251,000.    Committeeman Robert Faber expressed concern over the…