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  • ROBBINSVILLE: Township poised to hire fire director

    ROBBINSVILLE: Township poised to hire fire director

    John Archer, shortly after he retired early this year as chief of Hightstown Engine Company No. 1. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • WEST AMWELL: Soccer league gets OK for fields work

    Group plans to make improvements to fields used by the league at Hewitt Park By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — The Township Committee has given the go-ahead to the South County Soccer League to make improvements to fields used by the league at Hewitt Park.    Volunteers will perform the improvements.    The improvements include…

  • NORTH HANOVER: Donations pour in, but pantry needs continue

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    NORTH HANOVER — Harvest of Hope food pantry is living up to its name after a new push for donations brought in a huge swell of support.    The Rev. Robert Russell, pastor at Rose of Sharon Lutheran Church which houses the pantry, said this week that an article that appeared…

  • Learn to help fight ALS

    Janet Hubbard of Lawrence     Many readers may recall that the Veterans Administration (VA) mistakenly sent a letter to thousands of veterans earlier this year informing them that they had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). A big mistake? Yes, one for which the VA has apologized. But what readers probably…

  • Back to School

    Recently unemployed adults are reinventing themselves through credit and noncredit courses at Mercer County Community College By Michele Alperin    A lost job is one thing, a vanished career another. The restructuring of the economy due to globalization and technological change, exacerbated by the current downturn, has left many bereft.    Yet some of the recently unemployed…

  • Relax, slow down

    Scott MacNeill, Barbara Ceglia, Lambertville     Some of us are actually pleased with the roadwork the City of Lambertville has recently completed on our streets. The dollar costs of these improvements have mostly come from the Bridge Commission, in compensation for allowing our residential streets to be used as detours during those times the local…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter from the Nov. 11 edition

    Someone stole a gold-painted Fiberglas calf, valued at $1,000, from inside the barnyard display at the Halo Farms store on Spruce Street between 3 p.m. Oct. 21 and 2 p.m. Nov. 4, police said.     There were no signs of forced entry into the barnyard display, which is surrounded by a chain link fence and…

  • BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS: From the Nov. 12 edition

       Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words “Bordentown Jottings” in the subject line.    Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. All township seniors age 55 and over welcome.    Events schedule for November:    Next…

  • Morning Star Christian Communit Center United Christmas Service

    Morning Star Christian Communit Center United Christmas Service

    Picasa 3.0 Morning Star Christian Community Center’s United Chrristmas Concert