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  • CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: From the Sept. 17 edition

    Nancy Mrzljak Nancy Mrzljak     Tel: 298-0567     Fax: 298-3936     [email protected]    The Chesterfield Baptist Church is hosting Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 8 to 10 a.m. The breakfast will benefit the Harvest of Hope Food Pantry, located on Route 528 in Jacobstown.    The Chesterfield Baptist Church is located on Matthews Lane just…

  • FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the Sept. 17 edition

    Peg Dotson     Tel: 499-3807     Fax: 499-3807     E-mail: [email protected]    Gene Olaff was honored by a birthday party at the Masonic Home on Sept. 5. His family, sister, nephews, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends were there to help him celebrate. His birthday is not until Sept. 23, but it doesn’t hurt to celebrate early. Gene,…

  • AD/HD awareness

    Jane Milrod, CHADD Mercer County, AD/HD Academic/Career Coach    AD/HD Awareness Week is Sept 14-20, 2009.    As we celebrate the progress we’ve made as a social movement, AD/HD awareness week is also a time to assess how much more work we have ahead of us. Thanks to CHADD’s advocacy work, AD/HD is increasingly being caught early…

  • BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP: Town gets $72,000 grant for improvements

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee has approved the use of $72,000 in grant money for municipal improvements.    The work will be made up of renovations to the township Senior Center on Municipal Drive, as well as drainage improvements on East Drive. The funding comes to Bordentown from a sub-grant…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Area mourns a special friend who died at 36

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Area mourns a special friend who died at 36

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    The community is in mourning after the death of mother and former Bordentown City resident Colleen Jones Anderson at the age of 36, just over a week after a fundraiser was held in her name.    On Sept. 7, Ms. Jones Anderson succumbed to liver and colon cancer at the Cancer…

  • MANVILLE: Bear takes tour of Manville

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    An adult bear taking a tour around Manville Tuesday damaged no picnic baskets — or other structures — as it traveled through town.    Police first received a call about the bear around 11:35 a.m. Tuesday, reporting it was in the fenced area of the Rustic Mall. According to police, the…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Weekend power outage affects 2,500

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    About 2,500 local residents were without power Saturday afternoon, some for more than 10 hours, after two utility poles on the border of East Windsor and Hightstown fell, according to Jersey Central Power and Light.    The majority of affected residents had their service restored by 10:35 p.m. said Gerry Riccardi,…

  • East Windsor Republicans question so-called “Township Newsletter”

    Craig Green East Windsor Republicans question so-called “Township Newsletter” East Windsor, NJ, 15 September 2009 EAST WINDSOR, NJ —The East Windsor Township Council race is heating up. Republican candidates for Township Council, Aaron Sears and Michel Winkler, allege wrongdoing over the Township’s taxpayer-funded newsletter. The Democrats are being accused of inappropriately using tens of thousands…

  • ‘Chance of Meatballs’

    ‘Chance of Meatballs’

    It’s raining food; some magical sequences appear between funny lines, sight gags and humorous situations Elise Nakhnikian TO turn it into a full-length animated feature, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs puts meat on the bones of the children’s picture book it’s based on. And I do mean meat: This is no veggie tale.    It’s…