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  • ALLENTOWN: Police Beat

       A vehicle on Quinn Road was reported vandalized July 24. Police said the vehicle’s windows were smashed and both front tires had cuts through the rubber portions. * * *    A black BMX bike valued at $300 was reported stolen July 8 from a Farmer Drive residence. The victim on July 20 said the bike…

  • ’Anti-South Hunterdon’?

    Irene Rudolph, Lambertville     I was dismayed to see that the leading news item in the July 23 edition regarding vandalism of South Hunterdon school property, an issue turned into a political issue by the reporter. Before even giving the facts of the vandalism, which should have been the point of the news story, the…

  • BEING GREEN: Building a better bat house

    By Vanessa Holt, Managing Editor     These winged creatures of the night may be commonly associated with Halloween, but you won’t actually see a bat in late October.     The world’s only true flying mammal, of which nine species reside in New Jersey, are all in hibernation by October, but their hibernation spots are threatened…

  • TIME TRAVELS: Discovering slavery in our past

    By Ceil Leedom    Today we condemn slavery, but it was not always so in the past. The 1776 will of Aaron Dean gave his sons Aaron, Jonathan, Daniel, and Abraham Negro boy Frank, Negro David, Negro Robbin and Negro Dick, respectively. His daughter Sophia received Negro Abigail. In 1792, Isaac VanDyke’s will gave Negro man…

  • Community Calendar

    Saturday, Aug. 1    Country line dance — Plumsted Township Council for the Arts’ “First Saturday” event will be a country line dance at Oakford Lake Park, beginning at 7 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited.    Book donations — Friends of the Plumsted Library will accept donated books, CDs, DVDs and jigsaw puzzles…

  • LAWRENCE: Board OKs two subdivision plans

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Separate proposals for minor subdivisions — one located on Hughes Avenue and the other one on Millerick Avenue — gained the township Planning Board’s approval last week.     Applicant Allan Salt, who owns a property at 88 Hughes Ave. that extends north to Hoover Avenue, sought the board’s approval…

  • LAWRENCE: Residents’ suit aims to block cell tower

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     The Carter Road Homeowners Association has filed a lawsuit that seeks to block Lawrence Township from leasing a 2-acre parcel of township-owned land on Carter Road — adjacent to the Bristol- Myers Squibb Co. — and allowing the lessee to construct two cell towers on the property.     The…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A home ‘base’ for summer fun

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: A home ‘base’ for summer fun

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    While the children of South Brunswick are enjoying their summer vacations away, it doesn’t mean the hallways of the district’s schools are quiet.    At Indian Fields Elementary School, the halls are bustling with activity as kids are busy taking part in BASE Camp, the district’s community education program for students…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Police nab fugitive

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    A fugitive wanted in connection with a drive-by shooting in Boston was captured in Monmouth Junction on July 21 by New Jersey State Police and U.S. marshals.    Abiona Sharpe, 20, was found hiding in a Northumberland Way residence by a team of law enforcement officials, according to South Brunswick police…