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  • Public Comment Sought on Transportation Future of Somerset County

    Somerset County Board of Freeholders SOMERVILLE – The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) will make a presentation on its draft long-range regional transportation plan at the Somerset County Planning Board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 21, at 4:45 p.m. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the third-floor freeholders’…

  • Ukrainian Folk Festival – 18th Annual

    Ukrainian Folk Festival – 18th Annual

    Hopak: Worl’s most exciting folk dance

  • Luby Britt Fishing Tournament

    Luby Britt Fishing Tournament

    Youth Activities Chairman Ed Moore with Biggest Fish Winner Roger Moore

  • NEW HOPE: In new job, Della Penna promotes the town

    She has taken over for Emily Irwin By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    NEW HOPE — One of the first times Carol Ann Della Penna ever rubbed elbows with a celebrity was about 20 years ago in New Hope, and it was a hint — an odd, amusing one — of her future occupation in the…

  • Luby Britt Fishing Tournament

    Luby Britt Fishing Tournament

    Holly Hoff The New Egypt Elks hosted the 13th annual Luby Britt Fishing Tournament for community children 13 and under. Winners were as follows: Largest Fish – 1st place – Roger Moore                         2nd place – Devin Nitchman                         3rd place – Dillon Marino                         4th place – Tabitha Conk Most Fish – 1st place…

  • PLUMSTED: Local teen outslugs pros in homer derby

    By Kyle Moylan, Sports Editor    TRENTON — Future major leaguers and multimillionaires were showing off their baseball skills at Waterfront Park on July 15. When it came to the ability to hit home runs, however, a kid from New Egypt High School in Plumsted was the star of the night.    Mike Fassl Jr., who will…

  • Ukrainian Folk Festival – 18th Annual

    Ukrainian Folk Festival – 18th Annual

    By Eugene A. Luciw Horsham, Pa.—August 23, 2009, 12:00 noon. The 18th Annual Ukrainian Folk Festival, celebrating Ukraine’s Independence Day, will be held at the Ukrainian American Sport Center — Tryzub (www.tryzub.org) , County Line and Lower State Roads, Horsham, PA. Exciting, spectacular, dazzling, breathtaking, exhilarating, spirited, soulful, enchanting, captivating, and intriguing – modest words…

  • LAWRENCE: Police seek help identifying body found in creek

    Man found dead in Shabakunk behind a business on Princeton Pike By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township police are trying to identify the body of a man found Thursday evening in the Shabakunk Creek at the rear of a business in the 2200 block of Princeton Pike, according to police Lt. Charles B. Edgar.    A…

  • Bypass threatens wildlife, wetlands

    Bonnie Tillery, New Jersey Chapter Sierra Club    Regarding your article “New life for bypass project” in the July 2 Messenger-Press, nowhere do I see any mention of why the bypass was stopped during the last attempt to push this through. There were very sound reasons for this bypass not going forward: namely, endangered species and…