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  • Saturday Recycling Drop-off on Feb. 7

    The next drop-off for the First Saturday of the Month program will be held 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Somerset County Recycling Center, located at 40 Polhemus Lane in Bridgewater.  As part of the program, the Recycling Center will accept clean, dry textiles, including clothing, drapes, curtains, sheets, towels, belts, handbags,…

  • STREB: Invisible Forces

    By Kelly Skinner STREB: Invisible Forces Friday, February 6, 2009, 8pm; $40, $25, $25, $20 Complimentary Pre-Performance Insights at 7pm Weeklong Residency Will Include Free Open Rehearsals: 2/3/09 from 3pm-5pm; 2/4/09 from 1pm-3pm; 2/4/09 from 7pm-10pm Ticket Office: 732-246-SHOW (7469)   New Brunswick, NJ (January 13, 2009)—State Theatre presents STREB Extreme Action in their new…

  • MANVILLE: School’s out!

       School officials closed schools today, after a winter storm dropped several inches of snow before turning into a freezing rain.    So, how will you spend the day? Building snowforts? Catching up on reading, or maybe baking cookies?    Still have to go to work? Whatever you’re doing, send us a picture of how you’re spending the…

  • EDITORIAL: Food pantries need help more than ever

       It used to be so much easier when things were going well.    There were jobs, and there was money and when someone needed something, pantries and soup kitchens had only to send out word, and somehow, someway, the shelves would fill with food and toiletries and clothes and even money, all to help those in…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: None hurt as fire damages New Road home

       Four people escaped injury when an electrical fire damaged a New Road residence Jan. 22.    The fire began around 10 a.m. in the one-story home, which is divided into two apartments and is located by the southeast corner of New Road and Route 522, according to Fire District 2 coordinator Doug Wolfe.    ”There was an…

  • NEW HOPE: Wachovia Bank robbed by armed duo

    NEW HOPE: Wachovia Bank robbed by armed duo

    The FBI released this photo of one of the bank robbers on Wednesday.

  • Stop the money grab

    Steve Kozik, Lambertville     If you live in New Jersey, nobody has to tell you that you pay too much in property taxes.    New Jersey has the highest median property tax in the nation and although we have been promised property tax reform we will probably never see it. With great probability, we will see…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: On the road again to fight diabetes

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    Some people hit their 50th birthday and plan a huge party or suffer the pangs of a midlife crisis and buy an expensive turbo-charged sports car.    Monmouth Junction resident Bob Tona took a different route on his 50th, deciding to commemorate the entire year by running 50 road races to…

  • WEST AMWELL: Officials plan water meeting with SADC

    The SADC purchased the farms on Route 179 in 2007, planning to sell them as preserved farmland By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    WEST AMWELL — The state Department of Environmental Protection has put a cap on the amount of water that can be drawn from the wells on two farms, but township officials still think…