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  • HOLMDEL: Robbinsville girls win Group I title

    Flynn tops field as individual By: Sean Moylan Sports Writer     Most cross country squads would be ecstatically happy to win either a NJSIAA team state title or a NJSIAA individual state championship.     This past Sunday at Homdel Park, the deep and talented Robbinsville High girls’ varsity cross country team won them both. Ravens’…

  • MANVILLE: Telling Twain’s tall tales

    MANVILLE: Telling Twain’s tall tales

    Skip Picciano and Helen Gill laugh during the presentation. Staff photo by John Keating.

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gov. Jon Corzine touts pharmaceutical companies

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gov. Jon Corzine touts pharmaceutical companies

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    During a visit to South Brunswick Tuesday, Gov. Jon Corzine credited New Jersey’s pharmaceutical research industry with being a positive economic force for the state in the midst of tough times for the country.    The governor spoke to a group of researchers and executives at Wyeth Research on Ridge Road…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Stockton Street nears local historic district designation

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — An ordinance to designate Stockton Street as a local historic district that’s been in the works since 2006 seems almost ready to go.    The borough Historic Preservation Committee approved a draft of the ordinance at its Oct. 16 meeting, but the Borough Council delayed its introduction Monday because…

  • LAWRENCE: Saturn Chemical cleanup suit seeks township funds

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Lawrence Township has become embroiled in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court over reimbursement costs for cleaning up contamination on the abandoned Saturn Chemical Co. property, located on New York Avenue near the Lawrence-Trenton border.    Saturn Chemical Co., Poly Sat, Inc. and Darryl Manuel — the former president of Saturn…

  • ROBBINSVILLE – Council looking to buy J.E.M. building rights

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — After 10 years of struggling with zoning issues and a neighbor’s complaints surrounding J.E.M. Stables, an agreement between the business and township may finally be on the horizon.    Township Council voted unanimously at its Nov. 13 meeting to introduce an ordinance that would have the township buy development…

  • Editor’s Notebook

    Presidential pets: from the doghouse to the White House By Kyle Moylan, Sports Editor I thought people around the world were supposed to like Barack Obama. Then I saw the “dog” a group in Peru wanted to give his family.     As you may remember, Obama promised to get his kids a dog if he…

  • Township seeks new farm tenant

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The township is looking for a new tenant to farm two parcels of land.    The plots on Old York and Conover Roads are 60 and 45 acres respectively, and the minimum bid for each is $30 per acre per year, for a three-year period.    At the minimum…

  • LAWRENCE POLICE BLOTTER, Nov. 20

       Rider University student Robert K. Cook, 19, was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia when school security officers stopped him outside Poyda Dorm at 4:11 a.m. Nov. 13, police said.    The security officers observed Mr. Cook stuff something underneath his sweatshirt, which turned out to be…