Category: archives
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Vikings shoot down Bombers
Can clinch first GMC title with win over Piscataway By Ken Weingartner, Sports Writer The South Brunswick High football team is guaranteed at least a share of its first ever Greater Middlesex Conference division title – not to mention its first league championship of any kind since 1973 – but the Vikings aren’t in a…
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Concert calendar
Upcoming shows at The Record Collector, 358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown City, include: Friday, Oct 24 — (Trenton Blues Legend) Joe Zook and friends, acoustic performance. Saturday, Oct. 25 — First Highland Watch (8-piece Scottish bagpipers and drum band with added guitarists). Saturday, Nov. 1— Frankenstein 3000 and The Anabolics. Friday, Nov.…
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Psychiatrist from township charged with sexual contact
by Davy James, Staff Writer A local psychiatrist has been charged with criminal sexual contact after he allegedly touched one of his patients inappropriately in his Edison office. Chowdhury Azam, 54, of Monmouth Junction, was charged Oct. 17, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office. Mr. Azam, a licensed psychiatrist at Compass Behavioral Health on…
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Community Calendar: From the Oct. 23 edition
Gift auction Friday, Oct. 24 — Christ Episcopal Church of Bordentown will sponsor a gift auction at the Bordentown Township Community Center, 3 Municipal Drive. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the auction will start at 6:30 p.m. There will be lots of great prizes, theater and sporting tickets, gift cerificates, household items,…
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Five hopefuls seek three seats on Twin Rivers board
By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer EAST WINDSOR Five candidates are vying for three seats on the Twin Rivers Homeowners Association board of trustees in December. Board President Scott Pohl and board Vice President Herb Felzer are attempting to keep their seats on the nine-member board for another three years, while former board President Marc…
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Police Blotter
Thomas Burke, 27, of Belle Mead, was charged with driving while intoxicated, speeding and failure to change address after he was pulled over for driving 62 miles per hour in a 45-mph zone on Willow Road at 12:59 a.m. Oct. 7. Mr. Burke was taken into custody after he failed field sobriety tests, police said.…
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Bruce W. Sullivan
Bruce W. Sullivan, 59, of Cranbury, died in New York after a courageous fight against lung cancer. A longtime resident of Cranbury, he was born in Passaic. He was a proud graduate of Syracuse University, Class of 1970, he was a Deputy Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Labor, retiring in July 2008 after…
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Florence M. Burtis
Florence M. Burtis, 93, died of heart failure Tuesday, Sept. 2, in the care of Hospice of the East Bay, Alamo, Calif. Ms. Burtis was a lifelong resident of the Hightstown area, prior to moving to California in June 2005. She is survived by her daughter, Mary E. Tilkin of Concord, Calif.; and her son,…
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Lawrence High students campaign for greater awareness of autism
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Visitors to Lawrence High School next week should not be surprised to find the hallways filled with students wearing white T-shirts that read “Cards for the Cause.” The T-shirts are part of a marketing campaign, spearheaded by LHS seniors Kari Van Treuren and Nicole Krawczyk, to increase the awareness of…
