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  • Free reusable grocery bags from Mercer County

    Staff Report    Paper or plastic? Next time you’re asked this question while grocery shopping, give the environmentally friendly answer: "Neither!"    Beginning Saturday, Sept. 20, Mercer County’s Keep Mercer Beautiful program is making an eco-friendly offer to Mercer County residents. People who bring 25 standard, plastic grocery bags to the GRoWW (Greening of West Windsor) Environmental…

  • Atalla attacks goalies

    By John Beisser, Sports Writer    Thanks in large part to the prodigious talents of senior Verina Atalla, the South Brunswick High girls soccer team headed into Wednesday’s showdown against East Brunswick with a full head of steam after kicking off the season with wins over Piscataway and J.P. Stevens.    The Vikings opened the 2008 campaign…

  • Gibbons: More than 200 signatures on petition

    Effort to recall Mayor Patten in 4th week By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN – The man spearheading a campaign to have Mayor Bob Patten recalled from office said this week that he and his supporters had collected more than 200 signatures, mostly on weekends.    ”About 90 percent of the people I actually talk to,…

  • Borough candidates differ on library referendum

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    JAMESBURG — Candidates seeking seats on the Borough Council have differing opinions concerning a referendum that would cut municipal funding for the Jamesburg Public Library.    In August, the Borough Council unanimously approved an ordinance to place a question on the Nov. 4 general election ballot that lets voters decide whether…

  • NBC boys run off with cross country sweep

    BY: Sean Moylan Sports Writer     No Michael Bowden. No problem.     The Northern Burlington County Regional High boys’ varsity cross country team flexed its collective muscles and showed off its added depth when it rested Bowden, the best distance runner in the program, and still had no trouble beating Holy Cross (17-44), Medford Tech…

  • Local students named to AAU karate team

    Hoping to attend Slovenian tournament in October    HILLSBOROUGH — Five students of the Japanese Karate Center on Amwell Road are making travel plans to compete in the 2008 World Karate Confederation Junior World Championships in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, next month.    Danielle Deretchin, 16, Tina Forsythe, 17, Chris Deretchin, 18, Eva Lewandowski, 18, and Jack Molesko,…

  • Lawrence Middle School implements safety plan

    Lawrence Middle School implements safety plan

    Lawrence Middle School students leave for home at the end of a recent school day. Photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Council to vote Monday to continue field use

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    MANVILLE — The Borough Council unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance to enter into a license agreement with the Somerset County Parks Commission to allow the borough to continue supervising the former Johns-Manville landfill site on Dukes Parkway East, current home of the Manville Youth Athletic League (MYAL) complex,…

  • Valerie A. Harris

       Valerie A. Harris, 55, died Monday at the Lawrenceville Nursing Home.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong Pennington, Lawrenceville and Ewing Township resident.    She was an executive administrator for the Attorney General’s Office, State of N.J., Department of Law and Public Safety.    Daughter of the late Alvin R. and Catherine DeFreytas Harris, she is…