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  • Neighbors weigh in on land management plan

    Stockton council postpones vote By Linda Seida    STOCKTON — The Borough Council postponed voting on a management plan for 63 acres of preserved land Monday, but still had to field questions about hunting and parking from neighboring property owners and a school official.    Because additional information regarding the plan was only recently submitted to council…

  • Robbinsville High School message board shot

    Sign no longer operational By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE — Police are investigating a sign at Robbinsville High School that was damaged by bullets last weekend. The school’s electronic message board, located on Robbinsville-Edinburg Road, was shot sometime between Sept. 5 and 8, police said. They recovered .40 caliber spent castings and live ammo…

  • Palin insults community organizers

    Tyler Maulsby of Lawrence’s ‘The Community’     Alaska Gov. Sara Palin’s statement last Wednesday night that community organizers have no real responsibility was completely inappropriate. Not only was it factually incorrect but it also ridiculed the very people who elected her to higher office in the first place.    Our country was founded by community organizers…

  • Borough councilman resigns

    Tom Bodall charged with five counts of attempted endangering the welfare of a minor By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    JAMESBURG — Borough Councilman Thomas Bodall was charged Sept. 4 with having a sexually explicit dialogue with someone he believed to be a minor, and sending pictures of his exposed penis via the Internet to the…

  • Mothers march for MADD

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    When a tragic loss occurs in a community, those affected are left to pick up the pieces and carry on.    When 18-year-old Kylie Pinheiro, of Dayton, was killed in a car accident by a drunken driver last December, her loved ones were left to find meaning in their immense grief.…

  • Lawrence joins towns to seek water rate remedies

    By Lea Kahn / Staff Writer    In the wake of the Trenton City Council’s approval of a 40-percent water rate hike last week, Lawrence Township officials plan to meet with their counterparts from Ewing, Hamilton and Hopewell townships to discuss their options.    Municipal Manager Richard Krawczun said the four townships plan to meet to review…

  • Committee limits how West property can be used

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The Township Committee passed an ordinance Monday that limits the nonpreserved portion of the West property to passive and active recreation and conservation uses.    The change limits the land’s use to recreation such as trails, athletic fields or undeveloped open space, and would prohibit the construction of buildings…

  • Patriots place second in Men’s Senior baseball

    BY: Sean Moylan Sports Writer     As successful as the talented Bordentown Patriots have been over the past eight years, they still find themselves waiting to win the “big one” in the South Jersey Men’s Senior Baseball League.     This year the Bordentown Patriots made the move up to the 35+ American Division and they…

  • Library thankful for group’s donations

       The Manville Public Library would like to thank Arthur Siegfried and the Raritan Valley Post Polio Support Group for donating $100 to the library in memory of our trustee Mr. John Shutack and $100 for the new carpet. Ed Smith Manville The writer is director of the Manville Public Library.