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  • Lawrence woman heads west for a shark study adventure

    Lawrence woman heads west for a shark study adventure

       Lawrence resident Amy Potter recently joined an Earthwatch Institute shark and ray research team for a 10-day trip in Monterey, Calif.    A social studies teacher at Allentown High School in Allentown, Ms. Potter was sponsored by a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grant.    From July 24 to Aug. 2 she joined a team of five other…

  • Stupienski’s batting, pitching play big part in Post 26’s success

    BY: Sean Moylan Sports Writer     This year past spring, Russ Stupienski batted a team-best .509 for his Northern Burlington County Regional High boys’ varsity baseball team in his senior year and then this summer he hit .527 to win the Mercer County American Legion batting championship.     To put those numbers in context, Stupienski…

  • Richard Frederick

       MANVILLE — Richard G. Frederick died Aug. 13 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale, Pa. He was 81.    Born in Luzerne County, Pa., he was a resident of Manville for many years before moving to Bridgewater.    Mr. Frederick worked for Johns-Manville Corp. for 35 years, retiring in 1984.    He served in the U.S. Navy during…

  • Township briefs

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Township hands sewers over to MUA    The Township Committee unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance July 12 to convey the Mountain View Area Sanitary Sewer Extension Project and the Riverview Area Sanitary Sewer Extension Project to the Hillsborough Township Municipal Utilities Authority (HTMUA).    In June 2007, the township appropriated…

  • Robbinsville second best softball team in the world

    Team falls two outs from title BY: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Robbinsville’s incredible run of 37 straight wins — stretched out over two seasons — came to an end in the championship game of the Little League Softball World Series in Portland, Oregon on August 13.     Simpsonville, South Carolina scored five runs in…

  • Traffic cameras at intersections a good idea

    William C. Becker of Lawrence To the editor:     I applaud Lawrence Township’s application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s pilot program to install traffic light cameras to monitor busy intersections with a view to catching people running red lights and reducing the number of accidents that result from this practice.    Running red lights…

  • Ayanna Tonae Bridges

       HILLSBOROUGH — Ayanna Tonae Bridges died Aug. 10 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was two years old.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived in Hillsborough.    Surviving are her parents, Crystal Williams and Tony Bridges; her maternal grandparents, Cora Gibbs and Joseph Williams; paternal grandparents, Hazel Speller and John Bridges; maternal…

  • Ordinances alter new highway zone

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    In response to concerns expressed by residents during a June public hearing, the Township Committee unanimously introduced two different ordinances Aug. 12 to amend aspects of the newly approved Highway Service Zone District.    ”When we approved the zone, people were not happy with it,” Mayor Anthony Ferrera said.    The first…

  • Lawrence is hometown to mayor of Bellingham, Wash.

    Lawrence is hometown to mayor of Bellingham, Wash.

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Dan Pike always had a small streak of citizen activist in him, but little did he believe that it would lead him to become the political leader of one of the larger cities in the state of Washington.    But that’s exactly where Mr. Pike — who grew up on Princeton…