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  • Between the Lines

    The Burlington County Library Bordentown Branch Youth Services Department offers a variety of programs this summer. Registration is necessary for all programs. A Burlington County library card is required. Please note that registration begins two weeks prior to the date of the program.     The address for the Bordentown Library is 18 East Union St.,…

  • Roebling founder’s statue to be unveiled this fall

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer FLORENCE—Charles G. Roebling will soon be watching over the entrance gates of the Roebling Steel Mill, more than 100 years after the village’s inception.     On Sept. 14, a brief dedication ceremony will take place at the circle on Fifth Avenue and Main Street to unveil the life-sized likeness of…

  • Barbecue benefit to help boy with rare illness

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer MANSFIELD — After a typical day looking after her 8-year-old son, Paul, the last thing that Dorothy Marue wants to do is fight with insurance companies.     Paul, who is afflicted with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, has frequent uncontrolled seizures and must be on numerous medicines. Unfortunately the medicine needed to help…

  • Give Blood and Get Free Ice Cream

    Donate a pint of blood at Somerset Medical Center in August and get a free pint of ice cream. Blood donors will receive a coupon for a free pint of ice cream from any Baskin Robbins store. By Somerset Medical Center    Somerset Medical Center’s Blood Donor Program is one of only three hospital-run programs…

  • MYAL football players get another special visit

    Notre Dame-bound Williams shares important message by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    The Manville Youth Athletic League has exposed its youth football players to some big-time guys from the college gridiron this summer.    Last week, Notre Dame’s Hafis Williams attended a Tuesday night practice session at Gerber Field and provided some instruction and words of encouragement…

  • R. Wayne Yoder

    Cyanamid sales manager     WEST WINDSOR — R. Wayne Yoder died Sunday at University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 86.    Born and raised in Windber, Pa., he was a former Princeton resident.    In 1946, he joined American Cyanamid and remained with the company — in New York City and later New Jersey — for…

  • ‘Man on Wire’

    ‘Man on Wire’

    (c) 2008 Jean-Louis Blondeau/Polaris Images/Philippe Petit’s adventures at the World Trade Center are remembered in Man on Wire.

  • Helen J. Schutts

       HAMILTON — Helen J. Starzyk Schutts died Sunday at the University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 83.    Born in Hamilton, Mrs. Schutts was a lifelong Trenton and Hamilton resident.    She retired in 1990 after 28 years at Heinemann Electric on Brunswick Pike in Lawrence.    She was an avid area bingo player and member of…

  • ‘Man on Wire’

    ‘Man on Wire’

    (c) 2008 Jean-Louis Blondeau/Polaris Images/Philippe Petit’s adventures at the World Trade Center are remembered in Man on Wire.