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  • Police blotter

       Jose Lopez, 29, of Robin Road, was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to stop for a red light, driving without a license, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to report an accident after police were called to the scene of a hit and run accident on Andria Avenue at 6:20 p.m. July…

  • FBI must update public on anthrax case

    U.S. Rep. Rush Holt To the editor:     The following letter, dated Aug. 1, was sent to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III:    In light of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s recent settlement with Dr. Steven Hatfill, as well as today’s news regarding the apparent suicide of Dr. Bruce Ivins — who the media is…

  • Coach cleared of sex charge

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    A Monmouth Junction man who teaches at Steinert High School in Hamilton was cleared of all charges by a grand jury on July 30 after he was accused of inappropriately touching a female student.    Carl Jordan, 40, has been suspended with pay from his positions as math teacher and head…

  • Bus companies find few options to address increased fuel costs

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    Last year, when school bus company owner Jim Hager negotiated his busing contracts, he didn’t anticipate the $5 a gallon diesel fuel price tag — adding about $6,000 to his monthly fuel costs.    And, with no compensation for increased fuel prices in the negotiated contracts, Mr. Hager’s and other area…

  • Mayor tours township’s summer camp offerings

    Mayor tours township’s summer camp offerings

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    Mayor Anthony Ferrera lifted one foot after the other, slowly making his way up the wall, and grasping the handholds as he climbed higher at the rock climbing wall at Hillsborough Middle School during a round of visits July 31 to the township’s recreation summer camps.    ”Go mayor!” one boy…

  • Fedroff signs with Cleveland Indians

    Fedroff signs with Cleveland Indians

    Tim Fedroff celebrates with his parents, Mary and Tim Sr., moments after signing a Major League baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians. Photo by Elane Coleman (fstop1.com)

  • JoAnne Walling Gorby

    SALISBURY, Md. — JoAnne Walling Gorby, 75, of Salisbury, Md. died Friday at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury after a brief illness.     Born in Red Bank, she was the daughter of the late Curtis J. and Hilda (Johnson) Walling. Ms. Gorby was a member of the 3 C’s of Chincoteague, Va., and was…

  • Lengthy races kill interest in politics

       Remember when August, in a presidential election year, represented the calm before the storm? When it was an unwritten rule in politics that campaigns didn’t really kick off in earnest until Labor Day?    The 2008 campaign, of course, began long before Labor Day of last year, with dozens of candidates crisscrossing the country in search…

  • Township backs a loop design for path in Dyson Tract

    By Lisa Merolla, Staff Writer    The township has backed a 3,000-foot looped path that will take the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail through the Dyson Tract, a piece of property along Princeton Pike across from the Lawrence Township Ecological Facility.    Previous plans to get the trail through the preserved property had been derailed after council members expressed concerns…