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  • Shutout sends Little Leaguers to softball World Series

    First game on Aug. 7 was expected to be against Latin America By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    The Robbinsville 12-year-old Little League All-Star softball team may be the coolest, most focused squad in America, but that didn’t stop the players from going wild after beating Scarborough of Maine, 7-0, in Saturday’s U.S. East Region Tournament…

  • Elks’ tournament benefits Manville toddler

    By Mary Ellen Zangara Special Writer    Manville toddler Jake Whitenight was Manville’s first recipient from the annual Jack Gardner Memorial Softball Tournament, sponsored by the Somerville Elks Lodge 1068 to benefit local children in need of medical help and financial assistance.    Two-year-old Jake was born with no ear canal and an external ear malformation. He…

  • League’s players look forward to a ‘do-over’

    League’s players look forward to a ‘do-over’

    Players in the Hillsborough Basbeall League Summer Recreation Program managed their own teams and games, even calling the occasional “do-over.” Photo courtesy of Joe Hernandez

  • Bordentown 12’s start Regional pool play 1-2

    Sean Moylan Sports Writer     The Bordentown 12-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team stayed alive in the East Regional baseball tournament with a sensational 4-0 pool play win over Capitol City Little League of Washington D.C. this past Monday at Leon J. Breen Field in Bristol, Connecticut.     Hard-throwing Austin Goeke earned the start and…

  • Swimming program teaches life skills

    Jenny Dalton of Bordentown I just wanted to thank the Bordentown CE/R for sponsoring the Swim Program. Under the direction of Dr. Shirley Fisher, the program teaches young people in our community an important life skill – the ability to swim and to be able to save themselves in a water emergency. At the Community…

  • Neighbors say prank caused fatal fall

    Jackie Tootall and Peggy Foltermann of Bordentown Township A week ago, on Saturday night, a few young people thought it might be funny to knock on a few doors and rap on windows as they exited Joe Lawrence Park in Bordentown. What they did not know was that one elderly lady, in attempting to see…

  • EDITORIAL: 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…

  • Worker dies after falling

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    A New Brunswick man died Wednesday following an accident in a Melrich Road warehouse.    Carlos Gamboa, 43, was found on the floor of the ALCO Industries warehouse by police after they received a call at 7:15 a.m. regarding an industrial accident. An attempt to revive Mr. Gamboa was unsuccessful, according…

  • Editorial: Relief now for Route 1 ‘bottleneck’

       The state wants to study what can be done to improve traffic flow on Route 1 in South Brunswick.    It is reviewing bid proposals from private firms that could be hired to develop strategies and basic concepts for improving the highway. The concepts would then be reviewed by the state Department of Transportation, which would…