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  • BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS

    Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive.    The following events are scheduled for the month of June:    Every Wednesday, line dancing at 10 a.m. Every Thursday, tap dancing at 10:30 a.m. Every Friday, dance motivation exercise at…

  • Florence second in District 12 softball

    By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    After falling into the District 12 Final Four loser’s bracket, the Florence 12-year-old Little League All-Star softball team became the “Comeback Kids” with gutsy wins over Millstone-Roosevelt and Bordentown.    However, even with all of its great hitters, Florence was defeated by an outstanding Robbinsville team, 10-0, in the District 12…

  • Route 1 hotel renovations complete

    by Emily Laermer, Staff Writer    Renovations to the old South Brunswick Manor are complete and the new Hotel Vicenza is now open for business.    Although it had not gotten any customers as of Tuesday, the Riya Group, which has bought and renovated several other businesses throughout New Jersey including restaurants and drug stores, expects people…

  • EDITORIAL: Consolidation strategy needs sharper teeth

       Remember all that talk a year or so ago about forcing New Jersey’s 566 municipalities to get serious about consolidating?    Gov. Jon Corzine and legislative leaders, eager to show the public they really were serious about trying to reduce property taxes, came up with a carrot-and-stick strategy for promoting municipal consolidation.    First the carrots: Municipalities…

  • Extra inning loss leads to elimination

    BABE RUTH 14-YEAR-OLDS By Tim Falls, Sports Editor        Needing a run to tie, two to win, with a runner on second and a proven home-run hitter at the plate, the Lawrence 14-year-old Babe Ruth baseball team seemed to have serious shot at advancing in the winner’s bracket of the District 1 Tournament.    Unfortunately for…

  • EDITORIAL: Silver lining in the cloud of rising prices?

       There’s nothing good to say about the endless upward march of the price of oil, hitting a new record high almost every day. It is changing the way we live, eat, work and travel; in schools, in the workplace and in every town and state. The only people who see a silver lining might be…

  • Holdups may be related

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Police are investigating whether three armed robberies committed on July 1 within hours of each other in South Brunswick, Woodbridge and Hamilton are related.    Police said the physical descriptions of the suspects and the method of operation in the three separate robberies closely match each other.    ”Woodbridge experienced a similar…

  • Post 401 sizzling down the stretch

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    As the regular-season of the Middlesex County American Legion season winds to a conclusion, it might be a tad difficult not to get excited about the state tournament possibilities for the South Brunswick Post 401 baseball team.    Last week, while missing starting leftfielder Tom Dunleavy, starting centerfielder Dan “I’m not…

  • Library program may make some bug-eyed

    Library program may make some bug-eyed

    Children’s Librarian Ruth Bielanski shows prizes the library will award to this summer’s readers. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara