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  • Celebrating faith at camp

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    A group of children gathered in circles Tuesday, clapping and yelling excitedly as their counselors directed them through a chorus of cheers to celebrate their faith.    Local parents and children have been gathering all week at St. Cecilia’s Church for Camp St. Cecilia, with daily activities centering around the theme…

  • Robbinsville wins District 12 softball title

    By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer In Saturday’s District 12 12-year-old Little League All-Star softball championship game at Robbinsville, Robbinsville’s Rebecca Freeman held a hard-hitting Florence all-star softball team to just two hits while pitching her club to a smooth 10-0 five-inning victory.    Yet as fantastic as Freeman’s pitching was, she looked even better at the…

  • DISPATCHES: Cutting through the noise

    by Hank Kalet, Managing Editor    Sometimes the political noise makes it difficult to focus on what’s important.    Take this year’s presidential race. We’ve been inundated by the major media outlets with a lot of chattering about questions that are at best tangential to what matters. Rather than getting a serious discussion of the differences between…

  • Police enforcing cell phone ban

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    Local police departments have been busy since March, when state legislators passed a law banning the use the cell phones while driving without a hands-free device.    All over the state police are hitting violators where it hurts — in the wallet — by handing out $100 tickets to violators, a…

  • Bordentown 12’s advance to District 12 title game

    By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    It didn’t hit its usual three or four home runs, but the Bordentown 12-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team did something better in this past Tuesday’s winner’s bracket final at Nottingham.    Bordentown finally beat its arch-rival Nottingham, 14-0, in Nottingham’s own house to get back to the District 12 championship…

  • THE STATE WE’RE IN: Michele Byers

    Turns out, the answer is not really plastics    In the iconic 1967 movie “The Graduate,” a directionless Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) receives the now-classic career advice from Mr. McGuire:    Mr. McGuire: “I just want to say one word to you — just one word … are you listening?”    Ben: “Yes, sir.”    Mr. McGuire: “Plastics.”    Ben:…

  • Township budget up 2 percent

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Unfilled positions, insurance savings balance state cuts    The township carved $610,525 from the municipal budget introduced at Tuesday’s Township Committee meeting by changing health insurance plans for employees — and not filling some vacant positions.    The $27,973,630 budget is a 2 percent increase over the 2007 budget of $27,418,879. If…

  • Cranbury joins second COAH lawsuit

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    CRANBURY — The township has joined a second lawsuit against the Council on Affordable Housing to fight the recently adopted third round rules.    The Township Committee approved a resolution Monday authorizing an interlocal agreement that will allow it to join Clinton Township, the municipality spearheading the suit, and Hunterdon County’s…

  • School’s life-saving lessons earn coordinators honors

    School’s life-saving lessons earn coordinators honors

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    A Hillsborough High School student program teaching juniors at the school lifesaving techniques including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) earned the program’s coordinators recognition from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Township Committee.    The lesson plan trained 510 eleventh-grade students in CPR and how to use a defibrillator during the school…