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  • Groups team up to save racehorses

    By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer    No racehorse since Affirmed in 1978 has captured the sport’s most coveted prize — The Triple Crown.    And while competitors like Smarty Jones — who nearly accomplished the feat in 2004 — and Big Brown — this year’s hopeful — attracted the viewing public’s attention by winning the first…

  • Town opposes dredge dumping

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee voted Monday to draft a resolution urging the state Department of Environmental Protection to prohibit dumping dredge on Newbold Island.    Committeeman Robert Delaney asked his fellow officials to join him in expressing concern about dredge materials he said would significantly damage the island’s habitat…

  • Custom car and truck shop moves to South Brunswick

    Custom car and truck shop moves to South Brunswick

    Staff photo by John Keating John Adamczyk works on the suspension system of a Cobra GT 500.

  • Students help local family

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    If it truly is better to give than to receive, then perhaps to Big Give is the best of all.    Every year the students of Crossroads North Middle School participate in a charity program, and this year’s was based on the now-cancelled TV show, “Oprah’s Big Give,” which featured contestants…

  • BRHS grads ‘embrace change’

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP—The Bordentown Regional High School Class of 2008 has seen a lot in its lifetime: the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the death of Princess Diana, the instatement of a new pope, and the rise and fall of Britney Spears’ career.    According to Valedictorian Stephanie Ann Hazlett, these are just…

  • Remembering a volunteer, friend and a good guy

    Jack Ziegler Jr. dies following heart attack    CRANBURY — The township has lost one of its most recognizable native sons.    Jack Ziegler Sr., 79, died Sunday at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after complications from a cardiac arrest.    Mr. Ziegler was born, raised and, not counting a stint in the military…

  • Black bear spotted in Cranbury

    Black bear spotted in Cranbury

    This black bear was seen wandering through Cranbury earlier this week. Photo by Janet Paxton.

  • Rafters to bring awareness of mission to Africa

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Four members of the Allentown Presbyterian Church will spend 72 hours on a raft on the Allentown Lake — beginning tonight (Thursday) — to raise money and awareness for an upcoming mission trip to Africa.    In August, seven members of the church will be joining their pastor, the…

  • POLICE BEAT: Bordentown Township

    On June 14 at 10:30 a.m. officers were called to the Crisdel construction site on Rising Sun Road where contractors working on nearby Connector Road have been storing their equipment. A foreman told officers that someone had entered a locked storage container and removed several pieces of equipment overnight, police said. The equipment was worth…