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  • EDITORIAL: Workshop offers a chance to plan future

       A community advocacy group wants residents to get serious about Dayton’s future.    The Dayton Village Coalition, a grassroots group that formed in 2000 to save the Slack-Carroll House on Georges Road from demolition, is hosting a four-day workshop to find out what residents want the village to look like and to get suggestions on ways…

  • Daniel D. Piscopo

       HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — Daniel D. Piscopo Sr., 93, died Jan. 13 at his residence. Born in Trenton, he was a Hamilton resident for the last 40 years. He was retired from CF&I/John A. Roebling and the New Jersey Department of Transportation. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II and a…

  • Playoffs are within reach

    GIRLS BASKETBALL By Tim Falls, Sports Editor    The playoffs are a possibility.    Unlike last season, The Lawrence High School girls basketball team are in a position to put themselves in the NJSIAA postseason with the deadline for a .500 record just over a week away.    Lawrence junior Ashley Russo scored 26 points to the lead…

  • Store to mark birthday; bridge project looms

    By Jessica Ercolino, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — The oldest retail gift store in Allentown will celebrate its 31st anniversary in its Old Mill location this weekend, but it could be its last in light of the impending Main Street bridge and dam repair project.    The Off the Wall Craft Gallery, at 42 S. Main St.…

  • Vikes put three in GMC’s top 20

    By John Beisser, Sports Writer    The South Brunswick High girls bowling team continued its highly-successful season last week, highlighted by a performance in the three Vikings placing among the top 20 bowlers in the GMC Individual Championships on Jan. 16.    Team-wise, the Vikings are 6-4-1 on the season and ranked No. 12 in the latest…

  • Bordentown Area Community Groups

    American Legion Post No. 39 PO Box 203 Roebling, NJ 08554 (609) 499-3880 Meetings: Third Thursday of the month. American Legion Post No. 194 PO Box 35 Roebling, NJ 08518 (609) 499-9803 Location: Between Sixth Ave. and Broad St. Meeting: Third Thursday of the month, 8 p.m., at the Post. Bordentown Elks Lodge No. 2085…

  • EDITORIAL: A long way, but not yet far enough

       While most of America’s — and New Jersey’s — attention was focused this past weekend on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his monumental contributions to the cause of civil rights, an important anniversary closely related to this cause passed virtually unnoticed.    Twenty-five years ago, on Jan. 20, 1983, the New Jersey Supreme…

  • Leave ‘em laughing

    Leave ‘em laughing

    Seniors get a big dose of the best medicine By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    More than 20 participants held empty champagne glasses in front of them as Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles” played on a nearby stereo.    They began walking around the room, their glasses in hand, as they wished each other a very happy new…

  • Arthur J. Julian

       HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — Arthur J. Julian, 70, died Jan. 16 at Mercer County Geriatric Center in Hamilton Township. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Julian was a Hamilton resident most of his life.    He was a resident of Largo, Fla., for eight years before returning this past August. He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.…