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  • Craft and vendor show Saturday

    Allentown Hope Fire Co. Ladies’ Auxiliary will host a craft and vendor show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call Gerri Carter at 609-208-0127.

  • Chief: Stabbing case closed a month ago

    By Vic Monaco, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN —The borough Police Department’s probe of a double stabbing in September was closed less than a month later, according to Chief James Eufemia.    ”The stabbing case was closed on Oct. 17, due to uncooperative victims,” the chief wrote in an e-mail to the Herald this week. “The victims refuse…

  • Booster Club has sale

       The South Hunterdon girls softball booster club will have a used books, videotapes and DVDs sale Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the high school cafeteria.    Hardcover books will be $1; paperbacks, $50 cents, videotapes, $1, and DVDs, $1 to $3.    All proceeds benefit the team.

  • Land exchange for high school nearly done

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    MONROE — The township is two signatures away from taking possession of a 35-acre portion of Thompson Park on which the school board plans to build its new high school.    Assistant Township Attorney Peg Schaffer said the township received a letter from the state Department of Environmental Protection that, once…

  • Linda Schanck Watkins

       DAYTON — Linda Schanck Watkins, 58, died Saturday at University Medical Center in Princeton.    Born in New Brunswick, she was a lifelong resident of Cranbury and a 1966 graduate of Hightstown High School.    She was the former owner of Cranbury Gift Shop.    She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cranbury, where…

  • Public hearing

    The Hightstown Borough Council will hold a public hearing Monday night on proposed amendments to the redevelopment ordinance that guides development of the former rug mill on Bank Street. No action is expected to be taken on the ordinance until after the Planning Board reviews the amendments on Nov. 26. The council meeting begins at…

  • Athlete left mark here & globally

    Athlete left mark here & globally

    John Woodruff in 1998. He lived in East Windsor for nearly 30 years. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • Lorraine D. Feher

    Lifetime Rocky Hill resident     ROCKY HILL —– Lorraine D. Feher died Wednesday in the home where she was born. She was 81.    Born in 1926, she was a lifelong resident of Rocky Hill.    She was retired from Belle Mead General Service Administration Depot in Hillsborough.    She was a member of the First Reformed Church…

  • Gail M. Zeyack

       TRENTON — Gail M. Zeyack, 53, died suddenly at her home Oct. 31.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong Trenton and Hamilton Township resident.    She was formerly employed at New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. She was an animal lover.    Daughter of the late Edward and Dorothy Skwarek, she is survived by…