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  • Local volunteers make racing team accelerate

    PRIME MOTORSPORTS RACING TEAM By: Tim Falls    To help make Prime Motorsports a success, Ted Olswfski has to do more than just drive fast.    Olswfski, a Pennington resident, is the owner and driver for Prime Motorsports, a race team made up by volunteers mostly from Hopewell and Pennington.    Prime Motorsports recently competed in the Pennsylvania…

  • LHSA celebrates 50th season

    Lawrence Hamnett Soccer By Tim Falls, Sports Editor    Over 500 players came out to celebrate the start of the Lawrence Hamnett Soccer Association’s 50th season.    LHSA hosted it’s first season kickoff party on Saturday and had a tremendous turnout.    ”We had a lot of green, red and purple-headed players running around,” said Lawrence Hamnett’s vice…

  • Andrew H. Lindstrom

       HILLSBOROUGH — Andrew H. Lindstrom died Aug. 13 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. He was 79.    He was born and raised in Somerville and moved to Hillsborough 23 years ago.    Mr. Lindstrom worked for the Postal Supply Center in Somerville for 37 years.    He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.    He…

  • 08648 ZIP OK’d for Lawrence Township

    Township officials’ battle to convince the U.S. Postal Service to designate 08648 exclusively as "Lawrence Township" appears to have been won By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Township officials’ battle to convince the U.S. Postal Service to designate the ZIP code of 08648 exclusively as "Lawrence Township" appears to have been won.    The designation may take…

  • Mary Zinis

       Mary Zinis, 89, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, at her home in Monroe.    Born in Orange, she lived in Old Bridge before moving to Rossmoor 20 years ago.    She worked as a medical clerk for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for more than 20 years before she retired. She was a communicant of St. Thomas the…

  • Most schools pass NCLB benchmarks

    By: Stephanie Prokop    Four of 19 schools in the northern Burlington County area did not meet the state Department of Education’s adequate yearly progress standards for the 2006-2007 school year, according to a DOE report issued Aug. 16.    Approximately 75 percent of the state’s 2,215 schools have met the benchmarks set by the federal No…

  • Voters to decide how to finance library

    If approved, the referendum would make the library’s budget subject to the same annual review as other city departments By Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The fate of the Lambertville Public Library is in the hands of voters.    At the polls in November, voters will face a ballot question that asks if the library should be…

  • Jones family left standard of athletic excellence

    Eric, Jared, Warner II, Ebony starred at HHS By: Rudy Brandl    Jemmie Jones never wanted her oldest son Eric to play football as a youngster. Some 20 years later, the mother of four standout athletes who have graduated from Hillsborough High School is happy she finally gave in.    She and her husband, Warner I, never…

  • District close to privatized custodial service

    By: Cara Latham    WASHINGTON — School board officials say they are reaching out to the Washington Township Education Association — the union that represents the district’s custodians — to discuss the impact on bids the district received from private companies for custodial services.    The board received four bids last month, with All Clean Inc., of…