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  • Balloons offer a hot photo op

    Festival held as part of camera club’s workshop. By: Megan DeMarco    Spectators and photographers flocked to the Wright South property behind the Cranbury School on Saturday night to see something never before seen in Cranbury.    A few minutes before 7 p.m., they got to see what they were waiting for as a big blue hot…

  • Borough to appeal ruling that would OK warehouses

    Almost all of project’s land lies in township. By: Matt Chiappardi    HIGHTSTOWN — The Planning Board is appealing a court ruling that recently reversed its rejection of a site plan for the construction of warehouses and offices near Airport Road and Route 33.    The 26-acre tract of land in question lies almost entirely in East…

  • OBITUARIES, Aug. 17, 2007

    Alice A. Navin, Fred W. West, Ann E. Sterling Alice A. Navin Career in computing    She moved to Princeton in 1957 and was a 39-year resident before moving to Meadow Lakes in 1996.    From 1960 to 1968 she was the office manager for Lloyd Free, Hadley Cantril and Sir Arthur Lewis at the Institute for…

  • Community Calendar

    From the Aug. 16 edition Citywide resident photo    August through September — To celebrate Bordentown’s 325th Anniversary, the committee will be taking photos of residents in front of their homes. The photos will be placed in a scrapbook in the Bordentown Library on Union Street.    A questionnaire will be sent to all residents and businesses…

  • DEP inventory details toxic waste at 3M quarry

    Greg Forester, Packet Group    MONTGOMERY — Township officials have drafted a letter of concern to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection regarding the 3M Belle Mead plant, following this week’s discovery of the existence of hundreds of thousands of pounds of potentially toxic metals stored on the Sourland Mountain site.    Documents from the U.S.…

  • EDITORIAL

    Deadly delusion: Why the bridges go unrepaired.    Between the lines of New Jersey reaction to last week’s tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul was the disquieting outline of the infrastructure suicide pact that seems to bind this state’s voters and legislators.    A statistical report from the New Jersey Association of Counties, which might otherwise elicit…

  • For Pennington woman, ‘mental toughness’ has new meaning

       Editor’s note: Kaley Bell, a 2002 graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School and a resident of Pennington, is en route to California by bike. On June 11, she began a nine-week cross-country bike tour, riding from Providence, R.I., to San Francisco, Calif. Her adventure is with Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization whose motto…

  • LIVING IN MANVILLE

    A tribute for Manville’s music man. By: Mary Ellen Zangara    A tribute to Manville’s own king of Polish music, Nick Novicky, brought more than 350 residents to the Manville Public Library on Tuesday night for a memorial concert in his honor.    Mr. Novicky, a lifelong resident best known for his music, died Feb. 8 after…

  • Odyssey of madness

    Hillsborough man publishes journal written while battling bouts of manic-depression. By: Minx McCloud    At the age of 26, Hillsborough resident Casey S. Madison (not his real name), now 39, began an odyssey he could not have foreseen.    He was diagnosed as being manic-depressive, synonymous with the newer term, bipolar disorder (BPD). Soon, he found himself…