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  • George Gorish

       George Gorish, 87, of Pennington died Tuesday at home.    Born in Spangler, Pa., he had resided in Pennington for many years.    He was a retired self-employed house painter and a member of St. James Roman Catholic Church in Pennington.    He is survived by his wife, Rachel Wilson Gorish; a daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Jim…

  • Grass certainly seems greener in the ‘north country’

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    Last week’s account about the beauty and solitude of Baldpate Mountain — known now as The Ted Stiles Preserve at Baldpate Mountain — took on a whole new meaning for me while I was traveling through New Hampshire’s White Mountains last week. This is a trip I hope to take…

  • District updates rules for drug-related offenses

    By: Cara Latham    ALLENTOWN — As the Upper Freehold Regional school board continues to evaluate its policies and programs dealing with drug and alcohol use by students, officials here say more parent involvement is a key factor for success.    Allentown High School Principal Christopher Nagy said in an interview last week that the high school…

  • Township can mediate rent dispute, but not much else

    By: Cara Latham    WASHINGTON — While township officials say they are doing their best to try to resolve a growing number of disputes between residents living in Mercer Mobile Homes and the park’s owner, there may not be much else they can do besides act as mediators.    The biggest complaint from residents who live in…

  • Police Beat

    From the Aug. 2 edition BORDENTOWN CITY    On July 29 at 12:32 a.m., Leonard Barber, 48, of Pemberton was charged with driving while intoxicated.    While on patrol, police said they came to a red light and stopped behind Mr. Barber’s vehicle on Routes 130 and 206 south at Crosswicks Street. When the light turned green,…

  • Toll Gate principal gets entangled in mystery

    Umstead was part of the "Be a Summer Sleuth" program By John Tredrea    Reading a whodunit can be really good. But being in one is even better.    That’s how it was at the Pennington Public Library the afternoon of July 25. That was the last day of this year’s incarnation of the library’s long-extant summer…

  • Book Notes

    Harry Potter and the perfect wrap-up By: Joan Ruddiman    Harry arrived as long anticipated but I was not home to receive him. Though "Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows" (Scholastic, 2007) was ordered months in advance, a trip to see son Jake and daughter-in-love Kate in New England preempted the planned day-to-read-it-all.    With the hype…

  • Historically Speaking

    Allentown, N.J. its Rise and Progress (Part 45) By: John Fabiano From the C. R. Hutchinson papers at the New Jersey Historical Society, the following brief early histories of our town’s Post Office and Fire Companies.     A post office was established at Allentown January 1, 1796, and Samuel Quay was appointed its first postmaster.…

  • View from a blimp

    Touring the town from 1,000 feet up. By: Eileen Oldfield    One of the last things Mark Finney, one of Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield’s blimp pilots, told me before I boarded the blimp at Readington’s Solberg Airport one morning last week was something I had hoped wasn’t obvious.    "You look nervous," he said.    Nervous? Only about…