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  • Marriage Unleashed

    In Somerset Valley Players’ production of ‘Sylvia,’ dog ownership gets in the way of marital bliss. By: Megan Sullivan    After 22 years of child raising in the suburbs, Greg and Kate have finally become empty nesters in their new Manhattan apartment. Kate welcomes a fresh start, along with all of the opportunities that arise in…

  • Hillsborough wood bat team poised to defend GSBL crown

    Team sweeps exciting doubleheader By: Nick Vaccaro    Hillsborough’s GSBL squad has continues to play great baseball this season.    The team is 10-5, and will attempt to defend its GSBL title the weekend of August 4-5. Down the home stretch, manager Bob Pucciarello couldn’t be happier about the team’s level of play and maturity.    "I enjoy…

  • Ernest H. Kittredge

       Ernest Howard Kittredge, 78, died peacefully Wednesday, July 18, at Park Place Care Center, Monmouth Junction.    Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and Pratt Institute.    He established his career as an independent package designer and graphic artist in Manhattan, N.Y.,, where he later met his wife, Susan.    Married…

  • Business owners meeting with mayor on parking

    Friday meeting seeks more action on eliminated spots By:Audrey Levine    Business owners will have a chance to discuss their concerns about the 36 eliminated parking spaces on Main Street when they meet with Mayor Angelo Corradino for a second time.    "There isn’t a business on Main Street that is not complaining," said Oscar Gonzalez, co-owner…

  • Florence softball 10’s place second in District 12

    By: Sean Moylan    The Florence 10-year-old Little League all-star softball team gave an all-out effort in an attempt to win Tuesday’s game versus Washington Township and force an "if necessary" District 12 championship game.    Yet after a 9-2 loss to Washington, there was nothing but a lot of upbeat smiles on the faces of the…

  • OBITUARIES

    From the July 26 edition Alan Gaskill Gary    BORDENTOWN — Alan Gaskill Gary, 85, who championed historic home restoration and historic urban renewal efforts in the late 1960s through the early 1980s in Bordentown, died Saturday after a brief illness.    His work in Bordentown from 1969 through 1983, helped spur a chain reaction of historic…

  • Potions of the past in Dayton

    Exhibit at the Slack-Carroll House offers a glimpse of an earlier time. By: Adam Grybowski    Meeting the everyday standards of beauty in the Victorian Era sometimes meant having your own homemade beauty products on hand.    Very often, Victorian women made their own cosmetics, growing most of the necessary ingredients in their gardens.    Some of those…

  • BACK PORCH

    The last chapter of a literary love affair By Madeleine Johnson    Let me begin by saying that this column contains absolutely no spoilers for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."    Two summers ago, I was offered a job as a live-in nanny. These three months, while surprisingly enjoyable, weren’t terribly remarkable — except for the…

  • Letters to the editor for the week of July 26

    By: Take land for parking To the editor:    I am very concerned with the loss of parking in town as I try to shop in town as much as possible to support local merchants.    I am tired of hearing it is the county road, that is why we have the massive mess every day on…