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  • Crossroads teams win GMCs, go combined 20-0

    By:    If you think what the South Brunswick High School track and field program did was impressive this spring, you should have caught the Vikings-in-waiting.    The Crossroads Middle School boys and girls teams both finished 10-0 and both won Greater Middlesex Conference championships this year.    For coach Diane Yeager’s girls team, Cayla DelPiano had an…

  • Hopewell Council mulls grease trap law

    Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority recently alerted the borough that there is an "issue" of an increase in fat, oils and grease discharged to the Hopewell treatment plant By Aleen Crispino    Hopewell Borough Council is studying the possible need for an ordinance to require that grease traps be installed and maintained in restaurants and other…

  • POLICE BEAT

    From the June 14 edition BORDENTOWN CITY    On June 7 at 4:21 p.m., police investigated a report of a bicycle stolen from an alleyway.    Police said the bike was described as a red and black Diamondback, 27-speed mountain bike, with front shocks and two wheel disk brakes, valued at $500. Police also said another black…

  • Barbara M. Debiec

       Barbara M. Debiec, 53, of Ewing Township, died Friday at home after a lengthy illness.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident. She was a secretary for the NJ State Lottery Commission. She was a member of Incarnation Church in Ewing.    Daughter of the late Alexander and Jean Giordano Debiec, she is survived…

  • Florence softball wins Group I championship

    By: Sean Moylan    TOMS RIVER — With one out in the top of the first, Pompton Lakes’ Mary Medino and Michelle Kassab smacked consecutive hard hit singles to left field.    If any other Group I pitcher were on the mound, those hits would have been a cause for alarm. But the Florence Township Memorial High…

  • Residents wary of bank at busy intersection

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN CITY— Monday night, residents came to the City Commission meeting to voice concerns about safety and aesthetics at a proposed Commerce Bank at Crosswicks Street and Route 130.    The mayor said Commerce Bank representatives had approached the city commissioners about buying a city-owned parcel in addition to the privately owned parcel,…

  • Unions, town open talks; pacts covering 250 workers set to expire in December

    By: Paul Koepp    The township began negotiating new contracts this week with five of the six unions representing township employees.    The unions include about 250 of the township’s 413 employees, according to township spokesman Ron Schmalz. They are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Local 166, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 51, the Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent…

  • Legion team struggles out of gates

    Post 12 drops first three By: Rudy Brandl    Several factors have contributed to a slow start for the Somerville-Manville American Legion baseball team.    Post 12 dropped its first three games, leaving coach Robert Snyder somewhat frustrated after the opening week of action. The team stranded 14 base runners and wasted a masterful pitching performance from…

  • Bernard T. Kozyra

       MANVILLE — Bernard T. Kozyra died June 6 at home. He was 67.    Born in Pottsville, Pa., he had been a lifelong resident of Manville.    Mr. Kozyra retired in 2004 from Agfa Corporation in Branchburg where he was employed as an ECG operator and had previously been employed by Johns-Manville Corp. in Manville for 27…