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  • Six men indicted in alleged Fort Dix plot

    By: Stephanie Prokop    FORT DIX — The six men who were allegedly plotting an armed assault on troops at the Fort Dix Army base in May were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury, according to U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie’s office.    Five defendants are charged with conspiracy and other charges related to alleged plans…

  • OBITUARIES

    From the June 7 edition Florence M. Kimble    MANCHESTER — Florence M. Kimble, 71, died Saturday in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a resident of the Hamilton area for many years before moving to Manchester five years ago. She worked at Stangel Pottery and Lewis Brothers of Trenton…

  • Editor’s Journal (06.07.07)

    Stream cleanups good for environment, spirit By: John Dunphy    It’s amazing what you can find when you dig down deep enough.    Last weekend, as part of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association’s area stream cleanup initiative, coinciding with National River Cleanup Week, I went out with several others to the Port Mercer section of Quaker Road…

  • Sing out against genocide

    Dafur just another example of the continuance of genocide By: Hank Kalet    Never again apparently does not mean never again.    Following each recent instance of genocide on the world stage — whether it be in Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda or now in Sudan, we hear the same promise made to the Jews and the rest of…

  • Candidates learn how to work with fundraising rules

    Fair and Clean elections ruling candidates’ campaigns By: Paul Koepp    Legislative candidates in the 14th District are feeling their way through an experimental program designed to remove private fundraising and level the political playing field in the state by providing public financing for campaigns.    As the candidates seek the required contributions from district voters to…

  • Thomas A. Lawrence

       HILLSBOROUGH — Thomas A. Lawrence died May 29 at home. He was 80.    He was born in Somerville and was a lifelong resident of Hillsborough.    Mr. Lawrence worked for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook for 20 years as an instrument mechanic and then Ethicon in Bridgewater for 10 years as a needle maker.    He was…

  • White 3rd in Group III 800 race

    By: Kyle Moylan    Building on the steady success of recent years, the Allentown High School boys’ track team was scheduled to send an athlete to The Meet of Champions last night for the first time since the mid 1990s (when Andy McCarthy went).    Sadiki White, just a sophomore, placed third in the 800 at the…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the issue of June 7, 2007. Festival showed town’s many cultures To the editor:     Hillsborough Middle School held its first "Cultural Connections Festival" on May 24. The event was co-sponsored by two organizations — a student club and a faculty forum.    The student club, STAND (Students Together for Awareness-N-Diversity), if in its first…

  • Parents face financial challenges

    Financial aid a difficult subject for parents of college-bound teens By: Madeleine Johnson    While many seniors are anticipating their high school graduation and the beginning of a new phase in their lives, the parents of college-bound students are looking to financial aid for ways to make the rising costs of tuition a little less cumbersome.…