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  • DeMarco delivers overtime goal

    BOYS SOCCER By: Tim Falls    The Lawrence High School boys varsity soccer team didn’t have practice on Wednesday.    They didn’t need to.    The Cardinals worked extra hard in an overtime win against West Windsor-Plainsboro South on Tuesday.    Junior Justin DeMarco scored the game-winner in the final five seconds of play at the end of the…

  • Mary Kay Clancy

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Mary Kay (Basic) Clancy died Oct. 8 at home. She was 41.    Born in Jersey City, she was raised in Oradell and settled in Hillsborough    Mrs. Clancy was the Executive Director of the non-profit organization I.R.U. of Branchburg for nine years.    Surviving are her husband, Michael Clancy Jr.; a daughter, Mikayla Rose…

  • Restaurant charges fraud in mall leases

    By:Charlie Olsen    The owner of New Fortune Restaurant, one of the three holdout tenants in the Rustic Mall, filed a lawsuit against Rustic Mall LLC last week, claiming the landlord deceived him by withholding information about the need to raze the building for the EPA Federal Creosote cleanup.    The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 3 in…

  • Local teens talk faith and today’s issues on TV

    Cable show focuses on religion in kids’ lives By: Theresa Poulson    Popular opinion may be that talking about your religion is not "cool," but local teens, including Allentown resident Sarah Berlinger, are trying to turn that trend around.    She is one of about 30 teenagers who worked as cast and crew members on this season…

  • HVCHS seasl its wins

    FIELD HOCKEY By: Mike Molaro    The Hopewell Valley Central High School field hockey squad wasn’t about to get complacent this season when it held a big lead entering the second half of a game.    Head coach Jami Taranto knows that when overconfidence sets in, many times that lead evaporates and you find yourself trying to…

  • Post Forum

    Should Sprint be allowed to build a cell-phone tower behind Christ the King Lutheran Church on Route 27? Should Sprint be allowed to build a cell-phone tower behind Christ the King Lutheran Church on Route 27?

  • Patriotic Ball honors vets, supports memorial

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN CITY — The seventh annual Patriotic Ball is returning to the area Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Olde York Country Club.    The gala event, hosted by the Bordentown City Veterans Memorial Committee, will raise funds for upkeep of the new memorial, located across from the Farnsworth House, on Farnsworth Avenue near…

  • William Knight

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — William I. Knight died Oct. 1 at Summerville Assisted Living in Hillsborough. He was 80.    Born in Pottsville, Pa., he lived in Bound Brook and North Branch before moving to Hillsborough in 1958.    Mr. Knight worked for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook for 42 years.    He served in the U.S. Navy during…

  • Planners mull issue of oversized houses

    The Planning Board spent two hours Tuesday brainstorming ways to prevent the construction of oversized houses that would dwarf neighboring dwellings. By: Lea Kahn    Township Planning Consultant Philip Caton was given his marching orders to return to the Planning Board with a proposal to rein in the size of houses that can be built on…