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  • HAMILTON: Working moms find support from one another

    HAMILTON: Working moms find support from one another

    Kayti Ciaramella, left, of Hamilton, holds her daughter Kailey, 3 months, while talking with mom Kristin Wiegand, of Hamilton, who is holding her daughter, Elizabeth, 8 months, during a meeting of the RWJ Hamilton’s working mothers support group. Photo by Amy Batista

  • FLORENCE: Firefighters battle truck fire

    FLORENCE: Firefighters battle truck fire

    No injuries were reported at a truck fire that broke out last week at a truck repair shop in Florence. Facebook photo

  • PLUMSTED: Armed robbery suspect caught

    PLUMSTED: Armed robbery suspect caught

    James Warthen, 22, a suspect from an armed robbery on Nov. 24, in the township was apprehended in Pemberton by the U.S. Marshall Service, according to Plumsted police.

  • FLORENCE: Fires have local officials offering safety tips

    Local fire marshal offers winter safety tips and is asking for assistance from local residents to stay safe this winter season after a series of fires in the township. by Amy Batista, Special Writer FLORENCE — Local fire marshal offers winter safety tips and is asking for assistance from local residents to stay safe this…

  • LETTER: Director urges support for memorial group

    To the editor:     As a nonprofit organization, the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation is self-supporting in its mission to encourage and foster a thorough understanding of the Vietnam era including the political, historical, social, cultural and military aspects that affected the U.S, and especially New Jersey.    Each year, more than 9,000 school children…

  • REGION: Injured owl released back into wild

    REGION: Injured owl released back into wild

    ‘Freebird,’ a great horned owl found injured and ill in October was recently re´leased back into the wild. Courtesy photo

  • MCCC Opens Enrollment for Later-Starting Spring Classes

    MCCC Opens Enrollment for Later-Starting Spring Classes

    By Jim Gardner WEST WINDSOR – It’s not too late to register for Spring semester college classes at Mercer County Community College (MCCC), as enrollment is now open for later-starting courses. Offerings include Accounting, History, English, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, and much more. Most later-starting credit classes begin Feb. 25 and are available for both day…

  • STATE WE’RE IN: Blocking end run around Pinelands rules

    by Michele Byers There hasn’t been much to cheer about lately when it comes to upholding the laws, policies and rules that protect New Jersey’s environment.    So let’s give a standing ovation to the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, led by Chairman Mark Lohbauer, for rejecting a proposal to lay a 22-mile natural gas pipeline through…

  • HAMILTON: Student enrollment shrinking

    STUDY: district to have 660 fewer students in 2022-23 by James McEvoy, Managing Editor HAMILTON — For the second time in as many meetings, school officials and the public received a potential glimpse into the district’s future.    Two weeks after learning fixes to aging district infrastructure would necessitate up to $227 million in funding, officials…