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  • Weekend fire damages Wallace Drive home

    The family has been staying with friends since the Hillsborough fire inspector declared the home uninhabitable. By: Charlie Olsen    A kitchen fire early morning Saturday displaced a Wallace Drive family after their house was declared uninhabitable, police said.    Police, fire and rescue squad units all responded at 4:05 a.m. to 27 Wallace Drive because of…

  • Local stores, shoppers take tax hike in stride

    The 1 percent added to the state sales tax does not seem to be having an impact on business locally. By: Donna Lukiw    Hillsborough businesses and shoppers have been taking the 1 percent increase in sales tax that went into effect Saturday in stride.    "I think the biggest problem would be for large invitation orders…

  • Week of July 20

    By: William A. Nester    William C. Nester, 83, of Lawrenceville, died Sunday at home surrounded by his family.    Born in Philadelphia, he resided in several states, including Washington, D.C., before making his home in Lawrenceville 41 years ago.    His lifelong career in education included teaching; director of admissions for Heidelberg College; district sales manager for…

  • Obituaries

    Louisa W. Clark    RIVERTON — Louisa W. "Nibby" Clark, 92, formerly of Bordentown, died Tuesday at Riverview Estates. She was born in Bordentown and had resided in Tabernacle, Medford Lakes, Willingboro and Bordentown all of her life.    She was a member of the Medford Lakes Garden Club, the Bordentown Community Players and St. Mary’s Church.…

  • Local woman bowls her way into hall of fame

    Lastacia Parker, of Balmoral Court, was inducted into the New Jersey United States Bowling Congress Women’s Bowling Association Hall of Fame. By: Donna Lukiw    Bowling, to some, may be a fun weekend activity but to Lastacia Parker, 43, of Balmoral Court, it is a craft and a passion.    After bowling for 28 years and placing…

  • Referendum to address school crowding

    District population expected to grow in the next few years By: Purvi Desai    PLUMSTED — Students in the school district may be forced to take classes in trailers as early as September 2008 unless a referendum by the school board asking for an expansion of existing buildings is approved by voters this September, the superintendent…

  • EDITORIAL

    Horizon in sight for Route 206 bypass project.    There’s good news and bad news in the state Department of Transportation’s just-published draft transportation improvement program.    The document updates and details state planners’ budgeting for road projects funded either by the state or federal governments, including bridges and bypasses.    The latest schedule has the Route 206…

  • Police seeking seperate sex-case suspects

    Invasions of privacy ilicit investigation By: Joseph Harvie    South Brunswick police are searching for a man seen peeping at a woman while she was showering at 4:47 a.m. Sunday at the South Brunswick Manor motel Route 1, police said.    Police said the woman, who lives in the motel room, was showering when she heard a…

  • HVGC has fun and fast times

    PASDA By: Tim Falls    Whitney Nielsen could see her team’s success Tuesday night.    Even though the Hopewell Valley Golf Club swim team lost to the Lawrenceville Swimming Association, 199-123, in a Princeton Area Swimming and Diving Association meet, the young coach saw her swimmers exceed all expectations.    "Even though we lost, we had an amazing…