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  • County: Bordentown library construction almost complete

    Upgraded to facility overdue by two years By: Molly Petrilla    BORDENTOWN CITY — After nearly four years of construction delays and setbacks, county freeholders insist that the public library on Union Street is nearing completion.    According to freeholder spokesman Ralph Shrom, the Board of Chosen Freeholders recently hired Hill International of Marlton to complete the…

  • Township Committee OKs new deer hunting areas

    Resolution allows hunters access to 13 different areas, including four new bow-hunting areas. By: Charlie Olsen    Deer hunting season can’t come soon enough for Horseshoe Drive resident Ian Curtis.    By his estimate, grazing deer have cost him over $15,000 in landscaping and made inroads for invasive, foreign plants like the multiflora rose, a thorny flowering…

  • Student shares the challenges of his life in essay

    Local teen uses personal hardships to inspire award-winning essay By: Audrey Levine    During his 16 years, Thomas Armento has been faced with many challenges — from having a birth mother with cerebral palsy and dealing with his own neurological disability, to moving from family to family in the foster care system until finally being adopted…

  • Renegades race home and rack up the runs

    Mid-State Softball League By: Tim Falls    Athletes rarely thank their coaches for making them run sprints.    The Hopewell Renegades 12-U Black team might be the exception.    Melissa Helmstetter and Erica Benedetti said the sprints they had to do at practice helped the Renegades defeat the Readington Rockets, 15-0, in five innings last Thursday in the…

  • Michael Indrisek

       BETHLEHEM, PA. — Michael J. Indrisek died on June 24. He was 86.    Born in Landsford, Pa., he later settled in Manville, before moving to Mesa, Ariz., in 2002.    Mr. Indrisek worked for Johns-Manville Corp. for 23 years before starting his own business, A-2-Z Home Improvements, which he operated with his son.    He enrolled in…

  • Narrow losses are almost as good

    District 12 12-year-old softball By: Tim Falls    Despite not winning a game, the Lawrence 12-year-old softball team did give the undefeated West Windsor team its closest game in pool play in the District 12 tournament.    West Windsor went 4-0 and recorded a 10-0 victory over Lawrence in their first game, but when the two teams…

  • Injuries hurt post 414

    AMERICAN LEGION By: John E. Powers    Eight games in 10 days.    That’s the grueling end of the regular season the Lawrence Post 414 American Legion team faced as the Mercer County American Legion League schedule wound down.    The obstacle facing head coach Joe Eldridge was how to line up a pitching staff that has already…

  • Bursting in air

    Lawrence’s annual Independence Day fireworks filled the skies Monday. By: Lea Kahn Staff Writer    The sky over Rider University was filled with fireworks Monday night at Lawrence’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display, sponsored by the township Recreation Department.    A pre-fireworks concert, featuring Kindred Spirits whose members live in Hamilton and Lawrence, entertained the audience…

  • Trenton man charged in house burglaries

    Roosevelt Carter, 45, of West State Street, was apprehended Saturday morning and charged with two counts each of burglary and theft in the break in of two houses on Winthrop Road, police said. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    The man suspected of breaking into a house on Winthrop Road and surprising an occupant who was at…