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  • Batting practice leads to blats

    AMERICAN LEGION By: Tim Falls    Matt Parsons benefited from a little batting practice.    Parsons’s bat helped the Lawrence American Legion Post 414 baseball team edge Hopewell Valley Post 339, 5-4, at Eggerts Crossing last Saturday.    Parsons had three hits with three RBIs, including a two-run homer to tie the game, and scored the winning run…

  • Primary recount sought in Springfield

    Repubicans request investigation into close election By: Molly Petrilla    SPRINGFIELD — A trio of defeated Republican primary candidates have decided to challenge the outcome of the close June 6 primary election and want the votes from three polling sites recounted.    On Wednesday, the deadline to file for a recount, Linda Lovenduski planned to bring a…

  • Grant lets local business continue Air Force project

    K Lab Corp. developing infrared display that could be used in Air Force simulations. By: Charlie Olsen    In a small rented office space in an innocuous business complex in Hillsborough, one woman and her business may change the quality of the simulations that the Air Force uses to train its personnel.    Kaiyan Zhang, of Montgomery,…

  • Web Update NEHS grads walk off into sunset

    Class of ’06 is 107 seniors strong By: Rebecca Weltmann    PLUMSTED —As students prepared for their final journey along the high school track, draped in blue and gold robes, they looked into the crowded stands with mixed feelings.    New Egypt High School did not have a valedictorian or a salutatorian, but did enlist three students…

  • Hillsborough looks to preserve more farmland

    Township plans to purchase development rights on 44 acres of Long Hill Road farm. By: Charlie Olsen    The township is trying to preserve about 44 acres of farmland using $899,000 from the Open Space Trust Fund, and it expects to get reimbursed for most of it.    The Township Committee introduced an ordinance on June 13…

  • Milllstone schools get new superintendent

    Mary Ann Donahue to start on July 1 By: Purvi Desai    MILLSTONE — It would be a lie to say that Mary Anne Donahue is not excited to take the reins as the newly appointed superintendent of the Millstone School District.    Dr. Donahue, who will become superintendent July 1, said the preparation to open a…

  • School district gets $3,000 B-MS grant

    Money to be used for projects intended to improve the teaching of science By John Tredrea    Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc. (B-MS), which has a large pharmaceutical research campus in eastern Hopewell Township, has awarded the Hopewell Valley Regional School District a $3,000 grant that will be used for projects intended to improve the teaching of science…

  • Letters

    Appreciation to GOP To the editor:    I would like to thank the members of the South Brunswick Republican Club and all of the Republicans that endorsed my candidacy for a seat on the Township Council.    And a hearty welcome and thank you to Richard F. Kish, mayoral candidate, for complementing the Republican ticket. Lynda Woods…

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