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  • Police nab robbery suspect, accomplice

    Washington man apprehended in North Carolina By: Scott Morgan    A 19-year-old Washington Township man sought in connection with the May 30 robbery of a local bank was arraigned from a Hopewell jail Tuesday, less than a week after police in North Carolina arrested him in connection with the incident.    Ashford Court resident Alexander Magby, who…

  • EDITORIAL

    Race card has no place in budget debate.    Jon Corzine has been called a lot of names since becoming governor five months ago — and very few of them have been complimentary.    The governor has come under particularly heavy fire since he offered up his budget proposal for the fiscal year starting July 1 —…

  • HHS laxmen made major progress

    Team missed .500 mark by one game By: John E. Powers        Progress continued for the Hillsborough High School boys’ lacrosse team this season. Now the question is whether their longtime head coach, Vin Coviello, will be there to help continue the growth.    Coviello, who has been the head coach of the Raiders since 1995,…

  • HHS art show highlights students’ imagery

    Work featured at the arts festival included cartoons, drawings, sculptures, hand-built items, a mural, quilts, skirts and pants, and even three-layered cakes. By: Donna Lukiw    Many people wouldn’t conceptualize something comical about the seven deadly sins, but artist and Hillsborough High School senior Grace Kao did.    Grace chose the seven deadly sins as a theme…

  • Museum opening back on track

    Roebling Main Gate Museum scheduled to open June 2008 By: Molly Petrilla    ROEBLING — As a 7-year-old, George Lengel waited for his father every afternoon outside the Roebling Steel Mill’s main doors.    Over a decade later, he passed through those doors daily as an employee at the mill during his summers home from college.    And…

  • Township Council strengthens ‘pay-to-play’ ban

    The ordinance amendment bans redevelopers from seeking no-bid contracts if the companies, its partners, officers or principals made contributions to a candidate committee or political committees in Lawrence or Mercer County. By:Rebecca Weltmann Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township Council adopted an ordinance June 7 that strengthens its "pay-to-play" ordinance by adding redevelopers to the list.…

  • Property Transfers — June 15. 2006 — Part 1

    The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…

  • Valley GOP slates annual barbecue

    Event will be held July 19 at Union Firehouse    Local Republicans are inviting the whole community to their 50th annual Chicken Barbecue on July 19.    This year’s event will feature live music and door prizes.    A longtime Valley tradition that crosses party lines, the barbecue is attended by families, senior citizens, and everyone in between.…

  • Different directions

    SBHS grads look to future By: Marisa Maldonado    Amy Burzynski, Michael Cabrera and Andrew Herbach didn’t want college to be "South Brunswick High School Part Two."    The three graduating seniors, who sat down at a roundtable with the South Brunswick Post on Tuesday, all are moving on their own to out-of-state colleges — Amy to…