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  • Man of Steel

    Allentown welder turns vocation into art By: Purvi Desai    ALLENTOWN — Fewer farms around the area led to a decline in customers for Woodrow Wilson "Butch" Dey, who has had a welding business in town for 20 years.    So he changed his focus to a different type of welding — artistic.    "I researched it for…

  • Viking program has found solid ground

    By: Ken Weingartner    This is how far the South Brunswick boys volleyball team has come as a program in just four years:    Two seasons ago, the Vikings went 13-11 and qualified for the state tournament for the first time. However, South Brunswick then graduated all but two of its varsity performers, which led to a…

  • Cook feasts on state’s best high jumpers

    Junior wins at the Meet of Champions By: Sean Moylan    As Anna Cook waited patiently for the posting of the final results of last Thursday’s high jump event at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions at South Plainfield, she prepared herself for a second-place finish in the event. But when the leaders for the high jump…

  • Paul Drumbor

       RATCLIFF, Ark. — Paul W. Drumbor died June 10 at St. Edwards Hospital in Fort Smith, Ark. He was 51.    He was born in Somerville and had been a resident of both Manville and Arkansas.    Mr. Drumbor had been a career handyman in New Jersey and Arkansas.    He was a member of St. Paul Lutheran…

  • Home invaders remain at large

    The manhunt continues for three men who stole guns, ammunition and jewelry from a Cranbrook Avenue home last week. By: Charlie Olsen    Police are still searching for three men who invaded a home in a quiet, single-family home neighborhood at around 1 p.m. on June 8 after they conned their way in.    The manhunt continued…

  • Efforts under way to fund Valley Veterans Memorial

    On sale now at the Hopewell Township municipal building are Hopewell Valley Veterans Memorial T-shirts. By John Tredrea    Memorial Day marked the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hopewell Valley Veterans Memorial, off Pennington-Washington Crossing Road, just west of the Hopewell Township municipal building.    The next major event planned for the memorial is a dedication ceremony on…

  • Timberlane Middle School back in business after Tuesday’s closing

    Officials said a construction worker accidentally sawed through an electric wire at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, resulting in a loss of electrical power to the school’s eighth-grade wing By John Tredrea    A construction mishap resulting in loss of power to part of the school forced an early closing of Timberlane Middle School (TMS) on Tuesday…

  • Close call at picnic

    Student hospitalized after near-drowning By: Marisa Maldonado    A Greenbrook School fifth-grader was hospitalized Tuesday after he was found floating facedown in a pool while on a class trip to a Monroe day camp, police said.    The boy, who was not identified by school officials or Monroe police, was listed in good condition at Robert Wood…

  • Proposed law would help curb teen drinking

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Borough Council introduced legislation June 5, which, if adopted, would help address the problem of underage drinking on private property in the borough.    Hopewell Township Committee is considering passage of similar legislation. Although officials in Pennington, which has a separate police department, have not discussed plans to adopt such a…