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Driver flees Camplain Road accident scene
Police pickup injured driver By:Donna Lukiw and Charlie Olsen The driver of an electrical utility truck from Abbott’s Quality Electric Service tried to avoid police after his vehicle flipped onto its side on West Camplain Road at 12:30 p.m. today, Thursday. Police have not released the name of the driver, who was picked up by…
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West Windsor bikefest set May 27
By: Emily Craighead WEST WINDSOR The "Whirr of the Wheels" will be heard once again in the township with the third annual bikefest May 27. Rides ranging from 1 mile to 40 miles begin at Community Park off Route 571. The 40-mile ride for experienced adult cyclists, which follows a new course this year,…
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Small miracles abound in wake of apartment fire
No injuries were reported in the apartment fire last week that displaced 41 people. By: Scott Morgan FLORENCE Mike Sullivan needed just one thing to see his daughter in Italy. He needed his passport. April 28, sometime just before lunch, Mr. Sullivan picks up his phone at work and is told he has probably…
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Rose Genco
HILLSBOROUGH Rose J. Genco died April 24 at Foothill Acres Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Hillsborough. She was 85. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and lived in Queens before moving to Hillsborough in 1992. Mrs. Genco was employed as a bookkeeper at Morgan Guarantee Trust in New York for 10 years. Her husband,…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
From the issue of May 4, 2006. Thanks for attending Rescue Squad dinner To the editor: The members of The Manville Rescue Squad Auxiliary would like to thank our local and neighboring business associates, and everyone attending our annual "all you can eat filet mignon dinner" April 8 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post…
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Daughters and sons put in a full day’s work
Kids take a trip around the world as they head to Factiva to work for a day with their parents. By: Joseph Harvie April 27 wasn’t a normal school day. Instead of piling onto buses, and heading to school, many children hit the highway and went off to work with their parents. That’s because it…
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Animal Relief
When Susan Hoenig could no longer create earthworks outside, she brought nature inside. By: Hilary Parker Taking inspiration from the Bauhaus artists of pre-World War II Germany and the makers of the famed Nazca Lines of ancient Peru, Susan Hoenig’s animal relief paintings merge seemingly contradictory movements separated by thousands of years and miles. Other…
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Going Home
Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform a New Orleans benefit concert at McCarter Theatre. By: Josh Appelbaum (The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has set up Do You Know What It Means…, a fund for New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina.) To say it’s been a trying year for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of…
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O’Connor sets new school record at Penn Relays
RAIDER ROUNDUP By: Rudy Brandl Taryn O’Connor rose to the occasion of the record-setting crowds and big-meet atmosphere at last week’s 112th Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The Hillsborough High junior increased her school-record and personal-best mark in the shot put again in major competition. O’Connor came a little closer to 42 feet with a mark…
