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  • Committeeman faces harassment charges in municipal court

    Disorderly persons charges stem from alleged incident with 15-year-old By: Scott Morgan    The case against a North Hanover Township committeeman is back in the hands of Plumsted Township Municipal Court, where charges involving a 15-year-old girl were filed last month.    According to Plumsted court records, a New Egypt man filed harassment charges against North Hanover…

  • Noisy ATVs targeted again in Millstone

    Officials to review township ordinances. By: Purvi Desai    MILLSTONE — Va-va-vroom and there could be a problem.    Millstone residents are "irate" and once again complaining about noisy all-terrain vehicle use near their backyards, the township mayor said at a recent meeting.    A year and a half ago, a proposed ordinance to control ATV noise was…

  • Weather can’t stop Raiders, relays

    Girls sweep throwing events By: Nick Vaccaro        About 26 teams braved the weather this past weekend as the Hillsborough track and field teams hosted the Raider Relays. Forty schools were slated to compete in the meet, but the horrible conditions were responsible for the shortage.    The scene at the meet looked empty. There may…

  • The Luckiest Guy

    Evan Jonigkeit finds himself in multiple roles in ‘Natural History’ at Walnut Street Theatre. By: Sally Friedman    The fine hand of fate explains why Evan Jonigkeit of Langhorne, Pa., is not out there playing baseball, and is, instead, performing in a vastly different arena as an actor in live theater.    The baseball scholarship to Temple…

  • Parents urge action over bomb threats

    Seven bomb threats have been made at Lawrence public schools since March. By:Aleen Crispino Special Writer    Several parents called for action by the school district to end a recent wave of bomb threats and subsequent evacuations at the township public schools, while the school board offered possible solutions at a meeting on April 19.    "This…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 27, 2006

    Let school budget stand To the editor:     Voters in the Hopewell Valley have rejected the proposed school budget, which now must be sorted out by our three municipal governments. While the negative vote last week is disappointing and sobering, I trust that our local officials will put aside temporal pressures and allow the budget…

  • ‘The real sweethearts of the spring woodland garden’

    SPRINGHOUSE FARM JOURNAL By Heather Lovett    On Dec. 10, 1745, the English plantsman Peter Collinson received in the mail a botanical specimen from his American friend John Bartram, who identified it as "One sod of creeping Spring Lychnis." Collinson had gotten many plants from Bartram over the years, but this one was so well received…

  • Letters for the week of April 27

    Cutting governments will save dollars To the editor:     I applaud the request (The Ledger, April 20) that people submit their suggestions for how to save money in New Jersey rather than just complaining about the governor’s efforts to balance our budget with a sales tax increase. I hope you get many responsible suggestions, they…

  • A day at the dig

    There are new challenges ‘every day’ at the Federal Creosote Superfund site. By: Charlie Olsen    Trucks go in and trucks go out — that’s what most casual observers at the Rustic Mall have been seeing for the past five and a half years.    But at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Creosote Superfund site there…