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  • Wal-Mart not ready with revised plans

    Wal-Mart, which is seeking to open a new store at the site of two former car dealerships on Spruce Street, has not submitted revised plans to the Planning Board. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer    The Lawrence Township Community Development Department has not received revised plans for a proposed Wal-Mart store on the site of two car…

  • Report: ‘substantial’ savings seen with EMS services plan

    Mayor says cost savings could be more than $250,000 (Feb. 2) By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — A developing plan to separate emergency medical service from the Fire Department is drawing derision from the firefighters’ union and fire commissioners as officials caution no plan is a done deal yet.    Fire Chief Kevin Brink, who sits on…

  • Helping save African women

    BeadforLife provides economic and emotional support for Uganda women affected by civil war. By: Marisa Maldonado    Last year Sarah McCall helped raise $1,800 for Ugandan women affected by civil war, and she did it by selling jewelry made of paper beads at the University of Colorado at Boulder.    She never thought she would meet the…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: The meaning of the Alito vote

    The Democratic Party’s lack of political prowess is exemplified by its failure on the Alito nomination. By: Hank Kalet    The confirmation of Samuel Alito as the 110th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday says a lot about the state of the Democratic Party.    The failed fight over the Alito nomination has shown the…

  • Hillsborough boys roll in SCT opener

    Molarz leads assault By: Rudy Brandl        The Hillsborough High boys’ basketball team spread the wealth in Saturday’s 63-36 victory over Manville in the preliminary round of the Somerset County Tournament. Nine Raiders scored in a balanced assault that propelled the team into Saturday’s second round game at seventh-ranked Gill St. Bernards.    Tenth-ranked Hillsborough (6-9)…

  • Pennington Borough mayor resigns

    Pennington Republican Committee has 15 days from James Loper’s resignation (Feb. 1) to nominate three people to take his place. The council then would have 30 days to pick one of those candidates as his successor By John Tredrea    James Loper, mayor of Pennington since February 2001 and a Borough Council member for five years…

  • HHS swimmers still building after county meet

    Boys take second, girls tie for fourth By: John E. Powers        To say there wasn’t some disappointment among the Hillsborough High boys’ swimming team in Bridgewater-Raritan reclaiming its Somerset County Championship Saturday wouldn’t be telling the entire story.    HHS head coach Todd Sudol made sure his team knew the second-place finish wouldn’t be a…

  • Obituaries-Feb. 2, 2006

    Adelaide Johnson    LAKE WORTH, Fla. — Adelaide "Delle" S. Newcomb Johnson, 79, died Thursday, Jan. 12, at her home in Lake Worth, Fla.    She was born and raised in Lambertville.    Ms. Johnson graduated from Lambertville High School in 1944.    She moved to Lake Worth in 1949 where she met and married her husband of 50…

  • Letters-Feb. 2, 2006

    Wear red for women To the editor:    Love your heart.    By loving your heart, you can save it.    That’s the message the American Heart Association is delivering to women across the country during February, American Heart Month, and especially Feb. 3, National Wear Red Day for Women.    Heart disease, the number one killer of women…