• Response to Newtown: In defense of our town

    Leo Dodds Stockton     I want to be clear. I do not want our community to experience what those small children, parents, responders and townspeople experienced on Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. This letter offers some real steps each of us can take to better ensure that such a tragedy does not recur.    As…

  • PRINCETON: Man charged in sexual contact with special needs girl

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    An employee at a Princeton music store was arrested Tuesday on charges that he allegedly had made sexual contact with a special needs girl multiple times during a two-year span.    Brian Dornbach, 50, was acquainted with the family of the 16-year-old victim, police said Wednesday in announcing his arrest.…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: School board awards soil testing contract

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The Board of Education has awarded a $13,050 contract to Craig Test Boring, of Mays Landing, to conduct soil boring tests for the foundations of the new additions to Sharon Elementary School and Pond Road Middle School.    The contract is the first expenditure connected to the $18.9 million…

  • NEW HOPE: Doro Kerr will be honored Jan. 26

    NEW HOPE: Doro Kerr will be honored Jan. 26

       A tribute to Doro Kerr, one of New Hope’s “most distinctive and dedicated citizens,” will be presented by the New Hope Borough Park and Recreation Board as part of the Lambertville-New Hope Winter Festival on Jan. 26, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Occasions in Union Square, according to a spokesman.    After graduating from Drexel University,…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Town rallies to support young mom battling cancer

    ROBBINSVILLE: Town rallies to support young mom battling cancer

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The story of Tracy LaManna, a mother of two toddlers who has been battling lung and brain cancer, has so touched this community that even the biggest restaurant in Town Center can’t hold all the people who want to attend an upcoming fundraiser for her and her family.…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Sandom, Cannon lead committee

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Democrat Vanessa Sandom is the mayor of Hopewell Township.    Ms. Sandom became mayor for 2013 at Monday night’s Township Committee reorganization meeting.    Allen Cannon, also a Democrat, is deputy mayor for 2013,    Democrat Harvey Lester, who was elected to the Township Committee in November, took the oath of office for…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Versatile Gallindo contributing for Robbinsville

    Junior making her own mark for Ravens By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    As a freshman swimmer, Jillian Gallindo was overshadowed by four of her teammates when she represented Allentown High School at the Mercer County Championships.    Two years after that, Gallindo is one of the veterans for the Robbinsville High School girls team that…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Week of Jan. 10

    East Windsor    Cameron Harper, 19, of Madison Drive was charged with driving while intoxicated, careless driving, reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and under the influence of narcotics, according to police..    An officer observed a 1998 Hyundai traveling on Town Center Road in an erratic manner 12:57 a.m. Jan. 2. Police said the vehicle was…

  • WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rep. Rush Holt begins new term in U.S. Congress

    WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rep. Rush Holt begins new term in U.S. Congress

    Rep. Rush Holt takes the oath of office at the beginning of the 113th Congress. Shown from left are: Rep. Holt; Rep. Holt’s wife, Dr. Margaret Lancefield; and Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

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