• Former NY Ranger Lends Support to NJ Disability Service Provider

    By LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Former New York Ranger Ron Greschner will join Advancing Opportunities for its 22nd Annual Spring Gala fundraiser on Saturday, April 28, 2012, at Greenacres Country Club in Lawrenceville, NJ. Tickets for the event are $175 per person and include the opportunity to meet Greschner, a silent auction and cocktail reception at…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Watershed group organizes stream cleanups

        Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association will hold its sixth annual stream cleanups over the next three weekends.     Volunteers from 11 towns and four counties will don work gloves to help make local rivers and lakes cleaner and healthier.     In 2011, more than 360 volunteers hauled 10,568 pounds of trash from area waterways. Since…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

       A 14-year-old Ewing Township boy was charged with shoplifting a pair of jeans, valued at $58, from Macy’s at the Quaker Bridge Mall at 4:10 p.m. April 7.    Someone stole nine wallets, checkbook wallets and a wristlet, valued at $1,850, from the Coach store at the Quaker Bridge Mall between 1:45 p.m. and 2 p.m.…

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  • MANVILLE: Police blotter, week of April 1-8

       At 8:52 a.m. April 1 a caller said that in the overnight hours someone damaged the building behind Dunkin’ Donuts on South Main Street. Patrolman Ryan Steier found two damaged plants and the area to be messy. * * *    Sometime between March 21 and the morning of April 2, a blue bicycle was stolen…

  • Hope Hose Humane Co. #1 Presented Toughbook

    Hope Hose Humane Co. #1 Presented Toughbook

    J.L.Quick Hope Hose Humane Co. #1 in Bordentown, NJ was recently presented with a refurbished Panasonic Toughbook CF-19. The receipt of this Toughbook was through a need-based program offered on a quarterly basis by Bob Johnson’s Computer Stuff in Smyrna, DE. Chief Pete Sedor submitted a short essay expressing the need of a Toughbook for his…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Municipal taxes to rise average $86

    Municipal portion of tax bills to be 11 percent higher By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Township Committee has adopted a $5 million budget with a $2.17 million tax levy that will mean an 11 percent increase in municipal taxes compared to 2011 property tax bills.    The owner of an Upper Freehold…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Community calendar, week of April 12

    Digital photos will be on display    Saturday, April 14 — Reception at digital photography exhibit at Hillsborough Municipal Complex, 1-3 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through April 30.    Prospective members can discuss images on display, with the photographers, who are novice and professionals.    Club meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the fourth…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police charge 20-year-old with underage possession of alcohol

        While working a “Cops in Shops” program at 9:05 p.m. on April 6, township police officers said they saw a man leaving the Bottle King store at 626 Route 206 with alcohol.     Plain-clothed officers approached the man, Abdul Brima, 20, of Hillsborough and confirmed he had alcohol.     He was issued a summons…

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