• Central Jersey: Millstone and UFRSD schedule joint meetings

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education and the Millstone Board of Education have scheduled a series of three joint meetings during the 2011-2012 school year to discuss shared services and academic issues.    Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, the UFRSD superintendent of schools, said last week the joint meetings would…

  • IRENE: Rail services restored on Northeast Corridor

       NJ TRANSIT restored rail service Wednesday morning on the Northeast Corridor from Trenton Transit Center to New York Penn Station, following a service suspension on a portion of the line between Trenton and New Brunswick due to damage caused by earlier flooding.    After being given the all clear from Amtrak to run test trains Tuesday…

  • EDITORIAL: Remembering the "sixth" Robbinsville councilman
  • LAWRENCE: Top school staff make changes

    New superintendent in place By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    When students walk through the schoolhouse doors next week, they will be greeted by the familiar faces of administrators — but not necessarily in the schools to which the children were accustomed to seeing them.    The students are not alone, however, as those administrators, teachers and…

  • IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    Phil McAuliffe U.S. Route 1 in Lawrence looked like a lake on Sunday. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    IRENE:CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane causes flooding, road closures

    Dennis Symons, Jr. The driveway in front of the old Off the Wall gift shop in Allentown Borough was a waterfall on Sunday morning when torrents of water washed over the South Main Street Bridge. Photo courtesy of Robbinsville Division of Fire.

  • IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    IRENE: LAWRENCE: Irene slams town

    Phil McAuliffe The Assunpink Creek in Lawrence overflowed its banks due to the heavy rain dropped by Hurricane Irene. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • IRENE: BURLINGTON -Cleaning up Irene’s mess begins

    By Birgitta Wolfe,Managing Editor     Cleanup is under way as area towns break out the mops, rakes and chainsaws after Hurricane Irene’s weekend drive-by.     While many town officials were grateful the damage was not more severe, tensions were high as the Category 1 storm passed through to the north.     Florence Township was put…

  • EDITORIAL: Remembering the "sixth" Robbinsville councilman

    EDITORIAL: Remembering the "sixth" Robbinsville councilman

       The seat of the so-called “sixth member” of the Robbinsville Township Council was empty last week.    Edwin Diefenbach, 71, an encyclopedia of all thing Robbinsville and a regular quiet presence at council meetings for many years, died suddenly the morning of Aug. 12 in the log cabin he built with his own hands in Windsor.…

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