• WEST AMWELL: Regionalization: Firm picked for study

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — A feasibility study to help determine whether the elementary school districts of Lambertville, Stockton and West Amwell should join the South Hunterdon Regional High School district to form one school district will get under way soon.    The South Hunterdon Regional High School Board of Education voted unanimously…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Pilot’s condition improves

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Pilot’s condition improves

    Police look over the helicopter after it crashed July 20. Staff photo by Charles W. Kim

  • LAWRENCE: Church delegation visits Nepal

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Christianity has a history that spans two millennia and its missionaries have made their presence known in many countries, but it apparently missed Nepal.    Until the last 60 years, that is. That’s what a delegation from the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville learned when it visited the mountainous country — which…

  • LAWRENCE: This sculpture is sustainable

    LAWRENCE: This sculpture is sustainable

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Take scraps of yarn, some discarded bicycle wheels and frameworks for wreaths, add bits and pieces of plastic and mix them together.    The result? Recycled art.    At least, that’s what is on the front lawn at the Municipal Building — compliments of Sustainable Lawrence and more than 250 Lawrence residents,…

  • PEAPACK-GLADSTONE BANK – KEEPING OUR SENIORS SAFE

    PEAPACK-GLADSTONE BANK – KEEPING OUR SENIORS SAFE

    By Rosanne Schwab Peapack-Gladstone Bank has a long history of providing personal service to its patrons, and its senior customers are no exception. Through the years, Peapack-Gladstone Bank has partnered with local organizations to offer enlightening, entertaining and educational programs for our senior account holders. By enrolling in Peapack-Gladstone Bank’s Chairman’s Club, individuals 55 years of age…

  • MANVILLE: Police blotter for week of July 18-24

       Police, rescue and fire squads responded to a fire in a refuse bin in the Louis Street lot at Roosevelt School at 7 a.m. July 18. It was put out. Another fire was reported at about 8:45 a.m. the same day in the back yard of a North 9th Avenue address. * * *    Peter…

  • Retiring affordable housing director gives thanks

    Arlyne De Sena, Kendall Park Thanks for the memories South Brunswick Township.    It is with mixed emotion that I have decided to retire from the affordable housing program.    Twenty-five years ago, in July 1986, I began working for the township as its affordable housing officer — it was exciting to help start the program and…

  • MANVILLE: Three residents arrested on child support warrants

    Three residents arrested on child support warrants    Three Manville residents were among the 33 men and women arrested by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the county Prosecutor’s Office, from July 19 to 21 as part of a statewide crackdown on individuals delinquent in making child-support payments.    According to the sheriff, Manville…

  • ALLENTOWN: AHS student’s drowning ruled suicide

    Toxicology report: Body had ‘significant’ levels of cocaine By Mae Rhine, The Packet Group    The body of an 18-year-old Allentown High School student found in a Burlington Township pond in May contained “significant levels of cocaine” at the time of her death, which the Burlington County medical examiner has ruled was a suicide.    According to…

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