• Cub Scout Pack 180 seeks new members

    Cub Scout Pack 180 will host a registration event at 7 p.m. Sept. 16 in the Allentown Methodist Church. For more information, contact Barbara Cottrell at [email protected] or 609-259- 8802.

  • Redbird band slates used-clothing drive

    The Allentown High School Redbird Band will hold a used-clothing collection at the high school on Aug. 27. Clothing, shoes, belts, linens, stuffed animals, bikes and toys measuring less than 24 inches can be dropped off in the side parking lot in a well-tied plastic bag anytime before 1 p.m. that day.

  • Allentown Garden Club to meet Sept. 9

    Alf and Ceil Berg, owners of Herbertsville Honey Co. in Point Pleasant, will be the speakers at the Sept. 9 meeting of the Allentown Garden Club. Experienced beekeepers and winners of the New Jersey State Honey Show awards for the last three years, the Bergs will explore the importance of bees and will bring an…

  • MERCER COUNTY: Soldier’s letters describe life in Iraq

    By Natalia Knochowski, The Packet Group    CRANBURY — What do you do when you’re in Iraq, it’s 120 degrees outside, and you’re bored?    If you’re 22-year-old Cranbury resident Jonathan Bowker, who is deployed in Iraq for about a year, you sometimes “find something completely random and play Iraqi Scavenger Hunt on patrols just to have…

  • Supporting Rep. Rush Holt for re-election

    Hazel S. Stix of Princeton     In her letter of Aug. 19, Beverly Elston asks why Rush Holt refuses to debate. Rush Holt has not refused and he will debate Scott Sipprelle.    Rep. Holt has been our conscientious and dedicated congressman for 12 years and his impressive voting record says more about him than any…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Council OKs tax hike

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    When municipal tax bills go out in September, South Brunswick residents can expect to see an approximately $96 increase after the Township Council adopted the municipal budget with a 5-cent tax rate increase Tuesday evening.    The $47.03 million spending plan, reduced from last year’s $48 million budget, was adopted unanimously…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Mosque collecting supplies for Pakistani flood victims

    By Davy James, Staff Writer    The Islamic Society of Central Jersey is coordinating relief efforts to send aid to millions of people displaced in Pakistan due to heavy monsoon rains and flooding.    The ISCJ will collect supplies Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ISCJ building located at 4145 Route 1 South and…

  • ALLENTOWN: Bus drivers’ jobs get reprieve

    School district to hire Millstone staff members By Joanne Degnan, Staff Writer    ALLENTOWN — Upper Freehold Regional School District officials say they have hired 21 of the 30 Millstone bus drivers who recently lost their jobs when that district decided to outsource its transportation routes to UFRSD.    Although UFRSD Business Administrator Diana Schiraldi says the…

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