• District 12 softball starts on Sunday

        The Bordentown 12-year-old softball team will be tested right off the bat in the District 12 Little League Tournament.     Bordentown will open play against Robbinsville, which returns four players from the team that placed second in the world last year. Bordentown plays Robbinsville (at host Allentown) on Sunday at noon. Bordentown will play…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: HHS grads urged to be ready for change

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Pomp and circumstance. Hugs and waves. Hopes and dreams. Smiles and tears.    All were plentiful at Hightstown High School’s 95th commencement.    About 340 students from East Windsor and Hightstown lived out their last moments as high school students at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton on June 19. The crowd…

  • MANVILLE: Vehicles in four towns painted

    By Audrey Levine, Eileen Oldfield and Natalie Lescroart, Staff Writers    More than 40 residents in four communities woke Saturday to find their cars spray painted with white and pink stripes, police reported.    Police in Manville, Hillsborough, Raritan and Bridgewater reported the incidents appear to have occurred between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday, with the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Developer seeks OK to change gateway project

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The developer building a shopping center on the site of one of Hillsborough’s oldest structures is backing away from plans to create a plaza commemorating the historic Ditmar-Polhemus carriage house.    Citing “financial reasons,” Interstate Development Services Inc., of Mount Laurel, went before the Board of Adjustment June 3 to propose…

  • MHS releases final honor roll

    9th Grade    High honor roll: Peter Hando and Jennifer Wanjohi.    Honor roll: Alex Agans, Jaime Alpaugh, Tyler Alpizar, Haley Andrews, Matthew Bowden, Michael Campos, Ian DeFalco, Holly Fischer, Audriana Formanowski, Kristofer Grimm, Ericka Guevara, Michelle Hernandez, Brooke Lathi, Devon Lawrence, Douglas Leubner, Natalie Lewicki, Megan Loriot, Luismael Monterroso, Vanessa Velez, Kristen Wells, Tom Zagaja and…

  • HOPEWELL: Children’s Festival set at new day care

    by John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Live music, a science fair, children’s books readings and a fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation will be part of a Children’s Festival scheduled for 1 to 5 p.m. at a new child-care facility in Hopewell Township.    Owned by Rosa Ibanez, Pegasus Children’s Academy is at 281 Pennington-Lawenceville Road, about a…

  • LAWRENCE: Softball team faces in tough bracket

    All-stars open district play Sunday By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group    Tom DeFillipo has been around the District 12 Little League softball tournament enough to know it doesn’t matter what pool you’re in, the road to a championship will be a tough one.    ”Robbinsville, they were second in the world last year,” said DeFillipo, who…

  • MONTGOMERY: Developer challenges township COAH plan

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The township’s third round Fair Share Plan has drawn an objection from a real estate developer that owns a large tract of township land.    The objection was filed with the Council on Affordable Housing by Country Club Meadows, LLC, and Related Entities, known as CCM, which owns about…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Planning on track for Y site

    by John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Officials of the Hopewell Valley YMCA say their planning for a new, 40,000-square-foot community center on a 13-acre tract in Pennington is going well, and there’s a good chance the first phase of the ambitious project will be open in four to seven years.    ”We’re into the design element of…

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