• LAWRENCE: Statue dedication Sunday to be major Hindu event

    LAWRENCE: Statue dedication Sunday to be major Hindu event

    Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski. Yogesh Sharma, left, founder of the Radha Krishna Temple in Lawrence touches the head of the statue of Shirdi Sai Baba as temple volunteer Sujata Kumar looks on. The statue is awaiting installation on the temple grounds.

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Local woman dies in crash

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    UPPER FREEHOLD — An Upper Freehold resident was killed Monday in a head-on collision on Sharon Station Road by the Cream Ridge Golf Course, State Police said Tuesday.    State Police said Christine M. Squires, 44, of Route 537, was traveling south on the road, also known as Route 539,…

  • FLORENCE: Closing the book on a long career

    FLORENCE: Closing the book on a long career

    Bert Eggly sits in front of his class on his last day teaching at the Riverfront School. Staff photo by Geoffrey Wertime.

  • FLORENCE-ROEBLING NEWS: From the June 25 edition

    Peg Dotson Peg Dotson     Tel: 499-3807     Fax: 499-3807     E-mail: [email protected]    Hope members of the Class of ‘79 remembers that their Class Reunion is tonight (June 25) at Bung’s Tavern in Florence. It will be very informal. Please try your best to attend. Call Wendy (Rowe) Cosmos at 499-4140 or Denise (Nolan) Groze…

  • BURLINGTON COUNTY: Three schools send off ’09 grads

    BURLINGTON COUNTY: Three schools send off ’09 grads

    The BRHS Class of 2009. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Police Beat

    Allentown     Police responded to a Church Street bicycle theft June 16. The victim said the silver Haro bike with silver pegs, valued at $300, was taken from a front yard between noon and 2 p.m. June 11. Millstone     Deborah Okeson, 40, of Ely Harmony Road, was charged June 20 with possession of marijuana…

  • Nominations Sought by Sept. 1 for Disabled Advocate Awards

    Somerset County Board of Freeholders Do you know an individual, an organization or a business in Somerset County whose efforts in the area of advocacy, service and inclusion on behalf of persons with disabilities is exemplary? The Somerset County Office for the Disabled is seeking nominations for its 2009 Disabled Advocate Awards Program. Nominations are due…

  • MANSFIELD: Police Beat from the June 25 edition

    Staff report    Cristina Teodorescu-Jianu, 20, of the Columbus section of Mansfield was charged Saturday with drunken driving, underage DWI, reckless driving, failure to maintain lane and possession of a false identification. Police said they stopped her at 1:16 a.m. at Route 543 and Sheffield Drive for failing to maintain her lane.    Police said Ms. Teodorescu-Jianu…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Red gowns and rainbows for HHS graduates

    HILLSBOROUGH: Red gowns and rainbows for HHS graduates

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Half an hour before Tuesday’s 6 p.m. graduation ceremony for Hillsborough High School’s Class of 2009 began, the line stretched from the school’s football stadium, alongside the school’s science and technology wing, around a corner, and back toward Amwell Road, making some parents wonder exactly what they were there to…

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