• Millstone wrestlers earn sportsmanship award

    The Millstone Township recreation wrestlers earned the Grapevine League’s Sportsmanship Award for the 2009-10 season. MILLSTONE — The township’s recreation wrestling program has received the Grapevine League’s Sportsmanship Award for the 2008-09 season. The recognition is the only team award that the league gives out each season. League officials have presented Millstone wrestling coaches Rich…

  • In Long Branch, they don’t need no stinkin’ commission

    Coda • GREG BEAN Are your town elders being bothered by pesky members of the local Historical Commission who don’t want to tear down historic buildings so a new Starbucks can go up (attention, Milltown)? Then you ought to take a lesson from Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider and his rubber stamp City Council (with…

  • Never mind the details, let’s have a tax revolt!

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Politicians often put forward ideas without telling those of us who might be willing to listen to them how to go about implementing their grand schemes. A case in point is Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who was quoted by the Bloomberg News Service last week as saying, “There should…

  • FLORENCE: Police Beat from the May 14 edition

       Three Roebling residents were charged in April with violations relating to a drug distribution investigation, officials said.    At 9 a.m. April 28, the Detective Division of Florence Township plice, the Burlington County posecutor’s office and the New Jersey State Police TEAMS Unit searched a residence on the 100 block of Fourth Ave., Roebling, , police…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Fried finance report filed late, say state and Walter

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer    ROBBINSVILLE — Township Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Sonja Walter says she filed a complaint with the state over the failure of her opponent, Mayor Dave Fried, to file an 11-day pre-election finance report on time.    Mayor Fried claimed last week that the report had been filed by May 1…

  • Carson Rd. Woods Friends

    Bob Hunsicker of Carson Road, Lawrence The writer is president of the Friends of Carson Road Woods, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. To the editor:    Recently, the mayor has been advocating a “Park Pals program where neighbors help with their neighborhood parks.” I am pleased to inform your readers about the Friends of Carson Road Woods,…

  • LAWRENCE: A congregation celebrates

    LAWRENCE: A congregation celebrates

    Phil McAuliffe 3-year-old Eli Meltzer of Pennington holds a toy Torah. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe.

  • PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

    PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: The Arts Council finds its edge

    David Newton Dunn, David Newton Modern dancers choreographed by Dawn Cargiulo Berman enhance the edgy decor. Photo courtesy of David Newton Dunn

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the May 14 edition

    Thursday, May 14    Lawrence Poetry Circle: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder blends his interest in the environment, Zen Buddhism and nature into his work. Pick up a packet of the selected Snyder poems from the Lawrence Reference Desk. 7 p.m. Lawrence Library.    Foreign Films at Your Library: “Lake Tahoe” (Mexico, 2008). Juan crashes the family…

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