• LAWRENCE: Civic League seeks to develop Heritage Park

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer     Most Lawrence Township residents don’t know Heritage Park exists.     The park is tucked away at the edge of the Eggerts Crossing Village affordable housing development, but the Eggerts Crossing Civic League has been working hard for several years to develop the park.     That’s what civic league president…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Capital budget focuses on maintenance work

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    The township is cutting its capital improvement budget by about $200,000, putting off the purchases of new equipment to focus only on projects that take care of roads damaged from prior sewer projects and improve sidewalks.    The Township Committee approved the introduction of an ordinance April 28 for this year’s…

  • PLUMSTED: Bone marrow drive is one young man’s dying wish

    By Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer     PLUMSTED — Matthew Brand wanted what many teenage boys want. He planned to finish high school, get his driver’s license and one day become an orthopedic surgeon.     It made sense, then, that his dying wish was for children suffering with cancer to have a chance at something…

  • ROOSEVELT: Murder suspect waives preliminary hearing

    By Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    The college senior accused of murdering a 19-year-old Hightstown High School graduate at Gettysburg College has waived his preliminary hearing.    Kevin Schaeffer, 21, of Oley, Pa., stands accused of killing sophomore Emily Rachel Silverstein, of Roosevelt, in the early morning hours of April 9. Mr. Schaeffer, a senior at…

  • PRINCETON: Loose Ends: Some last-minute lamentations

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     “Wait a minute, Princeton University students: Slow down. I need to ask you a roving-reporter question about doing things at the last minute,” I said to a few students whizzing by me on campus two weeks ago. Students would smile, wave, say ‘Later.’ But no one had a spare…

  • BORDENTOWN JOTTINGS: From the May 7 edition

       Please send items for this column to [email protected] with the words “Bordentown Jottings” in the subject line.    Bordentown Township Senior Citizen Club meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at the Senior Community Center on Municipal Drive. Next meeting is May 18. Doors open at 11 a .m., meeting at…

  • Endorsing Lynch

    Crayle Green of Bordentown City To the editor:    You may say many things about the proposed commissioners of Bordentown but no one can dispute the strong, outstanding leadership, the depth of knowledge and experience of Commissioner James Lynch as our public servant for the city of Bordentown. For 20 years he has tirelessly committed himself…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Police Beat from the May 7 edition

       Jeffrey Lambert, 52, of Brick, was charged Sunday with drunken driving, reckless driving and failure to maintain lane. Police said they stopped him at 1:59 a.m. on Route 130 after seeing him cross over the painted lines. He was released to a family member. * * *    Thomas B. Hensley, 48, of Burlington, was charged…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Clean up efforts put a shine on town

       To the editor:     On behalf of South Brunswick Township I would like to express my sincere thanks to each and every one of the 550 volunteers who took time out of their busy schedules to celebrate Earth Day and make our township a cleaner place to live and work. Thanks to their tremendous effort,…

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