• Sign language could fill graduation requirement

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer Parlin Gressitt, left, practices signing with Phoebe Gartside during an American Sign Language program at the Middletown Township Public Library on June 27. Gartside, a senior at Middletown High School South, founded the program along with classmate Sarah Maggipinto to teach the basics of signing, which could become a…

  • Vandals cause damage at Millstone’s Abate Park

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Several days after grafitti at Abate Park, Charleston Springs Road, Millstone Township, was painted over by municipal employees, another incident of vandalism at the park was reported. Township Committeeman Fiore Masci said he is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of…

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    FRANK GALIPO Master Gardener Larry Cier works in the Millstone Community Garden, Millstone Township, tending a plot of land from which food will be donated to organizations that feed the hungry. See story, page 4.

  • LAWRENCEVILLE: Woodworking for a good cause – toys for homeless children

    LAWRENCEVILLE: Woodworking for a good cause – toys for homeless children

    By Maddy Anand, Packet Media Group Sam and Logan Leppo of Lawrenceville decided last year that they wanted to bring smiles to children who are less fortunate. The two rising juniors at The Hun School of Princeton and have been passionate about woodworking since they were children. “You could say it all started 11 years…

  • Marathon miracle: Two runners cross paths and one life is saved

    Marathon miracle: Two runners cross paths and one life is saved

    By Mike Morsch, Packet Media Group As Jen Moore was walking along the race route of the recent Poconos Run for the Red marathon near mile marker 19, she mentioned to a couple of friends that the runners at that point of the race looked haggard and were starting to labor. “I saw a couple…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Veteran now among his colleagues: Walkway at National Mall honors the service of Ricky Loften

    HILLSBOROUGH: Veteran now among his colleagues: Walkway at National Mall honors the service of Ricky Loften

    By Gene Robbins, Packet Media Group Phyllis Loften of Hillsborough jokes that she was a mail order bride. She “met” her husband, Ricky J., through letters with him while he was in the Navy during the Vietnam War in 1966. Eventually she planned their wedding through the mail while he was still serving in southeast…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: CHS graduates 306 in outdoor ceremony

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: CHS graduates 306 in outdoor ceremony

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer The rain held off falling from a sky that had been overcast most of last Thursday (June 18), and so Hopewell Valley Central High School was able to hold its graduation in the most desired spot — Ackerson Field, the turf athletic field on the high school grounds, instead of…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Scout Emily VanPelt builds a field hockey program

    HILLSBOROUGH: Scout Emily VanPelt builds a field hockey program

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Boy and Girl Scouts often take on the task of constructing something as their required community project for their top awards in Scouting. For her Gold Award project, Emily Van Pelt began to build a field hockey program from the ground up. Emily, a Hillsborough High School junior and a…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Suspect arrested in murder of New Brunswick woman

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Suspect arrested in murder of New Brunswick woman

    Police have arrested Giver J. Vasquez, 26, of New Brunswick, and charged him with murder, stalking, possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon in the death of Alicia Martinez of New Brunswick. Police said that the victim and the suspect knew each other and that the shooting was not a random act.…

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