• Historic site being restored by volunteers

    By ANDREW MARTINS A group of residents who want to establish Allentown’s historic sense of place is in the midst of a restoration effort at a local cemetery that predates the Revolutionary War. Members of the Allentown Village Initiative (AVI) have spent every Saturday for the past month working on the Colonial cemetery project, which…

  • D-Day legacy of service and sacrifice lives on

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Rudolph Schasney, a U.S. Navy gunner first mate who was involved in the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944, participates in a Memorial Day ceremony on May 24 at Thorne Middle School in the Port Monmouth section of Middletown. Seventy years after D-Day — the Allied troops’ invasion…

  • THE STATE WE’RE IN: Find women’s history on Heritage Trail

    By Michele Byers    With New Jersey celebrating 350 years, it’s exciting to highlight the women who changed the course of history.    Some of our state’s most famous include Colonial-era poet Annis Boudinot Stockton, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suffrage movement leader Alice Paul and pioneering aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh.    More than a decade ago,…

  • 12th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Coleman wins four-way Democratic primary

    12th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Coleman wins four-way Democratic primary

    Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe. Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman is congratulated by outgoing U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (right) after her victory in Tuesday’s primary.

  • POLICE BEAT: ROBBINSVILLE

       Philip Cardoso, 19; Tyler Gildner, 18; and Alec Maleson, 18, all of Robbinsville, were arrested and charged with burglary, criminal mischief and trespassing at 10:33 p.m. May 26 after police responded to a warehouse on Applegate Drive for a reported burglary in progress.    Wayne Bickel, 23, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and Kimberly Brady, 23, of Abington,…

  • MC Sports Active Rewards Loyalty Program Reaches One Million Members!

    MC Sports Active Rewards Loyalty Program Reaches One Million Members!

    By 1888PressRelease 1888 Press Release – MC Sports announces enrollment of their millionth member in the companies Active Rewards Program; an immensely successful loyalty program powered by Preferred Market Solution’s highly scalable and reliable Preferred Patron Loyalty technology. Atlantic City, NJ – Powered by the Preferred Patron Loyalty system, MC Sports surpassed a major milestone…

  • LAWRENCE: Police blotter

    An iPod belonging to an American Eagle Outfitters employee was reported stolen from a display table at the store between 2 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. May 27. It was valued at $300. Stanley Miller IV, 27, of Ewing Township, and Piotr Szubert, 27, of Trenton, were charged with criminal mischief for allegedly breaking the window…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Beggiato and Le upset leadership, win nominations
  • KIDS HELPING KIDS FIGHTING CANCER THROUGH THE LAUNCH OF THE FCCF CHARITY PIGS IN ACTION PROGRAM

    By Andrea Inauen The Fighting Children’s Cancer Foundation (FCCF), www.fccf.info., has launched a PIGS IN ACTION PROGRAM to support and promote FCCF programs and fundraising activities. Ceramic piggy banks have been hand-painted by kids who have survived their own cancer battles to help raise awareness and funds for children currently fighting cancer and their families…

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