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LAWRENCE: Local D-Day vet takes a look back
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Army veteran Quinto Erkoboni belongs to a special "band of brothers" — those 57,500 American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944: D-Day. It was 70 years ago that the life-long Lawrence resident, who was a private first class in the Army, waded through the surf…
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Karen A. Rockoff is promoted to Executive Vice President at Peapack-Gladstone Bank
Karen A. Rockoff, Executive Vice President, Peapack-Gladstone Bank
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PLUMSTED: New Egypt students gear up with robotics
Photo by David Kilby New Egypt High School seniors Marc Brodzik and Norman Johnson demonstrate the skills they learned in the high school’s new ‘Robotics Engineering’ class as board members look on at the Plumsted Board of Education meeting May 28.
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WEST AMWELL:Police, fire company to get equipment
Ordinance would fund cars, turnout gear, furnace By John Tredrea, Special Writer A utility vehicle for the township police department and radios and turnout gear for the fire department are among items to be bought with money from a proposed ordinance introduced by the West Amwell Township Committee on May 28, township clerk Lora Olsen…
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LOOSE ENDS – Service of another kind
Keeping politics out of the Memorial Day Parade By Pam Hersh On Saturday, May 24, Princeton resident Ray Wadsworth fended off two storms and protected the integrity of The Spirit of Princeton Memorial Day Parade. As a co-founding father with Herb Hobler of The Spirit of Princeton, the charitable non-profit organization that sponsors patriotic community…
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MANVILLE:June golf specials offered at Neshanic Valley course
Players presenting a receipt from any one of the five Somerset County Park Commission championship courses will be entitled to a free round on the Neshanic Valley Academy Course seven days a week for the month of June. The five courses are Neshanic Valley, Green Knoll on Garretson Road in Bridgewater, Warrenbrook in Warren Township,…
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REGIONAL: Top standardbred horses featured in new book
By Jane Meggitt, Special Writer Since western Monmouth County is the epicenter of standardbred breeding on the East Coast, it’s no surprise that a new book profiling top members of the breed features several horses hailing from or still living in the area. Well-known equine photographer Barbara Livingston and harness racing writer Ellen Harvey collaborated…
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FLORENCE: Suspect flees with officer still in car
By Amy Batista, Special Writer A Delaware man was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly being pulled over for speeding and trying to flee the scene with the investigating officer still in his car. According to the Florence Township Police Department, the police were on a routine patrol in the area of Delaware Avenue…
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MANVILLE: Boat over! Water drill tests rescuers
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Three people in a canoe didn’t capsize Saturday morning in the Millstone River, but emergency responders sprung into action as if it did happen. The exercise was a drill conducted between Manville and Franklin Township responders on both sides of the river. In the drill, the county dispatcher got a…
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