• Library board should rent building, not buy

    Beverly Kidder Hopewell     Change always comes with road signs.    My husband and I are in the used furniture business. When we saw the price of flat-screen TVs drop in half, we stopped taking entertainment centers. Today you can find dozens of them for free on Craigslist.    When the cost of a laptop computer was…

  • LAWRENCE: Passerby tries to halt shoplifter

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    A tenacious passerby prevented a would-be shoplifter from escaping with nearly $300 worth of items from the CVS pharmacy on Brunswick Pike Saturday afternoon, attempting to detain the man until police arrived.    But the shoplifter, identified as 44-year-old Darren Wardlaw of Trenton, led the passerby and police on a chase…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Students get taste of reality during senior awareness day

    ROBBINSVILLE: Students get taste of reality during senior awareness day

    Paramedics extract a student during a simulated fatal DWI crash May 2 at Robbinsville High School. Photos by Amy Batista

  • ‘Our preschoolers were enchanted by Busytown’

    Hope Anderson, director, Pennington Presbyterian Nursery School     On May 1, Cindy Persichilli, of the Pennington Public Library, offered another wonderful Busytown experience for Pennington Presbyterian Nursery School classes and kindergartners from Toll Gate Elementary School.    After being led across the street by Kate Fletcher (who is a PPNS graduate) and two other members of…

  • LAWRENCE: A mix of cultures found at Diversity Day

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Ask Anneese McRae and Marilyn Robbins what they liked best about Sunday afternoon’s Diversity Day celebration, and they will reel off a list of “favorites” — from the dancing and the karate exhibition to the music.    ”I liked the ‘Bollywood’ dancing. I enjoyed listening to the veena (an Indian musical…

  • Current charming library has limitations, drawbacks

    Ann and Tom Johnson Hopewell Borough     We are in favor of purchasing the former Sun Bank building at 64 E Broad St., for a new and updated library.    Forty-seven years ago we moved to Hopewell with a young family. We purchased our home 37 years ago in the middle of town on West Broad…

  • Pretty In Paint

    Pretty In Paint

    Pretty In Paint

  • REGION: ‘Trek’ group meeting set

    The USS Avenger, a long-time science fiction fan association based in central New Jersey, meets Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m. at the North Brunswick Free Public Library on Hermann Road in North Brunswick.    Founded in 1985, the USS Avenger-a chapter of Starfleet, The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.-has provided fans interested in science…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Woman strangled, then fire was set (updated)

    HILLSBOROUGH: Woman strangled, then fire was set (updated)

    Accused held on million-dollar bail By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Flyers taped on mailboxes around Bloomingdale Drive condo complexes are asking for donations to help give a 30-year-old Hillsborough woman a final resting place.    Sviatlana Dranko is called a “beautiful woman, a wonderful daughter, a loving sister, an amazing aunt and a loyal friend” on…

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