• MANVILLE: Assemblyman Ciattarelli desrves credit for courage

    He calls out Congressman King on immigration remarks    Kudos to state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli for calling out Iowa Congressman Steve King’s “insensitive and blatantly stereotypical” comments in the national immigration debate.    Rep. King, not known for his temperateness, characterized the children of many undocumented immigrants as drug traffickers when he said, “They aren’t all valedictorians,…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Aug. 15

    Thursdays    Lawrenceville Main Street (LMS) will host its 12th annual Music in the Park summer concert series on Thursdays at 7 p.m. The weekly concerts run through Aug. 22. All concerts take place in Weeden Park on Main Street (Route 206) just south of Craven Lane in Lawrenceville. Bring blankets or chairs to relax in…

  • ROEBLING: State supports museum with grant

       The New Jersey Historical Commission has allotted more than $2.3 million in general operating support grants to 85 historical organizations throughout the state, including Roebling Museum.    The Roebling Museum was awarded $18,043. In Burlington County, the commission has also given $14,062 to the Whitesbog Preservation Trust in Browns Mills, $29,001 to the Burlington County…

  • MANVILLE: DPW purchases are questioned, but ultimately approved

    Residents ask council, mayor about spending during tight economic times By Mary Ellen Day, Special to the News    Residents questioned buying new equipment for the Public Works Department at Monday night’s Borough Council meeting.    The resolutions all were unanimously approved by the council, but not before residents spoke out about $66,000 in purchases for a…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Roycefield Rapids continue to live up to their name

    HILLSBOROUGH: Roycefield Rapids continue to live up to their name

    Team and personal times fall in the pool    The Roycefield Rapids hosted the 27th annual sprint meet, where swimmers of all ages (5-18) enjoyed the opportunity to swim 25 yards in each of the four strokes — butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.    Two Rapids captured sprint meet records: Thomas Zdroik (12) in the 25-yard butterfly…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Township boasts of high rank as a ‘best place to live’

    Magazine again puts Hillsborough among elite small towns in U.S. By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Money Magazine again has ranked Hillsborough near the top of its “Best Places to Live” survey — actually, it’s even moved up.    The ranking in the September issue of the magazine put Hillsborough at No. 16.    It’s the third time…

  • WEST AMWELL: ACL session set Thursday at South

    For parents, student-athletes, coaches By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — It’s safe to say anyone who participates in athletics or follows athletics on any level is familiar with the abbreviation ACL.    It stands, of course, for anterior cruciate ligament.    Located in the front of the knee, that ligament, which comes into play when…

  • Recapturing competitive instincts of forefathers

        When Rutgers University’s Board of Governors voted last month to raise tuition 3.3 percent amidst student outcry, the university’s vice president for budgeting, Nancy Winterbauer, said, “I know lots of them are struggling. But we’re a public institution where state funding is flat — it’s at the level it was in the 90s —…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Fire department hosts first annual carnival

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Fire department hosts first annual carnival

    Resident and former Deputy Mayor Heather Cheesman takes a turn at the dunk tank.

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