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• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Chemical seeps at American Cyanamid worry activists   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  BRIDGEWATER — Township administrator Robert Bogart said he is confident that Pfizer is doing all it can to keep about a dozen chemical lagoons on the American Cyanamid Superfund site from seeping into the Raritan River. But environmentalists said they don’t share that confidence. Pfizer’s solution to the problem of seeping benzene was to erect a [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Kelsey Charity Run set for Sunday   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  A back-roads motorcycle run through Hillsborough and Bridgewater is aiming to raise $100,000 this year to support children with cancer and other charities, organizers said. The 16th annual Kelsey Charity Run and post-run party is expected to draw 2,000 people on Sunday, said Jim Cookingham, president of the run. Motorcycle riders are due to register Sunday [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Sunday: Kelsey Charity Run returns to Bridgewater   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  A back-roads motorcycle run through Hillsborough and Bridgewater is aiming to raise $100,000 this year to support children with cancer and other charities, organizers said. The 16th annual Kelsey Charity Run and post-run party is expected to draw 2,000 people on Sunday, said Jim Cookingham, president of the run. Motorcycle riders are due to register Sunday morning [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Man, 31, dies on Route 287 in Bridgewater   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  BRIDGEWATER — A 31-year-old Far Hills man died Friday night after his pickup truck hit a guard rail, overturned and caught fire on Route 287 in the township, police said. The man, James Reilly, was driving north in a 2003 Chevrolet pickup truck when his vehicle struck the left guard rail, flipped over and hit [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Hyperlocal social networking, in the flesh   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  About 200 business people and 50 exhibitors attended the second annual Small Biz Connection . The event was hosted by the Somerset County Business Partnership at the Bridgewater Marriott . Attendees sharpened their presentations, met potential clients and got exposure for possible referrals. “You can’t not network,” said exhibitor Tom Stillman, of Network of Writers & Artists [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: 30 bras lifted from Victoria’s Secret in Bridgewater   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  Bridgewater police are investigating the theft of 30 bras from a Victoria’s Secret store in the township, authorities said.
  The theft was reported at 6:30 p.m. June 10, police said.
  The 30 bras are valued at $1,560, according to police.

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: CloverCon coming to Bridgewater   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  CloverCon, an anime and manga mini-convention, is scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Ted Blum 4-H Center, 310 Milltown Road, Bridgewater. The event is being hosted by Hidden in the Clovers , a new Somerset County 4-H anime and manga fan club. The event will feature panel discussions by club members and [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: School board picks costlier, less disruptive ESL plan   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  Bridgewater-Raritan school district officials aiming to boost lagging ESL student achievement initially considered bringing all of the primary school ESL students under one roof to increase specialized instruction time for those students without adding staff. But fears that parents of ESL students would refuse services so their children could stay at their neighborhood schools prompted [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Gargoyles, other choir members to perform Sunday, collect ‘Souper Bowl’ donations   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  MADISON — Men, boys and Gargoyles (teen boys) from the choirs at Grace Church Madison will join in an evensong at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at the church, 4 Madison Ave. at Kings Road. The short candlelight service will feature the music of Wood and Parnell, a spiritual and congregational hymns. The Choirs at Grace [...]

• Jake Remaly wrote a new blog post: Bus drivers for Chatham teens’ trip face drunken driving charges in Vermont   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  Vermont authorities say 150 Chatham students were on board at Killington Ski Area; superintendent says it wasn’t a school event By Mike Donoghue, Burlington Free Press RUTLAND, VT. — Two New York bus drivers who were part of a tour carrying 150 teens from Chatham to the Killington Ski Area pleaded not guilty Monday in Vermont [...]