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#b#Missing Person#/b#

Christopher “Chris” Bonnet, a 1996 alumnus of High School South, has been missing since Thursday, October 17. The 35-year-old was last seen near Silver Court in Hamilton.

Bonnet is white, 5’9”, and weighs about 180 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes as well as several tattoos: a spider web on his elbow, a Native American angel on his inner arm, an army shield on his calf, and black script lettering on his chest.

A neighborhood search party has been organized for Saturday, October 26, starting at 10 a.m., and Sunday, October 27, starting at 11 a.m. Volunteers will meet by the skate park in Veterans Park, Kuser Road, Hamilton. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact Hamilton police at 609-581-4008 or detective Leonard Gadsby at 609-731-1123.

#b#Fatal Accident#/b#

A motorcyclist died following an accident at the intersection of Windsor Road and South Lane on Monday, October 21, at 6:15 p.m. A Honda Odyssey, driven by Charlotte Hirt, 47, of Seneca, South Carolina, collided with a Kawasaki motorcycle, driven by Daniel Rivella, 42, of Trenton, after Rivella ran a stop sign.

Rivella was treated at the scene by West Windsor EMS and transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton, where he was pronounced dead. Hirt was not injured. The road was closed for two hours after the collision.

No charges were filed against Hirt.

#b#Electrical Fire#/b#

About 30 patients at Merwick Rehabilitation Center in Plainsboro were evacuated to other areas of the facility on Tuesday, October 15, due to a minor electrical fire. Plainsboro firefighters, assisted by West Windsor EMS, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Emergency Services, Princeton EMS, and the Hightstown Fire Department, responded at around 7:30 a.m. to the Plainsboro Road center, where the curtains in a patient room were burning. There was minor smoke damage, and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was determined by the fire marshal to be a malfunctioning wall-mounted thermostat.

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