Day: March 8, 2001

Several familiar names will not be on the ballot this time around. By: Cynthia Williamson    Several familiar names will be absent from New Hope and Solebury Township ballots when Pennsylvania holds its primary election May 15.    Most notably will be longtime New Hope-Solebury School Board of Directors President Harold "Hardy" Bush III, who has decided…

Geigert fuels second half surge By: Rudy Brandl        EDISON — The Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team enjoyed a well-deserved standing ovation in the closing seconds of last week’s Central Jersey Group 4 quarterfinal game at Edison.    Those same fans didn’t have much to cheer in the early stages of the game, but they stuck…

   How do you improve upon a fund-raiser that has become much more than a run-of-the-mill-annual event?    You don’t. At least, that’s what the Lawrenceville Elementary School PTO has learned. By: Linda J. Field    The group hosted its annual art auction again this year in Abbott Hall on the grounds of The Lawrenceville School on March…

‘Oliver!’ at Timberlane    Timberlane Middle School will present the musical, "Oliver!" by Lionel Bart on March 8 and 9. The show is based on the Dickens’ "Oliver Twist" and features seventh and eighth grade students who take part in the school’s music and performing arts programs.    The show is under the direction of Connie Condict…

       With all the snowfalls we’ve had this winter, there were lots of "curl-up-in-front-of-the-fire-to-read" times. Certain books just read better at certain times of the year. By:Arlene Bice    Since March often dumps one last, but not lasting, snowfall on us, consider reading "Don’t Stop the Carnival," a novel by Herman Wouk.    I read it when…

       MOUNT HOLLY — Two relatives of a Fieldsboro man with sickle-cell anemia who died after a struggle with police in 1999 recently filed a wrongful death suit in Superior Court, alleging that police actions contributed to the death of the 28-year-old. By:Vanessa S. Holt    Fieldsboro residents Cubie Miles, mother of the late Cleathern Miles…

THE PACKET MAGAZINE:  In the Spring/Summer 2001 issue of Homes of Prestige, we bring you a look at what makes some of the homes in the Princeton area so special. Go To Stories

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: A look at Allentown-Upper Freehold at the time of the American Revolution. By: Information provided by Allentown resident Ann Garrison, Allentown-Upper Freehold Historical Society President John Fabiano and society member Alice Wikoff from their draft abstract, "Allen’s Town, New Jersey: A Crossroads of the American Revolution, 1775-1783." A Patriot Family    One of the…

GUEST COLUMN By:Cynthia Daniels    (DOH Wire Service) — In the most confusing turn of political events since Yippie Jerry Rubin turned capitalist, this generation’s profit-driven Weathermen Network has wreaked political havoc in a small New Jersey township by means of terroristic forecasts of an explosive but non-existent blizzard.    Hopewell Township, N.J., already suffering from political…