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  • Lady Dawgs still gelling early in year

    Hopewell Valley girls basketball By: John E. Powers    Hopewell Valley Central High School first-year girls basketball coach Jeff Losch is confident his Lady Bulldogs eventually will gel into the kind of team he envisions. It’s simply that a new system requires a little more time — and the fact the Lady Bulldogs are facing a…

  • Bloomberg readies Dayton site

    The Planning Board approves Bloomberg site plan amendment. By: Joseph Harvie    Bloomberg, a global financial services and media company, is slated to open a data processing office in Dayton between Ridge and Culver roads.    The Planning Board unanimously granted Bloomberg L.P. amended site plan approval on Dec. 14 to allow the company to rebuild a…

  • Restructuring strategy to save Hopewell Valley schools $200K

    Two of the district’s three vice principal positions will be eliminated By John Tredrea    To begin chipping away at an estimated budget shortfall of $600,000 to $800,000 for 2006-2007, the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to implement an administrative restructuring plan recommended by Superintendent Judith Ferguson.    The changes, which Dr.…

  • December 22, 2005

    Cleo M. Atchley        Cleo M. Atchley, 87 of Belle Mead, died Dec. 20 at the Merwick Unit of the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in McConnelsburg, Pa., she had resided in the Harbourton area for 30 years before moving to Belle Mead.    She was a cook at the Pennington Quality Market and formerly…

  • Letters for the week of Dec. 22

    Tax dollars for LHT is money well spent To the editor:     I object to Councilman Rick Miller’s letter to the editor (The Ledger, Dec. 15) criticizing the decision of Democratic members of the Lawrence Township Council to complete work on the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail.    Mr. Miller would have residents believe that completion of the trail…

  • LETTERS for Dec. 22

    Appreciation for snow help To the editor:    We park our cars at the street end of the driveway when snow threatens so as to minimize the work needed to get them out. Nevertheless, the wall thrown up by the snow plows often needs to be shoveled out before we have access to the road.    This…

  • Police matron added to force

    Township’s police matron conducts searches of female offenders (Dec. 22) By: Marisa Maldonado    PLUMSTED — When police pulled over a drunken driver last month, they had to find a way to care for the three children in the back seat. Peggy Ulmer, the department’s new police matron, was there to take them back to the…

  • Fond memories of Christmas seasons past

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    For those of us who celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, this time of year can be as painful as it is joyous, because of the memories the season evokes.    Not even a month ago, someone e-mailed me the photo that appears on this page. It was to be used to help…

  • Alliances to be separate for now

    Allentown/Upper Freehold Drug Alliance seeks new coordinator (Dec. 22) By: Marisa Maldonado    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Allentown/Upper Freehold Drug Alliance is looking for a new coordinator, putting an end to speculation, at least in the short term, that the organization might merge with Millstone’s alliance.    Upper Freehold officials now are in charge of hiring the…