Category: archives
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Property gets $300K bid
Mayor says bid could yield a large profit in township’s direction By: William Wichert NORTH HANOVER The township could receive over $300,000 from last week’s auction of a vacant 40-acre property on Jacobstown-New Egypt Road near Meany Road. Municipal officials have yet to decide if they will accept the $305,000 offer, the highest of…
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MHS boys expect improvement
Blasi counting on junior core By: Shawn Tyrrell Improvement will be one of the biggest goals for the Manville High 2005-06 boys’ basketball team. A year ago, the Mustangs were a very young team and suffered through a 3-18 campaign. But with the majority of the same players returning and with a year of…
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Police charge judge with drunken driving
State Superior Court Judge Rosemarie Williams’ blood alcohol level allegedly registered 0.16 percent. By: Melissa Edmond Hillsborough Township police charged state Superior Court Judge Rosemarie Williams with driving while intoxicated at 11:21 p.m. Dec. 13 on South Branch Road. Judge Williams, a 53-year-old Hopewell resident, is assigned to the Civil Division of the court in…
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Plumsted hires new Main Street director
Committee approves Sharon Gano as new director (Dec.15) By: Marisa Maldonado PLUMSTED A volunteer for the township’s Main Street USA program was hired this week as its director, several months after the former director resigned because she thought the program suffered from a lack of community input. Sharon Gano, a member of the program’s…
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Officials to revisit Timberlane-area parking issue
Meetings will be held to hammer out a proposed ordinance that would satisfy all concerned By John Tredrea A proposed ordinance prohibiting parking along sections of Pennington-Titusville, Pennington-Harbourton and Scotch roads was sent back to the drawing board during Monday night’s Hopewell Township Committee meeting. Expected soon are meetings between committee members, township professional consultants…
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Lions, tigers and snow delays
Dorothy meets a new challenge in Alexander Batcho Intermediate School’s production of ‘Oz’ — snow. By: Mary Ellen Zangara The old theater adage that the "show must go on" was tested over the weekend, as students at Alexander Batcho Intermediate School juggled performances of "The Wizard of Oz" because of the snowy weather. Even though…
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Police Beat for the week of Dec. 15
FLORENCE Police charged a Pennsylvania man with a string of drug-related offenses after a routine traffic stop last week. According to police, officers stopped 25-year-old William Smith of Levittown, Pa. for driving 61 mph in a 50-mph zone along Florence-Columbus Road just before midnight Dec. 9. Police said officers soon spotted what they thought to…
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New coach Antonoff brings a hockey background to struggling SBHS team
By: Ken Weingartner Noah Antonoff might take comfort in the fact the South Brunswick High ice hockey team has been down this road before. Of course, he might not find it comforting to see the Vikings traveling it again. South Brunswick, for the second consecutive season, dropped its first three games of the campaign. Last…
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Hopewell Valley’s most dangerous road trip
It has to be Route 31 from the circle to I-95 By John Tredrea Almost everyone agrees the worst stretch of road in Hopewell Valley is the section of Route 31 between the Pennington Circle and Interstate 95. "My main fear is that the left-turn accidents we have that frequently become head-on collisions could involve…
