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  • Lady Raiders enter season with great expectations

    Reese wary of pre-season praise By: Rudy Brandl        If the Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team doesn’t get caught reading its own press clippings or looking too far ahead, it should be another exciting and productive season.    The Lady Raiders return three starters from last year’s 21-5 team that won the Delaware East Division and…

  • Preserving land worth the wait for Hopewells

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    The recent news about ongoing efforts to preserve 560 acres of land near Hopewell Borough is very good news for both Hopewell Borough and Hopewell Township.    It is expected to take at least another year or two to get all the details ironed out, according to Hopewell Borough Councilman David Knights,…

  • EDITORIAL

    Finding compromise a gift of the season?    All-terrain vehicles have become popular, with many Hillsborough residents enjoying recreational riding in open areas and backyards.    Unfortunately, that enjoyment creates a problem for others, who find the roar of the motors an annoyance that spoils their suburban solitude.    The Township Committee has made more than one attempt…

  • Hopewell Township and diocese settle St. Michael’s lawsuit

    Attorney David Roskos: Agreement "clears the way" for new appraisals of the St. Michael’s tract By John Tredrea    As negotiations continue on preserving most of the 380-acre St. Michael’s tract as open space, Hopewell Township and the Diocese of Trenton, owner of the tract, have cleared away a major obstacle by settling out of court…

  • World War II veterans discuss Pearl Harbor Day with students

    Peter Muschal Elementary School sponsors Pearl Harbor Assembly By: William Wichert    A smile spread across Robert Gallagher’s face as he watched the students at Peter Muschal Elementary School last week sing of that infamous December day in Hawaii 64 years ago.    "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition! Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!"…

  • Fiddler takes to the roof Tuesday

    Monmouth Junction School students to perform "Fiddler on the Roof" at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday. By: Chinenye Okparanta        Dressed in matching red T-shirts with "Fiddler on the Roof" inscribed in white letters on the front, the members of the music and drama club at Monmouth Junction School sat on the floor of the…

  • Township revaluation firm criticized for rate of progress

    Owners not satisfied with recommended value have until Feb. 10 to meet with Certified Valuations and until April 1 to file an appeal with the county Board of Taxation By John Tredrea    Hopewell Township officials and residents were less than enthusiastic Monday night about the rate of progress Certified Valuations reported in its ongoing revaluation…

  • Book Notes for the week of Dec. 15

    Politics in ‘Narnia’? Say it ain’t so By: Dr. Joan Ruddiman    C.S. Lewis wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia" series as an aside to his real job as a renowned academic. He was a professor at Oxford and Cambridge and established his reputation with writing the third volume of the "Oxford History of English Literature" that…

  • Lawrence boys team reloaded and ready

    Lawrence boys basketball By: John E. Powers    The Lawrence High School basketball team had a successful season last winter, finishing with a 17-9 record and pushing Mercer County Tournament and Colonial Valley Conference Colonial Division champ and state Group IV finalist Trenton hard throughout the campaign.    But the Cardinals — 9-3 in divisional play and…