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  • Pension payments on the rise

    Monroe and Jamesburg face larger retirement contributions next year. By: Leon Tovey    Monroe and Jamesburg will pay more in retirement contributions next year than it did this year as part of a state plan to make up for money not paid into state pension systems between 1997 and 2003.    Monroe will be required to pay…

  • ‘The Petrified Forest’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County revives a Robert Emmet Sherwood classic. By: Stuart Duncan    If the name of playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood is familiar to you, congratulate yourself on having lived a long time. Sherwood was a giant in his time, a multiple Pulitzer Prize winner with a string of successes that left indelible marks…

  • Red Raiders take back Mercer County crown

    Pennington girls soccer By: Mike Molaro    One down. One to go.    The Pennington School girls soccer squad captured its second Mercer County Tournament title in three years with last Saturday’s superb 1-0 triumph over Steinert.    In winning their 12th consecutive game, the top-seeded Red Raiders (20-1) avenged last year’s loss in the MCT finals to…

  • CAMPAIGN CORNER

    Nov. 3, 2005 For Kemp, Cacciabaudo To the editor:     I fully support Arlene Kemp and Robert Cacciabaudo for Hopewell Township committee. The Township Committee has enjoyed great progress over the past 11 months under Republican Leadership. Gone are the days of vitriolic & rancorous clashes under the former leadership. Gone are the days of…

  • CHARTER CHANGE DEBATE

    Letters about charter proposal Say no to No. 1 To the editor:     Ten former mayors of Hopewell Township expressed their support for the charter change in a letter here last week.    What a surprise! It would have been far more surprising had they not supported it. For those with a taste for political power…

  • Cardinals prove to be No. 1 in CVC Colonial Division

    Lawrence football By: Jim Green    The Lawrence High School football team tried to treat this like it was any other game. And while their words backed up that premise, the Gatorade baths the Cardinal coaches received from their players late in the fourth quarter told another story.    Lawrence quarterback Brett Brackett passed for 290 yards…

  • MHS harriers set for championship meets

    Young runners head for Holmdel Park By: Rudy Brandl    The Manville High cross country team entered November with three big events remaining in the 2005 season.    Some recent MHS campaigns haven’t gone past October, but the rainy weather in the past few weeks has extended the team’s season well into November. The Mustangs will be…

  • Hopewell Township citizens question charter study group

    Residents at public forum Oct. 27 wanted to know how much a change to mayor-council-administrator form of government would cost taxpayers. By Aleen Crispino    Hopewell Township residents told the Charter Study Commission at a public forum Oct. 27 that they wanted to know how much a switch to the mayor-council-administrator form of government would cost…

  • Charter-change opponents find another reason to say nay

    Commission members claim they knew about 1992 report By John Tredrea    A grassroots group of Hopewell Township residents who oppose changing the township’s form of government say their view is supported strongly by a 1992 state report recommending that the mayor-council-administrator form of municipal government be scrapped as an option under New Jersey’s Faulkner Act.…