Category: archives
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Why we are recommending mayor-council-administrator form
GUEST COLUMN By the Charter Commission Voters of Hopewell Township face a historic choice next week. Voters must decide whether to change the township’s 200-year-old committee form of government to the mayor-council-administrator form. Last year, township voters decisively voted in favor of a charter study commission which was charged by law to study the current…
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Lady Raiders knocked out in playoffs
Wind helps Group 4 soccer champs beat HHS By: Rudy Brandl The Hillsborough High girls’ soccer team’s fine season came to and end Thursday afternoon at Brick Memorial High in Brick Township. Hillsborough (12-6-2) gave the three-time defending State Group 4 champions a battle in the first half but couldn’t get anything going against a…
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HHS gymnasts repeat as Skyland champs
Watts, Weber lead balanced assault By: Rudy Brandl FLEMINGTON Consistency and balance prevailed for the Hillsborough High gymnastics team in Friday’s Skyland Conference Championships at the Hunterdon Central Fieldhouse. The Raiders weren’t spectacular and even survived a few glitches en route to their second straight conference title. Despite two falls on the balance…
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Building hope, a toy at a time
Building bears, and dogs too, to contribute to a toy drive for children suvivors of Hurricane Katrina. William Burke, 10, a fifth-grade student at Lawrence Intermediate School, tests the hug-worthiness of a toy dog he created at the Build-a-Bear Workshop at Quaker Bridge Mall Saturday for a Hurricane Katrina toy drive at the mall. William…
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Mayor-council-administrator the wrong way for Hopewell Township
GUEST OPINION By David Sandahl Troubled by persistent conflict between members of its Township Committee a few years ago, Hopewell Township voters authorized a Charter Study Commission last year to determine whether our government could be made stronger, more responsive, more efficient or more economical, as state law provides. Unfortunately, what we got is a…
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Voters must exercise their ballot rights in Tuesday’s election
EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse Voters who care about their state and, in Hopewell Township’s case, their town, would do well to get to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 8. If choosing a new governor, who will serve for four years beginning in January, isn’t enough to entice Hopewell Township voters to go to their polling…
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Josephine Weidlich
SOMERVILLE Josephine (Cieslak) Weidlich died Oct. 28 at home. She was 84. Born in Bayonne, she lived in Manville and Greentown, Pa., for 18 years before settling in Somerville two years ago. Mrs. Weidlich worked for RCA Corp., Baker & Taylor, Burke’s and Holland’s Department Store. She served as a den mother for the…
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‘Hello Dolly!’
Bucks County Playhouse takes on this Broadway classic. By: Stuart Duncan If you had read The New York Times for Feb. 19, 1967, you might have run across an interview with Gower Champion discussing Hello Dolly!, a show he had directed a few years earlier. It was, of course, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s…
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Duke Farms withdraws preservation plan
Foundation in charge of the property pulled the application because it is in the midst of a strategic planning process regarding the entire 2,738-acre estate. By: Melissa Edmond The Duke Farms Foundation withdrew its recent application for the New Jersey Farmland Preservation Program last week, according to Duke Farms representatives. It had applied in late…
