Category: archives
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Candidates Forum
Rick Miller and Bob Brackett Republican candidates, Township Council Without the checks that our two-party system provides, one-party government quickly becomes accountable and responsive only to those few party leaders who control the levers of power. As the saying goes, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely." Over the past ten years…
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Obituaries for the week of Nov. 3
John F. Potter Sr., Charles Vernon Creighton, Elanor S. Suydam, Sheila Catherine Fairchild, James F. Homiak Sr., Mary F. Whitehouse, Edward F. Myers, Edward Fleming Sr., Anna K. Nurko By: John F. Potter Sr. MAPLE SHADE John F. Potter Sr., 70, died Oct. 21. Husband of the late Guiseppa Potter, Mr. Potter is survived…
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Walter Wolinski
HILLSBOROUGH Walter Wolinski died Oct. 28 at Princeton Medical Center in Princeton. He was 68. Born in Plock, Poland, Mr. Wolinski came to the United States in 1947 and was a resident of Hillsborough. Mr. Wolinski worked at the American Cyanamid Corporation in Bound Brook for 11 years. He then worked at the National…
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HHS boys set record in Skyland repeat
Dennis, Irizzary, Nelson place in top five By: Rudy Brandl READINGTON The Hillsborough High boys knew they needed to run a little faster if they expected to repeat as Skyland Conference cross country champions. After Friday’s course record-setting performance at Deer Path Park, it’s safe to say the Raiders earned the title. Hillsborough…
