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  • Help to make food drive a success

    On Nov. 24 many Lawrence residents will gather with friends and family for a celebration of Thanksgiving.    For other township and Mercer County residents, a bare Thanksgiving table is a real possibility.    HomeFront, the Lawrence-based nonprofit organization committed to battling homelessness, encourages residents to donate food baskets so the holiday will be a special one…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…