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  • CAMPAIGN CORNER

    Candidates’ and residents’ views Democrats outline goals To the editor:     Along with controlling taxes, controlling growth has been one of the most hotly debated and critically important issues concerning Hopewell Township residents over the last few years. Hopewell Township has many acres preserved as open space, but in a township of 60 square miles,…

  • Cards clinch Colonial title

    Lawrence field hockey By: John E. Powers    As the season headed for the home stretch, not many squads were as hot as the Lawrence High School field hockey team.    The Cardinals (9-6) knocked off Hopewell Valley 1-0 last week to clinch the Colonial Valley Conference Colonial Division title, their first since 2003. Then, the eighth-seeded…

  • ‘Urinetown’

    The Villagers takes on this neo-Brechtian absurdist musical. By: Stuart Duncan    Urinetown is a neo-Brechtian absurdist musical that shocked off-Broadway in 1999, first with its title, then its content and finally by becoming a huge audience hit. It has been grabbed by The Villagers for a main stage production — certainly the first of any…

  • Bulldogs weather the storn in MCT

    Hopewell Valley boys soccer By: Jim Green    The true test of a team is how it responds in the harshest of conditions, and it won’t get much harsher than Tuesday night’s Hopewell Valley Central High School boys soccer game against Hamilton in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals.    With rain pouring consistently and the temperature reminding…

  • Land preservation, downzoning key issues in Upper Freehold

    Candidates find themselves at opposite ends of downzoning debate. (Thursday, Oct. 27) By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — Considered one of the most rural communities in New Jersey, Upper Freehold is in a continual fight to protect its agricultural history and bucolic status. But encroaching development, both from neighboring towns and within township borders, is…

  • Candidates sought to open board seat

    School officials are accepting applications for a vacant board seat, previously held by Spencer LaDue. By: William Wichert    The Northern Burlington County Regional Board of Education has a job opening.    School officials are accepting applications for the vacant board seat recently held by Spencer LaDue, who resigned in August as one of the four board…

  • Martucci sets Scotties’ mark for goals in a season

    By: Sean Moylan    Thursday, the Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity soccer team played one of its most memorable regular season games ever when it tied the Delran Bears 1-1 on Taylor Martucci’s school record-tying 54th goal of the season.    Delran had come into the contest 12-0 and most local papers had the Bears picked…

  • Service at Sea

    To commemorate the 60th anniversary of World War II, a pair of exhibits at Rutgers shows the human side of war. By:Susan Van Dongen    Cameras have been at war since unknown combat photographers captured daguerreotypes of the Crimean War in the early 19th century.    But perhaps the world has never seen the kind of large-scale…

  • Plumsted candidates disagree on property tax fix

    Two Township Committee candidates disagree on whether Plumsted has a tax problem and if rezoning is needed to attract more business ratables. (Thursday, Oct. 27) By: Lauren Burgoon    PLUMSTED — If there is one issue that dominates most local elections, it’s property taxes.    Tax bills are an ever-present problem in New Jersey and one that…