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  • New Roosevelt principal set for school year

    Michael Magliacano wants to start family fitness nights and other programs to increase activities at the school. By: Donna Lukiw    Michael Magliacano, a former football and track coach, is all about health and fitness — attitudes he says he’ll bring to students and families at Roosevelt School, as the school’s new principal.    Mr. Magliacano wants…

  • Flier to highlight environmental work

    Bordentown Township Environmental Commission will distribute flier highlighting the group’s accomplishments over the last year. By: William Wichert    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Even if you don’t come to their monthly meetings, members of the township’s Environmental Commission want to let you know what’s going on anyway.    How they intend to do that is by publishing an…

  • Historic Ccty house restoration approved

    The City Commission approved $133,000 to refurbish the Gilder House and convert it to a museum. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — The City Commission recently approved its share of a state preservation grant to refurbish the historic, rapidly deteriorating Gilder House on Crosswicks Street and convert it to a museum.    At its Aug. 8…

  • Florence Pop Warner getting ready for action

    By: Sean Moylan    With 11 players returning from last year’s club and nine more coming up from the 65’s (now the 70’s), Rich Sensi believes he’ll have the size and the numbers needed for his Florence 90-pound Pop Warner football team to do extremely well this season.    "We couldn’t even go against ourselves (in practice)…

  • Merging of drug alliances mulled

    Officials discuss merging drug alliances of Allentown/Upper Freehold and Millstone. By: Marisa Maldonado    ALLENTOWN — Officials have talked for years about combining the drug alliances of Allentown/Upper Freehold and Millstone, but, according to one township official, members of one group would like to keep operations separate.    Both alliances have operated under the same leader, Helen…

  • EDITORIAL: Residents need a push to sign living wills

    EDITORIAL Patients should put their wishes in writing far in advance of illness or injury.    In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court, in the matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, ruled that patients — or, in the case of those unable to make decisions themselves, designated surrogates — had a right to terminate life-sustaining medical treatment…

  • Giovacchini anchors Rider soccer defense

    Rider men’s soccer By: Jim Green    With Donnie Giovacchini signed on for the 2005 season, the Rider men’s soccer squad suddenly looks a lot more formidable than last season’s six-win total would suggest.    Giovacchini, a 2003 graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School who led the Bulldogs to the 2002 Group II state championship game,…

  • DISPATCHES: Issues that matter are obscured by muck

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet New Jersey politics deserves its bad reputation.    I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m finding that the 2005 gubernatorial election is providing a lot of entertainment value.    In a year when the major party candidates had promised that things would be different, U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, and West…

  • Opposition mounts to zoning changes

    Springfield Township planning officials face increased opposition from large landowners. By: Scott Morgan    SPRINGFIELD — It has been a controversial summer for township planning officials looking to increase minimum lot sizes in order to control development. While officials tout their plan to shift from 3- to 10-acre zoning, critics — mainly farmers and large-parcel landowners…