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  • Special program would be helpful

    To the editor By:     Regarding the Feb. 22 Township Committee meeting, I would like to write and express my support for Anthony Ferrera’s vision for an inclusive recreation program for the Hillsborough community.    Inclusive means all children. Such a program would not only benefit children but also the entire community.    It would teach children…

  • Disaster test needs volunteers

    ‘TopOff 3’ events will send 500 volunteer victims seeking help. By: Roger Alvarado    How well New Jersey — and local officials — can respond to a biological or terrorist attack may be better known after April 7, when 500 "victims" will swamp local emergency responders in a mock disaster drill.    The victims will actually be…

  • OBITUARIES: Sarah Rasmussen

    Sarah Rasmussen    Sarah Rasmussen, 73, of Loysville, Pa, died Thursday, Feb. 17, at her home.    Born in Bound Brook, she was orphaned at age 5 and grew up in a foster home. Ms. Rasmussen was a graduate of Jamesburg High School and married after graduation. She moved to Kendall Park in 1957 after residing in…

  • Student political group hosts candidates’ night

    School board hopefuls face questions Tuesday. By: Lea Kahn    Many of its members are not old enough to vote in the school board election next month, but that has not stopped Political Leaders of Tomorrow — a new club at Lawrence High School — from scheduling a candidates’ night.    The new club, which grew out…

  • Six file for school vote

    Three incumbents, three challengers on ballot. By: Melissa Hayes    Three incumbents and three challengers have filed to seek three, three-year seats on the Board of Education in the April 19 election.    Incumbents Marty Abschutz, Barry Nathanson and Matthew Speesler will be joined on the ballot by challengers, Edward Birch, who has run two other times…

  • Guarini brothers a winning combo for SBHS hockey

    By: Ken Weingartner    Hockey history is filled with famous brother combinations.    In the NHL, there were the six Sutter brothers, the Espositos, Conachers, Howes, Stastnys, Niedermayers, Bures, and perhaps the greatest, the Richards — Maurice, "The Rocket," and Henri, "The Pocket Rocket," to mention a few.    There were even the fighting Hanson brothers in the…

  • School board must OK tentative budget by Tuesday

    District officials will host public forum on S-1701, a new law that impacts school budget, on March 14 at 7:30 p.m., at Timberlane Middle School. By Ruth Luse    As a March 8 deadline looms for school districts to adopt tentative budgets for next year, Hopewell Valley officials continue to struggle to avoid staff layoffs and…

  • Five file for five Hopewell Valley school board seats

    Unless there are successful write-in campaigns on school election day, the five are assured of seats on the board. By Ruth Luse    There are no contested races for seats on the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education on April 19.    Five individuals have filed for the five open seats on the nine-member school board.    Just…

  • Adults face DUI charge

    Two arrested at schools in separate incidents. By: Joseph Harvie    Two adults were charged with driving while intoxicated in the past two weeks after they allegedly showed up drunk at township schools to pick up children.    District officials would not release the students to the adults and other arrangements were made to get the children…