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  • Join organ donors to help save lives

    To the editor By:    The generosity of live organ donors like Carl Lessing is remarkable.    Most Americans won’t even agree to donate their organs after they die. They bury or cremate their organs instead of sharing the gift of life.    As a result, over 6,000 of their neighbors die every year waiting for organ transplants.…

  • Habitat chapter completes Manville project

    Families set to move in By:Emily Craighead    The Dixon/Abner and Jeffrey/Hall families came home for the first time Saturday.    Those two families are soon to be the proud owners of houses on Roosevelt Avenue built with the help of the Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity and numerous other sponsors.    "You can live there in contentment…

  • No tie this time for Lady Dawgs

    Hopewell Valley indoor track By: Jim Green    The Hopewell Valley Central High School girls indoor track team had no interest in sharing this one.    A week after earning a tie with Woodrow Wilson at the state relay championships, the Lady Bulldogs went out and proved they are alone atop the heap in Group II. Junior…

  • Hospital may be built in Lawrence

    Capital Health System eyes Princess Road. By: Lea Kahn    A state-of-the-art hospital — Lawrence Township’s first, full-service medical facility — may be built on a 31-acre non-residential parcel on Princess Road, according to Capital Health System officials.    CHS President and Chief Executive Officer Al Maghazehe unveiled plans to seek approval for a certificate of need…

  • High school students trying to help tsunami victims

    Students collect clothing, supplies and funds. By: Melissa Hayes    Boxes of clothes, shoes, glasses and medical supplies filled the lobby and lined the halls of South Brunswick High School. A table covered with jugs of loose change took up space in the main entranceway.    That was last week. This week, those donations made by students…

  • Mayor: Garbage will be picked up by week’s end

    Trash left uncollected in Washington Township due to a strike by garbage collectors should be removed by the end of this week. By: Lauren Burgoon    WASHINGTON — Piles of curbside trash left uncollected in the wake of a strike by local garbage collectors should be gone by the end of this week, Mayor Doug Tindall…

  • ABIS principal proposes doubling up on language

    Dr. James Brunn says move could improve test scores By:Emily Craighead    Alexander Batcho Intermediate School (ABIS) students will get a double dose of reading and writing every day, starting next school year.    By doubling the amount of language arts instruction ABIS students receive, Principal Jim Brunn plans to turn out students better prepared for high…

  • Florence Niemiec

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Florence C. Niemiec died Jan. 13 at home. She was 85.    She served in the Army Nurse Corps as a lieutenant in the Philippines during World War II.    Mrs. Niemiec her career in nursing, eventually retiring after 25 years of service as a school nurse in the Somerville Public Schools.    She was…

  • Hopewell Valley school board OKs sale of 30 acres to SB-MWA

    If deal goes through, Back Timberlane athletic fields effort would be beneficiary. By John Tredrea    An impending deal that could generate over $500,000 for development of the Back Timberlane athletic fields was endorsed by the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education Tuesday.    The board agreed to sell the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association (SB-MWA) a vacant…