Category: archives
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STUDENT VOICE: A teen remembers Richard
STUDENT VOICE By Ariene Platenburg Memories of an enigmatic classmate, friend and student that will last forever. Just yesterday, like most days, I ran into Rich and Josh in the band room purchasing goodies from the vending machine. "There goes that girl again," Josh laughed. I would reply, "There goes Rich in green!" All…
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POLICE BLOTTER
By: Darren T. Harmon, 33, of South Main Street was charged with failure to appear in municipal court at 11 a.m. Dec. 20. Mr. Harmon was transported to the Somerset County Jail and subsequently released on $1,000 bail. *** A Manville resident reported an amplifier and two subwoofers were stolen from the trunk of…
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Johnson’s boys hope to rebound from lo
By: Sean Moylan After playing three excellent quarters of basketball versus Holy Cross on Tuesday night, the Northern Burlington County Regional High School boys’ varsity basketball team was hit with a huge dose of Murphy’s Law in the final stanza of that contest. Down the stretch drive everything that could go wrong for the Greyhounds…
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Bid to raise mayor salary cap panned at council meeting
By:Roger Alvarado Landowner Dean Shepherd, a regular speaker at council meetings, said Councilman Ken Otrimski "set a bad precedent" Dec. 13 when he called on the council to amend the borough’s salary ordinance and place a $70,000 cap on the mayor’s salary, during Monday’s Borough Council meeting. Currently, the mayor’s position is part time and…
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Municipal resignations dominated the news in summer
Year in Review By: Vanessa S. Holt July 1 Mansfield Township Clerk Judith Lawrence and five other municipal employees resigned. * * * The North Hanover Township Committee voted to use $425,000 from the surplus account to keep the municipal tax rate stable. July 8 In a letter to all Mansfield residents, Mayor Patrick DeLorenzo…
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For the Dec. 30 issue
Pauline Semetsis, Melissa Mandeville, Virginia Carnival, Susan Stahl, Albert Heinzinger. Pauline Semetsis Pauline Semetsis, 79, of Homestead, died Saturday, Dec. 25 at Virtua West Jersey Hospital in Marlton. She retired 22 years ago as an office manager for the New York Life Insurance Co. in Manhattan and later at Carle Place, N.Y. after 34 years…
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HELPING OUT THE NEIGHBORS: Local churches send volunteers to soup kitchen
The joy of helping others transcends the holiday season throughout area churches. By: Joseph Harvie The spirit of giving usually is associated with the holiday season, with people, groups and companies coming up big with food and gifts for the needy. But, several township groups do not limit themselves to the holidays, and instead work…
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KIDS AND COMMUNITY: It’s time to talk openly with teens about suicide
KIDS AND COMMUNITY By Judy Shepps Battle As a society, we cannot afford to turn our heads the other way. It always is a tragedy when a young person’s life is cut short through illness or accident. But it is especially painful when such a death involves suicidal intention. The recent death of 15-year-old Richard…
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LETTERS: Lunch lines are too long
To the editor: The lunch lines at Crossroads Middle School are absolutely absurd. I strongly urge that you investigate this serious issue thoroughly. Do you think that it is right to force kids to wait in lunch lines 20 and sometimes as long as 30 minutes? Do you truly believe that five or 10 minutes…
