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  • Time for seniors to mobilize for a senior center

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Senior citizens who’d like to learn more about what could be available to them if Hopewell Valley had a senior center should make plans to attend a session Friday at Pennington Presbyterian Church.    The Older Adult Committee of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, according to Larry Mansier of Hopewell Township, "strongly supports…

  • BRHS, LCA boys’ soccer teams win

    By: Sean Moylan    "Our team out did our expectations this year," said Taylor Martucci, whose first-half goal lifted the Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity soccer team to a 1-0 triumph over John F. Kennedy Iselin in Tuesday’s NJSIAA Group II Central Jersey playoff opener.    It was the kind of state tournament game that the…

  • Mock elections teach about democracy

    Northern Burlington County Regional High School students participate in a mock presidential election. By: William Wichert    While the outcome of the presidential race was not clear until Wednesday morning, some local high school students already decided by the end of classes on Tuesday that they wanted the president back in the White House for another…

  • Hopewell Township voters OK government study, pick commissioners

    Results of two other ballot questions were split. Voters approved a 1-cent increase in the open space tax rate, but defeated proposal to create 1-cent local recreation tax. By John Tredrea    Hopewell Township voters approved a ballot question Tuesday to form a charter commission, which will study the township’s form of government and possibly recommend…

  • Lawrence Township supported Sen. Kerry

    Democratic challenger preferred for varying reasons. By: Lea Kahn    Lawrence Township voters overwhelmingly threw their support to Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John Kerry, with random interviews with voters leaving the polls indicating that the economy, women’s rights, national security and the Iraq war were on voters’ minds.    Some of the voters cited President George…

  • For the Nov. 4 issue

    Louis Rebeles Jr., James O’Loughlin, Dorothy L. Felter, Robert G. Duble, Ralph Howard Blakeslee, William M. Van Arsdale, Anthony J. "Fritz" Miele. Louis Rebeles Jr.    Louis Rebeles Jr., 81, of Roebling, died Oct. 31 in Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills.    Born in Elbert, W.Va., he was the son of the late Louis and…

  • Babette Forsythe

    By:    MANVILLE — Babette "Babs" Forsythe died Oct. 27 at home. She was 60.    Born in Hartford, Conn., she lived in North Plainfield and Bridgewater for 20 years before moving to Manville 11 years ago.    Mrs. Forsythe worked as a nurse in the operating rooms at Raritan Valley Hospital in Green Brook for 19 years.…

  • Locals support Kerry

    South Brunswick voters give Sen. Kerry majority of votes. By: Joseph Harvie    George W. Bush may have won the national election, but a majority of South Brunswick voters chose the Democratic hopeful.    South Brunswick voters gave Sen. John Kerry 8,686 votes to President Bush’s 6,495.    Voters at the polls Tuesday said the war in Iraq,…

  • Brandon Farms fire put out quickly

    Damage was confined to an entertainment center and chair in the living room of a house at 12 Hilton Court. By John Tredrea    A Saturday afternoon Brandon Farms house fire believed to have been caused by candles left burning when no one was home was quickly extinguished by the Pennington Fire Company, keeping damage to…