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  • Mustangs hope numbers add up on gridiron

    More players in uniform for season opener By: Shawn Tyrrell    A new year, and another season is about to get underway for the 2004 Manville High School football team. This Friday evening, MHS will play host to Newark Central in the opening game for both schools.    There will be all sorts of questions surrounding the…

  • Coming to Light

    James Richardson brings his insights, aphorisms and poetry to the Dodge Festival. By: Jillian Kalonick TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI James Richardson brings his insights, aphorisms and poetry to the Dodge Festival.    Even poets who write for a living sometimes feel like they are working in a vacuum.    "There is a sense that nobody cares about poetry, which…

  • Merrill Lynch settlement plan hearings Sept. 21 and 29

    Township Administrator Christine Smeltzer has asked residents to submit questions before the public hearings are held. By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Township Committee has scheduled two public meetings on the proposed out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit Merrill Lynch filed against the township two years ago.    They will be held on Sept. 21 and 29 at 7…

  • Council takes new tack on pet nuisance ordinance

    May limit noise but not number of pets By:Roger Alvarado    The Borough Council may have found a way to put more of a bite into its animal control ordinance.    Councilman Ken Otrimski, speaking Monday on behalf of the borough’s Policy Plan Committee that he heads, proposed placing tighter restrictions on the amount of noise dogs…

  • Democrats Ferrara and Bird quit Nov. 2 Hopewell Township Committee race

    Titusville attorney Patricia Kerins was picked as Ferrara’s replacement Tuesday night. To remove Bird’s name from the ballot, local Democrats would have to go to court and prevail … a step they had not decided to take, as of Wednesday afternoon. By John Tredrea    Marylou Ferrara and Kathy Bird both have dropped out of the…

  • Community Day celebration to cap anniversary

    Sept. 25 event to feature fireworks By:Emily Craighead    The April 3 jubilee dinner-dance sold out. It rained on the June 5 anniversary parade.    But Manville residents should have no excuse for skipping the grand finale of the borough’s 75th anniversary celebrations at Community Day on Sept. 25.    Festivities will kick off at 3 p.m. at…

  • PERCEPTIONS: If you’re keeping score at home …

    PERCEPTIONS By Steve Feitl: Comparing campaign polls to sports stats. By: Steve Feitl    Every couple of days a new presidential poll appears on a cable news program.    The most recent one I’ve heard noted that President George W. Bush leads Sen. John Kerry, 51 percent to 44 percent, in a poll of 758 likely voters…

  • Plane sets down in Lawrence Township

    No injuries reported in emergency landing. By: Lea Kahn    A soybean field north of The Lawrenceville School’s golf course was home to more than just errant golf balls Tuesday when a small airplane made a unscheduled landing there.    Stanley H. Durlacher, 53, of Carlisle, Mass., escaped injury when his single-engine airplane touched down in the…

  • Kathy Bird explains reasons for leaving HopewellTownship race

    Democratic candidate informs Michael Kahme, chairman of the township’s Democratic organization, of her decision in a Wednesday morning letter.    On Wednesday morning, Kathy Bird, who was a Democratic candidate for one of the two open seats on the Hopewell Township Committee in the Nov. 2 general election, wrote the following letter to Michael Kahme, chairman…