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  • Marquee Theater

    The area’s professional companies open another season chock full of new plays and old musical chestnuts. Related Story: A Question of Balance By: Matt Smith The Walnut Street Theatre is staging the sequel to last season’s produdction of Annie (above), Annie Warbucks, through Oct. 24.    The Walnut Street Theatre is a Philadelphia icon. Its grand…

  • Relishing the simple life

    Couple opens Peacefields Inn, a bed and breakfast located in Upper Freehold. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — In a large 1850s Victorian house tucked back from Walnford Road, two of Upper Freehold’s newest business owners, Bill and Cathy Dey, put aside their innkeeping duties for a few minutes just to admire the simplicity of…

  • Letters to the Editor, Sept. 9, 2004

    Tired of going to the polls To the editor:     I see that voters are being asked to go to the polls Sept. 28 to approve a school referendum.    Is it just me, or are we asked to go to the polls like 11 times a year?    School board members, bond issues, fire budgets, referendums,…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Week of Sept. 9 Answers needed for budget questions To the editor:    The Lawrence Ledger’s Sept. 2, 2004, article, "District hires special education supervisor, vice principal," left me disquieted. The current school budget has been both highly controversial and extremely tight, with shortfalls resulting in elimination of positions. There is now a newly created administrative…

  • Letter: Voters left holding the bag

    To the editor:     Gov. James E. McGreevey’s has failed to give the voters of New Jersey their fair chance to elect another governor of their choice.    Gov. McGreevey left New Jersey holding his bag before we even begin to get to see the outcome of his administrative choices. He made too many reprehensible law,…

  • Site for school project changed

    Upper Freehold Board of Education rejects proposed Walnford Road site for new middle school and looks instead to location on Ellisdale Road. By: Lauren Burgoon    UPPER FREEHOLD — Plans for the proposed middle school are refocused on Ellisdale Road after the Board of Education rejected a Walnford Road site as environmentally unsound for a school.…

  • PERCEPTIONS: Recalling details three days later

    PERCEPTIONS By Steve Feitl: Remebering the events of September 11, 2001. By: Steve Feitl    A lot can be forgotten over three years.    In going through my PDA this week, I was surprised to see many things in my 2001 calendar that I had forgotten about. Other events I may have remembered, but I was reminded…

  • Collaboration with a Higher Power

    Ann Hampton Callaway will sing original songs and classics at the Peddie School. By: Susan Van Dongen Ann Hampton Callaway     Like many young women from her generation, singer/songwriter/pianist Ann Hampton Callaway wore out her vinyl copy of Tapestry, the 1972 classic recording by Carole King.    In fact, the intimate album helped inspire Ms. Callaway to…

  • Reasonable compromise to resolve complex issue

    A proposed settlement regarding zoning and future development for the Merrill Lynch/Garden Properties land west of Scotch Road has been worked out between Merrill Lynch and Hopewell Township officials. By Joseph Cohen    Most readers of the Hopewell Valley News know by now a proposed settlement has been worked out between Merrill Lynch and Hopewell Township…