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  • Local ‘moo-vie’ stars ready to meet with adoring fans

    Norz-Hill Farm hostsSunday open house By:Allison Busacca    New Jersey has been home to many celebrities: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springstein, Frank Sinatra. However, this Sunday, the Somerset County Board of Agriculture is giving people the chance to meet a new breed of celebrities at the 2004 Agriculture in Action Day: the Norz-Hill Farm Holstein Cows.…

  • Hightstown Post 148 still working out the kinks

    By: Neil Hay    After the first four games of the new Mercer County American Legion League season, Hightstown Post 148 manager Rich Scheid was wondering how to wake up his team’s slumbering bats.    With Gavin Vetrano, one of the team’s leading hitters, out for a few games with some assorted scrapes and bruises, the locals…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    A red 20-inch "Next Wipeout" motorcross-style bicycle was found on North 10th Avenue, between 5 and 6 p.m. June 8. The bike was impounded by police, pending a claim from the owner. ***    A Verizon vx4400 cell phone was reported stolen sometime on the morning of June 6 from a resident’s vehicle in the…

  • Hopewell Township gets set for tax revaluation

    The township will hire a state-certified firm to do the revaluation. That firm should be picked by December or January. By John Tredrea    Hopewell Township has begun working on the tax revaluation it has been ordered to do by the Mercer County Board of Taxation.    Pennington and Hopewell boroughs and Washington and West Windsor townships…

  • Hopewell Borough has three candidates for council

    Two Democrats, one Republican to seek two seats. By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Borough now has three candidates for the two open seats on Hopewell Borough Council in the Nov. 2 general election.    One is incumbent David Mackie, a Democrat, who filed to run in the primary and received 99 votes on June 8.    The second…

  • Wayne Mosier

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH – Wayne Mosier died June 10 in University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 57.    Born in Lynchburg, Va., he lived in Johnson City, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md., for 26 years before relocating to Hillsborough in 1989.    Mr. Mosier was employed as controller and CPA for R&R Construction Company in…

  • Rider star drafted by Yankees

    Scott Rich to play for Staten Island By: Jim Green    It didn’t take long for Scott Rich to be officially introduced to all the aura and mystique that’s said to surround the New York Yankees.    Rich, Rider University’s all-time hits leader, was drafted by the Yankees in the 21st round of last week’s amateur draft.…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 17, 2004

    How is it possible? To the editor:     The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just released their report for 2003. Included in this report are two statistics that jump right off the page at the reader.    First, in 58 percent of all fatal accidents in 2003 the victims were not wearing seat belts. Secondly,…

  • Despite injuries, Post 26 improves to 7-1 on year

    By: Sean Moylan    "We pick it up when we have to," said Tom Dolan after his Bordentown Post 26 American Legion baseball team toppled Princeton 9-8 at Smoyer Field late Tuesday afternoon.    Bordentown tallied four times in the top of the sixth to grab a 9-4 lead and, seemingly, take control of the contest. Brad…