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  • Rider’s Harnum headlines YMCA All-American Clinic

    PU’s Barron, WNBA’s Ackerman also present. By: Jim Green    Not even the birth of his second child was going to keep Rider University men’s basketball coach Don Harnum from participating in the Hopewell Valley YMCA’s All-American Basketball Clinic.    Harnum, whose wife Janet gave birth to a son named Lucas Donald Harnum on Friday, fulfilled his…

  • Township Committee should back charter study

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    If an enabling ordinance introduced Monday is adopted by the Hopewell Township Committee, we hope at its May 24 session, township voters would get the chance to decide if they want a study done that might eventually lead to a change in the municipality’s form of government.    Support of the proposed…

  • New city budget carries tax increase

    Proposed $3.85 million 2004 Bordentown City budget will carry an 11-cent tax rate increase over last year’s rate. By: Scott Morgan    BORDENTOWN CITY — Officials introduced the 2004 city budget Monday night, a $3.85 million package that will carry an 11-cent tax rate increase if passed next month.    This year’s budget is an increase of…

  • Teens charged in weekend car accidents

    Two separate automobile accidents occurred on Allens Road in Washington Twonship over the weekend. By: Rob Heyman    WASHINGTON — Allens Road was the scene of two separate motor vehicle accidents over the weekend involving teenage drivers.    The first occurred May 8 at the intersection of Allens Road and Perrineville Road. According to township police, David…

  • Tree fund plan approved

    By:Roger Alvarado    The Township Committee unanimously passed an ordinance creating a fund and procedure for handling the township’s tree mitigation funds.    Hillsborough’s tree ordinance, passed in 2000, prevents developers from clear cutting land before construction projects in an effort to protect the number of trees in the township. The ordinance requires builders to establish the…

  • For the May 13 issue

    Eleanor L. Goff, Ronald T. Gilbert, Charles A. Franken, Gertrude Danbury Cruser, Harold G. Opdycke. Eleanor L. Goff    PLUMSTED — Eleanor L. Goff, 89, died Sunday at home.    Born in Hoboken, she was a longtime resident of the New Egypt area.    She was a retired postal clerk with the Cassville branch of the Jackson post…

  • Francis Brown

    By:    MANVILLE — Francis Brown died Saturday, May 8, at home. He was 72.    He was born in Clifton Heights, Pa.    He was a member of the first graduating class of Somerset County College.    Mr. Brown worked at Raritan Valley Community College for 25 years retiring as director of budget and finance in 1995.    He…

  • Patriots tickets to help Ryan McKee

    By:Mary Ellen Zangara    A benefit Somerset Patriots baseball game will be another fund-raiser for resident Ryan McKee, a 13-year old who was diagnosed with leukemia.    The Aug. 13th game is sponsored by the Public Works Association of New Jersey, Region V and the New Jersey Make A Wish Foundation.    Monday night, Wendy Ewen branch manager…

  • Lack of possession hurts HHS girls in lacrosse semifinals

    Lady Raiders have shot to avenge this loss By: Rudy Brandl        BRIDGEWATER — It’s often been said that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Possession may be even more important than that in a high school lacrosse game.    The Hillsborough High girls, who entered Monday’s Somerset County semifinals with just one goal separating them…