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  • HoVal girls better than record

    Girls lacrosse By: Jim Green    Sometimes a team’s record simply is not indicative of its level of play or ability.    Such is the case for the Hopewell Valley Central High School girls lacrosse team. Although the Lady Bulldogs recently dropped nine straight games to fall to 1-9 overall, in the eyes of Hopewell coach Pam…

  • Dispute on downtown building’s size tied to error

    Square feet of structure on Tulane Street lot subject of much debate. By: Jennifer Potash    The dispute over the size of the second phase in the downtown development project appeared to arise from a mistake in the agreement between the developer and Princeton Borough and an early concept plan for the building.    Developer Nassau HKT…

  • Hopewell Valley Foundation E-squared Awards presented Friday

    Winners were Judy Hill and the Hopewell Valley News Hopewell Valley Foundation    The fifth annual E-squared Awards dinner took place on Friday at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club.    The event, attended by more than 150 people, honored this year’s E-squared awardees and served as a fund-raising event for the Hopewell Valley Foundation.    E-squared stands for…

  • Committee aims to cut school budget

    Bordentown Township Committee looks to cut $400,000 from defeated Bordentown Regional School District budget. By: Eve Collins    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee wants to cut $400,000 from the Bordentown Regional School District budget, which was defeated by voters in the April election.    The regional school board has not yet formally met with officials from…

  • Prison abuses weaken chances of friendly Iraq

    EDITORIAL: Unless dramatic changes in leadership take place, history will repeat By:    In the span of one day, all of our hopes, aspirations and illusions about the U.S. invasion of Iraq were dashed. The actions of what is certainly a small and limited number of U.S. and British troops in prison camps have shamed us…

  • 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…